Will You Use Target’s Transgender Bathroom?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 16 May 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

How should Christians respond to cultural evil? Not mainly by criticizing the culture, but by building a grand alternative vision of reality.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to another week of the Aspastor John podcast.
0:08.5	We get a lot of really good questions via email and you can send those to us at Aspastor
0:12.4	John at DesiringGod.org.
0:15.2	As you can imagine, Pastor John, we have a lot of questions in the inbox about Target's
0:18.2	New Transgender Bathroom Policy.
0:21.3	Shuppers are now encouraged to use whichever gender bathrooms they identify with.
0:26.4	Target Corporate Headquarters is just a short walk away from your house, so this is pretty
0:30.6	close to home.
0:31.8	On the principle of boycotts, I think we've addressed this back in episode 430 on corporate
0:36.9	policies when we talked about Apple, Subaru, and Target back then.
0:41.0	What are the logistics, though, of Target's decision for Christians?
0:44.5	If you're shopping at Target, you go to the bathroom and a woman identifying as a man
0:48.6	walks in.
0:50.8	Are there any biblical principles that play here?
0:53.9	Did you use a gender open restroom to begin with, even if it says men on the door, how
0:59.0	do you untangle this question?
1:02.0	Tony, the way my mind went on this may not be exactly where the question is going, although
1:10.8	I'm going to end precisely answering the question of what I would do.
1:15.1	But let me take you on the trajectory of my thought and trust that the Lord brought
1:20.5	it to my mind for good reasons.
1:23.1	It is a may sound.
1:24.1	The first thing that comes to my mind, as I hear the question, is how parents are going
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