it still seems to me there\u2019s a double standard going on.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what I mean. Some years ago I received a Christmas letter from the head of an evangelical organization. About halfway through he shared that, sadly, he had gotten divorced that past year. But in the next paragraph he had great news: God had given him a new wife!<\/p>\n
Well, maybe there were extenuating circumstances, maybe I shouldn\u2019t judge\u201d\u201dbut it still irritates me how blandly Christians accept this sort of thing. It used to be that, if gay people were expected to live celibately, married people were expected, at least, to preserve marriage for a lifetime. Even if divorce was unpreventable, remarriage wasn\u2019t assumed. That line about \u201cWhat God has joined together, let no one put asunder\u201d\u009d comes from Jesus himself. (Mark 10:8-9).<\/p>\n
Gay marriage is only the last in a long series of shifts in sexual morality. Why didn\u2019t premarital sex or cohabitation galvanize our attention, like this has? Where were the protests then? How did divorce and remarriage become about as frequent among Christians as in the general population?<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a> and she now has a follow up post there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" it still seems to me there\u2019s a double standard going on. Here\u2019s what I mean. Some years ago I received a Christmas letter from the head of an evangelical organization. About halfway through he shared that, sadly, he had gotten…<\/span><\/p>\n