Moses Goes to Court: The Ten Commandments in Modern Jurisprudence
May 21, 2024
Host: Dr. Jamie Mitchell
Guest: Brad Dacus
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program originally aired on 5/21/24. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Jamie Mitchell: Well, good afternoon friends, and thanks again for setting aside an hour of your day to allow us to instruct, inspire, and hopefully ignite you as a Christ follower here at Stand In the Gap Today I’m host Jamie Mitchell, director of church culture at the American Pastors Network. There are moments in ministries that you’ll never forget, and here’s one of them for me. I was in Connecticut about 20 years ago conducting a walkthrough, the Old Testament seminar. I had just finished a section on Moses, the deliverance from Egypt and the Giving of the 10 Commandments, and then there was a break. A man came up to me and introduced himself. He says, hi, I teach law at the University of Connecticut, and for a number of years I thought you’d be interested in this. Every freshman law student that studies with me, I make them memorize and do thorough research on the Mosaic law.
Jamie Mitchell: I challenge them to discover that every law can be traced or connected in some way back to the 10 Commandments. And he said it’s the backbone of our modern jurisprudence. And then like the Lone Ranger, he walked away and I never saw him the rest of that day. But ever since that day, I have had a special interest and love and appreciation for the 10 Commandments. Fast forward 2024, I think you would be hard pressed to find a pastor who has actually preached a series on the decalogue. As a matter of fact, survey done just a number of years ago discovered that only 20% of seminary students could actually list the 10 Commandments, and only 10 of them could put them in order. And my guess is that if a minister stood up in church this Sunday, asked his parishioners to take out a piece of paper and list out God’s top 10, very, very few in that congregation could pass the test.
Jamie Mitchell: We not only lacked the knowledge of the 10 Commandments, but that Connecticut law professor was right. The law of God is the backbone of jurisprudence and it’s under attack under close scrutiny. We discovered that today every commandment is being either undercut or underdone in our laws and in our courts Today on Standing the Gap, I’m joined by our friend Brad Dacus from the Pacific Justice Institute. He’s been with us before. He has a real pulse on what’s happening in the American courtroom, and I think you will be shocked when you find out that the 10 Commandments are under assault in the US courts. Today’s title Moses goes to court, the 10 Commandments and modern jurisprudence to join me is Brad Dacus. Brad, thank you for being with us again. Are the 10 Commandments really woven through the US laws?
Brad Dacus: Without a doubt, they are. And in fact, I know there’s a book that I use by Dean Herb Titus that talked all about how each of the 10 commandments are woven throughout. American law, in fact is the foundation of not only American law, but British common law. So it is something that is can’t just be ignored. It actually is very instructive and helpful for us to understand and appreciate where our law comes from and why we have the law, the foundation of the law that we have today, which is the 10 Commandments.
Jamie Mitchell: Wow, Brad, I want to just walk through the 10 Commandments today and I want you to give us an analysis of maybe a commentary on how it’s being affected today. First, let’s start with the first three. No other Gods, no idols and no pro vanity or taking the Lord’s name in vain. These laws are all about honoring God, fearing God, showing reverence to the creator. How are you seeing these laws under attack in the courts today?
Brad Dacus: Well, first off, as far as in court proceedings, the concept of perjury is all the more relevant. And in that individuals, when they are found guilty of perjury is because they take an oath, not just a whimsical kind of expression, but an oath before God to be honest and to tell the truth. But it goes much more than just the acknowledgement of God in the courtroom implicitly through the concept of perjury. We see this happening in our public schools where God is taken out. Instead, it’s replaced with a secular humanist philosophy that if it feels good, do it. If you think it’s right, it’s okay. And that results unfortunately in terrible consequences, terrible decision making with our children and our youth. Some forms of cancer are increasing among our youth because of this attitude of just if it feels good, do it, and exploration in areas that violate respect for creation.
Brad Dacus: And the creator, even the whole concept of the new transgender movement is direct blasphemy against God the creator and a mockery of the whole concept of creation. And so we see this disrespect, this blasphemy against God in so many ways. Even the Supreme Court decision deal with sodomy where the Supreme Court ruled out in favor of homosexual marriage. In that decision, they said that there’s a fundamental right for individual sexual fulfillment. Well, that’s basically the court shaking his hand and blasphemy against God saying, we’d rather be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of you. And so this rebellion against God is manifest in so many ways, and unfortunately, we are going to be paying the price for it, and we are paying the price for it. As a nation,
Jamie Mitchell: Brad, when you just ignore these first three commandments of no other gods, no idols, meaning trying to replace God and no profanity, just trivializing and showing no respect to God, you then walk into a courtroom and you’re fearless. You don’t fear anything. And I guess that’s an underlying thing we see in the courtroom today, isn’t it?
