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Louisiana becomes the first state to require the ten commandments be posted in every public school classroom.

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0:00 - 15:00. 1 Corinthians 12:14-25. The LORD’s body consists of many members. 15:00 - 31:00. Louisiana becomes the first state to require the ten commandments be posted in every public school classroom. 31:00 - 48:00. The “religious exemption” mindset has contributed to our society’s degradation. Video Clip Links Ten Commandments Whoopi Goldberg

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    Darkness is not an affirmative force. It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light. This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio. It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite. Delivering people out of the bondage of mainstream media. And the philosophies of this world. God has called you and me to be His ambassador. Even in this dark moment. Let's not miss our moment. And now, the Hamilton Corner. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner. I'm your host Abraham Hamilton, the third joined by my man, 100 grand, Mr. Bobby. And, in the screeter room produced extraordinaire, often imitated, never duplicated the real J Mac, ladies and gentlemen, where ready to roll with today's edition of the program. at this very moment, many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your part-time jobs, where you generate an income, to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome. And as you make that move, I want to encourage you to do so with intentionality, understanding the primacy that God places on family, and adjusting our hearts to embrace God's view of family, the first human institution that got established before there was an order of priests before an order of prophets, the first human institution that got established was the family with marriage at the center. First command that God gave to mankind was delivered within the familial context. All of these things were done purposely for God to instruct His creation as to how we We should view these things. What goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House.

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    And even though we know we currently have an Oval Office occupant, that just happens to be around when Iran is ramping up their centrifuge production. Mm-hmm. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Nevertheless, we are accountable and responsible for what we do with the time that God has given us in the spheres in which we have direct influence and control. You cannot control what's going on with bricks. You can control and you must what goes on in your home. So as you're making your transition, please, please, please make it your business to be about our father's business starting right in our homes. We would never be able to out politic or out church deficiencies in our homes. All of these people that are doing insane things, they've come from someone's home. They've come from someone's home. To the Word of God, we go first Corinthians chapter 12 is where I wanna begin the program today. And I refer to this portion of scripture yesterday, but I want us to turn our attention to it because the Word of God is powerful. It's powerful. And I'm gonna read a longer chunk today than I usually do during this segment. First Corinthians 12, verses 14 through 25. First Corinthians 12 verses 14 through 25. And this is what the Word of God says. For the body does not consist of one member, but of many. Now this is Apostle Paul referring to the body of Christ and he's using, and he's describing it as being analogous to the human body. All right, verse 14, for the body does not consist of one member, but of many. If the foot should say, because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body.

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    And if the ear should say, because I'm not an eye, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, Where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them as he chose. Wanna read that again? God arranged the members in the body, each one of them as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you. Nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable. And on those parts of the body that we think less honorable, we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed a body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. Oh, oh Lord, your word is so rich. It's amazing how God's holy word diagnoses the human condition so accurately. It's almost like it's divinely inspired, isn't it? What am I talking about? Look how, look at how the Spirit of God moves the Apostle Paul to describe individual members in the beginning of the portion that I just read.

  4. 6:09

    But the body does not consist of one member, but of many. That in and of itself is a mammoth revelation. Why am I saying it that way? There is a tendency that human beings fall prey to consistently, that what we are called to do in the way we view things, it is the way to do things and the way to view things. For example, if you have a person in a local assembly, God has given them a compassion for the homeless. Okay? An overwhelming compassion for the homeless. much so, where they set a time several days a week to go out at particular times of day to minister to the needs of the homeless. There is a temptation there for that person who has been gripped by the Lord in that fashion to look at another member of the body of Christ who may be committed to prison ministry. He understands what you're saying, but why don't you come out here and treat you with me to go minister to the homeless. When what the Lord desires is for the body to be able to respond to all of the things that God has called. He's not calling the one who's given the prison ministry to be on the streets with the homeless, nor is he calling the one who was given to ministering to the homeless to be in the prisons every week. It requires maturity for both of them to recognize, wait a minute, it is the same God who's called us and he has given you for this ministry in the prisons. And he's given you in this ministry to the homeless because the human condition would have us to act as if this one member of the body is the body comprehensively. Now I'm just using those examples, it happens in all kind of examples. One is a passing for discipleship and biblical worldview training. Another has a passion for evangelism. The one with the passive for evangelism will look at the one doing biblical worldview training. You ain't in these streets with me. You ain't going knocking doors with me.

