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May 13, 2026 | 26:29

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Sekulow | Sekulow - DOJ Report Confirms Christians Targeted | May 13, 2026

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- the aclj is in the news, the breaking news,
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As the doj has released a report
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On eradicating anti-christian bias.
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And this is from, i mean, it's really wild.
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We're gonna break it all down. okay.
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When you hear all this
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That has been going on for many years,
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Of course, a lot of it during the biden administration,
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You're not gonna believe it.
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I mean, you may be because you, nothing shocks us anymore.
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But the fact that this is in black and white,
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That we can read it now, just stay tuned everyone,
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And i'm gonna want to hear from you on this.
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This is the reason you support the work of the aclj.
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These are the kind of things that happen.
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This is real breaking news.
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Will, let's kick it off
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With what exactly went down in this 200-page report
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That was just released.
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- you say 200, but it actually with attachments,
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It's 565 pages.
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- [logan] 11 footnotes. - released by the
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Department of justice.
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This is a report that's pursuant to the executive order
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That the president put out when he first came into office
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14202, which was tasking the department of justice
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To lead this task force, tasking a task force,
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To find out, to look into what was going on
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During the biden administration.
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During those years where we were calling it out.
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We were showing people this is systematic bias
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Against christians, against conservatives
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By the heavy hand of the biden administration.
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So we looked at this, we obviously were calling it out.
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We obviously were pleading
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With the biden administration many times through letters,
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Through lawsuits saying,
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Stop this bias that you have against people of faith.
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Well now when the trump administration came to office,
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The president said, i want you to go through and find it.
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Find all this bias.
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You have all the documents doj.
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Lead this task force against the entire executive branch
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And root this out.
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And that's what we're seeing here.
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We had that first report a couple weeks back
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That was mainly about the weaponization of the face act.
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It got its own report
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Where they weren't even gonna look into violence
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Against people that are pro-life in this country until we,
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The aclj, sent the letter telling them to.
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Now this is the second report.
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This one is more comprehensive
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And we're gonna get into some
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Of the details in these 565 pages.
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But it is eradicating anti-christian bias
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Within the federal government.
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And what they have found is it was pervasive
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And systemic within the executive branch.
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- i'm already seeing your negative nancy comments saying,
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Oh, what are you gonna do about it?
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Nothing's gonna happen. you know, that's it.
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They're gonna put out this report, then that's it.
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You're not gonna hear.
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You know what?
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Give us a little time here, okay.
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And take some wins here folks.
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When stuff comes out and it proves you right,
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Understand we're gonna work with the law
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And we're gonna work with what we have
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To make sure people are held accountable.
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Give a break, give it some time, okay.
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Everything can't be so pessimistic.
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But you know what?
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When these things come out, these reports,
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When you actually have a department of justice
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Doing their job.
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You could take a little bit of pride in them
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And say, you know what,
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At least they went through and did this.
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It's a new day, at least from this situation.
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(light-hearted music)
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- you may have seen the headline.
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The doj report has confirmed the worst.
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And you may say, logan, what's the worst here?
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And the worst as directly involved
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With the work of the aclj.
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So much so recited we're part of this entire report.
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This page, this multi hundred page report
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With footnotes and everything.
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What you have 500 pages?
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- 565 pages when you include all the exhibits,
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Footnotes and things of that nature.
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- yeah. and it's all the findings
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Of this task force that went through,
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And it was during the biden administration
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How they were illegally targeting,
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At least we believe they're illegally targeting
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Christian organizations, christian groups.
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And we've talked about this for a number of years,
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But now again, there's a full report from
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The current department of justice.
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You should take this as a win.
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But it does confirm all of our suspicions
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That this was happening.
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- that's right.
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And when you see, as you mentioned
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In the first segment, people say, okay,
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There's a report, nothing will be done here.
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Let me introduce you to the aclj.
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This is the work we do.
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And when you get a report from the doj confirming
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What we have seen, what we have been advocating for,
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For our clients, not just speaking it out into the ether
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With our attorneys that work very hard daily
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To fight for the rights of these clients.
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When you have a doj report that is pursuant
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To a executive order from the president
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Of the united states, that becomes something you use later.
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It's a tool in your tool set when you go forward.
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Because it's not just that they're confirming
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That it was systematic and pervasive
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This anti-christian bias.
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The aclj's work in our clients, in our cases,
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Are referenced more than 35 times
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In this hundreds of pages report.
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It's not just our work, it's other organizations as well.
