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The Washington Post loves to promote their reporting with the tagline, “democracy dies in darkness.” But in a published hit piece last month, designed to smear Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), they intentionally put readers in the dark with half-truths and thinly veiled insinuations, pointing to the fact that a number of ADF plaintiffs are no longer in business as evidence that ADF has “fabricated” religious freedom attacks on Christian vendors who cannot serve same-sex weddings.  Just because some of the cases have been pre-enforcement challenges, doesn't change the fact that Alliance Defending Freedom has defended bakers, florists, photographers and graphic artists from stiff state penalties for refusing to violate their conscience. The attack on Barronelle Stutzman lasted for more than a decade, and Jack Phillips is still being targeted by a trans-activist lawyer enabled by the state of Colorado.  The Post's hit piece obscures what's at stake, who are the aggressors, and what freedom means. Missing all of that is how democracy really dies. 

Please join us for the Great Lakes Symposium on Christian Worldview on Thursday, July 27. Sign up to attend live or to join the livestream at ColsonCenter.org/GreatLakes.  _____ When I was growing up, Christians had to wrestle with whether or not our convictions could withstand the threat of ridicule. We'd be asked, “Are you willing to be mocked and made fun of by a professor who doesn't believe in God or a friend trying to tempt you into doing something you know is wrong?” About the worst thing to expect from this was what a friend has called “cocktail party pressure” or getting kicked out of the cool kids' clique.   To be clear, cocktail party pressure was quite effective, though those days seem quaintly in the past. Increasingly, Christians are hated, fired, or otherwise harassed on account of their principles. Particularly bewildering is that the loudest complaints against believers today are for things considered mainstream until just a few years ago.   Just this week, the Alliance Defending Freedom came to the defense of a man in Vermont who was fired after 10 years as a successful snowboarding coach. His crime, as one of ADF's lawyers put it, was “merely expressing his views that males and females are biologically different and questioning the appropriateness of a teenage male competing against teenage females in an athletic competition.” For that, “school district officials unconstitutionally fired him.”  Clearly, the district violated coach David Bloch's First Amendment rights and likely, given the legal track record of the Alliance Defending Freedom, he will be vindicated in the end. Still, this is another example of what feels like a new cultural moment in which the question of Christian courage is in the context of even more tangible pressures.  This context is at the center of a conversation I will be hosting Thursday, July 27 at the fourth annual Great Lakes Symposium on Christian Worldview in Bay Harbor, Michigan. If you happen to be in the area, there's limited space available to join us in person, or you can sign up to join us via livestream. Either way, there is no charge for this conversation featuring two Christians leading the way into this brave new moment: Kristen Waggoner is CEO, president, and general counsel of the Alliance Defending Freedom, and Jim Daly is president and CEO of Focus on the Family. Both are witness to these increased pressures.  For years, Kristen has successfully advanced legal protections and religious liberty by representing courageous Christians such as Jack Phillips and Barronelle Stutzman. Most recently, she represented Lorie Smith of 303 Creative in a landmark victory for free speech at the Supreme Court. However, for her efforts, Kristen has been unfairly attacked and lied about by media outlets, fellow lawyers, and even the Attorney General of Colorado.   Last fall, Focus on the Family's grounds were vandalized by activists. Though not the first time, there was something different about this attack. The perpetrators falsely and unfairly blamed Focus for the then-recent murders at a local Colorado Springs gay club. These accusations have been repeated by media outlets and critics as recently as last week.   This brave new world of hostility is familiar for our brothers and sisters elsewhere, in places like Nigeria, India, and China. Ours are more experiences of a series of horrible moments, such as earlier this year in Nashville. Christians in the West do not fear for their lives. Even so, something has clearly shifted. Calls to tolerate the views of others are about as 1990s these days as talking about abortion being “safe, legal, and rare.” As we've seen in Nashville, it's a perilously small step from the rhetorical games of wanting to punch “literal Nazis” to literally punching those who dare stray from the cultural narrative.   The only way forward for the Christ follower is to commit again to knowing what is true, to commit again to saying and living what is true even if there is a cost, and to say and live what is true in a way that is pleasing to Christ. In other words, faithfulness will involve both the what we believe and the how we'll live it out.   I don't know anyone I'd rather have in this conversation than Kristin Waggoner and Jim Daly. Please join us for the Great Lakes Symposium on Christian Worldview on Thursday, July 27. Sign up to attend live or to join the livestream at ColsonCenter.org/GreatLakes.  This Breakpoint was co-authored by Dr. Timothy D. Padgett. For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, go to breakpoint.org.  

Barronelle Stutzman joins us again today! Since her last appearance on the Strong Women podcast, she has settled her religious liberty case that led all the way to an appeal to the Supreme Court and has retired from her flower shop, Arlene's Flowers. Barronelle shares with us how God has been continually faithful to her, what it means to take a stand for freedom, and what her life looks like now. Barronelle received the Wilberforce Award at Wilberforce Weekend for her faithfulness, obedience, and courage. Wilberforce Weekend Online is available now and can be found here: https://wilberforceweekend.org/.    Barronelle Stutzman Show Notes  The Strong Women Podcast 65. His Promises Can Be Trusted with Barronelle Stutzman  Wilberforce Weekend Online  Alliance Defending Freedom  Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/strongwomencc   Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/    The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/    Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women 

Today, we are sharing a Best of Strong Women episode featuring Barronelle Stutzman. We want to re-share this episode with you because Barronelle will be receiving the Wilberforce Award at Wilberforce Weekend in Orlando this May! If you'd like to learn more about the Wilberforce Award and join us at Wilberforce Weekend, go to wilberforceweekend.org. Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers, was in the news due to a lawsuit centered on her loving stance about marriage. Barronelle has become a beacon of what it means to stand for religious liberty, not because she sought it out, but because she has been rising up to do the next good thing. In today's episode, we explore Barronelle's story and through that learn that God's promises can be trusted even when hardship comes our way.   Barronelle Stutzman Show Notes Arelene's Flowers Alliance Defending Freedom The Cost of My Faith by Jack Phillips Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/strongwomencc  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women   

