Moral Standards

A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life · Apr 30, 2026 · 2m

Almost daily someone repeats the claim that abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, and similar sins are “perfectly all right,” and that Christians have no right to impose their moral standards on others. I recently saw the same argument in New York Magazine, where an advertising executive insisted that even colored toilet seats are a matter of ultimate importance, and that anyone who denies this is “legislating their moral systems on other people.” His conclusion was simple: there are no standards whatever a man declares important is important, and no one may contradict him. But the issue is…