Bold compassion

Ash explains why Christian social ethics can be championed in a spirit of love rather than panic:

No institution that is part of the created order can be destroyed by human disobedience. Human nonconformity leads not to the destruction of the order, but to judgment on human beings. No Christian movement needs to defend marriage: rather we seek to protect human beings against the damage done to them by cutting across the grain of the order of marriage.

Ibid, 82.