You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the

week from a Christian worldview. Today we're going to talk about a slew of recent Supreme Court

decisions and what they mean. We're also going to talk about the July 4th holiday. What kind of

country are we now 249 years later? We have a lot to get to you this week. We're so glad you're

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around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Kulson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria

Bear, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Kulson Center. John, I think it was right after we

recorded last week that we got news of the Supreme Court's decision in

MacMood versus Taylor. So I want to talk about that, but I also just want to hit a couple of

major Supreme Court decisions that have come out in the past week. It is that time of year.

So let's start with MacMood v. Taylor. This was the case out of Maryland where the public school district had for Pride Week started reading these LGBT books to elementary schoolers, assuming all the way through high school, as part of the curriculum.

And at first, when they implemented this policy, they allowed an opt-out for parents, and then they rescinded the

opt-out policy. So, an impressively diverse group of parents, including a Muslim family, a Ukrainian

Orthodox family, and a Christian family, I believe, sued. And the court really smacked down the

school in this decision. It was an impressive group of parents. And, you know, look,

on its face, it has to do with a specific issue, right, which is that kind of sex education,

which, by the way, I was speaking with Nick Eicher, who runs the world and everything in it

podcasts. I do a weekly segment on that called Culture Friday.

And we were talking a little bit offline on that. And he asked if I had actually read the guidance from the school district about what's going to happen in these classes. And it's

bad. I mean, you know, look, if you think that this stuff is not really happening to your kids,

you're just not paying attention. Now, is it the same

everywhere? No, but this was basically feeding into, you know, really young kids, things that

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