Brad Dacus: Yeah, you’re absolutely right. I remember back when if someone’s testifying under oath, especially before Congress or before court, the understanding is this is a sacred thing that they’re doing. You can rely and trust what they’re saying, not just because of the legal consequences of perjury, but because of the moral, the spiritual consequences for people who in any way acknowledge their creator. Well, when you no longer acknowledge your creator, you no longer acknowledge any kind of law of nature or nature’s God, then truth and right and wrong is just whatever you want it to be. And it creates mayhem and chaos, including in the courts. And that’s unfortunately what we’re seeing right now taking place in our nation on the TV screens across America.
Jamie Mitchell: Wow. You know, friends, those first three laws in the 10 Commandments really sets our moral and our legal compass. It’s our true north and it’s important that we never forget that. Now stay with us. We’re going to take a look inside of America’s courtroom. So when we come back, we’re going to look at Commandments four and five. Do you know what they are? Do you have any idea of what Commandments four and five are? Well, they are being attacked. Join back with us in just a few moments as we look at the 10 Commandments here at Stand in the Gap today. Well, welcome back. You’re with us with I consider a fascinating topic here on Stand in the Gap Today our title is Moses Goes to Court, the 10 Commandments. In Modern Jurisprudence, we are analyzing the systematic assault on God’s law through lawsuits, weak judges trying to overturn laws. And our guest is Brad Dacus is from the Pacific Justice Institute. Brad, we’ve looked at commandments one, two, and three. No other gods, no idols, no profanity, commandment. Number four, keeping the Sabbath essentially, God commands his people to worship him, which means to assemble and openly express our love for God. For how is this commandment under attack and why should we be gravely concerned?
Brad Dacus: Well, it’s under attack in a number of different ways. First, we’ve seen in the past cities like San Francisco and others across the country preventing churches from even building or expanding, trying to limit the number of church services they have. We at Pacific Justice Institute have taken on these cases all without charge and have prevailed, but it just shows a greater disdain and a lack of appreciation. Well then we had our society shut down all the churches during the pandemic. And initially the first two weeks when everything was shut down, there was some degree of rationale behind it. But then when you have states like California and New York and others say, okay, open up the restaurants, open up the shopping malls, but keep the churches shut down. It was a complete lack of respect. It was showing that churches and church gathering was not essential that all these other activities were.
Brad Dacus: It was a slap in the face to God. And this very important fourth commandment, we at Pacific Justice Institute saw it for what it was and we filed a lawsuit. We took it all the way to the Supreme Court, and as you know, we got a six to three decision from the Supreme Court. We at Pacific Justice Institute and an order by the Supreme Court against Governor Gavin Newsom of California saying, open those churches now. And he did. And it sent ripples across the country to other blue State and Blue State governors. So we never would’ve dreamed that the government in the past would’ve shut down the churches while leaving just about everything else open, including strip shops and pot shops and everything else. So that’s a classic example. And we at Pacific Justice are committed to protecting and defending the rights of people to be able to gather to respect the Sabbath. And we even helped employees who are told by their employers, no, yeah, we can accommodate you. You can work on Saturday instead. But no, we want you to work on Sunday, Sunday morning. You can’t go to church, we’re not going to accommodate you. We’ve taken on those cases and we’ve won because Title VII requires employers to reasonably accommodate, sincerely held religious beliefs, including attending church on Sunday or a church on Saturday depending on your denomination.
Jamie Mitchell: Wow. So we’re seeing in the courts an obvious discrimination or prejudice or a bias towards people of faith, towards churches. They’re trying to expand ministry or even just get the church and you’re seeing between laws and cases and decisions, a tamping down of people allowing to keep the Sabbath. Now, I would love to camp out on every one of these, but I want to keep moving and we can follow up maybe after we get to this next one, but commandment number five, Brad honor, father and mother, God holds high, the family parental authority and the idea that the family structure is divine ordained social order. I probably don’t even have to ask this, but how is this being assaulted in the courts today?
