Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 115 ｜＂Equality＂ Act

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Wednesday is our news day,

00:00:06.480 as you guys know, and there's a lot of news to talk about. We could go over the abortion stuff

00:00:11.280 yet again, but we have spent what the past four or five episodes, at least over the past couple

00:00:18.460 of weeks, talking about everything that's going on with abortion legislation in Georgia and

00:00:24.140 Alabama. Now Missouri is headed down that track as well. And the pushback and the vitriol that a lot 0.99

00:00:30.900 of you have gotten online or in the articles that you have seen in every day, it does seem like it

00:00:35.980 just gets crazier and crazier and more and more callous from the pro-choice side. I would say

00:00:41.900 that some of the posts that I've seen have made it extremely clear that many on the pro-choice side,

00:00:47.700 I definitely won't say all, but many on the pro-choice side are not in fact pro-choice,

00:00:53.300 but are pro-abortion. There is, I don't know how else to say it except keep using this word,

00:00:58.840 which we know is biblical. We've talked about on this podcast, but a callousness that covers the 0.75

00:01:04.760 hearts of a lot of people on that side. And we know it's not just an abortion issue. It is a

00:01:10.560 spiritual issue that pervades all aspects of someone's life that robs them of any real direct

00:01:17.060 compassion and any real softness and vulnerability that allows us to love those

00:01:22.520 who are more vulnerable than we are. So I don't want to talk about all of that today. I want you

00:01:28.360 to know that I'm thinking about that and I would love to talk about that, but I want to give us some

00:01:32.920 kind of reprieve because there are other very important things that are going on. I won't say

00:01:38.160 more important, but they're very important and they all kind of work together. We've talked a lot

00:01:42.700 about the onslaught of progressivism and really how that is part and parcel with a lot of things

00:01:47.920 that simply aren't true. I am not trying to cast everyone on the other side as bad or not a good

00:01:55.360 Christian or something like that, but the values that we are seeing popularized by the left, by the

00:02:01.920 radical left, and by the socialist left are indeed morally wrong. They are untruthful according to the

00:02:09.080 Bible and we have to make sure to recognize that when we see it. And one example of that that has

00:02:16.100 been in the news lately is this Equality Act. You've probably heard about it. If you talk to someone on

00:02:21.720 the left or probably even someone in the middle, they will say this is a monumental and necessary

00:02:27.240 step for the protection of LGBTQ people. If you talk to someone on the right, they will probably tell

00:02:33.440 you that this is a major infringement on religious liberty. The reality is that it's probably some of

00:02:39.520 both and it can be both. It can be an infringement on our religious individual liberty and it can also

00:02:46.380 be a so-called protection for LGBTQ people. But the question is which one is going to give and which one

00:02:54.140 should give in the kind of constitutional republic that we live in right now. So the bill was passed on

00:03:00.940 Friday in the House. This Equality Act, it's described as a piece of legislation that would

00:03:06.100 prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. So that means that it expands

00:03:11.660 on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to do that. The Civil Rights Act, you probably know, it outlaws

00:03:17.560 discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application

00:03:25.280 of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, employment, public accommodations. Now,

00:03:33.840 a lot of states, 20 states, I think in particular, already outlaw any kind of LGBT discrimination,

00:03:39.220 but this community is now seeking protection on the federal or the national level. So that's what the

00:03:45.980 Equality Act is about. According to the Wall Street Journal, this act provides protections in employment

00:03:52.100 and housing and loan applications, education, and other areas. Now, we should ask ourselves,

00:03:57.180 is this something that is happening or is this something that is extremely pervasive or prevalent

00:04:02.720 that LGBT people are being systemically discriminated against? I don't think that there's any evidence to

00:04:09.900 that. And in fact, there is a liberal professor that we'll quote a little bit later who says the same

00:04:14.680 thing, who says this is probably not a widespread problem. Of course, discrimination of all kinds