9 people, my fellow Americans, make the most fundamental decisions which guide and affect your life, 9 PEOPLE!The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is comprised of 6 men and 3 women. The most pressing, difficult decisions, the fundamental issues of our Country are brought to them for resolution. How fair, objective and constitutional they are determines how we live. Our Supreme Court is now in session and this term, the cases to be decided are some of the most weighty in the history of the court. For example, the Biden Administration, its secretaries and agencies have begun to issue one order or mandate after another whether or not it is constitutional. Our society, our culture, WE THE PEOPLE are being flooded with Executive Orders (the President), mandates from the Justice Department (Attorney General Garland), the US Department of Education, the EEOC, HUD (Housing and Urban Development), just to name some. Many of those orders and mandates are unconstitutional, so say so many of our fifty states, private and nonprofit agencies and individuals. Our Federal Government attempts in every way possible to grow itself, take as much control as possible and in this case, the Biden Administration, turn the Country, actually veer it sharply to the left, the radical progressive left no matter the Constitution. Recently, just weeks after the administration all but admitted that a mandate with respect to vaccination, an Executive Order from the President would “not be the role of the Federal Government”, Biden announced that he would impose a national vaccine mandate on all employers with 100 or more employees. The Federal Agency OSHA began immediately attempting to force any and all private employers with 100 or more employees to require their employees to be vaccinated, and/or tested, and wear masks. An organization of states, along with private nonprofit legal entities such as ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM persuaded the Supreme Court to halt the OSHA order, introduce a legal stay, and take the case for decision at the highest level. In this term, the Supreme Court will decide this COVID matter and that a vaccination, testing and masking among others. What, I wonder my fellow Americans, is your position on vaccination. Many well–meaning Christians have refused to be vaccinated for various reasons. Many more others have in fact received both COVID vaccinations (Pfizer, Moderna) and even the booster. The question is whether you or I, as a matter of conscious and personal decision (freedom) have the right not to be vaccinated. What do you think? These 9 individuals will tell us.And another one. There comes now a case CHRISTIAN EMPLOYERS ALLIANCE V. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION (EEOC). There were two Biden Administration mandates which ordered (forced) nonprofit employers to pay for or perform gender transition surgeries and other treatments that violate their religious beliefs, no matter that so many of them held sincere beliefs that God created humans as biological male or female and that a person's biological sex is immutable. But the EEOC went full speed ahead in an attempt to force the mandates upon religious employers, requiring them to pay for and provide health insurance coverage for gender transition surgeries. This case as well now comes before the Supreme Court in this term and these 9 fellow citizens will tell us what will be. If entities or individuals, especially doctors and surgeons, refuse to perform gender transition procedures on any patient, they can be punished with huge financial penalties, loss of federal funding and even the removal of their ability to practice medicine. What a world. And then there is another case pending. THE STATE OF TENNESSEE V. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION essentially states that women and girls deserve to compete on a level playing field and biological men no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation should be allowed to so compete. Now these males, self–proclaimed females, are allowed to compete, and, so long as they identify as transgender, to not only compete on female athletic teams but also to use female showers, bathrooms and locker rooms. I find that simply unbelievable, don't you? 6 men and 3 women, only 9 of We The People 340 million of us, will be told whether or not that is constitutional. And then there is COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS V. BIDEN. The College of the Ozarks, one good and strong Christian college, is suing the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as it attempts to force religious schools to open dorm rooms and shared shower spaces to members of the opposite sex. This good college implores the Supreme Court that the government cannot strip a private faith–based institution of its constitutionally protected freedoms to recognize the strong biological distinctions between male and female. And then there is ARLENE'S FLOWERS V. STATE OF WASHINGTON. Arlene's Flowers was originally owned by Barronelle Stutzman, who refused to make a custom floral arrangement for a same–sex wedding. The US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled that a Colorado law, the very same one used to target Jack Phillips, baker, can require the new owner Lorie Smith to create custom websites promoting messages that violate her religious beliefs. The Supreme Court this term will decide that one. And then comes DOBBS V. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORGANIZATION. The good organization Alliance Defending Freedom went alongside the state of Mississippi to defend the Gestational Age Act before the Supreme Court, a law which eliminated abortion after 15 weeks of gestation, with the hope that such a case might lead the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. What a fascinating case that will be. And more. There are more cases, more critical issues, more of the constitutional issues which now come before our United States Supreme Court this term for decision by these 6 men and 3 women. You should watch carefully, my fellow Americans and Christians, the legal action which occurs this term at our Supreme Court. The decisions these 9 make will affect our lives for years to come. The Biden Administration moves forward in its aggressive and merciless attack upon so many things Christian, in defense of radical, progressive, LGBTQ assaults on tradition and history and there is no other option for faithful Christians but that of standing up and FIGHTING THE FIGHT OF FAITH. We should be ready to thank God for the preservation of constitutional protections or we should be ready to stand up and resist for it may well be time for us to determine whether or not we truly serve God or man. I am ready for this fight in whatever form it comes and I hope and pray you are also. Real biological men and women, like you and me cannot compromise or surrender. WE CANNOT! Pray, pray more but be ready to do more, much more. The fight of faith is on. DON'T BACK DOWN!

Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, reads from a public letter written by Christian florist Barronelle Stutzman. Her courageous nine-year legal battle for religious liberty has ended in a settlement. Willing to stand on her convictions, she is a tremendous example of Christ-honoring perseverance.

The Big Lead: Arbery Verdict & King County rolls out vaccine verification enforcement plan. // Barronelle Stutzman owner of Arlene's Flowers in Richland gives an exclusive update. // Psaki says turkeys are only $1 more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hugh Hewitt speaks with Kristen Waggoner, Senior Vice President of U.S. legal division and communications with Alliance Defending Freedom, joined by client, Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers on the results of her court case. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vicky Hartzler, U.S. Representative for the 4th District of Missouri and member of the House Armed Services Committee, discusses the House passing a $ 2 trillion spending bill and reveals hidden agendas inside the bill, and gives an update on the NDAA provision forcing women into the military draft. Kristen Waggoner, General Counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, recaps Barronelle Stutzman's stand for religious freedom after the settlement of her case. Matt Rinaldi, Chairman of the Texas Republican Party, talks about the Republican National Committee (RNC) forming a “Pride Coalition.” David Closson, FRC's Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, discusses the RNC's “Pride Coalition,” the findings of a new study, Millennials in America: New Insight into the Generation of Growing Influence, and how believers can be praying for the upcoming Dobbs Supreme Court case. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

World Magazine's Steve West talks about florist Barronelle Stutzman's decision to settle her religious freedom case and retire, along with other recent religious freedom issues.  Theolatte's Dan DeWitt responds to the report about how Church's are not as full as many still watch services via stream.