Brad Dacus: Oh, it is so horrific. First, with regards to public schools, public schools have become spiritual death camps. Why? Simple? Because legislators and school boards and school districts passing laws that completely undermine the rights of parents by pushing ideology L-G-B-T-Q and other ideology that completely undermine the beliefs and teachings of parents and what parents feel is best for their kids. In fact, for example, in the state of New Jersey, the Attorney General has ordered all public school teachers to lie to parents. If a child has gender confusion, don’t tell parents. If parents ask about it, lie to the parents and totally ignore the conscience rights of the teachers. So we at Pacific Justice Institute, we’re suing those school districts through our office in Trent, New Jersey. We have offices coast to coast to more than 30 states. New Jersey is one of ’em, and we’re taking on the attorney general of New Jersey, but this is happening all across the United States at a massive level in our public schools.
Brad Dacus: But even more diabolical is how public schools is, how social workers throughout the country are now taking children from families, not because the parents are abusive, but because the parents are Christian and they’re not willing to encourage gender confusion in a child that is questioning their gender identity or for that matter, their sexuality or sexual lifestyle. This is outrageous, and we at Pacific Justice to give emergency counsel across the nation to parents facing these crises. In fact, something we have for every family in America that they should be downloading today is it’s an article called 12 Steps to Protect Your Children from Being Taken by CPS or Social Workers. It’s right on our website, pj.org. Every family in America needs to have this because when the social worker knocks on your door or they call, that’s too late, they need to have this information. It’s free on our website pji.org because we have case after case now where children are being taken for these outrageous reasons. And it’s not just in blue states, it’s happening in red states as well, and particularly in cities that people might not expect.
Jamie Mitchell: Brad, I just read that in Maine, in the state of Maine, a young person does not need any parental permission to talk about or even go ahead and move forward with any gender transitional surgery. It’s outrageous when you think about the fact that young people, minors can be taken to a doctor and have these kind of conversations without parents knowing. Let me ask you a quick question. In both of these issues, keeping the Sabbath and honoring parents, one of the things I’ve noticed about Christian’s, Brad, is our reservation to stand up and say something to exert our rights. But you as a lawyer would say it is crucial, especially on these two things, the right to practice our faith and the right for parental authority and parental rights. We need to stand up and say something. Why is it that Christians are so reserved and why is it important for them to say something?
Brad Dacus: Well, I think a lot of it is fear and intimidation, and the Bible makes it very clear that God has not given us a spirit of fear, but a power, love and discipline or sound mind our niche and needs that more than ever before. We need to be bold with the truth. We need to be open with the truth. Also, we engage in what I call comfort Christianity, where we’re more about just being comfortable than we are about really exhibiting the love of Christ, which compels us not to be silent, especially when it comes to the children and the impact of the children in institutions like public schools, et cetera. So, and the rights of parents to homeschool, for example. So we’re going to pay a price for it because if we think just being silent, things are going to work out fine. It’s not.
Brad Dacus: And that’s one reason why we at Pacific Justice are equipping churches across the nation to have voter registration. Sundays. One of the ways that people need to speak out and express their convictions is by voting. By voting, you say you care and your love for the people outside your church walls is real. Our last election, we were able to get over 500 churches to put on voter registration Sundays. This year we’re hoping for over a thousand and we can work with anyone in any church across America to help implement and have a voter registration Sunday on Sunday morning.
Jamie Mitchell: Brad, the fact of the matter is the program that we’re doing today, if we ever needed a time to confront candidates, now is the time. I mean, just these two commandments alone. Could you imagine looking a candidate in the eye and saying to them, where do you stand on commandment four and five, keeping the Sabbath and honoring parents? The 10 Commandments would be a great way to vet candidates, wouldn’t it?
Brad Dacus: Oh yeah, it really would actually. It’s called a biblical worldview, and unfortunately, many Christians go to the polls and they vote based on personality or feelings, and that’s fine to vote that way if you’re voting, say for a student body president in high school, but not when you’re voting for people, establishing policies that are going to be impacting the future and liberty and freedoms of the next generation. And so yeah, it’s something that we need to understand as Christians, that we need to vote, we need to vote righteously and we need to hold our public officials accountable. And a great foundation is the 10 Commandments.
Jamie Mitchell: Amen. I hope, friends, you are starting to understand the sinister nature of what is happening in the United States today. When you read about some of these cases and trials in the paper, you hear ’em in the news, do not miss what is at stake. God’s law is being worn down and in some cases being silenced. When we come back, thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery. Stay with us as we traverse the 10 Commandments and how it applies in the courtroom today. Here on Stand the Gap, Brad Dacus is our guest today. He is the president of the Pacific Justice Institute. You can find that the web@pacificjustice.org a plethora of resources, Brad, your organization not only helps people who are facing legal issues, but also you can serve churches as well. Take a minute and just tell how Pacific Justice can help our listeners today.
