It's Thursday, May 30, 2024.

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

We just recently discussed the fact that the first legal same-sex marriages in the United States

took place just about 20 years ago, thus on the pro-same-sex marriage side, they're talking about the 20th anniversary of

legal same-sex marriage in the United States.

But even as we think about this, I want us to think for a moment about what this means in generational terms.

Because it's really helpful that USA Today put out an article of the headline, quote,

millennials reflect on 20 years of same-sex marriage. This is speaking of the generation now of young adults and the point is this.

For most of them, certainly for many of them, they've never known a time other than a time of legalized same-sex marriage.

And here's where Christians need to understand that this is underlining something very

basic and that is the fact that the law is a teacher.

And so this is a generation that has been taught

from the moment they've understood what marriage is,

that marriage is not exclusively

the monogamous union of a man and a woman, but can be the union of a man and a man or a woman and a woman.

Now, unsurprisingly, here's the thing to note.

The vast majority of the young adults in this generation say that they are positive when it comes

to same-sex marriage. They're pro-same-sex marriage. Here's where Christians need

to understand exactly what God spoke to Israel in terms of the importance of the law. The law is not just

a restraining force, the law is not just God's moral command put into

propositional form, the law is a teacher.

And regardless of what the law is in any society,

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