Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris,

and I'm here with John Stone Street answering your questions. They're based on breakpoint commentaries

and podcasts that we've aired over the course of the week, short courses that we've held in articles and columns

that we've posted. This week, we have a couple of questions that came in as a direct result,

as responses to some of these commentaries and broadcasts.

And I'm proud, John, I just have to say that I haven't included any political topics in here,

at least not anything directly related to the election.

So we're going to take a little breather before breakpoint this week,

at which point I'm sure we will talk again about the election.

Well, yeah, there's lots to talk about at least in terms of the confirmation hearings, which

shouldn't be a part of the election, but it certainly is, and it's been fascinating.

And I don't want to give anything away, but I'm just going to tell you, Amy Coney-Barritt has a

terrific poker face. It's even better behind a mask, but when it's not behind a mask,

she looks thoroughly disinterested, which is, of course, what you want to judge to look like.

Well, the Bain mask is kind of an unfair advantage on that front. You know, Kavanaugh had to

actually keep a straight face, but she doesn't have to do that. Well, we want to jump into the first

question here, John, and this comes to us from a public school teacher

right in your hometown in Colorado Springs. And this is a fascinating question that touches on

an issue that I think is going to become more and more contentious and important for Christians

to think about in the coming day. So I'll just read it. I'm a teacher in Colorado Springs.

And this past week, I was informed that I'm

expected to respect the preferred pronouns of my students. That is, if a biological male wants to be

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