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Breakpoint

Two Court Cases and Their Consequences

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

This week is the anniversary of two dark and pivotal cases in U.S. Supreme Court history. In June 2013, the high court ruled in United States v. Windsor that the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 violated Due Process. This essentially made the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges judgment, which redefined millennia of law on marriage, inevitable. 

Justice Anthony Kennedy unwittingly defined our chaotic age in the majority opinion for Obergefell when he declared, "The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity." 

This idea—that people can freely craft their identity independent from nature, science, and reality—is behind so much of the moral confusion of the last few years. But it has certainly not led to the "liberty" that Justice Kennedy promised. This is the opportunity for Christians to point not only to an abstract moral position, but to reality itself and to the God who made it. 

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With a woman at look at culture from a Christian worldview of John Stone Street with the point,

0:05.2

this week's the anniversary of two pivotal cases in US Supreme Court history, in June 2013

0:09.9

the High Court ruled in US vs. Windsor that the defensive marriage act violated due process.

0:14.8

That essentially made the 2015 Obergebel V. Hodges judgment which redefined millennia of

0:19.6

law on marriage inevitable.

0:21.6

Justice Anthony Kennedy defined our age in the majority opinion for Obergebel when he declared

0:25.9

this, quote, the Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach and includes certain

0:30.4

specific rights that allow persons within a lawful realm to define and express their identity.

0:36.5

It's that very idea that people can freely craft their own identity.

0:39.9

That's behind so much of the moral confusion of the last few years.

0:42.9

And it's certainly not led to the liberty that Justice Kennedy promised.

0:46.4

And that's the opportunity for Christians.

0:48.3

We not only point people to an abstract moral position, we point people to reality itself,

0:53.4

and therefore the God behind it.

0:55.0

For the call since then, I'm John Stone Street.

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