World Magazine "The ship of marriage is sinking fast. Last week saw another noted public figure evacuating in a lifeboat from the S.S. Traditional Wedlock: Jim Wallis of Sojourners, who as recently as five years ago was for biblical marriage of a man and woman, is now for homosexual marriage. He has evolved. "....
"A word about “evolving” at this point. In C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce, two erstwhile intellectual sparring partners meet to discuss their time at the university. I quote in part from the one who repented, speaking to the one who still prefers hell to humility and truth:
“Let us be frank. Our opinions were not honestly come by. We simply found ourselves in contact with a certain current of ideas and plunged into it because it seemed modern and successful. At College, you know, we just started automatically writing the kind of essays that got good marks and saying the kind of things that won applause. When, in our whole lives, did we honestly face, in solitude, the one question on which all turned? … When did we put up one moment’s real resistance to the loss of our faith? … We were afraid … afraid of a breach with the spirit of the age, afraid of ridicule. …”
...."Their only talent is to put their finger to the wind and detect a doomed current. These are men controlled by the idols of prevailing fashions of thinking." Andrée Seu Peterson
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