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So we agree civil disobedience is a viable option for the Christian. What I want is honesty and truth. It is simply not true that we should blindly and slavishly obey the government. Most laws and rulers are good, and should be obeyed, though they are all imperfect. However, if a law is wicked, it should be disobeyed, and so should wicked rulers. That's what I want to hear people saying right now.
None of the people I know who approve of gay marriage have ever worried about the rule of law in cases of their favorite politicians committing fraud and other crimes, or when immigration laws are ignored, or when Planned Parenthood breaks the law, or when people vote twenty times each for their side, or when people buy a small amount of illegal drugs, and on, and on. I have two problems with that.
One, as I said, is honesty. We should all speak the truth because it is Christ himself, and so is priceless beyond compare. No fruitful or meaningful existence can be based on lies.
Secondly, to say that the government should be blindly obeyed in every case is to turn the government into a type of god, because it puts the moral authority of the government above that of the individual's conscience or their religious beliefs and ethics. We have seen what happens when people do this, and it's basically that the government forces people to commit atrocities. As an ethic Jew, I have a big problem with that, and I will listen to any objection to Kim Davis' actions (she's stupid, an adulterer, hypocrite, criminal, inconsistent, bigoted, wrong) other than "She should just do her job." That way lies despair.
None of the people I know who approve of gay marriage have ever worried about the rule of law in cases of their favorite politicians committing fraud and other crimes, or when immigration laws are ignored, or when Planned Parenthood breaks the law, or when people vote twenty times each for their side, or when people buy a small amount of illegal drugs, and on, and on. I have two problems with that.
One, as I said, is honesty. We should all speak the truth because it is Christ himself, and so is priceless beyond compare. No fruitful or meaningful existence can be based on lies.
Secondly, to say that the government should be blindly obeyed in every case is to turn the government into a type of god, because it puts the moral authority of the government above that of the individual's conscience or their religious beliefs and ethics. We have seen what happens when people do this, and it's basically that the government forces people to commit atrocities. As an ethic Jew, I have a big problem with that, and I will listen to any objection to Kim Davis' actions (she's stupid, an adulterer, hypocrite, criminal, inconsistent, bigoted, wrong) other than "She should just do her job." That way lies despair.
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