Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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

Part I (00:13 - 08:00)
Same-Sex Marriage Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary: How the Revolutions Over Contraceptives and Divorce Led to the Sexual Revolution and the Attempted Redefinition of Marriage

How 20 Years of Same-Sex Marriage Changed America by The Wall Street Journal (Molly Ball)

Part II (08:00 - 17:19)
How Did Our Culture Come to Affirm Same-Sex Marriage? The Moral, Social, and Political Activism That Led to Our Current Cultural Revolution and Moral Shift

Part III (17:19 - 22:20)
Target Tones Down Pride Month Displays: Don’t Be Fooled, This is About Marketing, Not Morality

Battered by boycott and backlash, Target will not sell Pride collection in all stores by USA Today (Jessica Guynn)

Part IV (22:20 - 25:25)
Moral Agenda Through Smoke and Mirrors: How Corporate America Pushes the Cultural Revolution

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
0:07.0	I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:13.6	Well, same-sex marriage has just celebrated a big milestone in the United States,
0:17.7	what we might call its 20th anniversary.
0:20.6	Molly Ball dates the onset of same-sex marriage in the United States to the first same-sex
0:26.1	couple that was legally married in the United States.
0:29.2	That would be in the state of Massachusetts on May the 17th of 2004.
0:32.9	So you do the math.
0:34.1	May 17, coming right up, go backwards, 20 years.
0:37.8	Same sex marriage is a new, absolutely revolutionary thing.
0:41.9	And even as I'm talking about this today on the briefing I have
0:44.7	to want to say so-called same-sex marriage. But nonetheless we are talking about
0:49.8	what our society has legally defined as marriage and as of the decision made there in the state of Massachusetts, the good-rich decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court, you had same-sex marriage declared to be a legal reality.
1:03.2	And still, you go back 20 years in 2004,
1:05.6	that appeared to be an absolutely revolutionary development
1:08.8	that it was felt at the time,
1:10.4	might not settle in with the American people.
1:14.0	But one of the things we notice how moral change takes place in the United States,
1:17.7	from 2004 yet to fast forward 11 years to the Obergefeld decision by the United States Supreme Court that established
1:24.8	same-sex marriage as the law of the land. Basically said that it is
1:29.6	discriminatory in an unconstitutional way to prevent same-sex couples from having access to
1:35.2	legal marriage.
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