GAY TRUTH

My Twitter feed has exploded in recent weeks, with plentiful panic about the pitiable state of free speech on college campuses. Big cases—big because they both worsen and reveal the deep structural wounds caused by the purge of Christian and conservative professors—played out this week:  John McAdams ,  Anthony Esolen ,  Rebecca Tuvel ,  Paul McHugh ,  Carol Swain ,  Keith Fink , and  Paul Griffiths . The left became horrendous because the left was wrong. Their prescriptions about improving race relations did not work because they were wrong. They were wrong about homosexuality and now we see the falsehoods of the LGBT movement growing more arrogant and multiplying as people who were celebrated for their errors now see further false affirmations as their entitlement, and Truth as an attack on their fragile sense of self. The Truth is on our side. I know of other professors, and of people who know of still others, who are in similar purges...

Linking you to the top Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and  relevant insights for living. This week several posts related to the uproar over Pastor Lou Giglio ’s invitation to offer the benediction at President Obama’s second inaugural ceremony.   Giglio is Pastor of Atlanta ’s  Passion City Church . He is also founder of the  Passion movement  that brings tens of thousands of Christian young people together, urging a rising generation of young Christians to make a passionate commitment to Christ. In recent years, the movement has also sought to raise awareness and activism among young Christians on the issue of sex trafficking. It was that activism that caught the attention of both President Obama and the Presidential Inaugural Committee . In a statement released to the White House and the Presidential Inaugural Committee, Giglio said that he withdrew because of the furor that emerged after a liberal wa...

Logo for the 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The gay marriage debate continues to boil over, tempting our nation to inaugurate a new era of McCarthyism . Back in the 1950s, anyone suspected of communism became a pariah. Now that seems to be true of anyone who supports traditional marriage . Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy, in answer to an interview question about the principles of the popular fast-food company, said, “We are very much supportive of the family—the biblical definition of the family unit.” This set some people’s teeth on edge. But the heat rose when some discovered Cathy said a couple of weeks earlier, “I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes marriage.’ ” That may be prophetic, but in our culture it is impolitic to say this. Cathy’s comments raised the ire of Chicago alderman Joe Moreno, who said he would block the company from building a restauran...