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But the bulk of what you see here,
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35 different references to the work
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Of the aclj fighting for our clients.
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- [logan] how many of that again?
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- over 35.
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- 35, okay. that's the work.
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And we're talking about directly referencing
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The work of the aclj.
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When you were talking about this document that was released.
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This is what we've been doing on the daily.
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This is what a lot of our team has been focused on
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Because we know, as i said.
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Is it any sort of surprise when you have
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Street preachers getting arrested,
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All of these things that, bible clubs being shut down.
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Things that have not been a part
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Of the news cycle, have not been part of the culture
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For decades because of the original work of the aclj.
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Why?
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Because you had a department of justice,
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You had a administration
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Who was weaponizing themselves against christians
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And christian groups,
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And now we have the documentation to prove it.
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And again, you had probably a president
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Of the united states at the time who was unaware
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That some of this was going on,
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Because he had a big team of people
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Who were pulling on all the strings
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And they were working behind the scenes
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And were far, far leftists who were targeting these people.
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And it's really sad that it really was the case
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That a lot of those, what probably people told you
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Were conspiracy theories were true.
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But now you have a different,
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A different administration
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Who has put in this task force to take care of it.
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- that's right.
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And when you look at this, this is the department of justice
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And they were working with other agencies.
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It details in this report the findings
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Of 17 federal agencies
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That were a part of this task force.
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And it goes to show how the administration pushed
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A radical policy agenda
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Even when that infringed on the rights of christian beliefs
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And free exercise as well as the ways that they
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Went after certain cases as the department of justice
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And not as much on the other side.
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And it goes into it when you start to look at some
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Of the work that the aclj was fighting.
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Remember when we saw at the smithsonian
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During the march for life
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And also at the national archives,
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This pattern where they were targeting christians,
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Targeting pro-life individuals
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That were visiting these sites in dc.
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We got big wins from that.
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But that is even a part of this entire issue.
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It's showing that these weren't one-offs.
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This was a culture
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That was pervasive within the biden administration.
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And it wasn't just we wanna push our liberal policies.
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It was that there was an anti-christian bias
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That was real systemic and pervasive.
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It also shows there was a hospital worker in vermont
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That was forced to perform abortions against her faith.
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We filed an issue, a complaint
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With the hhs under the first trump administration 2018.
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It went so far as the department of justice
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Because of that complaint was filing
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A lawsuit against university of vermont medical center
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Because they were violating someone's faith.
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And then what did you see happen?
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As soon as the administration changed
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And it was a different department of justice,
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They abandoned that lawsuit
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And they even were taking information.
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- yeah. you know things are political
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And being run in a political way look on either side here
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When you start dropping lawsuits
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Because you're like, oh, now as a department
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Of justice it's gonna feel differently.
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- that's right.
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And just because someone was forced
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To violate their faith,
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They didn't like what this lawsuit was about.
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So they're like, we're not gonna spend our resources here.
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And what was one of the motivating factors?
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They got a letter from the law firm representing
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The university medical center that went after the aclj
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And said, look, their chief counsel,
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He happened to represent the president.
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So maybe don't listen to what his group has to say.
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And then other things like,
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Oh, even their statements on their website
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That they are a religious organization.
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That was their rationale.
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The law firm representing the medical center
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For the biden doj to drop the complaint
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And just let it go.
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All of these things show it isn't
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Because they know that they're on the right side of the law.
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It's because the biden administration
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Didn't like you if you were a christian.
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- right. we got a lot of calls coming in about this.
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I wanna take julie's call first on line one.
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Julie, go ahead.
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- [julie] hey, thank you for taking my call and first just
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Because i want to say
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Against the negative nancy's out there,
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I'm gonna be a joyous julie for all that you do
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Because i've called in dozens of times
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And i've said on occasion that we don't know half of
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What you guys are doing behind the scenes
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Until a big victory like this.
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And yes, it's the beginning,
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But how much discovery does it take to find out
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That 17 agencies,
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Let alone the dozens if not hundreds of agents that work
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For those 17 agencies are all participating
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In this discrimination?
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So well done you guys. well done.
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- thank you so much.
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And i wanna say everyone, i appreciate you calling in
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And so even frequently.
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And look, i didn't mean to like go on a rant there just
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Against people being negative.
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I understand we live in a world that's pretty, pretty dark
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And can get a little cloudy here and there,
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And it's hard to take any wins where you see 'em.
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But look, we got a team here,
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We got an incredible team, media team and legal team.
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We're working really hard for you.
