Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Thursday, July the 21st, 2022.

Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison

Forum. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill this week protecting the right to same-sex marriage.

It prohibits anyone from denying the validity of a marriage based on the race or sex of the

couple. The fate of the legislation is uncertain in the U.S. Senate.

Those who drafted the bill were politically astute to link interracial marriage with gay marriage,

since people like me who object to the latter

on biblical and moral grounds support the former on the same grounds. I have written often that

racism is sin and that God views us all as members of the same human race. Consequently,

interracial marriage is absolutely acceptable from ethical

and scriptural perspectives. By contrast, I have also written that God defines marriage as the

lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, making same-sex marriage indefensible on the same grounds.

See my articles, What does the Bible say about

racism, and what's wrong with same-sex marriage at denizenforum.org. The culture wars can be

difficult to win in large part because they can be so complex. For instance, we know from Exodus

2014, adultery is immoral, but should it be made

illegal? Elective abortions are grievously wrong, but what legal consequences, if any,

should women who choose them face? Does allowing a terminally ill patient to die make us complicit in their death?

When do genetic advances to diagnose and treat disease cross the line into eugenics?

The good news in John 1613 is that we have an omniscient father whose spirit will guide us into

all the truth.

From 1. Peter 4.10, we know he empowers us to make a transformative difference

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