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Breakpoint

What ADF Really Does

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Last month, National Public Radio joined the growing fearmongering and dogpiling aimed at the Alliance Defending Freedom. The Fresh Air interview was hosted by Terry Gross and featured David Kirkpatrick, who authored an extensive expose about the religious freedom group in The New Yorker. 

The article and the interview painted ADF as being against women's rights and LGBTQ equality, as if there were no progressive push to curb the freedom of speech or to standardize mail-order chemical abortions or to mainstream radical gender ideology for second graders.   

In the article, Kirkpatrick sounded as alarmist as Terry Gross, implying that somehow ADF is part of the aggressive religious plot to take over America. In the interview, he was calm and thoughtful, reigning in her soft-spoken hysteria. In the end, it's a lesson in just how important our worldviews are. They make all the difference in what we see, what we conclude is wrong with the world, and how the world can be made better. 

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0:00.0

With the

0:04.1

woman a look at culture from a Christian worldview. I'm John Stone Street with the point.

0:04.4

Last month National Public Radio joined the growing fear-mongering and dog piling

0:08.9

that's been aimed at the Alliance defending freedom. The fresh air interview

0:12.0

was hosted by Terry Gross and featured David Kirkpatrick

0:15.0

who authored an extensive expose about the Religious Freedom Group and the New Yorker.

0:20.1

The article in the interview painted ADF as being against women's rights and LGBTQ equality,

0:25.2

as if there were no progressive Bush to curb the freedom of speech or to standardize male-order

0:30.2

chemical abortions or to mainstream radical gender ideology for second graders.

0:34.8

In the article Kirkpatrick sounded as alarmist as Terry Gross did in the interview, implying that

0:39.9

somehow ADF is part of an aggressive religious plot to take over America.

0:44.1

In the interview Kirkpatrick was more calm, more thoughtful,

0:46.7

reigning in Terry Gross's soft-spoken hysteria.

0:49.6

In the end, all of it's a lesson in just how important our worldviews really are.

0:53.7

They make all the difference in what we see.

0:55.6

What we conclude is wrong with the world and how the world is to be made better.

0:59.9

For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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