July 11, 2025 - Epoch Times
02:43
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| You look at the complaint against Shenyun, and if you were to replace all of the word Falun Gong with the word Christian or Catholic, it would be completely unremarkable, the activities that they're complaining about. | |
| You expect a Catholic boarding school to follow Catholic doctrine and to require a code of conduct that's consistent with that. | |
| Ultimately, they don't make out a viable legal claim at all. | |
| And it essentially amounts to if your parents enroll you in a religious school and that school has rules that are consistent with the faith, such as limiting time on the internet or limiting access to pornography. | |
| That was actually one of the complaints, the allegation in the complaint was complaining that the students couldn't freely access pornography. | |
| Well, of course, that's good parenting. | |
| Parents should not be allowing children to see that, and neither should a school that's responsible for them. | |
| The complaint makes claims like, well, you gave us flip phones and not smartphones. | |
| We weren't able to play video games. | |
| And so the average person who just reads the headline, right? | |
| Shinyoon sued under federal law fighting human trafficking thinks, oh, there's going to be, you know, what are they doing there? | |
| And you have to really look at the details. | |
| Really, fundamentally, the things that they are complaining about and calling human trafficking are volunteering for your religious organization, attending a religious boarding school, things that happen in hundreds of thousands of religious communities all across the United States every day. | |
| I think if you told churches that having a missions trip, having the church youth group go and build a house for a poor person might get you sued under a human trafficking statute, I think they would be shocked. | |
| Right, but that's a great example. | |
| That's exactly the kind of thing which is the sort of thing that Shenyun is being accused of. | |
| It shouldn't be controversial, but when you stamp that label on it, suddenly it sounds much more controversial than it is. | |
| But here, the Chinese Communist Party's ideas are getting out there that, well, when the Falun Gong does it, something's wrong with it. | |
| And we just want to show that all religious groups in America need to be treated equally, that the protections that our Constitution provides applies to everybody in this country, regardless of whether, you know, 90% of the people in the country hold to your belief or 5% of the people in the country hold to your belief. |
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