Hey guys, welcome to episode 13. I think it's, I think it's 13 of CRTV's relatable with me,

Ali Stucky. For those of you who don't know, this is a podcast that discusses relevant

cultural, political, and theological issues from a conservative and reformed Christian perspective.

Last week we talked about free speech, what it is, what it isn't, why it's important,

and we touched on another part of the First Amendment, which is religious liberty,

and that is what we are going to focus on today, at least partly. We are going to discuss the

masterpiece cake shop, Supreme Court case, which involves two gay men and a Christian cake baker,

as well as a lower level case taken on by First Liberty Institute about Sam Blackledge,

the valedictorian at an Illinois high school who was censored a graduation for planning to

include remarks about his faith in his commencement address. And then I will touch on a

couple other topics in the news, including Bill Clinton and Miss America. I will also answer a

couple of your questions that you guys sent me, you sent me a ton of really good ones, but I only

ever have time for a couple. So I'm going to answer one regarding the morality of birth control that

I think I got last week, and then another question involving Catholicism. But first before I do

any of that, I want to point out a mistake that I made on last week's podcast regarding the religious

liberty report I cited. I said that Secretary Pompeo released a religious liberty report last week,

which he did, but that was not actually the report I read from. I read from the 2017 United

States Commission for International Religious Freedom, which is different. And also not the most

up-to-date report, which is their report from 2018. All of the facts that I read to you are correct,

but I somehow, and honestly, I don't know how. I am not careless. I don't know what happened.

I cited the wrong report and said inaccurately who actually released the report. So I apologized

for that, but I just wanted to let you guys know. Okay, moving on. Let's get into the masterpiece

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