In one of the greatest defeats conservatives have suffered at the hands of Republicans, the Republican National Convention has dropped its opposition to same-sex “marriage.” In a bid to make the Republican Party more popular, former President Donald Trump and his allies urged Republican leaders to abandon their decades-long push for a federal abortion ban and to soften their stance on same-sex “marriage.”

Republican leaders responded. The 2024 Republican Party Platform adopted at the Republican National Convention held from July 15-18 only opposes late-term abortions. It makes absolutely no mention of same-sex “marriage.”

The 2024 platform promises to seal the border, carry out the largest deportation operation in American history, end inflation, make the United States the largest energy producer in the world, and stop outsourcing U.S. manufacturing jobs overseas. It pledges to keep men out of women’s sports, ban taxpayer funding for sex-change surgeries, and stop taxpayer-funded schools from promoting gender transitions. But unlike the 2020 Republican Party Platform, there is no endorsement of “traditional marriage,” no call to overturn Supreme Court decisions making same-sex “marriage” a legal right, and no mention of same-sex “marriage” period.

Opinion polls indicate 7 percent of Americans identify as lesbian, homosexual, transgender or queer and that 25 percent of these queer Americans are Republican. Trump can potentially boost his share of the popular vote in the 2024 presidential election by 2 percent by dropping opposition to same-sex “marriage” from the Republican Party Platform. Yet by making this concession, he further erodes the American family.

Mark Steyn warned in 2014 that the real battle for America is over culture, not elections:

Liberals expend tremendous effort changing the culture. Conservatives expend tremendous effort changing elected officials every other November—and then are surprised that it doesn’t make much difference. Culture trumps politics—which is why, once the question’s been settled culturally, conservatives are reduced to playing catch-up, twisting themselves into pretzels to explain why gay marriage is really conservative after all, or why 30 million unskilled immigrants with a majority of births out of wedlock are “natural allies” of the Republican Party.

The 2024 Republican National Convention is proof he was right. Dropping opposition to same-sex “marriage” from the Republican platform would have been unthinkable when Steyn wrote his article. But now it has happened as Republicans slide down a slippery slope toward public acceptance of transgender surgery.

Jude 7 is the strongest warning in the Bible against homosexual “marriage.” It warns that nations that live like Sodom and Gomorrah will suffer “the vengeance of eternal fire.” Radical leftists in America are actively promoting sexual sins and coming after anyone who speaks against them with “hate speech” laws. God is intervening in American affairs to give Americans one last chance to repent and uphold His laws. But if even so-called conservatives start accepting the perversions around them as normal, the reprieve will be only temporary.

Ultimately, it is not about Democrats versus Republicans. It is about a sacred moral code governing individuals.

To understand the deadly deceit behind same-sex “marriage” and what God thinks of this particular sin, request a free copy of our booklet Redefining Family by Trumpet managing editor Joel Hilliker.