Recently, the Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia was taking questions from a group of students at Princeton. Some of the students had read Scalia's writing (which would typically be a good thing for students to do). These students, however, read in order to find reasons for offense. They found them and then questioned Scalia in a manner that left him having to defend himself against be an offensive person. Why? Because he believes (as we all do) that the law does speak to all sorts for behavior--even sexual behavior. Here is the article:

Scalia Quizzed at Princeton on Gay Issue

Note, the tactic, however. Learning is a tool to find reasons for being offended. People, looking to avoid being the "offensive" person, compromise their position or make it wishy-washy. We need to get comfortable therefore with being offensive or for being intolerant of people who use offense as a tool. The method is really insidious. It uses a good Christian sensibility: the desire to not harm people; against the person making the argument.

Here is a start to our therapy. We need to be comfortable with this proposition: We believe that there are rights and wrongs in sexual behavior. You can not read the Bible and think otherwise. We also must recognize that everyone--even the person acting offended at our biblical ethics--thinks that some things are right and others wrong.

This is why a classical education is so necessary if we want to fight effectively for truth. We need to see what other people are doing. We need to see the traps and avoid them.