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S6, Ep. 08: Ten Commandments and Trump’s first week
01/31/2025
S6, Ep. 08: Ten Commandments and Trump’s first week
Special Presentation: We're bringing you the latest episode of the Respecting Religion podcast on the BJC Podcast feed. Join us on the Respecting Religion podcast feed for more episodes! In this week’s episode of the Respecting Religion podcast, Amanda and Holly discuss the problems with government mandates to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms, focusing on a case out of Louisiana. BJC and other Christian groups filed a brief in that case to explain why, as Christians, we oppose the Louisiana law and how the government’s decision to choose a religious text to display in a public school setting not only cheapens our faith but also puts the government in a role it is not called to play. Plus, Amanda and Holly talk through President Donald Trump’s first week back in the White House, sharing where they saw concerning signs for religion and religious liberty. First released January 30, 2025 SHOW NOTESSegment 1 (starting at 01:53): President Trump’s first week back and backlash to a sermon Amanda and Holly talked about ways to handle a constant influx of news and the dangers of “God saved me” rhetoric when others died in the episode after the 2024 election: Amanda wrote a piece for Bloomberg Opinion about the backlash to Bishop Mariann Budde’s sermon at the service of unity and what it teaches us about religious freedom: Learn more about the two new religious liberty cases to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in this piece on our website: Amanda and Holly discussed the issues with religious charter schools in 2024: Read more about the lawsuit filed by a group of Quaker congregations opposing raids in churches on religious freedom grounds in this article by Bernie Pazanowski for Bloomberg Law: Segment 2 (starting at 15:35): Louisiana’s mandate to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms Read the brief from BJC and other Chrisitan groups in Roake v. Brumley . Learn more about the case in this post on our website: Holly and Amanda discussed the Kennedy v. Bremerton decision and its abandonment of the Lemon test in this episode in 2022: Holly and Amanda discussed the Ten Commandments on two episodes in 2023 when a bill was being discussed in Texas: Segment 3 (starting 31:08): Oral arguments and what’s next Hear last week’s oral arguments in this case at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals . Respecting Religion is made possible by BJC’s generous donors. Your gift to BJC is tax-deductible, and you can support these conversations .
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