“They want to keep the government ‘out of our bedrooms.’ What are they talking about? I have to live in their society, remember. And I built my house, which means I built my own bedroom. The government told me how far apart the studs had to be in my bedroom wall, they dictated how thick …
Or From Multiple Billboards
“The more the law of God is written on hearts and minds, which is what happens under the new covenant, the less necessary it is to have standards of public decency urged upon us from billboards” (Empires of Dirt, p. 227).
Taking Tolerance Back
“Christians invented the most open and tolerant society in the history of the world” (Empires of Dirt, p. 227).
Tolerance Can Be a Virtue
“If we were to say that Smith tolerates X, we do not yet know if Smith is a hero or a skunk. Does he tolerate respectful dissent, responsibly offered? Child porn? Smokers in bars? Transfats in restaurants? Ethnic violence? What does he tolerate?” (Empires of Dirt, p. 226).
One or the Other
“If the Church is not transforming the culture around her, then the culture around her is transforming the Church” (Empires of Dirt, p. 225).
Jesus Values, Not Traditional Values
“This is why Christians can’t fight this on the basis of ‘traditional values.’ The sexual traditions of humanity, considered apart from God’s Word, have contained way too many child brides, harems, serial polygamists, and concubines to provide us with the appropriate guidance here” (Empires of Dirt, p. 223).
He Who Says A Must Say B
“These marriage ‘reforms’ clearly have not solved the problem of the bisexuals. With our arbitrary limitation of marital status to two and only two people, we are plainly telling the bisexual that he must choose between a heterosexual marriage or a homosexual marriage, but that he can’t do both. ‘But I am both!’ he wails …
Covering the Waterfront
[From the creation account] “we can see other expressions of sexuality are excluded. A man should not be allowed to marry himself. It is not good that man should be alone (Gen. 2:18). A man should not be allowed to marry multiple wives. God said that He would make a helper suitable to him (Gen. …
Origins Define
“If God created the world, put one man and one woman in it, married them to each other, and established that as a pattern for the rest of human history, then marriage should be defined in accordance with that reality. If He did nothing of the kind, and we actually evolved out of the primordial …
When Pirates Are Powerful
“Some taxes are simply legalized stealing” (Empires of Dirt, p. 218).