It's Monday, March 18, 2024.

I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

I want us to think for a moment today about the fact that many of the issues of our

contemporary debate emerge from somewhere else, and by somewhere else I mean in a specific

case outside the United States of America.

There are other places where many of these issues arise and there's a very clear pattern.

Clearly there is American influence in Europe, there's also European influence in the United States,

particularly in the cultural elites or in the United States, the elites are incredibly

impressionable when it comes to European opinions. And when it comes to European opinions and when it comes to

European secularization and the far more liberal culture you find in many if not

most European nations as compared to what you find in the United States or much of the

United States. Quite frankly there are a lot of people in Hollywood and Manhattan and

elsewhere who would be far happier if the United States had the culture of a nation like France that you'll recall

just put abortion rights in the nation's constitution a matter of a few days ago.

But I think it's important that we actually look at France for a moment and

let's just remind ourselves that is what happened a few days ago. The French,

even though there was no threat to abortion rights anywhere in the political horizon even though

conservatives as they styled themselves in France supported the proposal

there was no threat to abortion.

Emmanuel Macron the French president grandstand did by saying that abortion needed to be put in the Constitution as abortion rights.

By the way, it is interesting to note that the French, though they want to be oh so progressive on so many issues, still

apparently in a characteristically French way, are certain they've got a pretty good idea

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