{"id":18443,"date":"2020-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/defending-religious-liberty\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T21:11:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:11:38","slug":"defending-religious-liberty","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/defending-religious-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending Religious Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[89],"series_event":[518],"sermon_service_type":[474],"speaker":[515],"class_list":["post-18443","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-acts","series_event-guest-speaker","sermon_service_type-wednesday-evenings","speaker-kelly-shackelford","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"Defending Religious Liberty","sermon_date":"20200923","sermon_month":"09","sermon_year":"2020","sermon_notes":"","sermon_slides":"","sermon_mp3":8458,"sermon_id":"92320212076618","series_or_event":518,"service_type":[474],"speaker":515,"books_of_the_bible":89,"chapter_and_verse":"- Acts 16:35-40","sermon_transcript":"Kelly Shackelford, Esq., is President and CEO of First Liberty Institute, the largest legal firm in the nation dedicated exclusively to protecting religious freedom for all Americans. He has served in this role since 1997, leading First Liberty\u2019s efforts to defend religious freedom in the courts and in the public arena. Under his leadership, First Liberty\u2019s legal team has participated in cases before the United States Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, federal district courts and various state courts, where they have won more than 90 percent of their cases.\r\n\r\nShackelford is a constitutional scholar who has argued before the United States Supreme Court, testified before the U.S. House and Senate, and has won a number of landmark First Amendment and religious liberty cases including a recent watershed, precedent-changing victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association.\r\n\r\nHe was recently named one of the 25 greatest Texas lawyers of the past quarter-century by\u00a0Texas Lawyer<\/em>\u00a0and is the recipient of the prestigious William Bentley Ball Award for Life and Religious Freedom Defense for pioneering work protecting religious freedom.\r\n\r\nShackelford is a highly sought-after speaker and frequent guest on national news and talk shows including\u00a0Good Morning America,\u00a0<\/em>The Today Show,<\/em>\u00a0CNN,\u00a0Fox and Friends,\u00a0<\/em>MSNBC, and\u00a0Hannity<\/em>. He also has been featured in the National Law Journal, Associated Press,\u00a0The New York Times, The Washington Times, The Washington Post,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The L.A. Times,<\/em>\u00a0and many others.\r\n\r\nShackelford is on the Board of Trustees of the United States Supreme Court Historical Society and earned his law degree from Baylor University.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/firstliberty.org\/team\/kelly-shackelford\/<\/a>\r\n\r\nSpeaker introduction begins around the 10-minute mark of this video.","series_sermon_number":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t