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    The one who is biblical worldview training has the temptation, look at the one who's evangelizing and saying, yeah, but really, have you explained to them? The stages of justification, satification, have you gone through the shuns with them? No, the body does not consist of one member. To say differently, the Lord doesn't want every member doing the same thing. But he wants every member engaged, then he goes on. But the body does not consist of one member, but of many. Look at verse 15, if the foot should say, Because I'm not a hand, I don't belong to the body. Guys, that is speaking to the temptation and the tennis and humankind to kind of roll solo for everything. You know, I remember to always show Zorro. He's gonna be Zorro Christians. I have no need of the church. I will do all things on my own. No. The Lord is the one who's created his body and he's put it together as he wills. Just because you have this particular function, doesn't mean you're not a part of the body. Verse 15, if the foot should say, well, I'm not a hand. I'm not a hand, so I don't belong to the body. I'm taking my foot and I'm walking home. No, man, you're just a foot. Come kick it over here with us. While I hand you this glove. Verse 16, or if the ear should say, because I'm not an eye, I don't belong to the body. No, you belong to the body, you're just an eye for the body. See, God knows us, man. He knows how we are. He knows our tendencies and he's gone before us and provided for us guidance and counsel through and in his holy word that his spirit would illuminate his word to us so that we would live according to his design for us. If the whole body verse 17 were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?

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    Guys, this is one of the major, major deficiencies we have today in our nation because we have the tendency to want to have selectively imposed conformity, to not make disciples of Jesus Christ, but to make clones of one another. We need every member of the body to first and foremost submit themselves to the King of glory and then to be poured out like drink offerings in service to the Lord's purposes as he has fit you in his body. We need every hand. We need every eye. We need every foot. We need every nose. We need people going into various areas of service to the Lord. We need people to fill our pulpits. We need people to fill Congress. We need people to be city council members. We need people to be entrepreneurs. We need people to be physicians. We need people to be prosecutors. When I explain darkness is not an affirmative force, it merely reoccupies the space vacated by the light, much of our society is the result of believers not responding to the Lord's great commission mandate. Not responding to the Lord by going into the highways and bi-ways in hedges of the society that he's planted us in, but that we've given over everything to the unbeliever. And when darkness is occupying all of these spaces of societal influence, of cultural influence of electoral power of constitutional function and and and it's no believers in these positions. We stand out outside, I said we have such a two tier system of government. Where are the believers going into these areas? Thinking about the doctor who had the conviction to out the Texas Children's Hospital for violating state law and continue to mutilate children. And for far too long, we had believers to say, oh, I don't want to get my hands dirty.

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    guess what you're in the dirty world God planted you for this time not for you to become dirty with the world but for you to be his ambassadors to to be let me calm down this is the first segment to be his hands and feet in the time and in the context that he has planted you the example for for example that we have in Daniel when he's operating in diligence and functioning well He is serving in the pagan empires. First of the Babylonians, then under the Medes, then under the Persians. And he's doing a great job of making sure economic matters go forward unheached. Not because he's a worship of paganism, because he's recognized as Jeremiah 29. I've planted, this is me, my work, this is my doing. I want my people to increase, not decrease plant vineyards. Give your sons in marriage. I'm saying, give your daughters in marriage. Find wise for your sons. It's not time to tuck tail and run. It's not time to hunker down. That's why I keep telling you that the cry of marinatha is not a godly cry if it's escapist because that is selfish, self-centered in its orientation. It's no different than has the kaiya saying, well, at least there'll be peace and prosperity in my day. Who cares if my children suffer the swashbuckling conquest of a rogue pagan regime? At least I'm cool. One of the major realities of being captured by the King of Glory is that our love for God results in overwhelming love for our neighbor. As ourselves, we need everybody, every member in the body with all hands on deck. It's not the time to retreat. There's a reason why the Lord doesn't just say explicitly.

