When Justice Kennedy penned the Supreme Court’s decision in June, he anticipated there would be conflict between the civil and the religious definitions of marriage. Therefore, he decreed judicial decisions must be based on “neutral” grounds. The problem is the court’s decision was not neutral.

Learning to respond to every competing worldview would take a lifetime of study. Do we have to memorize a different argument for every “ism”? The exciting answer is that the Bible itself offers a single, universal strategy we can apply to all systems of thought. The key passage is Romans 1.