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My first guest on the Tami Jackson Show* tonight will be Kate Anderson.\nKate Anderson serves as legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, where she is a key member of the Center for Conscience Initiatives.\n\nSince joining ADF in 2015, Anderson has focused on protecting the conscience rights of individuals being unjustly compelled to forfeit their beliefs under threat of government retaliation, heavy fines, or other punishment. In\xa0Country Mill Farms v. City of East Lansing, she has defended the constitutionally protected right of a farmer to express his beliefs without fear of losing his license to serve customers at the city\u2019s farmer\u2019s market. In\xa0303 Creative v. Elenis\xa0and\xa0Amy Lynn Photography Studio v. City of Madison, Anderson has counseled creative professionals in pre-enforcement challenges to laws that would force them to promote messages contradicting their core beliefs. Her litigation practice has also included\xa0Privacy Matters v. United States Department of Education, one of several ADF challenges to the Obama-era federal mandate that denied students, parents, and community members the fundamental right to bodily privacy.\n\nPrior to joining ADF, Anderson was an associate attorney with Ellis, Li & McKinstry, PLLC, in Seattle, where she litigated both civil and criminal cases. She served on the trial team in\xa0Stormans v. Wiesman, a pivotal case in defense of freedom of conscience for pharmacists in the state of Washington. She also advised churches, religious organizations, and private schools on employment, church discipline, statutory and regulatory compliance, and other issues.\n\nAnderson obtained her law degree magna cum laude in 2009 from Gonzaga University School of Law, where she served on the\xa0Gonzaga Law Review. She also completed the ADF leadership development program to become a Blackstone Fellow. Anderson is admitted to the state bars of Arizona and Washington, the U.S. Supreme Court, and several federal district and appellate courts.\n\nKate and I will be talking about\xa0two young artists Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski are fighting for their rights in the Arizona Court of Appeals. The current ordinance forces the artists to create content for same-sex weddings, which is against their religion. The longer they stand by their religion, the longer they extend their time behind bars. Their hearing today will determine whether the women can go back to their business or towards a jail cell.\n\nRead about the case, "What Happens in a State Court Doesn\u2019t Stay in a State Court.\n\nFiling\xa0a lawsuit\xa0was not on Breanna Koski and Joanna Duka\u2019s checklist when they began making preparations to open their own custom art studio,\xa0Brush & Nib. But facing jail time for running that business according to their faith was not really something they anticipated, either.\n\nYou know when I have an ADF lawyer "in the house" we'll be talking precedent-setting law that should be important to all conservatives and Christians!\n\n**********************\n\nMy guest in the sceond half hour will be Joy Overbeck.\nJoy Overbeck is a Colorado journalist and author who has written on lifestyle and relationship topics for Redbook, Reader\u2019s Digest, TV Guide, Woman\u2019s Day, Health, and other national and regional magazines.\n\nShe\u2019s also written two humor books published by Pocket Books, Simon&Schuster. She describes herself as a radical conservative God fan who has delighted for the last several years in annoying libs with columns at Townhall.com, The Washington Times, The Daily Caller, American Thinker, and elsewhere.\n\nOther favorite forms of recreation include riding her Rocky Mountain mare, Gypsy, out into the wide open spaces of beautiful Colorado, skiing Vail, and enjoying her friends and her golden tabby, Tigger.\n\nJoy and I will be covering her recent column, "Are Teachers More Dangerous Than Mass Murderers?"\xa0as well as other current news topics. Joy is a woman after my own heart and has a passion for our nation and turning our culture away from Progressive socialism. Yes she has spunk! Which means you won't want to miss this conversation!\n\nFollow Joy Overbeck on Twitter at @JoyOverbeck1\xa0and me at @tamij AND tweet your questions/comments during the show.\n*Sponsored by Camera Security Now, your premier\xa0source for surveillance and access control systems for business nationwide; by ROBAR\xae Companies, a True Custom firearms and firearms finishing shop\xa0located in Phoenix, AZ, and found online at RobarGuns.com; and by Dispatches, your site for the BEST conservative resources to fight and win the information war.