Wednesday, January 26, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 26 January 2022
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:56)
The Moral Revolution is Running Ahead of Moral Sanity — And Is Steamrolling Women’s Sports in the Name of Transgender InclusionAs Lia Thomas Swims, Debate About Transgender Athletes Swirls by New York Times (Billy Witz)Part II (12:56 - 18:44)
An Affront to God, His Created Order, and History: Why the Transgender Revolution Will Not Ultimately PrevailTransgender Swimmer Lia Thomas Stays the Course as NCAA Changes Eligibility Rules by ESPN (Katie Barnes)A Transgender College Swimmer is Shattering Records, Sparking a Debate Over Fairness by Washington Post (Rick Maese)Part III (18:43 - 27:42)
‘If You’re Carrying More than Five Dollars in Nickels, You Might Just Be A Felon’: How Many Crimes Exist at the Federal Level? It’s Evidence of Government Out of ControlAmerica’s Ever-Expanding Criminal Code by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 26, 2022. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we return to the transgender issue because we have to. |
| 0:18.0 | Not only because this is one of the most important issues facing the world today, |
| 0:22.0 | but because this is one of the most pressing |
| 0:24.0 | headlines facing modern sport. |
| 0:26.8 | In order to understand these headlines, we go to the University of Pennsylvania and to the |
| 0:31.1 | world of women's sports. in particular the women's swim team at the |
| 0:35.7 | University of Pennsylvania and in particular one member of that team |
| 0:39.4 | Leah Thomas. |
| 0:40.9 | Leah Thomas is identified as a transgender woman or a transgender female. |
| 0:46.7 | The point is she is sweeping the events. |
| 0:49.7 | She is winning so many of the events and this has become an issue of great controversy |
| 0:54.7 | understandably enough because single-handedly the person identified as |
| 0:59.5 | Leah Thomas is basically raising the question as to whether or not the very idea of women's sport, |
| 1:06.7 | not to mention many other dimensions identified with women, can exist after the transgender |
| 1:12.4 | revolution. |
| 1:13.4 | As Billy Witts of the New York Times reported just this week, |
| 1:17.4 | as Samantha Shelton, an accomplished Harvard swimmer, churned through the water in |
| 1:21.8 | the 100-yard women's freestyle on Saturday, the University |
| 1:25.8 | of Pennsylvania's Leah Thomas seemed content to sit on her hip in the adjacent lane. |
| 1:30.9 | Shelton chugged ahead from the start, plowing through the water and carrying the lead. |
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