BP This Week: And Then the Statues Started Coming Down
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet and Shane Morris discuss the events of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. Combine outrage with historical ignorance and a lack of context, and you start witnessing mobs tearing down statues--even statues of those who fought slavery and injustice, like Abraham Lincoln and U. S. Grant. John and Shane discuss the implications for nation
They start the broadcast, however, with more thoughts on the seismic shift in religious freedom brought about by the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Bostock. Yes, protections remain for religious institutions, but religious individuals have been thrown under the bus.
Also today, Idaho has passed a law to protect female athletes at public schools and colleges from competing against biological males identifying as female; the insanity of the transgender movement; listeners' questions answered on Bostock and on assisted suicide; and a clip from Shane Morris's BreakPoint Podcast interview with Pastor Randy Smith, host of the "America's Parks" YouTube channel.
Resources:
“The anti-statue movement has taken a turn into absurdity,” by Henry Olsen, Washington Post
End of Life Care, a Colson Center Short Course session with Dr. Ben Mitchell
“Equal opportunity for thee, not me,” by Mary Jackson, WORLD Magazine
“The Glory of God’s Creation–And America’s National Parks,” BreakPoint Podcast
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| 0:00.0 | This is Breakpoint this week, a weekly briefing on faith, culture, worldview, and mission with John Stone Street, President of the Colson Center for Christian World View. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. I'm Shane Morris, and I'm here with John Stone Street to discuss the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. |
| 0:19.8 | John, we've got a bunch of different |
| 0:21.0 | headlines and articles we want to get to today, but probably the one with the most |
| 0:24.8 | far-reaching consequences, which we've continued over the past week to talk about here at the |
| 0:30.0 | Colson Center is the Supreme Court's Bostock decision. We actually ran a commentary earlier this |
| 0:35.3 | week in which you talked about the seismic implications of the |
| 0:39.3 | decision and how further down the road we're going to see all sorts of consequences unfold |
| 0:44.2 | at a legal level and also on a cultural level from the inclusion of SOG categories in Title VII |
| 0:52.3 | of the Civil Rights Act. Yeah, and it's really on two fronts, I think, Shane. |
| 0:56.5 | The first front is, you know, folks like David French are saying it's not that big of a deal. |
| 1:00.0 | There's really strong religious freedom protections. |
| 1:03.8 | Let's just be clear what we're talking about. |
| 1:05.5 | There's really strong religious freedom protections and other statutes and laws, RFRA, and other places, for religious |
| 1:12.7 | institutions, for churches, for Christian nonprofits, what there's not good protections for |
| 1:18.6 | are, first of all, nonprofits or religious educational institutions that take federal dollars. |
| 1:24.9 | Now, we could debate on whether they should have taken federal dollars, |
| 1:27.9 | but that cat so far out of the bag, it's not going to be put back in. This will affect the vast |
| 1:32.3 | majority of Christian colleges and universities. Eventually, there won't be any sort of way to prevent |
| 1:38.9 | Title VII implications in this case from being applied to Title IX. And Title IX has everything to do with educational access on the basis of sex, |
| 1:47.6 | which includes sports teams and it includes, you know, all kinds of other things, |
| 1:51.7 | as scholarship opportunities, dorms, housing, facilities, and so on. |
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