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🗓️ 15 May 2024
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0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 15, 2024. |
0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
0:13.6 | Well, same-sex marriage has just celebrated a big milestone in the United States, |
0:17.7 | what we might call its 20th anniversary. |
0:20.6 | Molly Ball dates the onset of same-sex marriage in the United States to the first same-sex |
0:26.1 | couple that was legally married in the United States. |
0:29.2 | That would be in the state of Massachusetts on May the 17th of 2004. |
0:32.9 | So you do the math. |
0:34.1 | May 17, coming right up, go backwards, 20 years. |
0:37.8 | Same sex marriage is a new, absolutely revolutionary thing. |
0:41.9 | And even as I'm talking about this today on the briefing I have |
0:44.7 | to want to say so-called same-sex marriage. But nonetheless we are talking about |
0:49.8 | what our society has legally defined as marriage and as of the decision made there in the state of Massachusetts, the good-rich decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court, you had same-sex marriage declared to be a legal reality. |
1:03.2 | And still, you go back 20 years in 2004, |
1:05.6 | that appeared to be an absolutely revolutionary development |
1:08.8 | that it was felt at the time, |
1:10.4 | might not settle in with the American people. |
1:14.0 | But one of the things we notice how moral change takes place in the United States, |
1:17.7 | from 2004 yet to fast forward 11 years to the Obergefeld decision by the United States Supreme Court that established |
1:24.8 | same-sex marriage as the law of the land. Basically said that it is |
1:29.6 | discriminatory in an unconstitutional way to prevent same-sex couples from having access to |
1:35.2 | legal marriage. |
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