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This is not a forecast of doom but merely of a continuing transformation of law and government , a journey to a new polity and society whose details we cannot even begin to imagine today . The Declaration of Independence may indeed appear to be a " weak reed " on which to lean a Christian statement about the right ordering of our public life . In Romer the Court cavalierly dismissed millennia of reflection on the right ordering of human sexuality as no more than an irrational " animus " comparable to racial discrimination . Short of the right ordering of the universal polis in the Kingdom of God , Christians are always , in the phrase of the second-century letter to Diognetus , " alien citizens , " and are obliged to do justice to both aspects of that admittedly awkward status . Perry spends much of this book trying to catch the symposiasts in a revealing contradiction over that issue . The use of specially blessed water recalls Old Testament events such as the Flood , the crossing of the Red Sea , and the striking of the rock by Moses ( 1 Corinthians 10:1 -4 ; 1 Peter 3:20 -21 ) as well as Jesus ?