The Challenger anniversary and the Equality Act: Three responses to a perilous threat to religious freedom
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
America responded in unified grief to the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger on this day in 1986. Today's podcast tells that story, then we focus on the threat to our unity posed by the so-called Equality Act and identify three ways we can defend religious liberty.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum. This podcast is narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.6 | Three men are paying $55 million each to fly in a space X rocket to the International Space |
| 0:26.8 | Station. |
| 0:27.8 | They constitute the first private space station crew in history. |
| 0:31.7 | However, they will not be the first private citizens to serve as astronauts. |
| 0:36.9 | That honor will forever belong to Krista McCullough, |
| 0:40.0 | a New Hampshire high school teacher who was chosen in 1985 to fly aboard the space shuttle |
| 0:45.7 | Challenger. On this day in 1986, she and six NASA astronauts lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
| 0:54.2 | 73 seconds later, the shuttle broke up. |
| 0:58.0 | There were no survivors. |
| 0:59.6 | President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation that evening with the pledge, |
| 1:03.7 | We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning, |
| 1:08.3 | as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly |
| 1:12.9 | bonds of earth to touch the face of God. |
| 1:18.2 | I remember vividly the tragedy and our nation's unified response. |
| 1:23.9 | Such unity is indispensable in facing crisis effectively. As President Biden stated in his inaugural address, |
| 1:32.0 | we have never, ever, ever failed in America when we have acted together. This is why I am so deeply |
| 1:39.5 | concerned about his administration's commitment to the so-called Equality Act and its consequences for |
| 1:46.4 | our nation. The Equality Act would amend the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 by forbidding discrimination |
| 1:53.8 | on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. However, this is crucial. The Act forbids appeal to the 1993 Religious Freedom and |
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