Science is our friend. Christians should embrace it. Life really does begin at conception. God created only two brands of humans--males and females. Centuries later, it was verified chromosomally--XX or XY. (As if we ever needed proof of this obvious fact...)
Forgive the crudeness of the following, but it is 100% true: the mouth and the anus are, respectively, the start and end points of the digestive tract--the alimentary canal. They are not sex organs. As a grad student during the AIDS scare 30 years ago, my histology professor displayed slides of the lining of the vagina and the anus and calmly explained that only one was designed for intercourse.
All these scientific facts are conveniently disregarded by the "I effing love science!" crowd, for some reason.
The strongest moral objections to most of what's happening in the world today are rooted in centuries of Christian moral tradition, and trying to dislocate them from that tradition creates weak language that feels like its trying to catch the opposition in a web of lawyerly technicalities. At the same time, I think that center of the culture has shifted to the point where any stronger case loses too, just in a cleaner way.
The idea of spending a generation losing status while building generational pedagogy and incrementally dragging back the Overton drift is not at all appealing to politicians above a certain age. That kind of long-horizon project is a young man's game, and this is why losing the participation of younger generations is especially disastrous for an outgroup movement.
Science is our friend. Christians should embrace it. Life really does begin at conception. God created only two brands of humans--males and females. Centuries later, it was verified chromosomally--XX or XY. (As if we ever needed proof of this obvious fact...)
Forgive the crudeness of the following, but it is 100% true: the mouth and the anus are, respectively, the start and end points of the digestive tract--the alimentary canal. They are not sex organs. As a grad student during the AIDS scare 30 years ago, my histology professor displayed slides of the lining of the vagina and the anus and calmly explained that only one was designed for intercourse.
All these scientific facts are conveniently disregarded by the "I effing love science!" crowd, for some reason.
The strongest moral objections to most of what's happening in the world today are rooted in centuries of Christian moral tradition, and trying to dislocate them from that tradition creates weak language that feels like its trying to catch the opposition in a web of lawyerly technicalities. At the same time, I think that center of the culture has shifted to the point where any stronger case loses too, just in a cleaner way.
The idea of spending a generation losing status while building generational pedagogy and incrementally dragging back the Overton drift is not at all appealing to politicians above a certain age. That kind of long-horizon project is a young man's game, and this is why losing the participation of younger generations is especially disastrous for an outgroup movement.