Law and Faith: Defending Religious Freedom - Part 1

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Dr. James Dobson

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Isaiah 6:8 says, “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’” On today’s edition of Family Talk, Roger Marsh interviews Jeremy Dys, senior counsel at First Liberty Institute. Learn how Jeremy, from as early as eighth grade, showed obvious skills that would lead him to become an attorney to defend religious freedom across the nation.

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0:00.0	Well, hello everyone. I'm James Dobson and you're listening to Family Talk, a
0:04.1	listener supported ministry. In fact, thank you so much for being part of that
0:09.2	support for James Dobson Family Institute. There was a case that was decided in 1971 that had
0:19.4	over time morphed into this horrible
0:24.7	behemoth of law that basically any time religion appeared in public get lost.
0:28.9	Coach Kennedy's case overturns that case.
0:31.3	It's called the Lemon case, Lemon versus Kurtzman.
0:33.2	And Justice Gorsuch in writing the opinion just says this great thing up front.
0:36.3	He says, look, the First Amendment has a number of clauses in it.
0:38.9	The free speech and the free exercise clauses kind of work together, he said.
0:42.0	There's supposed to be two sides of one
0:43.4	coin and thus religious speech is doubly protected under the First Amendment
0:48.8	doubly protected massive seismic shift in the law now you and I are more free than we've been in our entire
0:55.0	lifetimes. It then falls to us, mom and dad, falls to you to live like free people. We went
1:01.0	out and won the battle, go out and take advantage of the territory we've conquered.
1:05.2	Well that was Jeremy Dice from the latest conversation I had with him at the National Religious
1:10.2	Procasters Convention. And that is what you'll be hearing in the background behind me, lots of other Christian
1:15.5	communicators working and meeting all around us.
1:18.5	There is an exciting buzz in the air indeed.
1:21.6	Well with that, welcome to Family Talk the broadcast division of the
1:25.0	Dr. James Dobson Family Institute. I'm Roger Marsh and today you're in for a
1:29.6	bit of a treat you probably recognize by voice as the Voice of Family Talk, but on today's
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