It's Thursday, December 5, 2024. I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, all lies yesterday were on the Supreme Court of the United States, where the most important case of the year was argued before the court in the

session that began yesterday and ended only after about two and a half hours of oral arguments

and interchange between the attorneys and the justices sitting on the court. So we knew this was

going to be the big case of the year precisely because so much will depend upon the outcome of this case.

When you think about the entire LGBTQ revolution, when you think about something as basic as whether or not a state can ban certain medical procedures that are intended to offer a transgender identity and further either hormonal development or, for that matter,

surgical action when it comes to a transgender child, and in particular a transgender adolescent.

At least those who identify that way.

That turns out to be one of the most crucial issues, and that turns out to be one of the issues

that from a Christian worldview perspective has to be hit directly. It has to be directly addressed,

and that is, how exactly do we understand a human being who presents him or herself as transgender?

That's the basic question before the court, whether or not it is framed that way. That is the

basic question. It is also the basic question that we as Christians have to think through in

biblical terms. And we need to think about this quickly, and we need to think about this

compassionately, and we need to think about this biblically. And what's interesting is that

all this came up even before any argument

had been made. And it came up because Chase B. Strangio Esquire, identified as an attorney from New York,

was declared when the case was argued to be the first openly transgender attorney to argue a case before the Supreme Court

of the United States. So even before we get to the case, even before we get to the particulars,

even before we get to the exchanges, the oral arguments, let's just consider the fact that this

is an historic first, someone who is very identified, self-identified, publicly identified as

transgender as an attorney making a case before the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court

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