Lectures at the annual convention in los angeles. Discrimination against religious minorities in society and the courts. This is 40 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Freedom led religious [inaudible] islamic ing on sharia and allism, u. S. Constitution. Nate walker, executive director 1791 Organization Called delegates and its an Organization Made up of legal and practitioners who help companies, educational institutions, nonprofits, deal issues of religious liberty, literacy and education. Jump in and ill start with nate. Nate, could you walk us through a brief history of religious liberty in the united states, where did it come from are we seeing today in terms of an almost redefinition of religious liberty being what, from my be thought used to of as a shield. The constitution and the constitution, the used as a shield for which the majority would not impose its now on the minority but almost being wielded as a sword by the majority. I packed a lot in there but if you could it a sh
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Recognizing those who have promoted Free Expression in areas of speech, the press, religious liberty, and arts and entertainment. Recipients included apple ceo tim cook, u. S. Representative and civil rights leader john lewis, abc for the spares dash before the first reporter Martha Raddatz and Playboy Enterprises founder hugh hefner. This is just over one hour. Good evening, fellow champions of the First Amendment, and welcome to the newseum Second Annual Free Expression awards dinner. We are honored to have you join us tonight to celebrate six men and women whose lives and work has been the embodiment of Free Expression. Now, standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together, and let me move on to more serious subjects. David bradley, a wonderful supporter whos here tonight is a genius at this. The problem is, i dont know any jokes about the First Amendment, less aye all George Carlin on you. [laughing] and where to keep this di
Welcome to the Second Annual Free Expression awards dinner. Were honored to have you join us tonight to celebrate six men and women whose lives and work have been the embodyment of Free Expression. Standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together and let me move on to other subjects. David bradley, a wonderful supporter here is genius at. This the sprob i dont know any jokes. Bt First Amendment. Unless i go all George Carlin on you. And we have to keep this dinner pg. So i did what a modern person would do, i gook willed. I mean i asked alexa, i mean i asked siri. About jokes about the First Amendment. Not much luck there. Not due to the technology. Of course. There are many stories about someone making a joke of the First Amendment and countless stories about whether the First Amendment does or does not cover jokes about mothers in law, police, or various ethnic and vrabel minorities. The answer by the way is yes, yes, and yes.
Were honored to have you celebrate with us tonight the awards for the six men and women. Now standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together and go on to more serious subjects. David bradley is the genius at this, the problem, i dont know any jokes about the First Amendment. Unless i go all George Carlin on you. And we have to keep this dinner pg. So i did what a modern person would do. I googled, i mean, i asked alexa, i mean, i asked siri about jokes about the First Amendment. Not much luck there. Not due to the technology of course. There are many stories about some making jokes about the First Amendment and countless stories about whether or not the amendment does cover jokes about mothers in law, police, or various ethnic and racial minorititiy t minorities. The answer, by the way, is yes, yes, yes. I found some possible material from lenny bruce, but i figured we had that material covered already. Seriously, i cant remembe