Brad Dacus: Yeah, we serve churches in so many ways in terms of empowering them. For example, to start church homeschool co-ops, we have a free book they can download called Reclaim Your School, how to Legally Evangelize Public Schools and How to Equip the Body of Christ to really use their freedoms and rights to evangelize. Just yesterday, I flew in from Phoenix to speak to a group of Christian business owners on how can legally evangelize through their company, through their businesses, and we even have a free training video on our website to help business owners do just that, but we’re also direct in our service. So I love to guest preach. I’m a commissioned minister and I love to preach straight from the word of God and apply it to today for the second Timothy chapter three and four, or the book of Esther, chapter four and chapter eight, where we see the challenges in some ways similar to the challenges that we see today and how we are to biblically to respond to those challenges. And of course, I love to share the gospel because the most important news is the good news and the saving truth of Jesus Christ and when we surrender our lives to him.
Jamie Mitchell: Amen. Amen. Brad, we’re moving through the 10 Commandments. We’re at number six, no murder. Probably most people would run to the issue of abortion and the evil of abortion and how that has been attempted to nullify this commandment for 50 years. But there are more ways that valuing life and protecting life is being threatened. What are you finding in the courtroom today?
Brad Dacus: Yeah, for example, when we’re talking about people that are born, so give you an example, was a little infant baby Israel who the doctors were real quick to say, well, your child’s had brain damage and he’s brain dead, so we’re going to pull the cord. And the parents said, oh, not so quick. Not so quickly. So we brought in an outside specialist neuros specialist who examined the baby. Israel said, no, the baby is not brain dead. And we went into court, we saved up the life of baby Israel who then went on to Stanford to get proper therapy and development therapy. And so that’s just an example. Also, we see senior citizens being prematurely put on hospice and drugged and terminated, killed, if you will, when in reality they still have a healthy life ahead of them. We’ve seen the concept of the sanity of human life replaced with quality of life, and we see that being a justification for terminating people or killing people by our hospitals.
Brad Dacus: It is shocking, but it’s much more widespread than people I imagine today. And then of course on the other spectrum as far as the killing process, when we see our society not looking at murder as it is and requiring firm swift and just punishment, that’s also violating that whole concept of preventing murder by allowing murderers to go off Scot-free. We have so many people who’ve been murdered, and yet there’s not justice because those who commit murder, especially in blue states with liberal governors are just letting them out and not prosecuting or giving them very light sentences, giving them no incentive to change their ways and not murder when they’re released later on. Recidivism is very high, and that’s part of the reason it’s disrespect for the seriousness of murder and the 10 commandments, the sixth commandment,
Jamie Mitchell: Yeah. When you can threaten somebody’s life, Brad and be arrested, and by that afternoon you’re back on the street because there’s no bail, there’s no consequence, there’s no concern. It does devalue the whole issue of life. Brad commandment number seven is the marriage fidelity law, marriage being defined as one man, one woman for life and to be honored. How are the courts attempting to undo God’s ideas about marriage and how does the weakening marriage weaken our nation?
Brad Dacus: Right. Well, first, when no fault divorce swept the country, divorce increased dramatically. And it basically said, look, we’re not going to look at adultery, we’re not going to respect adultery. If you want to get divorced, fine, we’ll get you divorced. Doesn’t take both people or to prove anything. We’ll just quickly just tear up the marriage deed and you’ll be done. The cheapening of the process of divorce also was an assault on the sanctity and seriousness of the marriage commitment. And by taking adultery out of the equation to no fault, divorce was very problematic. We’ve seen terrible results, but even more so going down the road is the actual attack on the institution of marriage through the L-G-B-T-Q movement. Their whole goal and objective by having gay marriage and who knows what other kinds of marriage down the road is to dilute the institution of marriage.
