Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.

Thanks for joining us today on The Wall Builders Show.

We got a representative from Tennessee.

Gino Bulsow will be joining us later in the program, talking about some of the bills in Tennessee

and some of the progress being made there.

Lots of good legislation across the country, actually. It's just an incredible time to be alive, folks. We're seeing a real culture shift. Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton, our website's wallbuilders.com and wallbuilders. Show for the radio program, rawbuilders. Show, and then wallbuilders.com for everything else. David and Tim, you guys have testified at the Tennessee legislature several times.

I mean, for years, actually, David, I remember going with you one time probably 20 years ago when I was just first starting to do stuff with you and you talked to the caucus. I don't know if we remember that or not. It was in some, I think we were even in a hotel room. I don't even remember if we were at the Capitol, but it was the whole Republican caucus of Tennessee.

How much has changed in 20 years and the kind of good legislation that's getting filed right now? Yeah, Tennessee has become a very strong state for very

strong constitutional and traditional religious moral kind of values. It's really kind of a

throwback to what was healthy about

America, even just a few decades ago. And they've been really bold in Tennessee. So they've come out and they've become one of the key states in the nation for doing things right. That's for sure. So looking at what Tennessee, some of the things are trying to do right now, one of them that just, it took me back to the 250th and we're going to talk about what they're one of the initiatives they've got

but the 250th and we're going to talk

about what they're one of the initiatives they've got. But the 250th is we're celebrating this year.

And the reason we have 250th is because the philosophy that we started with, unlike other governments,

we started with the different philosophy. We got different results. Most governments never get the

opportunity to experience 100 years, much less 200, 250. So we're really unique. But you start with that declaration. You take the 161 words, it said forth six principles. Those six principles came to the foundation of American government. The Constitution is built on them. The Constitution actually dates itself to the Declaration.

The Constitution recognizes the Declaration is our birth certificate. This is what brought the Constitution

to being. And when you look at it, right up front, those key 46 words, it talks about that

there really is a moral basis of right and wrong, that God has established that,

the laws of nature and nature's God, and within that moral basis,

we're told that everything has to be built on that.

And so from that, God gives us certain inable rights,

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