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And sometimes you gotta celebrate those people,
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And you gotta celebrate when there are moments.
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And look, look sure.
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The victory in this is revealing corruption.
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I understand that that is not necessarily always
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The biggest victory to go look at all the corruption.
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But you do have an aclj team that worked very hard on this
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And you see the fruits of their labor in this report.
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So i do wanna always thank our legal team.
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I always wanna thank the media team
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That's working really hard every day,
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And not just this one hour show that you hear
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Or you watch every day.
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There's so much happening as julie said, behind the scenes.
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(light-hearted music)
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(light-hearted music)
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- if you remember just a couple weeks ago
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There was another doj report that talked about
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The different ways
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That the biden administration handled violations
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Of the face act and how they weaponized
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That law to go after people who are pro-life,
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And to shield people who are pro-abortion.
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And what we saw is that when in the wake of woe, of woe,
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In the wake of roe being overturned.
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When all this violence happened against pro-life centers,
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They were calling abortion clinics and planned parenthood
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And all of these providers
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And saying, hey, don't worry,
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Send us anything you got, we're gonna take care of y'all.
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Meanwhile, it took us months later saying,
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Why are you doing nothing about people
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That are firebombing pro-life pregnancy resource centers?
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Where's the investigation?
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It took the aclj sending that letter in jordan
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To get them to even think about it.
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And then they did some google searches
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And said, who could we talk to?
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This video showcases that.
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And remember two weeks ago when this report came out,
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People were fired from the doj
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Because of the actions that were found in this report.
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So this was a preliminary report
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That led up to the one we got today.
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Very similar from the same task force,
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But this shows kind of the work
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Of the aclj with that previous one.
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- yeah, i want you to see this video
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And look, it's a pretty cool host.
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I think you're gonna like it. go ahead. here's the video.
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Is justice really blind?
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Is equal application of the law a reality?
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Or is it nothing more than legal lore masquerading
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As an american ideal?
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In april, the department
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Of justice released a report detailing
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A disturbing weaponization of the law
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Against pro-life americans,
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And front and center in the effort
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To expose the abuse was
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The american center for law and justice.
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The report focuses on the biden administration
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In the months following the supreme court's decision
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To overturn roe versus wade.
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When merrick garland's, doj closely coordinated
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With pro-abortion groups while at the same time
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Ignoring pro-life groups,
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And the legal lever they use
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To do it is known as the face act.
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The face act or the freedom of access
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To clinic entrances act is a 1994 federal law,
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That promises to protect access to healthcare facilities,
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Including abortion clinics, hospitals,
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And pregnancy resource centers.
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The law even extends to places
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Of worship like churches or synagogues.
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In the summer of 2022,
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There was a surge in violence
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Outside pregnancy resource centers.
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This happened across the country,
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Where facilities were firebombed and vandalized.
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Included in the dojs report is the letter the aclj sent
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To the biden doj, asking them
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To enforce the face act on behalf of the pro-life victims.
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But the gears of justice were slow to turn.
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Instead, the doj used google searches to find information
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And dispatched interns to look into our requests.
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Meanwhile, that same doj carefully coordinated
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With pro-abortion ngos to track the activities
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Of pro-life activists.
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This was in order to target them using the face act.
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This egregious abuse of the law suggests
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That justice is indeed not blind at all,
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But instead biased even to the point
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Of violating first amendment rights.
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This is what puts your faith under fire.
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- i'm a side bar preacher
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And evangelist outside the northeast ohio women's center.
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We share the gospel
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And we offer to minister
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To women as we have to raise our voice
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And use our voice to get them
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To hear us over generally kazoos whistles, cowbells, music,
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Any sort of musical instrument you can hold with your hand,
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They probably use.
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Ma'am, we're all here for you. please don't do this.
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- the aclj has worked behind the scenes for years
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To protect pro-life americans.
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Even if the doj sometimes refused, like zachary
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And lindsey knotts who were unjustly prosecuted
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For peacefully and constitutionally protesting
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Outside an abortion clinic in ohio.
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- the sergeant on duty comes up
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And said, you're coming with us.
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And i'm like, for what? i was confused.
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And under threat of arrest, i went and followed him
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'cause i had no idea what was going on.
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And then i was eventually cited for disorderly conduct.
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- he said, whether or not you use amplified sound,
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If you cause annoyance to anybody again,
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Then you're going to be charged.
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- or in georgia where jason cantrell, a street preacher
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Was criminally cited for sharing the gospel
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Outside an abortion clinic even though he had a permit
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From the city to do so.
