God's Not Dead 2

to be superior 775 00:42:35,094 --> 00:42:37,721 to all other forms of religion. 776 00:42:37,847 --> 00:42:42,347 If I did this in a house of worship, that would be fine. 777 00:42:43,811 --> 00:42:48,311 But if I did it in an 11th grade classroom in a public school, 778 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:53,154 that would be preaching, not teaching. 779 00:42:53,279 --> 00:42:55,864 So, why? Why in the world are we here today? 780 00:42:55,990 --> 00:43:00,411 Why? Because Ms. Wesley refused to apologize, 781 00:43:00,536 --> 00:43:02,204 and that means that her true motivation 782 00:43:02,330 --> 00:43:05,166 in that moment in her classroom 783 00:43:05,291 --> 00:43:09,503 was to take an innocent question 784 00:43:09,629 --> 00:43:14,129 and turn it into an opportunity to preach, not teach. 785 00:43:17,136 --> 00:43:21,636 If we grant Ms. Wesley the right to do that, 786 00:43:22,642 --> 00:43:25,394 and by extension, everyone else, 787 00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:30,020 to violate the law based solely on our own private beliefs, 788 00:43:32,110 --> 00:43:35,863 then our society will crumble. 789 00:43:35,988 --> 00:43:37,531 I believe that. 790 00:43:37,657 --> 00:43:42,157 So, I implore you, please do not set this precedent. 791 00:43:42,787 --> 00:43:44,330 Do not. 792 00:43:44,455 --> 00:43:47,291 The future of our republic depends on it. 793 00:43:56,217 --> 00:43:57,593 [cell phone dinging] 794 00:44:02,348 --> 00:44:04,099 (student) What's going on? 795 00:44:04,225 --> 00:44:06,227 (student) Brooke is exercising her right to protest. 796 00:44:06,352 --> 00:44:08,896 Brooke, I need you to stop this immediately. 797 00:44:09,021 --> 00:44:11,732 Brooke, this is the last time I'm gonna tell you. 798 00:44:11,858 --> 00:44:15,069 If you don't stop right now, there are gonna be consequences. 799 00:44:15,194 --> 00:44:16,570 [ringing] 800 00:44:16,696 --> 00:44:17,697 (Marlene) Hey, Aunt Amy. 801 00:44:17,822 --> 00:44:19,240 Hey, Marlene. 802 00:44:19,365 --> 00:44:21,075 Yeah, I just saw the video, what's going on? 803 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:22,618 So, you remember my friend, Brooke? 804 00:44:22,743 --> 00:44:23,910 (Amy) Yeah. 805 00:44:24,036 --> 00:44:25,537 Well, she got a teacher in trouble 806 00:44:25,663 --> 00:44:26,747 for asking her about Jesus. 807 00:44:26,873 --> 00:44:28,332 What? 808 00:44:28,457 --> 00:44:30,000 Now she's not even supposed to talk about it 809 00:44:30,126 --> 00:44:32,253 and we can't even cover it in our school paper. 810 00:44:32,378 --> 00:44:34,838 Is there any way that I could meet with her? 811 00:44:34,964 --> 00:44:38,717 - The teacher? - No, Brooke. 812 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:43,681 (Judge Stennis) Mr. Endler, your opening statement. 813 00:44:45,308 --> 00:44:47,601 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, 814 00:44:47,727 --> 00:44:50,020 I have here a copy of the Constitution 815 00:44:50,146 --> 00:44:51,981 of the United States of America 816 00:44:52,106 --> 00:44:53,816 and its Bill of Rights, 817 00:44:53,941 --> 00:44:56,693 arguably the two most important documents 818 00:44:56,819 --> 00:44:59,029 in the history of our great nation. 819 00:44:59,155 --> 00:45:03,033 But despite Mr. Kane's impassioned rhetoric, 820 00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:05,411 you know what you won't find in there 821 00:45:05,536 --> 00:45:07,204 no matter how hard you look? 822 00:45:07,330 --> 00:45:11,830 The phrase "Separation of church and state." 823 00:45:12,585 --> 00:45:14,211 That's right. 824 00:45:14,337 --> 00:45:17,214 It's not in there, never has been, 825 00:45:17,340 --> 00:45:18,591 because that phrase comes from a letter 826 00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:21,135 written by Thomas Jefferson. 827 00:45:21,260 --> 00:45:23,011 Now, ironically, Jefferson was writing 828 00:45:23,137 --> 00:45:25,806 to a Baptist congregation, ensuring them 829 00:45:25,932 --> 00:45:27,516 that they would always have the right 830 00:45:27,642 --> 00:45:31,562 to believe as they wished, free of government interference. 831 00:45:31,687 --> 00:45:35,232 But lately, that phrase has been taken out of context 832 00:45:35,358 --> 00:45:37,443 and twisted and contorted 833 00:45:37,568 --> 00:45:39,444 to mean the exact opposite. 834 00:45:39,570 --> 00:45:43,115 And one morning early this year, my client, Ms. Wesley, 835 00:45:43,241 --> 00:45:44,867 she woke up as usual, 836 00:45:44,992 --> 00:45:47,244 she drove to work at her job as a teacher 837 00:45:47,370 --> 00:45:49,038 at Martin Luther King High School, 838 00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:52,082 a place where she was Teacher of the Year. 839 00:45:52,208 --> 00:45:54,585 Her lesson plan for second period A.P. history 840 00:45:54,710 --> 00:45:59,005 that morning, it didn't include any mention of God or Jesus. 841