00:04:19.260 things happens. It does. We live in an imperfect country. We live in an imperfect world. We are all

00:04:25.800 sinful people. And people, unfortunately, have biases against people of certain races, against women,

00:04:33.360 against pregnant women, whatever it is. And that is simply going to happen. But does the level of

00:04:40.940 discrimination that we are seeing towards this community necessitate the kind of legislation that

00:04:47.500 the Equality Act seeks to put in place? The answer is, in my opinion, no. But this is even more than

00:04:56.200 that to them. It's also symbolic. They want to be protected and recognized and legitimized in a way

00:05:03.100 that is federal, in a way that is national, I think, that also gives some kind of, in their minds,

00:05:09.700 a peace and assurance that they are being taken care of. It's also symbolic in that way.

00:05:16.000 But this particular act actually goes further than the Civil Rights Act does. The bill says that

00:05:22.120 individuals cannot be denied access to a locker room or a dresser or a dressing room, no matter

00:05:28.800 their gender identity. So that's been a very real point of contention between Republicans, Democrats,

00:05:35.480 conservatives and liberals. Eight Republicans in the House did vote yes, along with all the Democrats

00:05:40.640 that were present for the vote. Now, this bill probably is not going to get past the Senate.

00:05:46.560 You know that Democrats control the House. Republicans control the Senate. Of course,

00:05:51.060 Republican Susan Collins in the Senate is supporting the bill. She's trying to get her Republican

00:05:56.460 colleagues in the Senate to do the same. It's just a reminder of how truly non-conservative Susan 0.92

00:06:01.680 Collins is. If it does get past the Senate, Trump said he's going to veto it. But it's still

00:06:08.560 important to talk about, even if it doesn't get past the Senate, even if it goes to President

00:06:12.460 Trump's desk, which is unlikely and he does veto it. That's not the end of the story. This is very

00:06:17.900 clearly a piece of legislation that is going to be pushed for our entire lifetimes, as well as the

00:06:23.900 lifetimes of our children until it gets passed or until something drastically changes in the United

00:06:29.340 States. This is going to be a piece of legislation that is pushed harder and harder. This is what the

00:06:36.480 left sees as a requirement to legitimize transgenderism and the rights of the entire LGBT community by

00:06:44.920 punishing anyone who refuses to hire them or treat them how the federal government says that they

00:06:50.760 should be treated. And now all of that, to many of you, might sound OK. And I understand that. Maybe

00:06:56.120 you're even a Christian and you're thinking, well, OK, I don't personally agree with transgenderism or 0.79

00:07:02.760 I you're you might be saying, I don't agree with the LGBT lifestyle, but I don't want them to be 1.00

00:07:09.380 discriminated against. I think it is wrong to discriminate against them. You discriminate against

00:07:14.300 them, you might be saying. And maybe you think, OK, well, I'm for this, you know, separation of church 0.71

00:07:19.000 and state. I think that this is all fine, except what I would say. And this is what we're going to get

00:07:24.180 into. This is not actually separation of church and state. This is state involvement in churches and

00:07:30.460 religious organizations and parochial schools, demanding that these organizations operate how

00:07:36.660 the government tells them to operate, no matter their religious objections. What this really is,

00:07:43.520 what this act really is, is separation of church and all public life. So you hear a lot from the left

00:07:49.520 separation of church and state, which is a very, very misunderstood phrase. Of course, we know that

00:07:55.220 there is no establishment of a state religion in the United States. You are free or should be free

00:08:00.660 to worship who and how you see fit or to not worship any God at all. That is part of religious

00:08:08.120 liberty in the United States. But the left often takes this idea, the separation of church and state,

00:08:14.720 which is not, of course, in the Constitution. It's more a principle that was actually found in a letter.

