A Christian Response to a Sign of the Times

From Blog and Mablog. A great article by Doug Wilson, everyone should read it. Who has authority for all of life? What saith the christians? How will they respond to being challenged?


...a Pastor Boissoin, who wrote a letter to the editor opposing the homo-agenda. That hurt someone's feelings, and so a complaint was filed with the Alberta Human Rights Commission. Orwell, call your office -- outrages on human rights are being perpetrated by human rights commissions, and right on schedule too. Boissoin was fined 5,000 dollars, given a gag order on all topics related to homosexuality for the rest of his life, and ordered to apologize in writing. In Canada...

...I will venture one bit of advice. It would be wonderful if every believing pastor in Canada made a special point of reading Boissoin's letter aloud from the pulpit next Sunday, following it up by mailing a copy of the printed order of worship (with the phrase "Boissoin letter" printed on it, and marked) to the appropriate human rights commission...

...The great cultural battleground in our generation is sex, sexual identity, sexual roles, sexual perversion, and sexual orthodoxy. All our great cultural diseases come back to this, and are intimately related to this. James tells us that the law of God is a like a plate glass window -- to break it in any place is to break the whole thing. It is not like a collection of French pane windows, where you might bust this one here and not that one there. And a Christian worldview is all of a piece, just like the law of God. You cannot allow it to be broken at one place, pretending that the rest of the window is somehow unaffected...

...that root is this -- will Christians submit to the authority of God in defining our sexual identity, roles, and lives? Or not? And will they grant that this sexual authority of God can only be honored in public ways? Private agreement will not cut it. Those Christians who respond affirmatively need to be preparing themselves for a full-scale collision with homo pervens. For those who prefer to waffle, the time will come when they are either swept away completely, or find themselvs sitting like Lot on the edge of the fountain in the city square of Sodom, saying, "Oh, dear," but being very careful to say "Oh, dear" under their breath. They will either capitulate completely, unable with any consistency to draw a line somewhere, or they will draw an arbitrary (private) line that will give them something to wring their hands over...

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