It's Tuesday, November 15, 2022.

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

a Christian worldview.

Marriage is an institution established in creation, established by God, defined by God,

made clear in Scripture.

But it's also made clear in God's revelation in creation.

In order to shine through to the extent that, virtually every civilization throughout

the history of humanity has found its way to rightly define marriage as a union of a man

and a woman, and to privilege that relationship, especially when established in a public

covenant above all others.

Now we discussed the centrality of marriage yesterday on The Briefing because of the

new research indicating that marriage and cohabitation are very unequal in economic terms.

And we discussed the fact yesterday that that's because marriage and cohabitation are

profoundly unequal.

But we returned to the issue of marriage today out of necessity.

And that is because yesterday, the Democratic majority leader in the United States Senate,

that would be Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, indicated that he would be moving towards

the Senate voting on the so-called Respect for Marriage Act as early as Wednesday.

Thus this issue skyrockets to the top of our concern because we are talking about the

attempted redefinition of marriage.

I'm going to continue to call it that the attempted redefinition of marriage because

as we shall see, even as you're talking about something like same-sex marriage, it's

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