14th Amendment, Licentiousness, and Nature’s God
The Bible is the authority to govern the lives of men. Man-made laws are deficient ( Mark 7:8-10, 13, Matt 15: 1-20)
Deuteronomy 23:15-16 says we are stewards, not owners, of people under our care.
The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution attempts to capture this idea.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/13th-amendment
Here are the Underground Railroad Bible verses that corrected errors of the past:
https://www.broomallrpc.org/articles/why-did-the-reformed-presbyterian-church-oppose-slavery
Deuteronomy 25:13-16, Lev 24:22, Col 3:25b, and James 2:9 say that we should not have a “double standard” or “favorites” distinguishing citizens of our land .
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution attempts to capture this idea.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/14th-amendment
The 14th Amendment allows licentiousness:
“…The Supreme Court has also used the Equal Protection Clause to prohibit discrimination on other bases besides race. Most laws are assessed under so-called “rational basis scrutiny.” Here, any plausible and legitimate reason for the discrimination is sufficient to render it constitutional. But laws that rely on so-called “suspect classifications” are assessed under ‘heightened scrutiny.’ Here, the government must have important or compelling reasons to justify the discrimination, and the discrimination must be carefully tailored to serve those reasons. What types of classifications are “suspect”? In light of the history of the Equal Protection Clause, it is no surprise that race and national origin are suspect classifications. But the Court has also held that gender, immigration status, and wedlock status at birth qualify as suspect classifications. The Court has rejected arguments that age and poverty should be elevated to suspect classifications…” (https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/amendment-xiv/clauses/702)
What happened?
The Laws of Nature and Nature’s God speaks to us from the U.S. Declaration of Independence:
