A showdown in Maine that may signal the future of biological males competing in female sports.

A debate emerges over whether first cousin marriage should be legalized.

Is America moving towards a theocracy?

And a new debate over religious liberty emerges in Washington.

These are stories we'll discuss and will take some of your excellent questions.

I'm your host, Sean McDowell, joined today by Biola and Talbot Professor Thadis Williams,

sitting in for the one and only Scott Ray.

This is the Think Bivocally weekly cultural Update brought you by Talbot School Theology,

Biola University. Thad, you ready to go, buddy?

Let's do it, brother. Let's dive in.

All right, my man. As always, these are some fascinating stories.

This first one feels like it kind of signals a watershed moment we are at in some of the conversation about transgender

rights in particular as it relates to sports.

So this story was in the Wall Street Journal last week, but up until like an hour before

we recorded this, local news stories are still filling in and discussing it.

Evidently, last week, the main House of Representatives voted to censure Republican

representative Laura Libby for posting photos of a transgender high school athlete on Facebook.

The teenager who previously competed in boys boys track and field switched to compete in the

girls' pole vault this year, winning the Class B state championship.

Libby wrote, this is outrageous and unfair to the many female athletes who work every day to succeed

in their respective sports.

And again, she included a photo of this athlete.

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