I think when the court case that allowed interracial marriage was decided as a civil right people were then saying the same thing as they are today about homosexual civil unions. I will not call them marriages.
"It'll be repealed. It can't stand. It's not right and someone will correct that error!"
And those people if alive are still waiting. Meanwhile, it was inevitable that the pursuit on constitutional grounds would transpire. And being the 14th amendment was there all along even when homosexual unions were illegal, it finally did. And right behind it all manner of other non-traditional community activities and people sought their rights too.
Now, if a Christian child appears to be praying over their lunch in a government school that child can be punished. While in that same school a little girl in first grade who claims she has a little boy inside can demand and receive special privilege . And she will be addressed using male pronouns, and allowed entry into all area's of the school traditionally restricted to boys. Or, those who object are the ones who will be punished. Or even sued.
It's the antithesis of righteousness, rightness, turn in the world.
I believe that's why the saints will now find out the meaning of the many parables in scripture that may not have resonated with us before. Namely in this matter, the wheat from the chaff.
And, that while we are living in this world we are not to be part of it.
What I foresee, because in my view soft persecution has already began and has been in practice for a number of years now, the church will exercise its constitutional rights. Now when Christians in the public arena are belittled or persecuted using the phrase, separation of church and state, we'll actually turn that around in near future to our advantage.
I foresee a mass exodus movement wherein the church invokes that very thing. Separation. And as such because our religious ideology does not comport with the ever falling secular one that is making allowances for all manner of intolerable behaviors, we'll seek to separate ourselves from that legal erosion by law.
We'll seek to have marriage as defined in scripture and created first by God to be an union that is separate from the state's co-mingling with homosexuals. Religious union. And in the process, we'll invoke that 14th amendment atop the 1st. We'll demand and receive the same rights as are afforded those who in the secular realm are deemed "married", which is a legal civil union itself.
Which is to say, we'll still receive all the benefits and privileges afforded those that are married in the secular realm. Not lose those rights and privileges because we are citizens invoking our religious freedoms in the ecclesiastical realm.
In this world there are those who are destined for Heaven. And those who are damned to Hell. I don't believe any manner of protests on our part is going to change those minds of the one's happy to go to Hell. Because I don't believe God's will in all things is something that the courts can adjust.
However, I do believe we the saints are entitled to separate ourselves from the state that wants to turn all of America into a Hell that the Christian is expected to navigate using their faith, their Bible and their hope as a shield. I think if America is turning into a Hell by law that the saints are entitled to extricate themselves from that Hell the same way; by law.
And I foresee a movement to that effect in the near future. Apathy is the enemy of freedom. We have to get off our backsides and work as diligently in that regard as did those who's success in their unrighteousness becoming a civil right did.