World Magazine's Steve West talks about florist Barronelle Stutzman's decision to settle her religious freedom case and retire, along with other recent religious freedom issues.  Theolatte's Dan DeWitt responds to the report about how Church's are not as full as many still watch services via stream.

A look at the headlines, then a conversation with Kristen Waggoner, ADF General Counsel, and Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers in Richland, Washington with a case update  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Georgene Rice speaks with Barronelle Stutzman, a flower shop owner, and Kristen Waggoner, of ADF, who was taken to court for declining to service a same-sex wedding.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers, has been in the news due to a lawsuit centered around her loving stance on marriage. Barronelle has become a beacon of what it means to stand for religious liberty, not because she sought it out, but because she has been rising up to do the next good thing. In today's episode, we explore Barronelle's story and through that learn that God's promises can be trusted even when hardship comes our way.   Barronelle Stutzman Show Notes:  Strong Women T-Shirts: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women/  Arelene's Flowers: https://www.arlenesflowers.net/  Alliance Defending Freedom: https://adflegal.org/  “The Cost of My Faith: How a Decision in My Cake Shop Took Me to the Supreme Court” by Jack Phillips: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cost-of-my-faith-jack-phillips/1136404933?ean=9781684510801  Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/strongwomencc  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women   

Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers, has been in the news due to a lawsuit centered around her loving stance on marriage. Barronelle has become a beacon of what it means to stand for religious liberty, not because she sought it out, but because she has been rising up to do the next good thing. In today's episode, we explore Barronelle's story and through that learn that God's promises can be trusted even when hardship comes our way.   Barronelle Stutzman Show Notes:  Strong Women T-Shirts: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women/  Arelene's Flowers: https://www.arlenesflowers.net/  Alliance Defending Freedom: https://adflegal.org/  “The Cost of My Faith: How a Decision in My Cake Shop Took Me to the Supreme Court” by Jack Phillips: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cost-of-my-faith-jack-phillips/1136404933?ean=9781684510801  Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/strongwomencc  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women   

In this 102nd episode of Mixing Church and State God's Way, Dr. Scarborough shares a document posted in USA Today on June 11, 2015, that states that the undersigned will never comply with a Supreme Court ruling demanding that they participate in a Same-Sex wedding or ceremony.  In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court effectively rejected Barronelle Stutzman's argument that her faith prevented her from participating in a Same-Sex wedding.  Will Pastors be next?

Today InPerspective with Dr. Harry Reeder July 12, 2021

When the Supreme Court announced July 2 that it had declined to take up florist Barronelle Stutzman's case, it left her on the losing side of an eight-year court battle. In 2013, one of Stutzman's longtime customers asked her to design floral arrangements for his same-sex wedding. She told him that because of her religious […]

