William Lane Craig has a newish, 30-page essay online, which you can read in PDF or HTML. He interacts with Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion. Craig makes five arguments for God’s existence: (1) the cosmological argument (from contingency); (2) the kalam cosmological argument (based on the beginning of the universe); (3) the moral argument (based upon objective moral values and duties); (4) the teleological argument (from fine-tuning); (5) the ontological argument (from the possibility of God’s existence to his actuality). So if you’re looking for a concise introdu...

This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Gay "Marriage" Is Wrong. Period.(HT Family Research Council) In 21 years, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Judge Vaughn Walker “never made an issue of his sexual orientation.” Until yesterday. After two decades of criticism that he wasn’t gay-friendly enough, the 65-year-old judge paid back his skeptics with the most powerful rebuke against man-woman marriage this country has ever seen. Back in 1987, his impartiality on homosexual issues was so stunning that Democrats actually opposed his nomination to the court where...

This entry is part 8 of 9 in the series Gay "Marriage" Is Wrong. Period.(HT Heidelblog) In the 1960s it was common to hear American civil rights leaders appeal to natural justice and natural law in defense of the extension of civil rights to oppressed peoples, namely African Americans. Those arguments were compelling to Americans because they are fundamental to the nature of the country. Our founding documents, after all, appeal to “self-evident” truths among which is the truth that “all men,” including African Americans, “are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator wit...

This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series Gay "Marriage" Is Wrong. Period.(HT Denny Burk) Yesterday, a federal judge overturned California’s ban on gay marriage—a measure that was added to the state’s constitution through a 2008 ballot effort called Proposition 8. Federal district judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that Proposition 8 was a violation of the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment (p. 109). The judge immediately stayed his own decision pending appeals, so gay marriages will not be performed until the issue is resolved in the higher courts. Read the dec...

This entry is part 6 of 9 in the series Gay "Marriage" Is Wrong. Period.(HT Stand to Reason) Here’s an article from the L.A. Times, reprinted with one small tweak: Reporting from San Francisco and Los Angeles — The federal judge who overturned Proposition 8 Wednesday said the ballot initiative that banned polygamy was based on moral disapproval of polygamous marriage and ordered the state to stop enforcing the ban. U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, in a 136-page ruling, said California “has no interest in differentiating between two-person and multiple-person unions.&#...