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Supreme Court will not revisit same-sex marriage ruling · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Greetings, and welcome to the November 11th, 2025 edition of Dinnison Forums, daily article podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Chris Elkins, new reading today's daily article, authored by cultural pastor and theologian Dr. Jim Dinnison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The US Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will not revisit its landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The court rejected an appeal from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky County clerk who was ordered to pay compensation to a same-sex couple after denying them a marriage license due to her religious beliefs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For those of us who believe in Jesus' definition of marriage, found in Matthew 19 vs. 3 through 6 and referenced in Genesis 2 vs. 18 through 25, this news is disappointing, but not surprising.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whether the issue is abortion, adultery, divorce, pornography, or use an Asia, or a host of other moral concerns, we should not expect a secular democracy to guide itself by biblical morality.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How is such secularism working for our culture?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Among millennial and gen X-respondents to a recent survey, more chose ethical non-monogamy over monogamy as their relational style preference.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In case you're not familiar with ethical non-monogamy, and I hope you aren't, the term refers to romantic or sexual relationships where all partners consent to having multiple intimate relationships.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, for those of us who believe biblical morality, the term is as oxymoronic as minor surgery, there's no such thing for the patient, or an unbiased opinion, or the civil war.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: An elderly member of the church I pastored in Atlanta cautioned me against the latter term reminding me that there was nothing civil about it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: monography is becoming more violet and addictive than ever.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Chatbots are becoming more sexually explicit as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Without the constraints of network television, FCC regulations, streaming services air movies regularly that are highly pornographic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I won't link to recent examples nor will I watch them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: a recent Saturday night life host actually made jokes about sex trafficking, rape, and pedophilia.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I won't link to what she said due to its disgusting nature.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At the heart of our cultural morass is more rejection of a cultural moral compass.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not just that we disagree about writing wrong, but secular people no longer believe there is such a thing as right and wrong.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This has implication for our national future, as the 18th century philosopher Edmund Burke noted, among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But it also has implications for our eternal future and issue you and I urgently need to consider today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My wife and I were watching when Vice President J.D.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Vance recently addressed a group of students at a turning point USA televised event.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When he was asked about his wife's religion, she was raised Hindu.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He said, I believe in the Christian gospel and I hope eventually my wife comes to see
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The reaction was swift and vociferous, some branding Mr. Vance ate bigot and much worse.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Such critics betray a basic ignorance of biblical teachings regarding the necessity of evangelism found in Matthew 28 verses 18 through 20 and Acts 1 verse 8.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But even more deeply, they point to the greatest danger of our tolerance-based ethos, the insistence that Christians tolerate what harms another person eternally.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said of Himself in John 3 verse 18, whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because He has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is why He later testified in John 14 verse 6, I am the way and the truth and the life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No one comes to the Father, except through Me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The apostles took Jesus' word to heart when recorded in Acts 4, verse 12, they risk their lives to proclaim concerning Him, saying, there is salvation in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Unless there be any question, consider this clear statement found in 1 John 5 verse 12, whoever has the Son has life, whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here is the biblical logic behind the claim that salvation comes through Christ alone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If God is the supreme being, He must be perfect as declared in Isaiah 6 verse 3.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Otherwise, a more perfect being would be more supreme than He.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Heaven must be perfect as well, or God cannot remain perfect while dwelling there as referenced in Revelation 22 vs. 1 through 5.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every human being has sinned, committing mistakes and failures, which break our relationship with our perfect creator and he must bar us from his presence declared in Romans 3, verse 23.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The consequence of sin is death.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Since sin cuts us all from our holy Lord and thus the only source of eternal life is established in Romans 623.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Romans 5 verse 8 reveals that a person who would pay this debt on our behalf must be sinless himself or their death could pay their debt only but not ours.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ is the only sinless person who has ever lived and the only one who died in our place to purchase our salvation stated in 1 Peter 2 verse 24 and 1 John 2 verse 2.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No other religious leader or figure of history has ever claimed to be and do the same.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When we ask Jesus to forgive our sins and become our Lord, He reconciles us to His Father and makes us the children of God as taught in 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21 and John 1 verse 12.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No other religion makes the same offer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If we reject our father's loving grace, we will spend eternity separated from him in a place the Bible calls hell, according to Matthew 10 verse 28 and Revelation 20 verse 15.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thus, this is why we read in Romans 9 verse 2 that Paul had great sorrow and unceasing anguish for his unbelieving Jewish brethren.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was why early Christians risked and many gave their lives to preach the gospel to the end of the earth declared in Acts 1, verse 8.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like them, we should know more tolerate the spiritual lossness of our secular ice-friends and neighbors than we would tolerate a terrorist who would murder them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the more they reject our message of salvation, the more they need it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the more we love them, the more we will risk their temporary rejection for the sake of their eternal souls.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Author and humorous, Armabombek once wrote to her children, I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote, how much will we love the people we influence today?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I invite you to join me in honoring our veterans today by praying for them, their families, and our nation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I am sharing a personal reflection in an article we will publish on our website later this morning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A link to our website is in today's podcast episode notes.