Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12 2. This is resistance and reformation on the Fight, laugh, Feast Network.

Alas, the modern church tends to shy away from the biblical imperative to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.

We assert that we must not be sidetracked by a lot of peripheral issues that might deflect our

interest in the gospel. We don't want to offend anyone, And besides, we carefully reason, you can't legislate

morality in a pluralistic society. But on the contrary, as D. James Kennedy so often asserted,

morality is the only thing you can legislate. That's what legislation is. It is the codification and

law of some particular moral concern, generally so that immorality in a few will not be

forcibly inflicted on the rest of us.

Legislating morality is the very cornerstone of justice.

Murder is against the law because we recognize that the premeditated killing of another human being is a violation of a very basic and fundamental moral principle, a moral principle that most of us still cherish,

the sanctity of human life.

Theft is against the law because we recognize that taking someone else's belongings without

permission is a breach of another one of our most basic and fundamental ethical standards,

the inviability of private property. The fact is, all law is some moral or ethical tenant

raised up to social enforceability by the civil sphere. Thus, the question is never

should we legislate morality. Rather, it is whose morality should we legislate? The question is,

what moral standards should we use when we legislate?

Will it be the unchanging, unerring, scriptural prescription for justice?

Or will it be the ever-shifting, ever-changing notion of pluralistic accommodation?

Robert Gugay, in his authoritative history of the development of judicial

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