Tennessee church claims the fire code does not apply to it

• Should a church-run daycare be exempt from fire codes and child-care licensing on First Amendment grounds?

A host reads a news story about a Tennessee church whose Bible school/daycare (about 60 kids daily) was cited for fire-code violations and operating a child-care facility without a license; the church claims religious exemption and that the First Amendment bars state interference. The hosts argue it out: one side holds the church must obey the law of the land and get licensed ('Johnny Big Government'), the other pushes back on burdensome codes, and they land together that calling the fire inspector and then rejecting the result is absurd, and that the First Amendment does not cover putting 60 kids at risk.