58. A Mother and Daughter's Stand for Religious Liberty with Jennifer and Lydia Booth
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
When Lydia Booth was told that she couldn't wear her "Jesus Loves Me" mask to her grade school in Mississippi, her mother, Jennifer Booth took action. In today's episode, we hear the story of how this mother and daughter team is working with Alliance Defending Freedom to protect Lydia's freedom of speech and how they're learning to rely on Jesus in the midst of it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, |
| 0:07.0 | value, intellect, and creativity of women. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Erin Kunkel. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm your co-host, Sarah Stone Street. |
| 0:19.0 | On the Strong Women Podcast today, we have Lydia and Jennifer Booth with us. |
| 0:23.8 | And Lydia is nine and is in third grade. |
| 0:27.1 | And then her mother is Jennifer. |
| 0:28.4 | And I will not disclose her age. |
| 0:30.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:31.0 | But Lydia and her family live in a small town outside of Jackson, Mississippi. So Lydia and Jennifer's story |
| 0:41.3 | happened, really launched during COVID. And let me tell you, just a little sneak peek about why we're |
| 0:49.0 | having them on, but I'm going to let them do the majority of the storytelling. But COVID has been |
| 0:53.9 | weird for all of us. And it was weird for |
| 0:56.9 | Lydia and her classmates, too, in third grade in Mississippi. And so they decided to have some fun with |
| 1:02.4 | wearing their masks and, you know, kids would come in with sports logos and, you know, like |
| 1:08.2 | Ole Miss and I'm sure Mississippi State and and, you know, those kind of things like |
| 1:12.3 | kids will do. |
| 1:13.0 | And then also some slogans, some popular slogans like Black Lives Matter and things like that. |
| 1:18.8 | And Lydia joined in on that fun, and she wanted to give a message that she finds comfort in, |
| 1:25.0 | and she wanted others to know about. |
| 1:27.1 | And she came in with a mask |
| 1:28.5 | that says Jesus loves me. Seems simple, but it drastically changed their lives this past year |
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