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Pim Pronk, Author Of Against Nature? Types of Moral Argument Regarding Homosexuality, has laid down a challenge to anyone who uses moral argumentation to oppose homosexuality.1  Specifically, he objects to the use of Romans 1 and its description of homosexuality as “unnatural.” His is a very elaborate presentation that makes some interesting contributions to the discussion of Pauline parenesis. I will give an overview of his position, citing positive contributions, and explaining my criticism. Pronk’s Reasoning Pronk’s chief point is that moral arguments or positions precede an appeal to revelation. While Christians may appeal to Scripture for teaching content, they must use some additional criterion to determine whether the teaching truly is God’s “good,” His will, for them. This criterion is our insight into good and evil, the consensus of discussion or “deliberation in the human community as a whole” (315, 323, 325).  Before settling the matter, the community must test the...

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has threatened to cut ties with the D.C. Baptist Convention (DCBC) if it doesn't “secure removal” of a church pastored by "married" lesbians in 90 days.  The SBC's Executive Committee  voted  during Feb. 19-20 meetings in Nashville, Tenn to require the DCBC to officially break "fellowship" with Calvary Baptist Church , which last year hired two "married" lesbians, Sally Sarratt and Maria Swearingen, as co-pastors.  The D.C. church's vote to hire the lesbians was unanimous. Explicit wording from the committee left no misunderstanding of the reason: The DCBC  must  “secure...the removal of any churches from its fellowship that have demonstrated a faith or practice affirming, approving or endorsing homosexual behavior .” The only other alternative the SBC  offered  was to lead Calvary Baptist Church to "repentance" for giving approval to homosexuality through the hire. Since the 1990s, ...

The cost of the promised people’s vote on marriage is a reasonable price to pay to settle what has been a long running campaign by activists , according to the Australian Christian Lobby . “Given the relentlessness of those pushing for change, $160 million is a reasonable and necessary price to pay to settle the issue,” ACL Managing Director Lyle Shelton said.  “If marriage is changed there will be profound consequences for children required to miss out on their mother or father and millions of Australians will have to give up rights to freedom of speech, association and religion. “And anyone who thinks that changing the definition of marriage will be the end of rainbow politics, they should think again.  “Next will be a push for commercial surrogacy and mandatory homosexual sex education in schools, something that is already creeping in through the so-called Safe Schools Coalition Australia . “Ever since the peoples’ vote was announced, activists for redefinin...