Virginia’s Family Foundation has announced a 40-day fasting event to protect the state’s marriage amendment, which currently defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
The group invited Christians to join them “for 40 Days of Prayer, Fasting and Repentance for Marriage from August 27 until October 5” in a statement last week.
It continues: “Our state and nation are mired in a morass of confusion and post-modern thinking that does not believe in absolutes nor that any truth can even be known. Nowhere is this more evident than in the current debate raging about what constitutes marriage.”
The organization explains that the Virginia Marriage Amendment is being challenged in court.
“Our recently elected Attorney General, Mark Herring, has not only refused to defend Virginia in court, he has joined the plaintiffs in attacking our Marriage Amendment,” the statement says. “The issue of marriage is out of the hands of the legislators and the people they represent, and is now in the hands of unelected, unaccountable judges.”
The Supreme Court begins its session on Oct. 6, and the Family Foundation of Virginia expects it to take a marriage case within the next year.
“The federal government, the news media, Hollywood, the public education system and big business all are arrayed on the side of same-sex ‘marriage,’” it says. “Only the church stands in support of God’s design for marriage.
The statement continues: “Our 40 Days will culminate on October 5 just before the court begins its session. We don’t know what the Lord will do. We do know that He is sovereign. Whatever happens, we must adopt the attitude of the three Hebrew children who refused to bow before the golden image in Babylon.”
