It's Tuesday, June 28, 2022.

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

a Christian worldview.

The Supreme Court handed down yet another very important decision on Monday,

this one on Religious Liberty.

Let's just remind ourselves, the Supreme Court term every year comes to a conclusion at the beginning of the summer.

That means at the end of June, and so every June, as the month comes to an end, we have something like an avalanche of important decisions handed down by the

nation's highest court. But in my experience there has been no June like June of

2022. Most importantly we had the Dobbs decision reversing Roe v. Wade that was handed down just last Friday.

Now we're looking at another case. In this case, the official designation of the case is Kennedy versus Bremerton School District.

As I said, this is a big win for religious liberty.

The second big win for religious liberty before the nation's highest court

in just a matter of the last several days as the

cases have been announced as decided. In this case we're looking at a high school

football coach serving on a coaching staff in one of the public high schools in the

Bremerton School District in the state of Washington.

And the state of Washington, let's just remind ourselves, part of the Pacific Northwest,

is at least a part of the most secular area in the

United States or at least one that competes with the American Northeast in terms

of secularization, low religious identification and participation.

The difference, by the way, between the American Northeast and the American Northwest

is that the American Northeast, heavily influenced by religious colonists, was at one point extremely high in terms of religious

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