When the Supreme Court announced July 2 that it had declined to take up florist Barronelle Stutzman's case, it left her on the losing side of an eight-year court battle. In 2013, one of Stutzman's longtime customers asked her to design floral arrangements for his same-sex wedding. She told him that because of her religious beliefs, she could not design an arrangement for the wedding, but she referred him to several other florists. A few weeks later, she learned she was being sued. The Washington state "attorney general, without any complaint from Rob [Ingersoll] and Curt [Freed] sued me personally and corporately, and the ACLU got ahold of Rob and Curt and also sued me personally and corporately," Stutzman told The Daily Signal.Now, the Washington state Supreme Court ruling against the Christian florist stands because the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up Stutzman's appeal. The Supreme Court's move could cost Stutzman everything. "It has cost us so much mentally, physically, spiritually," Stutzman said. "And then the cost, everything we've worked for all these years, the flower shop that I own, our home, our retirement, our life savings, everything is in jeopardy because of the ACLU, [and] attorney fees are going to be so large."Stutzman and Kristen Waggoner, general counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, join the “Problematic Women” podcast to explain the details of the court battle and the implications of the high court's refusal to hear her appeal. Also on today's show, we talk with Lindsey Burke, director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Education Policy, about the National Education Association's commitment to promote critical race theory in schools across America. And as always, we'll be crowning our “Problematic Woman of the Week.”Enjoy the show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“What is happening in America really scares me!” Those were the words of a listener to The Stand. It should indeed scare this good Christian lady who wrote, and in fact, it should scare all of us, that is all of WE THE PEOPLE who love America, what it is, and what it should be.It is no surprise that there are those by the millions, perhaps even tens of millions, who wish to destroy this great Country. They are Marxists, not socialists, Nihilists, anarchists, willing to use violence, intimidation, ridicule and above all BELIE. There is no such thing for them as truth, or even fact for that matter, but only that which advances the cause, their destructive cause. They regard themselves as champions of the era of:        POST TRUTH.These Marxists are men and women like George Soros, Saul Alinsky and the many who work under the umbrella of Antifa and Black Lives Matter, just to name two such organizations concerned only with getting power, absolute political power, total influence, control of all things financial: the money and the prestige which such power, influence and money allow. To that end, they have hijacked the Democratic Party, they operate somewhat overtly but mostly covertly, patient but powerful knowing that their day will come. As former President Barack Hussein Obama said of them and himself:         “WE are the ones we have been waiting for!”Now comes from this democratically controlled House of Representatives the so called EQUALITY ACT, which is in essence and at its core the INEQUALITY ACT. A writer for the New York Post called this vicious piece of legislation:         AN ORWELLIAN HORROR,and indeed it is. This Equality Act, also known as H.R.5 redefines federal civil rights laws and in particular “updates” the laws which Congress passed to combat racism, namely the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Essentially, the so called EQUALITY ACT adds to the Civil Rights the highly ideological concepts about sex and gender which are revolutionary in every conceivable way. H.R.5 essentially erases SEX as a legal category with all the dire consequences which result. Said one commentator:“For people, for businesses, for churches, and for ministries of faith, the Equality Act is a threat to life as we know it in our nation today. It's a real game changer!”The radical, progressive, socialistic – Marxist politicians of the Democratic Party are determined that this bill will pass. It now goes to the Senate, having been passed (barely so) by the House for Senate consideration and hopefully passage. Thankfully, for God–fearing Americans, there remains the filibuster in the Senate which when utilized by oppositional Senators, can delay the passage of this legislative monstrosity for some time. Hopefully, that happens. Listen carefully to what this bill proposes.Schools, all schools, churches and hospitals would be forced to accept the governments beliefs and mandates about:         SEXUAL ORIENTATION          GENDER IDENTITY Any person, no matter the biological gender, could identify as any kind of sex so desired and every other person, and all of society would be required to recognize that person as such. Biological men could identify as women and consequently, be given access to women's privacy areas. Those very biological men could enter what are now women's restrooms. They could also take showers with them. They could enter, these biological men, homeless shelters and even be put in women's prisons. These biological males, who now must be recognized as women could enter, participate, compete in and dominate girls and women's sports as some already have! That, as many have said, would be the end of women's sports and erase overnight all the tremendous gains which women have made in sports, and in fact, in many other professional fields as well. Suppose you had a high school daughter competing in sports, doing well and in comes a biological man and wins, breaking all biological female records. How would you feel? That, my dear American woman, would happen over and again if this INEQUALITY ACT PASSES. By the way, that biological male masquerading as a female would be showering after the event naked with your high school daughter! Would you stand for that?More. As the terms men and women are redefined, and more importantly, SEX is redefined or better yet for these radicals eliminated as a descriptive term altogether, speech would change and radically so. The use of pronouns would be changed, and to refer to him who has biologically changed to her as he would be forbidden and the use of any such now improper terminology would not only be illegal but potentially criminal in some cases. Schools would be coerced to instruct first, second and third graders that they can choose to be a boy or a girl, or neither, or BOTH! That of course would make biological sex and the science behind it a relic of the past. Can you believe this? But it is there, and here, and with a real potentiality to become the law of the land with incredible criminal and civil penalties for noncompliance. Can you possibly let this happen, Christians and conservatives, can you? These radical – progressive – socialists depend upon intimidation and your lack of involvement. They count upon you and me being afraid to stand up, protest and do everything in our power to make certain that this EQUALITY ACT does not become the law of the land. Will you do that? You must, YOU MUST! In short, this dastardly act erases, utterly eliminates sex as a distinct legal category. A first grader can decide what he or she wants to be. A young child at that age would have the authority to determine sexual orientation and gender identity no matter what the parents say or think. In fact, the freedom of speech of the parents at that level would be taken away, even penalized should the parent wish to exercise control or discipline over the young child. The Equality Act is written in such broad terms and perspectives that virtually any kind of definition can apply. Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden have publicly stated that the passage of THE EQUALITY ACT is their number one priority. This man and woman, unless of course they have decided to change their sexual orientation or gender identity, represent themselves as professing and believing Roman Catholics. They seek the comfort, blessings and benefits of the Catholic Church while at the same time championing this unbelievable, unholy and unchristian legislation, actions of gross hypocrisy if there ever were some. I for one hope the church recognizes this conduct and perhaps excommunication is warranted, don't you think?That is because, further, this act really fosters abortion. It does away with the Hyde Amendment which forbids the federal government to pay for abortions so that now all abortions can be financed by the federal government. It further exempts itself from any requirements of the RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT (RFRA) which exempts religious organizations from these requirements and in fact, takes away the further exemption of the right of religious organizations to hire those who believe as they do. Creative professionals like Jack Phillips and Barronelle Stutzman could be forced to create product and express messages through their art that violate their biblical beliefs about marriage and biological sex. The traditional definition of marriage, of course, that between one man and one woman would be done away with, even forbidden. Students attending bible believing schools would not be eligible for federal loans. And those very same schools could be denied or threatened with the loss of ACCREDITATION because of their biblical beliefs. And of course, the bible, THE HOLY BIBLE, would be labeled and regarded as nothing more than:        HATE SPEECH. Doctors and medical professionals would be required to engage in gender transition treatments, including of course religious based hospitals no matter their beliefs. And, the INEQUALITY ACT regards any refusal to offer abortion as:PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATIONwith severe penalties, not only civil but in some cases criminal as a result. Can you believe this? And these, all of these my fellow Americans are only some of the incredible, dastardly terms and conditions of this vicious bill. Please don't let it pass. Please contact your representative or Senator, especially your Senator and ask – beg him or her not to allow this incredible and un–American piece of legislation to pass. And one more thing, one more unbelievable thing. Anyone who attempts to secure employment who thinks that he or she has been discriminated against under the terms of the EQUALITY ACT can bring litigation against that employer who failed to hire that person for whatever reason, if in the:         PERCEPTION AND BELIEF that the hire did not occur because of discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, that person can sue the employer without evidence or proof of any kind of such discrimination. Can you believe that? Without the protection of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Christian employers would be sued over and again. Nothing could be more unconstitutional, radically against the First Amendment, nothing.That, my fellow Americans, epitomizes what the Democratic Party has become. I state boldly that this once great party has become thoroughly un–American, determined to radically change morals, values and lifestyle and totally eviscerate or even eliminate much or all of religion, including and especially Christianity. You and I may have our last chance to stand up, protest, boycott and thoroughly publicize what this party has become and in elections 2022:         VOTE THEM OUT! Vote them out before it is too late. Don't let this EQUALITY ACT, which is nothing more than the INEQUALITY ACT pass, don't let that happen! That would be the end of an unbelievable amount of freedoms and, those freedoms once lost:         ARE LOST FOREVER!

