Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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

Part I (00:13 - 08:32)
The Senate Subverts Marriage: The So-Called ‘Respect for Marriage’ Act Passes Senate Vote

Part II (08:32 - 15:51)
‘Love Is Love’: The Argument Undergirding the ‘Respect for Marriage’ Act That Advocates Really Don’t—And Really Can’t—Believe

Statement from President Joe Biden on Bipartisan Senate Passage of the Respect for Marriage Act by White House

Part III (15:51 - 22:29)
No, Senator, You Cannot Dignify That Which is Against Nature: Why Same-Sex Couples Will Still Be Disappointed After the Passing of the ‘Respect for Marriage’ Act

Democrats Succumb to Political Reality on Same-Sex Marriage Bill by The Hill (Brooke Migdon and Al Weaver)

Part IV (22:29 - 25:39)
The Mormon Church and Some Evangelicals Cut a Devil’s Bargain: How Religious Groups Made Themselves, and the Larger Society, More Vulnerable By Support for the ‘Respect for Marriage’ Act

Young Mormons Aren’t Fooled By Church Support for a Gay Marriage Bill by Washington Post (Addison Graham)

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, November 30, 2022.
0:07.6	I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a
0:11.9	Christian world view.
0:13.7	Yesterday is going to be one of those days we remember in American political history,
0:18.1	because I believe it represented a major turning point, and furthermore, it was a moral
0:23.0	disaster.
0:24.0	Yesterday, by a vote of 61 to 36, the United States Senate voted to codify same-sex marriage.
0:31.7	Now technically, what it did in adopting what is mischaracterized as the respect for marriage
0:37.4	bill, the central issue there is to require states to recognize legal same-sex marriages
0:43.5	performed in any other state.
0:45.2	That effectively means coast to coast legalized same-sex marriage.
0:49.8	Now you might say I thought the Supreme Court had already granted a federal right to same-sex
0:54.5	marriage in all 50 states, and you would be right that would be the Obergefell decision
0:58.3	in 2015.
1:00.2	But nonetheless, this is political grandstanding.
1:03.1	But it is political grandstanding of a particularly dangerous sort.
1:07.7	And in this case, the particular danger is underlined by the fact that among the 61
1:12.4	senators voting for this legislation were 12 Republicans.
1:17.2	And there's a huge story there.
1:19.2	We have seen this issue coming for some time.
1:21.8	The issue came before the United States House, and when that took place this past summer,
1:26.0	47 Republicans voted to join with the Democrats in supporting this redefinition of marriage.
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