Friday, June 2, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:08)
Target Has Redefined its Business Model to Force Its Consumers to Make a Choice: Will They Support the LGBTQ Revolution Or Not?
- Combative Consumers Change the Marketing Strategy for Target and Bud Light by Wall Street Journal (Katie Deighton and Patrick Coffee)
- Target may have 'lost control of the narrative' as financial losses, LGBT anger mounts: consumer researchers by Fox News (David Rutz)
Part II (10:08 - 13:48)
Should Christians Do Business With Companies Who Support Causes We Cannot? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part III (13:48 - 17:25)
How Should Protestant Christians Think About the “Incorruption” of a Nun? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (17:25 - 19:52)
Should Christians Just Accept the Inevitability of AI Technologies to Get Ahead of the Curve? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (19:52 - 24:53)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, June 2, 2023. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.1 | a Christian world view. |
| 0:13.9 | Well once again we're coming to another American corporation in big headlines, big controversy |
| 0:19.0 | in this case of course, we're talking about Target. |
| 0:22.2 | We're talking about the company that has in recent weeks made itself infamous by pushing |
| 0:27.3 | gay pride month and gay pride month merchandise and even in advance of June 1st and the opening |
| 0:35.2 | of what's now declared by so many in the culture to be pride month, a great victory as we |
| 0:40.3 | shall see by LGBTQ activists. |
| 0:42.9 | The reality is that Target has found itself in very hot water with its consumer base. |
| 0:48.8 | The company according to recent reports has lost, get this $12 billion worth of value |
| 0:55.9 | just in terms of the controversy over its pride month merchandise. |
| 1:00.0 | And without going into any kind of graphic account, let me just tell you that what was being |
| 1:06.1 | featured for children, teenagers and adults in this section was nothing less than absolutely |
| 1:12.6 | abhorrent and absolutely scandalous. |
| 1:15.4 | It included, I'm simply going to say swimwear that was intended to make possible a transgender |
| 1:22.2 | identity. |
| 1:23.9 | And even as that merchandise, the company says it was directed only at adults, that wasn't |
| 1:28.2 | at all clear. |
| 1:29.8 | And frankly, that's not the only moral issue at stake here. |
| 1:32.6 | We're talking about this major American retailer, which has branded itself as a family friendly |
| 1:38.3 | retailer, basically entering into the LGBTQ activism to the extent that when you walked |
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