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The Meaning of Biblical Marriage: Who Decides These Things?

Shari Johnson describes herself as “I am an evangelical Christian who, I am sorry to say, used to be one of the ‘don’t-confuse-me-with-facts-because-my-mind-is-made-up’ type of Christian.” Now in a Fox News opinion piece she tells us, “When I hear terms like ‘God’s design’ and ‘Biblical marriage’ I have to wonder who decides these things.” Her …

January 7, 2012 – 7:49 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , | Comments (9)

“Private Beliefs”—It’s All In How You Pose the Question

SteveK tipped us to an article that includes: Improbably, gay marriage and religion loom as issues in the Nov. 8 race for a part-time, $12,000-a-year clerk’s job in this town of gently sloping hills on Cayuga Lake. Voters are posed with the question: Where is the line between an elected official’s public duty and private …

November 2, 2011 – 2:49 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , | Comments (17)

Gay “Marriage,” Civil Rights, Power, and Principle

Even a democracy can undermine freedom and foster the unethical rule of power. America’s founders saw this, and placed in our Constitution a Bill of Rights to preserve civil rights and protect us all from the tyranny of the majority. Gay “marriage” is often regarded as a civil rights issue deserving that constitutional protection. And …

July 1, 2011 – 9:29 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (12)

“Same-Sex Spin”

From Chuck Colson: We’ve been told so many times that same-sex “marriage” is “inevitable” that we’re tempted to stop fighting it. But a newly released study tells a different story….

June 30, 2011 – 10:58 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , | Comments (73)

Interracial Marriage and Same-Sex “Marriage” « Public Discourse

An important insight from Francis Beckwith on same-sex “marriage” and its supposed analogy to interracial marriage. Based on historical/legal research, It is clear then that the miscegenation/same-sex analogy does not work. [From Interracial Marriage and Same-Sex Marriage « Public Discourse] The disanalogy: where the antimiscegenation laws came from, and why they were wrong.

May 21, 2010 – 6:25 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Creative Minority Report: “Marriage as a Life Issue”

From Creative Minority Report: Marriage as a Life Issue: Guttmacher points out that “the overwhelming majority of women having abortions (85%) were unmarried.” … Abortion is a symptom of a lack of love…. real committed love…. Maybe one of the most pro-life actions one can take is defending marriage.

May 9, 2010 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , | Comments (1)

“A Christian Vision of Marriage and Family”

Albert Mohler, on a new book by Andreas Kostenberger with David W. Jones: As Kostenberger observes, “What until now has been considered a ‘normal’ family, made up of a father, a mother, and a number of children, has in recent years increasingly begun to be viewed as one among several options, which can no longer …

July 6, 2009 – 7:40 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , | Comments (10)

Wrong Questions About Same-Sex “Marriage”

We’re continually asking and answering the wrong questions about same-sex “marriage.” Defenders ask, “what’s wrong with it?” Opponents answer by pointing out its various moral and social ill effects. Defenders deny that those effects happen or that they make any difference.Then they ask, “Since you can’t show it’s doing any harm, why not allow it?” …

November 2, 2008 – 9:54 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , | Comments (31)

If Not a Dolphin, If Not Yourself, Then Maybe a Robot

“Not tonight, dear, I have to reboot.” Artificial-intelligence researcher David Levy projected a mock image on a screen of a smiling bride in a wedding dress holding hands with a short robot groom. “Why not marry a robot? Look at this happy couple,” he said to a chuckling crowd…. In his 2007 book, Love and …

February 18, 2008 – 8:04 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , | Comments (5)