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I Don't Drink The Kool-Aid. For Anybody.

None Dare Call it Education

By Byron / July 21, 2012 /

I had never heard of Indiana University Southeast prior to reading this article. Now, I wish I never had. Students are not allowed to express opinions except within a “free speech zone”. It’s hard to express how asinine this is; if the literal wording of the thing is held to, roommates would be required to…

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The Next Good Argument I Hear for "Gay Marriage"…

By Byron / February 9, 2012 /

Will be the first. Seriously, liberal argumentation generally consists of sloganeering, half-truths, utopian fantasies, and ad hominem attacks. Pretty much every argument that I’ve ever heard advanced to buttress “gay marriage” falls neatly into one or more of these categories. Today, USA Today came out with an editorial piece favoring the decision by the ultra-leftist…

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On the "Culture War"

By Byron / February 8, 2012 /

Jonah Goldberg is becoming my favorite editorial columnist. This piece is dead on the money: It’s the Liberals Who are Driving the Culture War The popular perception among some is that evangelicals and conservatives are on some kind of witchhunt against what they perceive to be the forces of darkness, that it is we who…

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To Whom Does Marriage Belong?

By Byron / December 15, 2011 /

It seems clear to me that, despite our efforts to retain the significance and true meaning of marriage, the tide of public opinion, coupled with a judiciary (and certain legislatures) incapable of doing, or unwilling to do, the hard work of rational thinking, will at some point yield the radical redefinition of marriage as the…

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Aggressive Capitulation: One "Church" Deals with the "Gay Marriage" Debate

By Byron / November 24, 2011 /

I think I have found—or rather been again reminded of—my exact polar opposite when it comes to people calling themselves followers of Jesus. A little history here is in order. Between January, 1990 and March, 1993, I was pastor of a small Southern Baptist church in High Point, NC. Students of church history will recognize…

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