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Mohler (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Hi, this is Fred Zaspel, executive editor at Books At a Glance. We are talking today with Dr. Al Mohler about his new book,  We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong .  It’s a great new book, very contemporary title, seeks to get behind the specific moral issues that have come to the fore in recent years, and it takes a look at our culture itself and the responsibilities that are left to us in the light of it all. Dr. Mohler is well known as one well-informed and articulate on these subjects. We are glad to have you with us today – Dr. Mohler, welcome. Al Mohler: Fred, thank you so much. It is great to be with you.   Zaspel: Alright, let’s begin with the observation that you make at the beginning, regarding the massive reversal, the revolution that has occurred with respect to the church and Christians in the broader public perception of morality. Describe how the

If you were trying to expand acceptance for “ LGBT rights” where would you launch a public relations blitz? Well, the Human Rights Campaign , which calls itself “the largest national LGBT organizer in the South,” has decided the answer is Mississippi. Yes, deeply conservative Mississippi, where just 22 percent of the voters believe that so-called same-sex marriage should be legal. It’s the focus of a $310,000 PR campaign called “All God ’s Children” and it’s promoting tolerance for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people, as well as their lifestyle decisions. The initiative includes television commercials, phone calls, door-to-door canvassing, and online advertising. It sounds a lot like the work that goes into an evangelistic campaign, as does the language being used: “We are all God’s children,” the campaign says. “It is only for God to judge, not us. We need to treat everyone with respect.” The campaign in the Magnolia State is part of a larger, $8.5 million effor

Author: Russel Moore. Kirsten Powers and Jonathan Merritt wrote an article for the Daily Beast accusing conservative Christians of hypocrisy and unchristian behavior for suggesting that some persons’ consciences won’t allow them to use their creative gifts to help celebrate same-sex weddings . Since I was a key example of this hypocrisy, I’ll respond to that charge. At issue is a response I made, reposted this week over at the Gospel Coalition , helping a Christian wedding photographer think through whether he ought to work for a same-sex wedding. In the photographer’s question, he grapples with the question of how his conscience ought to play in this decision not only as it relates to weddings of people who, for all he knows, might be involved in all sorts of unbiblical behavior. Powers and Merritt suggest if he refuses to photograph one “unbiblical wedding,” he ought to “refuse to photograph them all.” As a matter of fact, they say, to do anything else is to be “seen as a hyp

Today Kirsten Powers and Jonathan Merritt wrote an article for the  Daily Beast accusing conservative Christians of hypocrisy and unchristian behavior for suggesting that some persons’ consciences won’t allow them to use their creative gifts to help celebrate same-sex weddings . Since I was a key example of this hypocrisy, I’ll respond to that charge. At issue is a response I made, reposted this week over at the Gospel Coalition , helping a Christian wedding photographer think through whether he ought to work for a same-sex wedding. In the photographer’s question, he grapples with the question of how his conscience ought to play in this decision not only as it relates to weddings of people who, for all he knows, might be involved in all sorts of unbiblical behavior. Powers and Merritt suggest if he refuses to photograph one “unbiblical wedding,” he ought to “refuse to photograph them all.” As a matter of fact, they say, to do anything else is to be “seen as a hypocrite” and t

English: Wedding cake of an immoral homosexual marriage, (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Several states are now considering legislation that would provide explicit protections to citizens whose consciences will not allow an endorsement of same-sex marriage. The bills vary by state, as do the prospects for legislative passage, but the key issues remain constant. Millions of American citizens are facing a direct collision between their moral convictions and the demands of their government . The cases are now piling up. A wedding photographer in New Mexico, cake bakers in Colorado and Oregon, and a florist in Washington State have all found themselves in this predicament. Each now faces the coercive power of the state. They are being told, in no uncertain terms, that they must participate in providing services for same-sex weddings or go out of business. The bills now being considered in several states are attempts to protect these citizens from government coercion. They take the form o