Friday, June 6, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:14 - 05:26)
SCOTUS Unanimously Says Straight Woman Can Prevail in Reverse Discrimination Suit – This is a Victory for Common Sense Interpretation of the Law and the Constitution

Supreme Court Rules for Straight Woman in Job Discrimination Suit by The New York Times (Adam Liptak)
Ames v. Ohio Dept. of Youth Services by The Supreme Court of the United States

Part II (05:26 - 17:50)
The Providence of God and the Eventual Defeat of Nazi Germany – Today Marks the 81st Anniversary of D-Day

The Man Whose Weather Forecast Saved the World by The New York Times (Nazaneen Ghaffar)
James Lee Harrington Obituary by Thomas Funeral Home

Part III (17:50 - 20:17)
How Do We Reconcile the Desire to Leave a Powerful Legacy and the Biblical Command to Humility? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part IV (20:17 - 21:55)
Does God Love People Who are in Hell? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 6-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Part V (21:55 - 24:26)
Is a Man Who Has an Unbelieving Wife Disqualified from Pastoral Ministry? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part VI (24:26 - 27:40)
What Does the Bible Say About Fishing? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

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0:00.0	It's Friday, June 6, 2025.
0:07.7	I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:13.9	Well, the court got right to the point.
0:15.8	In a unanimous ruling handed down yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that employers cannot
0:22.3	discriminate against a straight white woman and instead give jobs twice to LGBTQ employees
0:30.6	who were less qualified and that this woman could have brought and did bring an action
0:36.0	claiming discrimination. And even though lower courts,
0:38.5	including a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, had turned her down saying that a straight white
0:44.2	employee needed to meet a higher standard when it came to charging discrimination, basically
0:50.0	one that would be very hard for any plaintiff to meet. It was a unanimous decision. It was the right
0:55.2	decision. In writing for the majority, Justice Katanji Brown Jackson said that the application of the law,
1:02.4	which is in this case one of the most important civil rights laws, quote, does not vary based on
1:07.0	whether or not the plaintiff is a member of a majority group.
1:17.6	The text of the law, which is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as Adam Littek of the New York Times tells us,
1:23.4	does not draw distinctions based on whether the person claiming discrimination is a member of a majority group.
1:31.5	But as he explained, some courts have required plaintiffs from majority groups to prove an additional element if they lack direct evidence of discrimination.
1:40.6	So-called background circumstances that support the suspicion that the defendant is that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.
1:41.6	End quote.
1:46.5	Now, one of the things we need to just look at squarely here is the fact that this is a political minefield. In some sense, it's a moral mindfield. It really isn't
1:52.7	a legal or constitutional mind field. And that's why this was a unanimous decision of the
1:57.7	entire court. All nine justices agreed that discrimination in this case against this woman,
2:03.8	a straight woman for employment, when the jobs were given two different times to gay employees,
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