Thank you for joining us for another episode of God, Law, and Liberty with David Fowler,

President of the Family Action Council of Tennessee.

Every week, we are putting culture, politics, and law on a collision

course with the truth of God's Law, and Liberty. I'm delighted to have you with me.

And today I'm going to head off in a little bit different direction from what I've been pursuing the last few weeks,

because I know a lot of Christians who are worked up about the upcoming presidential election,

and about any number of things going on in politics closer to home and I get that

Ran for the state Senate in 1994 because of what I saw going on around me and what it looked like my then six-year-old

daughter would inherit, though sadly things are now worse.

But anyway, and that same thing really flooded my thoughts when I decided 12 years later to leave the Senate

because gay marriage was on the rise in places in my own state possibly, and I wanted to make sure that a pending amendment to our

state constitution in support of marriage would pass on the ballot and that's

what began the last 17 years of my involvement in state politics outside of elected office.

So today's podcast comes out of really a reflection on my own experiences of angst, frustration, anger, discouragement, most notably over the last decade following

the US Supreme Court's decision on marriage in 2015, Obergefell versus Hodges.

And to be honest, it was just this week.

And then I put my finger on what I think is the real deep rooted cause of those unwanted emotions.

And it follows a conversation ahead with a friend who recently attended a large gathering of leaders from Christian policy and legal organizations from around the country.

And one of the things he told me that drove me into a

further reflection that I think I've ever gone before was that the facilitator

of one of the sessions a leader for the host organization,

asked those present what kept them up at night.

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