It's Wednesday, May 24, 2023.

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

a Christian worldview.

We understand in terms of worldview that one of the great polarizing facts of the United

States of America is an increasing divide between believers and non-believers between those

who are Christians, and this means seriously minded as Christians in those who are

not.

What we note from time to time is the disappearance of the middle, but we also note how the media

has latched onto this in such a way that they believe that just about anyone to their

right represents something of a radical right.

And they also, and this is what's really interesting, they're also on their own making

the connection between religious belief and worldview implications.

They're noticing that those who have really strong religious beliefs, and here of course

in the United States, I mean those who in particular would be, for instance, Orthodox

Jews or traditionalist Roman Catholics or evangelical Protestants, we come at issues

very differently than those who come at the same issue from a secular perspective.

One of the other patterns in the media is, as I said, trying to describe conservatives

as the radical right and because of that second issue, the religious right.

But sometimes all that basically blows up.

And one example is an article that recently appeared in the New York Times is by reporters

Motoko Rich and Kahari Hita.

The headline is this, the religious rights hidden sway as Japan trails allies on gay rights.

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