Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1023 ｜ Pride Pullback： Are Companies Backing Down？

00:00:00.480 Companies are pushing less pride propaganda this year. Why is that? And how should we respond?

00:00:07.000 Also, a new proposal in Congress says that women will be drafted. Oh my goodness,

00:00:13.940 Brie and I are discussing all of this, responding to this craziness on today's episode of Relatable.

00:00:20.100 Relatable. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Thursday. Hope everyone has had a wonderful

00:00:33.800 week. All right, before we get into it, I've just got a few announcements. I haven't made,

00:00:38.520 I don't think, any announcements this week. I've saved it for the last episode of the week. Just

00:00:43.920 some reminders. We've got some merch at AllieMerch.com. We've got our Relatable hats that

00:00:51.100 we released before Father's Day, but of course they're evergreen. You can get them any time of

00:00:55.620 the year. We've got the trucker hats that we partnered with range leather to make. So that's

00:01:02.000 genuine leather. The patch on the front, it's got a salmon because we are swimming upstream as

00:01:08.880 courageous Christians against the current of the culture and the chaos and the craziness that it

00:01:15.600 brings. And then we've also got the Do the Next Right Thing stitched hats with the acronym on there.

00:01:22.400 We've got lots of fun stuff coming for the fall too. We're taking a little bit of a break on

00:01:29.480 merchandise until we have things for the fall, which we're excited about. And speaking of the fall,

00:01:35.640 y'all, we've got our Share the Arrows event that is coming up on September 28th. This is specifically

00:01:41.640 for the women. If this goes well, then maybe in the future we'll also have an event for the Related

00:01:47.500 Bros. But this one is for the women. Sharethearrows.com. That's where you can learn all about it. It is

00:01:54.620 sponsored by Carly Jean Los Angeles. We will also be partnering with them for some fun stuff that

00:02:00.680 you'll be able to get while you're there. We've got Rosaria Butterfield. She is the incredible

00:02:05.080 theologian, author, former queer theory professor whose testimony has just, I think, rocked the

00:02:10.820 Christian world and her boldness is incredible. Elisa Childers, the incredible apologist, Abby

00:02:16.540 Halberstadt, the author, the mother, homeschooler of 10 kids who is going to bring so much wisdom.

00:02:22.760 We've got music by Francesca Battistelli. I'm sure that she needs no introduction or explanation.

00:02:28.000 She is the Grammy Award winning Christian artist. Guys, there are going to be thousands of like-minded

00:02:35.440 Christian women there. Do not be afraid to fly in by yourself. I know that that's intimidating to

00:02:41.160 walk into a room where you don't know anyone. You're afraid maybe that there's going to be

00:02:45.760 clicks that everyone's going to be from the Dallas area and that you're not going to know what to do.

00:02:51.440 Do not worry about that. First, I'm telling you, if you are not coming by yourself, if you're coming

00:02:57.420 with your sisters, your mom, your friends, look around when you're there. Look for the person

00:03:02.900 that's by herself. Take her in. Say, hey, come sit with us. Where are you from? What's your name?

00:03:08.020 And I'm telling you, if you are coming by yourself, that there are going to be so many women there

00:03:12.860 ready to link arms with you, ready to become your friend. At the very least, enjoy the day with you

00:03:19.020 and just debrief after every talk, get lunch with you, worship with you. But also, this could be

00:03:25.280 the start of lifelong friendships. And that's what we need. That's why it's called Share the Arrows.

00:03:30.240 Because every day we are talking about the depravity, the degeneracy, contrasted by God's

00:03:37.860 faithfulness, His goodness, His order, and the mandate that He has given us to be agents of His gospel,

00:03:44.140 agents of order in all of these spaces. And what we can draw from that distinction, that

00:03:51.600 juxtaposition, is that we can't do this alone. That darkness is real, but so is light. That Satan

00:03:59.060 is powerful, but God is more powerful. And so often we're asking ourselves, what is God going to do

00:04:05.720 about all this injustice, about all this corruption, and all of this chaos? Why isn't He doing more?

00:04:12.280 Why isn't He delivering people from true oppression and true injustice and the scariness and the

00:04:23.260 violence and just the absolute craziness going on in the world? Why isn't He doing more for that? But

00:04:31.120 what He does is He sends His Christians into those dark spaces, into those depraved spaces,

00:04:39.720 and He allows us to be salt and light, to be ministers of goodness and righteousness and

00:04:47.900 justice. And so what we're doing at the Share the Arrows event, we're not just bringing like-minded

00:04:55.320 people together to listen to awesome speakers. I'm also going to be speaking, by the way. My name

00:05:00.900 isn't listed among the speakers, but I am going to be speaking, of course, and meeting so many of you

00:05:05.540 there. But we are also making sure that, okay, we're coming together as like-minded Christian

00:05:10.060 women saying, we're all on the same page, right? We all believe in God's inerrant, infallible word

00:05:17.120 as our standard. We all believe that God has called us to a spirit of courage, and we've got each other's

00:05:23.860 backs, right? We're not going to allow any of us to stand alone. We're not going to allow any one of us

00:05:31.040 to stand up by ourselves and to take all the arrows from the enemy, wherever that is in your

00:05:36.660 life, wherever you are swimming upstream and standing against the opposition. We're all going

00:05:41.160 to stand up for each other, right? And yes, of course, we are. That's what Share the Arrows means,

00:05:46.580 that when you see someone derided in any way for their beliefs, whether they're getting fired,

00:05:53.600 whether they're just getting bullied, whether they're getting sued, rather than saying,

00:05:57.900 oh, I am so glad that that's not me. I can't believe they said that controversial thing that

00:06:02.600 aligns with the Bible. Now I know to hold my tongue. No, no, no. That is the attitude of a

00:06:07.960 coward. And that is not the attitude of love, by the way, because you are not then treating someone

00:06:13.280 how you would want to be treated. How would we want to be treated if we decided to stand up in

00:06:17.900 courage? We would want fellow Christians to stand up and say, you know what? You're sending

00:06:22.240 arrows her way. Send them my way too. She's not going to take all the arrows by herself. Nope,

00:06:27.460 you're going to have to send them my way too. Whatever sacrifices you are demanding that she

00:06:31.440 make, I'm going to make them too, if I have to. And so that's what Share the Arrows is.

