Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion

by Allie Beth Stuckey

It’s not just that legally redefining marriage as between two men or two women is unbiblical, such a redefinition has serious, practical ramifications for society. No one explains this better than Professor Nancy Pearcey in her book Love Thy Body: “Every social practice is the expression of fundamental assumptions about what it means to be human. When a society accepts, endorses, and approves the practice, it implicitly commits itself to the accompanying worldview. And all the more so if those practices are enshrined in law. The law functions as a teacher, educating people on what society considers to be morally acceptable. If America accepts abortion, euthanasia, gender-free marriage, and transgender policies, in the process it will absorb the worldview that justifies those practices—a two-story fragmentation of the human being that denigrates the body and biological bonds such as the family. And the dehumanizing consequences will reach into every aspect of our communal life.”