Gary discusses some of the logical consequences of the craziness being espoused by certain people lately.
What people often object to is the legislation of morality that affects them personally. Some women want abortion to be legal so they can choose the procedure if a birth control device fails. They object to any legislation that would make abortion illegal and infringe on their personal choices, even if it means killing a pre-born baby. But these same abortion proponents would not want legislation that allowed husbands to beat their wives. They would want anti-wife-beating legislation imposed on their husbands. Proponents of abortion would object to this analogy because a “fetus” is not a person that can be hurt, while a wife is a human being capable of being hurt. The claim of moral libertarians is a person can do what he or she wants as long as the action does not hurt anyone else. Why is it wrong to hurt someone else? From where does this moral norm originate? Who defines hurt? Isn’t a pre-born baby hurt in an abortion? Abortionists say no because the “fetus” or “body part” is not a baby until it’s born. Who says? Those who push this line of thinking pressure legislatures and the courts to impose their view of life, morality, and hurt on society.
The statement, “You can’t legislate morality,” is a dangerous half-truth and even a lie, because all legislation is concerned with morality. Every law on the statute books is concerned with morality or with the procedures for the enforcement of law, and all law is concerned with morality. We may disagree with the morality of a law, but we cannot deny the moral concern of law. Law is concerned with right and wrong; it punishes and restrains evil and protects the good, and this is exactly what morality is about. It is impossible to have law without morality behind the law, because all law is simply enacted morality.
Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths
Like the Bereans of Paul’s day (Acts 17:11), Christians should check the veracity of all opinions against the only reliable standard of authority that God has placed in our hands: the Bible. Myths, Lies and Half-Truths adopts Jesus’ methodology of taking a closer look at God’s Word and applies it to erroneous misinterpretations that have resulted in a virtual shut-down of the church’s full-orbed mission in the world (Acts 20:27). These traditional but mistaken interpretations and applications of popular Bible texts to contemporary issues have resulted in the Christian faith being “thrown out and trampled under foot by men” (Matt. 5:13).
Buy NowGary discusses some of the logical consequences of the craziness being espoused by certain people lately. It is unreal how far people will go to hold on to a position that is untenable (at least to most reasonable people). Claiming that they are showing their “compassion” on one hand, they fall off the logic train on the other side.