Tuesday, November 11, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses SCOTUS’s declination to take case that could have led to overturning of Obergefell, SCOTUS’s allowance of Trump’s transgender passport policy, and the 16 states suing the Trump administration over ‘morality of harm.’
Part I (00:14 – 06:10)
Supreme Court Declines to Take Case That Could Have Led to the Overturning of Obergefell: But This Does Not Mean SCOTUS Won’t Take Up the Issue in the Future
Part II (06:10 – 11:51)
Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration’s Transgender Passport Policy to Proceed: Just Look at the Arguments
- Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump Transgender Passport Policy by The New York Times (Abbie VanSickle)
No, Biological Designation is Not Meaningless and Useless: The LGBTQ Argument on Gender Identity Reveals the Ideology
- The Ruling About Passports Isn’t About ID. It’s About Social Control. by The New York Times (M. Gessen)
16 States Sue the Trump Administration Over ‘Morality of Harm’: Christians Certainly Care About a Genuine Morality of Harm, But That Cannot Be Defined by LGBTQ Ideologies
- US judge to block Trump directive to cut ‘gender ideology’ from states’ sex ed materials by USA Today (Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, November 11, 2025. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Sometimes on a daily basis, the big news is something that happens. |
| 0:17.0 | Sometimes the big news is something that didn't happen. |
| 0:20.0 | And the category of big news about something that didn't happen. In the category of big news about |
| 0:22.4 | something that didn't happen is the fact that yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States |
| 0:27.4 | did not decide to take up a case that was a direct challenge to the Obergefeld decision of |
| 0:33.8 | 2015 legalizing same-sex marriage. So why is it news that something didn't happen? |
| 0:40.9 | It's because the way the Supreme Court works is that the court has to decide whether or not it's |
| 0:46.4 | going to take a case. That is not an automatic case. If it's going to take a case and decide to |
| 0:51.7 | take the case, at least four justices have to agree |
| 0:55.6 | that the Supreme Court is going to move to accept the case and then to move towards arguments |
| 1:00.6 | and then oral arguments and then an eventual Supreme Court decision. So it is news when a case |
| 1:07.7 | is appealed to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court either does or doesn't |
| 1:12.2 | decide that it will accept the case. In this case, the big news is that the Supreme Court did not |
| 1:17.3 | decide to take this case. There have been previous comments. I think the most interesting of those |
| 1:21.6 | comments was made by Justice Clarence Thomas back when the court handed down the 2002 decision reversing Roe v. Wade, reversing the |
| 1:31.1 | abortion decision. The infamous Roe v. Wade decision was overturned, and Clarence Thomas, |
| 1:37.0 | in a concurring opinion in that case, went on to say that the same process of review and |
| 1:42.8 | reversal should apply to Obergefell, largely because it was |
| 1:46.6 | argued along the same lines. So Justice Thomas was saying, if Roe can't stand, then Obergefell |
| 1:53.1 | shouldn't stand either. I think that logic is absolutely right. But I think it's also important |
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