Supreme Court rules on gay and transgender workers: Questions about religious freedom and three biblical certainties
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JUNE 16, 2020
The US Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling yesterday on workplace protections for LGBTQ persons. Today's podcast discusses this ruling, its implications for religious liberty, and three biblical imperatives that will impact our secular culture with God's love.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.3 | An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law. |
| 0:26.5 | This is the conclusion of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's majority opinion handed |
| 0:31.5 | down yesterday. |
| 0:33.0 | The court ruled that an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII. |
| 0:41.1 | Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it unlawful for an employer to fail or refuse to hire |
| 0:49.1 | or discharge any individual or otherwise to discriminate against any individual because of such individuals' |
| 0:56.3 | race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The court, by a six to three margin, ruled that |
| 1:04.0 | sex applies to homosexual and transgender persons. When I saw the news, I thought immediately |
| 1:10.6 | about religious liberty. |
| 1:12.5 | Does the ruling mean that churches, Christian schools, ministries, and other religious institutions |
| 1:17.8 | could be forced to violate our biblical convictions regarding gender and sexuality? |
| 1:24.0 | If your church's pastor declared that he was transgender, would your congregation be able to end |
| 1:29.9 | his employment on that basis? Could a ministry refuse to hire a gay person on the basis of their |
| 1:36.3 | sexual identity? Let's discuss what we know so far. Then we'll focus on three biblical responses to this issue. |
| 1:46.8 | Jesus taught us to, |
| 1:48.8 | Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, |
| 1:51.8 | and to God, the things that are gods. |
| 1:54.8 | A free church in a free state is the biblical ideal, |
| 1:58.6 | a conviction protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. |
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