• Homosexuality •
Newsweek Celebrates Gay Rights Gains Worldwide
Monday, September 10, 2007
This week’s cover story for Newsweek magazine’s international editions is an essay by writer Joseph Contreras celebrating gay rights gains worldwide. The article, “Legal in Unlikely Places,” provides a glowing report on how homosexuality is becoming increasingly accepted around the world, “even in the land of machismo.”
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
When Bad Science Meets Bad Law
Last Thursday an Iowa district court judge struck down the state’s law limiting marriage to a union of a man and a woman. Judge Robert Hanson of Polk County, Iowa, ruled that the Iowa law is unconstitutional because it denies homosexual persons the right to marry and enjoy the legal rights and protections granted through…
Homosexuality and the Bible — The Rejectionist Approach
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Luke Timothy Johnson thinks that the Christian crisis over homosexuality is not really about sex at all. Instead, it “has less to do with sex than with perceived threats to the authority of Scripture and the teaching authority of the church.” In reality the crisis is about both sex and biblical authority, as Johnson himself makes clear.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Can A “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy Work In The Church?
The decision at the recent annual meeting of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [ELCA] to keep its standards on homosexuality, but to discourage their enforcement raises questions of institutional integrity in the church. On today’s program, Dr. Mohler considers the problem of institutional hypocrisy.
Institutionalized Hypocrisy — A Failure of Courage
Thursday, August 23, 2007
This week’s question at On Faith [Newsweek andThe Washington Post] has to do with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s vote to encourage its bishops not to enforce the doctrines and standards of the church — at least when it comes to the matter of homosexual clergy.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Marrying and Burying: What’s Appropriate for Church Weddings and Funerals?
When a Texas church recently made headlines for withdrawing its offer to host a funeral for a man who they discovered had been a practicing homosexual, they garnered a barrage of media attention. If churches want to avoid such embarrassing episodes, they have to carefully think through their policies on weddings and funerals.
Heresy Precedes Homosexuality
Monday, August 20, 2007
The mere fact that the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson is the Episcopal Church’s first openly homosexual bishop ensures that he will be a media celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic. To a great extent, he has become a symbol to both conservatives and liberals in contemporary Christianity.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
If Not Same-Sex Marriage, Why?
At last week’s forum for Democratic presidential candidates, former Senator John Edwards apologized for having previously opposed same-sex marriage on religious grounds. However, when asked to explain what other reason he had for his continued opposition, he could not come up with an answer. On today’s program, Dr. Mohler considers whether Christians have any other…
Monday, July 30, 2007
Explaining Homosexuality As Other Than ‘Utterly Normal’
A pair of recent articles in The Times [London] call for a time when homosexuality will be “utterly normal.” But for Christian parents and their children, regular encounters with homosexuality in everyday life are increasingly routine. Now more than ever, parents must have an answer to the innocent questions a child will likely ask when…
“Utterly Normal?” — No “Post-Homosexualist” Era Yet
Monday, July 30, 2007
Our language has reached some important natural limits of meaning. A recent media report considered the increasing number of homosexual couples, both male and female, who are now “having babies.” Well, these same-sex couples are not “having” babies in the sense that language has customarily been used. When a same-sex couple “has” a baby, everyone knows that there is more to the story. A homosexual couple simply cannot “have” a baby the same way that a heterosexual couple can. This is a matter of the natural order and biology, not mere social custom.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
