Media Coverage of State Laws Criminalizing Church Protests – Terry Mattingly, 6/3/26 (1542)
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Terry Mattingly of Rational Sheep
Rational Sheep
Pop Goes Religion: Faith in Popular Culture
GetReligion.org
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| 0:00.0 | This is Megan Basham of the Daily Wire, inviting you to join me for the 2026 Issues, etc., |
| 0:06.2 | making the case conference Friday, June 12th, and Saturday, June 13th at Concordia University, Chicago. |
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| 0:22.7 | Robert Spencer of jihad watch and Aaron holly of alliance defending freedom learn more at |
| 0:28.9 | issues etc dot org issues etc dot org There are several headlines on this particular story from the Baptist press incoming ERLC |
| 0:52.2 | president affirms government's duty to protect the right to worship. |
| 0:56.1 | And from the Associated Press and probably the story that's going to be getting the most attention here, |
| 1:01.7 | there is the headline. |
| 1:03.4 | After Minnesota church protests, states are toughening penalties for disrupting services. |
| 1:09.1 | Four states so far trying to pass laws to strengthen protections for |
| 1:13.8 | worshippers and the possibility of encroaching protesters. |
| 1:19.9 | Welcome back to Issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin. Joining us to talk about this, Terry Mattingly, |
| 1:25.0 | he's Senior Fellow on Communications and Culture. |
| 1:31.8 | At St. Constantine College in Houston, Texas, he writes Rational Sheep, a Substack Newsletter on Faith, Family, and Mass Media. He's author of the National Honor Religion column for the Andrews |
| 1:36.5 | McMill Universal Syndicate, and for two decades, he led the getreligion.org website. He joins us |
| 1:43.3 | from Scotland. Terry, welcome back. Glad to be here. |
| 1:48.0 | What role does the press play in these debates about protests in churches and abortion facilities? |
| 1:56.0 | Well, a lot of it just simply has to do on what they're willing to report and what they're not willing to report. |
| 2:03.6 | So before we get into the details, I have an image that I think will help our listeners understand where I'm coming from on this. |
| 2:11.1 | Years ago, I was in Washington, D.C. at a seminar on how to handle religion in public schools. And almost all of the |
| 2:23.3 | controversies, of course, centered on the activities of conservative Catholics, conservative |
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