Catholic agency wins Supreme Court Case on gay rights: Fast thinking, slow thinking, and the omnipotence of the Spirit
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday in favor of a Catholic agency regarding gay rights. In The Daily Article for June 18, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells this story, explains why it is not as much good news as we might think, discusses other stories regarding religious freedom, and invites us to place our trust in the true source of the hope and encouragement we need.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.4 | Let's start with a quiz. The total cost of a baseball bat and ball is $1.10. |
| 0:24.6 | The cost of the bat is $1 more than the ball. |
| 0:28.6 | How much does the ball cost? |
| 0:30.6 | If you answered quickly, you probably thought the ball cost $0.10. |
| 0:34.6 | But that's incorrect. |
| 0:36.6 | If you go back and think more carefully, you'll realize |
| 0:39.6 | that the correct answer is five cents and $1.5 for the bat. Our quiz illustrates the difference |
| 0:46.7 | between fast and slow thinking. A psychologist explains that the first operates automatically and |
| 0:53.0 | quickly, with little or no effort and no sense |
| 0:56.2 | of voluntary control. However, the second allocates attention to the effortful mental activities |
| 1:02.2 | that demand it, including complex computations. We obviously need fast thinking in emergency |
| 1:08.6 | situations, or even while making routine decisions. If we're going |
| 1:13.2 | to make an important decision, however, we should switch to slow thinking. Our headline story |
| 1:18.9 | illustrates why. The New York Times announced yesterday, Supreme Court backs Catholic agency in case on gay rights |
| 1:29.6 | and foster care. |
| 1:31.2 | Fox News published a similar headline. |
| 1:34.2 | Supreme Court sides with Catholic foster agency that excludes same-sex couples in 9-0 ruling. |
| 1:41.6 | At issue was whether the City of Philadelphia could ban Catholic social services, |
| 1:46.4 | CSS, from participating in its foster program because the agency excludes same-sex couples. |
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