Gay marriage advocates often argue that same-sex marriage won’t hurt heterosexual marriage. The argument seems to be that we can all have our own private definitions of marriage without it materially affecting one another. This is not true. There will be a legal definition of marriage, and it won’t be private. The definition of marriage will have public implications that we will all have to deal with. Case in point:
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The Armstrong Scandal Is Worse Than Merely Doping
NBC’s “Rock Center” recently covered Lance Armstrong’s fall from grace, and they show that the scandal is much worse than merely doping. The lengths that Armstrong went to in order to cover up his misdeeds were much worse than the doping itself. Unfortunately, reporters were all too willing to overlook eyewitness testimony in those early years, and their soft coverage enabled the scandal to continue for as long as it did.
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Albert Mohler on “The Mourdock Moment”
Albert Mohler has fantastic commentary on the controversy surrounding recent remarks made by Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. He writes: A closer look at Mourdock’s comments reveals that the candidate was not in any true sense calling rape “something that God intended to happen.” Everything Mourdock said in that answer flowed from his stated presupposition that life begins at conception, and that every human life is a gift from God.
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Tom Schreiner Preaches Acts 20:17-38
Thursday morning’s chapel at SBTS was a memorable one for a number of reasons—not the least of which was Tom Schreiner’s excellent exposition of Acts 20:17-38 (see above). Before Tom preached, however, Dr. Mohler recognized and prayed for someone special in the room—Tom’s wife, Dianne. Many of you know about the severe head injury that Dianne suffered in an bike accident last August (her son Patrick wrote about it here). When I visited her in the hospital after the accident, she could not walk. She could not talk. It wasn’t clear that she could even recognize friends and acquaintances. The situation was dire. Yet when I greeted her this morning,…
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Me and Douthat on Mourdock
I have been watching with some consternation the whole imbroglio surrounding the remarks of Richard Mourdock, candidate for U.S. Senator from Indiana. I’ve listened to and read his remarks in context, and my frustrations are twofold. First, his words have been completely distorted by his political opponents. Contrary to what you may have heard from reports, Mourdock did not say that God endorses rape. Anyone who says otherwise is not being objective and is likely beholden to the lowest form of hackery. Should Mourdock have expressed his point more clearly? Yes, absolutely. But that does not excuse bearing false witness in order to score political points against an opponent. And…
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10 Questions a Pro-Choice Candidate Is Never Asked by the Media
The media almost always give pro-choice politicians a pass when it comes to questions about abortion. The questions that reporters ask rarely get to the heart of the issue—the humanity of the unborn. Moreover, reporters nearly always fail to ask tough follow-up questions of pro-choice politicians. This state of affairs has long been a frustration to pro-life people who are watching the media scrutiny only going towards one side. That is why I love Trevin Wax’s fantastic post over at his blog titled, “10 Questions a Pro-Choice Candidate Is Never Asked by the Media.” His list of questions includes this:
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Nobel Laureate Motivated by Pro-life Concern
Did you hear the recent news about the scientist who won a Nobel Prize for his work with adult stem cells? It turns out that his work was motivated by a desire to find an alternative to killing human embryos, but this fact has not been widely reported. As Eric Metaxas writes in his Breakpoint commentary today:
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The new normal: How to talk to your kids about gay parents, by a gay dad
The following excerpt is from an article that appeared today in the “Moms” section of The Today Show website:
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A Response to Rachel Held Evans on the Today Show
Earlier this morning, Rachel Held Evans appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” to promote her book A Year of Biblical Womanhood (see above). I have the book and intend to review it, but some of the errors in her remarks this morning were so serious that I thought they deserved a response in advance of the review.
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Rachel Held Evans on the Today Show
I think the telling part is at the end where she says that she uses the teaching of Jesus as a guide to which parts of the Bible she will obey.