Today's program revolves around the issue of curtailment of free speech and practice of religion.
Great Britain leads the pack regarding enforcement of political correctness in the job and marketplace. Harassment of Christians through hate speech and equality laws is now endemic. Paul Coleman joins us from the Christian Legal Centre (www.christianlegalcentre.com) for a snapshot of ongoing legal cases in that country with a warning that this is coming to the U.S. if this is allowed to continue.
Recently the Geert Wilders hate speech case in the Netherlands was a subject here on the program, but Wilders is an enigmatic person whose proposals many find upsetting. This reflects the dilemma of allowing people to say things you may nevertheless find distasteful. SOS engineer Jack Beukelman appears for a few minutes to see how his relatives in Holland perceive the entire issue of hate speech and Islam.
The show pauses for a few minutes to air clips of a CNN interview with former Hamas terrorist, now Christian Mosab Hassan Yousef, with a focus on how this interview demonstrates the media's conflicted representations of issues regarding Islam, terrorism and religion in general.
Many incursions against the free practice of religion and speech have been enabled because pastors hid safely behind the separation of religion and politics, when they should have been involved in the battle. Professor Francis Beckwith from Baylor University is author of "Politics for Christians - Statecraft as Soulcraft." He says there is no way these two forces can exist without interacting.
John's boralogue comments briefly about the healthcare end game and then traces the history of secularism's efforts to shove religion out of politics and the marketplace of public ideas.
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