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    Okay, at this damn time, call everybody home because he wants us, as he said, with his foremost required of a servant, that he be found faithful. Heaven is our home. That reality should elevate our engagement in the here and now, because we know where we're headed, where we're headed should influence where we are now. This June marks two years since the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, but did you know that the number of abortions actually increased the following year? In 2023, the amount of abortions reached its highest level since 2012. Preborn continues to stand strong for women in crisis. preborn as a ministry of compassion that showers women and babies with God's love, providing free ultrasounds to mothers to introduce them to the precious life growing inside them. When a mother meets her baby on ultrasound and hears their heartbeat, she is twice as likely to choose life. $28 sponsors one ultrasound and $140 helps rescue five babies. Your generous tax deductible donation will also help to provide women who choose life with assistance for up to two years. So please give your best gift to donate dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound 250 baby or visit preborn.com slash aFR. That's preborn.com slash aFR. Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American family radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here. After July 18th through the 20th, the Culture Proof Conference will take place in Bartlett, Tennessee, right outside of Memphis, Tennessee at Faith Baptist Church. You can go to cultureproof.net to register. That is cultureproof.net to register. And I'll just tell you plainly, you do not want to miss out on this.

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    It is going to be a phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal time. proof.net is website July 18th through the 20th. Are the dates be there or you are square. I don't mean that. You may be a toggone. All right. Now this is not fool us is to sure. This is a step in the right direction. The state of Louisiana has passed legislation that make it the first state in the country requiring all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments in the classrooms. The bill was signed into law yesterday by Louisiana's Governor Jeff Landry. This is a phenomenal step. Here's a little bit of the details. Clip number one, go. In Louisiana is the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed the bill into law today. The legislation, written by Republicans, mandates that every public classroom from kindergarten to college must have a post-assized display of the commandments in a, quote, large, easily readable font. Civil Liberty groups, including the ACLU, avowing to sue over this. responded in a joint statement saying, quote, we are preparing a lawsuit to challenge HB 71. The law violates the separation of church and state and is blatantly unconstitutional. Schools have until the start of 2025 to comply with the law. It's always interesting to me if not outright laughable. And why we had to do who talked like this to describe what's happened in Louisiana. We should we should have had my man from swap people.

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    Listen, Chooten Elizabeth, Louisiana had made the step to put the 10 commandments in every classroom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, Cher. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, instead of this guy, Louisiana has made the step. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, this is hilarious. Oh, but it's so interesting to me, so the groups that are going to sue, and it's remarkable to me that they wanna sue, because the same documents exist and are published in all types of public facilities all over the country, including our Supreme Court. So we can have the Ten Commandments at the Supreme Court, but we can't have them in school. And it's just amazing. And some who are listening, maybe new to the program, who may not even be aware of what the Ten Commandments say, you know, things like, you shall not murder. It's horrible for children to learn, you know? We don't want the children to learn that they shouldn't murder. You know, you should not covet. How about this one? Honor your father and your mother. Oh, my goodness. We certainly don't want that to be included in. And hey, by the way, hey, Johnny and Julie, don't steal. You know, so this will provide a fresh opportunity for conversation in the country, for folks who are going to quote, you know, those eight words separation of church and state that do not appear anywhere in the United States Constitution. Don't appear anywhere in the Constitution that our nation understood this up until 1947, a case called Everson where for the first time in our nation's history, those eight words were taken out of context. The eight words were included in a personal letter from Thomas Jefferson to a group of Baptist Christians in Danbury, Connecticut. As this new nation's constitution was being debated, the Danbury Baptist had a question about whether or not they would be free from, and that's the interesting part, free from government interposition in matters of church.

