Friday, March 29, 2013

On gay marriage, don't follow the mob


"Lord, I will never deny you!"

As I reflect on these words Simon Peter spoke some 2,000 years ago, I am amazed that a man who attacked a squadron of soldiers could -- just moments later -- acquiesce to a midnight mob led by a servant girl.

The sociological phenomenon of the power of "groupthink" led Peter to deny His Savior. It also led the people of 1930s Germany to sacrifice the Jews and high school students in Steubenville, Ohio, to laugh as an unconscious teenage girl was publicly molested. And, sadly, in recent years, it has led many American Christians choosing to forsake God's perennial teaching on marriage. Read more

Also read
History, the Supreme Court; gay marriage
Redefine Marriage and You Redefine America
Social science struggles for data on effects of same-sex parenting on children

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