“Evangelicals are nice, there is no getting around it. It is our besetting sin. That means about the worst thing you can tell us is that we are being mean to somebody. Maybe that meanness is turning someone away from Jesus. Our niceness is the steering wheel that we always want to put our critics …
And It Happened So Quickly
“Liberals have become what they have always professed to detest: bigots” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 117).
But Their Own They Tolerate Quite Well
“Secularism is incoherent, like a plane made out of spherical cubes. What has our tolerant state done? Well, they have outlawed discrimination. They are intolerant of intolerance, which means, in effect, that the only intolerance they will tolerate is their own, and this on the condition that nobody ever admits out loud what they are …
Go With Him Two
“Jesus simply refused to answer Herod at all. Herod wanted Jesus to do a trick. Why didn’t Jesus apply His own teaching here and do two tricks?” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 112).
Convictions, Not Cash
“The issue is not the sale of goods to sinners, but rather the celebration of sin with sinners . . . homosexual activists are demanding, not our co-participation in the same economy, but rather our approval. They will not stop until they have that approval, and we should rather die than give it” (Same Sex …
Where Pert is Still a Compliment
“The sophisticati among us almost never engage, which is why some pert Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader is closer to the kingdom than is some gender-sensitive lit prof at Wheaton College” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 105).
The War on Glory
“The feminist movement declared war on woman being the glory of the man, and the homosexual movement completed the task by insisting that no one be the glory of anyone else” (Same Sex Mirage, pp. 100-101).
Wrong Direction
“We started by employing feminism to turn first-rate women into third-rate men, and recently we have found ourselves turning third-rate women into fifth-rate men” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 99).
Which is Why They Demand Evangelical Businesses Try to Glorify It
“Homosexual sex is not just a sinful abomination, although it does remain that. But in addition to be sinful, it is also lame. God’s design for faithful marriage is glory, and to pair up a couple of guys is inglorious, and couple of girls is just plain sad” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 98).
Or Perhaps All Three
“But the claim of the court is that we all—every man jack of us—need to submit to their arbitrary redefinitions of words, as it suits them, whether they are exegeting the law, squaring the circle, or rounding the bend” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 91).