11 Nov 2019

How Lies Damage the Gospel

At Them Before Us Katy Faust writes: Barring actual abuse, when adults refuse to do the hard thing and instead choose to abandon the marriage, what they’re really saying is, “This cross is too heavy for me. Here kids, you take it instead.” If you want to talk about something that’s “incredibly damaging” to a child’s understanding of the God who says he is the bridegroom and the church is his bride, getting marriage wrong in your personal life or in church teaching is at the top of that list.

20 May 2018

Why is the religious freedom of an anti-LGBT baker more important than that of a Muslim soldier or physician?

Supposedly conservatives care more about the religious freedom afforded to Christians than that afforded to Muslims when it comes to anti-LGBT bakers, but I haven't really seen any evidence of that, so I take the time to point out the difference between events and people.

4 Sep 2017

Quick Marks (September 4)

Quick thoughts on some of the past week’s news: Dave Grohl feels like an alien; Those who are supposed to protect us from violence don’t know how to protect us from violence (Antifa); and possibly the highlight, an Australian woman who grew up with two lesbian mothers explains how unhappy she was. Dave Grohl on how Donald Trump inspired Foo Fighters’ new album - NME Dave Grohl discusses how Donald Trump & subsequent ‘wave of conservatism’ shaped his lyrics on Foo Fighters’ new album ‘Concrete & Gold’

27 Jun 2016

The Marriage Equality Myth

The marriage equality argument is a myth. There's this argument that says homosexuals are treated differently when it comes to marriage, but it's actually not true.

29 Apr 2016

Heterosexuality Rears Its Ugly Head In a Same-Sex "Marriage"

A homosexual couple can not be the biological parents of the same child. It's impossible by nature, although this is exactly what one couple is arguing for in a case of surrogacy.

13 Apr 2015

Discriminating Between People and Events

People really seem to have a problem discriminating between people and events, and are too lazy to intellectually think it out, resulting in a lot of discrimination against people.

5 Apr 2013

Same Sex Marriage Is Not About Equality

The claim is that same-sex marriage is about equality, but the marriage laws already treat everyone equally regardless of gender or sexuality, so it must be about something else.

21 Dec 2010

The Slippery Slope

A few years ago, I had taken a speech class. My final speech was on the topic of same-sex marriage and one of the points I had made was that love, by itself, is not enough to justify marriage.

9 Aug 2010

Proposition 8 Overturned - Love the Person, Hate the Sin

It’s funny. During election time, we get bombarded by ads explaining the history of the candidates we look to elect. We see what they did, what they said, and what they wrote. It’s the same thing when people are picked to sit on the Supreme Court; their entire life history is rolled out before the public and scrutinized. I’ve always had mixed feelings about the way a political figure is portrayed, especially through the attack ads and media, because I know that things in a persons past can be an indication of what that person is like, but it also can be an indication of what that person was like.