It's Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025.

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

Sometimes issues are what they appear to be, sometimes there's a lot more to the issue than first appears. And that's exactly what

is the case right now. The Supreme Court of the United States is hearing what some people consider

to be a religious liberty and free speech case. I think that's true. And others see it as something

quite different. And we're talking about the case that has to do with so-called conversion therapy.

Whether or not a state can declare that speech that suggests that someone ought to have a different sexual attraction or sexual orientation,

whether that ought to be protected under the Constitution or outlawed, because those are

the two options. You can recognize that kind of speech as protected by free speech and religious liberty,

or you can come back and say, no, no, the state has the right to say, no one can ever make that

argument to anybody, and in particular, when it comes to teenagers, to minors. Okay, what we have seen over the course of the last several years,

indeed, you could say the last several decades,

is that the activists for the LGBTQ community have sought to eliminate

even any speech against their position, any kind of public advocacy.

And they do that by social pressure,

but they also have done that, at least have attempted to do that, with categories such as

hate speech. And at least on American College and University campuses, at least for a while,

they made a lot of progress, and arguably a lot of those policies, even if they're not called

that anymore, are still in place.

Just an effort to shut down any consideration, any kind of legitimate conversation.

In the professional context, this has also been something that has been pushed within the

professional societies, psychiatry, child psychiatry, pediatrics. You go down the list where these things

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