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Log on alliancenet.org and listen for more at the conclusion of today's program. Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt.

Mortification of Spin is a podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

Let's join this week's conversation.

Thank you. We're a as always by Carl Truman, who is professor at Grove City College in Western Pennsylvania.

Well, Carl, it's good to see you. We're about a week before Christmas, and here I am ensconced in my study at home, hot cup of coffee. Carl, a long way away.

I'm a hot cup of coffee, too, coffee. I see. From real genuine granules.

Yeah.

See, that's terrible.

Here you have a man from England who we all know how snobby they are about tea,

but when it comes to coffee, you're utterly, utterly a Philistine.

And so I regret that.

I regret that.

Well, Carl, big news this week. So let's see, today, it's, it's Thursday morning. And this would have been, I think, Tuesday when President Biden signed the respect for marriage act, which is, I mean, we knew it was coming.

He had promised to sign it.

But, you know, once a thing becomes official, it adds a whole new level of sobriety to it.

Of course, the respect for marriage act has been called by its critics, the disrespect for marriage act,

because it basically does away with the defense of marriage act, which was signed, interestingly

enough, by a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, which does not require one state to honor a homosexual marriage from another state.

And in that way, protects kind of the freedom of states to decide how, you know, what boundaries they want to place on marriage.

It also had some good, very good religious religious liberty protections in it, et cetera. The respect for marriage act now undoes all of that.

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