The Reverend Bill Owens, Founder and President of the Coalition of African American Pastors, did not mince words as he spoke at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on February 25, 2014. He said, “Our elected leaders are bent on destroying marriage, remaking it as a genderless institution…In pursuing this intention, the president and his administration are trampling the rule of law.…”

We could not have imagined that Ronald Reagan’s “city on a hill” would ever come to this. Even the current president (and his administration) who is the object of Reverend Owens’ petition, campaigned in 2008 on his stated belief that marriage was a sacred institution between a man and a woman.

The Bible teaches that codifying homosexuality into a societal norm is degrading to a people (Romans 1:32). It is the opposite of progressive. Such national sin marks a downward spiral towards judgment. In addition, biblical marriage is the law of our land in the vast majority of our states. It is usually overturned, not by the votes of the people, but by manipulative courts or legislatures...

...This is wrong.