00:08:19.540 But that's kind of besides the point right now. They think that that means that your faith should

00:08:26.080 not dictate at all how you see laws or how you see legislation, how you see policy whatsoever,

00:08:33.320 that it shouldn't have any effect on your civic life. But of course it does. Any person of faith

00:08:39.600 understands that faith is the hub and the center of the wheel. And so without the hub and the center of

00:08:45.120 the wheel, all the spokes that are connected or supposed to be connected to a hub are just going

00:08:49.680 to be, they're going to be irrelevant. And one of the spokes in our life is the civic government or

00:08:56.340 is our civic involvement, is our civic life. And so, of course, we see how the government operates

00:09:02.000 through the lens of Christians. That does not mean that we're advocating for a theocracy. That does not

00:09:07.160 mean I want to force you to worship God how I want you to worship him. That doesn't mean that I

00:09:13.080 want to force you to live the life that I think that you should be living. Now, I might have religious 1.00

00:09:18.600 opinions on that. I'm, of course, going to have biblical opinions on sin and which lifestyle is

00:09:24.220 better. But I am not going to enforce the government to force you or ask the government

00:09:30.200 to enforce laws that tell you to be a Christian. I'm not going to do that. So that is a very that's a 0.96

00:09:38.240 point of confusion, I think, for a lot of people on the left, that they say that you shouldn't approach

00:09:42.920 any kind of policy whatsoever, any form of public life with any kind of religious perspective. Well,

00:09:48.540 that's stupid. Civic life for the Christian is downstream from your faith. It is always going to 1.00

00:09:55.840 be. Now, that doesn't exclude our promotion of freedom. Of course not. The founding fathers. Here's

00:10:01.660 another myth. Everyone says that the founding fathers were just deists. They were all deists and

00:10:07.000 they really had no relationship with God. They didn't really care about Jesus at all. They just

00:10:11.760 thought that God was this guy who was sitting back looking over everything. Maybe, you know,

00:10:18.100 he was providential in some ways, but not directly involved in the aspects of our lives. But that's

00:10:24.020 not true of all of the founding fathers. Certainly not. It wasn't true of our first president. It wasn't

00:10:28.940 true of George Washington. It was not true of all of the founding fathers at all. Some of them had more

00:10:34.580 deistic views, but a lot of them were Christians. The American Revolution was actually known as the

00:10:40.700 Presbyterian rebellion. A lot of them were Calvinist. This was a very religiously motivated rebellion from

00:10:47.560 England to establish the United States. Again, that doesn't mean that they established a theocracy,

00:10:53.220 but it was through their love for God and their love for Jesus Christ and their love for the Bible

00:10:58.820 that they said, we want to establish a country that is free. So all that to say, it is okay for us to

00:11:08.400 approach this from a Christian perspective because that does not exclude freedom. What we actually see

00:11:13.860 is that the religion of progressivism is the religion that excludes freedom. The Christian 0.99

00:11:19.420 religion doesn't do that. I'm talking on a civic level. So anyway, this is not the separation of

00:11:28.860 church and state. That's not what the Equality Act is. This is an attempt to separate church from 0.57

00:11:34.500 all public life, from your job, from anything that affects the public sphere. And even we'll see in

00:11:41.620 a little bit, even some of the private sphere, anything that goes outside of just you praying

00:11:48.000 in silence in your head at home, this Equality Act has something to say about it. So when you hear

00:11:55.320 people say on the left that, oh, we just want separation of church and state. No, they want separation

00:11:59.720 of church in everything. They don't believe that the church should have any influence whatsoever.

