With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

A Christian school in the Northeast has paid the prize for standing by its convictions,

when faced with a prospect of having its girls' basketball team play another school with

a trans-identifying player, the mid-Vermont Christian school chose to forfeit.

But it was not enough for school authorities for the team to just take the loss.

Now the entire school has been banned from playing in any Vermont sporting event.

There are at least two lessons here for the rest of us.

We need to count the cost ahead of time if we really are committed to live-not by lies.

Doing so will inevitably mean losing favor and opportunities.

This school apparently had what many of us now need, a theology of getting fired.

Second, there's no way to reconcile Christian faithfulness of loving God and loving our neighbor

with the tenets of the new sexual orthodoxy.

We need to be clear about that.

Turns out that the only way we'll be able to combat lies is by speaking and living what

is true.

For the Carlson Center, I'm John Stone Street.