Wednesday, October 2, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 06:39)
The Vice Presidential Debate: It Was Civil and Had Some Clarifying Moments, But Might Not Matter
Part II (06:39 - 14:47)
Tim Walz’s Obvious Obfuscation: Let’s Look at the Minnesota Governor’s Comments on Abortion During the Debate Last Night
- Minnesota's Radical Infanticide Law by The Briefing (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
Part III (14:47 - 18:32)
The State of Georgia Becomes Ground Zero on Abortion: Georgia Judge Rules State’s Abortion Ban is Unconstitutional
Part IV (18:32 - 23:53)
The Social Pressure to be Pro-Abortion: How the Pro-Life Movement Faces a Massive Uphill Battle Within Our Society
- Euphoric two years ago, US anti-abortion movement is now divided and worried as election nears (David Crary) by Religion News Service
- Kansas Votes Down Constitutional Amendment to Defend Unborn Life by The Briefing (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
- Practically an Unmitigated Disaster for the Pro-Life Movement by The Briefing (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
Part V (23:53 - 26:48)
The Three Arenas Pro-Life Christians Must Win with the Younger Generation – We Must Win in Christian Family, Christian Education, and the Congregation
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.3 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, last night, many Americans sat down to watch the vice presidential debate. |
| 0:18.8 | CBS News, which hosted the debate, said repeatedly that it is the only vice presidential debate of this season. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, you're going to be hard-pressed to find any election cycle in which there is more than one |
| 0:30.4 | vice presidential debate. As a matter of fact, that's a fairly new development. |
| 0:35.0 | It does go back to 1988. |
| 0:37.7 | That year, the Republican vice presidential nominee |
| 0:40.5 | was Dan Quayle, the Democratic vice presidential nominee was |
| 0:45.0 | a |
| 0:50.0 | a Democratic vice presidential nominee was Texas Senator Lloyd Benson. And that was a televised event. It was mostly remembered for a put down that Benson offered a quail, but nonetheless Bush |
| 0:54.7 | went on to win the White House anyway. What's the big lesson there? The big lesson |
| 0:58.3 | is it really doesn't matter what happens in the vice presidential debate. |
| 1:03.0 | Or at least it hasn't really mattered. |
| 1:05.0 | You have to hold out the possibility that it could matter, |
| 1:08.0 | but last night's debate is not likely to matter a very great deal. |
| 1:12.0 | If you're keeping score, I think you'd have to say that |
| 1:15.2 | Senator J.D. Vance, the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, won the debate. And he won |
| 1:20.6 | the debate because it was stacked so much against him in terms of public perception. |
| 1:25.2 | But I think he also would have won the debate if it were scored in debate terms. |
| 1:30.0 | But let's just set the stage once again the debate took place in New York City |
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