00:06:38.000 That's what this event is about. This is going to be encouraging. It's going to be empowering.

00:06:42.820 It's going to be educational. These women that we are bringing to you, I mean, they are the best of

00:06:49.160 the best. And I'm just so excited for that event. I'm so excited to meet so many of you. I'm so

00:06:56.900 thankful to the Lord for this opportunity. It really is going to be so unique, just the right

00:07:02.540 time before the election, when it's going to feel like we are just wanting to tear our hair out with

00:07:07.900 the propaganda that we are seeing. This is going to be a truth-filled conference. So again, September

00:07:12.400 28th, Dallas, Texas at a big church in the Dallas area. Go to sharethearrows.com. Bring everyone that

00:07:20.500 you think would be interested in it. All right. I think that's it as far as announcements go.

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00:07:29.600 this podcast on Apple Podcasts. It means so much to us. All right. We're actually going to get into

00:07:33.860 some good news before we get into the typical crazy news that we talk about. And I'm going to bring

00:07:38.860 producer Brianne to weigh in and to let us know her observations of this good news.

00:07:57.420 Okay. So I posed this question on X earlier this week. I think it was earlier this week.

00:08:02.580 And I first stated my observation that there seems to be a lot less pride stuff in the businesses that

00:08:10.480 I frequent this year. Even the brands that I follow, they're not posting as much about pride.

00:08:17.760 I said, none of the businesses I frequent have pride stuff out this year. Most of them did last

00:08:21.940 year. One in particular had a whole rainbow apparel display this year. Nothing. Anyone else see the

00:08:28.540 same thing. And I posted this on X. I posted it also on Instagram. And the vast majority of the

00:08:35.840 comments and replies I received affirmed what I said, agreed and said, oh yeah, it's been a lot

00:08:42.240 more understated this year. One of you actually sent me a picture of your local target. I still have

00:08:47.100 not been in a target. And I think it's three years, two or three years. If you can't tell,

00:08:52.420 I have a hard time remembering when things happen, whether it was like a week ago or two years ago,

00:08:59.040 that's what motherhood does to you. But you posted a picture of your local target that had

00:09:04.480 no pride stuff, at least up front, which is where it was prominently last year. And it actually had

00:09:10.620 a sign instead that was a patriotic red, white, and blue sign that said, you know, thank you for

00:09:16.080 your service. It was a message to veterans, which I think is incredible. And I know that there are

00:09:24.060 different targets across the country, depending on the region that you're in, that has pride stuff

00:09:33.180 and then others don't. Some it's still prominent in the front of the store and others it's not. Like I

00:09:40.920 said, one of the businesses that I frequent, I remember last year just rolling my eyes because

00:09:46.620 while they didn't have anything that was explicitly LGBTQ, they had different kinds of apparel and

00:09:55.160 accessories in their store that were just rainbow. And it was very obvious how they had arranged

00:10:02.880 everything to pay homage to Pride Month last June. And this year, it is nothing, absolutely nothing,

00:10:10.420 not implied, not subtle, not even like an understated tiny pride display. It's nothing.

00:10:19.200 And I think that that is really interesting. I think it's really interesting. Now, some people

00:10:24.860 are saying, well, it's an election year. And so they're trying to not scare people away because it

00:10:32.920 is just so in your face to the point to where even centrists are like, okay, can we not? Does

00:10:38.240 everything have to be gay in June? Can't something just like be neutral? And so some people are saying,

00:10:44.220 oh, you know, it's a conspiracy or it's an organized effort to try to tone it down this

00:10:50.460 year so people don't freak out before the election. That may be true. That may be true. But I doubt that

00:10:57.080 all of these local businesses and some of the businesses that I've been in, that they're all

00:11:01.120 part of some grand organized effort to tone down pride in an election year. I really think it's

00:11:11.120 because of the pushback and the backlash. I really do. And I think that's a great thing. Of course,

00:11:17.400 I always advocate for raising a respectful ruckus for the things that matter. And this matters. We

00:11:23.300 don't need companies. We don't need libraries. We don't need public schools pushing a movement that

00:11:28.560 is about someone's sexual preferences. We just don't. Like, of course, from a Christian perspective,

00:11:34.020 marriage is between one man and one woman. That is the only context for holy sexuality. But

00:11:39.140 even outside of that, there is no reason to push gender deception and people's sexual preferences in

00:11:47.900 spaces where, well, really where the general public is, but especially where children are going to go.

00:11:54.700 And I think it's extremely subversive and intentional for the symbol of this sexual

00:12:01.080 revolution to be a rainbow because those kinds of colors are very attractive to a child. So again,

00:12:09.460 that to me just seems intentional and evil, actually. But all Christians have asked for,

00:12:16.380 all really a lot of people have asked for is like, can we just have a neutral space? Like,

00:12:20.920 I'm not asking you to sell ESV study Bibles everywhere. Like, I'm not asking Target to put

00:12:28.520 Genesis 127, like, at the front of their store. That would be awesome, by the way. I might actually

00:12:35.740 go back to Target if that were the case. I'm not asking that. Christians are not asking to

00:12:41.380 Christianize every space. Maybe they should be. But that's not what Christians are asking. Christians

00:12:46.860 are asking, okay, if I go to a gym, can it just be a gym? If I take my child into a classroom,

00:12:52.320 can it just be a classroom where they're learning how to read and write? They're learning phonics,

00:12:57.300 they're learning math, they're learning history. Can it just be that? Like, do we have to talk about

00:13:03.260 sex in the classroom? Do they have to talk about the possibility of being born in the wrong body,

00:13:08.520 which is an evil, false idea? Can they not just learn the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic?

00:13:17.260 Is that not possible? Like, can I just go to a restaurant to, like, order a hamburger? Does it

00:13:23.720 have to also be rainbow-themed? That's all people are saying. Can you watch a football game? Can you

00:13:30.580 watch a baseball game without seeing a freaking drag queen and fishnats on the TV screen? Is that

00:13:37.260 possible? That's all people are asking for. And the funny thing is, Christians are always accused of

00:13:42.820 shoving Christianity in your face, of being fascists and Christian nationalists and trying to force people

00:13:49.040 to be Christians, to be theocrats. No, it is your sexually depraved, progressive religion that is

00:13:57.940 constantly being pushed in our faces. And if we do not bow down at the altar that you demand us to bow

00:14:06.260 down before, you call us names. You sue us. You fire us. You attempt to cancel us in a variety of

00:14:15.400 ways. And so, as always, it is actually the left that is extremely imperialistic, extremely theocratic,

00:14:22.060 extremely totalitarian and tyrannical, extremely fascist. And all of the accusations that they

00:14:30.600 lodge at our side, they're really just projections. They're really just projections. You see that

00:14:37.560 they're freaking out. I don't know if you guys saw this, that Louisiana now is requiring that the Ten

00:14:43.040 Commandments be in every public school. And the ACLU is suing the state of Louisiana because, oh my gosh,

00:14:51.860 this is so awful. But look, even that, even that is neutral compared to, compared to what we are seeing

00:15:00.820 with LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter propaganda in public schools. I'm not saying that it is actually

00:15:08.060 neutral. I actually don't believe that there is any such thing as neutrality. Really, it is either

00:15:16.040 light or darkness, good or evil, and all beauty and all truth is on the side of God, and all ugliness

00:15:22.620 and chaos and deceit and depravity is on the side of evil. So, there's not really any true neutrality.

00:15:31.880 But really, what people are wanting when they say, oh, we just want basic decency, we just want

00:15:39.000 a social contract, we just want politeness, we just want neutrality, what they're really saying is that

00:15:44.900 we do want the underlying Christian ethic of treating people with dignity and kindness without

00:15:52.300 having to celebrate all of the religious dogmas of the left. That's what people really want. And I

00:16:01.600 would say the Ten Commandments are a part of that. When Louisiana says, okay, we're putting the Ten

00:16:06.800 Commandments in all of our schools, they're not saying you have to worship God. They're not saying you

00:16:11.240 have to read the Bible. They're not saying that you, teacher, have to preach the Bible or that you can't

00:16:18.700 talk about other belief systems or whatever. It's not the state forcing a particular religion on public

00:16:27.000 school students or on public school teachers. And really, the defenders of this law, I think, are right.

00:16:35.400 That you cannot, you can't understand American history. You can't understand the history of human rights.

00:16:40.760 You can't understand the history of the abolition of slavery. You can't understand the Constitution.

00:16:47.800 You really can't understand Western civilization without knowing the Ten Commandments, without

00:16:52.240 understanding the Ten Commandments, without realizing that the founders believed in a transcendent

00:16:58.760 lawgiver. And then he delegated the lawgiving to Moses. And that is just a historical fact,

00:17:06.620 at least the existence of Moses giving this law to the Israelites. And that laying the basis for Western

00:17:14.340 civilization. The left is freaking out about this. Absolutely freaking out. All of a sudden,

00:17:20.000 they think any hint of religion in public schools is evil indoctrination and brainwashing. But

00:17:29.580 a teacher reading I am jazzed to a seven-year-old that says you can be a boy in your body, but you're

00:17:39.380 a girl on the inside and you should go down this very destructive path of mutilating your body to

00:17:45.640 try to do the impossible to change sexes. That's totally fine. That's just neutral. That's not

00:17:51.340 indoctrination. That's great. No, it's evil. And by the way, all education is indoctrination. This

00:18:08.420 goes back to the fact that there's no such thing as neutrality. All education is indoctrination. It's

00:18:14.180 just a matter of what doctrines you are placing in someone. Are you placing in the doctrines of

00:18:21.080 secular humanism, which has led to all the depravity and the chaos we see today? Or are you

00:18:26.880 laying the foundation of the truth about natural law, the truth that we at the very least have a

00:18:31.780 creator who made our bodies and made ourselves with purpose? That is, by the way, what you are

00:18:37.580 choosing between when you choose between a secular education and an explicitly Christian education.

00:18:43.820 So all education is indoctrination. There really is no neutrality. The question that we have before

00:18:50.400 us is, like, what kind of foundational religion do we want? And I would say that Christianity is

00:18:58.440 actually the much more tolerant one and the one that most people, if they had to choose and they

00:19:04.420 really understood the principles of progressivism versus Christianity, would choose Christianity.

00:19:10.120 Progressivism doesn't have a history of true human rights because they don't believe people are made

00:19:14.980 in the image of God and have innate dignity just because they are human. Christianity is led by truth

00:19:21.420 and love. And so we care about the body. We care about what is good for a person. We don't just affirm

00:19:27.420 sin and lies because it feels good. Whereas progressivism values as its highest virtue, empathy,

00:19:33.720 which just affirms people's feelings even to the point of affirming their addictions,

00:19:37.960 affirming their fake identities and affirming their depravity and sin, much to their detriment.

00:19:45.620 And so I know that might seem like a much bigger conversation than just like pride displays, but

00:19:51.640 we are in this kind of ideological battle right now. And I am encouraged. I am encouraged to see

00:19:58.880 people say, I'm fed up with that. I don't want to see that at my local store. And I'm going to say

00:20:03.620 something about it. I don't care if you call me a Karen. What did I say about Karens yesterday?

00:20:07.060 Some Karens are the sentinels of civilization. They're necessary to keep things in order.

00:20:12.200 So you go, Karen. You called your Target last year and said, you know what? I'm canceling my red card.

