Welcome to our Weekend Edition Show. Joining Kerby around the table today is Penna Dexter and First Liberty’s Kelly Shackelford. They will look at the top stories in the news this week and give you a biblical perspective. Call us in-studio at 800-351-1212 and weigh in with your comments, questions, concerns and thoughts.
For eight years she served as Marlin Maddoux’s co-host on Point of View and for two years she co-hosted a daily drive time live broadcast on the Dallas-based Criswell Radio Network.
Penna’s interest in conservative politics and the issues that affect the family began when she was a child working on political campaigns with her parents. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in International Relations. She spent 8 years in the banking industry. She and her husband Todd have three children who are in their twenties. They are members of Trinity Presbyterian Church.
Aaron and Melissa Klein are taking their fight for freedom before the Oregon Court of Appeals.
The Oregon government punished the Kleins with a $135,000 penalty for declining to design and create a custom cake for a same-sex wedding. The government also issued a gag order directing the Kleins to never again speak about certain aspects of their religious faith.
On April 26, First Liberty Institute and volunteer attorney former White House Counsel Boyden Gray filed an appellate brief with the Oregon Court of Appeals. Their brief contends that the state violated the Kleins’ constitutional rights to free speech, religious freedom, and due process.
“Our rights to free expression and religious liberty are some of our most cherished American freedoms,” Gray stated. “We must safeguard these rights for every American–including Aaron and Melissa Klein.”