Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 07:56)
An Important Affirmation of Religious Liberty: SCOTUS Rules Condemned Criminals on Death Row Have Right to Clergy in Final MomentsRamirez v. Collier Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice by SCOTUSPart II (07:56 - 17:19)
‘The Billionaire Tax’: It Might Start with the Few, but It Will Not Be Long to Until It Reaches the ManyBiden to Propose New Minimum Tax on Wealthiest Americans by Wall Street Journal (Richard Rubin and Andrew Duehren)Here’s the Neat Trick of Biden’s Billionaire Tax by New York Times (Peter Coy)Part III (17:19 - 20:28)
Seismic Moral Change Hidden in a Legal Filing: Citigroup Reveals That It Will Cover Travel Benefits to Employees to Receive an AbortionWhat Citi's Abortion Policy Means for Companies as Supreme Court Considers Tighter Restrictions by USA Today (Elisabeth Buchwald)Part IV (20:28 - 24:30)
San Francisco’s Virtue Signaling Backfires as It Is Runs Out of States With Which It Can Conduct BusinessSan Francisco's Boycott of 28 States Backfires by Washington Examiner (Andrew Kerr)San Francisco is Probably Boycotting You by Washington Examiner (Conn Carroll)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 30, 2022. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian |
| 0:12.1 | worldview. |
| 0:13.4 | The intersection of all kinds of really important issues come together in a decision handed down |
| 0:18.2 | at the end of last week by the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 0:22.3 | Now if you heard about this decision, |
| 0:24.1 | it has likely been summarized |
| 0:25.9 | as the Supreme Court deciding |
| 0:27.6 | that a condemned prisoner cannot be denied |
| 0:30.2 | the presence of a pastor |
| 0:32.2 | at the time of the prisoner's execution. |
| 0:35.0 | But there's a lot more to the story. |
| 0:36.4 | It is a big victory for religious liberty |
| 0:39.2 | and one that all of us should basically understand and appreciate. |
| 0:43.0 | Let's just consider what's at stake here. |
| 0:45.3 | For one thing, there is the issue of the death penalty, of capital punishment. |
| 0:48.8 | We discussed that many times. |
| 0:50.4 | We'll have to come back to it again. |
| 0:52.4 | There has been a weakening of |
| 0:53.9 | resolve in this country about the death penalty over the past several decades |
| 0:57.9 | and the basic loss of the initial moral horizon about the death penalty in terms of its rationale as given by |
| 1:05.1 | God in Genesis chapter 9 it is to affirm the image of God and thus the infinite |
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