00:20:17.280 If you keep selling compression tops for young girls to mash down their boobs because they want

00:20:24.840 to be boys or tucking bathing suits that seem to be targeting adolescent boys who want to pretend

00:20:30.840 like they're girls. That's what Target was selling last year. OK, it's evil. And I will not,

00:20:36.200 by the way, forgive them and go back to that store without a complete about face and public

00:20:46.060 confession and repentance. They're doing their darndest to get this bourbon mom back by paying

00:20:52.220 all of these influencers to talk about Target. But I shall not be going back because they are

00:20:58.000 undoubtedly still on the side of evil, even if they're toning things down, which I'm happy about.

00:21:14.400 OK, Brie, have you noticed in your own day to day life less pride stuff out there?

00:21:20.640 Yeah. Yeah, I have. I think it's most it's most prominent like on TikTok in commercials when I'm

00:21:28.760 like watching Hulu or something, commercials come up. I feel like last year there were so many that

00:21:34.400 were specifically targeted toward like Pride Month. I haven't seen any commercials like specifically

00:21:40.940 about that. And on TikTok and Instagram reels, I'm seeing a lot of people who are, I think,

00:21:47.620 more typically progressive. They're fed up with this as well.

00:21:52.060 They're fed up. They're fed up with it.

00:21:53.560 They're fed up with it. I'm not I'm not on TikTok, so I don't know.

00:21:56.260 I think there are a lot of actually one of these people we've reacted to before.

00:22:00.140 A lot of like trans influencers, for example, who people have now turned against because they're

00:22:07.920 doing things like talking about genitalia in public or like at Disneyland. We've reacted to

00:22:13.480 that guy a couple of times. And a lot of these people who are left leaning are now making videos

00:22:20.640 about how fed up they are with people like that and how they wish that companies would stop

00:22:25.820 promoting people like that, which is kind of refreshing. Obviously, they still support all

00:22:31.180 that stuff to begin with. But but yeah, I'm seeing a lot of people. I think people are exhausted

00:22:36.260 because I think it's been shoved down their throat so much. And I don't think the messaging does it for

00:22:41.480 people anymore. Yeah. Companies realize that. Yeah. I think a lot of people are realizing

00:22:46.680 that it is not just about like empathy and authenticity, but that there is a sexual a very

00:22:53.780 sexual component to all of this, which, of course, we have always known that it's really about sexual

00:22:58.900 immorality. But I think a lot of people on the left or a lot of people who have at least been

00:23:04.060 sympathetic toward it are like, oh, this is really sexual. And I just don't think that it's necessary

00:23:10.360 for kids to be a part of. Yeah. And I will say, I think I think the internet international companies

00:23:18.120 understand a little bit less still like they're not they haven't caught up. I think. Do you are

00:23:22.960 you familiar with Tony's? Yes. Yes. Yes. So they it's a German toy company. Yes. Okay. Tony's is

00:23:31.180 a lot of you have like a Tony box. And it's a cool concept. But I think there actually is a Christian

00:23:36.200 version. I just can't remember the name now. So y'all should look it up. But it's like,

00:23:39.960 it's a audio box. And you buy these little magnetic toys to go on top of them. So if I had a Tony box,

00:23:47.560 and I stuck like Ariel from the Little Mermaid on top of it, it would tell the story of the Little

00:23:55.000 Mermaid and like sing, sing the songs. And it's a great non screen way to like entertain your kids.

00:24:01.960 So just they're very popular just for context. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. So I was talking to a friend

00:24:08.700 about that. She was trying to get one and she noticed that there was a pride one. But these toys

00:24:12.760 are for ages three and up, by the way. So they have a little a little Tony that I guess explains

00:24:19.540 pronouns and gender stuff and all that kinds of stuff. So she was telling me this. And I went on

00:24:25.220 their Instagram. There's a Tony's US. There's a Tony's France. There's a Tony's UK. The only one

00:24:30.920 that was rainbow was Tony's US. And so I messaged them and I asked, why are you only rainbow in America

00:24:37.740 and not the other ones, not even Europe? And they said, great question, Brie. We have pages that are

00:24:44.600 moderated by different international teams. So this page shares different marketing elements.

00:24:48.940 So clearly someone there thought America is the market where this is going to work still.

00:24:55.700 So crazy. Tony's Saudi Arabia. Yeah, isn't that weird? Tony's China. Wow.

00:25:00.840 I know. Maybe one day.

00:25:02.060 That's always been a joke every year that a lot of these companies like, you know, the car companies,

00:25:08.280 BMW, Toyota, that they would change their profile picture in the month of June to like the rainbow.

00:25:16.680 Like I'm looking right now, BMW, they've got like a rainbow around their logo on X. But if you look at

00:25:26.360 BMW India, nope. BMW Turkey, nope. BMW South Africa. Yes. Okay. That's interesting. Let's see

00:25:34.460 if they have BMW like Saudi Arabia. No. Surprising. I know. BMW Iran. Do they have BMWs? I don't think

00:25:42.980 they have BMWs there. I think they have a lot going on. Let's see. BMW France. Nope. No,

00:25:50.420 they don't have the rainbow either, which is interesting because we think of Europe as really

00:25:56.340 progressive, especially places like France. Yeah. And Germany. Germany is like ground zero for this

00:26:01.940 stuff. Yeah. For a lot of things. So why do you think, I mean, why do you think that is?

00:26:09.700 I don't, I think it probably is the past couple of years. I mean, obviously news in America makes its

00:26:16.180 way all around the world. And I think a lot of this LGBTQ stuff, I think people in other countries

00:26:22.860 see it and they're like, oh, that's what's going on in America then. And I think in their eyes,

00:26:27.600 it's like, well, that's what they, that's what they do. Yeah. So that's what it is there.

00:26:31.560 And it is worse here in a lot of ways. I think because you see in the UK, you see in places like

00:26:37.980 Sweden that they are really taking a second look, especially when it comes to kids and cross-sex

00:26:42.720 hormones and the procedures that are allowed because there have been lawsuits. And I'm

00:26:47.420 hoping, you know, like based on the conversation we have with Soren earlier this week, that those

00:26:52.060 lawsuits will really start making a difference here because money talks, money talks in the

00:26:58.080 sense that that's why I think a lot of doctors are going along with this. It makes money, but

00:27:02.200 money talks also in the sense that if they feel like they're going to lose money because

00:27:06.220 of these lawsuits, so they're going to stop. So I hope that that plays a part in all of

00:27:11.420 it. America is so interesting. Like I think people in Europe think that America is like

00:27:16.160 all just a bunch of like conservative cowboys and really like we're so much more in a terrible

00:27:23.520 way, more progressive on abortion. We're more progressive when it comes to LGBTQ stuff in

00:27:29.420 some ways. Germany is awful too. And surrogacy and IVF. And so is Canada. Yeah. Surrogacy and

00:27:35.100 IVF. The wild, wild west when it comes to that stuff. I would say immigration. I don't know

00:27:40.200 if many other countries have the absolutely poorest border that we do with just foreign

00:27:45.900 nationals pouring in from all over the world without like any mitigation. Yeah. Well, I

00:27:52.420 will say I think like France and the UK, that's probably one of their top issues. Yes. Because

00:27:58.740 people from North Africa are coming in. Now, do you think that that I know that's kind of

00:28:03.180 off topic, but you lived in France for a while. Do you think that that is turning around? Because

00:28:07.420 I do see over there that seems to be left right center. If you live in the UK, if you live in

00:28:12.780 even like Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, you see a lot of people really fed up with the

00:28:19.060 mass migration and the consequences on crime and the dignity of women and girls. Do you see

00:28:25.660 people like doing an about face on that? Now I have because of the recent elections in

00:28:32.460 the EU and it showed, we don't have to get all the way into it, but in France, for example,

00:28:38.360 there was a large majority that voted for the right, for the right party.

00:28:44.000 Le Pen, right? Yes.

00:28:45.160 Okay. So what happened with that?

00:28:46.660 I can't give you specifics because I don't know the ins and outs of the French government,

00:28:50.460 EU parliament, but basically they voted in support of her. Le Pen is, people have compared

00:28:57.860 her as like the Trump of France. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and so she is running for president in the next

00:29:04.800 cycle, which I think isn't until 2027, but because, because people voted for the right in such large

00:29:11.700 numbers, um, Macron, the current president had to call a snap election because people weren't

00:29:18.120 supporting his party enough. So again, I don't know all the details, but even what that means. So

00:29:22.000 is it possible that Le Pen will take power? Um, say it like that. I don't know. I don't know.

00:29:29.720 We don't know. In the next election. I think she will for sure. Yeah. I think now the population

00:29:35.620 there is showing that they're done with this and she's going to shut the borders down. I think so.

00:29:41.520 Well, you know, we've hoped that too. And this, we did not plan to talk about any of this. So if it's

00:29:45.700 like, why don't you know the answers? That's because we just, this is just me just curious

00:29:50.060 talking about this. Um, you know, Georgia Maloney, I think Georgia, uh, in Italy. Like

00:29:56.940 I remember I, a couple of years ago, I posted that video of the speech that she gave when

00:30:01.740 she won the election. Just awesome. Like talking about the natural family and they have done

00:30:07.840 some good anti-surrogacy things in Italy, but she has turned out at least from what I see

00:30:13.320 from a lot of people to be kind of a disappointment when it comes to immigration. Um, and when it comes

00:30:19.140 to retaining Italy's culture, she just has been working, it seems with the WEF and with

00:30:26.980 the progressive wing. And so I don't know if Le Pen would be the same, the same way.

00:30:31.920 I don't know either, but I know she went, even when I lived there, she ran in the last election

00:30:35.980 cycle too. And, um, and I think she's been relatively consistent and those, the people

00:30:43.600 who voted against her hate her, which sometimes is a sign that she's doing something right.

00:30:48.180 So, okay. Can we talk about Macron for a second? This kind of has to go back to the LGBTQ stuff.

00:30:54.780 You don't like Macron. I mean, he's on the left and Brigitte, his wife. Okay. Tell us how they met

00:31:02.720 because Brigitte is a lot older than Macron, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's gross. So Brigitte Macron is 71 years

00:31:13.800 old and Emmanuel Macron is the president of France, uh, is 46. And how long have they been married?

00:31:21.520 Do we know? Um, they've been married. Let's see. He married her, he married her in 2007.

00:31:27.900 Okay. Um, so, but they met when she was his teacher and he was a teenage boy.

00:31:36.540 How old was he? So he was like 16. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think he was 15. I think that would have put

00:31:44.860 her in her, uh, forties, right? Yes. And she was married. She had kids that were older than him

00:31:52.960 at the time. Uh, and she didn't, uh, I mean, she didn't date him. That's what they say until he was

00:32:00.520 an adult, but she did leave her family for him. When he was, how old do we know? Uh, I think he

00:32:08.180 was in his twenties. Okay. Yeah. So she waited. I don't know. I don't know if I believe that,

00:32:14.480 but, um, yeah. So weird. So she left her family for him. Can we talk about the rumors that have

00:32:25.380 circulated? I mean, I first saw Candace Owens talk about this. Is this a thing people thinking

00:32:31.100 that she's a man? I had never heard of that actually before Candace, uh, was talking about

00:32:36.560 it. I mean, she's really petite. That would be surprising to me. I mean, yeah, she, she just

00:32:44.800 is like a 70 year old woman to me. I just, I didn't know that was a thing. People in France

00:32:49.720 are talking about that. So they are, they aren't, they're not talking about that as far as I know.

00:32:54.300 Okay. So I don't know. Interesting. Do they have kids together? What do they have kids together?

