wrong you can continue to stand up for Godly principles and Godly teaching.
God does not lose and the bible tells us what will happen on earth.
God didn't wake up and go OMG they passed gay marriage he already knew.
The bible says that He works all things together for those that love Him.
Sexual preference is something that we can bring to the light of God while at the same time
standing up for principle.
The only time we lose is when we back down on standing on the rock that is Jesus Christ.
I'm not talking about changing my mind or my viewpoint on anything. My beliefs are rooted in the Bible, chiefly the New Testament. Until and unless someone presents me with a theologically sound argument for changing my view of what the relevant scriptures appear to say then my viewpoint remains the same: homosexual acts are a sin, and same-sex "marriage" is against the will of God.
However, SSM is now the law of the land, per SCOTUS decision, and changing that is vanishingly unlikely.
While we may live in a nominally Christian-majority nation, our government is largely secular and some fairly large swaths of self-labeled Christians have accepted SSM as well. The majority public opinion is in favor of SSM at this time. A reversal of this legal precedent is just not going to happen.
Whether we personally recognize SSM in our beliefs is our own concern, but we will be legally obligated to recognize the legality of the unions under the law of the land we live in, as business owners or employees or government workers. If one's business or job may require some kind of interaction with SSM on that basis (ie Clerk of Court, Justice of the Peace, wedding cake baker) then one had better consider one's conscience and perhaps change one's business or employment situation if you feel your conscience won't allow it.
"We are called to peace..." We are also called to respect the laws of the land in which we live, remember. Yes, "we ought to obey God rather than Man", but WE didn't make the law to allow this, SCOTUS did. It's done and there's probably little or nothing we can do about that other than examine our conscience on the matter and find some way to live in this society as it is, or else leave it to seek a better one elsewhere... if you think there
is a better one elsewhere, which seems unlikely.
Yes, ultimately God will judge. We didn't choose this or vote for it. We stood against it, spoke against it, voted against it. We did all we could within the laws of the land, but now the law of the land is that SSM is legal, and if we live here we will have to deal with that fact. If you're a business owner, you're going to have to deal with the fact that you may have employees who are engaged in SSM, and you will have to extend benefits to their partner as you would any other spouse. That's the law and you have no choice but to obey it or get out of business. Going out of business isn't going to do you any good, or your other employees any good is it? Nor will it change anything, other than to leave you trying to find another way to make a living and putting your employees out of job.
We already deal with a lot of things in this society that are against God's will. Abortion is allowed by law, and most of us feel abortion is not God's will; no-fault divorce is not in accord with the Bible but it is the law of the land; we pay taxes to a government that funds a lot of things that God probably doesn't like, and we do so because we are not given any choice in the matter: it is the law.
Will you refuse to pay taxes because some of your tax money may end up paying for someone's abortion, or sex-change operation, or art that is offensive to Christiandom? No, you pay your taxes because it is the law of the land and if you don't they'll come MAKE you. This is going to be much the same; you either deal with it or avoid it but the law will force you to comply if you violate same.
We can still speak against it and preach against it, but the legal issue has been settled and realistically there is about zero chance of that changing, and realistically we're going to have to deal with that or else leave the country.
I don't see any other viable options.