BP This Week: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and What Justice Gorsuch Hath Wrought
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet and Shane Morris discuss the long-term consequences of the Supreme Court decision in Bostock vs. Clayton County, in which Justice Neil Gorsuch stood logic and language on their head and essentially re-wrote Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. As John argues, the decision will inevitably extend to areas like education and women's sports. And as Shane relates, by equating sexual orientation and gender identity with race, the Court is putting believers in traditional sexual morality on the level with racists and bigots.
Also in this episode: A Christian pastor argues that to win the next round of the culture war, Christians will need to have more children and raise them in the faith. So naturally he got a lot of flak--even from Christians. How is this possible? John and Shane discuss.
John and Shane also take listeners' questions: Today on end of life decisions and whether monogamy is making a comeback.
And we also share a segment of author Natasha Crain's presentation at our Truth Love Together event entitled, "Teaching Your Kids Truth in a Noisy Age."
Resources:
“It’s Time for a New Culture War Strategy,” by Kevin DeYoung, The Gospel Coalition
“Supreme Court Re-Writes 1964 Civil Rights Act” by John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera
The Christian Art of Dying: Learning from Jesus, by Allen Verhey
“Teaching Your Kids Truth in a Noisy Age” a presentation by Natasha Crain
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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. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. I'm here with John Stone Street to talk about the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. I'm Shane Morris. |
| 0:19.0 | John, for a while, I was starting to complain that everything we had to talk about on this show this year was COVID-19. It was COVID-19 |
| 0:27.0 | all the time, wall-to-wall. And that's still a major story, but man, have the headlines been |
| 0:32.7 | just crammed with other stuff lately? The big story this week, I think we need to start out with |
| 0:37.9 | talking about is the Supreme Court's decision in Bostock versus Clayton County. Yeah, and look, |
| 0:45.1 | this is as big of a ground shift or as big of a decision as Obergefell was. It really is. |
| 0:53.3 | You know, Obergefell made this one probably inevitable, |
| 0:56.9 | this ruling in which the Civil Rights Act, at least Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, |
| 1:02.1 | being expanded the way that Neil Gorsuch and the majority of the court did to include sexual |
| 1:07.7 | orientation and gender identity. I mean, this is inevitable, but it's going to |
| 1:11.9 | open up a whole new world of possibilities, particularly when it comes to the rest of the acts |
| 1:16.6 | in the civil or the rest of the titles, you know, in the Civil Rights Act. |
| 1:21.3 | So for those who don't know, what happened was in a six three vote, the Supreme Court ruled |
| 1:26.4 | that titled seven of the Civil Rights Act, which was passed all the way back in 1964, and prohibited discrimination and employment on the basis of sex and race and so forth, also includes sexual orientation and gender identity. |
| 1:38.8 | So this is just an earth-shattering decision. |
| 1:42.2 | And it's not being treated as such because it's so, you know, |
| 1:45.0 | technical. It's not like gay marriage is legal like it was in Obergefell. This is something, |
| 1:49.1 | it's a technical shift. But what it does is insert soji category, sexual orientation, gender, |
| 1:54.3 | identity into the Civil Rights Act, which effectively does what liberal legislators have been trying |
| 1:59.7 | to do in Congress for over a decade now. |
| 2:02.6 | Right, through the Equality Act. In fact, on Thursday, Nancy Pelosi actually tried to run through the Equality Act through the legislature. |
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