00:32:59.980 I don't think so. I think she was probably too old. Yeah. Oh my goodness. So weird. Okay. Well,

00:33:10.120 I just wanted to see what was going on, uh, with our, with our friends in Europe over there. It's

00:33:16.220 just interesting that the LGBTQ lobby, that they don't push things over there, but here's what I

00:33:22.580 think it tells us because, you know, when we have, whenever we have Justin Haskins on whom I

00:33:27.860 absolutely love, I love getting his perspective so much on everything that's going on with the

00:33:34.600 WEF, whenever we talk about BlackRock and Klaus Schwab and all of these super, super internationally

00:33:40.860 powerful people who are very powerful. I feel very hopeless. I'm like, yeah, I mean, we're just

00:33:47.520 going to get steamrolled. There's no reason for us to even push back or speak up or anything

00:33:51.120 because these people are so powerful. They have all the money in the world. But then I see things

00:33:58.000 like this. And while it's not some giant, huge victory, like maybe we have more power than we

00:34:04.140 think. Maybe they want us to think we don't have power. Maybe they are a little afraid. Yeah. I don't

00:34:10.660 know. What do you think? I think that's true. I think that's true. And I think, I mean,

00:34:16.000 obviously this is such a cliche, but obviously people need to keep speaking about it because

00:34:22.660 it's the only way that they're going to hear it. So I'm, I think before they thought they had a lot

00:34:28.440 more power than they did. Um, and even the, the Bud Light thing, which, you know, is like a meme at

00:34:35.220 this point, but like that said something to people and they're still feeling the effects of that. And I

00:34:41.480 think that matters. You know, I think target felt the effects of it. Yeah. I mean, I, I think that

00:34:46.600 if they hadn't, all of these entities would have just doubled down and they would have said, you

00:34:51.040 know what, we're going to do it bigger and better this year. I don't care what you say. We're going

00:34:54.780 to have a Dylan Mulvaney, like blow up doll at the front of every store, but obviously they cared.

00:35:03.360 And as I've been saying for the past few years, like for target, the Christian conservative suburban

00:35:09.280 mom is their target demo. Like that is their main customer base. It used to be a thing to like,

00:35:18.160 go pick up your coffee and then go to target and spend $150 that you don't need to spend. Like

00:35:25.020 that was the thing. Um, and then at least enough of those people said, I can't support that anymore.

00:35:32.580 And they felt it. And I have a message about that. I have a message about that in just a second.

00:35:50.800 All right. So here's what I will say to that. I will say, keep going, keep pushing because even

00:35:57.960 if it didn't change anything, even if all these companies did decide to double down and that they

00:36:02.440 were going to do more rainbows and trance flags than ever, just did not care at all about you

00:36:07.280 raising a respectful ruckus, I would say it still matters because you are doing the right thing.

00:36:13.260 You are obeying God. You are being courageous. You are simply being a Christian. You are advocating for

00:36:20.000 what God calls good and right and true. And because we love our neighbor and because God created our

00:36:25.040 neighbors and because he embodies and defines love, it is in love. It is for our neighbors that we

00:36:32.560 represent truth. That doesn't mean that we're rude. We're not arrogant about it. We're not mean spirited

00:36:37.820 about it. We are kind, we are gentle, but we are relentless. So whether or not these companies back

00:36:45.400 off, we keep pushing. We keep unapologetically standing for truth because we believe that God's

00:36:51.300 ways are better. Yes. Every single one of our neighbors, uh, it's better for everyone. It's

00:36:58.020 better for every single person of every single background to live in a country that is ordered

00:37:05.180 by God's ways because God is good and loving and righteous. And he created all of us and knows

00:37:10.220 what is best. Remember, Christians have both the right and the responsibility to represent our worldview

00:37:17.200 in every single space that we occupy. The secular world would have you believe that you are the only

00:37:23.680 kind of person with the only kind of worldview that needs to be hidden under a bushel. That it is okay to

00:37:29.640 be a Christian as long as you do two, one of two things. You either are a Christian in name only. You

00:37:35.900 don't really believe in the Bible. You don't really act it out. Uh, you don't vote in alignment with

00:37:41.540 Christian values. You don't speak in alignment with Christian values. You don't believe that God

00:37:46.740 and his word really have any kind of authority. You just believe that Jesus is this cheerleader

00:37:52.300 that affirms all of our wants and dreams and would never ever tell anyone that they need him or need

00:37:59.860 salvation or need forgiveness or should repent or live a holy life at all. That's one kind of Christian

00:38:05.960 that you can be. The main commandment just to, is just to be nice and just to be tolerant of people's

00:38:13.560 sin. The other kind of Christian that secular progressives say that you can be is the kind that

00:38:19.440 maybe secretly, maybe secretly believes what the Bible says, all of it, including Genesis one,

00:38:26.160 including Romans one, including first Corinthians six, including John 14 six. You can believe all of

00:38:31.720 that, but you have to be really quiet about it. And as soon as you leave your house, uh, you check all

00:38:38.220 of that stuff. You leave it behind. As soon as you go to work, as soon as you go to the voting booth,

00:38:42.900 as soon as you go to the public sphere and the public square, whether that's on your phone or whether

00:38:48.200 that's, um, at school or whether that's in your job, whatever it is, you have to leave that stuff

00:38:54.240 behind and you have to adopt the new religion, which is secular progressivism, which secular progressives

00:38:59.840 would like you to think that that's just a neutral worldview completely, uh, completely without any

00:39:07.200 religious dogmas. But as we've already covered, that is not true. It has its own religious doctrines,

00:39:12.420 its own assumptions about human nature and sin and right and wrong and, uh, our purpose and who created

00:39:18.160 us and why we're here. And Christianity does not go along with in any way, secular progressive, uh,

00:39:26.240 progressivism. It is opposed to it in every single way. It is contradicted to it in every single way.

00:39:31.560 And so they have been able to be so pervasive and so dominant in every sector of society by convincing

00:39:39.120 people that liberalism, that secular progressivism is just neutral. It's just neutral niceness or nice

00:39:47.560 neutrality. And it's not, we've seen that. I love that phrase from Abigail Schreier's book,

00:39:52.940 full of empathy and mean as hell. Yes. That's what progressives have become in so many ways. So

00:40:00.180 domineering as we see with Jack Phillips, by the way, Jack Phillips, the cake baker of Masterpiece

00:40:05.140 Cake Shop, who refused to make a cake for a gay wedding and for gender affirming, uh, trans parties

00:40:12.460 and things like that. He has been in, uh, litigation. He has been trying to defend himself for over a

00:40:19.460 decade, a decade. Now he is in court yet again, because these LGBTQ activists have been absolutely

00:40:26.240 hounding him with lawfare for over 10 years because he will not make cakes that celebrate

00:40:32.760 their depravity. And they want to say that we're the ones trying to shove things in people's faces.

