Wednesday, April 22, 2026
4/22/202627 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
Part I (00:14 – 07:16)
A Loss for Parental Rights at the Supreme Court: SCOTUS Will Not Rule on Parents’ Constitutional Right to Know Child’s Request for LGBTQ Pronoun or Name Use
- Supreme Court sidesteps pronouns case on trans rights vs. parents rights by USA Today (Maureen Groppe)
Part II (07:16 – 18:07)
What the Government Wants the Government Funds and Legislates: The State of Colorado is Pushing the LGBTQ Revolution on Parents by Coercion
- LGBTQ+ vs religious rights: Supreme Court takes big case on preschools by USA Today (Maureen Groppe)
- Justices to Hear Case on Catholic Preschools That Reject Children of Gay Parents by The New York Times (Ann E. Marimow)
Part III (18:07 – 22:10)
Childcare is a Major Expenditure for the Pentagon – But No Government Can Replace Parents in the Home
- You Can’t Defend a Nation When Soldiers Don’t Have Child Care by The New York Times (Lisa Levenstein)
Part IV (22:10 – 26:35)
North Carolina’s Homewrecker Law: Some in Our Society Decry This Law – And Their Moral Compass is Broken
- The Homewrecker Lawsuits Rocking North Carolina by The Wall Street Journal (Elizabeth Bernstein)
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[intro music] It's Wednesday, April 22, 2026. I'm Albert Mohler, and this is "The Briefing," a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. These days, some of the most important news comes from the courts, some of the most important action undertaken by the courts, most importantly, the federal courts. And of course, there you're looking at the district courts going up to the courts of appeal, and then eventually you get to the Supreme Court of the United States. Now, from time to time, we discuss what takes place at the district court level or at one of the U.S. circuit courts of appeal. Most importantly, we look at decisions and issues as they arise at the Supreme Court of the United States, simply because that is the ultimate court of appeal. That is the Supreme Court of the United States. But as we're looking at some issues, it's also important to remember that the Supreme Court has a great deal of latitude in terms of which cases it decides to hear. The court listens to petitions, receives those petitions, and decides from a vast number of cases on appeal which cases it will take. Now, some are almost automatic simply because of their massive constitutional urgency. Others are matters of choice. The court grants in conference, and we have no access to that conference. That's entirely a private affair among the justices. The justices in conference look at the cases sent for appeal, and they take the cases