Jesus gave us a fundamental way of measuring our treatment of others — do unto others as you would have them do unto you (Matt. 7:12). Pretty straightforward, and who disagrees with that? Well, the point of His instruction here was not likely to elicit disagreement so much as various forms of non-compliance. As sinners, …
Those Cowed Already Will Continue to Be
Comes now some academic bloviation to help us all through whatever remaining prejudices we might have had about the molestation of children (HT: Baylyblog & Frank Turk). At issue is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which is still, even in these postmodern times, filled with hatred and outmoded forms of discriminatory …
And Have Him Arrested
A friend wrote privately to ask me this: “Isn’t there a difference in kind between a woman being the CEO of a homeschool curriculum company and a woman serving as the commander in chief with authority over the generals?” And someone in the comments asked: “what if, instead of a Chemical Engineer husband and a …
Some Form of Egalitarian Cloudification
As Bertie Wooster would say to Byron York, were he here, and were he reading this, rem acu tetigisti. You have touched the thing with a needle. Now that Pawlenty has dropped out on the basis of his third place finish in the Iowa straw poll, and Bachmann has won it, it is time to …
The White House TV Remote
I don’t want to do a lot of typing for nothing, and so much of this question should probably be deferred for later — if Michele Bachmann is still in the race. At the Republican debate last night, Bachmann was asked if she was a submissive wife. She deflected the question, and answered in terms …
The Baseball Cap of Punditry
Let us talk about the problem of Marcus Todd, and by this I am not referring to what ought to be the name of an upscale men’s clothier, but rather to the problem of Marcus Bachmann and Todd Palin. Anyone with an Internet connection and an interest in politics should know that in the last …
When the Veneer Peels
A staple argument of homosex apologetics is that when the Bible condemns the vile behavior of the residents of Sodom, it was addressing the violent side of it — the attempted rape of Lot’s visitors. It does not address at all, so the argument goes, the kind of loving, caring, mutually affirming same sex relationships …
Like What Regular People Does
Yesterday I was asked about the “It Gets Better Project,” where LGBT teens are being encouraged to hang in there with their lifestyle sandwich choices. LGBT stands for Lettuce, Guacamole, Bacon, and Tomato, in stark contrast to the more normative BLT, like what regular people does. Of course, the Ls and Bs and Gs (and …
The Sound of My Lonely Kazoo
If it is possible for a man to put a fruit plate on his head, and it is, and also possible for him to deck his tan little body out in leather and oil, and it is, and possible for him to gyrate that little body on a float cruising down Main Street, USA, and …
Some Jesus Victim With His Flame On
Sins are like grapes. They come in bunches. Take, fer instance, the Wild Goose Festival, at which a bunch of left-of-center evangelicals have congregated in order to harangue the faithful. Actually, when I use the term “faithful” here, what I actually mean is that they gathered to harangue the faithless. Jim Wallis, Frank Schaeffer, et …