HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE UPHELD BY FEDERAL JUDGE:

This blog was originally written on Friday February 14, 2014 but we delayed releasing it because of our remembrance of Prophet Bob Jones who died on the very day we wrote it.

U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen has ruled on a Thursday night in February in the midst of a storm that has left much of Virginia immobilized that
the Constitution of Virginia is wrong and that homosexual marriage is right.
Virginia becomes the first state in the South to open the door to homosexual marriage, although homosexuals still cannot marry until the Supreme Court decides on this matter.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring violated his constitutional duties to defend the constitution by not defending the constitution. Mark Herring was elected to protect the constitution and in the constitution is the definition of marriage being a union of one man and one woman. But we now know that Mark Herring is a politician and politicians change with the winds. I looked for Herring's opinion on and for homosexual marriage before he was elected last November and I couldn't find his support or agreement for homosexual marriage. Herring only won by 900 votes and I guess he couldn't afford to reveal his opinion on this matter. Should Herring be impeached for his duplicity? The Virginia Christian Alliance believes that he should.
Judge Wight Allen said in her written opinion that Virginia cannot perpetuate tradition (she calls marriage ordained by God as a union of one man and one woman a tradition). By terming God's order for marriage as tradition she removes this righteous standard from the protection of the law she has been appointed to preside over.
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said "that our nation's judicial system has been infected by activist judges, which threaten the stability of our nation and the rule of law."

Virginia was paralyzed by a winter storm this week that we are just overcoming. The decision of Judge Wright Allen will release a greater storm on Virginia. Unrighteous decrees pens the door to demonic oppression and the increase of darkness in the land. Proverbs 14:34 tells us that righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to a people. Homosexual marriage is a reproach that will create many destructive cycles in this state.
But yet I must speak what I believe is the heart of God. The people of God who walked in His glory and calling are called to love all of God's creation. It is time for the people of God to stand in intercession and stand in love for the homosexual community. This community needs the love of God although tolerance is not love. They need to experience His grace. They need His fellowship In Jesus Christ. They need to see that God loves them so much that He sent His Son Jesus to die to set them free from the captivity of homosexuality.
If you are a homosexual reading this post you may believe that I hate you but I don't. I believe that the enemy of your soul and the perverter of your destiny has placed a veil that over your eyes that has blinded you to the love of God and the Gospel of Jesus that call you to salvation, salvation from the lifestyle that the world tells you is okay. Jesus loves you and I do too. Jesus desires that you live as He created you. Yes someone has lied to you and told you that you were born this way and the truth is all of us have been born in sin and shaped in iniquity but Jesus came to set us free and give us His nature. He came to transform your mind and renew you. It would not be love for me to tell you that you are okay and that I support your lifestyle. Jesus came to give you real life, life abundant and no matter what Judge Wright Allen say. No matter what Mark Herring say I'm praying that you will hear what God is saying. And in hearing the voice of your Creator you will come to know the blessed eternal life that He has for you.
Shalom.
Bernard Boulton.

VANTORIA: THE WOMAN THAT I LOVE

More than twenty one years I walked into a church in Elyria Ohio and was introduced by my cousin to a beautiful woman named Vantoria Larkins. I entered into a new season that would dramatically change the rest of my life.

Our first date was a month later. We met at MacDonald's in downtown Cleveland on Good Friday. Vantoria was in the city for an appointment and I was in between attending Good Friday services that were being held all over the city that day. I only remember snippets of the conversation we had but what I have always treasured is the joy I felt being with Vantoria for a few hours that day.

From that day on we started pursuing each other. Our time together was precious. Because she lived in Elyria and I lived in Cleveland we didn't see each other every day. But the hours on the telephone connected my heart to hers and on Fridays when I would get off of work I sped down Interstate 90 to see the woman that I had fallen in love with. I knew in twenty one days that I had discovered the woman that I would spend the rest of life with. I'd found my companion, my help and my love.
Vantoria fulfilled my vision of a wife. She was beautiful, educated and gifted. She was outspoken, brutally honest and very transparent. She introduced me to a new way of life that I had not known growing up in Cleveland.

I proposed to Vantoria one friday night as we were riding in my Camaro on interstate 90. The soulful sounds of Luther Vandross filled our space as I professed my desire to spend the rest of my life with her. And she yes she would be my wife.

On Saturday July 13, 1991 we were married in the presence of our families and our friends. I stood at the altar and watched as Vantoria walked toward me on the arm of her father. I was grateful and frightened that Vantoria was becoming my wife. Would I be able to be the kind of husband that she needed? Could I make her happy? Would she have a great life with me? I didn't know what the future held for us but on that day everything looked golden. It was a day that new beginnings were being established.

I could write a book on our twenty years together. July 13, 1991 began a life in motion for both of us. Within a year Quincy would be born, our only child. A year and a half after Quincy was born we were moving to the state of West Virginia where I was called to pastor my first church. A year after that we were moving to Danville Virginia to our second church. We would live there for over five years.

When I look back its really astonishing that we made it to year twenty. We both brought a lot of baggage into our marriage. Although Vantoria grew up in a two  parent home I had not. And my view of marriage wasn't that great either. The way that I dealt with conflict was not to deal with it. It was easy for me to shut down verbally and emotionally. Vantoria had a different way of dealing with conflict and so we much conflict in those early years. Becoming a pastor and pastor's wife so early in our marriage also created a lot of tension for the both if us. We overcame many challenges in the early years with God's help.

There are two gifts that Vantoria gives me: Her love and her pride. She loves me and she is proud of me. And each day I try to live up to her expectations of me. Of course I fail. But I try to give her what she expects from me. So today I reflect on our beginning and on our continued journey. I thank God for making this unique creature to share life and love with me. My heavenly Father knew who I needed and He brought her to me. And by His grace we have walked together for the majority of our lives.

This woman that I love is Vantoria. She is the expression of God's love for me. God's grace to me and God's favor toward me. She is my helper, my motivator and encourager. She is my partner, my ally and my friend. God knew me and He knew her and He brought us together to know each other. She is the catalyst of my growth and the voice in my heart. She is the woman that I love.