Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Albert Mohler· Host0:00

[intro music] It's Wednesday, June 10, 2026. I'm Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. From time to time, a headline passes, and you look at it, and you go, "Okay, I'm gonna bite. I'm gonna bite the apple. I need to look at what this argument is because it's going to be interesting." Sarah Paquino, writing in a column for USA Today. Here's the headline. "Liberals aren't anti-marriage. We're just doing it our own way." Okay, so that's really interesting. And by the way, I could just stop with the headline because looking at it, you really do see the modern autonomous self-expression culture right before your eyes. In other words, right with the claim, "Liberals aren't anti-marriage. We're just doing it our own way." Okay, so here's one of the most basic issues when it comes to understanding marriage. It's not there to do your own way. Marriage is an objective institution. We, as Christians, believe it's a part of creation order. God Himself, the Creator, who made us in His image and made us male and female, made us for marriage, and it was to the married couple that He said, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth." Okay, so you look at this, and there is a standard for marriage. Marriage is a defined institution. And by the way, throughout most of human history, throughout most of the world, there's been very little confusion about this at all. Now, if you are looking at this, even from a secular worldview, you would say, "Well, evidently, that's quite necessary. If you're gonna have the continuation of society, you're gonna have