And another one bites the dust!  That is, another so called Christian, Evangelical organization caves in, gives up and surrenders to LGBTQ. And that would be:          BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES (BCS).  This once strong, proud fully Christian organization was one of the nation's largest Evangelical agencies involved in adoption and foster care. It held strong to Christian principles, including especially the biblical admonition that marriage as sanctioned by God and the real Christian Church was a union between ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN. That definition further extended to the definition of family where there were biblical guidelines for husband and wife, father and mother, family structure, children discipline and behavior from that one man and that one woman. In an incredible act of spiritual compromise, BCS announced they would no longer strictly abide by that biblical admonition. In fact, BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES recently announced that it would now place children in same sex households and with other families identified as LGBTQ, contrary to the direct admonitions of scripture. BCS capitulated, COMPROMISED, and caved in to the angry demands of the NEW NORMAL, the new sexual revolution and its new morality. What a tragedy and what a shame.  It should be clear to every real Christian and conservative that this new sexual orthodoxy, which champions gender identity and sexual orientation in all new ways will never be content until every facet of orthodox Christianity is excised, eradicated, ELIMINATED from the public square. These champions of radical, anti–Christian change will use every means possible to make that happen. The affect on those children, once in the tender loving Christian care of Bethany Christian Services will be life long, dramatic and entirely anti–Christian and anti–biblical requirements for child – parent.  WHY, the real question is, why did BCS compromise and capitulate. WHY! I can only wonder who on the Board of Directors of BCS were responsible and how before God and man that decision could be justified and explained. If in fact BCS continues to represent themselves as a strong Christian, evangelical organization, that decision is:          DEAD WRONG. This new sexual revolution, this new sexual orthodoxy is the heart and soul of the now and once great Democratic Party. Democrats for years have never referred to God whether in party platforms, dialogue, expressed views or political philosophy. In fact, they have not only ignored Christianity but the spiritual in general. Witness the example of House of Representatives Greg Steube, Republican from Florida who stood on the floor of the House of Representatives in late February and read from the bible book of Deuteronomy concerning the difference between male and female. This good man, brave and courageous, withstood a horrendous attack by his Democratic colleagues and in response to the alleged attack on LGBTQ, representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat from New York, a radical, progressive, anti–Christian man in my view, said the following: “What any religious tradition describes as God's will is no concern of this Congress.” Or, especially the Democrats. It is just simply amazing to me how many Christians vote Democrat when this party and its representatives are as anti–Christian as any in the entire world. Unbelievable. Shame on Bethany Christian Services. But now stands up:          CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES (CSS). In 2018, the city of Philadelphia (where I was raised and born) issued an urgent call for help. The city announced and pleaded for 300 additional foster families to adopt what Philadelphia regarded as the “rising crisis of orphaned children.” Up stepped Catholic Social Services to meet the need. Good for them. And of course, one would think that the city would wish to partner with CSS in the hunt to find loving homes for these needy and homeless orphaned children. But, not so said Philadelphia. Only days after pleading for help in the adoption process, the city of Philadelphia and its Mayor James Kenney (a radical, progressive Democrat) froze all referrals of such orphaned children and refused to extend any especially to CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES. This good organization was stunned, as were tens of thousands of Catholics, and Protestants, and people of goodwill regardless of religious belief. STUNNED! Why, Philadelphia, why. The answer was easy. CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES is, said Philadelphia, a bible – bigoted organization. CSS dares to believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Such a belief flies in the face of the new sexual revolution and morality, and of course raises the anger and hostility of LGBTQ.  And more. Catholic Social Services dares to believe that children are best served in homes with a:          MARRIED FATHER AND MOTHER, ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN. United in holy biblical matrimony. More of a response from LGBTQ and the radical – progressive haters of Christianity and in this case especially Catholic Christianity and like Bethany Christian Services, Philadelphia caved, capitulated and banned the referral of orphaned children to Catholic institutions and especially CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES. Absolutely unbelievable especially when there are so many Catholic believers and worshippers in the city of Philadelphia itself. Some even thought the Mayor himself was Catholic, even if in name only, much like Joe Biden, partaking of the blessings and the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church on the one hand, and then living the life of a politician where almost every move, decision and executive order defies, contradicts and compromises not only Catholic but all real Christian doctrine and belief. Would that men like these would be excommunicated and that real Christian and real Christian organizations would: COME YE APART AND BE SEPARATE FROM THEM FOR THEY ARE WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING.  Bethany Christian Services went the way of all compromisers. But not CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES. This good organization stood up. It refused to capitulate or compromise. But it did not stop there. This ministry challenged the city's action, and challenged Philadelphia big time. Litigation was immediately instituted and there arose the legal case of FULTON V. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.  The actions of this once great city were discriminatory, prejudiced and anti–Constitutional, flying in the face of the First Amendment to the Constitution and more. The case was so fundamental that it made its way all the way to the United States Supreme Court (Scotus). May I urge all Christians and conservatives to watch for the result, the Supreme Court decision in the FULTON case. For the outcome of this case would affect not only CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES, but more as well. The ruling in Fulton will affect the case of Barronelle Stutzman, the florist who would not participate in homosexual weddings, and others like that courageous Colorado baker who refuses to decorate cakes for homosexual weddings and others as well who stand for their individual, First Amendment and religious rights no matter the persecution or attack.  And angry attack it is everywhere. In Finland, four thousand miles away, the former Interior Minister and leader of the Christian Democrats Paivi Rasanen dared to post a picture of the bible on the internet, opened to Romans 1: 24-27, a scriptural passage hated by LGBTQ as a warning to the EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH in Finland for both supporting and joining a gay pride event, reminding this once great Evangelical church (no more) through the words of the Apostle Paul in Romans that to do so was anti–biblical. This good lady was subjected to three police interrogations which resulted in her being charged with the criminal charge of:          HATE SPEECH.  Finland's prosecutor called her actions, free speech only, derogatory and discriminatory. They issued criminal charges against her and she now faces a court hearing and if convicted, a prison sentence. The situation aroused incredible reaction from all of Finland's citizens and it will be interesting to see how free speech is in Finland as a result of this trial. But congratulations to Ms. Rasanen for her stand not only for biblical truth on the one hand, but for free speech on the other.  It is everywhere, is it not my fellow Americans, this new sexual morality and LGBTQ persecution, and attack, and anger and hatred? Have you experienced it anywhere in your life with family, friends, social organizations, church, politically, or perhaps on your local school board. Have you experienced this kind of unbelievable, hateful attack by these new sexual revolutionaries on you and traditional Christian beliefs, have you? But I do hope and pray that you recognize what is happening to all of America, and in fact much of the world. There is open hostility, and a civil warfare like WE THE PEOPLE and much of the world at large have never seen before. May you have the courage, the conviction to stand for your beliefs, to stand for Christian values, and morals, and biblical principles no matter the cost. For the fight of faith is on, and it is time to find out who is a real Christian and ready as scripture demands to lay:          ALL ON THE ALTER. Are you? Pray for Bethany Christian Services and perhaps they will see the light, the Christian light and reverse their horrendous open adoption decision. And pray for Catholic social services, that they may prevail in the Fultoncase for they, like the Little Sisters of the Poor in Pittsburgh, are one strong example of an uncompromising Christian organization. What a world. Thank you, THANK YOU for standing up. Please do it now more than ever. 

