Religious Freedom: No Piece of Cake

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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What does the Supreme Court ruling on the Masterpiece Cakeshop signify for religious freedom from the conservative perspective? Should the decision be celebrated or not quite yet?The crew welcomes Dr. Matthew Franck to shed some insight on this case and to answer a few other questions. He’s Director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution and author of a vast number of publications.As a scholar of constitutional law, Matt attaches himself to the text and its original meaning and reminds us that the free exercise of religion is in the first amendment and, therefore, superior to other societal notions of “freedom”. He also offers helpful advice to Christian individuals and small institutions. Grab a piece of cake and join us!Show NotesAbout Matt FranckAlliance Defending FreedomThe Anscombe SocietyPrinceton Pro-LifeThe Public DiscourseMasterpiece Cakeshop X Colorado Civil Rights Commission Book What is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A DefenseBook Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious FreedomBook When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender MomentEssay The Power of the PowerlessWe are grateful to our guest Matt Franck and to the Witherspoon Institute for giving us copies of Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Rightto be given away. You just need to sign up for the opportunity to win one.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.5	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:32.9	Thank you. Welcome to the Mortification of Spin.
0:45.6	My name's Kyle Truman.
0:46.9	I'm a professor at Grove City College.
0:48.8	I've said before it sounds good to say that.
0:51.3	A professor of religion at Grove City College, I'm here with my usual co-host, Amy Bird, the housewife theologian, and Todd Pruitt,
0:59.0	pastor of a mega church somewhere down in Virginia.
1:02.4	And we have a very special guest today.
1:05.2	Privileged to count this person as a friend.
1:09.1	If ever you're passing through Princeton and driving down Nassau Street, he will be the best-dressed
1:14.8	man you see.
1:16.2	Robbie George offers some competition with his three-piece suits and his cufflinks.
1:21.3	But Matt Frank of the Witherspoon Institute is undoubtedly the best-dressed man in Princeton.
1:27.4	That's impressive.
1:28.5	I know.
1:29.1	It is.
1:30.1	It's a terrible, terrible lie.
1:33.5	In my church, you'd have to go to confession for it.
1:39.3	Well, Matt is the director of the Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution at the Witherspoon Institute,
1:45.6	and in the very near future is actually moving from the Witherspoon Institute, at least metaphysically, not physically,
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