How did this happen?  It occurred as church-deaths always do, with a membership that is ignorant of the scriptures.  Bring in some spiritually-dead non-Christians heretics.  Add a few New Age ideologies that sound “Christianese,” like ending discrimination and embracing the future, sprinkle with the words: love, community, and equality, and shake until blended.  There you have it.  A deadly cocktail of pharisaic  poison.  Each ingredient by itself is inert, but together, they create a deadly toxin to dignity, honor, faithfulness and righteousness. 

The proponents of same-sex marriage within the PCUSA will say that the Bible is rife with marriage failures, and that is true .  Whenever people have taken it upon themselves to “help” God, as did Sarah, or help themselves, as David and Bathsheba did, things often go horribly wrong.  But then they leap to an inane nonsequitur---that the solution is to add more wrong to cure the first wrongs.  The obvious moral is not to throw out the idea of marriage as God created it, or to pervert it as others have, but to recognize that God’s way is always best for us, and hold fast to it. 

Pro-homosexual mouthpieces eventually get around to saying that the only “loving” course of action is to give in to the deviants.  Not so.  As knows anyone who has raised children, sometimes the only loving answer is “no.”  This is one such case.  We expect that adults are wise enough to know that it’s always a bad idea to cave-in to the demands of rebellious children.  Unfortunately, adult behavior is rare in this nation of adult-children, in which everyone from the president down to the unskilled laborer is fixated on getting his wants and desires fulfilled at the expense of everyone else.

In real numbers, the defection of the PCUSA doesn’t make much of an impact on Christendom.  Its membership is at an all-time low with only about 1.8 million members.  But the real impact will be felt when other denominations like the United Methodist Church, the Catholic Church, and the Southern Baptist Church are pressured into defiling themselves, as well. 

PCUSA members have ignorantly rejected Paul’s admonishing question, “What fellowship has light with darkness?”  Homosexuality is “very grave sin.”  That’s what God calls it, and that’s what it is.  For Presbyterians to think that God will applaud them or anyone else who shakes his fist at Him by embracing same-sex marriage, is utter lunacy.  This latest action by PCUSA leaders is simply the last nail in its coffin.  The death has been a long time coming, and it began when leaders misappropriated for themselves, the authority to supplant the truth of God’s word with the policies of sinful and unredeemed men.

Contrary to the hopes and promises of proponents of same-sex marriage, PCUSA will not expand as a result of this movement, nor should it.  (As if church expansion is a compelling reason for faithlessness).  On the contrary, its demise is locked-in.  PCUSA churches will die the slow death of attrition, only to be cast into the scrap-heap of irrelevance.  Their recent boycott of US companies whose products are used by Israel to protect themselves from Palestinian terrorists has had little if any, effect.  They have forgotten history, and God’s promise to Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you.”  The fact that the “Palestinians” are not a people and have never been the rightful possessors of any land, is lost on the anti-Semitic haters of Israel in PCUSA.  Nevertheless, they zealously pursue their own destruction, all the while thinking that they are “punishing Israel” and doing something good.

The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. has committed suicide by refusing to honor God, by “giving what is holy to dogs,” by calling good, “evil” and calling evil, “good.”  They are not intelligent enough to realize that tolerance of vice is no virtue.  Do not mourn the death of this renegade church.  It was inevitable, and it’s death is a purification of the universal Church, and that’s not a bad thing.  Let’s just pray that PCUSA will serve as an object lesson in the consequences of disobedience for other churches in America that may be considering similar actions.   

The wise man learns without the aid of experience; the fool refuses to accept even the lessons of failure and ruin.