It's Thursday, February 15, 2024.

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

from a Christian worldview.

As we seek to work through cultural issues and understand them,

from the lens of a Christian worldview,

we have to keep in mind that almost always there are at least two dimensions to everything we talk about.

The first has to do with the thing in itself. What is the issue?

How should Christians understand this issue? Is it right or wrong? What does this tell us?

The second dimension has to do with the national,

the cultural conversation. Here is what the conversation about this issue tells us about where we stand

and about how our culture is thinking.

Now, we talked yesterday on the briefing, Valentine's Day then,

about arguments that seem to erupt into the public square almost daily now having to do with the fact that

for example marriage is unnecessarily privileged and you should redefine marriage or redefine at least the culturally acceptable and say tax break supported financially incentivized arrangements that human beings might come up with.

And this is what you see in an age of moral rebellion. You have

rebellion against the structures of creation. You have a continued rebellion against marriage. And the argument we looked at

yesterday that was after all published in the Washington Post

actually called for single people who are single by choice basically to be recognized as having the same rights as a merry

couple.

That's absolute nonsense, but that also tells us something.

We're living in the age of absolute nonsense.

Now, that proposal is not likely to be translated into law any time soon, but it did. Now that

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