Supreme Court is too involved

In all the words the media has poured out on Kim Davis, shockingly little has been said about how we got to the place where any American can even suggest their religious freedom is under attack. After all, every religion, and essentially all cultures throughout history, have understood sex to have a moral dimension. So no government should be surprised when religions object to certain sexual behaviors.

Also, any religion worth its name is intended to shape behavior. The current secularist mantra that religious people should hide in their closet or house of worship and shut up is simply against the whole nature of religious faith.

What really needs discussion is why and how the U.S. Supreme Court has become the arbiter of sexual behavior, and what it means for our future. Its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade inserted the court into areas it seems clear the writers of the U.S. Constitution never foresaw.

As the court has once again decided what sexual behaviors we must accept and embrace, one can only foresee the sort of endless conflict that legalized abortion has brought us. When sexual freedom becomes the overriding law of the land, expect the other freedoms to fall.

James Becker

Spokane