Albert Mohler: What Did Luther Do?
Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Mary Zeiss Stange is a professor of women's studies and religion at Skidmore College in New York and a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors. In an article published in the paper's July 9, 2007 edition, Stange suggests that mainline Protestant churches should ask, "What would Luther do?," on the issue of homosexuality.

The entire approach of her article invites trouble and mischief, for the truly informative question is not "What would Luther do?" but "What did Luther do?" In her article Professor Stange attempts to argue that Luther would respond to modern knowledge and the modern context by affirming homosexuality and same-sex relationships. The assumptions behind her ridiculous argument are based in any number of intellectual fallacies, but a closer look reveals that Luther, of all people, would recognize exactly what she is doing.

Stange begins by citing the Apostle Paul's statement in Galatians 3:28 that in Christ "there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female," and asks: "Upon further reflection, might he have added, 'neither straight nor gay?'" the rest