Brad Dacus: And in so doing destroy the institution of marriage, people engaging in same sex, sexual lifestyles and relationships. They don’t get married or have push for gay marriage because of the sanctity of marriage, but rather more their desire to equivocate, to equalize their relationship, which God said is holy, which is a traditional marriage of a man and a woman. And that’s something that is being institutionalized in our schools. Public schools have rainbow flags flying throughout the state of of California and New York and other blue states and even shockingly in some school districts and red states. And the attempt is to cheapen marriage to blur the definition of marriage. When you blur the definition of marriage, are you cheapen it and there’s less regard for it. And we already see statistically young people are shacking up like never before, living together, not getting married, and that is hurting society because those relationships are more unstable. And even if they do get married after shacking up, studies show they’re less likely to have a successful marriage and stay married than those that do not shack up and are respectful of the other person until they make that sacred commitment before God in the institution of marriage,
Jamie Mitchell: Of marriage, Brad, at the core of all relationships, whatever relationships is this idea of forgiveness. And yes, the seventh commandment is an instruction to us to not commit adultery, but also woven in there is the fact that for marriage to survive, forgiveness is needed. And that’s really the message that God is giving to all of us, and that seems to be lost in all of this. We just want to walk away from what God has said. It kind of reminds me of the serpent to Eve. He said, did God really say that? And that I guess is what as we’ve been talking here today, I keep thinking to myself, all of these things is what God says, and that’s really what’s at stake here. People in the courts or elsewhere saying, I don’t think God said that. I don’t think God means that. I don’t think we should listen to what God has said on these things. I mean, that’s at the core of this, isn’t it?
Brad Dacus: Yeah, you’re right. It’s disrespectful of the word of God. And I’m glad you mentioned forgiveness because in the Christian worldview, in the Christian mindset, forgiveness is a part of marriage and the success for marriage and the survival of marriage and understanding that neither partner is perfect and forgiveness is essential forbearance, and to grow together as Christians and to preserve the institution of marriage, not just for the sake of the couple, but also for the sake of their children who pay heavy, heavy price when people do get married and studies show that, and our society pays a price as well when people get divorced and kids grow up without a stable family background. The issue of teenage pregnancy, the likelihood of that increases drug abuse, high school dropout, suicide, depression, and other issues that come into play as well as criminal activity. So we as a society need to preserve marriage. It affects everyone, not just the individuals involved in the relationship.
Jamie Mitchell: Friends, this coming summer, specifically June 30th or July 7th, we are advocating here at the American Pastor’s Network that your church would do what we have done for the last couple of years, and that is Liberty Sunday. This year, our theme is simply this, laws that liberate or lawlessness that enslaves, and we’re challenging pastors to look at the 10 Commandments and look at it as what God has given us to keep. Our liberty laws are not there to shackle us or to put us in bondage. Laws are to liberate us. That’s why God gave them. And so I want to encourage you to speak to your pastor, pastor if you’re listening, plan to do Liberty Sunday Plan to speak on this issue of the 10 Commandments and the importance of the law in the life of Americans as well as Christians. And I hope you will do that as well.
Jamie Mitchell: When we come back, we’re going to look at the last three commandments. You’re a Sunday school teacher, you lead a youth group. You’re a pastor who goes to the pulpit. You need to teach on the 10 Commandments. So come back, Brad and I will navigate these last three commandments and see how it is affecting us as a country through our courtrooms here and stand in the gap. Well, this has been a challenging and stretching hour. I hope as you have been listening, you’ve been putting to memory God’s top 10, no other gods, no idols, no profanity, keep the Sabbath, honor parents, no murder, no adultery. And now we’re on Commandments eight, nine, and 10. And hopefully you’ll put them to memory. I hope that you’ll start teaching them. I’ve done that in my ministry career. I have a whole series of messages called the Cyanide Code and applying the 10 Commandments to life today. And Brad Dacus has been our guest today. Brad, you’re a real gift. I just love having you on Stand in the Gap. You’ve been so helpful today to apply what’s happening in the courtroom today to the 10 Commandments. So without further ado, let’s get to this last segment and to the final three commandments on God’s tablets, commandment eight, nine, and 10. We can group them together. No stealing, no lying, no coveting. Where are we seeing these commandments subverted in the courtroom today?
Brad Dacus: Well, first, as far as stealing goes, we’re seeing outrageous blatant open allowance of stealing. It’s called Smash and Grab on a massive scale where governors and district attorneys are looking the other way. They’re not prosecuting. We had massive theft in the summer of 2020, but it hasn’t stopped. We still have lots of organized smash and grab going into stores, stealing everything, and there’s not enforcement of a law. It’s very frustrating. In fact, we have cities like Los Angeles where businesses are shutting down San Francisco, they’re shutting down Seattle, they’re shutting down in New York and other places because they just can’t function when there’s not law and order, when there’s not respect for the right of ownership of items and property. But it also even deals with real estate property. We have the city of Albany, California has taken property from a private institution. Why? Because they didn’t like the cross that was on the private institution’s land. So they said, we just don’t like that cross, so we’re going to steal. We’re going to take that property. And we at Pacific Justice are fighting that in the court. So without a doubt, people are frustrated and the economy is hurting in cities and communities where corrupt and evil district attorneys and governors for that matter, are not wanting enforcement of a law, of protection of property.
