It's Thursday, June 22, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a

Christian world view.

Well perhaps we can look back at the good old days when doctors practiced medicine and

lawyers practiced law, but now we have lawyers practicing medicine.

And that's exactly what took place in a federal district courtroom in Arkansas when just

a recent days judge James M. Moody Jr. handed down an 80 page ruling that struck down an

Arkansas law entitled the Save Adolescence from Experimentation Act that would have prevented

transgender treatments in particular surgery when it comes to adolescents in the state

of Arkansas.

And so what we have here is a federal judge by definition, a lawyer by trade, citing medical

consensus as if he knows what that is in striking down a law duly passed by the Arkansas

legislature and not only passed, but passed with an overwhelming affirmation after former

governor Aissa Hutchison had vetoed it.

According to the 80 page ruling by the judge and again, that's judge James M. Moody Jr.

their federal district court judge in Arkansas, he declared that the Arkansas law violates

the US Constitution and thus that it cannot be enforced by state officials there in Arkansas.

As the judge wrote, quote, rather than protecting children or safeguarding medical ethics, the

evidence showed that the prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being

of patients and that by prohibiting it, the state undermined the interest it claims

to be advancing.

Further said the judge, quote, the various claims underlying the state's arguments that

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