Stu is with Barronelle Stutzman, florist and owner of Arlene's Flowers in Washington state, discussing the law suit brought against her for declining service for a same-sex wedding. They're also joined by Matt Sharp, Barronelle's legal representative.

There is a general moral principle that must govern our response to public affairs, including this week's elections.----It is wrong to signal our consent to lies, falsehoods, or the propriety of evil. One might ask, how does this principle direct our conduct in politics, voting, and elections-----There are ready examples of people who have followed this moral principle, and suffered because of it. For example, Jack Phillips and Barronelle Stutzman will not consent to the falsehood of so-called -gay marriage- by making cakes or arranging flowers to celebrate such an evil thing.----For a believer to concede, or indicate his agreement, that such a thing as -gay marriage- can exist, or is moral or right, it to signal consent to such wickedness.----Yet there is a dreadful cost in not doing so. In Mr. Phillips and Mrs. Stutzman's cases, they have been almost completely destroyed by their obedience to God's Word in this matter. Their businesses have been ruined, they have suffered as outcasts of society, they have been picketed, and they have been hounded in the courts.----Yet how few sermons we have heard urging believers to separate from the consent to falsehood and agreement with evil in such cases-----Christians must examine everything we do and say, to see whether we are signaling approval of lies or wickedness.----Preachers and churches have mostly failed to to preach these truths about our practical and public conduct.----Is that because we fear having to pay the price for refusing to give consent and refusing to signal agreement on these matters-----We fear we will lose our jobs, won't be able to work in our chosen fields, will be ridiculed, drummed out of society.

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The year 2019 is the ten-year anniversary of a statement that drew the line for Christians on three central issues: life, marriage, and religious liberty. There were many prophetic lines in the Manhattan Declaration, which was co-authored by Chuck Colson, Dr. Timothy George of Beeson Divinity School, and Dr. Robert George of Princeton University, but none were more important than the last line:  that “we will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what belongs to Caesar," but under “no circumstances” could we “render to Caesar what belongs to God.” Half-a-million Christians signed on. In the ten years since those words were written, Caesar (in other words, the state) has claimed more and more of what belongs to God, especially in the areas of life, marriage, and religious liberty. Just think of New York lawmakers high-fiving each other after they ensured unrestricted abortion up to the point of birth, or the governor of Virginia advocating infanticide. Or consider that doctor-assisted suicide is now legal in seven states and the District of Columbia. And what about marriage? Recall the White House lit up in rainbow colors after the Obergefell decision mandated same-sex “marriage” on all fifty states. And think of all the stories we've now heard of believers forced to choose between their faith and their livelihood, or adoption agencies forced to choose between their existence and their convictions. Or business owners like Jack Phillips and Barronelle Stutzman having to go to court to fend off Caesar's demands. Still, let's be clear. Far more important than what Caesar demands is what Christians are willing to concede. Just this week, a new Barna survey revealed that the number of Protestant pastors who are “very concerned” about religious freedom has dropped significantly in just three years—from 55 percent to only 34 percent. This is why Christians must decide where they stand, not based on the pressure of the cultural moment, but on the rock-solid, unchanging truth revealed to us in the Story of Scripture. We cannot render to Caesar what belongs to God. I don't think I can say it any better than Dr. Robert George did in his entry to our BreakPoint.org symposium about the Manhattan Declaration: “In the gospels, our Lord says . . .'be not afraid.' As we stand boldly for life, marriage, and religious liberty, let us heed His admonition. It is not for us to know when or even precisely how the victories will be won. Our task and duty is simply to be faithful and obedient—to bear witness and do what is right . . . When things look bleak, we must not give up hope, for to yield to despair is to fail to trust in Jesus.” To that I say Amen. If you've signed the Manhattan Declaration, I urge you to read it again. Consider again what we must do to honor God in this culture. If you've not read it or signed it, I urge you to consider doing so. You can find a link to the full text of the Manhattan Declaration, as well as to our online symposium, featuring Dr. George's comments along with those of 15 other thought leaders, at BreakPoint.org. And finally, I was pleased to work with the brilliant Dr. David Dockery on a new book, which is now available, that reflects on Christian conviction. It's called “Life, Marriage, and Religious Liberty: What Belongs to God, and What Belongs to Caesar.” An absolutely stunning group contributed to the book, including Dr. George, Joni Eareckson Tada, Randy Alcorn, Ryan Anderson, Frederica Mathewes-Green, Michael Farris, Kristen Waggoner, Mary Eberstadt and more. It's available for purchase here at the Colson Center Bookstore.  This is worth repeating: We will ungrudgingly render to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, but we can never render to Caesar what belongs to God.