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- when the moms are coming in the driveway right here,
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We try to hand them information,
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Which is a gospel track and pregnancy info.
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So it has information for a pregnancy center
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Where they can go and get free ultrasound,
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Free pregnancy care, everything's free.
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We were just out here preaching one day like we,
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Like i've been doing for years.
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And all of a sudden an officer came out
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And said, we got a complaint, we need you to turn it down.
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And i said, well, multiple supervisors have been out here
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Before and they said, my volume's fine.
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- in massachusetts, we just filed a complaint on behalf
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Of pro-life centers and doctors who are targeted
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By a state-sponsored smear campaign.
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Whether it's georgia, ohio, massachusetts,
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The aclj is working tirelessly behind the scenes
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And in courtrooms nationwide
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Because it doesn't matter what political party is leading
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The doj or how past administrations have weaponized the law.
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It isn't about politics, it's about the principle
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Of equal justice under the law.
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The aclj won't stop protecting your constitutional rights
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And in the process ensuring lady justice's
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Blindfold doesn't slip.
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So the law is equally applied once again.
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And again that is just a small sample
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Of the work of the aclj.
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I want you to be a part of it today.
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That being said, i do wanna take a couple quick calls.
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Let's start with jim, who's been hold for quite a while.
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Jim, i appreciate it, in kansas watching on youtube.
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Go ahead.
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- [jim] thank you for having me on
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And god bless you for all you do.
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Quick comment.
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I think that the people that complain
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About what's going on in our government
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And with people like you is they don't do anything about it.
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They're quick to complain.
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But when it comes time to do anything,
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You don't see these people around.
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What i didn't tell your screeners in november
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We have a big vote coming up for the people
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To elect our judges, not the bar association.
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And i expect a big fight for that
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Because we have a lot of bipartisan help with that.
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But it goes to federal level
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Then we need all the help we can get.
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And i just wanna say that continue to fight the good fight
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Of faith gentlemen and good day and god bless.
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- jim, i know that we really appreciate it
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And i feel those prayers that you and a lot of our viewers
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And listeners send to us here at the aclj.
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And there are days where it's tough.
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There are days where the team is working
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On some very heartbreaking gut wrenching content.
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But we do have to celebrate
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When there are moments not necessarily of joy
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Because it's not like we're in joyous celebration
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That there is corruption
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That we knew was happening unveiled.
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But the fact that we are able to now prove it
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And now say now what can be done.
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And you have a department of justice right now
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That's not only saying now what can we done,
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It's saying here's what we're going to do.
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Here's how we are going to protect those of faith
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As we move on and as we move forward
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And hopefully that's the kinda change
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That doesn't just happen
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Hopefully, prayerfully within one administration.
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That is something that can have a long lasting
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American values changing results.
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It's not unlike a supreme court case
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Where it's a lot easier to win these fights
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And then maintain than it is to keep fighting him.
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I mean look, you see that over and over again.
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But every 30 years or so it seems
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Like we're gonna have to go back to court.
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We're gonna have to re-litigate.
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Your times are gonna change.
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People are gonna forget, new generations are gonna come up,
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But the aclj will be here as long as we are able.
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- well, and when you look at this as well, this,
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The title of this report is aspirational.
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It says the eradication of anti-christian bias within
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The federal government.
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Never gonna happen.
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- [logan] yeah it's-- - it's always gonna remain.
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You even see today a democrat senator, senator reed--
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- [logan] you're a negative nancy. come on.
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- no, i'm saying pete hegseth,
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Is before senator armed service committee
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And they decided to attack his faith.
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Democrat senator said,
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"you seem to have an intense interest in christianity,"
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To the secretary of war.
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And he said, "i am not ashamed of my faith in jesus christ.
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And even though you may try
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And shame me, you can go ahead and go for it."
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We know there will always be a bias.
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It is aspirational to eradicate it,
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But that is also why the aclj will not go away.
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We are here to continue fighting this
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Because these things are major wins and we celebrate that
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And we use this in our fights coming forward.
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But we know that those fights will be ahead.
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- all right, i wanna take ann in pennsylvania on line one.
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Ann go ahead.
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- [ann] oh god, thank you so much guys.
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Listen, you guys are awesome.
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I'm never gonna stop saying it.
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All of the court cases
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That you have taken to the top and have won
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And now we're getting victories, we're seeing victories now
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And a lot of it has to do with the actions of the aclj.
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Now i wanna quickly say, okay,
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That justice is finally taking place for christians,
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To be able to express the christianity in the public sphere.
