GameStop and transgender rights: The privilege and cost of courageous compassion
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Recent stories about GameStop, the Chinese government, and COVID-19 highlight the American impulse to protect the rights of minorities. In this context, today's podcast examines the Biden administration's plans for transgender rights, then we discuss the dangerous consequences for women and children and highlight Jesus' call to courageous compassion.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum. This podcast is narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.9 | Occasionally in the Daily article, I dress an issue only because everyone else is. |
| 0:25.4 | The GameStop Fuhrer is an example. |
| 0:28.3 | Without getting into financial explanations about shorting stocks that I barely understand, |
| 0:33.3 | I'll point to the part of the controversy that is especially captivating interest. |
| 0:38.2 | Little Guy investors are making huge sums of money, while large hedge funds are losing huge |
| 0:44.4 | sums of money. You may not have a personal interest in the GameStop story, but this probably |
| 0:50.0 | feels more relevant. According to CBS News, U.S. intelligence officials say Chinese government is |
| 0:57.2 | collecting Americans' DNA. A Chinese company called BGI Group is the largest biotech firm in the world. |
| 1:05.6 | It is offered to provide COVID testing services in the U.S. However, they would collect DNA from us as part of the testing protocol. |
| 1:14.4 | According to one counterintelligence officer, they wish to do so in a race to control the world's |
| 1:21.1 | bio data. |
| 1:22.5 | From the frightening to the tragic, nursing home deaths from COVID-19 in New York State may have been undercounted by |
| 1:30.0 | as much as 50%, prompting widespread criticism of the state's handling of the issue. Here's what |
| 1:36.4 | these stories have in common. They point to our God-given passion and compassion for the individual, |
| 1:43.5 | especially those who are marginalized and mistreated |
| 1:46.8 | by those in power. |
| 1:50.8 | Such compassion forms a backdrop for one of the more controversial decisions in the new Biden |
| 1:56.9 | administration. |
| 1:58.4 | Ahead of his inauguration, President-elect Biden made sweeping promises to |
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