The Equality Act's Cultural Impact and Our Responsibility - BreakPoint Podcast
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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We're not crying wolf with the proposed and mis-named Equality Act. Instead we're standing on the shore watching the tsunami of redefinition and rewiring of hearts, minds, and souls grow closer and closer. This version of the Equality Act presents with more support and more potential to be enacted than at any point in history. John is sounding the alarm, sharing a discussion he had with a number of educators regarding the potential cultural impact of the proposed bill.
We have discussed at length the legal aspects of the Equality Act. However, today we consider the cultural impact the Equality Act could have on our communities and families. God has placed us in a special time and specific location at this point in history. John discusses our responsibility to communicate the Gospel with the resources He has given us to address the brokenness of the world, specifically in the face of the Equality Act.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. I'm John Stone Street. There's been a lot of talking Congress and across |
| 0:04.5 | news headlines about the Equality Act. You've heard us talk about it over and over at the Colson Center on |
| 0:09.4 | Breakpoint and elsewhere. I hope you don't think that we are crying wolf about this very dangerous |
| 0:14.8 | piece of legislation. A more accurate analogy would be we're standing on the shore watching a tsunami |
| 0:20.6 | get closer and closer. And that's what we're saying on the shore watching a tsunami get closer and |
| 0:21.3 | closer. And that's what we're saying. It's getting closer and closer. In fact, this version of |
| 0:25.6 | the Equality Act is the most extreme yet, and it's the closest to being actually passable. You've |
| 0:32.5 | heard us talk a lot about the legal aspects of the Equality Act and any so-called compromise legislation, such |
| 0:40.5 | as Fairness for All. Today on the podcast, I wanted to share with you a session that I did |
| 0:45.1 | with a group of Christian school leaders and administrators about the cultural side of the |
| 0:50.6 | Equality Act. In other words, as we really ponder what it means for God to put us at this time |
| 0:55.2 | and in this place in human history, as Paul said to the Athenians, as we read about in Acts |
| 1:01.1 | Chapter 17, we have to consider what the calling is on our lives. In other words, not just how do we |
| 1:06.8 | navigate a challenge, but what's our responsibility to champion the gospel in the midst |
| 1:11.5 | of this great challenge? And that means we need to understand the undercurrents, those things |
| 1:16.9 | under the surface that are bringing the Equality Act and all of the ideas that the Equality Act |
| 1:23.3 | represents front and center in this cultural moment. Thanks for joining us today on the Breakpoint podcast. |
| 1:39.4 | I just want to say one of the things that has been a theme at the Colson Center and on our |
| 1:43.9 | breakpoint commentaries over the last several years. |
| 1:46.3 | And it applies to our conversation today about the Equality Act and sexuality and our culture and so many other things is that whenever we talk about the challenges of the moment, we as Christians, we have to do that in light of the truth of the story. We've got to do that. |
| 2:03.1 | I learned this from Cornelius Planooga, professor and a theologian at Calvin Seminary, who wrote |
| 2:09.5 | a tremendous years ago on what sin is. It's called Not the Way it's supposed to be a brevery of |
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