Welcome to this special weekend edition of the Ass Pastor John podcast.

In the last week or so, we have gotten about 50 emails from listeners who want to hear

from you, Pastor John, about Kim Davis, a county clerk in the state of Kentucky.

Here's one such email from Sherry, one of our faithful podcast listeners who simply

asks this, Pastor John is Kim Davis wrong for not signing same-sex marriage licenses.

What would you say, Pastor John?

I don't know Kim Davis's heart and so I can't assess her motives and I don't know her

theology.

It's possible to do right actions for wrong reasons and so be wrong in doing right.

So I'll just try to say something about her actions and what appeared to be some of her

convictions and perhaps touch on some wider implications.

So first, I think she's right in rejecting so-called same-sex marriage as contrary to God's

design for what marriage is and she is right in assessing this departure from God's will

as massive, not marginal and as personally and culturally deadly, not trivial and therefore

not something that you can just go along with as if that were a loving thing to do.

The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 6, 9 and 10 that the endorsement of same-sex practice,

which is what the approval of so-called same-sex marriage does, that that endorsement of that

practice along with idolatry, greed, theft, drunkenness is an endorsement of the destruction

of persons.

Those who impenitently practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God, calling

such behaviors legal in no way removes the capital punishment that will follow in eternity.

Therefore, this judgment of the Supreme Court is massively evil and deadly for persons,

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