The Battle for Religious Freedom

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Billy Graham, Society & Culture, Bible, Cissie Graham Lynch, Christianity, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Christian, God, Franklin Graham, Religion & Spirituality, Fearless

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Religious liberty is a bedrock of our values in the United States. It’s enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution. But the ability to freely exercise your Christian faith is under attack, both in culture and in courtrooms across the country. Fortunately, many of those challenges are being thwarted by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which has won 13 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Kristen Waggoner is an attorney with the ADF and joins me on this episode to tell us about s...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch.
0:04.0	Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture. Over the last couple of years, we've seen our culture continuously grow in hostility
0:26.7	towards Christians and our religious freedom here in the United States.
0:31.4	And religious liberty is a bedrock to our values here in America.
0:36.5	And we've been given this precious freedom to live out our faith freely, not just in the
0:41.2	four walls of our home or our church, but in the public square and in our
0:45.2	businesses in every aspect of life. And sadly it's one I believe that we as
0:50.3	Christians we've taken for granted for so long.
0:53.0	And I want Christians to know why religious liberty matters.
0:57.6	And I want you to know some of the legal cases that are happening currently in our country
1:02.2	and how our religious liberty is being threatened
1:04.7	and what we can do to protect it.
1:07.1	And one organization who is on the front lines fighting for you and fighting for me every
1:12.2	day is Alliance defending freedom,
1:14.8	which through the episode I'm going to refer to as ADF just for short.
1:18.6	And today I have Kristen Wagner who serves as General Counsel
1:21.7	with Alliance defending freedom joining me to share
1:24.8	about the critical work of the Alliance. And she has argued before the US Supreme
1:29.4	Court and she's won and she has incredible courage which is greatly needed and Kristen
1:35.6	thank you for joining me today I know you are so busy but thank you well thank
1:40.3	you it's a privilege to be here first, I just have to say my dad, Franklin,
1:45.8	our leadership at Samarins-Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
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