It's Thursday, April 4th, 2024.

I'm Albert Mober and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

worldview. Well for good

reason there's a lot of attention being paid to Scotland's new hate crime law and

one of the reasons this is being discussed so much in the media is because the author JK Rolling has put herself

right in the middle of the controversy and thus she becomes a part of the story and actually

a rather important and illustrative part of the story.

You may remember that JK Rolling has been in trouble with the cultural left in recent years because

she is pretty clear she knows what a woman is as compared to a man.

She's pretty clear that that's an objective

fact and that has put her right into direct collision with the transgender

revolution and even if she has been threatened and there have been attempts to cancel her to boycott her and all the rest,

the reality is that she has the cultural standing that she can fight back against the bullies.

And that's exactly what she's doing and right now the government of Scotland has become the chief bully. the and in particular her causes women. She is a feminist and that means she's not a part

of the cultural right at all. She's actually a part of the cultural left but she's a part of

the cultural left that still has some sanity left. So let's just leave JK Rolling for a moment. We'll come back to

her. Let's talk about what has happened in Scotland that sets the stage for

this controversy and trust me it is one worth watching. Well Scotland, a far more progressive or liberal society

than most Americans probably think, Scotland has adopted what has been

known as the Hate Crime and Public Order Act,

and it went into effect Monday.

So that's why this story is so current.

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