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I always have a problem saying that word.
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It takes time because libs, now we have to remember,
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That libs have used the courts for years
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To violate and discriminate against christians.
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This starting of the taking down
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Of the 10 commandments off the walls of our public schools
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And the teaching, put teaching in quotation mark.
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The teaching of the bible in the public schools,
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I believe was the beginning of the downfall
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And the adverse effects
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That had taken place upon christians.
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- yeah, you can see that.
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You can see that kind of history marks certain moments
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That certainly have huge impact.
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But i wanna go to martin in north carolina.
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Martin, go ahead.
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- [martin] thank you sir.
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First of all, this is gonna take a minute
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And it's gonna sound a little negative at first,
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But it's really not.
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Logan to what you had said earlier in the week.
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You didn't know if we could come back from where we're at.
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The answer to that really from the bible is,
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No god's word says things are gonna wax worse and worse.
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We are in the end times,
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But at the same time too,
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As part of the body of christ, we have to stand against.
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We just can't stand what's happening.
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When i teach, i tell people, first of all,
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You got to know what the truth
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Of the word of god says in its fullness.
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Then you need to know what the truth is
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That is being said out there, as y'all have said,
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And what's going on in today's program
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And everything else as well.
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So that you know that you're not following
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The enemy of our soul,
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'cause he's behind all of this.
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If we do that, then we're know we're not following
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Because he said that we need to address these things
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Or we come complacent in this partakers
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Of that same sin and you are doing a good job.
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I'm fighting against it.
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But all the members of the body, we can't just sit around,
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We have to get the word out there.
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We got to call out unrighteousness.
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- martin, i agree with you.
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And look, i think there can be debates on theologically
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Where we are in terms of the end times, not the end times.
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I'm not focused on that personally.
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I'm focused on what's happening.
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Like i understand that that's a big topic of conversation
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That you're gonna have a lot of different points of view.
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But i think you're right.
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We can't just stand idly by.
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We can't just wait and see what happens here.
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We do have to have an active team.
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It's why this organization was founded nearly 40 years ago.
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It was founded because you had to have a legal organization
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And then we saw the need for the media side of this
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Because you had to be able to get the message out there,
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And you had the early days of that, tbn
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And those kind of things, terrestrial radio.
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And then all of a sudden that moved to satellite radio.
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Satellite radio moved to being able to broadcast a podcast.
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Then we were able to do live streaming.
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And now look where we're at today.
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We're able to get this message out worldwide
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In professional quality, television style broadcasting
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All around the world because people like you decided
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To support the work of the aclj.
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And not only that, you get to then see the fruits
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Of the labor here that our team put together.
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And look, things may not go back to how they ever were.
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And look, they may not be as good as you remember.
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Remember a lot of this started
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Back in the 80s for a reason.
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It wasn't 'cause everything was shiny
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And fun in the 80s.
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You had pro-life protestors having
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Their arms broken in the streets.
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You had people being arrested for their faith.
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You had christians kids not being able
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To start bible clubs in their schools.
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All the origins of this didn't start
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As some willy-nilly fun thing.
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It may be able to paint a little bit of a better picture
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Because you think of the 80s as maybe your childhood,
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But we had actually a lot of progress.
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And that's maybe why i get a little upset,
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Because when there is progress still made,
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Sometimes the immediate jump is to be this,
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Well, nothing's gonna get done.
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What do you call it?
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You you have a phrase for it?
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- the conservative nihilism.
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- conservative nihilism that has overtaken it.
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As evangelicals, as christians.
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I feel like that's something we can't succumb to,
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As the caller said.
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And look, you may disagree with his theology,
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But theologically he also said,
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You can't just stand back and do nothing about it.
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Our team is engaged.
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We are peacefully doing this.
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We're not pushing any sort of violent rhetoric.
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Unlike a lot of people these days.
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We are there for you when you need it.
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- we can then take this report when we send
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Our demand letters when their work is saying
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You can't have your bible visible.
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Well, that violates federal law and workplace protections.
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Also, here's the dojs report showing
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How this is anti-christian bias.
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We can cite the department of justice
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And it gives even more tools for us
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To use when these violations are happening.
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So this is a big win and it came out this morning.
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We didn't know that this was going to,
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Until late last night that this was even being released.
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We got a little heads up, but that's it.
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And here we are being able to talk about this big win
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For everyone in the country.
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(light-hearted music)
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Sekulow - DOJ Report Confirms Christians Targeted

May 13, 2026 | 26:29

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