{"id":19723,"date":"2012-10-03T01:33:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T04:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19723"},"modified":"2013-11-01T22:55:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T01:55:02","slug":"is-immorality-only-that-which-harms-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/03\/is-immorality-only-that-which-harms-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Immorality Only that which Harms Others?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common\u00a0defense of &#8220;sexual liberty&#8221;\u00a0is that it is limited to the private conduct of consenting adults &#8212; in other words, it doesn&#8217;t &#8220;harm&#8221; anyone else. Similarly, a frequent retort to opposition to the normalization of homosexual &#8216;marriage&#8217;\u00a0is &#8220;what marriage was harmed by this homosexual union?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Albert Mohler and Pastor Tim Keller have a fascinating discussion on this topic in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2012\/09\/27\/what-is-morality-other-than-harm\/\">panel for the Gospel Coalition<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/46047078?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>Their discussion is a fairly thorough breakdown of these canards <!--more-->about morality. Can &#8220;harm&#8221; be defined on an individual basis? Can morality be legislated? Can you even discuss morality outside of an acknowledgement of man&#8217;s purpose?<\/p>\n<p>The discussion is long (16 minutes), but it addresses some very relevant points in a clear and concise way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common\u00a0defense of &#8220;sexual liberty&#8221;\u00a0is that it is limited to the private conduct of consenting adults &#8212; in other words, it doesn&#8217;t &#8220;harm&#8221; anyone else. Similarly, a frequent retort to opposition to the normalization of homosexual &#8216;marriage&#8217;\u00a0is &#8220;what marriage was harmed by this homosexual union?&#8221; Dr. Albert Mohler and Pastor Tim Keller have a fascinating discussion on this topic in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[600,219,3607,442,2,10,171,3608],"class_list":["post-19723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-albert-mohler","tag-dadt","tag-harm","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tim-keller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}