Our guest is Andrew Seidel, vice president of strategic communications for Americans United. Andrew is a seasoned attorney and ardent defender of the First Amendment. He is author of the book “American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom” and he shares some thoughts about our new Speaker of the House Michael Johnson
Tag: Christian nationalist
We probe into the intriguing life and ideologies of Professor Lee Strang. He is a Christian Nationalist law professor who is the go to guy for the Ohio GOP when they need conservative justifications for hurting the people of Ohio with their extremist legislation. Strang also believes the 1st amendment doesn’t apply to atheists or secular humanists.
In this episode Doug talks to Nick Little, Legal Director of the Center for Inquiry, about several recent federal court decisions that ignore science and logic to allow churches to ignore public health orders during this pandemic. Where is the irreparable harm from a limit to the number of people allowed to particpate in an in-person church service. Nick explains how this all started with the Hobby Lobby contraceptive case and we will be living with it for some time to come.
In this episode Doug talks to Sarah Levin from Secular Strategies, about her project Secular Democrats. Sarah discuss how the non-religious would find a good home in the Democratic party. She explains why the freedom to be a bigot is subverting religious freedom for all of us and finally they talk about the problem with Christian nationalists feeling entitled to our tax dollars.