Wednesday, June 22, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:57)
Big Affirmation of the Free Exercise of Religion: Supreme Court of the United States Rules in Favor of Christian Parents in MaineCarson v. Makin by Supreme Court of the United StatesPart II (10:57 - 19:16)
‘The Court is Leading Us to a Place Where Separation of Church and State is a Constitutional Slogan, Not A Constitutional Commitment.’: A Closer Look at the Dissenting Opinions from Carson v. MakinPart III (19:16 - 26:28)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 22, 2022. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.3 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Thunderstruck by the United States Supreme Court yesterday in a decision, a 6-3 decision that |
| 0:19.8 | upholds religious liberty in a way that could transform the question throughout |
| 0:24.0 | much of the United States. But Ground Zero was the state of Maine and a very |
| 0:28.1 | unique situation there in Maine where given the fact that some of the state is extremely rural, local educational |
| 0:36.2 | districts had given parents the opportunity to send their children to private schools |
| 0:41.5 | and the private school education would be subsidized by the state. |
| 0:45.7 | And amazingly enough that private school option given to parents and again it's understandable. |
| 0:50.4 | Here you're looking at a state saying, look, we have a responsibility to provide a high school education to our citizens, but in some rural areas it's just not feasible to have a high school, so instead we will allow parents to send |
| 1:05.4 | their children to private schools and we will subsidize that with money given to |
| 1:10.3 | the parents by the state. Amazingly enough, that included options outside the United States. |
| 1:16.0 | So parents in Maine could actually decide to send their teenage children |
| 1:21.0 | to schools in another country, and they would have qualified if they had met the |
| 1:25.0 | accreditation requirements. But the state of Maine said beginning in about |
| 1:28.9 | 1981 the state of Maine said those, the schools to which parents may send their children, may not be religious schools. |
| 1:38.5 | So by a six-three divide on the justices, the Supreme Court handed down its decision yesterday in the case known as Carson v. Macon. |
| 1:48.0 | And it takes us right to the heart of the issue there in the state of Maine, |
| 1:52.0 | but it also takes us to far larger issues |
| 1:54.7 | far beyond just one state in the United States. |
| 1:58.2 | We're looking at a big win here for religious liberty, and we're also looking at a very clear definitional decision that |
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