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Breakpoint

What the President Said About Millions of Americans

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

By linking opposition to the Respect for Marriage Act to (rightly) ostracized ideas like racism, advocates, like the president, are setting the stage for leveraging hate crime legislation and other cultural tools to criminalize dissent.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Breakpoint. Before we talk about a particularly troubling ceremony at the White

0:04.4

House this past week, I want to remind you that Breakpoint and these Breakpoint commentaries

0:08.8

are only made possible by the generosity and the prayer of people like you. So please

0:13.5

keep us in mind as you give this Christmas season. Here's today's Breakpoint.

0:19.7

This past Tuesday at a ceremony hosted at the White House, President Biden signed into

0:23.7

law, the so-called Respect for Marriage Act. The President used a lengthy speech delivered

0:29.2

beforehand to soundly denounce Indian all challenges to Indian all aspects of LGBTQ ideology

0:36.6

and activism. Specifically in a particularly striking display of anti-reason, President

0:41.8

Biden condemned opposition to sterilizing, castrating, or permanently wounding children

0:47.3

with gender dysphoria as being akin to racism and anti-semitism.

0:52.3

Unless anyone should miss the aim of this new law as more than a few voices from mainstream

0:57.4

evangelicalism clearly did, the administration invited a non-binary drag artist to celebrate

1:04.2

someone who often dances seductively in front of children. And for anyone still in the

1:08.4

dark, the White House then was lit up in the liturgical rainbow of colors that represent

1:13.2

the new sacrily sexuality. The Christians and the conservatives who dismissed all concerns

1:18.5

over what this bill really means, who claimed that it represented nothing new and contained

1:23.0

all of the conscience protections that people of faith could possibly hope for, these folks

1:27.6

should take a hard look at what the new law strong as advocates think that it means.

1:33.0

This law does not protect a pluralist society. It is more than a symbolic victory for the

1:37.6

new sexual orthodoxy. It enshrines in law and ideology of human nature that would have

1:42.5

been unthinkable just a few years ago, even among the far left. It further establishes

1:47.6

the category of recently invented rights, which will make it only harder to protect children

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