{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Honorable Janice Rogers Brown","description":" Today we bring you a show taped live at the CURE 2025 National Clergy Summit in Washington, D.C., at the iconic Willard Hotel\u2014where history meets destiny just two blocks from the White House.   The voice you\u2019re about to hear belongs to the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown, a judicial titan who rose from segregated Alabama to the California Supreme Court and then to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, confirmed in a 56\u201343 Senate showdown that still echoes in conservative lore. She retired in 2017 as one of the sharpest originalist minds of her era, a Bradley Prize laureate, and the author of the explosive 2024 essay *\u201cBread and Stones,\u201d* which declares the Supreme Court\u2019s 1873 *Slaughter-House* decision turned the 14th Amendment\u2019s promise of liberty into a stone of oppression for Black Americans and every citizen since.   But forget the r\u00e9sum\u00e9\u2014this is no dusty lecture. Judge Brown steps to the Willard podium and delivers a sermon that feels like a lightning strike. She opens with a kindergarten story about a boy who draws God in ten minutes, then pivots to a chilling diagnosis: America has fallen from \u201ccity on a hill\u201d to a meteorite streaking into the abyss, its light fading in a culture drunk on power and contemptuous of the Creator who once defined our equality. She quotes Ken Burns calling the American Founding the second greatest event in human history, then sharpens the blade: it only matters because the Founders tethered equality to God, not human whim. Calvin Coolidge\u2019s 1926 warning rings through her words\u2014\u201cIf all men are created equal, that is final\u201d\u2014and anyone who denies it is marching backward into tyranny.   She resurrectes the \u201cblack regiment\u201d of colonial preachers whose pulpits birthed the Revolution, then warns today\u2019s clergy: you are the last line before Canadian-style arrests for preaching biblical sexuality. California already fines citizens $250,000 for refusing to call a man \u201cshe,\u201d and the First Amendment\u2019s right to silence is dead under SOGI laws. Congress flipped from defending marriage in 1996 to codifying *Obergefell* in 2022, proving we are not the people who sustained liberty for 250 years. On campuses, students chant \u201cDon\u2019t tell me facts!\u201d and declare objective truth a Euro-West weapon to silence the oppressed\u2014Isaiah\u2019s lament that \u201ctruth has fallen in the streets\u201d has never felt more urgent.   Yet rebellion, she insists, isn\u2019t ignorance; it\u2019s defiance. We know right from wrong because it\u2019s written on our hearts. The rainbow flag isn\u2019t about tolerance\u2014it\u2019s about forcing celebration to quiet guilty consciences. She closes with Martin Luther King\u2019s dream, updated for our moment: dissatisfied until no one shouts white power, black power, or trans power, but God\u2019s power and human power. \u201cWe\u2019ve messed this up so badly no human can fix it,\u201d she says, voice steady with hope, \u201cbut that ain\u2019t all we got.\u201d   If you\u2019re a pastor, parent, or patriot who still believes America\u2019s founding was a spiritual revolution worth fighting for, this is your battle cry. Judge Brown doesn\u2019t just diagnose the darkness\u2014she hands you the torch. Sit down, press play, and bring the salt. The culture\u2019s tomatoes are already flying. ","author_name":"CURE America","author_url":"http:\/\/thecureamericapodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"