Thursday, March 12, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, I discuss Portland’s vote for legal protection for polyamorous families, how the push for polyamory is bigger than polyamory, the strategy of legalizing polyamory in U.S. cities, and Iranian sleeper cells in California.
Part I (00:14 – 13:40)
Portland is Now Ground Zero for Polyamory: Portland Votes for Legal Protections for Polyamorous Families – But This is Bigger Than Polyamory
- Portland advances antidiscrimination protections for polyamorous families by Oregon Public Broadcasting (Alex Zielinski)
- In the Northwest, Polyamory Finds Something New: Legal Protection by The New York Times (Anna Griffin)
A Page Out of the LGBTQ Playbook: Liberal Activist for Polyamory Reveals Gameplan – This Should Be a Wakeup Call for State Legislatures
Part III (19:55 – 26:56)
The Iranian Sleeper Cells in California? We Should Be Watchful For Iranian Threats Among Us
- Iran’s threats on U.S. soil: sleeper cells, lone wolves, cyberattacks and eerie numbers code by LA Times (Richard Winton)
- Iran may have activated ‘sleeper cells’ to carry out attacks around the globe, US officials say by The Independent (Isabel Keane)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, March 12, 2026. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.0 | Well, when you start looking at cultural change, you understand that sometimes the question is not so much what or when, but where. Location does make a difference. |
| 0:25.3 | I've often remarked upon the fact that social progressivism, leftist ideologies, tend, along |
| 0:30.8 | with alternative lifestyles, to be concentrated in cities, around campuses, on coasts. |
| 0:38.0 | That is to say, there's some predictability to this. |
| 0:41.0 | And it's one of the reasons why you add all this together, cities, campuses, coasts. |
| 0:45.3 | You're also looking at something like the Pacific Northwest, more secularized than the rest of the country, by some historical estimations, never evangelized. |
| 0:55.8 | So in other words, you look at the Pacific Northwest and you compare it to the Yankee Northeast. There is no question that in the |
| 1:00.7 | northeast there once was a very thick Christianity on the ground. Not so much in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 1:07.2 | And by the way, that's not just true of Oregon and Washington. It is also true of |
| 1:12.1 | cities across the border, including Vancouver in British Columbia. The Pacific coast is different |
| 1:17.7 | than the Atlantic coast. And thus, looking at liberal cities in the United States, two that are |
| 1:23.8 | infamously liberal are Portland and Seattle. Portland is ground zero right now for a big |
| 1:29.8 | development, big headline news having to do with Polly Amory. Now, this is one of those terms that |
| 1:35.5 | Americans are going to have to know and use more frequently, at least recognize more frequently. |
| 1:41.1 | We know the language of monogamy, which refers to a couple in their sexual and romantic |
| 1:45.7 | exclusivity. We understand that the entire premise of marriage throughout not only Western civilization, |
| 1:52.4 | but going back to Adam and Eve, are one man and one woman, the family, the natural family, |
| 1:58.5 | thus being the man and the woman and their natural offspring, |
| 2:01.5 | at least as the place you begin. But when you're looking at big news and you look at polyamory, |
| 2:06.7 | remember the word polygamy having to do generally with multiple wives. But polyamory is an even |
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