Because she believes that homosexual practice is wrong, as Jews and Christians have believed forever. So now she s considered a scourge to be bullied into silence. Tomorrow it could be you or this church. As Christian thinker J. P. Moreland writes, Freedom was traditionally understood as the power to do what one ought to do, like being free to choose a noble course in life. But today, he continues, people think the good life is the satisfaction of any pleasure or desire that someone freely and autonomously chooses .
Christians consider freedom the ability to reject sin.
Today s society calls freedom the right to casually select one s morality like an appetizer on a tray. Traditionally, tolerance of other viewpoints meant that even though I think those viewpoints are dead wrong and will argue against them fervently, nevertheless, I will defend your right to argue your own case. Just as importantly, I will treat you with respect as an image bearer of God, even though your views are abhorrent to me. Today, Moreland writes that tolerance has come to mean that no one is right and no one is wrong and, indeed, the very act of stating that someone else s views are immoral or incorrect is now taken to be intolerant . This new view is so pervasive that I assume many of you are looking at me and thinking, Well, yeah, Jim.