It's Friday, February 10, 2020-3.

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

a Christian worldview.

Christians are very aware of the fact that there is a concerted effort to subvert the family,

to redefine marriage, to redefine the relationships between parents and children, and indeed,

we're looking at the unfolding and unwinding of the moral revolution around us, we recognize

that at least virtually nothing untouched.

And of course, we look at other developments on the left, including identity politics,

extreme ideologies, but here's what we need to note.

There is subversion from the family that is not coming from the left.

Indeed, arguably by some definitions, it is coming from the right.

Now, I want to be clear, these sources are not conservative, but they are on the right

side of the political equation.

Indeed, I think even many conservatives, including Christian conservatives, would say that

at least some of these organizations and institutions are actually conservative, but

they are not trying to conserve marriage.

Indeed, what we need to note is that we are now looking at a significant fracture in what

had been, at least referred to, is the conservative coalition of the last six or seven years.

When you look at the rise of the conservative movement in the United States, particularly

in the 1950s and beyond, there were three basic components.

There was big business, corporate interest on the one hand, and then there were libertarians

who had a basic instinct towards small government and a very clear resistance to big government,

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