00:12:05.240 They don't believe that Christians should be able to insert their opinions anywhere or live by their 0.99

00:12:09.460 opinions if they don't agree with it. That's why we always say progressivism as a religion is extremely

00:12:15.420 intolerant. And as a political view, it's extremely tyrannical. So here are some of the implications,

00:12:22.980 some of the consequences of the Equality Act. And you can go online, you can read the Equality Act

00:12:28.060 yourself. There are plenty of briefings. Make sure that you're getting it. You can go on Vox and you

00:12:32.680 could read that briefing. That's going to have a certain bent to it. You can go on National Review

00:12:37.620 that's going to maybe have another bent to it if you are on the left. So you can go and read all about

00:12:44.040 this if you want to. But here's what I've deduced from reading the act and reading several analyses of

00:12:49.080 it. It makes irrelevant any religious or conscience exemptions for doctors. So under this bill,

00:12:54.960 a doctor is going to be required to perform sex change surgery if they are in that particular field

00:12:59.640 and provide hormone therapy even to children. And we already know this is happening in other

00:13:04.420 countries. Now, they could maybe find protection under free exercise arguments or other conscience

00:13:09.680 objection legislation, but that's just unsure. So they just don't know. Religious schools are going

00:13:15.940 to be regulated under this act, even if they take no funding from the federal government,

00:13:20.220 meaning that they could they couldn't choose to not hire or fire a teacher, for example,

00:13:27.900 who was in a gay relationship or who was transitioning. Now, you might be listening to

00:13:33.360 this and say, well, good. But but even if you don't agree with these religious schools views,

00:13:39.700 Christian schools operate under the Bible and they are free to operate under the Bible. And the Bible

00:13:45.420 is clear about marriage and gender. So by regulating these schools, by the federal government regulating

00:13:50.180 these schools, they are forcing them to ignore and condone what the Bible says is sin. That is the

00:13:56.060 opposite of religious liberty. That doesn't that's not good for anyone. Whether you're religious or not,

00:14:01.680 you can still be a fan of freedom. That is tyranny. There is a Supreme Court case, Employment Division v.

00:14:08.360 Smith, that held that religious dissenters are subject to generally applicable laws. It's probably not going to be

00:14:14.780 overturned, which means under the Equality Act, there would be very little. There will be some

00:14:19.520 but very little recourse for religious people who object to these kinds of laws. So under this act,

00:14:25.320 this also means that athletic teams would be forced to allow transgender boys and girls to compete on

00:14:30.700 athlete on their athletic teams that correspond with their gender identity rather than their biological

00:14:37.000 sex. There could be some judicial interpretation, I'm told, that would rule in favor of objections to

00:14:42.980 this. But in general, under this act, they would have this right. And I saw Dan Crenshaw, who is a

00:14:50.060 Republican representative from Texas, say that he just couldn't believe what his Democratic colleagues

00:14:55.140 were saying about, oh, Republicans and conservatives, they're just fear mongering. This is not that big of

00:15:00.240 a deal for a transgender girl. So a biological boy to play on a girl's soccer team, for example,

00:15:06.020 that's just fear mongering. That's not that big of a deal. As if science doesn't exist or science

00:15:12.000 doesn't matter. I mean, we could go through, this is kind of a different episode for a different day.

00:15:16.160 And we have actually talked about this in the past. We talked about this on an episode when we talked

00:15:20.360 about women being drafted and how stupid that is because men and women are so different. But

00:15:25.860 men have a different biological makeup that even if they are on hormone therapy, even if they take

00:15:30.720 estrogen, even if they look like a woman that doesn't change their anaerobic capacity, which is better 0.99

00:15:35.840 than a woman's, that doesn't change their bone density, that doesn't change their ability to gain 1.00

00:15:41.100 muscle. It might change it a little bit, but it doesn't completely take it away. They are still

00:15:45.060 going to be a man on the inside. And I don't care how bigoted that sounds. It's scientifically true.

