Tuesday, March 12, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:42)
Ireland Votes ‘No’ to Redefine Family: Traditional Constitutional Language Respecting Family and Motherhood Prevails (For Now) in Otherwise Progressive Society
- Taoiseach says No vote in referendums would be ‘setback for Ireland’ by The Irish Times (Jennifer Bray and Shauna Bowers)
- Ireland Rejects Constitution Changes, Keeping ‘Women in the Home’ Language by The New York Times (Megan Specia)
Part II (10:42 - 18:34)
Being Radically Pro-Abortion Isn’t Enough? President Biden Criticized by Pro-Abortion Activists for Not Using Word ‘Abortion’
- Biden leaned into reproductive freedom in his State of the Union speech — but he didn’t say the word 'abortion' by NBC News (Alexandra Marquez)
Part III (18:34 - 21:56)
Say What? Actress/Singer Makes Odd Feminist Argument at Awards Ceremony
- Halle Bailey tearfully calls out invasive baby rumors: 'I had no obligation to expose him' by USA Today (Patrick Ryan)
Part IV (21:56 - 27:46)
A Real Royal Mess: British Royal Family Released Photo Intentionally Altered by Princess of Wales? What is Going Here?
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, March 12, 2024. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, the big news we're going to start out comes from Ireland, and interestingly, it's not about something that happened. |
| 0:20.0 | It's about something that didn't happen, and it's even bigger news because the leaders |
| 0:23.5 | of the country were sure that it was going to happen. So what didn't happen? What |
| 0:27.8 | didn't happen is that Irish voters did not vote over the weekend to approve |
| 0:32.0 | two constitutional amendments. |
| 0:34.6 | The government there was absolutely confident that they would pass, at least publicly so, |
| 0:39.5 | but neither of them passed and it wasn't even close. |
| 0:42.3 | And we are talking about two very interesting amendments. The first of the amendments that did not pass would have redefined the family in Ireland and it would have created a situation in which you had devotion |
| 0:55.4 | replacing what we would have to call the actual creation form of the family. |
| 1:00.1 | The family was established by Bloodship Ken Adoption and they were proposing that the definition of family just be exploded to basically any form of relationship that was defined by some kind of mutual devotion. |
| 1:14.1 | You can understand given the revolution in morality of which Ireland is now very much apart, |
| 1:19.5 | why this would be called for. |
| 1:21.6 | You're talking about a nation, historic Ireland, that has been historically |
| 1:25.0 | formed by not only Christianity, but specifically Catholicism, and yet in its recent history it has |
| 1:32.4 | voted to revolutionize that morality. |
| 1:35.0 | 2015, approving gay marriage, the nation's Teashock or prime minister is right now an openly gay man. You also have the fact that in 2018 the |
| 1:46.8 | nation liberalized its abortion laws and that was huge news that was earth-shaking |
| 1:52.4 | news because given the change on the definition of marriage in 2015 and then the change on abortion, the liberalizing of abortion laws in 2018, it's almost as if Ireland was being turned from a traditionalist morality |
| 2:07.4 | society into a very revolutionary society. |
| 2:11.5 | Now you might say that there's now an incongruity because since the |
| 2:15.0 | voters there in Ireland had moved in progressive directions on same-sex |
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