The problem with Vanna White’s marriage advice
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 27 September 2022
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Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White “was baptized a Baptist” but has advised her children that cohabitation is acceptable. A Chicago curriculum is prompting first graders to choose their own gender pronouns. Such normalization of nonbiblical values in America demands that Christians normalize biblical values for our fellow Christians. And the best way to fight the culture ways is first to focus on Jesus.
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Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Tuesday, September the 27th, 2022, and this is the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. |
| 0:15.7 | When Van der Weight received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, |
| 0:19.1 | wheel a fortune creator, Merv Griffin, called her America Sweetheart. |
| 0:23.2 | She has been the show's co-host for 40 years and is one of the most famous and popular |
| 0:28.7 | celebrities in America. |
| 0:30.5 | She told People magazine, I was baptized to Baptist and I've always had my own personal |
| 0:35.7 | relationship with God. |
| 0:37.1 | However, she says, I don't preach because everyone's entitled to their own beliefs. |
| 0:42.3 | According to a new article on Yahoo Life, |
| 0:44.3 | these beliefs include the marriage advice she gives her two children now in their 20s. |
| 0:50.3 | Don't get married until you're 30. |
| 0:52.3 | You can live with your girlfriend or boyfriend. You can have all the fun you want. Just don't get married until you're 30. You can live with your girlfriend or boyfriend. You can have |
| 0:55.6 | all the fun you want. Just don't get married until you're 30. She adds, wait until you're 30. |
| 1:02.5 | You can still do all the same stuff. Just don't tie that knot just in case. My point is not to |
| 1:09.3 | criticize Vanna White. Her advice to her children is more than norm |
| 1:12.6 | today than ever before. My purpose today is to ask why this is so. In the 1970s, when only two |
| 1:20.6 | tenths of one percent of the U.S. population lived as cohabitating romantic partners, would you |
| 1:27.3 | have believed that the number would have |
| 1:29.5 | climbed to 15% in the 18 to 34 year old age bracket today? This, despite the fact that couples who |
| 1:37.5 | cohabit, even as common as this has become, are still at advanced risk of divorce compared to couples who do not. If I had told you in |
| 1:47.3 | 2005 that same-sex marriage would become the law of the land in 2015, would you have believed me? |
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