Homo ‘Marriage’ and Christians

Dr. D.G. Hart

A good friend of mine told me to get a load of D.G. Hart’s post… you should get a load of it, too. If you don’t read it, this post won’t make much sense. However, if you do read it, this post may still not make sense… let’s see.

For those of you who do not know Dr. Hart, he’s a stud. I read Recovering Mother Kirk in seminary, and I loved it. He’s a wonderful historian. I have enjoyed his work on American Presbyterianism and on Machen. I have wanted to read his work on Nevin for a number of years, but evidently not bad enough to do so. So, when we’re dealing with Hart, we’re dealing with an accomplished scholar, a seminary professor, and an ordained elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. The man even smokes tobacco. Not. Too. Shabby.

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Mawwiage, That Bwessed Awwangement

Like anyone with a quarter of a brain, for a number of years I’ve been loathing the social agenda of the total annihilation of the institution of marriage. This agenda (it seems to me) has quite logically been pressed by the homosexuals and other sexual perverts. The funny (read: exceedingly sad) thing is that a very small percentage of sexual deviants has influenced (read: duped) so many in our culture. It’s the ol’ I’m-not-gay-or-anything-but-I-think-that-people-should-be-able-to-marry-whomever-they-want routine. It’s a lame routine. It would be really easy for us to point our fingers at these folks who support “gay marriage” and say that they are responsible for the destruction of marriage in our time. That accusation and the associated finger-pointing, however, would be misguided.

Who is responsible for the destruction of marriage?

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Wives are NOT their Husbands

Saw an interesting blurb on Carl Trueman (a man whom I respect), his wife, and their respective reading habits over on Scripture Zealot. Go give that a read and then come back to this conversation.

In light of the question put to Dr. Trueman’s wife, I just asked my wife how important it is that she read everything I read. She responded that she couldn’t keep up, and that, so long as I communicate the important things that I’m learning, she feels up to speed.

What in the sam hell would make anyone think that a seminary professor’s wife ought to be up to speed on his reading. I really have a feeling of pity for the wife of the seminarian who thinks that she needs to keep up on all her husband’s reading. There are really only a few options: 1) The poor woman’s deluded, and her husband needs to give her a good talkin’ to, 2) she’s a super scholar (in which case my feeling of pity is gone), or 3) her husband is taking, at most, a one-credit class in seminary, and not even doing all the reading for that. I remember reading constantly in seminary. I think my wife, to make sure I didn’t starve whilst in seminary, would manually feed me as I read… that was actually a good set up.

Of the options, I suspect that #1 is the case. She’s got some sort of burden that is not at all in keeping with being a wife and help meet. A wife certainly oughtn’t be her husband; she needs to help him do what God’s called him to do.

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Purity vs. Pornified

Douglas Wilson linked to this happy little article, thus making me aware of it. It’s an excerpt from a talk given by Albert Mohler. It is, I think, a wonderful picture of two types of men. Mohler’s evidently a straight talker. The first type is a provider and a protector. He loves his wife and desires her respect. The second is a taker and a exploiter. He loves his sexual arousal, but his sexuality is all inward. The first man’s sexuality is union-oriented. He makes love to his wife. The second simply makes love to himself. The first is two-handed love; the second is one. Which type of man are you, or do you want to be? As a woman, which type of man do you want?

We’re selfish by nature, that is, our fallen nature. It’s only in Christ, in the power of his resurrection, that we can be men who provide and protect, men who love our wives and earn their respect, men who pour themselves out for and into our wives. May Christ be honored in our homes, families, and especially our marriages.

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