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EPISODE · Feb 27, 2025 · 54 MIN

Brandon Gill, Laurel Libby, Arielle Del Turco, Greg Smith, Andrew Walker,

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On today’s program: Brandon Gill, U.S. Representative for Texas’s 26th District, discusses USAID’s taxpayer-funded spending on overseas transgender surgeries, DEI programs, and LGBT initiatives. Laurel Libby, Maine State Representative for House District 90, responds to the Maine legislature’s decision to censure her for speaking out about a transgender athlete who won a girls' competition. Arielle Del Turco, FRC’s Director of the Center for Religious Liberty, highlights the growing persecution of Christians in India, including violent threats, and introduces FRC’s new issue brief Violence and Discrimination Against Christians in India. Greg Smith, Senior Associate Director at Pew Research, lays out findings from the latest Pew Research report showing that the decline of Christianity in the U.S. has halted. Dr. Andrew Walker, Associate Dean in the School of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, analyzes what the Pew Research report’s findings mean for the future of the church.

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