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Heritage Foundation: Gender Politics Force Judge to Fight for Her Job

Jun 16, 2016Jerry CoxMarriageMarriage, Same-Sex Marriage

Our friends at the Heritage Foundation have highlighted a case unfolding in Wyoming that has a judge fighting for her job–simply because of her traditional views on marriage.

In 2014 Judge Ruth Neely was interviewed about “administrative challenges of the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in Wyoming.”

Heritage Foundation writes,

The result of the interview Dec. 5, 2014, was a relatively short newspaper story, but it sparked an investigation of Neely’s fitness for office. A year and a half later, she is asking the Wyoming Supreme Court not to remove her from two separate judgeships—nor to enforce a fine of up to $40,000.

All this without a local citizen filing a complaint against the judge, who is active in her Lutheran church, and without her ever being asked to officiate at a same-sex wedding.

You can read the full story here.

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Victims of “Happiness”

Apr 18, 2016Jerry CoxHomosexuality, MarriageHomosexuality, Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage

About a year and a half ago our friends at Breakpoint and Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview ran an excellent commentary on the unseen pain behind same-sex marriage.

John Stonestreet writes of one woman whose husband left her for his gay partner, saying,

For instance, USA Today, in its cheerleading for same-sex marriage, ran a photo section on her ex-husband, his partner, and her children without her consent or even notice to her. Darnelle wrote, ‘Commenters exclaimed at how beautiful this gay family was and congratulated my ex-husband and his new partner on the family that they “created” . . .,’ even though, she continued, ‘there is a significant person missing from those pictures: the mother and abandoned wife. That “gay family” could not exist without me.’

Stonestreet continues,

In an essay entitled “We Have No Right to Happiness,” [C.S. Lewis] told the story of two neighbors each of whom had divorced their spouses and then married each other. Another neighbor, with whom he was discussing the situation, replied ‘they have a right to happiness.’

Lewis noted that this neighbor would not say the same thing of a ruthless businessman who was happy when he made money by means fair or foul. Nor would she say the same thing about an alcoholic who was happy when he drank.

The happiness his neighbor was referring to was a right to ‘sexual happiness,’ which, according to Lewis, meant the freedom to act on our sexual impulses without restraint. And it doesn’t matter if such restraint is good for us or for the society as a whole.

You can read Stonestreet’s entire commentary here or listen to it below.

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Teach Your Kids About Marriage

Sep 23, 2015Jerry CoxMarriageMarriage

Over the next several days we will be highlighting special material our friends at Focus on the Family have provided for your family and your church.

Today we want to share a two-part guide Focus on the Family has released on teaching your kids about marriage.

The guide discusses:

Ways to model healthy marriage habits to your children;
How marriage benefits children;
How marriage benefits adults;
Age-appropriate conversations you can have with your children about marriage as they grow up;
Ways to pray with your kids and build a stronger family.

You can download these resources below or from our “Resources For Your Church and Family” page.