tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post4050851250538246644..comments2024-03-14T14:41:17.663-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Thinking thrice before supporting Brad LittlejohnRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-29199628911102603842015-09-17T12:41:47.109-04:002015-09-17T12:41:47.109-04:00At first I didn't realize he made up all those...At first I didn't realize he made up all those "cases." Then he springs that on the reader. Notice what a strange trick that is. In real life, it is unlikely that several of those people would have accepted the employment in question in the first place. Unlike Kim Davis, they would have known that the activities in question were a condition of their employment from the time *prior* to taking it. If they did *not* know this, then that makes a difference to one's evaluation of the scenario. E.g. Suppose that a hotel is operating quietly under the radar of the non-discrimination laws and trying to keep its business clean and not facilitate sexual immorality. Maybe the community standards allow them to do this for a while. A clerk is hired having known of this previous, unwritten policy of the hotel. New management then takes over and fires the clerk when he continues the previous policy.<br /><br />Lacking nuance, Littlejohn thinks he's played some kind of "gotcha" by throwing out all these implausible cases and then telling the reader triumphantly that he just made them up and that "probably" the reader "wouldn't" have heard of them if they were real. How does he know that, anyway? I bet the media would be only too happy to publicize cases of that kind, because they would think it would make Christians look bad.<br /><br />In several of the cases, the scenarios are not fully developed. E.g. How much leeway in law did the judge actually have in refusing divorce cases? That sort of thing varies. A judge in Oregon right now is refusing to perform same-sex "marriages" and is being investigated for this as an alleged "ethics violation," even though performing marriages is explicitly *voluntary* for judges under Oregon law! Littlejohn doesn't trouble to fill out his scenario far enough to tell us whether his imaginary judge is using discretion allowed to him under the laws of his state.<br /><br />In short, he's trying to sow confusion with these examples.Lydia McGrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423567323116960820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-72699087462401899872015-09-17T07:43:56.551-04:002015-09-17T07:43:56.551-04:00Steve, how would you draw the line on those hypoth...Steve, how would you draw the line on those hypothetical Brad Little john raises? Would be very helpful to hear.Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06242793531954844979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-33069252054608467422015-09-17T01:56:20.012-04:002015-09-17T01:56:20.012-04:00I think lay Christians often have better instincts...I think lay Christians often have better instincts on these issues than so-called Christian leaders. stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-365993806953719632015-09-16T16:52:25.336-04:002015-09-16T16:52:25.336-04:00We don't need more would-be Nazi Popes running...We don't need more would-be Nazi Popes running around acting as apologists for the regime.<br /><br />Facilitating evil is doing evil, and homo-sex "marriage" is evil; scandalously, shockingly evil. How is this even controversial to professing Christians?CRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03231394164372721485noreply@blogger.com