00:15:50.580 They are biologically a man. And as a biological man, you are different. You know, this is a side

00:15:58.140 note, but I read something really interesting the other day. Y'all know I'm pregnant. And so I'm always

00:16:03.180 reading these different articles. Sorry if this is like just a tad bit inappropriate, but I don't think it

00:16:07.800 is. So you're reading this. I was reading this article about breastfeeding and there was this

00:16:11.140 really interesting point that I read that actually depending on what sex your baby is, the composition

00:16:17.100 of, of, okay, this is actually getting a little bit more graphic than I want. Uh, the composition

00:16:24.020 of breast milk was different for a boy versus a girl. And so you have more protein. If you are having

00:16:29.400 a boy, you have less protein and fat. If you are having a girl, all of that points to the fact that 0.99

00:16:34.880 there is a biological difference between boys and girls, there is going to be a different makeup 0.84

00:16:40.020 between boys and girls that is not going to be changed, uh, by sex change surgery or by hormone

00:16:45.760 therapy. Um, and so these Democrats that are saying, well, this is just fear-mongering this,

00:16:51.560 you know, this isn't really going to have any negative effect on women are lying to themselves. 1.00

00:16:56.920 They're completely lying to themselves, but this is what happens under the equality act where, uh,

00:17:02.420 gender identity actually completely obscures science and reality. Uh, according to national 0.95

00:17:08.040 review under the guise of anti-discrimination protections, the bill redefined sex to include

00:17:14.080 gender identity undermines religious freedom, gives males who identify as females, the right 1.00

00:17:18.920 to women's spaces and sets a dangerous political precedent for the medicalization of gender confused 1.00

00:17:24.320 youth. That is a quote from national review. Now there are plenty of Republicans in the house

00:17:29.440 who have tried to add amendments to ensure some more freedom for organizations and, uh, for schools.

00:17:36.240 There is a representative Tom McClintock. He's from California. He provided an amendment that I would

00:17:42.020 have said that the bill would not be construed to require a healthcare provider, uh, to affirm the

00:17:47.120 self-professed gender identity of a minor. So just of a minor, not of an adult of a minor. So we're talking

00:17:53.140 about someone, obviously a minor is under the age of 18, but say you've got someone who comes in who

00:17:58.120 is eight or nine, which are the cases that we have heard both here and abroad. If you've got an eight

00:18:02.360 or a nine year old who says, mommy, daddy, I know that I was born a girl, but I really think I'm a

00:18:06.960 boy. And who insists, maybe they've seen something on YouTube. They insist that they transition,

00:18:11.660 whatever it is, or maybe they've got loony parents who say, you know what, we're just going to affirm

00:18:15.920 you. They go to a doctor's office, say that doctor is a Christian. And that doctor does not want to 0.59

00:18:21.500 affirm the gender identity and says, you know what? I'm sorry. I'm not going to be able to take 1.00

00:18:25.740 this case. Good luck to you under this bill. They apparently may not, uh, be able to do that.

00:18:32.480 And I think that it is, uh, that is proven by the fact that Tom McClintock offered an amendment that

00:18:38.440 would have made sure the healthcare provider doesn't have to affirm the self-professed, uh,

00:18:43.140 gender identity of a minor and Democrats turned it down. So HR five, that's what this bill is,

00:18:49.740 is a dangerous attempt. This is what McClintock says by the Democrats to use the force of government

00:18:54.880 to bend biology and human nature to their ideological whims. He says, I'm not surprised

00:19:00.240 that my amendment to ensure that physicians cannot be sued for exercising their professional

00:19:05.420 medical judgment towards minors was rejected viewed along with the rejection of my colleagues

00:19:11.760 amendment relating to protecting parents from being sued for discrimination for the act of parenting.

00:19:17.560 The Democrats radical agenda is on full display in the house. And that is absolutely true.

00:19:22.040 the fact that these amendments have been turned down. So an amendment just saying, Hey, if a physician

00:19:28.080 has, uh, an objection to affirming the gender identity of a minor, so we're talking about a child

00:19:35.080 or a young teenager who wants to get hormone therapy, uh, that they would be protected from being sued

00:19:41.380 by, by the parents or sued by whoever the Democrats turned that down. That means that they think that a

00:19:48.640 doctor should be sued. They should be free to be sued. If they turn down this kind of therapy for a

00:19:55.220 minor crazy, um, representative Greg Stoob, I don't really know how to pronounce his last name.

