Telling SCOTUS to Think Like Enlightenment Philosophers. Really? [God, Law, and Liberty]

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

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This week friend of the court briefs were filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on a case out of Tennessee that is of civilization defining importance—whether bodies are essential to human meaning. David briefly explains the brief he submitted and compares it to one filed by the scholarly Ethics and Public Policy Council with its Judeo-Christian ethic. He explains why the latter’s brief seems to call for a return to good old bad days of the Enlightenment that undermined biblical Christianity and ushered in nihilism.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for another episode of God, Law, and Liberty with David Fowler,
0:08.0	President of the Family Action Council of Tennessee.
0:11.0	Every week, we are putting culture, politics, and law on a collision
0:15.4	course with the truth of God's word. And now here's David.
0:21.8	I'm glad you have joined me for today's episode of God Law and Liberty and I think we're
0:29.1	going to have a quite interesting, informative, and educational program today because this week on
0:38.7	October 15th, the MECAS briefs, which are colloquially unknown as friend of the court briefs, were filed in the United
0:46.9	States Supreme Court in a case that I think is of civilization defining importance.
0:56.4	And we're going to talk about some of those briefs today, but quite literally,
1:02.4	the whole of the Western legal tradition is on the scales of justice.
1:09.0	And we'll find out next June, probably June 30th, what will become of this case.
1:19.4	And I wrote in my commentary last Friday, and if you'd like a copy of it you can email me or go to the
1:26.1	website fac. Tennessee.org and under commentaries you'll find it. But I wrote that it's the most significant case of
1:36.3	human meaning of anthropological weight since the court's 1857 decision in Scott versus Sanford, where the court
1:46.9	said slaves and descendants of slaves were not U.S. citizens under the Constitution because at that time they were considered
1:57.0	quote a subordinate and inferior class of beings. And in this case will establish for potentially decades to come what it means to be human.
2:16.0	And it comes out of Tennessee, interestingly.
2:18.0	Although there are multiple states that have passed statutes like the one I'm going to describe. The case that got to the court
2:24.8	is from Tennessee. And it's focused on whether a Tennessee statute prohibiting medical interventions, not counseling, but medical interventions for minors.
2:42.0	Suffering from an incongruity between their bodies and their subjective experiences related to gender is constitution.
2:51.8	In the Department of Justice has intervened in this lawsuit against the state of Tennessee on the
2:59.2	ground that the state law that prohibits these medical interventions for these minor children violates the 14th
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