Critical Legal Issues

About this episode

Mat Staver discusses critical legal issues related to religious freedom and recent Supreme Court cases.

Mat Staver is founder & chairman of Liberty Counsel. Mat is a constitutional attorney with three landmark cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He's an author and the host of the radio broadcasts Faith & Freedom, Freedom's Call and the TV broadcast, Freedom Alive. Jim had Mat comment on the following cases, pertinent to your religious freedom: In an 8-1 decision in the case of Chiles v. Salazar, the Supreme Court ruled that the ban on (so-called) conversion therapy (actually talk therapy) for minors violates the free speech of licensed counselors. Justice Katanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenting vote. There was a settlement agreed to by the city of Louisville, Kentucky, regarding a Christian photographer who was threatened with legal sanction if she did not serve (so-called) same-sex weddings. The photographer was also prohibited by the city from expressing her views on marriage on her own studio website. Earlier this month, Mat argued before the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Zinski v. Liberty University. It's a case involving Jonathan Zinski, who Mat believes, "... intentionally set up Liberty University to try to take them down." This case could…

People in this episode

Host: Jim Schneider

Guest: Mat Staver

Topics covered

• religious freedom
• constitutional law
• Supreme Court cases
• conversion therapy
• same-sex marriage
• birthright citizenship
• Islamic Sharia

Keywords

• religious liberty
• conversion therapy
• Supreme Court
• Liberty Counsel
• same-sex weddings
• birthright citizenship
• Islamic Sharia

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Liberty Counsel, U.S. Supreme Court, Liberty University

Places: Louisville, Kentucky

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