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    In describing or in answering their question, Thomas Jefferson assured the Danbury Baptist that no, the government has no say so in matters of church policy because there's been a wall of separation erected keeping the government out of matters of church, not the other way around. So this will present a fresh opportunity for that to be navigated. It will be interesting to see should litigation ensue, how that will be handled at the Supreme Court with its current makeup, because I'm confident the case would make it there. But it's just remarkable that who wouldn't want their children to learn that? The content, you know, it's just absolutely remarkable, you know, that you have people. The first thing they want to do is we don't want that in government. So I applaud the state of Louisiana Congress, not Congress, Governor Jeff Landry, our friends at the Louisiana family forum, Gene Mills, and his team, I know they had an instrumental role to play in getting this passed. You can go back and do your research to see the uptick in crime and violence in our nation when prayer was removed from public schools and a lot of people fail to realize that the first congressionally sanctioned printed textbook for use in public education was, in fact, The Bible, not just the documents, the whole Bible, but it's remarkable how far we've fallen, fallen as a society as well as the consequences that we have suffered as a result. I mean, to this very day, there will be not a single person who would contradict the fact that right now, as it stands, our United States government has a paid chaplain on staff or congress members.

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    You wanna talk about some rich in the church and state? There are US taxpayer dollars that are used to hire clergy for Congress. This whole idea of separation to church or state is not only a, a, a, decontextualized misapplication. It is rogue. So to be interesting to see how these things will be handled. Now not to be outdone. Oh boy. I want to, I want to meet, if you guys know people who watched, if you, I need y'all to tell me, I need to know, I need to know who watches these shows. I need to know, I need to know, because I don't understand how the view stays on. And by the way, I don't think people realize this. I think, I think it's ABC, the view comes on ABC, I believe. Do you realize ABC includes a view in its list of news shows? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, I'm sorry, that's just hilarious. News, news. You know, wow, I mean, you wanna talk about an evangelistic application of a description. Unsurprisingly, Whoopi Goldberg got quite upset about the state of Louisiana's new law. And there are just a couple of things that are just frankly untrue, that she is stating was such fervor. And she may very well be sincere in her communication, but sincerity is not synonymous with accuracy. You can be sincere and sincerely wrong. And I'm gonna go through this exercise, not for, well, because I'm pretty sure she didn't listen to the show, but for you who are listening and watching the show, and for those who you come across so that you have adequate responses to people who say similarly inaccurate things, This is hoppies response to the state of Louisiana.

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    Clip number two, go. You're telling me you're concerned about children, learning things. One of the things that you don't seem to understand is I have the same respect for my child that I have for yours. I'm not asking you to believe what I believe. I'm not asking your kids and believe what I believe. Public school is public school. Means everybody can go to public school. I don't understand why, if you want your child to have a religious education, send them to a religious school. That there's nothing stopping you. Get out of my pocket, get out of my body, and get out of my school. So that was whoopee. She had some things to say. So first things first, she made the statement, If you want your child to go to receive religious instruction, send them to a religious school. Guys, I just want you to know very simply, if you send your children to a godless education institution, you are sending them to a religious school. You are sending them to a religion of godlessness. See, the intrinsic notion that hoopy is communicating is communicating is the demonic lie of neutrality. See, her intrinsic communication is that if we strip away any notions of divinity from what we call education, then that would be neutral. And that would be me not imposing my belief system upon you, but what you fail to recognize that there's no such thing as neutral. When it's happening, when you have those who have yielded to the deception, the lie of neutrality, what actually has occurred is that you're embracing the imposition of godlessness as a religious default.

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    That's point of one. I could spend a whole lot more time there, but I'm going to move on to point number two. Then you heard her quite passionately say, get out of my pocket. I'm so glad you said that. I'm glad you said that. Most of you listen to this program, you know my wife and I, we disciple our children from home, including the education. What do you realize that we still pay tax dollars that are used for the godless indoctrination camps that we call schools? So if whoopee, if you wanna say get out of my pocket, are you also ascending to the notion that if I direct my children's education away from your godless indoctrination camps? She said that your schools by the way, get out of my pocket, get out of my schools. So if I direct my children's education away from your godless indoctrination camps, then I should be able to keep my dollars away from there too, right? And ask whoopee what she would say to that. She would act on a moments notice doing about face and say, no, no, no, no, no, we need everybody to still contribute their money. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh. And there's the rub, ladies and gentlemen. No, she don't want you to get out of her pocket. She want to continue to get it in your pockets. She wants continued access to your pockets, regardless of what you decide to do with your children's instruction. And I want you to understand that there are retirees who don't have any children who are still paying taxes to go to the school to the public school system, all over this country, all over this country, which is why I'm telling you she doesn't really mean what she's saying, what she wants is to continue to have a monopoly on the hearts and minds of the overwhelming majority of the American children to impose the myth of neutrality, which is nothing more than godless indoctrination.

