Tuesday, June 20, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 14:42)
What Punishment Fits the Crime? The Pittsburgh Tree of Life Shooter Found Guilty of Horrific Crimes, Raising Debate Over Capital Punishment
- Gunman guilty in shooting deaths of 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue by USA Today (Jeanine Santucci)
- Almost all Louisiana death row prisoners ask John Bel Edwards to spare their lives by Picayune Times (James Finn)
Part II (14:42 - 16:40)
To Censor or Not to Censor Explicit Material of Children on Social Media? — That is the Question Advocates and Allies of the LGBTQ Revolution Are Reluctant to Answer
- The EARN IT Act poses risks to LGBTQ communities online, advocates say. Here's how by USA Today (Ella Lee)
Part III (16:40 - 23:13)
You Can’t Make This Up: Anheuser-Busch Accepts Lead Marketing Award at Cannes Event After Trans Marketing Disaster
- After Bud Light Debacle, AB InBev Takes a Bow at Ad-Biz Oscars by Wall Street Journal (Katie Deighton)
Part IV (23:13 - 27:04)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, June 20, 2023. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.3 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.1 | Crime and Punishment is not only the title of one of the most famous novels of modern times, |
| 0:19.9 | it is also one of the oldest dramas of human experience. |
| 0:24.4 | Crime and Punishment brings out all the deepest questions of morality, of the essence of truth, |
| 0:31.4 | and the nobility of right and wrong, and, of course, going back to another artifact |
| 0:37.5 | of the modern world, it has to do with the relationship between crime and punishment. |
| 0:43.5 | As in the words of the Maccato, the punishment should fit the crime. |
| 0:47.7 | The punishment should always fit the crime, but that's where we get to some very contested |
| 0:52.0 | issues in the modern age. |
| 0:53.9 | All that comes to light in a decision handed out just in recent days in a Pennsylvania |
| 0:58.4 | courtroom, where in a US district court last week, a gunman who had killed 11 worshipers |
| 1:04.6 | in a Pittsburgh synagogue was found guilty. |
| 1:08.0 | And he was found guilty on 63 federal counts. |
| 1:11.8 | 11 of those counts were 10 amount to murder. |
| 1:14.8 | And the fact that this was in a federal district court rather than in a local Pennsylvania state |
| 1:20.0 | jurisdiction, that turns out to be very important. |
| 1:23.7 | And one of the issues that underlines that importance is the death penalty. |
| 1:28.2 | A similar situation has come up in other prosecutions, where you have a state that either doesn't |
| 1:34.6 | have the death penalty any longer or practically will not apply the death penalty any longer. |
| 1:40.6 | And then you have federal authorities who say, let us try the case. |
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