It's Wednesday, May 7, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

It was 10 years ago in 2015 that the Supreme Court of the United States handed down the Obergefell decision

mandating legalized same-sex

marriage in all 50 states. And that was a seismic decision handed out by the nation's highest court,

and it did not come out of a vacuum. It is in a long line of liberal decisions that basically

remade personal identity, remade marriage, remade the family, and to some degree attempted to

remake gender in even biological sex in terms of legal categories. But the big point is that

that was 10 years ago, and the way the moral progressivism movement works, the way the moral

revolutionaries work, is that they work for this goal, then they achieve that, they worked for

the next goal. That was unthinkable when the first goal was announced. And then they achieved that,

they worked towards the next goal. And in their understanding of time, there's no going back. The

progressivist understanding of history is, well, it's described by the words progressivist. In other words,

they say history as a progress

going forward, and that progress in moral terms means that the old morality is forever giving way to a

new morality. The old thing marriage is the union of a man and a woman, the exclusive union,

covenant union of a man and a woman that has to give way to a legal arrangement

which says the man and the man and the woman and the woman can be the same thing.

The important thing to recognize is that even though the progressivist imagination has hold of our society,

there are signs that the imagination is breaking a bit.

So just a matter of days ago, the New York Times ran an article, a full page article in the print edition,

and the headline was a shifting tide over same-sex marriage.

Okay, here's what's really interesting.

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