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    Godlessness normalized is what she wants. And then she just comes out, get out of my body. has nothing to do with being said, but what she's going to have that familiar trope of religious people they want control of it, and which is once again, insane, because the same people, most many of them, most of them, many of them have no consistency in logic because they're laws against public indecency, laws against nudity, laws against all these other kind of things. They never say any of this stuff about my body on those fronts. All they want is the right to to elicit sexual activity and to kill the natural product of sexual intercourse between a man or one, which is a child. You know, the whole notion and look, and I understand it, y'all know I'm from the hood. I have my own family members have been touched by this, but this whole idea of unplanned pregnancy, except for the narrow context where a woman is violated in rape, you can't say unplanned pregnancy. If I get in the car, and turn on the ignition and put the car in drive, I can't play shocked that the car goes forward when I take my foot off the gas, I'm off the brake. I didn't press the gas yet, but I'm taking my foot off the brake. Cue my, oh my, I can't believe it, the car moved forward. When you lay down, you lay down, let's stop the madness. But that is not germane to this particular conversation at the moment, but I just, I get tired of the red herrings and our culture that is driven by lies and deception. And we use lies and deception to make argument and develop policy based on lies. You know what I just, not for it. So I want you to be aware. I want you to be aware. And the next time somebody tells you, get out of my pocket. When it comes to education, you just be like, you get out of my pocket. Is you being in my pocket as the problem?

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    If you want to fund godless indoctrination, you fund godless indoctrination. I shouldn't have to agree with, if I don't agree with your godless indoctrination, I shouldn't have to fund it. And this is building to the point I'm going to make, I'm going to say next. We need to get out of this mindset that if you are a person who is committed to following Jesus Christ, we need to get out of the mindset that we're going to allow mainstream society to continue as it is, and we want to adopt the disposition of having an exemption to allow me to do what I want to do. Because that mentality has gotten us to where we are right now, to where the main thrust of society is perpetuated and perpetual godlessness, but we'll carve out an exemption for you to go ahead Pat you on your head and sit over here. That is not first and foremost what God requires of you and me. Secondarily, it is not what is made available to us, protected for us in our Constitution. We have the right to the free exercise of religion and every scope of our society. We have the freedom to live according to our conscious and convictions in the Lord. The Hamilton Quarter Podcast and One-Minute Commentaries are available at eFR.net. back to the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner. I'm gonna continue what I'm talking about, and I'm gonna describe a legal phenomenon, but I'm not limiting my conversation to this point to the legal phenomenon. I'm talking more so about the mindset, but I want you to see this as an example, and then extrapolate the application as it is appropriate. In the state of Minnesota, this just happened. Guys, in state of Minnesota, In 2023, the legislature passed a statute called the Minnesota Human Rights Act. All right. I'm sorry, they amended. They didn't pass it as of initial passing.

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    They amended the Minnesota Human Rights Act to add anti-discrimination protections for a new category, novel in Minnesota law for protected class status called gender identity. All right. Now, the Minnesota Human Rights Act dates back to 1993, where, among other things, the states sought to establish a state version of a Civil Rights Act, basically, in establishing protected glass status under state law. All the way back in 1993, the state of Minnesota included protected glass status for sexual orientation, okay? But they did not have a separate category yet for gender identity. ended up happening was that the 1993 past Minnesota Human Rights Act included an exemption of the application of the non-discrimination provisions, protecting sexual orientation. They exempted religious organizations from the application of that law. All right. So, the default posture of the state of Minnesota is that we protect various classes of Minnesotans, those who ascribe to quote unquote actual or perceived sexual orientation. I'm sorry, not actual or perceived sexual orientation, but sexual orientation. They added an amendment in 2023 to also protect actual or perceived gender identity. Though they added the additional protected class category of gender identity, they did not include the corresponding addition of exclusion from the application of that law of religious organizations for gender identity. So to say it simply, the exemption that applied to sexual orientation for religious organizations and churches and so forth did not apply to gender identity.

