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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Disney's Onward, coming to theaters in March 6th, will feature an openly LGBTQ animated character.

This follows a same-sex kiss in last year's The Rise of Skywalker,

and the portrait of LaFou as gay in the live-action Beauty and the Beast remake.

We should not be surprised. Disney World has

sponsored Gay Day at the Park since 1991. Disney Company began offering benefits to gay partners in 1996.

The company has long been on the front lines of normalizing LGBTQ behavior through its cultural influence.

But this is just one example of a much larger narrative every Christian needs to understand today.

If you're like most evangelicals, you're discouraged over the moral trajectory you've seen in America across recent decades.

I'm old enough to have witnessed the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

The legalization of abortion in 1973.

The rise of no-fault divorce and its damaging effect on marriage in the family.

The popularization of gay characters on TV and in movies,

the explosion of online pornography, the legalization of same-sex marriage, and the proliferation

of euthanasia. What connects these dots? Writing in the Federalist, Nathaniel Blake offers an

explanation I'd like us to consider today.

He notes that many in our secular culture are not likely to think in ancient terms of personal

virtue and vice, and do not subscribe to Christian teachings on original and personal sin.

Yet, the imperfection of the world, the social order and ourselves, remains a fundamental

human reality that all daily experience. So many have constructed a substitute worldview. The theories of

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