Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Tennessee’s law prohibiting various medical interventions on behalf of minors who think their bodies should align with their conception of their gender did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The case was United States v. Skrmetti.
We should be thankful that for that result.
Diving Deeper from a Christian View of Law
But is the result all that Christians should care about based on a Christian view of law?
For example, what did the Court say about the proposition that a distinction between gender and biological sex is a lawful way of understanding what it means to be human? Are cisgendered and transgendered real categories of human meaning? Is misgendering a real category of human meaning such that it could be declared wrong?
Should Christians care about answers to the foregoing question? Or should they rest content with the proposition approved by the Court that some states may look at the science and choose a different conception of human meaning from the one chosen by Tennessee?
How You Can Dive Deeper
My evaluation of the Court’s decision with respect to the preceding questions was published last week. It can be read at this link. The audio is above.
I think you will find the quotations in it from the amicus brief (friend of the court) I filed with the Court in the case very thought provoking. I believe it is consistent with the Christian view of law I have been propounding.
On Friday, look for my thoughts from Scripture on how only a Christian view of law will keep our thinking about law and public policy and our political engagement from being in vain.
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