Christians and Gay Marriage

Carl Trueman has written an excellent article regarding a Christian response to the Gay Marriage issue:

What is becoming increasingly clear is that the day is probably not far off when those who regard homosexual practice as wrong will be consistently presented as the moral, cultural and intellectual equivalents of white supremacists.

He also comments, as Al Mohler has done much recently, on how uncool biblical Christianity is in American culture.

This issue is set to shatter any possibility of traditional, biblical Christians being considered cool.

My wife has always said that I am uncool, and for the first time, I am proud of that description.

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Emerging Marriage

For those of you who are still on the fence regarding the possible dangers of the Emergent Church Movement, and some of its leaders, this post is intended to kick you off. In a dialogue with Rod Dreher, Tony Jones (one of the leaders of this movement) made the following statement:

"I now believe that GLBTQ [people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, and queer] can live lives in accord with biblical Christianity (at least as much as any of us can!) and that their monogamy can and should be sanctioned and blessed by church and state."

In response to this quote, Justin Taylor said that he was reminded of the following verse:

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
--Isaiah 5:20

At some point, we have to begin calling such propositions coming from this movement (and elsewhere in Christendom) exactly what they are: evil, dark, and bitter.

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