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A Sexual or Asexual Public Square?

Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0400

Several weeks back there was a bit of a dust-up in conservative Reformed Protestant circles over the following simple question: Does being a man or a woman have any ethical significance for the way we live together in civil society? Despite the success of feminism in radically reworking gender roles over the past half century, conservative Evangelicalism has maintained a modest conviction that our sexuality has ethical import. Certain New Testament passages compel conservative Evangelicals to maintain that women should not be pastors and that the husband is in some way the head of the home. The group of Evangelicals who hold to this, which readers will quickly ascertain is simply a boringly normal version of the historic Christian and Jewish teaching on such matters, are commonly called Complementarians. In their view, men and women are distinctive complements to one another rather than identical and universally interchangeable parts.

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Don’t Raise the Minimum Wage

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:24:03 -0400

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California’s Ban on Same-Sex Therapy

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:03:00 -0500

At the end of September, California passed a law making it illegal for licensed therapists to counsel minors away from same-sex attraction. California Senator Ted W. Lieu, the lead author of the bill, designed it to prohibit therapies that seek to change the sexual orientation of the patient. He said in support of the bill:

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Problems with the Navy’s Sex Integration Scheme

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:17:36 -0400

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Debates Matter; Babies Matter More

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:31:43 -0400

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