The July 7, 2013 issue of the Dayton Daily News contained a printed interview with Sherri Saum, an actress who grew up in the Dayton area. For those who are not familiar with her, I will allow the first paragraph of the story to introduce Sherri Saum to you.

"Sherri Saum, a Fairmont High School graduate who grew up in Kettering, is making news as one of the lesbian moms in the highly touted new ABC Family cable television network drama, 'The Fosters.'"

The name of the show makes a clever play on the name "Foster." Saum's character is Lena Adams. Her lesbian partner is named Stef Foster. The couple is portrayed as having started a family that is made up of both biological and foster children. To promote the show, ABC is calling the situation "a new kind of family."

Early in the interview Saum is asked the following question: "Does the script indicate whether Lena and Stef are legally married? How do you personally feel about the Supreme Court's recent ruling on gay marriage?" Saum replied:

"Lena and Stef aren't legally married on the show. It's not yet clear what will happen on that front; they feed us plot info on a need-to-know basis.

I'm excited by the rulings. It's a kind of contradictory thing in our country: We are the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, this big melting pot where we embrace differences. But is hasn't always translated that way in our laws. I think people who want to be committed and share their lives should be able to do that as fully as their neighbors. It doesn't take anything away from anyone else, so I'm not sure where the outrage comes from. I'm more outraged by people who park Hummers in compact car spaces. Let's all just protest that."

For those who are curious about Saum's real life sexual orientation, the interview eventually reveals that she is married to husband Kamar de los Reyes, a former cast mate on the soap opera "One Life To Live."

Saum may be from Dayton, but she certainly reflects the typical views that can be expected from someone in the entertainment industry. One line in her response got my attention, and I want to address what she brings up when she says that same-sex marriage "doesn't take anything away from anyone else, so I'm not sure where the outrage comes from."

This is not the first time I have heard this argument from those who support same-sex marriage. They claim that they are not wanting to do away with heterosexual marriage. Heterosexuals can still get married as they always have, so they are not losing anything in this ruling. As Saum put is, "It doesn't take anything away from anyone else." On the surface this may look like a good point, but someone is being left out of the picture. Same-sex marriage takes away from God. It is an affront to God's wisdom, authority, and holiness. God is the One who designed and created marriage. He says that marriage is to be between one man and one woman.

"And He answered and said to them, 'Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning "made them male and female," and said, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?"'" (Matt. 19:4-5). This passage specifies who God will join together in a marriage - a male and a female. (Also, this passage condemns the practice of polygamy - a man taking on multiple wives. On a side note, the legal recognition of polygamy will be the next battle that will be fought in our society's on-going efforts to redefine marriage.)

Despite man's efforts to dismiss God, He still exists and rules in the affairs of men. Mortal man's efforts to redefine marriage take away from the sovereignty and authority of God, and such actions will not go unnoticed or unpunished.

Saum wants to know "where the outrage comes from?" Reading her statement gave me the opportunity to examine my own heart and realize that I am "outraged" about the recent advancements of the pro-homosexual movement in our nation. Her question is "why;" where is this outrage coming from?

I cannot answer for everyone. I have no doubt that some people hate homosexuals and intend to do them harm. I cannot condone such attitudes or actions. The Scriptures teach me to love my neighbor and to be at peace with all men. However, I can tell you a legitimate place where outrage over the promotion and acceptance of the homosexual agenda comes from - it comes from people who love God and His Word and have grown tired watching it being rejected and ridiculed by others.

David wrote, "Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way" (Ps. 119:104). God's precepts clearly define the proper participants in marriage. When we understand and appreciate what is right in God's sight, we will naturally hate that which seeks to pervert and change it. In the same Psalm David went on to say, "Rivers of water run down from my eyes, because men do not keep Your law" (v. 136). While the perverted and confused celebrated the recent Supreme Court decision, the righteous mourned. Not because we thought we couldn't get married anymore, but because of what was done to God and His Word.

While Saum and others are "excited" about the so-called progress that our nation has made with the recent Supreme Court ruling, they need to remember that the beliefs of others have been trampled upon and disregarded in this effort. Perhaps Saum and her show's producers could better understand and appreciate the outrage if it were put like this: How would they feel if someone made a show about a heterosexual couple who adopted foster children and taught them that homosexuality was a sin? What if the show was written and produced in such a way that every episode was designed to take a shot at the homosexual agenda and weaken its support? To top it all off, what if they decided to call the show "The Fosters." They would be outraged, and rightly so, but that is no different than what this show or the Supreme Court's ruling are doing to what God created and called "marriage."

The outrage is not understood because it comes from people who are more concerned about God than about where people park their cars. It comes from people who recognize that once a nation moves away from God, it does not return, and will ultimately receive God's wrath. It comes from people who have grown weary of hearing others convince us that evil is "good," darkness is "light," and that which is bitter should be celebrated and embraced as being "sweet" (Is. 5:20). It comes from people who are mourning the rejection of God and what they perceive to be the eventual end of our nation.