It's Monday, May 22, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a

Christian world view.

State by State there have been so many headlines these days on issues of extreme moral and

cultural importance, but right now the most interesting headlines probably coming from the

state of Nebraska.

On Friday, an impasse was finally broken in the unit camera in the Nebraska legislature.

That is to say that a Nebraska legislature doesn't have a house in a Senate.

It has only one chamber rather than by camera meaning to its unit camera meaning one.

There's a Republican majority and that majority have been working towards passing legislation

that would restrict transgender treatments for teenagers and children and also would offer

protection for unborn life.

The latter provision ran into a legislative problem when at least one of the Republicans

who had been expected to vote for the bill said that he would not and he offered his

rationale.

The fact that some women might not yet know they are pregnant even as the limitation

on legal abortion had already passed.

Now put that moral argument aside for just a moment we will return to it.

The big issue here is the political impasse and in a stroke of what one side we consider

genius and the other side we consider perhaps deviousness or political expediency.

The pro-lifers and those seeking to put a limitation or a ban on transgender treatment for

minors put the thing together in one bill.

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