You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week

from a Christian worldview. The Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to the Obergefell

decision, legalizing same-sex marriage. So what's next? And the number of embryos now discarded

through IVF outnumbers the number of abortions committed in America each year.

We have some weighty stuff to get to this week.

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Welcome to Breakpoint this week.

From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street,

president of the Colson Center.

John, I want to start today with some legal news.

So we have kind of teased in the past couple of weeks that there was this petition

before the Supreme Court to reconsider the Obergefell decision, which created a legal

right to so-called same-sex marriage.

There was a challenge brought by a woman named Kim Davis, who was a clerk who refused to

give out marriage licenses immediately following that decision in 2014.

And the Supreme Court this week, without comment, declined to hear the case.

I don't think that was fully unexpected.

Do you think that another challenge will come?

Well, I mean, there's a long line of this. What's what happened is, is after the Dobbs decision, or in the Dobbs decision,

in a concurring opinion, Justice Thomas actually invited these kinds of challenges, saying that

there were other decisions like Roe v. Way that were decided wrongly, that extended judicial

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