The moral register of today’s cultural climate considers it immoral—indeed, an act of violence—to say “gay marriage is not marriage” or “you were not born in the wrong body.” Those statements are deemed hateful precisely because they demand that someone set aside the sovereignty of his own desires or feelings in light of an external authority. They require acknowledgment of a world for whom the happiness of the individual is not actually the meaning of its existence. That is actually part of the gospel, part of the solution, part of the church’s faithful witness—not a cause for handwringing, repentance, or self-loathing, though it is assuredly a cause of our growing exile.
Carl Trueman
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