00:40:37.980 Look, I mean, in, in more ways than one LGBTQ activists like to do that. Um, and so don't believe

00:40:45.220 that lie. Don't believe that lie that we have to check our worldview at the door. No, this is still

00:40:53.040 in many ways, a free country. You still in many ways have free speech. You still in many ways have

00:40:57.820 freedom of religion. You have every right, every responsibility to bring your full worldview into

00:41:03.620 the public sphere. If they do, then you do too. Then you do too. Do not compartmentalize your faith.

00:41:09.900 Don't compartmentalize God. Jesus is King. God created the heavens and the earth are not neutral

00:41:15.520 statements. They're not compartmentalized statements. They are total statements. It is not

00:41:20.080 possible for you to separate your faith from your politics because your politics are downstream from

00:41:25.540 your faith and what you believe about God. That does not mean that we advocate for living in a

00:41:30.320 theocracy where everyone is forced to go to church, forced to be a Christian. It just means that our

00:41:35.960 worldview informs what we think about politics, culture, social issues, how we define marriage,

00:41:41.580 how we define love, how we define right and wrong, just like everyone else's worldview helps them define

00:41:47.940 those things. May the best ideas win. May the best ideas win. And by the way, this was founded as,

00:41:58.660 even if we don't agree with all the theology of the founding fathers, this was founded as a country

00:42:03.460 based on Christian doctrines, explicitly Christian doctrines. If you look at all the founding documents,

00:42:10.300 if you looked at what the founders believed, and not just the founders of the country, but if you look

00:42:14.480 at the original charters from the original colonies, some of the first states, the necessity of the leaders

00:42:24.000 in those states at the very beginning to be confessing Christians, like that is baked into the Christian

00:42:32.920 foundation. The constitution was meant for a moral and religious, aka Christian people. That doesn't mean

00:42:39.920 that people can't believe what they want to believe in this country or even worship how they want to

00:42:44.240 worship in this country. As long as you understand that the premise that we should be working with,

00:42:48.500 the assumptions, the presuppositions, the foundation that we should be working with

00:42:52.920 in the United States is basic Christian teachings. That is the uniqueness of America. That is why we

00:43:02.600 ever have accomplished anything objectively good in the United States is because of those foundations.

00:43:09.460 So you should not be ashamed to bring that worldview into the public world and to push back in the name

00:43:17.720 of that, by the way. And again, we're not asking companies to be Christian, but we're asking them to

00:43:24.860 remove that kind of religious dogma and depravity, that of secular progressivism and the sexual

00:43:32.640 revolution. And so keep pushing. Yes, you're going to be called a Christian nationalist. Most people that

00:43:38.900 call you that have no idea what that means. I have never called myself that. I have never advocated

00:43:44.240 for theocracy, and yet I am included in some kind of documentary that David French is in,

00:43:51.160 accusing me of being that. I just heard the other day that I am one of the most outspoken

00:43:56.540 Christian nationalists, which is absolutely absurd. That is some kind of designation for

00:44:03.220 the feds to use. And their example, their proof of that was that I criticize IVF. Oh, so basic Christian

00:44:12.000 teaching, especially basic, specifically Catholic teaching is now that what constitutes being a

00:44:19.220 Christian nationalist. I'm not going to apologize for believing that Christians have the right and

00:44:23.880 responsibility to speak our worldview, to represent our worldview. And yes, to bring our worldview into

00:44:29.860 every single sphere that we occupy. Progressives do it every day, and our ideas are better because

00:44:34.680 we're right and they're wrong. No apologies there. So keep pushing. Don't let up at all. If I know a

00:44:41.660 lot of you are not boycotting Target, I never say that everyone has to do all the same boycotts that

00:44:46.360 I do. I don't boycott everything. This is a choice that I have made. I am happy that I have done it. I

00:44:51.580 will keep doing it. But if you are with me on that, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.

00:44:58.620 Don't let up because that's what they want, by the way. They're like, oh, we can just give in just a

00:45:02.720 little bit without changing what we really believe. And they'll just be back next year if

00:45:07.860 we reward them for that. So I'd say keep pushing, keep pushing, keep pushing, keep speaking up,

00:45:12.480 keep going to the school board meetings, keep refusing to play the pronoun politeness game

00:45:19.140 at the school that you work at, at the hospital that you work at, at the company

00:45:22.480 that you work with. Stay strong, stand strong, and all of that.

00:45:32.720 Okay, so we have a lot of things left in our research document to talk about. So I have to,

00:45:46.260 I have to decide what we are going to discuss because we had some extemporaneous discussion

00:45:50.880 about Brigitte Macron that took up some of our time. I think I'm going to talk about the gay

00:45:55.860 football league, Brie, that football is gay. If they wanted a gay football league, they could

00:46:02.260 have just called it soccer. Oh, sorry for all of you soccer fans out there. Just kidding. Just kidding.

00:46:10.380 But apparently we decided that in America, we wanted a gay football league. And the Buffalo Bills

00:46:17.740 became the latest NFL franchise, according to Fox News, to support new LGBTQ plus flag football

00:46:25.560 team. We are excited. This is according to NGFFL. This is a chapter, National Gay Flag Football League.

00:46:34.160 I cannot believe that we are doing this. This is the tweet, the post. We are thrilled to bring

00:46:40.200 inclusive flag football to Buffalo with the support of the Buffalo Bills. This exciting addition joins

00:46:45.460 27 other cities and over 4,000 players, including straight allies in the National Gay Flag Football League.

00:46:51.600 What is this? What is it? Can you explain it to us? This is just a flag football league that is meant

00:47:01.640 to be inclusive. It's professional. We can watch it on TV. Technically, yeah. Okay. And I don't know how

00:47:08.260 one qualifies for flag football professionally. But yeah, and it's just meant to be, it's meant to

00:47:14.780 break down barriers and challenge stereotypes. And I guess the NFL can't do that enough. So.