00:20:01.380 He's also Republican from Florida. Uh, he also, he also proposed an amendment that would have,

00:20:07.840 uh, ensured that the act would not be construed to require a biological female to face competition 1.00

00:20:12.820 from a biological male in any sporting event. That's what we were just talking about.

00:20:16.880 Democrats turned that down as well. And this is what, uh, he, the representative had to say about

00:20:22.280 that. I offered this amendment to ensure that our daughters are provided an equal playing field 1.00

00:20:26.680 in sports for generations to come and that female athletes are not competing against male athletes

00:20:31.600 for athletic scholarships and title nine funding. I, for one, don't think it's fair or equal to make

00:20:36.700 young biological women compete against biological males. That's why I introduced this amendment in 1.00

00:20:41.580 committee. And again, to the full house, of course, of course, he's absolutely right for all of the

00:20:46.820 reasons that we just listed. And Democrats say that that's fear mongering. That's basic. Isn't it

00:20:51.380 crazy? I was just saying this to someone the other day that the longer we have gone throughout history,

00:20:55.620 the more science we know, obviously the more scientific knowledge that we have, we know the

00:21:00.400 differences, uh, between men and women, between boys and girls. We know that boys and girls brains

00:21:05.240 actually start developing differently inside the womb. Of course they do because boys and girls are

00:21:10.280 inherently extremely different. We just talked about that. Even, uh, how they feed and the food that

00:21:16.180 they naturally eat right after they're born is different. It's composed differently. Uh, their

00:21:21.260 chromosomes are different and Democrats are saying, no, no, no, in favor of identity, in favor of a

00:21:28.200 feeling, in favor of a dysphoria, we need to deny all scientific reality. We need to, in essence, 0.75

00:21:34.900 discriminate against girls who are competing in sports because of the small minority of people

00:21:40.840 who think that they're the opposite sex and they actually are. That's insanity. That is insanity. 0.91

00:21:46.740 Another representative Republican from Louisiana, Mike Johnson, he proposed an amendment, uh, that said

00:21:52.940 that the act would not be construed to deny a parent's right to be involved in their minor child's

00:21:58.640 medical care. Just think about how basic that is. A parent's right to be involved in, uh, their minor

00:22:05.860 child's medical care. So again, we are talking about children or we are talking about teenagers,

00:22:12.040 high schoolers. Uh, the act was rejected by the amendment was rejected by Democrats. Uh, he replied

00:22:19.800 with this, the so-called equality act would actually eliminate sex-based protections for women by forcing 1.00

00:22:24.640 rape crisis centers, ladies, locker rooms, female prisons, women's sports leagues, and other sex-based 0.98

00:22:29.900 organizations to admit biological males. Additionally, this bill would eviscerate constitutionally

00:22:35.160 protected rights by empowering the federal government to voice a force employers, uh, medical

00:22:39.680 professionals, parents, business owners, and all Americans to act in violation of their conscience.

00:22:44.900 The federal government should not be able to dictate a belief system. And that last line is absolutely

00:22:50.560 right. The federal government should not be able to dictate a belief system. I just want you to think

00:22:57.260 about this, that under this act, possibly parents could be, uh, sued. Parents could be sued for violating

00:23:04.900 the civil rights of their child by saying, look, Sally, you're not Johnny. And I am not going to take

00:23:13.000 you to a gender identity affirming doctor to change your sex. I'm not going to do that. I'm 0.94

00:23:20.480 sorry. I'm not going to do it. We are going to pursue other methods. We are going to go to counseling.

