Friday, April 17, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses California taxpayers footing the bill for so-called sex changes for illegal aliens, an unexpected hero in Cambodia, Trump’s blasphemy post, abstaining from Hungary’s election, using creation order to argue against women in combat, and interplanetary habitation.
Part I (00:14 – 10:16)
So-Called ‘Sex Changes’ for Illegal Aliens? California Taxpayers Foot the Bill
- California Provides Sex-Change Procedures to Homeless Illegal Aliens by City Journal (Christopher F. Rufo and Jonathan Choe)
Magawa, Cambodian Hero: Cambodia Unveils Statue Honoring Landmine-Sniffing Rat
- Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat by BBC News (Claire Keenan)
Why Didn’t You Call Trump’s Post Earlier This Week Blasphemy? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (16:23 – 20:18)
I’m From Hungary But Didn’t Vote. Should I Have Voted and Chosen the Lesser of Two Evils, Or Was It Right to Abstain? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (20:18 – 23:31)
Was It Illogical For You to Use Creation Order to Argue Against Women in Combat? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part VI (23:31 – 26:52)
How Should We View Interplanetary Habitation? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 17, 2006. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Albert Mueller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | As we are considering our responsibility in this increasingly confused age, |
| 0:19.5 | one issue of Christian responsibility is to continually ask ourselves the question, how important |
| 0:24.6 | is this? |
| 0:25.7 | Here's something that lands on our table. |
| 0:27.4 | Here's something that we hear in a new story. |
| 0:29.6 | Here's something, perhaps a fellow brother or sister in Christ, comes to us and says, hey, |
| 0:34.6 | did you hear this? |
| 0:36.0 | Sometimes you look at social media and all the |
| 0:37.9 | rest and you see just so much coming out of you. Well, what's important and what's not? Well, I think at |
| 0:43.3 | times you have to understand that there are things that land on us and you say, I think that's big. |
| 0:49.9 | You think about it for five minutes and you say, okay, now I think it's bigger. You think about it for 10 more minutes. |
| 0:55.7 | Oh, this is really big. |
| 0:57.2 | All right. |
| 0:57.5 | So here's a headline coming from City Journal. |
| 0:59.5 | And it's by Christopher F. Rufo and Jonathan Cho. |
| 1:04.0 | Christopher Rufo, very well known for exposing so much of the rot going on across the United States, |
| 1:10.4 | particularly under the category of |
| 1:12.0 | what you would just call woke. He's been incredibly effective and revealing an awful lot of this. |
| 1:16.8 | Here's the headline at City Journal. City Journal Manhattan Institute. Really credible news source. |
| 1:22.4 | Quote, California provides sex change procedures to homeless illegal aliens. |
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