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A pro-abortion and pro-gay medical lecturer has returned her Australia Day award in protest at the decision to give the country’s highest honor to tennis great Margaret Court. Caroline de Costa was given the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014 for her work in women’s reproductive health (abortion)  But she decided to return the award after Court was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) earlier this week. Professor de Costa said as a medical practitioner, and as the mother of a gay son, she did not wish to be associated with an organization that condoned the views of Court. She is not biased. She set out her "you must think my way or else you are a bigot" reasons in a letter to Governor-General David Hurley. Court had already been recognized for her tennis achievements and charity work with an Order of Australia in 2007. Over the intervening fourteen years, she has used her position as a public figure to espouse God's correct and healthy views on sexuality, and...

We can identify three components of sexual orientation—sexual attraction, emotional attraction, and identity (with the sexual attraction being the defining feature).  Insofar as same-sex orientation designates the experience of sexual desire for a person of the same sex, yes, it is sinful.  Insofar as same-sex orientation indicates emotional/romantic attractions that brim with erotic possibility, yes, those attractions, too, are sinful.  Insofar as sexual orientation designates an identity, yes, that identity, too, is a sinful fiction that contradicts God’s purposes for his creation.  We should not reduce human identity to fallen sexual desires. If these observations about sexual orientation are true, there are numerous pastoral implications. I want to mention three of them here. 1. To call same-sex attraction or orientation sinful does not make same-sex attracted people less like the rest of us. On the contrary, it makes them more like the rest o...

The horrible massacre that occurred in Orlando over the weekend has shaken the United States.  Faith leaders and those on both sides of the political aisle have come together to condemn the attack, mourn the precious lives that were unjustly ended, and seek to create a world in which this kind of unspeakable tragedy isn’t able to happen. While numerous commentators have also seized on the event to advance the gay political agenda and target Christians who oppose that agenda, perhaps the most curious reactions to the attack have come from several Catholic bishops. These bishops have used this terrorist attack to decry “anti-gay prejudice” within the Catholic Church and, and one even   claimed that Catholicism “breeds contempt”   for those with same-sex attractions and gender confusion. Shockingly, St. Petersburg, Florida Bishop Robert Lynch   claimed that Catholics   were partly responsible for the terrorist attack. “Sadly it is religion, including ou...

The rise of postmodernism presents Christians with the undeniable reality that many people simply do not accept the idea that truth is absolute, or even that written texts have a fixed meaning. All claims to truth–especially claims to universally valid truth–are met with suspicion, or worse. This presents the Christian with a changed climate for truth-telling–and a genuine intellectual challenge. The rise of postmodernism presents Christians with the undeniable reality that many people simply do not accept the idea that truth is absolute, or even that written texts have a fixed meaning. All claims to truth–especially claims to universally valid truth–are met with suspicion, or worse. This presents the Christian with a changed climate for truth-telling–and a genuine intellectual challenge. The postmodern mind is marked by several significant intellectual moves and assumptions. In order to understand the contours of the postmodern mind, we must look at the basic worldview assumptions...