BreakPoint Podcast - Emilie Kao on The Promise to America's Children
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Emilie Kao is the director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion & Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation. She is presenting at the Wilberforce Weekend. She will share her passion for protecting and defending the rights of children and how her campaign reflects the image of God.
Emilie has defended religious freedom for the last 14 years. Kao has worked on behalf of victims of religious freedom violations in East Asia, the Middle East, Europe and South Asia at the State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom and Becket Law.
Previously, she worked at the United Nations and Latham and Watkins. Kao also taught international human rights law at George Mason University Law School as an adjunct law professor.
She earned an A.B. degree in Near Eastern Civilizations and Languages at Harvard-Radcliffe College and a J.D. at Harvard Law School. Kao is a member of the Supreme Court Bar and the bar associations of California and the District of Columbia.
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| 0:00.0 | My guest is Emily Gowell. |
| 0:03.3 | She's the director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society |
| 0:07.8 | at the Heritage Foundation, and she will be one of the speakers for our Friday intensive |
| 0:13.6 | at the Wilberforce Weekend when we look at the idea of the image of God specifically as |
| 0:18.3 | God created us, male and female. She's a good friend involved in so many |
| 0:23.5 | important projects right now defending the rights of children in light of the sexual revolution. |
| 0:29.9 | Emily, it's always great to talk with you. Thanks, John. Thanks for this opportunity. I'm looking forward |
| 0:35.3 | to the Wilberforce Forum and talking about children and how to protect them. |
| 0:40.2 | Yeah, so Wilberforce coming up soon. |
| 0:42.2 | We really wanted to highlight what we're going to talk about on Friday at the intensive. |
| 0:47.3 | What we mean by intensive is a time to just dig deep onto the topic at hand in a particular angle. |
| 0:54.0 | And as you know, the whole theme of the Wilberforce Weekend is around the image of God |
| 0:57.8 | as a core foundational, significant, essential belief of a Christian worldview, |
| 1:04.0 | but also crucial right now in our cultural witness. |
| 1:07.5 | And the aspect of the image of God that we're focusing in on in this intensive with a number |
| 1:14.2 | of sessions really locking in is this idea of male and female. I'm going to be speaking and talking |
| 1:19.4 | about the creation narrative followed by Rebecca McLaughlin, who's going to be talking about how |
| 1:24.9 | Christianity has elevated the status of women throughout history. |
| 1:28.7 | Then Ryan Anderson is going to talk about the role of male and female in structuring society. |
| 1:33.7 | And then, Emily, you're going to help us really think through the essentials of moms and dads. |
| 1:40.0 | And I'm just so struck by something I've heard you say in various contexts. |
| 1:45.1 | And you may have gotten it from someone else. |
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