VANDER: The LIGHT is ALWAYS ON: 6/25/08 MOUW MAKES SENSE ON 1 ISSUE: OPPOSING GAY MARRIAGE: "...on issues of public policy. I will explain myself a bit here When I am arguing with my fellow Christians about these controversial topics, we can usually take for granted some sort of common framework for our debates. We all at least profess to care about what God thinks about the issues. For me that means looking at what the Bible teaches. And if some Christian has a different take on the Bible’s authority, then we can at least argue about how we do go about getting clear about God’s thoughts on sexuality questions In those discussions I try to make it clear that as a Christian ... "...whether the New Testament reaffirms what we find in the Old. And I take it as obvious that the first chapter of Romans does reaffirm the prohibition against same-sex intimacy. This is turn reaffirms the more general teaching of the Old Testament about God’s creating purposes—what is “natural”—for human sexuality..." "...variations on the old slippery-slope concern. I worry about where we are headed with the present challenge to traditional understandings of marriage. Here is the kind of thing that concerns me. Suppose, after five years of legal same sex unions three lesbians insist that their three-way relationship should be given the same legal status. (A case like this has actually come up in the Netherlands.) Or suppose the claim is made on behalf of, say, a forty year old man and a 13 year old boy who have an intimate relationship that is approved of by the boy’s parents, a gay couple who had adopted him. Or suppose—and given the recent national attention to this phenomenon in Texas—the “plural marriage” groups ask for legal permission for their arrangements, with appropriate guarantees against the abuse of minors. What would keep us from ..." http://www.netbloghost.com/mouw/?m=200806

Sunday, February 5, 2012

6/25/08 MOUW MAKES SENSE ON 1 ISSUE: OPPOSING GAY MARRIAGE: "...on issues of public policy. I will explain myself a bit here When I am arguing with my fellow Christians about these controversial topics, we can usually take for granted some sort of common framework for our debates. We all at least profess to care about what God thinks about the issues. For me that means looking at what the Bible teaches. And if some Christian has a different take on the Bible’s authority, then we can at least argue about how we do go about getting clear about God’s thoughts on sexuality questions In those discussions I try to make it clear that as a Christian ... "...whether the New Testament reaffirms what we find in the Old. And I take it as obvious that the first chapter of Romans does reaffirm the prohibition against same-sex intimacy. This is turn reaffirms the more general teaching of the Old Testament about God’s creating purposes—what is “natural”—for human sexuality..." "...variations on the old slippery-slope concern. I worry about where we are headed with the present challenge to traditional understandings of marriage. Here is the kind of thing that concerns me. Suppose, after five years of legal same sex unions three lesbians insist that their three-way relationship should be given the same legal status. (A case like this has actually come up in the Netherlands.) Or suppose the claim is made on behalf of, say, a forty year old man and a 13 year old boy who have an intimate relationship that is approved of by the boy’s parents, a gay couple who had adopted him. Or suppose—and given the recent national attention to this phenomenon in Texas—the “plural marriage” groups ask for legal permission for their arrangements, with appropriate guarantees against the abuse of minors. What would keep us from ..." http://www.netbloghost.com/mouw/?m=200806

6/25/08 MOUW MAKES SENSE ON 1 ISSUE: OPPOSING GAY MARRIAGE: "...on issues of public policy. I will explain myself a bit here When I am arguing with my fellow Christians about these controversial topics, we can usually take for granted some sort of common framework for our debates. We all at least profess to care about what God thinks about the issues. For me that means looking at what the Bible teaches. And if some Christian has a different take on the Bible’s authority, then we can at least argue about how we do go about getting clear about God’s thoughts on sexuality questions In those discussions I try to make it clear that as a Christian ...

"...whether the New Testament reaffirms what we find in the Old. And I take it as obvious that the first chapter of Romans does reaffirm the prohibition against same-sex intimacy. This is turn reaffirms the more general teaching of the Old Testament about God’s creating purposes—what is “natural”—for human sexuality..."

"...variations on the old slippery-slope concern. I worry about where we are headed with the present challenge to traditional understandings of marriage. Here is the kind of thing that concerns me. Suppose, after five years of legal same sex unions three lesbians insist that their three-way relationship should be given the same legal status. (A case like this has actually come up in the Netherlands.) Or suppose the claim is made on behalf of, say, a forty year old man and a 13 year old boy who have an intimate relationship that is approved of by the boy’s parents, a gay couple who had adopted him. Or suppose—and given the recent national attention to this phenomenon in Texas—the “plural marriage” groups ask for legal permission for their arrangements, with appropriate guarantees against the abuse of minors. What would keep us from ..."
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