Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Monday, December the 19th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

God's word says in Philippians 3, 8, and 9, that I may gain Christ and be found in him.

Dave Ramsey, one of the most popular financial advisors working in media today,

is a committed evangelical Christian.

As a result, his company, Ramsey Solutions, seeks to govern itself by biblical guidelines.

Now, according to USA Today, the company is facing a federal lawsuit filed by a former

employee who accuses the company of discriminating against her when she was fired after company

executives learned she was pregnant and unmarried. Kent Greenfield, a professor of constitutional

law and corporate governance at Boston College,

frames the issue, and I quote,

you've got this inevitable tension and conflict between a broadening engine of equality and the right to be free from discrimination.

On the other side, there's this First Amendment theory that's increasingly attentive to the rights of individuals and companies.

End quote.

The question is both simple and profound.

Do Christians have the same right to free speech as sexual freedom advocates?

What do we do when each side accuses the other of discrimination?

When religious liberty conflicts with

sexual liberty, who wins? In the Court of Public Opinion, the issue has already been decided.

In one survey, by age 44, 95% of Americans had had sex before marriage, even though studies show that those who wait to have

sex until marriage report significantly higher relationship satisfaction and less consideration

of divorce. And 71% of Americans now believe same-sex marriage should be valid while 28% disagree, an almost mirror image of our views in

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