But if that's your reason for opposing same-sex marriages, says Moreton, then wouldn't that be giving in to a form of blackmail? Here Welby could have waffled but didn't. "It would be. You can't say, 'We're not going to do X, which we think is right, because it will cause trouble.' That's ridiculous."
Read moreThe church, founded in 1869, sits on a $20 million piece of property that stretches from Seventh to Eighth avenues along Spring Street. Also in contention, according to recently resigned church elder Neal Lampi and other sources, is $8.5 million reaped from selling a parking lot the church owned next to nearby Town Hall.
Read morePerhaps the first thing to note is that our Constitution is, to borrow a phrase from Hayek, a "constitution of liberty." Under it, the power of government over the people is checked and limited, and the people enjoy a large measure of freedom. But freedom can, of course, be used for good or for ill. Freedom can be used wisely or irresponsibly.
Read moreThey open with Scripture and God's "beautiful plan for human love (that) was inscribed on the human heart and in the human body," in Genesis: "Male and female he created them." Since each of us "is created in the image of God, we are given the call -- the vocation -- of love and communion. Every human being is made for a relationship of love with God and with others," the bishops write.
Read moreEvangelicals often get a bad rap for not thinking through tough theological disputes deeply enough. Perhaps it's time to prove the stereotype wrong and commit to thoughtfully reconsidering our contraception mentality.
Read moreOkay, fine. It is indeed interesting, and worrying, that students are so sensitive and censorious today. But I have a question for the hand-wringers, the media people, academics and liberal thinkers who are so disturbed by what they're calling the 'Yale snowflakes': what did you think would happen?
Read morePresident Obama has a different opinion. In an interview published by The New Yorker, Obama asserted, "I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol."
Perhaps he is remembering what marijuana was like when he was a student when the THC level (the psychoactive ingredient in pot) was about 3% to 5% THC. The average level today is above 13%. Bennett says that is like comparing a 12 ounce glass of beer with a 12 ounce glass of 80 proof vodka!
Read moreAnd, if there is some sort of recessive gene in there somewhere, you would think this would have been eradicated by now.
I discussed this with a homosexual friend of mine who says that he was born gay because from his earliest days, when he was eight or nine-years-old, he was attracted to men, not women.
Eight or nine?
Read moreThe controversy dates back to something Greer wrote in the Guardian in 2009. She opined that "Nowadays we are all likely to meet people who think they are women, have women's names, and feminine clothes and lots of eyeshadow, who seem to us to be some kind of ghastly parody, though it isn't polite to say so. We pretend that all the people passing for female really are. Other delusions may be challenged, but not a man's delusion that he is female."
Read moreRecently, my dear friend Diane was lamenting the fact that there are few places for Christians who experience same-sex attraction and wish to be faithful to Christian teaching to deal openly and honestly with those issues. Our culture's sexual floodtide is breaching many individuals' and churches' fidelity to truth, and now, post-Obergefell, there is mounting pressure on any traditional morality "hold-outs" to give in and affirm all sexual acts as long as they are consensual.
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