Indonesia passes law criminalizing sex outside of marriage: Why trying to legislate morality is a mistake
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) defeated Republican candidate Herschel Walker on Tuesday in Georgia’s runoff to determine the Senate’s last undecided seat. However, our government is not the only one making headlines today. Lawmakers in Indonesia unanimously passed a new criminal code that, among other things, made sex outside of marriage illegal. At a time when sexual morality in our culture continues to spiral further away from God’s word, some may wish our government would do something similar—but that would be a mistake.
Please consider supporting Denison Forum today! Your gift will be matched by a generous $60,000 matching grant.
Author: Ryan Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subscribe
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Today is Wednesday, December the 7th, 2022. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum. |
| 0:11.0 | Thank you to Dr. Ryan Denison for writing today's daily article. |
| 0:15.0 | He is the Denison Forum Senior Editor for Theology |
| 0:18.0 | and has written more than 400 articles for Denison Forum. |
| 0:22.6 | Senator Raphael Warnock defeated Republican candidate Herschel Walker in Tuesday's Georgia runoff, |
| 0:29.6 | giving the Democrats a 51 to 49 seat advantage in the Senate. |
| 0:34.6 | Warnock outpaced Walker in the November election as well, but Georgia law |
| 0:38.7 | requires a candidate to exceed 50% of the votes to win, and neither candidate was able to clear |
| 0:43.9 | that initial threshold. Warnock's victory at a time when Republicans dominated most of the ballot |
| 0:49.5 | in Georgia speaks to his appeal as a candidate. He is senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, |
| 0:55.0 | where Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach and did little in his previous, albeit short, |
| 1:00.1 | tenure as a senator to cause people to question his efficacy. For many, however, Walker's flaws |
| 1:06.1 | were the deciding factor. The Republican made several gaffes on the election trail, |
| 1:10.7 | such as attributing the |
| 1:11.8 | climate crisis to China's bad air, pushing out America's good air, but his personal history likely |
| 1:18.5 | played a bigger role in his defeat, his ex-wife's previous accounts of domestic abuse, |
| 1:23.9 | as well as revelations that he paid for multiple abortions cut into his credibility |
| 1:29.2 | with voters. Whatever the case may be, the 22 election has now concluded and Congress can |
| 1:35.7 | proceed to its most important task, preparing for the 2024 election. Or at least that's how it |
| 1:41.8 | often seems. In truth, there are many important decisions on the horizon, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Denison Forum, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Denison Forum and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.