Friday, December 12, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses an LA city council debate to allow racial slurs and gutter language in hearings, the Democratic Party governors vying for their party’s presidential nomination, and he answers questions about if donating eggs to a gay couple is sinful, responding to a friend who has become antagonistic in his Roman Catholicism, and a if views on homosexuality are dangerous.
Part I (00:14 – 06:24)
- Inside the First Amendment fight over how Los Angeles polices words by USA Today (BrieAnna J. Frank)
Part III (10:11 – 11:57)
Part IV (11:57 – 16:26)
Part V (16:26 – 27:58)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, December 12, 2025. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | The City Council in Los Angeles has moved to ban certain language, |
| 0:19.0 | certain offensive language, certain offensive slurs, which had become |
| 0:24.5 | common in the rather riotous debates that have taken place there during the meetings of the |
| 0:29.9 | city council. The city council has moved to ban certain of those words. I can't tell you what |
| 0:36.3 | they are. USA Today doesn't tell us what they are. |
| 0:39.2 | I don't particularly need to know what they are, and I probably wouldn't share them if I knew them. |
| 0:43.2 | The point is that the City Council in Los Angeles has found some words beyond acceptable use. |
| 0:49.3 | They're simply outside the pale when it comes to meetings there of the City Council. |
| 0:56.3 | Okay, so that might make sense to you. It might also sadly make sense to you to know that there's pushback on this with |
| 1:01.3 | people claiming that this is an infringement of their First Amendment free speech liberties. |
| 1:06.8 | As Brianna J. Frank reports our USA today, quote, the ban sparked a First Amendment debate over whether a person's right to use offensive and hateful language at city council meetings impedes on others' rights to be heard on issues affecting them at governmental meetings. |
| 1:22.3 | End quote. Now, this came up partly because at one particular meeting of the city council, you had some people being honored, |
| 1:28.7 | others were being recognized, and this included children from area schools, and they were subjected |
| 1:34.5 | to hearing these things, shouted. And again, we don't know what they were, but evidently they're |
| 1:39.1 | bad enough. I think that tells you a whole lot. They were bad enough to get the city council |
| 1:43.4 | there in Los Angeles to move to ban them. |
| 1:46.3 | And yet, you've got the free speech absolutus on the other hand who are saying that it is the right of these people to say whatever they want, |
| 1:54.5 | not only also at, but particularly at meetings of the Los Angeles City Council. There's a line here that I find very, |
| 2:02.3 | very interesting. We're being told that in the view of some, this represents a right to be heard |
| 2:08.2 | on issues. I just want us to notice where we are as a culture, as a civilization. Obviously, |
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