Today we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Rosaria Butterfield,

entitled Unpacking Love is Love.

Rosaria is the author of Five Lives of Our Anti-Christian Age from Crossway.

Unpacking Love is Love, written and read by rosaria butterfield a rallying cry for a movement

i started seeing the slogan love is love pop up everywhere in 2014.

Pithy and practical, the slogan humanized the LGBTQ-plus experience. It steadied all gospel discussions of homosexuality on common grace, not saving faith.

No dying to self, renouncing sin, or battling evil in our hearts or the world.

Love is love declared that we are more alike than difference, that feelings are authentic and therefore good,

and that homosexual relationships should be valued and honored.

Love is Love became a powerful rallying cry, and it produced a mandatory constituency in the gay rights movement, allies.

That is, heterosexual people who provided legitimacy, visibility, and cover, making the LGBTQ-plus

movement almost look wholesome.

Love is Love proudly pronounced that the lover's authenticity

determines the love's integrity. Who can judge love, it asked. The phrase seems

innocuous and non-threatening, but inherent in its appearance was the deception that Eve met in the garden with Satan.

Did God really say that love's virtue is in the eyes of the beholder,

or that it is inherently good, no matter what the object?

Does God define love, or do I? Is God love? Or are my feelings my God? It can't be both.

Love is love declares that love stands on its own with integrity, meaning, and grace.

But the Bible doesn't square with this. The Bible says God is love,

1 John 4.8. And love does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices with truth, 1 Corinthians 136.

In grammatical terms, love is a transitive verb. The integrity of love is found in its corresponding

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