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Let's sharpen up.

Welcome back, fellas. This week on The Daily Blade, we are talking about

the crisis of discernment that we have in our world today. And we're using the results of the

state of theology 2025 survey by Ligonier and Life Way to bring you statements that self-described

evangelicals believe, and then we're letting the Word of God show us how we should actually think

about these topics. So yesterday, we dispensed with this idea that a majority of evangelicals

believe that people are good by nature, and today we're exploring the concept of marriage.

So many Christians and political commentators in this country see the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in the Obergfeld v. Hodges case in

2015 as an inflection point for American society, okay? So essentially this ruling requires all states and

territories under the sovereign jurisdiction of the United States of America to perform and

recognize the marriages of same-sex couples.

So, in an instant, the legalization of gay marriage changed the entire social and moral fabric of this country.

And even beyond that, it basically took the debate over gay marriage off the table.

I mean, have you noticed that?

Because, you know, politicians and social advocates, they basically stopped talking about this.

There were no more debates. If you even brought up the debate, you were seen as some sort of like crazed outsider because the American body politic had moved on from this subject.

And this entire debate actually hinges on just two questions. The first is who gets to define what marriage is,

and the second is what is the definition of marriage? And we should keep those two questions in mind

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