In the Business of Religious Freedom
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
The Washington Post loves to promote their reporting with the tagline, "democracy dies in darkness." But in a published hit piece last month, designed to smear Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), they intentionally put readers in the dark with half-truths and thinly veiled insinuations, pointing to the fact that a number of ADF plaintiffs are no longer in business as evidence that ADF has "fabricated" religious freedom attacks on Christian vendors who cannot serve same-sex weddings.
Just because some of the cases have been pre-enforcement challenges doesn't change the fact that Alliance Defending Freedom has defended bakers, florists, photographers, and graphic artists from stiff state penalties for refusing to violate their conscience. The attack on Barronelle Stutzman lasted for more than a decade, and Jack Phillips is still being targeted by a trans-activist lawyer enabled by the state of Colorado.
The Post's hit piece obscures what's at stake, who are the aggressors, and what freedom means. Missing all of that is how democracy really dies.
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:04.6 | The Washington Post loves to promote their reporting with the tagline Democracy Dies and Darkness, |
| 0:09.3 | but in a published hip-piece last month, designed to smear aligns defending freedom, |
| 0:13.3 | they intentionally put readers in the dark with half-truths and thinly veiled insinuations. |
| 0:17.9 | They pointed to the fact that a number of ADF plaintiffs are no longer in business, |
| 0:21.7 | as evidence that ADF has fabricated all these religious freedom attacks on Christian vendors |
| 0:26.6 | who cannot serve same-sex weddings, |
| 0:28.3 | just because some of the cases have been pre-enforcement challenges, |
| 0:31.2 | doesn't change the fact that aligns defending freedom has defended Baker's florist, |
| 0:35.2 | photographers, and graphic artists from stiff state penalties for refusing to violate their conscience. |
| 0:40.5 | The attack on baronel stuttsman lasted for over a decade. |
| 0:43.5 | Jack Phillips is still being targeted. |
| 0:45.4 | This hit piece by the post obscures what's at stake. |
| 0:48.4 | Who are the aggressors in this issue and what freedom really means? |
| 0:51.7 | And missing all of that, that is how democracy really dies. |
| 0:55.7 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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