I write about sexuality because I can’t think of anything more fundamental to the ordering of society than the ordering of the family. If you don’t understand what sexuality has to do with the ordering of the family, there’s the problem.
What Is to Be Done?
Bonus link: Second half of interview in World magazine
I will devote several Mondays to the exchange of letters which this interesting note began.
Bonus link: Second half of interview in World magazine
Transexual: A person who identifies as a member of the other sex.
Transracial: A person who identifies as a member of another race.
Transpresleyan: A person who identifies as Elvis Presley.
Click here and go to 52:16 for a very funny out-take of interviewer Douglas Wilson trying to pronounce my last name.
Wheatley Institution, Brigham Young University, 2015
Mondays are for answering letters. This isn’t exactly a letter, but I think it's close enough; it’s a question I have been asked frequently, most recently when I was speaking about natural law at Acton Institute’s annual conference on the foundations of a free and virtuous society.
Everyone admits that pain is educational: Since I feel agony when I put my hand into the fire, I don’t do it again. Curiously, we are much more reluctant to admit that there is such a thing as natural disgust, and disgust is educational too. St. John Chrysostom makes this point exactly in his Homily on First Timothy:
