Ep 1078 ｜ Will Ferrell Transitions Into Irrelevance
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Summary
Two gay male flamingos are apparently raising a chick at the San Diego Zoo. This strange story surprisingly tells us a lot about where we are in the human world and what we actually think about children and the family. Also, Will Ferrell s new documentary about his so-called transgender friend, and Gavin Newsom is coming out with a horrifying new piece of legislation regarding IVF and same-sex couples. We ve got all of that on today s episode of Relatable.
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Two gay male flamingos are apparently raising a chick at the San Diego Zoo.
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This strange story surprisingly tells us a lot about where we are in the human world
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and what we actually think about children and the family.
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Also, Will Ferrell's got a documentary on Netflix about his so-called transgender friend,
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and Gavin Newsom is coming out with a horrifying new piece of legislation regarding IVF and same-sex couples.
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We've got all of that on today's episode of Relatable.
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Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.
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hopefully a little more lighthearted than what we have needed to discuss over the past couple days.
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It'll be a shorter episode than the last couple days,
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Anyway, we've got to talk about this very important story that we have been trying to talk about for a while.
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We've been trying to fit it into an episode and just haven't been able to because we've got Iran,
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And yet maybe perhaps the most pressing story of the day is that two gay flamingos are raising a child together.
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I just wanted to take a pause there for you to just take that all in.
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This is actually an important story just because of what we're going to draw from it,
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According to Fox 5, last month, Fox 5 San Diego reported on a pair of male flamingos at the San Diego Zoo.
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It's not like, oh, two gay flamingos outside of Birmingham.
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No one's like, oh, the gay flamingos in, you know, West Virginia.
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San Diego Zoo Safari Park, who they claim are a same-sex couple,
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having successfully welcomed a baby chick together.
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Now, let's just think about this, boys and girls.
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Now, these are the same people who claim that we need to have comprehensive sex ed
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and who claim that we should follow the science.
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And Darwin, who, you know, is, I'm guessing, languishing in Hades right now.
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But if he could roll over in his grave, he would be rolling over in his grave.
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Because even Darwin and all of his ignorance and all of the nonsense that he pushed
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understood the impossibility of something like this.
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The newly minted dads, Fox 5 said, hatched their chick on August 25th.
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Now, again, if your mind is just, like, try to read this to anyone outside of the United States.
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Please, go to Africa, go to China, go to India, go to South Korea and read this to them.
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Anyone, the members of our dear silent generation, read this to your grandmother
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and see if she can understand what is being said.
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After some time bonding behind the scenes, the family is now out for public viewing at the Escondido Park.
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And then how did they, well, how did they defy biology to welcome a baby flamingo together?
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Okay, according to the Wildlife Alliance, the two bonded males began sitting on a nest earlier this year,
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prompting the Safari Park's care specialist to give the couple a fake egg to keep them busy
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and prevent them from interfering with others' shelters.
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According to Fox 5, the two immediately began caring for the placebo, alternating brooding responsibilities.
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After a bit of time, the Wildlife Alliance says specialists swapped out the fake egg for a real one for them to foster.
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Okay, let's think about what happened here, okay?
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So, we're hearing that flamingos, that these two male flamingos, defied everything we know about reality to create an egg.
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That's what the headline was, that they raised a child together.
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In reality, they stole an egg from this flamingo's actual mother and gave it to these two male flamingos.
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Huh, that almost sounds like the egg-selling and surrogacy industry that we have in the human world.
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You have two men who buy the DNA, the eggs from one woman, rent the womb of another woman to purposely create a motherless child.
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And that is one of the most wicked things in our world today that we not only allow, but actually celebrate and call inclusion and love.
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And now we are seeing it in the animal kingdom.
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Now that it's hatched, the two dads have been caring for the baby chick.
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Who is like, that baby chick is like, where the heck is my mom?
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But of course, this poor baby chick can't talk.
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Just like human babies, who are wondering the same thing, by the way.
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Because not only are they missing their genetic mother when they are born via egg-selling and surrogacy, but they're also missing the only woman, the only home that they've ever known that they have physiologically bonded with for nine to ten months inside the womb, knowing her smell, her feeling, her heartbeat.
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Biologically, babies long for that after they are born.
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That's why we do skin-to-skin when babies are born.
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I've watched this happen three times now as a mom of three.
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It's one thing when a mom puts her baby up for adoption and has to give that baby away.
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It is another thing to intentionally create that broken motherless situation through surrogacy and through egg-selling.
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Remember, I know I'm kind of going back and forth between the parallels here, but remember, adoption redeems an already broken situation.
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And egg-selling, sperm-selling surrogacy creates a broken situation because even if you've got a heterosexual couple that's using a surrogate, you are still severing that bond that is meant to be there at birth.
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And we may never know the full effects of that primal wound.
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But even more so, even more so is the evil of creating purposely motherless children.
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I mean, how babies long for their moms, the comfort, the touch, the feel, the stability, the softness of the mother that is so necessary for development, especially in those early years, to purposely rob a child of that is just so selfish.
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And now this is what humans do because humans, we seek in our sinful flesh, we seek validation and affirmation of our choices.
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And so, I mean, that's part of what happens in this egg-selling surrogacy process.
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These men are seeking validation for their choices and affirmation of their choices, which is why a lot of times these kids are gaslit into not verbalizing their want for a mother, their desire to know who their mom is.
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But the creation of these motherless children and even fatherless children, it's a form of, yes, maybe you really do want to raise these children, but it's also a form of just affirming and validating your choices.
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And so not only are adults putting that on children, but they are also putting that on animals.
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They're using what is probably just like normal flamingo behavior, two dude flamingos hanging out.
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Like, they're probably talking about super, like, dude flamingo stuff.
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They're probably like, see that chick over there?
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Did you see what happened with fantasy football last night?
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They have no idea that the weirdo zookeepers are calling them a bunch of homos, a bunch of fancy flamingos.
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And now they're left with this baby chick and they're like, what do we do?
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But it's just, it's looking for affirmation for your own degenerate choices.
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And it actually, like, it reminds me of the idolatry, the pagan idolatry that you see throughout
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history, the worshiping of animals, replacing the worship of the real God, replacing the
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worship of the creator for worship of the creation in order to justify your most base desires.
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The article claims that same-sex parenting among flamingos is a well-documented
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phenomenon, experts say, although it is still relatively rare, I'd say, we wouldn't really
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However, it is at least the second instance of it in the United States this year.
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Back in August, a pair of male Chilean flamingos at a Colorado zoo successfully hatch and raise
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A poor mama flamingo is like, where is my baby?
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And literally, just to affirm human sexual degeneracy, they steal this baby from this
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The zoo claims they don't know how this happened, but that the most likely scenario is that
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Therefore, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring
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of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie
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and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever.
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For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions, for their women exchanged natural
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relations for those that are contrary to nature.
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And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion
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for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the
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The conspiracy theorists who say that homosexuality, the prohibition against it, was just added to
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And all of the other references to sexual morality, the positive definitions of what holy
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It's really just a form of blue and on that kind of blows my mind.
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Everywhere Christian feet have been on the ground throughout the history of civilization,
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then the most loving thing we can do is agree with God in all circumstances.
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You cannot compartmentalize the belief that God is the creator and authority over all things
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Well, we've got some more silliness happening in the advocacy of the LGBTQ lifestyle.
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This time on Netflix, we've got Will Ferrell saying that his longtime friend has become a woman
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He released a new documentary with his now transgender, quote-unquote.
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We always say, quote-unquote, or so-called, or what's referred to because there's no such thing as transitioning your gender.
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Even some people on our side of things try to separate those two and say that gender is expression and your sex is your biology.
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I think that's just a completely faulty way to go.
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I remember I had a professor in college who tried to separate those two things.
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And this person looking back, she was very androgynous herself.
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I think the only term I knew was transvestite at that point.
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And she said something about the difference between sex and gender, how they're two different things.
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And I wasn't trying to be political or contentious.
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She just kind of moved on and furrowed her brow.
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And I don't remember anyone else speaking up or looking at me or being like, well, that was brave.
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I just knew at the time that that was nonsense.
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And I'm not even sure I understood the ideology behind it.
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Maybe I did and I'm just not remembering correctly.
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Something in me knew that I needed to correct that.
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But it's so funny because at that time, like, the consensus would have been on my side completely.
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And she could have actually gotten punished, even though this was a secular school, for spouting something so radical.
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Oh, how the turntables, as Michael Scott would say, because now we've got a Netflix series saying that a man who has lived as a man his entire life is now a woman and should be accepted as a woman and should be able to go into women's spaces to be regarded as a woman.
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And Will Ferrell is just like, this is no big deal.
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Well, remember, Will Ferrell is a multi-multi-millionaire who has already, you know, he's made his career in Hollywood.
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And so these people who always claim they're on the side of empathy, I guess, has a hard time understanding why we, as women, as moms and parents who have daughters,
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why we would not want these men entering our spaces, sharing our bathrooms, sharing our locker rooms, competing in sports against our children.
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But, of course, he probably does have those doubts in his mind, but he knows it's unpopular to verbalize those.
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And he got paid big bucks from Netflix for this silly documentary.
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So his now transgender identifying friend, Andrew Steele, who currently goes by the name Harper.
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It's always a little bit like put the lotion in the basket for me when I hear them come up with their names.
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You know, like it's just kind of it freaks me out a little bit.
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I never thought that I would be saying maybe Dylan Mulvaney is more on the same side of the spectrum when it comes to gender deception.
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I want to know because so often I see these stories, especially on like the transgender Reddit posts that are shared on X,
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of these men saying that they now identify as women and taking on the name of someone that they had a crush on.
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Because these men aren't gay, by the way, most of the time.
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So they take a name of someone that they had a crush on when they were growing up or someone that they wanted to be like,
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someone that they had like secret fantasies about, someone that they've seen in pornography.
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I just want to know, like, how did you pick this name that is nothing like Andrew?
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And this documentary, Will and Harper, aims to evoke empathy, one might say toxic empathy,
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for the trans-identifying friend and to normalize so-called transgenderism in the mainstream
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while ignoring any real concerns over science, safety, and fairness.
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Some also are pointing out that the movie itself disproves the narrative of so-called transgender hate
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because Steele is treated warmly by people all over the country, which I think is good.
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Like, I do think just in like a personal interaction, you can treat anyone, no matter who they are, warmly.
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But that does not mean we have to be open to accepting a man who thinks that he's a woman or says that he's a woman into our private spaces,
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nor should we be bullied or pressured in any way to affirm their delusions and to say that 2 plus 2 equals 5.
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So most of the film focuses on the personal relationship between the two friends,
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but in one scene, Farrell takes a picture with Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb,
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and he laments his regret over not confronting him about the state's ban on so-called gender-affirming care.
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According to the New York Post, the movie itself proves that generally people are kind.
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In the film, the pair visit an Oklahoma dive bar adorned with pro-Trump flags,
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and Steele arrives solo, striking up friendly chats with some locals.
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Then Farrell enters and they are serenaded by Native Americans as a toothless man,
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The stranger is welcoming and sweet, this other person at a racetrack.
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Both encounters prompt Steele to admit, I'm not afraid of these people.
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Well, Republicans in general, in general, are way, way, way, way, way, way nicer to people that they disagree with,
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or people that they don't align with, than liberals are.
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I mean, I guarantee you, if you made a documentary of someone with a MAGA hat,
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that's not even something that is, like, intrusive, like a man trying to enter into women's spaces.
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And he went to a bar in New York, I guarantee you, he would probably be physically assaulted.
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Because remember, politics is the religion of the left.
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It is their theology, it is their driving force, it's actually what drives their theology.
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Everything that they think about the Bible is actually first gone,
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it goes through the prism of politics, and they're vying for power,
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which is ironic because they're always projecting on Christian conservatives,
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simply because we don't want babies to be killed inside the room, inside the womb.
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But remember, that is projection, it is manipulation, it is a silencing tactic.
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They are the ones constantly vying for bigger government, suppression of speech,
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forcing you to agree with and celebrate their ideology.
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Leftists worship politics, which is why when you are considered a blasphemer
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and you're outside of their religious dogma, they treat you with such antipathy.
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So it doesn't surprise me at all that this person was treated nicely.
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It's very real and it's very unsafe for trans people in certain situations.
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But I don't know why trans people are meant to be threatening to me as a cis male.
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Well, he's not because you're bigger than him and you're a man.
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You don't have daughters and I guess you just don't care about reality.
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I'm sure you really care about the science of climate change and the science of COVID vaccines,
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but you don't care about the basic existential science of male and female without which none
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But you can't see how a denial of reality, the insistence that two plus two equals five
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is a threat to absolutely everyone, even if you were to put to the side the rights and
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the safety and the protection of women, you can't see that.
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I bet you could, I bet you could, but there's consequences for seeing and expressing reality
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and he doesn't want to bear those consequences because it's much comfier not to.
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He said, it's so strange to me because Harper is finally her.
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If the trans community is a threat to you, I think it stems from not being confident or
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Oh my gosh, that was funnier than anything you ever said in Talladega Nights.
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If like, if a little girl doesn't want to walk into, say, a bathroom with her mother
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at a gym and see a grown man with long hair and lipstick standing there sexually aroused,
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I mean, by the way, this has happened at Planet Fitness as well as We Spa in LA.
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If she doesn't want to see that, if she doesn't want to participate in that, it's because that
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If women don't want to compete against men who are bigger and stronger and faster than
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them biologically, inherently, and have been from the time of puberty onward, it's just because
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they're insecure, not because they care about fairness.
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See, this is why the right beats the left in debates because the left never has to see
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our perspective, they're never forced to see our side, they never contend with our
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arguments, but we are always forced to see their side and formulate an argument against
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And that's why whenever I enter into like some kind of adversarial or debate context, I
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I'm never overconfident in those situations because you just never know whether I'm in
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front of Congress or whether I am debating someone one-on-one, but I am always struck
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by the utter ignorance of progressives when it comes to what we actually believe in why
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I'll link it in the description here between me and between a so-called non-binary teacher
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We recorded it several months ago and, you know, he was respectful, but you will see how
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vapid their side is and how just absolutely rock solid our side is.
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I'm very proud of, if I can say that without it sounding like, you know, self-aggrandizing
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at all, but I'm very proud of how that debate went.
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I'm very grateful for how it went and I'm so thankful to God for the clarity that he
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gives us in his word, but also just the common grace of science and logic, all of these things
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And it's so much better than this toxic empathy that just says, feel how this proposed victim
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feels and blind yourself to morality or reality.
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The Christian way, as I tried very hard to exemplify in that debate, is the truth and
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Farrell said that he had zero knowledge about the trans community before Harper came out to him.
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He said, I had met trans people, but I didn't have anyone personally in my life,
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which is why I think this film is so exciting for us to kind of put out there in the world.
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There's a chance for all of us in the CIS community to be able to ask questions
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and also just to listen and be there as a friend to discuss this journey.
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But see, the questions that are being asked by Will Ferrell aren't like,
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okay, so like, do you really like, you're going to share a bathroom with these women?
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We are sold this lie about authenticity, even Christians, that authenticity is our highest
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virtue, that if you're not living, quote unquote, authentically, then you're going to be unhappy,
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that you're living a lie, that it's the most awful thing to do.
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But it has to be in submission to truth, not just objective truth, scientific, observable
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But most importantly, it has to be submissive to biblical truth.
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So it is not the most important thing we as Christians know to do whatever you feel like
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doing, to follow your flesh, to follow all of your desires to ultimate fulfillment, because
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not all of our thoughts and desires or feelings are good.
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Now, we live in a world that says all of your feelings are valid.
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They may all be real, but valid means that they are rooted in truth.
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And so we have to submit all of our feelings, all of our thoughts, our very identity, the
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And within that paradigm, yes, we can live authentically, authentically in submission to
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Christ and the standards that he has set for us.
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When authenticity becomes your highest value without submitting to absolute truth, it becomes
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The same thing with autonomy has the same prefix there.
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Authenticity, autonomy, that AU, it has to do with the self, like automatic.
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And whenever you create authenticity and autonomy as your highest values, they become excuses
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Both of these things can be good in submission to absolute truth, in submission to Christ.
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And that's what happens when we exchange the God of self, which we all once followed, with
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All of our desires, our control, even over our own body, no longer is just about us and
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what we want to do, but about Christ and his ways are better.
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And if you're thinking, well, that's fine for you because you're a Christian, you can't
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But look, every single law, every single policy restriction or regulation or even definition
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in our public sphere is the product of a worldview.
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We also have bought this lie that believing that men can become women, transgenderism, LGBTQ
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And it's fine if progressives are able to define these things in law for us or in curriculum,
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but it's wrong for Christians to define gender or marriage in the public sphere.
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One, we're told, is Christian nationalism and theocracy.
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Again, it's its own religion with its own ideas of human worth, human existence, right
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and wrong, sin, holiness, repentance, even its own eschatology.
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It's thought of like what the future world should look like.
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So why should progressives have more of a right to inform the public sphere about these very
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important identity-related issues, but Christians have no right to do so?
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Again, that's a silencing and manipulation tactic.
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Someone pointed out, and this is very true, even if you were to just kind of put the worldview
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stuff to the side, which actually now that I say that, this still isn't really putting
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the worldview stuff to the side, but most people without even thinking of their worldview
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Someone pointed out on X, Will Ferrell is not an incarcerated woman who has to bunk with
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He's not a 14-year-old girl who has to share her school bathroom with boys.
