Thursday, June 26, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 26 June 2025
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Summary
Part I (00:13 – 13:52)
Will a Socialist Muslim Become Mayor of New York? Zohran Mamdani Wins the Democratic Party’s Primary Race in New York
- Wall Street Panics Over Prospect of a Socialist Running New York City by The Wall Street Journal (Kevin T. Dugan, Gregory Zuckerman, and Brian Schwartz)
- The People’s Republic of New York City by The Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)
The 10-Year Anniversary of Obergefell: Obergefell was a Terrible Constitutional Ruling, and Its Ripple Effects Have Been Massive
- Roll Back Legal Same-Sex Marriage? Republicans Are Getting It Wrong. by The New York Times (Kristen Soltis Anderson)
- Resolution: On Restoring Moral Clarity through God’s Designfor Gender, Marriage, and the Family by The Southern Baptist Convention
We are Now 3 Years Post-Dobbs: Returning Abortion to the States was a Necessary Step in the Fight for Life— But Defenders of Life Must Press Onward
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, June 26, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | In politics, there are earthquakes, and there are earthquakes. What took place yesterday in New York City is a very significant earthquake. |
| 0:21.9 | It looks like the Democrats are now poised to nominate Zerun Mamdani, an open Democratic socialist candidate, a young Muslim |
| 0:28.0 | born in Uganda. He is going to be the nominee for the Democratic Party in the mayor's office |
| 0:33.3 | for the nation's largest city. Now, New York politics is always interesting, is almost never boring. |
| 0:38.5 | It is sometimes unpredictable. It certainly was yesterday. It sometimes is a bellwether for politics, |
| 0:44.1 | but in most cases, not so much for, say, a national election, but it often is an indication of where |
| 0:49.7 | things are headed in the Democratic Party. And it was the Democratic Party's nomination race in the primary that |
| 0:56.2 | was held yesterday that has made this big news. Okay, so let this sink in again. An openly socialist, |
| 1:03.1 | a Democratic socialist candidate, has been designated and has won the primary in order to be the |
| 1:10.2 | Democrat's choice for the mayoral race |
| 1:12.1 | in New York City. Now, all these words are important. Democratic Socialist, the most important |
| 1:16.1 | word there is socialist. And we're not talking about someone who's just playing around with socialism. |
| 1:20.9 | We're talking about someone who basically ran openly on what can only be described as a socialist |
| 1:26.7 | platform. So he ran on housing rights and on the |
| 1:30.9 | rights of all New Yorkers to a certain level of living, of financial support. And he was very open |
| 1:37.7 | in terms of his aims, and he got into a lot of controversies during the race, but evidently, |
| 1:42.5 | that did not prevent him from gaining the nomination. |
| 1:45.5 | He said in the course of the race, quote, a life of dignity should not be reserved for a fortunate |
| 1:49.9 | few. He said it should be one that city government guarantees for each and every New Yorker. |
| 1:55.9 | End quote. Now, there are political promises and there are promises. That's a promise that he says the city of New York, |
| 2:02.2 | that is to say the city itself should guarantee a certain level of economic dignity for every single |
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