Monday, September 12, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 12 September 2022
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 13:01)
Senate Soon to Vote on ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ — A Twisted Label that Might Shock Even Orwell Senate to Vote on Same-Sex Marriage in Coming Weeks by Associated Press (Mary Clare Jalonick)Part II (13:01 - 18:29)
A Direct Assault on Religious Liberty: The Respect for Marriage Act — It’s Time to Take Names and Recognize Which Senate Republicans Suddenly Support Same-Sex MarriageThe Senate Must Stand Together on Marriage Equality by Washington Post (Tammy Baldwin and Susan Collins)Part III (18:29 - 24:20)
‘When Did Religious Belief Become an Excuse to Discriminate?’: ACLU Officer Argues for the Undermining of Religious Liberty in the Name of ‘Equality’When Did Religious Belief Become an Excuse to Discriminate? by Washington Post (Louise Melling)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, September 12, 2022. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.7 | It was the novelist George Orwell who earlier in the 20th century pointed out that one of the ways |
| 0:20.0 | government will lie is to offer the big lie, the giant lie. And furthermore to use |
| 0:26.0 | language in such a way or to misuse language that you adopt a policy that |
| 0:31.2 | actually represents the opposite of what you entitle it. |
| 0:34.8 | Now keep that in mind when you remember that back in the month of July, the United States |
| 0:39.0 | House of Representatives under Democratic leadership voted to approve what was known as the |
| 0:44.3 | Respect for Marriage Act. Now that sounds good right? Respect for marriage act. Who |
| 0:49.1 | wouldn't want to respect marriage? But the Orwellian twist in all of this, of course, is that the legislation, most importantly, |
| 0:56.2 | legalizes same-sex marriage. Or to put it another way, it says that whatever definition of marriage a state may choose the other states must also |
| 1:04.2 | recognize. There is no question whatsoever as to the purpose of this bill. The purpose of |
| 1:09.7 | this bill is twofold, number one, to redefine marriage, the most basic institution of human existence, |
| 1:16.6 | and then furthermore to misname it the Respect for Marriage Act. |
| 1:20.8 | The ultimate insult here is to redefine or at least legislatively to attempt to redefine the most basic institution of human existence a creation order institution made by God himself in which God declared it to be a man and a woman united and holy |
| 1:37.3 | matrimony and to convert it into something else that marriage has never been throughout millennia of human history, |
| 1:44.4 | and then to have the audacity as to entitle your legislation the Respect for Marriage Act. |
| 1:50.6 | It's a profound act of disrespect, an act of disrespect that's almost gargantuan in its reach, |
| 1:56.0 | but nonetheless that tells you where we are. |
| 1:58.0 | But let me also tell you the situation's worse. |
| 2:00.0 | Because when in July, the House of Representatives took that vote, 47 Republicans |
| 2:06.8 | joined with almost all of the Democrats, indeed all the Democratic votes in the |
| 2:11.5 | House at the time, and voted for the so-called |
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