“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).
Larceny Through Signing Ceremonies
“I want the coercive power of the state to fall on thugs and rapists, and not on the wrong kind of light bulb user. I want force to be applied to the man who would rob a merchant of his earnings, and not applied to the merchant himself so that the government might rob him …
Coercion: A Big Deal
“We need to recognize that politics is necessarily coercive, and because coercion is a big deal, a Christian social order should want to strictly limit coercion to the bounds assigned by Scripture. Unless I have a word from God, I don’t want to make anybody do anything” (Empires of Dirt, p. 213.).
Naboth as Fat Cat
“Taxing the people in order to perform a function that God did not assign to the state is called theft . . . If Jezebel had taken Naboth’s vineyard in the name of ‘social justice,’ or ‘land reform,’ that would not have altered the prophet’s view of it. Neither would it have helped if Jim …
True Intersection
“The spirituality of the Church cannot be construed to mean that we are allowed to limit ourselves to visiting spiritual widows and ethereal orphans” (Empires of Dirt, p. 211).
Actually the Opposite Problem
“Abortion and sodomy were sins long before they were constitutional rights . . . We are told, ad nauseam, to keep our morality out of politics. It would be more to the point to tell the idolmongers to keep their politics out of morality” (Empires of Dirt, pp. 208-209).
The Problem Was Elsewhere
“Blaming public Christians for being ‘too political’ is like blaming Noah’s ark for being ‘too wet’” (Empires of Dirt, p. 208).