Tuesday, May 13, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:14 - 10:35)
Have You 'Evolved' in Moral Conviction? Watching the Language of the Cultural Left, Certain That History is Moving Their Way

Will Pope Leo XIV accept LGBTQ+ people as Francis did? Here's why advocates have hope. by USA Today (Marc Ramirez)

Part II (10:35 - 19:30)
The Report on Mifepristone Has Struck a Nerve: The Left’s Response to the EPPC's Report Reveals Deadly Commitment to Abortion

Conservatives are trumpeting a new abortion-pill study. One problem: it’s bogus by The Guardian (Moira Donegan)
The War Against Manhood and the American Cultural Crisis by Thinking in Public (R. Albert Moher, Jr. and Josh Hawley)
The right’s new playbook to restrict access to abortion pills by Vox (Rachel Cohen)
Digging into the math of a study attacking the safety of the abortion pill by The Washington Post (Glenn Kessler)

Part III (19:30 - 23:29)
Blue Dots in Red States: Utah and Idaho Cities Adopt Official LGBTQ Flags to Get Around State Laws

Salt Lake City and Boise Adopt Official Pride Flags in Response to State Laws by The New York Times (Victor Mather)

Part IV (23:29 - 28:04)
Kermit the Frog, Coming to a Commencement Ceremony Near You? The ‘Who’s Who’ of Graduation Speakers Has an Embarrassing Amphibian Guest

Governors, Actors and a Talking Frog: Here’s Who’s Speaking at Graduation by The New York Times (Mitch Smith)

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, May 13, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news
0:11.6	and events from a Christian worldview. There are some patterns in terms of the way language is used
0:17.2	that betray something far more important, something far deeper, which is actually in process.
0:23.7	And in particular, as you look at the LGBTQ revolution, you look at the vast redefinition
0:28.9	of the entire moral structure in Western civilization, you understand that there are certain
0:33.4	logics that have been playing into this, certain dynamics that give a lot of energy to the
0:37.9	revolutionaries. One of those dynamics is the idea that some change in moral judgment is simply
0:44.5	the process of evolution, and that evolution is always from what should be left behind to
0:49.3	what should be embraced now. And so the entire worldview of progressivism is you've got to progress,
0:56.6	you've got to move forward, you've got to make progress from one position to another.
1:00.7	At one point, there was an understanding that homosexual behavior was sinful. But now we have
1:05.9	through progress arrived at a very different moral consensus. They make the argument,
1:11.7	and that moral consensus is going to just continue to develop in a leftward direction. So all of this comes
1:17.5	to light in graphic ways, as a matter of fact, in the recent election of the new Pope of the
1:22.5	Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo the 14th. And of course, the big question now is, how will this Pope Pope? What's he going to do?
1:29.8	What's going to be his use of the papal authority? What is going to be the direction of his pontificate?
1:35.3	What's this going to have to do with LGBTQ issues? That's one of the big, big questions.
1:40.1	And the national media can't stop asking this question. It just tells you who's obsessed with this.
1:44.9	USA Today, just yesterday, ran an article with the headline, LGBTQ plus advocates see hope in Pope Leo.
1:52.9	The subhead quote, they look to his closeness to Francis. So everyone's trying to read the situation in the Roman Catholic Church.
2:00.0	And from our perspective today, the important thing is understanding how moral arguments are made and how moral movements clash.
2:08.4	And just detecting in a very significant way what is going on here, which is this argument about progressivism, about moral progress, always from traditionalism to a brave new
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