The state is now allowing any two people to marry.  Which should be a civil ceremony if the state wants to get involved--not an ordinance of marriage--which is a religious institution created by God.  And God said that marriage should be between a man and a woman.  God and the state no longer agree on what marriage is.

God and the state no longer agree on much of anything anymore.  Everything I knew to be true in the 1940 and 50's seems to have been eradicated, reversed or turned upside down.  And the nation is the worse for it.  Everything has to be politically correct.  But only for certain groups.  Certain people.

Free speech has been turned into free ranting.  Free screaming at each other.  Free cursing, swearing, free blasphemy.  I never heard such stuff when I was growing up.  I was a grown woman before I heard anybody curse.  And I could walk the six blocks home from school everyday and not even consider being afraid.  None of the kids I knew was ever afraid.  There was no reason to be afraid.

We played outside until dark, and then came home for supper.  We lay on quilts out in our back yards and counted stars, caught lightening bugs and watched falling stars streak across the sky.  The sky was clear.  You could see forever.  Sometimes we fell asleep and woke up with the morning dew.  Not any more.  Children can't do those things any more.  It's too dangerous.

If someone harmed a child back then, justice was swift.  Ken used to say that for justice to exist, it had to be swift, and punishment had to be absolute.  Otherwise, no one would believe in justice anymore.   Only when justice is swift and absolute will the law have meaning.

That's where we are.  Nobody believes in justice any more.  So we must remember what God said.  "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.  1 Peter 5:8   That is the world we now live in.

It makes me sad.  It makes me so very sad.