Friday, January 7, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 08:50)
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‘Our Servicemen Do Not Give Up Their Religious Freedom When They Serve This Country: Judge Strikes Down Vaccine Mandate in Suit by Navy SealsJudge Issues Stay Against Vaccine Mandate for Navy SEALs Seeking Religious Exemption by Fox News (Jon Brown)Part III (14:10 - 24:02)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, |
| 0:05.0 | Friday, January 7, 2022. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | The Biden administration's vaccine mandate lands today at the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 0:20.0 | Today a special hearing is going to be held by the nation's highest court and at stake is the question as to whether the Biden administration has the authority through the occupational safety and Health Administration to force all employers that have more than 100 employees to require vaccination of employees or weekly testing other requirements as well. |
| 0:44.0 | This is a vaccine mandate. |
| 0:46.2 | The issue right now before the court is not the vaccine. |
| 0:49.3 | It's not the vaccine up or down, yes or no. |
| 0:52.1 | It's whether or not there is a valid constitutional authority |
| 0:57.0 | on the part of the Biden administration |
| 0:59.1 | through a national regulatory agency |
| 1:02.3 | to require employers to act in this way. |
| 1:05.0 | Immediately after the vaccine mandate was announced and even as the rule was being promulgated by OSHA, |
| 1:12.0 | there were many who were lining up to sue the Biden administration in opposition to this mandate. |
| 1:17.0 | Small businesses, organizations of businesses and employers, state attorneys general, and yes, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary joined as |
| 1:26.9 | plaintiffs in various suits seeking an injunction against the |
| 1:30.6 | Biden administration. Once again let let me make clear, the issue here is not the vaccine. |
| 1:36.0 | I have taken the vaccine. |
| 1:38.0 | I encourage the vaccine. |
| 1:40.0 | Evangelicals traditionally have been pro-vaccine even as we have been pro-medicine in the appropriate sense. |
| 1:48.0 | But there is at the same time a separate question. |
| 1:51.1 | I oppose and have opposed in the very beginning any form of mandate, |
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