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Yes, we have a border crisis. Yes, we have a tax crisis. Yes, we're in a war. But the most immediate threat facing our constitutional republic is a crisis of fatherlessness.

No longer do we talk about in terms of being a male or female, there are all kinds of other

options now. There's a huge spectrum that you can choose from. And the problem is it's all based upon

you, your desire, your thoughts, your feelings, and it's not based upon God and what God has

gifted you to be, which is either a male or a female. And here we have our Lutheran attitude, which is that we honor the past and we are open to

these traditions. We have a positive or a optimistic view of the history of the church.

We just don't let them displace the scriptures.

Let no one fear death, for the Savior's death has set us free. He that was held

a prisoner of death has annihilated it. Bodybuilders here in Las Vegas know that Jesus has done all the

heavy lifting, and we love issues, et cetera.

In our culture, when a couple marries, the wife usually takes the husband's last name.

Now, if you're a celebrity, that might not happen for business or publicity reasons.

Sometimes they hyphenate the last name, the wife's maiden name and the husband's surname after that.

And sometimes I've even known couples who have just chosen a third name for both of themselves and tried to stake out some neutral territory there.

So does it have any bearing on marital stability that decision?

Welcome back to Issues CETRA. I'm Todd Wilkin.

Thanks for tuning us in live on this Friday afternoon, 17th of April.

Be talking with Dr. Lyman Stone of the Institute for Family Studies

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