Leviticus 20:9-16,
NASB:
9‘If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his bloodguiltiness is upon him.
10‘If there is a man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, one who commits adultery with his friend’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11‘If there is a man who lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death, their bloodguiltiness is upon them. 12‘If there is a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed incest, their bloodguiltiness is upon them. 13‘If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them. 14‘If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is immorality; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no immorality in your midst. 15‘If there is a man who lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; you shall also kill the animal. 16‘If there is a woman who approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
To me, I think for the Union of American States it’s really a question of whether or not the government and/or military has the right to enforce and even force morality and the lack thereof. I view that under God they have the responsibility to uphold the laws and morality that God institutes, and will be held accountable where they do not. I view that their rights end there for the Christian, but that they certainly have the ability of temporal power and civil popularity to act according to desires and characterizations of morality or lack thereof other than as God has instituted.
The American society and military at large have characterizations of morality quite distinct from that of Christian norms, which by and large now includes a consideration of homosexual rights of expression, lifestyle, and even open practice. Furthermore, they have developed a characterization of liberty that frowns on religious condemnation of homosexual expression. I view that this is offensive to God and not without consequence of judgment from God. It is likewise characterized even by some sovereign States other than America, which can also have military consequence. However, though there may be just cause for the position of military authority to maintain a ‘higher’ morality than even that found in American jurisprudence, it lends an appearance of being unjust to allow for ‘gay rights’ in society at large without extending them to the military defending such. Though it be an abomination to God, it is not self-inconsistent with American considerations of liberty, just or unjust.
