In recent years we have witnessed a political ploy designed to make you think that your elected officials are doing something to earn your vote. Bills that restate various principles in the Constitution, for example, are pretty much useless because the Constitution already guarantees what they are trying to do. In fact, they may just result in tightening the government grip on citizen's rights because they set a new level of debate rather than establishing the actual right as provided in the Constitution. An example is the bill in Arizona about allowing business owners to preserve their religious rights to deny service to homosexuals. 

This is right in line with hate speech legislation. In hate speech, lawmakers chipped away at the Constitution by exempting Christian preachers teaching from the Bible. There was no need for the law. There were crimes and punishments on the books already. Homosexuals are upset about a bill in Arizona reaffirming that business owners who hold strong religious beliefs can refuse services to homosexuals. It all started with a small business who refused to sell a wedding cake to a same sex couple. Then they take it to court and a leftist judge who has no business being a judge determines that business owners must repress their religious beliefs and bake a cake for the gays.

Here is the thing: Common sense would have been for the same sex couple to say, "OK, you don't want to sell me a cake, I'll take my business elsewhere." But, NOOOO. It becomes a federal civil rights case. The point that the homosexuals are missing is that their plight is not akin to race. There is nothing I know of in the Bible that says people with a certain skin color are repugnant to God. But it specifically states that homosexuality is an abomination to God. Moreover, the Constitution says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech. No one can be compelled by legislation to go against their Christian faith.

Instead of re-legislating what is already the law of the land, State legislators and Congressmen should work with citizens to get rid of the judges that go against the Constitution--run them out of town and shame them. Do something. But don't give us more laws that "protect" what we already have. Homosexuals should also understand that they cannot force acceptance of their behavior onto those whose faith specifically opposes it. Christians should understand the eternal implications of sin and our mission stated by Christ in Mark 16:15, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." You don't have to agree with a person's sin life or political agenda to lead them to Christ.