It's Monday, May 6, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Last week, the United States House of Representatives

overwhelmingly passed legislation

known as the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act

that bill now being sent to the Senate would require the Department of Education

to apply a definition of anti-Semitism, and furthermore would instruct the Department of Education

to take action against persons

whether protesters are otherwise who may make openly anti-Semitic charges, may make use of that kind of

language, may incite that kind of anti-Semitic action.

Of course, the action itself would be dealt with in a separate part of legislation

in the Criminal Code, but it did pass overwhelmingly, and I think we can understand why there

is a widespread understanding right now that we are experiencing an outbreak of anti-Semitism

in the culture, and at least at first glance this would appear to be an action

undertaken by the United States House now being sent for consideration to the Senate and

with bipartisan support by the way it would appear to be a good faith effort to try to shut down anti-Semitism

and to label it for the anti-humanism that it is, a very clear moral statement. The problem is that legislation like

this though intended to send a very clear moral statement might not always have exactly

that effect.

And that's why many conservatives

are quite concerned about this legislation.

And that includes a good many conservative Christians

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