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“The Two Shall Become One Flesh” , the most recent statement from Evangelicals and Catholics Together , seeks to explain what marriage is and why it matters for the church and for society today. The Evangelicals and Catholics Together initiative has been controversial through the years. Because these signers do not represent all evangelicals or all Catholics , some have dismissed the relevance of these statements, while others have warned of ecumenical compromise, whether evangelicals diminishing the importance of sola Scriptura and justification by faith, or Catholics diluting their church-centered, sacramental view of salvation. For the purposes of this blog, I want to bypass the ongoing debate about ECT and comment on their newest statement on marriage. I’ve already seen several sensational news headlines about this statement (“evangelicals and Catholics unite to condemn gay marriage as worse than divorce,” etc) that miss both the tone and the substance of what Christians over ...

Image via Wikipedia In a case that is reminiscent of the now-famous  Lisa Miller  case, a biological mother has retained the sole custody of her daughter after a court ruled in her favor in a dispute with her former same- sex partner . The Supreme Court of Ohio upheld lower court rulings on Tuesday that Kelly Mullen, who had allowed her same-sex partner, Michele Hobbs, to “coparent” Mullen’s daughter, who was born via in vitro fertilization while the two women were in a relationship, did not permanently give up her right to exclusive custody of the child.  The court  ruled  that it was a revocable relationship and did not create a permanent shared custody agreement with the partner. “‘ Coparenting ’ is not synonymous with an agreement by the biological parent to permanently relinquish sole custody in favor of shared legal parenting,” the ruling stated, thereby recognizing the need to protect the biological mother’s constitutional rights to raise her chil...