Yes, God, God. God don't never change.

Welcome to the plotcast. My name is Douglas Wilson.

This is episode 317 in case you're wondering and I am very glad that you decided to join us.

Thank you for coming along.

So a few weeks ago, something of a firestorm was caused in evangelical circles,

when Alistair Begg, who's been a faithful preacher of the gospel for many years,

gave some advice to a woman about attending a wedding and wedding reception for her grandchild who was either trans or marrying a trans.

So it was a perverse wedding and Alistairbegg encouraged this woman

as an act of kindness to attend, get a gift, that sort of thing.

And of course there was an uproar about this and for a few days people were wondering,

well maybe it was the heat of the moment thing maybe he just

misspoke maybe he thought he was doing a kind thing but then a short time later a few days later Alistair Begg clarified that he was not going to take that advice back.

He wasn't going to walk it back.

He was sticking to the advice. Now on the one hand you don't want to wad up years and years

and years of faithful ministry and throw it away.

Alistairbag has been a faithful minister for a long, long time.

You should not want to wad it up and throw it away.

But still less should Alistair Beg want to wad it up and throw it away and I'm afraid that that's what he's doing.

Let me appear to change the subject for a moment, but I'm not changing the subject, I'm just providing an illustration.

Let's say that you've got a politician, your congressman or somebody, who has been touting for years that he's the pro-life candidate. He's staunchly in favor of life

he wants to defend the unborn, etc. He's run for years on that ticket.

And then suppose that he proposes a bill that has carve-outs.

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