Upside-down justice.

“A federal judge has backed a homosexual-rights group [from Uganda] in its claim that members were injured by an American pastor’s biblical preaching in Uganda against homosexual behavior” (WorldNetDaily, August 15, 2013). Should this type of lawsuit be recognized in the U.S., virtually anyone opposing legislation that supports homosexual rights could be jailed for crimes against humanity (ibid.).

Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) called Pastor Scott Lively’s comments a “‘crime against humanity’ in violation of ‘international law’” (ibid.). Lively’s lawyers claim that his “Freedom of Speech” rights protect him from such a lawsuit and that a recent precedent was set in U.S. courts, precluding the “Alien Tort Statute” in U.S. law from being used in such a way. SMUG’s lawsuit asked U.S. courts to “punish one of its citizens... for ‘crimes against humanity’ under an international treaty that the United States has expressly rejected” (ibid.).  Should this type of lawsuit be recognized in the U.S., virtually anyone opposing legislation that supports homosexual rights could be jailed for crimes against humanity (ibid.).

When the prophet stated, “the whole head is sick,” he was implying that the nation of Israel had lost its ability to reason correctly (Isaiah 1:5)—which certainly applies to Israelite nations today that have begun to “call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20). Justice today is no longer based on a moral or ethical code, but on the will of the opinionated few (see Judges 17:6). For more on this phenomenon, read our article “The Future of Democracy.”