So one member of a lesbian couple decides she needs a man, and her partner agrees to bring one into the relationship. ABC News has the story. They are now polyamorists, the parents of two babies, and crusaders in the cause of getting their sexual choices and family...
Homosexuality
Ross Douthat on Past Conservative Predictions
Read the whole thing, but if you want a little help getting to the good parts, feel free to use my highlights. The basic thesis is this: If you look at the post-1960s trend data—whether it’s on family structure and social capital, fertility and marriage rates,...
The Most Important Thing You’ll Read Today Beyond Holy Writ
I may be at risk of becoming the boy who cried "Read This," but this point from Mark Bauerlein about debating homosexuality in the public square is so, so important: Religious conservatives demand religious liberty, while liberals, progressives, and libertarians...
New Kevin DeYoung Book
Kevin DeYoung, What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015), 158 pp. Here's a PDF sample, and here’s a study guide. DeYoung is using his gifts to serve the church; as I've said before, he's a gifted popularizer. But that doesn't...
A Pair of Absolute Must-Read New York Times Opinion Columns on Homosexuality
1. Bruni This is what a lot of people genuinely think about the conservative Christian view of homosexuality. You need to know what they're saying. Here's a tiny, chilling excerpt: Our debate about religious freedom should include a conversation about freeing...
Three Good Reasons to Resist Making Relativism Our Latest Bogeyman
Merold Westphal on hermeneutics and relativism: We are easily frightened by the specter of "anything goes," and there is no shortage of those willing to play on this fear in order to imply their own absoluteness. But there are three good reasons to resist this fear:...
This is What We Pay Andrée Seu For
Excellent, from Andrée Seu Peterson: Sometimes I wonder if the inventors of the other LGBT brand are a tad embarrassed. They keep having to add new letters to their acronym, and the more they tack on the weaker their case looks. In simpler days when it was merely an...
Help Attributing Al Mohler Quote
Friends, I need to find the attribution for the following: Al Mohler was being interviewed by a secular journalist. “Why are conservative Christians so hung up on homosexuality?” asked the journalist. “I don’t know that we are,” replied the Christian leader. “You’re...
Five Responses to the Newsweek Screed
The 9,000-word, Merry-Christmas, anti-Christian Newsweek screed opens with the following attempt at journalistic objectivity: They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations of homosexuals. They fall on their knees, worshipping at the base of...
When Scholarly Arguments about Homosexuality Are Inaccessible
No matter what field of study you name, there will be people in it who are arguing over your head—even if it's your own field of study, the one you trained in. There are countless topics in the broad field of biblical studies that I am not qualified to say much if...
Five Reasons not to Sign the Evangelicals for Marriage Equality Petition
It didn't take a prophet to predict this. So I'm not handing in my cessationist credentials when I point out that I did in fact say this was coming: an organized group of evangelical Christians has come out with a legal argument for same-sex "marriage," one which...
Homosexuality and Worldview
I've spent the last year and a half immersed in understanding the Christian worldview and explaining it to twelfth graders. The last few days I've done a lot of writing on homosexuality (after many years of reading on the topic in articles and books), and I just came...