It's Monday, May 13, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing. A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. You know, Mother's Day tends to bring out the very best in our culture

and simultaneously to bring out the very worst.

And on this Monday after Mother's Day, it's important that we look back at the landscape a bit.

And on that landscape, there's a not insignificant amount of wreckage.

And with Heavy Hearts, we do need to take a look at what we're dealing with here.

Because this is really, really important.

As a matter of fact, Christians understand that it's far more important than the world understands.

There are some very deep issues at stake here, but I want to begin

with the most troubling development I saw over the weekend. And on Mother's Day is kind of sad.

You have to talk about the most troubling development but I think you'll

agree once you understand what we're talking about the Washington Post ran a

piece going into Mother's Day entitled our daughter wanted a mommy so she

picked one of her dads.

Now the article is by Richard Justin I think you can probably figure out already

that it is an article about in this case a little girl and she was then according to the article

age three and a half who has two daddies according to the modern logic but who

wants a mommy all the other children have a mommy.

As the writer tells us, quote,

sometime last fall, our oldest daughter,

then three and a half years old,

began telling us she wanted a mom.

My husband and I, two men, this is just how it's written, quote,

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