I'm Not Sure What To Make Of This

This was in the church bulletin this morning:

We are very excited and pleased to have one of our very own present this year’s Leckie Bible Lectures. ___________, daughter of ____________will share five lectures with us, from Saturday evening to Monday lunch. She will also preach Sunday morning, with the sermon “Whose Family Values?” with biblical texts Jeremiah 31:31-34 and John 12:20-33.

She states:
North American church and culture are aflame with debate about what constitute ppropriate family values.

• Crowds of protesters urge federal and state legislators either to defend the institution of heterosexual marriage or to extend its benefits to gay and lesbian couples.
• Child welfare agencies encounter increasingly harsh criticism in the face of repeated failures to protect the most vulnerable people entrusted to their care.
• Religious communities of every stripe battle over issues of human sexuality, clergy misconduct, and the proper character of family life.

The Bible serves as a significant authority—or weapon—in these struggles, with opponents hurling Bible verses at each other. I think the multiple voices of the New Testament offer several different answers to the questions we raise about kinship and family life, and I think this very diversity may itself prove helpful for the debate. My thesis is that there are among New Testament writers broadly three ways of construing family values, dubbed for the sake of conversation apocalyptic disorientation, theological reorientation, and ecclesiastical domestication. We will consider them and ask what each contributes to our thinking about life together in the household of God and in the individual households we create within it. If the water of baptism is thicker than the blood of kinship, what does that suggest about how we live together as families?

First of all, she states that the Bible is, "a significant authority" in these struggles. Ummm. Well, for Christians, it should be THE authority.

And, this really concerns me:

"My thesis is that there are among New Testament writers broadly three ways of construing family values."

I am not even sure I want to know what THAT means.