Kresta in the Afternoon – September 14, 2023 – Hour 1

Author: Bryant Schoenle Published on: September 14, 2023 Published in: Al Kresta

Andrew Petiprin joins us to discuss the legacy of Blaise Pascal and Mark Regnerus explains the surge in people who identify as LGBTQ.

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What the Surge in LGBTQ Self-Identity Means

Data from the General Social Survey finds that the share of LGBTQ Americans under the age of 30 has risen from 4.8 percent in 2010 to 16.3 percent today. But rates of non-heterosexual behavioral experience have not risen nearly as sharply. Sexual behavior once comprised the key distinction to homosexuality – is that no longer the case? Mark Regnerus joins us.

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What the Surge in LGBTQ Self-Identity Means

Mark Regnerus is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research is in the areas of sexual relationship behavior, marriage, family and religion. He's the author of more than 40 articles and book chapters and four books, including Cheap Sex and the Transformation of Men, Marriage and Monogomy and his newest book is The Future of Christian Marriage, Visit him at markregnerus.com

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Pascal’s Wager, 400 Years Later

On June 19, Pope Francis marked the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician and philosopher who remains one of the most important thinkers in the Western tradition. In his apostolic letter Sublimitas et Miseria Hominis, the Holy Father praises Pascal as a “tireless seeker of truth.” We talk more about Pascal’s Wager and his legacy with Andrew Petiprin.

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Pope Francis’s letter and Pascal’s wage