Today’s (30 June, 2026) ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States deserves a note. One might want to say that it deserves applause, but should one applaud something that is, while important and appreciated, also a simple statement of fact? We do not reward students for commenting that water is wet, the sun warm, and birds fly. Be that as it may, after a season of exercises in antinatural illogic, we applaud the Supreme Court’s logic like a breeze in our sails to carry us out from the doldrums. It is this: the Court ruled that men are not women and may not weasel their way into women’s sports, whatever gender pretenses they purport. Justice Thomas simply stated: Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable “biological” characteristic…; it is binary; and “man” and “woman”, “boy” and “girl”, are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex ( West V...
In Romans 13.1, Paul says, Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God (ESV). The notion that everyone should be subject to governing authorities is sometimes misinterpreted as a subjection to authorities simply because they are in authority. This is a mistaken view. Paul is saying that people are under authorities because their authority is derived from God and because their authority rests on their exercising the law. In saying so, he is not offering some new insight or political theory. His point was uncontroversial. Plato’s Laws begins with the accepted view that state laws ultimately derived from the gods. So, for example, the Cretans believed that Zeus gave their laws to them and the Lacerdaemonians (Spartans) believed that they received their laws from Apollo (1.624). This belief is not a mere nod to religious devotion. ...