Thursday, December 11, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses why Massachusetts is rethinking the legalization of recreational marijuana, a liberal argument for having kids to support the liberal movement, and inability of secularists to understand jihadist theology.
Part I (00:14 – 12:19)
- Potheads Head for the Emergency Room by The Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)
- Liberals aren’t having kids, conservatives are. That matters. by USA Today (Ingrid Jacques)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, December 11, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Over the last several decades, we've noticed a very interesting pattern. Two things have moved along one pattern in terms of social liberalization, in terms of |
| 0:24.4 | the redefinition of morality, in terms of a more progressivist understanding. In other words, |
| 0:29.8 | move it to the left. Those two issues which have grafted almost on top of each other are |
| 0:35.7 | the acceptance of same-sex marriage and the acceptance of marijuana. |
| 0:39.3 | Now, I'm not suggesting there is some kind of understandable link between same-sex marriage and |
| 0:44.4 | marijuana, except for the fact that in the timing, those two issues happen to become far more |
| 0:51.1 | liberalized, normalized in the society. And so it tells us something, at least in |
| 0:56.0 | terms of timing in the revolution and morality around us. Those two things came together. |
| 1:01.4 | But at least right now, on the issue of marijuana, there's a rethink going on. You know, |
| 1:06.0 | what were we thinking when we pressed for the normalization of marijuana use, the legalization of marijuana use, |
| 1:12.2 | when we started striking down laws and started allowing commercial cannabis operations and all the |
| 1:17.6 | rest. And, you know, one of the most interesting places that the rethinking is taking place is the state of |
| 1:23.0 | Massachusetts. Okay. All of a sudden, wait, we're talking about correlation. |
| 1:28.4 | Well, let's go back to the marijuana and same-sex marriage issue. |
| 1:31.3 | The fact is that the issue is the state of Massachusetts. |
| 1:35.7 | The state of Massachusetts, Goodrich's decision, one of the first big steps towards the |
| 1:40.9 | legalization of same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization in the state of |
| 1:45.2 | Massachusetts was what was an early development. Massachusetts was an early adopter. And Massachusetts |
| 1:51.4 | is rethinking the marijuana question right now. And it is because of what's showing up in |
| 1:58.0 | terms of health statistics and who's showing up in emergency rooms. |
| 2:01.9 | And it turns out, and this is very interesting, that one of the biggest concerns is not just |
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