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    All right. Is everybody with me so far? Now many in the state of Minnesota, including those who are pro-family, pro-faith Christians in the state, they believed that the failure to extend the exemptions for religious organizations and churches in the state to protect them from having to comply with the state's gender identity protections, they thought it was an accident. They thought it was an oversight. Oh, of course you're going to apply the same protections that you apply from 93, but oh, where are they wrong? this foresight, sorry, when this oversight, so they thought, was presented to the state legislature, the House Judiciary Chairman stated on the record that the omission of the basically the protections of the Christians in the church from having to comply with the state's gender identity law wasn't an oversight. The House of Representatives chair of the Judiciary Committee revealed, oh no, that was done That was that intentionally. We don't believe that you bigots can use faith as an excuse for your bigotry. Then a discussion ensued, and this, let me give you who it is, this is a quote from Renee Carlson who was a wonderful believer, a true fighter. Renee Carlson is quote, unquote, a discussion ensued during the committee hearing where democratic legislatures not only refused to accept an amendment to protect religious organizations, but also call the amendment to protect religious organizations disturbing and disgusting. In quote, so here's the picture. The state of Minnesota, they want to provide protected class status to sexual orientation, people who ascribe to varied sexual orientation, and as well as those who would ascribe to actual or perceived gender identity.

  19. 38:09

    Christians in Minnesota said, well, that law shouldn't apply to us because we have deeply held religious beliefs that we're not trying to be bigger towards you, but our faith says that is sin and we should not be compelled by state law to sin. The state of Minnesota initially, and I'm going to explain the whole story, said, well, fool you on your own your religion. We're not going to allow your faith to be an excuse for you to fail to comply with this state law. Now again, think about this. The Christians initially thought it was an oversight. They learned subsequently, oh, no, no, no, no, no, one oversight. They were changing the law intentionally after it was exposed that, well, this wasn't an oversight. The Christians fought in Minnesota. They brought the attention to the House Judiciary Committee. And then later on, the state of Minnesota's legislatures, both houses, agreed to amend the Minnesota Human Rights statute to once again, extend the application of the protection for churches and religious organizations from having to comply with the state non-discrimination laws, all right? Once again, here's the rub. There are lots of Christians in the state of Minnesota that don't work at churches, that don't work at religious organizations. What about the dentist who is a Christian? What about, what about the baker? You know, the, the, the, you know, So what it is, you have capitulation and compromise for religious organizations, but that is not what I first remember, is this to protect? And here's why I'm saying this. And I'm just gonna say it plainly. I'm sick and tired of Christians adopting this. Well, it's fine for you to be hellish. Just exempt me from the application of your hellish laws and hellish rules. We need to be willing to begin to make the case publicly.

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    And let me be more clear. The fact that we have such a continued proliferation people that rebel against truth is an indication that we are not cultivating what George Washington said were indispensable supports of our Constitution Republic. It continuously moral and religious people according to Christian doctrine. What has to occur and what I'm driving at with this discourse at the moment is an adjustment of our mindset. We should make the case publicly. Why it's important for marriage to be between a man and a woman. We should continue to make the case publicly. Why children should have a mom and a dad. We should make the case publicly. Why it's not only good for us to be able to live according to our faith inside our church walls. Why it's better for you. It's better for you that I live according to the Ten Commandments that I know is wrong to murder you. What I'm saying simply is we need to get out of this mindset. We need to be mealy-mouthed and hat-in-hand and, sir, I'm sorry, sir, I understand that this is what you would prefer. But I have a wee little request I like to make of you that I would allow you to continue to run headlong in sin. But I would like to be exempted from your regime if you ever would so please, sir. That's not the approach. It's not the approach. And we can't continue to back up, see more ground. Back up, see more ground. Because the next thing you know, there's no more ground to seed. There's no more ground to seed. How long are we going to continue to retreat? How long are we going to continue to back up? This is why I sounded alarm very loudly when Barack Obama was running around the world saying, yes, in America, we have freedom of worship.