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Remember, in several prisons across the country and around the world, there are men who just
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have to say that they're women who are sharing a cell with vulnerable women.
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And these are men who are in prison because of child rape, because of the rape of women.
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And in states like Washington, California, Oregon, Illinois, New York, these men who just
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say that they're women are incarcerated with these very vulnerable women.
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There are reports out of California that women in prison have been impregnated by these men.
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If you cannot speak up against this, I'm sorry, I just don't trust that you're going
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If you cannot speak up for Genesis 127, I do not believe you when you say that you will
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The gospel actually has to be discerned with the spirit.
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If you can't stand up for scientific reality, I just have a hard time believing you're going
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to stand up for the spiritual reality, the far more controversial truth that without Christ,
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Christian history, church history is built on courage.
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Not the cowardice and compromise of Christians, but courage.
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And this is about doing what Christians have always done, which is not only stand up for
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the gospel and to do good works, but also to speak out against the evil ideologies of the day.
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That is why, in part, Christians were burnt at the stake, fed to lions, because by nature
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of their biblical beliefs, they spoke out against the ruling ideologies and philosophies of the
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day that were held by people in power to solidify their power.
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And that's what Christians are doing today when they speak up for life inside the womb,
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when they speak out against gender deception and gender confusion.
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So let's stand on the shoulders of the brave Christians that have gone before us and be
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But we also cannot listen to the world when they call us mean and hateful for saying what is true.
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He was kind, and yet he shared unapologetically the gospel to the audience before him, and yet
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We cannot measure our obedience by the world's reaction to us.
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You just continue to obey and say what is true.
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Speaking up against wicked policies of wicked rulers, let's talk about Gavin Newsom and what
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So in the state of California, Gavin Newsom says that he is making insurance companies
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Now, I won't get into all of the background on my take on the ethics of IVF because I've
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I know it's probably one of my most controversial subjects that I talk about, but I do encourage
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you to go back and watch those because I've got so many perspectives from so many people.
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I've got the perspective of doctors who used to practice IVF.
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I've got the perspective of a mom who struggled with infertility who almost used IVF.
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I've got the perspective of a husband and dad who regrets him and his wife using IVF.
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I've got a child safety expert giving her opinion.
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The fact of the matter is these embryos that are created through IVF are so often discarded
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And that is the unknowingly the gamble, many cases unknowingly, the gamble that every couple
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I would say no Christian couple goes into IVF thinking that they want to destroy their embryos
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They, of course, wanted to get pregnant naturally.
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And yet so many are convinced to create four or five embryos.
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Then they're left with those three image bearers of God, in-sold image bearers of God.
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That's why we have over 1 million in-sold image bearer embryos on ice right now.
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And so saying that we are going to subsidize those, that we are going to pay taxes to
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subsidize that process, which almost always includes a eugenics process and the destruction
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Donald Trump himself has said that we're going to do that when he becomes president.
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I do not think that will actually happen under Donald Trump.
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But Gavin Newsom, he's already beat him to the punch.
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So the law is SB 729 by Senator Caroline Minjavar, which requires large group health care health
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So employers that cover at least 100 people and disability insurance policies to provide
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coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and fertility service, including
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So this includes, by the way, the two men that are buying the eggs from one woman and renting
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The new law broadens the definition of infertility so that same-sex couples can be treated.
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So you will be forced in the state of California to pay with your dollars the creation of motherless
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Making intrauterine insemination and IVF more accessible and affordable, they say, is key
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to achieving reproductive equity for LGBTQ plus people.
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It's about adults validating and justifying their sexual immorality.
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Children are always the unconsenting subjects of progressive social experiments.
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Whether it's COVID policies like mask mandates, whether it's child sacrifice like abortion,
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whether it's the redefinition of marriage and family, whether it is reproductive technology.
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That when technology takes us from what is natural to what is possible, Christians have
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Not all reproductive methods carry with it the same ethical problems that we see in IVF.
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But here, because we are making image bearers of God, because we are raising these babies,
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we should be looking to science, which says you need a man and a woman to create a child
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to also tell us how you need to raise a child in an ideal situation.
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We should be looking to creation to tell us what the definition of marriage and family is.
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Because, again, every law comes from a particular worldview.
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Christians have been manipulated into thinking that we are the only ones that have to check
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our worldview at the door before we vote, before we talk about policy, and children are dying
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Think about these issues from a truth and love perspective rather than the perspective
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of toxic empathy, because lives are on the line because of that.
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