It's Tuesday, June 21st, 2022.

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

from a Christian worldview.

We look at all the different moral revolutions of our time and yet one of the most fundamental

is often neglected and that goes back to the issue of divorce long before the Supreme Court

and the Moral Revolutionaries redefined marriage from being the union of a man and a

woman to being a union of a man and a man or a woman and a woman even before all the different permutations of the sexual revolution that have taken place.

Basically it was the divorce revolution that started a great deal of this.

And it can be argued the divorce revolution

was as fundamental as we can imagine because it redefined marriage from

being a lifelong institution that is is a commitment, a covenant, uniting a man and a woman

in an exclusive marital relationship to something that was no longer till death do we

part to a more recent legally accommodated for so long

as we both agree we want to be married.

Now that was a fundamental redefinition of marriage.

So I think you need to understand is this.

If you were to go back to the early 20th century, every single historic Christian church, every

single one absolutely condemned divorce, said that it was contrary to the nature of marriage and to the purpose of God and to the responsibility of society every single church and denomination you could could say worldwide, but let's just say in the

Western world was unanimous on that issue. Now those churches recognize, even as the

scripture recognizes, a very narrow justification for divorce on the basis of, say, adultery or abandonment or false pretenses.

In other words, there are some marriages that are actually ruled never to have been marriages

legally.

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