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LPR, Lutheranpublicradio.org. Harry G. Hutchison joins us today. He is Senior Counsel and Director of Policy at the American

Center for Law and Justice. He is also Distinguished Professor of Law at Regent University. His new book is called Requiem for Reality, Critical Race Theocrats and Social Justice Dystopia. That's a good mouthful, but it is a good one. That's our topic today. Welcome, Professor Hutchison. Well, thanks so much, Mark. Really appreciate this.

Good question there, right there in the title. The term critical race, critical race theocrats,

why do you not call them critical race theorists? Why theocrats? Excellent question. I call them theocrats because

ultimately I conclude, among other things, that critical race theory is really a religion. And the

theorists have become, if you will, the theocrats, the ones who basically conform to a particular

ideology and then demand that their audience conform. So they're looking for uniformity of

thought and conformity of action and essentially critical race theorists, they have created a doctrine

which social justice warriors essentially have accepted full stop. And this doctrine is often

very, very pernicious.

A professor at Villanova, for instance, just this week, wrote an article in the Compact magazine, and he's from Villanova, and he's a leftist.

He strongly supports black history, perhaps even black revolutionary thought, but he was essentially

brought to his knees because he had 16 to 17 students who at the end of this four-week period,

they refused to speak to him because what was he doing wrong?

He was speaking the facts. And the facts are often inconsistent with the narrative offered by

these religious leaders who lead the critical race theory movement.

You know, I read that compact piece. It's really made the rounds, and it is astonishing.

The teachers, he's a pretty hard, left-wing kind of guy, very progressive. He's black. He is

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