It's Monday, December 12, 2022.

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

Christian world view.

Well big headline news over the weekend as American women's basketball star Brittany Griner

came home, released from a Russian prison in a prisoner exchange between the United

States and Russia, and yet as the story continued to develop over the weekend, it was really clear

there are huge problems with this story.

There is no problem with Brittany Griner coming home.

There was no question that she was harshly penalized after being arrested upon her arrival

in Moscow in order to work for women's basketball there on a professional basketball team.

There's no doubt that she was treated harshly, and by all indications singled out because

she is an American with cultural influence and basically held as a form of hostage taking.

Now she was absolutely foolish to take any form of CBD or cannabis product into Russia

and not without plenty of warning by the way, but nonetheless she was treated in a way that

can only be described as unjust.

And yet it's a complicated moral picture because she voluntarily went to Russia after Russia

had invaded Ukraine when Russia was already known for this kind of activity.

And nonetheless she was an American citizen held unjustly in Russia and the American government

and in particular the Biden administration and specifically President Biden himself took

a great interest in her case and sought to gain her release.

Now as you know there's a lot more to the story of Brittany Griner.

Brittany Griner is a former Olympian, she's a very well-known female athlete, she is also

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