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The WallBuilders Show

Quoting Scripture and the School Board: Heather Rooks' Fight for Religious Freedom

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Can you imagine being silenced for quoting a Bible verse during a public meeting? That's the shocking circumstance that Heather Rooks, a school board member, found herself in. Joined by Andy Gould from First Liberty, we pull back the curtain on the hostility Heather faced for exercising her religious freedom. With the legal perspective from Andy, we explore how this event has sparked a larger debate on the application of the First Amendment's free exercise clause. You might ask yourself, how...

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Welcome to the intersection of faith and the culture. It's wall builders where we take

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Tim Barton's a national speaker and pastor and president of wall builders and I'm Rick

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All right, guys, got a really interesting program today. Andy Gould's going to be with us

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with a school board member by the name of Heather Rooks. And it's a really interesting

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case at first Liberty Institute has taken. This is one of a, you know, one of the school

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board victories where somebody got involved because they were tired of the schools, you

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