Tuesday, February 21, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:20)
Guilty of ‘Targeting’?: The Cultural Rhetoric Surrounding Those Resisting the Sexual Revolution and LGBTQ Ideology
- When Parents Hear That Their Child ‘Is Not Normal and Should Not Exist’ by New York Times (Megan K. Stack)
Part II (12:20 - 19:00)
Drag Queens Halted in Tennessee? Red State America and Bans on “Male and Female Impersonators”
- Rural Tennessee county jumps into drag show debate with new park rules by The Tennessean (Angele Latham)
Part III (19:00 - 28:24)
Restrict or Prohibit Vice? Merely Encourage Virtues?: A Debate That Reveals the Moral Confusion of Our Times
- America Has Gone Too Far in Legalizing Vice by The Atlantic (Matthew Loftus)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, February 21, 2023. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Albert Mouller and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:13.0 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.6 | Sometimes it's not just the issue itself, urgent and controversial, though it may be. |
| 0:19.9 | Sometimes the story to which we need to pay some attention is not so much the issue as |
| 0:24.9 | how the issue is discussed. |
| 0:27.2 | How the issue is shaped in cultural conversation and perhaps even more pointedly how it is |
| 0:32.3 | presented to us in the mainstream media. |
| 0:35.6 | Now in order to the fact that over the course of the last several weeks we've had to discuss |
| 0:39.8 | rather repeatedly the issue of transgender identity and the newspaper known as the New York |
| 0:45.3 | Times. |
| 0:46.8 | Over the course of the last several weeks we've had to look repeatedly at how those issues |
| 0:50.9 | have intersected, how the New York Times has dealt with these issues. |
| 0:54.4 | Not because the Times is just one of the world's most influential newspapers but because |
| 0:59.0 | it is indicative of the cultural conversation around us. |
| 1:03.4 | We saw for example just a few days ago the fact that on the front page of the New York Times |
| 1:08.1 | the paper in a very large, very extensive report raised the issue as to whether or not |
| 1:14.1 | parents should be understood to have some kind of rights when it comes to understanding |
| 1:18.9 | that the school systems in which their children are involved are affirming a transgender |
| 1:24.2 | identity and of course one of the most amazing things is number one that the article ran. |
| 1:29.6 | In one sense it's tragic but nonetheless it is surprising that it's tragic that the New |
| 1:34.7 | York Times acted as if it might be possible there are two sides to this issue but nonetheless |
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