The Slippery Slope Was A Precipice After All

Dec 12, 2017 by

by Stephen McAlpine:

For all the talk of slippery slope arguments, when it came to it the same sex marriage decision in Australia was not a slippery slope.  It was a precipice after all.

And in such times we need precipitous thinkers.  We need leaders in our church who are not content to wait for the cultural changes to come our way, dodging and weaving until the last minute, but who lean into the changes and prepare their people with the ropes and tackle a precipice requires.

Why precipice thinkers?

Because the recent vote was precipitous. It was ironically, a binary decision.    It was a decision – no matter what was claimed before – that this vote would now determine everything about the direction of sexuality in our culture, not just who could marry who.

And it was precipitous too because it laid claim to determining the kind of Australia we are going to be publicly; and what is transgressive to bring into the public square and what is not.

No sooner had the vote come in than every conversation turned to talk about religious freedom and the role of religion in the public square. It was obscenely quick. And for the loudest and most influential of Yes voters that meant religion no longer had such a role. That was almost a given.

And precipitous because, despite the honourable attempts by the likes of Andrew Hastie, our Parliament had no intention of ensuring religious freedoms, had no clue what that even meant, and when presented with the most basic amendments voted them down to roars of approval from the public gallery.

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