In the wake of Monday's shocking Supreme Court decision that essentially rewrites Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, John Stone Street welcomes to the Breakpoint podcast, John Birch of the Alliance Defending Freedom.

Birch, who argued the case on behalf of the owners of the Harris funeral home, gives his take on Justice Gorsuch's absurd majority opinion,

an opinion which, in spite of Gorsuch's denial, now expands the definition of sex in

civil rights law to include sexual orientation and gender identity. How far reaching is this

decision? What are the implications? And what does it mean for

religious freedom? Here are John Stone Street and John Birch. Well, welcome to the Breakpoint

podcast. We are going to have a conversation about one of the most significant Supreme Court

cases in this term, probably easily in this term,

may end up being one of those that has significant consequences for years and years and years

to come. If you follow Breakpoint on Tuesday, we talked about a Supreme Court decision

having to do with Employers' rights in Title VII. Something we've been discussing for a long time on Breakpoint is whether civil rights legislation

would be expanded.

Civil rights categories in the Civil Rights Act would be expanded to include sexual orientation

and gender identity.

And a decision that was released earlier this week, actually on Monday, that's exactly

what the Supreme Court did. And just really pleased here to talk to John Bersh. John is a senior

counsel and vice president of appellate advocacy with the Alliance Defending Freedom, and one of

the attorneys representing the Harris Funeral Home side of this case.

And John, I'll let you parse all this out for our audience here as we go forward.

But you argued this case, and I know you're disappointed in what we got.

And I think a lot of us are in particular disappointed.

The decision came was written by Neil Gorsuch, which says a lot of us are in particular disappointed. The decision came, was written

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