Mathew Staver

We're gonna be talking about the issues that are very significant in this case and the upcoming developments on Faith and Freedom.

I'm Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel.

Joining me is Holly Mead.

You know, since I've been at Liberty Counsel, we've had several cases that have attracted a lot of media attention, and this is one of them.

[dramatic music] We must protect women's sports.

This is Matt Staver with Freedom's Call.

New research has revealed that almost two thousand three hundred first place medals have been taken by males in women's sporting events.

Women in professional sports have lost approximately five hundred and one thousand dollars in prize money.

So given the choice of Christian church or no Christian church in the child's upbringing, the court decided the latter was better.

Now, here's Matt Staver, whose law firm, Liberty Counsel, is representing Bickford.

Uh, he took the Maine Supreme Court to task for its ruling.

Quote, "This opinion rejects the First Amendment right of a fit parent to raise her child consistent with the Christian faith," he said.

"This opinion goes against other state court decisions involving custody in the context of the religious free exercise rights and ignores the precedent from the United States Supreme Court." So not only was this a horrible ruling, but they ignored all of this precedent, which would give them ample grounds to rule the other way should this court decide, ha- have decided to do that.

Matt Staver says, "We will ask the High Court to take this case and overrule this decision, depriving a parent of their right to instill their religious views into their child and granting sole authority to the other parent," other unregenerate non-Christian parent, I might add, who doesn't have a biblical worldview.

Uh, the other parent fails to, uh, give proper protection to parental rights and religious freedom under the First Amendment.

"The implication of this opinion poses a serious threat to religious freedom," he added.

We're gonna be talking about this situation on Faith and Freedom.

I'm Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel.

Joining me is Holly Mead.

Well, of course, we deal with this situation very often on the elementary school level in public schools trying to discriminate against the Good News Clubs and Child Evangelism Fellowship.

We're gonna be talking about this case on Faith and Freedom.

I'm Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel.

Joining me is Holly Mead.

Well, Mat, as you know, we're getting ready to present oral argument to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in this lawsuit against the city of Seattle, and other officials are also involved, on behalf of Christian organizers who tr- were trying to have and did have a grassroots revival event called Mayday USA.

Yeah, they did actually have a successful event in three other cities until they came to Seattle, Washington.

Mm.

Now an attorney for Child Evangelism Fellowship is fighting back, defending school districts from the effort.

Liberty Council Chairman Matt Staver is calling the Satanic Temple's goal disruptive rather than educational, and parents aren't happy about the proposal either.

We have enough problems in the world to encourage the kids to actually take on this kind of attitude and demeanor.

It's just absolutely not acceptable.

This week we told you about the Satanic Temple pushing for after-school Satan clubs for kids.

Now an attorney for Child Evangelism Fellowship is fighting back, defending school districts from the effort.

Liberty Council Chairman Matt Stavers calling the Satanic Temple's goal disruptive rather than educational.

And parents aren't happy about the proposal either.

And man, those words really resonate with me, which is why we're fighting the good fight of faith to make sure that we don't lose our liberty here.

I was thinking as you spoke, I was talking to Matt Staver earlier, And Matt Stavers said the first time he visited Soviet Russia, he said when he landed in Soviet Russia, he said, you didn't go get to pick a hotel.

You had a hotel assigned to you.

you were told you will stay here.