DOMA, A Ban on Sex Selection and What it Means

Today, the court of appeals in Boston struck down The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) saying it was unconstitutional.  DOMA says that marriage is between a man and a woman. On the same day the House of Representatives could not get enough votes to pass a ban on abortions done for sex selection.  For those who would say that abortion of girls because parents want boys doesn't happen in America, check out this news report. 

I am sure that DOMA will make its way to the supreme court, but it is uncertain if this administration will seek to defend it, given the president's recent evolution and his historic stand on this particular law.  I am not sure if the ban on sex selection will be brought back up.  I know the country is divided over same sex marriage, but I thought that those who were pro-choice wanted abortions to be available, safe and rare.  Gone are the days of marching with a coat hanger, now I guess people can march with gender symbols.  After all choice means deciding that I want a boy instead of a girl (or vice versa.)

Those who thought that the slippery slope argument was bogus can now apologize.  We have slipped down that slope a little farther.  But we should not be surprised that we are here.  In the past, we understand that our rights were given to us by our creator, therefore what we did with them were subject to Him.  God was the center of the universe.  But now "the self" has unseated God as the center of all things.  If there is a God, he is there to make me happy.  The end of all things is my happiness whether it means aborting a baby because a baby of another sex would have made me happy.

As Christians we need to interpret all this through the eyes of Scripture.  That "the self" is god, should not surprise us after all that is what the serpent told Eve.  The answer to all of this is the gospel of Jesus Christ which leads men and women to repent and turn from themselves to God.  As God's people we need to make sure that we are living lives that reflect that Jesus is on the throne, we need to pray, and we need to take the gospel to a hurting world.  For when self is on the throne, it would seem that I would be the happiest, but the truth it always leads to disaster.  Think about it.