Why State Of The Union “Responses” Feel Scripted And What History Says About It
The WallBuilders Show
Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. Thanks for joining us today on the Wall Builders |
| 0:10.2 | program. Wall Builders Show. Wall Builders Live, we used to call it. How many names can we come up with |
| 0:15.2 | guys? All right, it's Wall Builders, the Wall Builders Show, and then you can go to wallbuilders.com |
| 0:20.0 | for everything else, wallbuilders. But wallbuilders. Show, if you'd like to catch up on some of the radio programs from the last few weeks and months. And today is Thursday, so we're doing foundations. That means you get to ask the question about any foundational question regarding the declaration, the constitution, how government works, policies, elections, you name it, go for it. |
| 0:37.5 | Send them in to radio at wallbuilders.com. Radio at wallbuilders.com. I'm Rick Green. I will simply read your question. And then David and Tim Barton will have something to say about it. All right, David, Tim, you all ready? We got quite a few questions to try to get to today. I'm ready. I know what the first question is. So what you ask it, I'm going to ask you a question. |
| 0:54.6 | So you're going to get engaged in this thing other than just as moderator. All right. Fair enough. But first, I'm going to ask a question. Tim, is out of town. Where are you, man? Tennessee, somewhere. You're testifying on some bill somewhere, right? Yeah. Yesterday, I testified for the Tennessee Senate on their Ten Commandment bill. |
| 1:14.7 | And you know, guys, wouldn't you know it? |
| 1:20.7 | The people that opposed students seeing the Ten Commandments were people that identified as people of faith. |
| 1:25.1 | And by and large, as Christian, saying that, look, I'm a Christian. I just think it's not appropriate in an education for students |
| 1:30.0 | to learn religious things. And ironically, one of the senators who is the loudest opposition said, |
| 1:36.7 | I'm totally fine with the declaration of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, because those are all |
| 1:40.2 | political documents. But there was nothing political about the Ten Commandments. And I said, |
| 1:45.4 | well, actually, it's the basis of the legal code. The reason Moses appears in the Supreme Court |
| 1:51.8 | and depictions of the Ten Commandments all over the Supreme Court building, it's not because |
| 1:55.9 | they thought he was a really good moral figure to have in the Supreme Court. It's because |
| 1:59.9 | it was the basis of the legal |
| 2:01.7 | code in America. All the original 13 colonies had the Ten Commandments enshrined in their legal code, |
| 2:07.3 | et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But again, just interesting that some of the opposition, the most |
| 2:13.5 | vocal and really the entirety of the opposition that was there to testify or opposed |
| 2:17.9 | from a elected official position were people that identified as people of faith. But I do think |
| 2:25.0 | it's going to have the votes to get out of the Senate committee. It's already passed through the |
| 2:28.5 | House. I was able to go. It just brings up original documents. Part of what we are explaining it, and then I was |
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