Wednesday, October 16, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:39)
The Parable of George Gascón: Soft-On-Crime D.A. in LA Faces Looming Disaster of His Own Making on Election Day
- Gascón gave teen killer second chance — now she’s charged again by The LA Times (Richard Winton and James Queally)
- ‘Not even close’: Hochman’s lead over Gascón grows to 30% in new D.A.’s race poll by The LA Times (Connor Sheets and James Queally)
Part II (12:39 - 17:12)
It’s a Coastal Crisis With Big Warning Signs ‘Hopelessly Woke Legislators’ Have Crushed Major U.S. Cities
- Progressives have destroyed the great cities of coastal America by The Telegraph (Zoe Strimpel)
Part III (17:12 - 20:27)
The Parable of Chicago’s Mayor: Entire School Board of Chicago Resigns in the Wake of Brandon Johnson Pandering to Teacher Unions
Part IV (20:27 - 26:18)
From the Puritans to Magic Mushrooms? Massachusetts Weighs Legalization of Psychedelic Mushrooms
- Legalize Magic Mushrooms? Massachusetts Should Just Vote No by The Wall Street Journal (Charles Fain Lehman)
- Limited Legalization and Regulation of Certain Natural Psychedelic Substances by Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 16, 2024. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian |
| 0:12.4 | worldview. The issue of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | The issue of crime and punishment is one of the most dramatic storylines in all of human history. |
| 0:19.6 | It fills our literature, but it also fills our headlines. |
| 0:22.8 | And that's because we live in a fallen world and thus crime and punishment are absolutely |
| 0:26.7 | relevant issues. |
| 0:28.1 | They're also controversial issues and this is playing right into the 2024 campaign cycle and that's because as you look at a couple |
| 0:35.6 | of developments in the state of California there are similar developments elsewhere |
| 0:39.0 | but the fact that this is happening these two things in California it should |
| 0:42.2 | certainly have our |
| 0:43.3 | attention for one thing you have the voters of California going to the ballot box |
| 0:48.3 | on election day in order to decide whether or not they are going to basically revoke a proposition the |
| 0:54.4 | voters put in place in 2014. That George Soros backed initiative was |
| 1:00.0 | calling for a liberalization of crime laws. |
| 1:03.0 | Basically, you're looking at the question of crime and punishment, |
| 1:05.8 | you decide that the crime is no longer |
| 1:08.1 | worth or demanding of a more severe punishment. |
| 1:11.6 | And so you adopt a more lenient understanding of the law. |
| 1:15.1 | Prosecutors, judges, and others have to buy into this, |
| 1:17.5 | but it is made particularly lawful when you have an initiative |
| 1:21.8 | such as what was passed in California in 2014. |
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