It's Tuesday, February 10, 2006.

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

Okay, a couple of quick observations. Sometimes things happen altogether.

And that's just the way things happen sometimes.

And it's because of interconnection.

Sometimes it's just random development.

Sometimes, no, this really is a cluster event.

And right now on the trans issue, we have a cluster event or set of events to talk about.

The other observation is that when something like this

is happening here in the United States, it is almost assuredly happening somewhere else as well.

And sometimes the general truth is that what happens in the United States is most important

than what happens elsewhere. In other words, it affects other nations. But it works the other

way, too. And American Christians need to

understand that sometimes things that take place in other nations, even in other courts and other

political systems, can eventually find their way here. In argument, if not necessarily quite yet in

policy. All right. I want to talk about that because of something is going on in Brazil.

Headline coming out of Brazil, the Wall Street Journal, Brazil criminalizes transgender descent.

So one of the things we have to be aware of is the fact that when you have a giant moral argument, which is, as Christians understand, it's even more basic than moral because we're talking about an ontological argument.

It's an argument about reality. Reality is in male and female, boy and girl. When you get down to the debate on that kind of issue, you see a society begin to get polarized almost immediately.

Now, that's not to say that everyone is connected at one of the polls.

It is to say that the polarities define the issue.

So let's just put it bluntly.

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