It might appear that the issue is states rights but in fact the real issue is respecting Gods laws and judgments and doing them on earth as it was decreed in heaven.

This is the duty of the state in exchange for legitimacy and the real right to govern.

The question of what to do with homosexuals is dealt with in Leviticus 20:13.

Applying that law and judgment is not Judaizing, it is respecting and enforcing God’s law and God is not a Jew.

Failure to obey God’s laws and judgments on the part of the state, and that means any government on earth puts such a state in the position of being an accessory to a crime and must suffer the penalty of that crime.

Under that legal principle all governments that legalize, protect, promote or fail to punish crimes defined by God’s laws are guilty of being an accessory to those crimes and must suffer the penalty defined by God’s judgments.

This is what that statement “Do not judge lest you be judged” is all about. Making law and punishment independent of God’s laws and judgments. It is not a prohibition on carrying out sentencing based on God’s laws and judgments at all.

It is about prohibiting government from playing God and overthrowing God’s laws and judgments and making the law of god of no effect by the traditions of men and women.

Legislation beyond the limits or in defiance of divine law is against the First Commandment. For offending persons and nations there are consequences for this and they are not going to be a lot of fun either.

Can you say national punishment by the foreign sword or by other means?

Ask yourself the question. Who is offended by your offenses and is being strengthened economically and militarily? That is your executioner.