Wednesday, April 3, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Christianity, 881944, Sbts, Christ, Jesus, Bible, Commentary, Religion & Spirituality, Culture, Preach, Truth, God, Mohler, Albert, Seminary, Scripture

4.8 • 7.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

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

Part I (00:13 - 10:17)
A Big Win for Life in Florida, For Now: State Moves to Enact 6-Week Abortion Ban, But Will It Be Overturned by a Pro-Abortion Constitutional Amendment in November?

Part II (10:17 - 16:25)
Your Position on Abortion is Tied to Your Position on LBGTQ Issues — Just Take It from the Words of Planned Parenthood’s President and Commentators at CNN

Part III (16:25 - 20:20)
No, Adultery is Never a Laughing Matter: Massive Moral Shift Reveals Sad State of Marriage in Our Society

Attention, New York Adulterers: Your Sin May Soon No Longer Be a Crime by The New York Times (Erin Nolan)

Part IV (20:20 - 25:47)
More Evidence of a Society Losing Its Mind: Why Washington’s New Law Enacting Protections for Sex Workers is Doomed to Fail

A Look at Washington State’s ‘Strippers’ Bill of Rights’ by The New York Times (Aimee Ortiz)

Sign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning.

Follow Dr. Mohler:
X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

For more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu.
For more information on Boyce College, just go to BoyceCollege.com.
To write Dr. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go here.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024.
0:07.5	I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian
0:12.2	worldview.
0:14.0	Well, let's just give ourselves a heads up about the coming election cycle
0:17.5	because one of the things we will have to keep in mind is that stories tend to develop very quickly.
0:23.0	So as we are going into successive months,
0:25.8	things are just going to develop even more quickly.
0:28.6	And over time, issues become ever more focused.
0:31.4	And that's exactly what's taking place right now. It is very clear right now
0:34.7	that the issue of abortion is going to be by intention front and center in the election cycle coming
0:40.8	up and thus front and center in our daily conversation.
0:45.0	So as we're trying to put all of this into perspective, what has happened that we have to talk
0:49.1	about it today?
0:50.1	Well, it is the action taken just a couple of days ago on Monday by the Supreme Court of the state of Florida in two different dimensions on this question.
0:59.0	Number one, the Supreme Court there in Florida came back and said there's no constitutional barrier in the state constitution to Florida's ban restricting abortion after 15 weeks going into effect.
1:12.0	Basically, the Supreme Court said there is no right to privacy as the Supreme Court had claimed in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that pertains here and so the Supreme Court allowed that ban after 15 weeks to go immediately back into effect.
1:26.8	But here's the bigger story.
1:28.6	The legislature has already passed legislation that is now triggered. So the 30 days from now that limit is going to be six
1:35.2	weeks not 15 weeks. The Supreme Court has already made very clear it's not going to
1:39.8	stand in the way so that six-week provision will be the law in Florida within 30 days.
1:45.0	Huge story, huge win for the sanctity of human life.
1:49.0	Huge win, by the way, for constitutional reasoning because it's really clear that the majority in the
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.