SECOND CLASS CITIZENS?
DINESH Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dinesh does a detailed review of the Supreme Court decision affirming non-discrimination against religious families, arguing that it prevents believers from being made into second-class citizens. Dinesh and Debbie discuss a topic raised at the Texas GOP Convention that is gaining currency: is secession legal and viable in the twenty-first century? Actor Nick Searcy joins Dinesh to talk about January 6 and conservative filmmaking.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, I mentioned yesterday the Supreme Court an important ruling on |
| 0:05.1 | non-destrimination against religious families, and I'll talk about the decision today. |
| 0:13.6 | Debbie's going to join me. We're going to talk about a topic that came up at the Texas GOP convention, which is |
| 0:19.5 | should Texas secede from the Union? Can it? Is it legal? |
| 0:23.2 | Actor Nick Sirisley joins me. We're going to talk about his film about January 6th, and also about conservative |
| 0:30.7 | filmmaking. This is the Dineshtas' show. |
| 1:01.6 | The Supreme Court just issued an important decision. It's Carson versus Maiken. |
| 1:09.7 | And it's a decision that arises out of Maine. I've talked about the case before, but the court |
| 1:18.0 | very good decision, six to three, with all the six conservatives on the one side, the three |
| 1:23.6 | familiar leftist briar, sort of my Orrin Kagan, in descent. And it all revolves around an argument |
| 1:33.6 | about separation of church and state. An argument that is, I think, itself based on the misnomer, |
| 1:38.5 | but I'll get to that. Here's what's going on. The state of Maine, apparently Maine does not have a |
| 1:45.5 | fully functional public school system throughout the state. And so what Maine does is they offer |
| 1:52.3 | tuition assistance, basically kind of a voucher or scholarships for parents in districts that |
| 1:59.7 | don't have their own public school. And what they tell these parents is you can choose a school |
| 2:05.3 | and send your child to any school of your choice. So it's basically a private school voucher |
| 2:12.4 | program offering the same benefit that parents get who send their kids to public schools. |
| 2:18.9 | Now, until 1981, parents in Maine could use these vouchers to send their child to a private |
| 2:27.0 | or a private religious school. But in 1981, based upon an interpretation of separation of church |
| 2:34.7 | and state, the Maine Attorney General basically said, you can't use public funding to fund |
| 2:41.8 | scholarships that go to religious institutions. And so Maine going all the way back to 1981, |
| 2:47.1 | stopped funding parents sending their kids to religious schools. And this is the case that is now |
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