Thank you for joining us for another episode of God, Law, and Liberty with David Fowler,

President of the Family Action Council of Tennessee.

Every week, we are putting culture, politics, and law on a collision course with the truth of God's Word.

And now, here's David.

Well, I'm glad you've joined me for today's episode of God, Law, and Liberty. And I want to say

up front, if I do a good job with what I present today, let me encourage you then to share this episode with your

friends. And the reason I say that is not because I think I'm brilliant, but my heart is so

heavy from continuing to think about what I have read in the briefs submitted on behalf of Christian

organizations and Christian legal organizations in the case, pending before the United States

Supreme Court over Tennessee's law prohibiting medical interventions to treat a minor's

gender dysphoria.

And I touched on that last two weeks, one with the brief filed by the Ethics and Public Policy Commission that argued essentially

natural law citing Cicero and Plato and those guys.

And then last week I spoke about the brief submitted by my friends at Alliance defending

freedom and in particular the meme touting their brief that argued,

they asserted that the state has a right to prohibit these treatments.

And in particular with respect to that brief, that I agree, I think they have a right to do that.

I pointed out that the brief that I filed, and I think, is to be honest, the Christian argument

is that states have a duty to prevent the intentional sterilization of a minor child at the hands of a doctor,

even with the permission of a parent.

Because there are certain things that are fundamentally true about what it means to be human,

that no person, no doctor, no parent, and no state can countenance.

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