For the past five years, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, has conducted a survey of U.S. adults measuring what it calls the “accelerating acceptance” of LGBT people. Up till now, they've used these survey results to drive home the “right sight of history” narrative that seems so effective for the movement. The survey asks people to describe how they feel about being around LGBT people, from “very comfortable” to “very uncomfortable,” in seven hypothetical situations, such as having gay people at their place of worship, or learning that a family member is transgender, to name just two.  As you might expect, until recently, the survey has shown an increased acceptance of LGBT people, but the results for 2018 are in, and GLAAD isn't happy about them. While the overall results among all adults “remained stable,” the survey showed that people between the ages of 18 and 34 “are becoming increasingly ‘uncomfortable' with at least some of the hypotheticals.” If that's not what you expected from Millennials and “Generation Z,” you're not alone. As GLAAD's press release put it, “The younger generation has traditionally been thought of as a beacon of progressive values.” Though “the idea of ‘equal rights' is largely supported by Americans . . . “legal equality,” said a GLAAD spokesperson “is not the same as acceptance… Acceptance cannot be legislated.” Of course, the question of the hour is, why would younger Americans be increasingly uncomfortable with this movement that is supposed to be historically inevitable? Well I'd suggest, to borrow a phrase, it might have something to do with “overplaying your hand.” The political, legal, and cultural victories of the past decade have led many LGBT activists and allies to believe that the kind of complete “acceptance” GLAAD is after was not only inevitable but imminent. So much so, they became impatient not only with people who overtly disagreed with them, but even with those who were a little ambivalent or expressed a “live and let live” attitude. Their attitude could be summed up in the words of the German poet Goethe: “To tolerate means to insult.” I can think of at least a few ways in which this intolerance of anything less than full celebration has taken form. One is the consistent bullying by LGBTQ advocates of perceived foes. Young people dislike bullies. And Jack Phillips has been bullied. Barronelle Stutzman has been bullied. Any student who dares open their mouths in support of traditional sexual morality or gender norms, or even questions any extreme of the movement on any “woke” campus knows what it means to be bullied. Then there's how much the whole movement has changed since the “T”s and the “Q's” have joined the acronym and taken it over. I think this is an especially relevant point given that it's young women who are the most likely to be uncomfortable with LGBTQ situations. I can imagine plenty of young women resisting the unfairness of biological men competing against women in sports, for example, or the appropriation of scholarship dollars and business start-up grants designated for women going to men. And the more this happens, the more uncomfortable young women will be. And here's another reason: Back when it was just an LGB movement, we were told that what happens in the privacy of one's bedroom is no one else's business. Those days are long gone. Today, “tolerance” means supporting “drag queen story hours” at public libraries for children. And the demands don't stop there. In a recent article in Medium, an author insisted that anyone who won't date or sleep with a transgendered person is a “transphobe.” We often say that “politics is downstream from culture.” In this case, the water flows both ways. Popular culture played a huge role in transforming the way Americans think about LGBT issues, which led to political and legal changes. But now, LGBT politics could be leading some people to rethink how they think about these issues in the first place. And that makes GLAAD unhappy.

Christiana Holcomb from Alliance Defending Freedom weighs in on the transgender athlete controversy; florist Barronelle Stutzman takes a stand on biblical marriage; John Zmirak covers Harvard’s revoked admission to Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The past twelve months have been anything but a cake walk for religious bakers. First, we had the seven year fight of Masterpiece Cakeshop's Jack Phillips that initially led to a victory at the Supreme Court, only to be followed by ongoing harassment by Colorado officials and a transgender activist. They seem intent on proving that they really are driven by animus. Then there's the recent story about a bakery in Ohio that was targeted for protests and slander. They were just awarded $11 million by a jury after Oberlin College officials were shown to have instigated their students to believe that the owners of the bakery were racists. Finally, on Monday, the Supreme Court gave what is, to many, an unexpected kind of victory to Melissa and Aaron Klein, the owners of “Sweet Cakes by Melissa” in Gresham, Oregon. Now technically, the Court didn't rule in their favor. The justices instead declined to hear the case, telling Oregon's courts to rethink their ill-treatment of the Kleins in light of the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision. The Klein's ordeal began back  in 2013 when Rachel Bowman-Cryer visited their Oregon bakery to order a wedding cake for her upcoming wedding to her partner, Laurel. The Kleins told Bowman-Cryer that their religious beliefs wouldn't allow them to fill that request. Seven months after the visit, Bowman-Cryer and her partner filed a complaint with Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries. The administrative law judge there appointed by the then-Labor Commissioner, Brad Avakian, sided with Bowman-Cryer and her partner and awarded them $135,000 in damages. The ruling was then reviewed by Avakian who, even before his Bureau filed a formal complaint against the Kleins, publicly stated “Everyone has a right to their religious beliefs, but that doesn't mean they can disobey laws already in place.” Not surprisingly, Avakian not only affirmed the financial award, he prohibited the Kleins from ever speaking “publicly about not wanting to bake cakes for same-sex weddings based on their Christian beliefs.” An Oregon appeals court upheld the Bureau of Labor's actions, and the Supreme Court of Oregon declined to hear the case. So the Kleins, represented by the First Liberty Institute, appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court. On Monday, the Court declined to hear the case, at least for now. Instead, it decided to vacate the decision by the Oregon appeals court and ordered it to reconsider the matter in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. In Masterpiece, of course, the majority on the high court declared that “religious hostility on the part of the State itself” is a factor that violates the “State's obligation of religious neutrality" under the Free Exercise Clause. That opinion cited numerous examples of conduct by Colorado officials that clearly demonstrated “religious hostility.” By vacating the Oregon court's decision and instructing it to apply Masterpiece to the Sweet Cakes case, the Supreme Court did at least two things. First, as the First Liberty Institute put it, the Court “reaffirmed an essential principle: that everyone is entitled to a fair trial before an unbiased judge”—a benefit the Kleins clearly did not enjoy in Oregon. The second thing the Court's ruling does is leave open the possibility of hearing the case in the future. Given the record of hostility toward the Kleins and their beliefs, the Oregon court could rule for them on narrow grounds without addressing their broader religious freedom claims. But if it doubles down, like the state of Washington did in the case of Barronelle Stutzman, the Kleins could once again appeal to the Supreme Court. The current makeup of the Court seems much friendlier to religious freedom than the court that Jack Phillips visited. All of this makes the Court's actions on Monday good news. Not only for Melissa and Aaron Klein and the First Liberty Institute, but for anyone who cares about religious freedom, which should be all of us.

