In 2017, I wrote a series of articles titled “Myths that Led to the Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States.” A printable summary of the series is available here. One of the myths we explored is the idea that “Homosexuality is on par with heterosexuality.” Among other things, we did a deep dive to […]
Marriage—one man and one woman committed to each other for life—is about the gospel. If we as believers love the gospel, then we also will love, honor, and defend biblical marriage. We won’t just work to help people have good marriages—as important as this is. We also will uphold man-woman marriage in the church and […]
A TEN-PART SERIES OF ARTICLES A printable, one-page PDF file listing all eighteen myths is available here. Part 1: Myths Relating to the Courts, Government, Law, and the US Constitution Myth #1: Marriage is a government construct over which government and government alone has oversight. Myth #2: The federal government, especially through its court system, […]
A Myth Relating to Sexuality and Procreation Someone who wants to explain what marriage is has the difficult task of explaining something that every one of our grandparents simply took for granted, that everyone two generations ago thought was common knowledge—that marriage is a permanent, exclusive union of husband and wife. Much of human […]
Myths About Race and Racism [G]ay marriage is simply not on par with the black civil rights struggle. Not even close.…I have gay friends who are married. The states in which they reside might not recognize their unions, but their friends and families do, and they generally live their lives in peace. No one is […]
Myths About Discrimination and Equality At the most basic level, marriage and its offshoot, the family, are based on the sexual complementarity of a man and a woman. It is a union in fact, not just in form, based on a conjugal sexual act that unites the man and wife in a bond that […]
The “Live and Let Live” Myth: The Implications of Same-Sex Marriage for Society at Large These activists aren’t after a “live-and-let-live” policy. They’re on a march to force all Americans to celebrate and affirm what they do under the penalty of law. —Tony Perkins— Key point: Same-sex marriage never was the ultimate goal of LGBT […]
The “Live and Let Live” Myth: “Same-sex marriage has implications for the same-sex couple only, and not for others.” How Institutions Are Being Affected, Especially the Church This is all coming from a tolerant loving community? An open-minded community that seeks to be understood and wants to understand others? We’re not going anywhere…. We will […]
The “Live and Let Live” Myth: “Same-sex marriage has implications for the same-sex couple only, and not for others.” How Same-Sex Marriage Is Upending the Institution of the Family A Call to Return to Bedrock Principles The act of uniting a man and a woman for life; wedlock; the legal union of a man and […]
Myths About Homosexuality All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.…The family unit—spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence—will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in […]
Myths About Absolute Truth and the Resulting Responsibility of Government The daughter of a friend of mine recently told me she believes that “if you think a thing is right and commit yourself to it honestly, then it is right. And so then of course I brought up Adolf Hitler…[T]his principle that she announced endorses […]
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