This editorial at Touchstone is trenchant – dare I say, prophetic.
As a sampling of how this little piece hits home:
Why do Christian parents, contra St. Paul’s clear admonition in 1 Corinthians 7, encourage their young adult children to delay marriage, sometimes for years past the time it would take to discern whether this union would be of the Lord? Why do we smilingly tell them to wait until they can “afford” it? It is because, to our shame, we deem fornication a less awful reality than financial hardship. [Emphasis mine.]
Must reading.
This reflects what is wrong with the modern judiciary in so many ways.
A North Carolina judge has ordered a mother to stop homeschooling and send her children back to public school.
The judge could not even claim that the children were not being educated properly – indeed, he admitted that they had “thrived” under four years of homeschooling. (Outside testing had shown the children were up to two years in advance of their peers.) But they needed the “socialization” of public school, despite being involved in all sorts of out-of-the-home activities in sports and other clubs.
But the kicker: this ruling was part of a divorce proceeding, and came at the behest of the father, who acknowledges the divorce springs from his own adultery. But he doesn’t want the children homeschooled – in part, apparently, because he doesn’t want to pay for it.
This is the society we live in. Implicitly reward the adulterer with authority, rather than punish him. And interfere in the God-given authority of the innocent parent to direct the education of her own children.
The number of Russian women estimated to have had a least one abortion. (Warning note: “delivery” room nudity.)
Interestingly, the female narrator has had four abortions of her own. According to Life Site News, she comments on how shocked she is “how easy it is to give and to take lives.”
Connecticut legislators are attempting to control the internal structure of churches.
Very interesting to note that the drafters of the bill are two active pro-homosexual marriage campaigners.
There seems to be confidence that this bill will be defeated. Perhaps so. But it’s astonishing that any lawmaker could come up with it. It reflects a mindset, and it represents an attitude that is apparently impervious to resistance. The bills that get voted down today tend to be normalized and brought back later. Even if this bill fails, mark my words – this will not be over.
