<a href='http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/008/24.39.html' target='_blank'>Christianity Today article</a>

very interesting read

Quote:The Court did not, of course, declare the legislature (i.e. Congress, the administration, the President, and his cabinet) pagan. It could not do so. Congress has Christian members, Catholics and Protestants, and Jewish members, some even observant and orthodox. The President and some members of his administration are Christians, some outspokenly so. But the nation, which has been slowly losing its Christianity, has now been in essence declared pagan, and all its institutions, agencies, and departments will follow, gradually or speedily.

It was an interesting thesis. I had reservations about one main section (and the conclusions it leads to).

That is his comments on Lawrence v Texas. To put it simply and candidly, he needs to define his terms if he's going to rant about sodomy. That term gets used casually, but I believe many people are unsure of exactly what it means. (Maybe it was just me but) I know I was, so I looked it up on dictionary.com. What I found was that there were several (related) definitions, that had quite different meanings depending on whether you want the background to come from law, medicine or the common vernacular.

I don't know what the original author means by "sodomy", and I haven't researched Lawrence v Texas, to be sure what those laws detailed. But, if this author wants to have an impact on people, even Christians, he ought to define his terms.

One reason is, the path he is going down (perhaps intentionally, I honestly don't know) is for a church mandated policy of what can be done between a husband and wife. The Roman Catholic church has this, and honestly people don't like it. Some protestant churches have it as well. I would argue that this is, in fact, contrary to the Bible. And it has led to numerous problems throughout church history.

So, Brown's pious rant really doesn't inspire me personally, instead it makes me want him to get to his real point, so I can evaluate them against the Bible. And since many folks don't do this, he really needs to use scripture references to provide some validity to his comments. The lack of such references gave me additional cause for concern.