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This audio is brought to you by Cannon Press. Exceptions in loopholes. In Loupholes, Saturday, November 30th, 2019 by Douglas Wilson.

Introduction

The downward spiral we are now writing when it comes to sexual ethics did not begin with a burgifel

It did not begin in the homosexual enclaves and bathhouses

Homosexuals did not want to participate in the great marriage joke until after heterosexuals had turned it into the great marriage joke.

But once the center had given way, and the widening gyre began, and easy divorce was first tolerated, then accepted, and then in some quarters celebrated, all the rest of this sexual clown car parade was inevitable.

And the pressures and realities connected to all of this are by no means absent in the conservative sectors of the church.

For example, Wayne Grudham recently stated that he had reworked his views on whether abuse was grounds for divorce,

and he had gone back to the text in response to a few horrendous situations he had encountered.

Now this is an entirely appropriate thing to do, and I am not here disputing his textual work

one way or the other.

What I am doing is pointing out that when there have been two scripturally legitimate

grounds for divorce that have been slowly expanded into loopholes, then what makes us think this process will stop if we find that there

are three scripturally legitimate grounds for divorce.

If there is legitimacy here at all, then there is a border between legitimacy and illegitimacy, and that border will

have to be articulated and defended by pastors and counselors with backbone. What I am not talking about.

When it comes to the question of permeance of marriage, I hold to what I believe to be the standard

reformed position.

Even though this is the last day of November, this is less a qualification

than it is a circumscription. I'm not attempting to prove anything one way or the other

about this position. I'm simply noting it as the place I am reasoning from.

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