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The Sword & The Trowel

TS&TT: The Equality Act, Religious Freedom, Rep. Greg Steube & God's World

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Sword and The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Jared Longshore talk about the Equality Act and the ideologies driving it. They discuss into the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the courage of Representative Greg Steube, liberty of conscience and the lie of autonomy in God's world. The Equality Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5 National Review: A Liberal Law Professor Explains Why the Equality Act Would ‘Crush’ Religious Dissenters: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/law-professor-explains-why-the-equality-act-would-crush-religious-dissenters/ Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993: https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/1308 Pastor James Coates, Liberty of Conscience, and Jesus as King over Albertan Magistrates: https://founders.org/2021/03/01/pastor-james-coates-liberty-of-conscience-and-jesus-as-king-over-albertan-magistrates/ Strong and Courageous: Following Jesus Amid the Rise of America's New Religion | https://press.founders.org/shop/strong-and-courageous/ Become a part of the F.A.M. | https://press.founders.org/fam/ The Institute of Public Theology: instituteofpublictheology.org Watch #WieldTheSword | https://founders.org/wieldthesword/ The Sword & The Trowel: https://founders.org/the-sword-the-trowel/ Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/   All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Sword and the Trowl, a podcast of Founders Ministries.

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Founders Ministries exist for the recovery of the gospel and the Reformation of Churches.

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I'm Jared Longshore.

0:08.0

I'm Tom Askell.

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Thanks for listening to The Sword and the Trowt today.

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So glad to have you with us.

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0:36.6

Tom's good to be together

0:37.8

today and boy, there's a lot of things that are going on and one of the things is this

0:42.8

equality act recently passed through the House and now going to the Senate and there's a whole

0:49.6

world to deal with here and we want to spend a little time talking about the Equality Act and what's

0:53.9

going on underneath the surface.

0:55.0

Yeah, and this has been something, it's not new. I mean, this has been attempted in different times, even decades ago in different governmental venues.

1:04.0

And it came up, I think, in 2019 or maybe before that. But just this last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed this so-called Equality Act.

1:16.6

And it's misnamed.

1:17.6

I mean, this is a great play on words because who's against equality?

1:22.6

You vote against this, you're voting against equality.

1:24.6

And the way it's been framed is that we're just simply asking

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