00:47:21.020 Okay. So it can't be tackled because we've got women identifying as men and that wouldn't be fair.

00:47:27.140 Yep. What do you want to bet the quote unquote trans women teams are going to dominate

00:47:32.480 the trans, the trans men, and then we'll finally have a female sports league that people will watch.

00:47:42.200 Do you think they'll separate them by how they identify?

00:47:46.180 I think they'll say, oh, it's just a matter of skill.

00:47:51.100 That's just a matter of skill. We don't know. We don't know. No. See, this person's not binary.

00:47:56.360 Over here. Some of the commentary is funny. Real question. Are the rules different? I just played

00:48:01.820 in a flag football game with gay players on my team. So we can't just play together. I'm trying to

00:48:06.760 figure out this one because I'm totally lost. Sage Steele said, so does this mean straight guys are

00:48:11.800 allowed to play in the NGFL? Kind of like how gay guys are allowed to play in the NFL and have been

00:48:18.820 for years. The marketing strategy for this league will be fascinating. Can't wait to watch the

00:48:23.700 commercials. So, okay. They responded to Sage Steele. Valid question. Here's the answer. Yes,

00:48:28.560 indeed. All 27 of our city leagues include straight players. Our league is a place where everyone

00:48:35.180 belongs. Ladies, if your husband or fiance is one of the straight players in the NGFFL, that's a red

00:48:41.240 flag. I'm calling a flag on the play there. Okay? Like, I don't know. Our league is a place where

00:48:49.680 everyone belongs. It's an accepting environment where everyone is free to be themselves, which may

00:48:53.500 not always be the case on all football teams. Matthew Peterson, he's the editor-in-chief of The

00:48:59.540 Blaze. My lifelong Buffalo Bills plus Giants, Patriots, Jets, Dolphins, Cardinals, Bears, Commanders,

00:49:04.420 and Seahawks are funding a not-just-metaphorically-gay flag football league. Behold, the not-so-free

00:49:10.680 market, bake the cake, bigot. The Babylon Bee, and my apology to Cowboys fans for this joke,

00:49:19.820 they posted this. Nation unsure why Buffalo Bills started a gay football team when Dallas

00:49:24.260 Cowboys already exist. What is that supposed to mean? I don't understand. As someone who

00:49:31.940 was born and raised in Dallas myself, are the Dallas Stars gay? My dad does call them

00:49:38.380 the Cowgirls. Oh, is it just because they're bad now? I don't know. I guess I don't know

00:49:45.240 enough about the hatred of the Cowboys. Well, in defense of Dallas, the last I read, the Texas

00:49:51.860 Rangers were the only team that did not have a Pride Night. Yep. That's true. Why do MLB teams

00:50:02.440 need a Pride Night? Again, let's think about what we are talking about here. We are talking about

00:50:07.360 how certain people prefer to do it. But that just doesn't need to be a part of sports.

00:50:15.620 No one needs to talk about that. No. And it's also, it's weird because it's in their best interest

00:50:20.980 to not talk about it based on who their main audience is. So I've never understood that,

00:50:25.880 why the sports leagues cater to that at all. Yeah. It's not like Target where they feed on empathy.

00:50:32.200 It's like, these are men, typically straight men watching this content. Why?

00:50:38.860 It's colonialism. It's left-wing colonialism. Like, I always say that, like, left-wing activists,

00:50:45.040 like, they are woken up in the middle of the night by the terrifying realization that some random

00:50:50.640 person in Kansas disagrees with them. Like, and they're like, how do I change that? Yeah. I got it.

00:50:56.280 More rainbows, more rainbows, more rainbows, more drag queens. Let's go. Okay. Really quickly,

00:51:03.260 really quickly, speaking of something that is super, super just gay in the sense that it is

00:51:08.860 just wrong, that women are apparently being added to the military draft, or this is a proposal,

00:51:16.040 right? In the House of Representatives right now. Yeah. It was a proposal. Yeah. It probably will not

00:51:22.580 pass, but people are freaking out about it. So this is in the Senate. Meanwhile, the Senate Armed

00:51:27.220 Forces Committee has introduced its own version of the NDAA, which would make women eligible for

00:51:32.300 the draft. It's also something that the Senate has repeatedly proposed over the past few years without

00:51:36.080 ever managing to get it past both chambers of Congress. No, as a girl mom, no, no, no. And I'm sure

00:51:46.580 boy moms would say the same thing. Like at this point, people are not excited to have a lot of

00:51:53.760 people are not excited to have their kids serve in the military. I'm not saying that the people who

00:51:57.920 do serve in the military don't deserve so much honor because they are so courageous and I'm thankful for

00:52:03.080 them. But with the ideology that seems to be so pervasive in the military right now and in our

00:52:08.100 federal government, a lot of parents are understandably like, what? Especially when it comes

00:52:11.720 to the draft because that's compulsory. And you're going to tell me that women and girls are going to

00:52:17.360 be drafted? No. I know that Israel does it. I know that Sweden or whoever does it. There are other

00:52:23.880 countries that do it. They're all wrong. They're all wrong. Women should not be drafted. I mean,

00:52:28.600 I kind of have an issue with the draft, I think, anyway. But women, no. Our bodies are different.

00:52:34.360 We're not meant to do that. I personally think women shouldn't be in combat, period. But to be drafted,

00:52:39.580 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So that's my answer to that. I don't think it's going to pass

00:52:48.520 right now. Basically, the, I think, theme of today's episode is the denial of and the subversion

00:52:56.480 of God-designated, biologically true genders and gender roles and why God's ways are just better.

00:53:06.300 And so don't stop being an agent of God's order and goodness and sharing the arrows with other

00:53:12.360 people who do the same. All right. That's all we've got time for today and this week. We will be back

00:53:18.340 here on Monday.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - June 20, 2024

Ep 1023 ｜ Pride Pullback： Are Companies Backing Down？

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