The SCOTUS ruling on DOMA

Dr. Jeff Long Executive Director, Chateau Girardeau Foundation

I must confess that I can't work up about alot of passion one way or the other about the SCOTUS ruling yesterday on the Defense of Marriage Act. I do have passion about spousal abuse, about kids with no real paternal figure in their lives, about people who can't find work, about seniors who have no one to visit them. I have deep concern about America's energy future, which is the can everybody kicks down the road. But, you might say, you're a former pastor! Don't you care about what it says in Leviticus? Don't you give heed to St. Paul's words in the New Testament? This is easy. As a Christian, the words of Christ take priority over the Law of Moses and Paul, the foremost evangelist of the first century. Jesus, who taught on so many topics - hypocrisy, the kingdom of heaven, the proper use of material resources, divorce, death, hell....said not one recorded word about homosexuality. His silence drives my lack of passion on the subject.