Today is Thursday, December 1st, 2022.

Welcome to the Daily Article podcast.

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

From 1 John, chapter 4, verse 4, he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

England and Wales are no longer majority Christian, according to newly released census data.

The two British nations have fallen from 59% who called themselves Christians in 2011 to 46% who did so in 2021.

The number of respondents saying they had no religion has risen from 25% a decade ago

to 37% now.

We're seeing the same pattern in the U.S.

While 90% of Americans identified as Christians in 1972,

only 64% did so in 2020. The damaging impact of this steady retreat from Christian faith and

morality is on display every day in our culture. For example, the United States Senate has passed

the so-called Respect for Marriage Act.

To protect same-sex and interracial marriage, the House is expected to approve the legislation

as early as next week. The bill will then be sent to President Biden's desk to be signed into law.

If this happens, an unbiblical and unprecedented definition of marriage

will become the law of the land by both Supreme Court fiat and congressional action. The legislation

was amended to include some religious liberty protections which critics claim codifies

discrimination on behalf of antiquated patriarchal

institutions. However, Senator Mike Lee warns that these protections do not go nearly far enough. He writes

that under the respect for Marriage Act's current language, many religious schools, faith-based organizations, and other nonprofit

entities adhering to traditional views of marriage would be at risk of losing tax-exempt status

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