It's Friday, December 9, 2022.

I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Yesterday, the United States House of Representatives adopted the Senate-approved form of the Respect

for Marriage Act, and thus, the bill is now sent to the President of the United States

Joe Biden for Signature, and President Biden has indicated that he will sign it with predictable

enthusiasm.

Now, all of this is being celebrated as a great legislative victory by those who have

been seeking the federal approval of same-sex marriage, that is, the legislative approval,

not merely the action by the United States Supreme Court in the Obergothel decision of 2015.

But we need to recognize that this does really represent something important.

And I mean by we, those who hold to marriage as a fact of creation and also as a matter

of divine revelation, beyond that, as a matter of civilizational achievement and recognition

throughout all of known human history.

So this is a major turning point.

It is not as proponents of the legislation have advertised an urgent matter, because there

is no current case even pending before the federal courts that would challenge Obergothel.

This was a matter of political opportunism that all the sudden actually turned into legislation.

And that is acknowledged in the report about yesterday's congressional action as published

in the New York Times.

It was a democratic publicity stunt that turned out to lure enough Republicans to actually

move it towards legislation.

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