Social conservatives also think that none of us can flourish simply with freedom.

So one of the ways in which a social conservative will differ from a libertarian,

even though both are frequently classified as being on the right or housed on the right,

is the idea that none of us is born ready for the responsibilities of liberty.

Ryan Anderson of the Ethics and Public Policy Center talking about his presentation at the 2026 issues, et cetera, making the case conference.

So we need families, we need communities, we need churches and synagogues, we need schools and universities to form us.

We also need law to form us. Law and culture. They both shape us. They shape our beliefs. They shape our actions. And so if we want to

defend freedom, we also need to defend formation. And that means the ability to draw a distinction

between liberty and license. You can hear Ryan Anderson making the case for social conservatism

at the Making the Case Conference, June 12th and 13th at Concordia University

Chicago. Register online at Issuesetc.org.

Well, I think the vast majority of our email over the last week or so has been in reference to our speaker lineup for the upcoming issues that said we're making the case conference.

Ordinarily in the world of physics, there action then there is reaction reaction comes afterwards kind of like cause and effect but in the case

of the issues that said we're making the case conference we have people reacting to something that has

yet to occur they're preacting i think is what you call it. We're going to go to our email,

talk back at issue ZTC.org, and the issues that said are comment line 618-223-83-82.

Let's begin with, now normally I would just say Ben in Illinois, but since this gentleman, who happens to be a

Lutheran Church, Missouri, Senate pastor, was quoted in a press release by CARE, the Council for

American Islamic Relations of Chicago, I think it's fitting that we should mention him.

Pastor Ben Squires of Bethel Lutheran Church in Gurney, Illinois, writes,

I write to express my deep concern over the slated speakers for the making the case conference.

While proclaiming the truth of God's word is our calling, it concerns me that the conference

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