The Future of Religious Liberty in America | Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
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- In this edition of the popular podcast series "Thinking in Public," Albert Mohler talks with one of the most published scholars on religious liberty in the United States, Douglas Laycock, about the future of religious liberty in America. With experience arguing important religious liberty cases before the Supreme Court, Laycock provides valuable insight into the role of the courts in America today.
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(8:00)
Mohler: "Did you think then that there could be a recognition of same-sex marriage without a direct collision with religious liberty?"
Laycock: "Umm well I was naive..."
(40:24)
Mohler: "What do you predict 50 years after obergefell? What do you think the nation looks like on the landscape of anti-discrimination law and precedent and respect for religious liberty?"
Laycock: "I think the argument on gay rights is likely to fade away. Umm that may be another bit a naivete on my part..."
Thank you Dr. Mohler for providing this conversation. I must disagree with Dr. Laycock's understanding that the same-sex marriage issue will disappear because it does not harm anybody. That it is only a matter of time until more Americans know somebody in a same-sex relationship and come to accept it. Since people are social creatures in relationship with one another (marriage and the family being the premier social structure), our ideas about marriage and family will have wide and lasting effects. This is obvious to me, as my parents are divorced. The decision of my parents to quite on their promise to each other effects them, myself and my siblings, their grandchildren, and may even effect their great-grandchildren. God tells us this in Exodus 34:7 "...visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation." The point here being that our ideas have multi-generational consequences. So when a person marries another person of the same sex, that decision will affect every person that knows about that marriage. Most notably any person directly in that family. It will present an argument for same-sex marriage; that it is morally good and socially acceptable. But God has made it clear that same-sex relationships are morally wrong, that they prevent people from a relationship with their Creator, and that they are a sign of judgement upon a society (Lev 18:22, 1 Cor 6:9, Rom 1:18-32). You cannot build a flourishing society outside of the instruction manual. I know that there will be some reading this comment, that will reject my point because it is based upon the Bible. Thinking that it is only the ideas of a fictional belief. To them, note that the judgment of God upon a society begins with the rejection of God's authority over each of our lives (Rom 1:18). This will remain an issue because same-sex marriage deconstructs the foundation needed for a national society (along with other ideas as well). Please do not consider just the two people living in the same-sex relationship, but all the people in various parts of society and the changes required from them to accept this deconstructive idea.
Very True, and well written. Thank you.
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You can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all the people all the time. Its impossible.
That's what people don't or won't understand.
America through the Constitution and/or other governing documents already decided to protect religious freedoms and we're moving backwards in our liberty.
As a mature human being we recognize that we will not have our every desire fulfilled. (such as our cake made at a certain bakery)
We normally accept this and move on, (to another baker, in this case)accepting our differences with peace. While we may internally feel upset we should be strong enough to move forward.
Lawsuits against our fellow Americans, instead of agreeing to disagree, stirs unrest in the whole country.
As we have seen happening with the riots, death and destruction that come from BLM.
Let me add, if someone didn't want to make a cake for me, I wouldn't want my cake to be made by them.
I believe in live and let live and I think that is a better way.
You do your thing and I will do mine.
These law forcing people to against their moral principles is not going to go away. Pro-life taxpayers shouldn't have to fund abortion.
Our government & courts need to get out of the Abortion business not decide who is right and who is wrong unless they can once and for all recognize and decide that an unborn baby is a seperate human life.
If moving forward with pregnancy would cause the mother to die should be the only exception.
Let patients and doctors, insurance companies decide and let doctor and patient deal with it. Otherwise, let the patient or babies father pay for the abortion.
De-criminalize but don't make tax payers fund abortion.
Let people pay their own way.