  21. 42:18

    No, we don't, bro. That ain't it. You're lying. That's not it. That's not it. It's a free exercise of religion, not a contracted, minimized box-in, boxed-in, freedom to do what I want to do inside of my building. No, what is protected is my ability. If I want to walk in a town square and sing, how great is our God? I can say, shout it at my highest lungs. And I'm talking more about the posture. We fought for 50 years to overturn Obergefell. I'm sorry, Roe versus Wade. Guess what? Yes, we're coming for Obergefell. Yes, that was not a constitutionally sound decision. And it's amazing for years you have people like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who's on a Supreme Court, who's certainly a celebrant of abortion, but she doesn't admit, it's not really constitutional, but I mean, what's the constitution matter anyway? You know what matters is? Reproductive freedom is what really matters. No, no. And again, I'm not saying we need to be hostile or belligerent, but we do need to be resolute. We do need to be consistent. We do need to continue. Oftentimes, oftentimes we have people who are fleeing and retreating before there's ever even really a fight. But I haven't. We had more conversations about the necessity and the importance of overturning Obergefell. Is it because we're intimidated by the prevalence, the volume of the culture? Have we become like the fighting men and even King Saul when the lives came out fee five full from who's going to try to approach my thumb.

  22. 44:21

    You know, all I'm saying, man, as we've been ordained for this moment, all I'm saying is we need to get out of this mindset, this, this exemption mindset, this do it, but exit me mindset. Okay, but not me mindset. Am I saying this is going to be easy? No. Am I ignoring the cost of scripture commands, count the costs. But one of the things that has become prevalent, well, not say prevalent, one of the things that has become obvious is that we have a lot of people that are trying to curate for themselves a persecution less life. But they already told us, positiveness and determinity. Any who desire to live godly at some point, at some point, who will face persecution? That's not a question. The only variables are, to what extent, how intense? Some of you, as you're listening to me, You know, you went through a little bit of it doing, doing schmovit, you know, you had love wants to say, I don't know, come over here. Don't, if you're not going to, you didn't get the jab, you didn't get the shot. Don't come over here. That's, that's an aspect of it. Nobody wants to intentionally lose and have cessation of relationship with family members and friends. I'm not saying that's the same as being burned at the stake, but that's, that's a part of it. Some of you haven't fall outs over other things. That's not fun, but we don't have to be. Tap it or tempt it or afraid and we must persist in love or communicate to our love I've felt it just like you guys. I had people at certain point to say oh, no this guy He always oh here comes a you know, he don't want to talk about the Bible Yes, I do want to talk about the Bible. I've had to say, you know what and I'm wanting to do this because I Love you so much That I want you to understand what is true You can tell me you don't believe in prisons, but if you commit a crime It doesn't mean that your lack of belief that prisons exist will keep you from going there I'm not gonna try to make all of our interaction about this, but I am going to communicate it to you now Let's go play taboo, you know pull your car. Let's play some uno get the dominoes out Let's get the get the let's play some spades, but we don't have to we must get out of this this exemption mindset. Sure do it but exempt me. That doesn't work guys and frankly that's not loving our neighbors.

  23. 47:30

    It's not, it's not, it's not, it's not. So this example from Minnesota is something that's happened. I can't tell you the number of conversations I've been in with, you know, on a national level. People are doing the exact same thing. You can advance your, you know, sexually deviant policy just having exemption for these official, you know, religious organizations. That says nothing for the Christians who are not employed in or work in these organizations, which is the more there more Christians who don't work in these religious organizations than who do. We shouldn't be devoted solely to an exercise of minimized limited self-preservation. We need to be committed to being salt and light. And as we started out the program, welcome the Lord to move us to fill the various places within the body would God would plan us so that collectively we're engaged in being his hands and feet." The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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