Jamie Mitchell: How about no lying? Where are we seeing that? Again, I don’t want to state the obvious, but the whole truthfulness and being honest and having veracity and what you say, that’s being worn away as well, isn’t it?
Brad Dacus: It is in so many different levels, whether you’re talking about famous trials taking place where they’re the only witness, the only person testifying is someone who has committed perjury a number of times and is a reputation of lying. And there’s a question whether or not the jury’s just going to go ahead and say, oh, that’s okay. We’re going to believe in this time. But it’s also more subtle in terms of business. For example, there’s a large percentage of the quote, sick days are not really sick days at all, but people just calling in sick thinking, I’ll just call in sick and I’ll just do my own thing. Or even with taxes and filing tax returns, the evidence of people lying in so many different areas of society, it exists. And when it happens, there’s a price that we pay economically. Our economy is handicapped by the existence of people lying and people not being able to count on each other and count on their word and count on their assurances. That creates a greater harm to society and a greater economic burden that everyone in the long run will pay for.
Jamie Mitchell: Brad, when you and I were talking to get prepared for the program, one of the things we talked about when we came to coveting was this whole issue of squatting that we’re seeing across the country. How is that a threat to the law of God? And why are courts showing favoritism to the law breaker and not protecting the homeowners?
Brad Dacus: Yeah, it’s clearly unjust. It’s stealing when you’re having squatters on a property and law enforcement’s not doing anything about it, that’s allowing people effectively to steal that property, to occupy it, something that does not belong to them. And it’s once again, who’s going to want to own a rental property, for example, and invest in a community if they know that that community has law enforcement that will not protect that property, will not protect it against squatters, they won’t. And those communities go down. They become like Detroit or downtown Cleveland and other places, or where you have the perception that there’s not protection of property in places like New York, for example as well. So it goes along also with a philosophy of coveting. So coveting. Another translation for coveting is justified entitlement. And when we have our society telling people, you deserve this, you’re entitled to this.
Brad Dacus: When you’re entitled to something that doesn’t belong to you, it’s encouraging, coveting, and inspiring people to take or legally or illegally something that doesn’t belong to them. Squatting is one example. It invokes also stealing and things like that. So when we hear the word entitlement, that’s a code name for coveting. And taking from one person something that they have earned and giving it and forcing it to be given to someone else who did not earn it, that’s giving into coveting and it’s through the code name entitlement. Very, very dangerous. And unfortunately, we have politicians breathing and living that attitude of entitlement to the demise of justice and fairness to those who are working for what they achieve and what they earn.
Jamie Mitchell: Brad, as we’ve looked at all 10 commandments today, one of the things I have recognized is that God didn’t give these 10 commandments to just curb our behavior. This is not an exercise in behavior modification. This is really speaking to the heart of people. And as I look at these last three, I can’t help but the word comes to my mind, envy, envy. It’s fueled by envy, and really philosophically envy is the core driver. It’s the fuel of Marxism, and that’s really what’s at stake here. We see Marxism really infiltrating so many of our courts today, and one of the ways they’re doing it is through envy. Do you see this as you are facing these things in court today?
Brad Dacus: Oh, yes, we do. In the concept of the Transfer of Wealth, wealth transfer, if you will. That’s another code name for stealing through envy and coveting. And we see even policies that are there for the basic purpose of trying to take from someone who has and give it to someone who hasn’t without any compensation that’s stealing, whether it’s legitimized by law or not, and the foundation of it, I’m really glad you pointed out, is envy is coveting, and that is being fueled by institutions in our society, whether it’s in our public schools, our universities, even some misguided clergy. I’ve tried to give into that sin of coveting and envy, which has precipitated terrible actions by individuals. Black Lives Matter fuels. That whole concept of envy and coveting to further its movement, to the demise of the freedom of liberty for everyone out there and who want respect for their property and what they’ve earned.
Jamie Mitchell: Brad DKAs, I could talk to you forever. We’ve just scratched the surface. Make sure you check out Brad’s website at Pacific Justice Institute and see all the resources he has there. Thanks again, friends, for this wonderful hour. I hope you’ve picked this up. I hope you’ll put the 10 commandments to your memory. I hope you’ll have a Liberty Sunday, and I hope that you will live and lead with courage.
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