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November 26, 2007
Dead End Street
Posted by Dave Blount at November 26, 2007 8:16 PM
CNS News reports on the sad decline of Philadelphia Mayor John Street, who was elected on a family-friendly platform, allegedly rooted in his faith as a Seventh-Day Adventist. From the church's website:
Marriage was divinely established in Eden and affirmed by Jesus Christ to be both monogamous and heterosexual, a lifelong union of loving companionship between a man and a woman. […]
Throughout Scripture, the heterosexual union in marriage is elevated as a symbol of the bond between Deity and humanity. […] The harmonious affiliation of a man and a woman in marriage provides a microcosm of social unity that is time-honored as a core ingredient of stable societies.
The monogamous union in marriage of a man and a woman is affirmed as the divinely ordained foundation of the family and social life and the only morally appropriate locus of genital or related intimate sexual expression. […]
To this biblical view of marriage the Seventh-day Adventist Church adheres without reservation, believing that any lowering of this high view is to that extent a lowering of the heavenly ideal.
However, none of this prevented Street from presiding over a legally meaningless "marriage" ceremony between two homosexuals on Saturday.
Nor did it stop him from reneging on an agreement the city made with the Boy Scouts in 1928 to let them use a half-acre piece of property "in perpetuity." Now they have to come up with $200,000 or vacate their new headquarters — all because they aren't depraved enough to welcome homosexual scoutmasters. If they were, it would in all probability lead to the molestation of children, just as the prevalence of homosexual priests has in the Catholic church — a stark reminder of the perils of straying from core values.
Evidently Street did hold coherent values in the past, but power corrupts — just ask David Souter, who became a leftist after being appointed to the Supreme Court by a Republican.
Fortunately Street is on his way out. Too bad we can't say the same about Souter.
On a tip from Bill.
