Chuck Colson

In the following viewpoint, Chuck Colson contends that people who claim sexuality is a continuum and intersexuality is a legitimate gender category are incorrect. According to Colson, hermaphroditism is a deformity that should not be used to support claims for broadening the definition of gender. He argues that there are only two sexes and that God created those sexes. Colson is the founder and chairman of Prison Fellowship Ministries, a Virginia-based counseling program that operates in over 600 prisons throughout the United States.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What usually happens to babies afflicted with hermaphroditism, according to Colson?
2. In the author’s view, what would happen to the Defense of Marriage Act if sexuality were a vast continuum?
3. In Colson’s opinion, how do Christians determine normality"

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