Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver is
predicting a civil war if the Supreme Court rules in favor of gay
marriage advocates.
The nation's highest court has agreed
to hear two cases related to marriage equality. Arguments are set
for March and rulings are expected in June.
(Related: Supreme
Cout to hear gay marriage-related Prop 8, DOMA cases.)
Speaking
to Janet Parshall, Staver, whose group is heading a legal
challenge to California's first-in-the-nation 'ex-gay' ban, said
such a ruling would be “devastating to our religious freedom.”
“Basically marriage will be
completely destroyed, families will be destroyed, children will be
hurt by this and freedom of speech and freedom of religion, including
in the pulpit itself, will absolutely be bulldozed over,” Staver
said. “This would open a floodgate of unimaginable proportions.
That's why with those kinds of consequences to have five of the nine
justices ultimately have this kind of power in their hands, that's
not how this court and this country was established, to have five
individuals to be able to have that kind of catastrophic, social
reengineering power in their hands, that's just not something that
was envisioned by the founders.”
“This is the thing that revolutions
literally are made of. This would be more devastating to our freedom,
to our religious freedom, to the rights of pastors and their duty to
be able to speak and to Christians around the country, than anything
that the revolutionaries during the American Revolution even dreamed
of facing. This would be the thing that revolutions are made of.
This could split the country right in two. This could cause another
civil war. I'm not talking about just people protesting in the
streets, this could be that level because what would ultimately
happen is a direct collision would immediately happen with pastors,
with churches, with Christians, with Christian ministries, with other
businesses. It would be an avalanche that would go across the
country.”