Jesus and the Patriots

Democratic Senator Mark Dayton of Minnesota recently told his colleagues, “I have recently re-read the four Gospels, and I cannot find anywhere that Jesus Christ condemns homosexual relationships or gay marriages.” Still, marriage surfaces on the most progressive treatise of the evangelical nation.

For Christ’s sake and ours, it’s probably altogether better if we agree to keep Him out of our political lives. As Jesus himself said, according to Matthew 22:21, as the Pharisees connived to corner Him into betraying some political ambition, “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s.” (After that, they left Him alone.) But if we have to be inculcated daily in the Puritan notion that Americans hold human life in higher esteem than the barbarian nations, that we stand for justice and mercy (and the humane treatment of prisoners) because weare a Christian nation, then we should hold our nation-builders to His word: As you judge, so shall you be judged.