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In the attempt to defend permitting homosexuals to marry (i.e., man to man and woman to woman), proponents of homosexual marriage ask how such marriages would personally affect those who are opposed to it.  This is worth answering, and I believe there are two areas we need to look at in response. Philosophical Concerns How does a murder in another state between two people living in a trailer park in the middle of nowhere, among people whom we have never known and who don't know anyone we know, affect us personally?  It doesn't, but because it has no effect on us personally this doesn't mean that we should ignore the moral issues associated with  murder  and not condemn such actions.  Murder is morally wrong , and when any moral law is broken we are all ultimately affected and we know that if such actions were to increase, society would be affected...no matter where you are. Am I comparing homosexual marriage to murder and saying they are related or ...

Friedrich Nietzsche (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The appeal of ethical relativism is rather plain to see. If there is no right and wrong then I can't be convicted of any wrong. Ethical relativism allows me to write my own law , to edit on the fly, to finish "I may do this . . ." with an unassailable ". . . because I want to." Desire becomes its own justification. My will becomes my law. This appeal, however, soon enough begins to dissipate if we have any interest at all in being coherent, consistent in our thinking.  We quickly turn, "I may do this, because I want to" into "You may not do that, because I want to do this." Consider, just as an example, homosexual sexual perversion . The problem, morally speaking, with homosexual sexual perversion is that it is an abomination to God .  Ethical relativism, of course, bars God from the conversation. Therefore there is no reason by which we might condemn the practice. There is, to these...

Cover of The New Tolerance Tolerance is our culture's supreme virtue. Whether it is  Glee  plot lines about homosexual children or battles about the role religion may play in the public square—from Christmas trees to Catholic Charities —the buzzword is "tolerance." Casual observers might note, however, that tolerance has undergone a change in meaning. What once meant recognizing other people's right to have different beliefs and practices now means accepting the differing views themselves. Vestiges of the old tolerance—conscience protections for medical professionals, religious liberty, and open discussions—are on the way out. Nowadays, conscience protections are frowned upon, threats to religious freedom prompt Congressional hearings, and "glitter bombs" replace meaningful debate. This shift from accepting the existence of different views to believing that all views are equally valid is "subtle in form, but massive in substance," explains...

This week the Channel 7 Sunrise program and Marie Claire magazine launched their ‘I Do’ campaign in favour of same-sex marriage. This is no longer just about the rights of individuals regarding same-sex marriage but takes it to another level about media obligations. This outrageous move contravenes the ethical standards expected of media to present fair and balanced views from both sides. I’m letting you know that today, on behalf of the ACC movement, (250,000 people), that we have signed the Joint Statement put together by the Australian Christian Lobby .  I would encourage you as a church leader to remain aware of the same-sex marriage issue and various aspects of the debate. This is why our churches need to support the ACL National Webcast on Defining Marriage being held on 26 June 2012. If you haven’t registered your church yet, find out more on  www.marriagewebcast.acl.org.au We the undersigned wish to record our great disappointment that Channel Seven should a...

Spaniards participate in one of many protests against the controversial civics course. February 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Spain ’s new government, swept into power in November after seven years of socialist rule, has announced the elimination of a controversial program to indoctrinate students with homosexualist and socialist ideology. The government’s new Minister of Education, Culture, and Sports, Jose Ignacio Wert, says frankly that the civics course, which was imposed on all public and private schools, “became a course that was charged with indoctrination.” “ Education for Citizenship has been accompanied, since its birth, by controversy and created a serious division in society and in the educational world because it went beyond what should belong to a true ‘civic formation’ in accordance with the directories and guides formulated by the Council of Europe ,” Wert also stated. “Education for Citizenship and Human Rights ,” also known in Spain as EpC, provoked a massive protes...

Image via Wikipedia At the heart of Christian ethics is the conviction that our firm basis for knowing the true, the good, and the right is divine revelation . Christianity is not a life system that operates on the basis of speculative reason or pragmatic expediency. We assert boldly that God has revealed to us who He is, who we are, and how we are expected to relate to Him. He has revealed for us that which is pleasing to Him and commanded by Him. Revelation provides a supernatural aid in understanding the good. This point is so basic and so obvious that it has often been overlooked and obscured as we search for answers to particular questions. The departure from divine revelation has brought our culture to chaos in the area of ethics. We have lost our basis of knowledge, our epistemological foundation, for discovering the good. This is not to suggest that God has given us a codebook that is so detailed in its precepts that all ethical decisions are easy. That would be a vas...