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Post by avordvet on Dec 21, 2016 6:18:01 GMT -5
SOGI Laws Place Constitutional Freedoms and Biological Reality Under AttackBy Eric Metaxas | December 20, 2016 | 1:10 PM EST Constitutional freedoms and biological reality are under attack. And we—you and I—must take a stand. Back in 2009, my BreakPoint colleague John Stonestreet was “in the room” so to speak as Chuck Colson was developing the Manhattan Declaration to defend the sanctity of life, marriage, and religious freedom. John once told me how he totally “got” why Christians had to stand up for marriage at the time. But in 2009, he wasn’t certain we needed a declaration to defend religious freedom—what was the connection between marriage and religious freedom? Well, as John will now tell you, Chuck was right. Chuck foresaw a time when Christian beliefs about marriage and sexuality would make us targets in the public square—and that our right to live out those beliefs would come under fire. But what no one, including Chuck, could see back then was how quickly we’d find ourselves in a world in which the observable biological realities that make us male or female would be denounced and denied—in academia, in the culture, and even in the law. That pure emotion (as Princeton’s Robert George has said) would replace biological facts. That people would be forced by government to comply with these kinds of personal beliefs and lifestyle choices. www.cnsnews.com/commentary/eric-metaxas/sogi-laws-place-constitutional-freedoms-and-biological-reality-under-attack
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