Kevin McCullough invites David Cortman, senior counsel and vice president of U.S. litigation with Alliance Defending Freedom, to share the latest from floral artist Barronelle Stutzman and her case that is heading back to the U.S. Supreme court after being ruled against by the Washington Supreme Court for the second time. The case is State of Washington v. Arlene’s Flowers | Ingersoll v. Arlene's Flowers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week we talked about how Barronelle Stutzman ran afoul of the Washington Law Against Discrimination (according to the Washington Supreme Court). Now we have learned that Jack Phillips, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop, is being accused of discrimination once again and is headed back to court. I’m sure you remember Mr. Phillips’ Supreme Court victory over the Colorado Civil Rights Commission back in 2018. With these court issues going on it brings me to the obvious question … How much longer will Americans have any semblance of Religious Liberty? Don't forget about the Edwards Notebook and the Veteran's Tip of the Day! All of this and more as time allows. Listen live, join the chatroom, be a part of the show.  Religious Liberty And The Courts 

Last week we talked about how Barronelle Stutzman ran afoul of the Washington Law Against Discrimination (according to the Washington Supreme Court). Now we have learned that Jack Phillips, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop, is being accused of discrimination once again and is headed back to court. I’m sure you remember Mr. Phillips’ Supreme Court victory over the Colorado Civil Rights Commission back in 2018. With these court issues going on it brings me to the obvious question … How much longer will Americans have any semblance of Religious Liberty? Don't forget about the Edwards Notebook and the Veteran's Tip of the Day! All of this and more as time allows. Listen live, join the chatroom, be a part of the show.  

This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family brings you a Q&A session between NC Family President John Rustin, Barronelle Stutzman, and Kellie Fiedorek, from our NC Family Major Speakers Dinner in Raleigh. Stutzman is the Washington State florist whose religious liberty case made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fiedorek is an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, who represents Stutzman in her ongoing defense of her religious liberties.

What is the Hyde amendment and why is Joe Biden changing his mind? Drugmaker going bankrupt due to Opiod lawsuits, California giving health care to illegal immigrants, Mexico acting to defray tariffs, Christian florist Barronelle Stutzman still fighting and more!

A proposal for a "Straight Pride Parade" in Boston has prompted a bit of an uproar on social media. Religious freedom suffered another setback this week when the Washington Supreme Court ruled against Barronelle Stutzman a Christian florist who refused to service a same-sex wedding on religious grounds. Dan Perkins is scheduled to join me to discuss Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K. Don't forget about the Edwards Notebook and the Veteran's Tip of the Day! All of this and more as time allows. Listen live, join the chatroom, be a part of the show.  Tapp into the Truth 

A proposal for a "Straight Pride Parade" in Boston has prompted a bit of an uproar on social media. Religious freedom suffered another setback this week when the Washington Supreme Court ruled against Barronelle Stutzman a Christian florist who refused to service a same-sex wedding on religious grounds. Dan Perkins is scheduled to join me to discuss Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K. Don't forget about the Edwards Notebook and the Veteran's Tip of the Day! All of this and more as time allows. Listen live, join the chatroom, be a part of the show.   Tapp into the Truth  

Hugh Hewitt and Kristen Waggoner, senior vice president of U.S. legal division and communications with Alliance Defending Freedom, discuss several court cases that will address whether discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity violates Title VII, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These cases include Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda, Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia and R.G. & G.R. HARRIS FUNERAL HOMES V EEOC & AIMEE STEPHENS Waggoner also provides an update on the Jack Phillips and Barronelle Stutzman cases.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There is almost nothing worse in the life of a church than dealing with a serious conflict, but is there a way to recover and grow from it? Dr. Michael Hare joins me to discuss his book: "When Church Conflict Happens." Plus: Alliance Defending Freedom's Jim Campbell gives us the latest update on the case of Christian florist Barronelle Stutzman. That and more on the next JANET MEFFERD TODAY.

Michael Medved talks with Barronelle Stutzman of Arlene's Flower's and Jim Campbell, of ADF who worked on behalf of Stutzman on the Arlene's Flowers lawsuit, which is a group of civil suits that was brought against Arlene's Flowers of Richland, Washington by a gay couple who requested Stutzman to design and create flowers for their same-sex ceremony. Stutzman politely declined, due to her religious convictions. Stutzman was then taken to court, and her case was petitioned by ADF to the U.S Supreme Court, which in June was sent back to the Washington Supreme Court, in light of the recent SCOTUS decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1: Jason Jones joins the show to talk about the path forward for the conservative movement. Hour 2: The War on Cops -- Jeffrey Roorda discusses what really happened in Ferguson, Missouri. An update on the case of Barronelle Stutzman, the florist from Washington state who was forced out of business for following her conscience.  Hour 3: Paul Batura talks about his book "Chosen for Greatness". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kristien Waggoner from Alliance Defending Freedom discusses Washington State's Supreme Court ruling on Barronelle Stutzman's religious freedom lawsuit. She declined to create custom arrangements for a same-sex wedding ceremony.

Frank Sontag speaks with Barronelle Stutzman and Alliance Defending Freedom's Kristen Waggoner about an important religious liberty case that is likely to make its way to the Supreme Court. Pastor Robert Jeffress joins the Don Kroah Show to talk about the left's attacks on Melania Trump for reading the Lord's Prayer. Author and columnist Todd Starnes shares thoughts from his book, “The Deplorables' Guide to Making America Great Again,” on the Eric Metaxas Show. Melissa Ohden is an abortion survivor who tells her remarkable story to Mark Elfstrand. Dr. Albert Mohler shares the backstory to Norma McCorvey (a.k.a. Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade) who died last weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Cullen discusses the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Washington D.C. Cullen is also joined by Jim Campbell of Alliance Defending Freedom to discuss the case of Barronelle Stutzman, a florist from Washington who is being compelled by the government to participate in a same-sex ceremony against her religious convictions.

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Another gem of a topic from Todd Starnes, my old Fox News friend and colleague.  The state of Washington is suing a florist because the owner refused to decorate a gay wedding based on religious objections. Who is right? The florist? The state? Should a florist reserve that right or are they violated the rights of gays and lesbians? Join the discussion starting at 9am Pacific at (424) 675-8269. This and other topics...breaking news...and Hughes Reviews the News... Real Life. Real Passion. Real Radio. The Spencer Hughes Show. Remember to support advertising partner www.shootingmadefun.com. Call them at 1-800-SHOOT-14. Mention you heard about them on my show and save $10!  To advertise on my show, email me for our many options: Spencer@spencerhughes.net.