French Friday: Football Prayer & CRT Hysteria

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Phil Vischer

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case about a public high school football coach who prays on the field. Is he violating the First Amendment because he’s a state-funded employee engaging in religious activity on the job? Or, is his religious expression protected by the First Amendment? David French explains the court’s history on public school teachers and free speech, why he thinks the coach is likely to win, and why religious liberty protections have never been stronger. Then, French talks about his first encounter with Critical Race Theory as a law student at Harvard 30 years ago. Skye asks, if CRT has been around for so long, why is it only now being seen as a threat to both America and Christianity? French explains how the definition of CRT has changed, how it’s been leveraged by media voices on the political right since 2020, and why the issue of race may be leading to a new schism in the American church.

00:00 - Intro

00:45 - Football Prayer “Why We Fight About Football Prayers” - https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/april-web-only/scouts-football-prayers-kennedy-bremerton-first-amendment.html

31:07 - CRT hysteria “How the Fight Over Critical Race Theory Became a Religious War” - https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/how-the-fight-over-critical-race?s=r

“Racial Compromise and Complicity at Grove City College” - https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/racial-compromise-and-complicity?r=dfab0&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

1:04:05 - Credits

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0:00.0	Yes, what day it is.
0:03.0	Oh-ho! It's French Friday, it's French Friday, so grab your prize and say a ray.
0:09.0	Day to French is here to play on French Friday. It's French Friday.
0:15.0	David French, welcome back.
0:17.0	Thanks so much for having me.
0:19.0	I am always looking forward to these conversations every month, and it's always a dilemma for me
0:23.0	as the month goes by to figure out what exactly am I going to talk to you about
0:26.0	because there's so much happening, and there's craziness in Florida, with Disney and Distances.
0:32.0	The Ukraine conflict has taken on new dimensions.
0:36.0	Inflation is out of control. The 2022 midterms are upon us here soon, and all the primary battles.
0:44.0	But what really caught my attention is the fact that on Monday, this coming Monday,
0:48.0	which will be actually after people are listening to this, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments
0:53.0	in a big case called Kennedy versus Bremerton School District.
0:58.0	I'll confess I have not listened to the latest advisory opinions podcast,
1:03.0	so I don't know if you guys have covered this already.
1:06.0	We talked about this months ago back at the cert stage,
1:12.0	and we're going to talk about it again because it's a fascinating case.
1:17.0	There are layers here, Sky.
1:20.0	There are layers of which I don't understand them all, obviously, which is why you're here.
1:25.0	Let's give the general layout for our audience.
1:29.0	Joseph Kennedy is a high school coach from the Pacific Northwest, I believe,
1:33.0	and he prays with his football players at a public school.
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