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🗓️ 7 February 2025
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Another presidential executive order puts an end to men in women’s sports in America, at least for now. And John and Maria discuss the search for meaning and self-esteem.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, |
0:03.4 | where we're talking about the top stories of the week |
0:05.5 | from a Christian worldview. |
0:07.1 | Today we're gonna talk about another executive order |
0:09.2 | from President Trump, protecting girls' sports. |
0:12.0 | We're also gonna talk about the happiness studies |
0:14.5 | industrial complex. |
0:16.0 | What have we learned and what have we not learned |
0:18.7 | from studying human happiness? |
0:20.6 | We have a lot to get to today. We're so |
0:22.3 | glad you're with us. Stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Colson Center for |
0:28.7 | Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center. This week, |
0:34.0 | we saw another flurry of executive orders coming from President Trump as we get into the swing of his second term. |
0:40.8 | And there was a really powerful photo this week that came out that I wanted to talk with you about first here on the program. |
0:47.9 | He signed an executive order reinforcing the traditional, I think, rational interpretation of Title IX, which says that |
0:56.2 | girls sports should be for girls and that boys cannot compete in them. And the Oval Office was |
1:02.8 | completely full of girls, of female athletes. And it was an extremely powerful. I mean, |
1:09.2 | the White House released a video of the signing as well, but there was also a photo, |
1:13.9 | just of girls ranging in age from, I don't, elementary school, up through collegiate athletes, |
1:20.5 | all different sports, a lot of them wearing their uniforms. |
1:23.9 | Riley Gaines, of course, was front and center. |
1:25.6 | And President Trump called her out by name, which you could tell just meant a lot to her. |
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