“Any magistrate who does not see mankind as created in the image of God is a magistrate who is not qualified to rule. He needs to be frog-marched out of office. He is a tyrant and a despot at the root, before he has decided to do anything. This is because whatever he decides to …
The Magistrate and Marriage Law
“The issues of property and custody and inheritance are in principle woven into every heterosexual relationship and are woven into no homosexual relationship. They can be nailed onto the side of a homosexual incident, but that is all. They can be arbitrarily assigned to a homosexual partnership, but do not flow out of the creational …
Which Imitates Which?
“Feminists have made cheap points off of this reality by describing marriage a glorified prostitution. Actually, the comparison runs the other way—prostitution is a gross parody of marriage” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 63).
Out of Their Reach
“Marriage exists prior to, and independent of, any determinations by any civil magistrate. The magistrate did not create marriage and, therefore, has no authority to define it or recreate it in his own image” (Same Sex Mirage, pp. 61-62).
Common Grace in Odd Corners
“An important part of general revelation is the capacity for getting the creeps” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 48).
The Nature of Nature is Basic
“If we [define] nature as that which is identified by a wise act of naming, then I think it is safe to say that nature is fundamental” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 47).
Knowing is not the Same as Liking
“So then, we don’t know everything through nature. We don’t know the plan of salvation through nature. But we do know the need for salvation through nature. That knowledge is unsettling, and so we stuff it” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 41).
For That Does Not Follow
“We ought not conclude anything about the clarity of the lesson from the obtuseness of the students” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 38).
What Marriage Is
“You cannot have a marriage without old-school heterosexual copulation, and you cannot have a marriage without a covenant. Nevertheless, you can have a covenant without a marriage, and you can have sexual intercourse without a marriage” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 33).
Not Every Slope is Slippery, but Slippery Slopes Are
“If we keep gay pride, we are going to get a lot more than gay pride . . . We cannot pitch our tents toward Sodom without eventually winding up in a townhouse there” (Same Sex Mirage, p. 28).