{"id":22107,"date":"2013-04-15T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22107"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:37:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:37:41","slug":"albert-mohler-on-homosexuals-and-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/albert-mohler-on-homosexuals-and-morality\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Mohler on Homosexuals and Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,\u00a0has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2013\/04\/01\/bracketing-morality-the-marginalization-of-moral-argument-in-the-same-sex-marriage-debate\/\">lengthy but fascinating article<\/a> on the argument against &#8220;homosexual marriage&#8221; from a perspective outside of morality.\u00a0 Importantly, he brings up an interesting discussion on the &#8220;revisionist&#8221; view of marriage which<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>is vitally important, even essential, to any conversation about marriage in our modern context, for it points far beyond the issue of same-sex marriage to the prior assaults on conjugal marriage brought by no-fault divorce and the replacement of personal responsibility with mere personal autonomy. Sadly, the revisionist view of marriage is embraced by millions of heterosexual couples, married and unmarried, but it is essential to the very idea of same-sex marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also notes what has been said here several times before (much to one or two people&#8217;s chagrin), and was first intimated by Justice Antonin Scalia:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back in 2003, Justice Anthony Kennedy&#8230;argued that moral opposition to homosexuality was not a rational basis for the establishment of a law.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Justice Antonin Scalia argued that Kennedy had just eliminated any legal barrier to same-sex marriage. \u201cIf moral disapprobation of homosexual conduct is \u2018no legitimate state interest\u2019 for purposes of proscribing that conduct&#8230;what justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples exercising \u2018the liberty protected by the Constitution?\u2019\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What, other than morality, sustains any laws restricting human sexual behavior?<\/p>\n<p>The legislative debate over the prohibition of polygamy after the Civil War was explicitly moral. Sociological analysis did not drive that movement, morality did. What about all the other laws that restrict sexual acts? Are they also to be cast down by this logic?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,\u00a0has a lengthy but fascinating article on the argument against &#8220;homosexual marriage&#8221; from a perspective outside of morality.\u00a0 Importantly, he brings up an interesting discussion on the &#8220;revisionist&#8221; view of marriage which is vitally important, even essential, to any conversation about marriage in our modern context, for it points far beyond [&#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":[600,1137,82,219,740,442,83,198,1967,2344],"class_list":["post-22107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-albert-mohler","tag-anthony-kennedy","tag-constitution","tag-dadt","tag-divorce","tag-homosexual","tag-marriage","tag-morality","tag-scalia","tag-southern-baptist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107","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=22107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}