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So then what's with these schools policies saying that they will accommodate requests for name and gender changes and keep private from the parents of the student involved? If there is any record of this generated by the school then the parent is entitled to this information by law. The law is quit...

Valerie wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:13 am I wrestled with answering the poll questions because to me they were too simplistic to define accurately.

Sorry - I think it's hard to get those questions right. Partly because Begg's response is not black-and-white.

I appreciated your post.

In my classes I have, on occasion, had Muslim students who wear head scarves and ask to be accommodated in various ways such as being allowed to leave the classroom and miss work to pray during Ramadan. Suppose you knew that the parents were Orthodox Jews who would object to this. Or Evangelical Ch...

One of the problems is that it is less clearly defined. Emperor worship required you to adhere to the state religion (although the Romans carved out an exception for Jews, for example). In our present era, though, the Empire tells us we can be Christians, but we just have to agree to make changes t...

The present-day trans-national globalist "religion" that revolves around identity-as-a-choice, however, doesn't seem to tolerate anyone deviating from its central tenets. We all must become adherents to it, or else face being labelled as bigots and ostracised from our jobs and communities...

Do you have some examples that show how you or others have done this well in your own life? Or things you have tried that went wrong? How do you personally approach living in a society where many people may see your views as wrong or even toxic? That's what this thread is for. I have, but wouldn't ...

What am I talking about here? For example, in the other thread you implied that it was Christians who are really the ones being discriminated against by trans people when it comes to trans issues: The biggest problem I have in everyday life is this: some people insist that I must actively use their...

Hindus are living in explicit sin and in violation of both the 1st and 2nd Commandments. There is absolutely no ambiguity about that. None whatsoever. Are you being consistent in using Biblical definitions of sin to guide your interactions with others? I have never once seen any hand-wringing by co...

I find the recent case involving Alistair Begg being a prime example as to how far one believes a Christian should go to reaching the lost. The majority of preachers are calling Alistair out on his advice to a lady and it reminds me of how Jesus was called out too on His ways of being around sinner...

To some people, that means that I do not accept "who they are", this is their identity. And this is the paradox: my identity is rooted in an understanding of God and of me as a created being in God's good will, my body is very much my body, and I cannot be who I am and use THEIR worldview...