00:23:26.000 We love you. And we want what's best for you. That is not what's best for you. Possibly, possibly

00:23:32.880 parents could be put in trouble because of this equality act, because now affirming one's identity

00:23:38.500 is going to be seen as a civil rights. And they would be saying that, uh, you know, a parent, uh, would

00:23:45.320 be violating their child's civil rights. We already saw this in Canada where a dad is getting

00:23:50.460 charged for violence, emotional violence against his child for not saying that his biologically

00:23:57.460 female child, uh, biologically. Yeah. Biologically female child is a male. He won't call her by,

00:24:04.500 uh, her by male pronouns because she is a girl. And now he is being found guilty in court, uh,

00:24:12.700 of mistreating his daughter. It's insane. And if you think that that's not coming to the United States,

00:24:18.140 you should just read this equality act. That's exactly what this would do. The fact that Democrats

00:24:25.140 shot this amendment down to give parents any discretion, any right to be involved in a minor

00:24:30.380 child's medical care tells you exactly what they think. They don't believe in parental rights.

00:24:35.880 They don't. They believe that you, that I, that our children should be agents of the state because

00:24:41.700 apparently bureaucrats, many of whom don't have any kids by the way, and don't really care about their

00:24:47.240 families. Apparently, well, I shouldn't make that judgment. I shouldn't say that. Don't care about

00:24:52.060 our families. I will say that don't care about our families think that they can parent better than we

00:24:57.560 do that. That's what they believe. They think that religion, they think that morality, they think that

00:25:03.600 any kind of principle that, uh, goes against what they think that it is, that it should be outlawed

00:25:11.300 basically, or it should be as outlawed as humanly possible. It should, your view should have to be

00:25:15.860 kept as private as possible. And then if they step outside of the tiny circle of what's allowed by

00:25:21.940 the federal government, the federal government is going to punish you. That's what this bill is

00:25:28.480 about. And I want you to think for a second, when you think about the fact that this bill could open

00:25:32.680 up parents to being sued, uh, for not going along with their child, who's a girl wanting to be a boy

00:25:38.560 or vice versa. Think about how stupid you were when you were young. Think about that. I'm thinking

00:25:45.060 about it myself. Think about how stupid you were. Think about how stupid you were when you were a

00:25:48.440 teenager. And when I was a teenager, we didn't even have all of this stuff. Like my husband and I talk

00:25:53.580 about all the time, all of the things that we're going to have to teach our daughter that we didn't

00:25:57.560 have to be taught that boys are boys and girls are girls. We didn't have to, we didn't have to be

00:26:02.280 taught that. It was just like, yeah, duh, obviously, obviously. Uh, but we're going to actually have

00:26:09.320 to teach our daughter that we're going to have to teach her. No, this is the only way that babies are

00:26:14.980 made. No, this is a boy has different biological, a different biological makeup than a girl does. This 0.97

00:26:22.540 has different implications. No, no, no, no. There are only two genders. I know this is all confusing

00:26:28.220 because you're learning all of these different things. But I was like, kids are already really

00:26:33.760 dumb in so many ways. They're, they're just made like that. They're supposed to be dependent on

00:26:37.440 their parents. Their brains aren't fully developed. Our frontal lobe isn't fully developed until we're

00:26:41.700 25. Think about all the dumb stuff you believe. Like I remember, let me tell you a story just to tell

00:26:48.320 you a story about how dumb kids are. I, when I was eight years old, I went to the dentist and I was

00:26:55.340 getting sealants for the first time because I, uh, they found a cavity for the first time. So I get,

00:27:00.240 yeah, I was eight. And the lady told me, the lady told me we are going to put, um, stickers of, of

00:27:08.180 NSYNC or the Backstreet Boys on, on these sealants. They're going to be invisible, but they're going to

00:27:13.800 be on there. It was years before I realized that she was lying to me years. It was years before I

00:27:21.620 realized that she was just trying to get me to be excited about my first dental procedure.

00:27:25.320 And that I didn't actually have invisible stickers of the Backstreet Boys on my molars.

00:27:30.700 Like that's just, kids just believe things. We believe in Santa Claus. We believe in the tooth

00:27:37.220 fairy. We are not capable of making decisions about our gender. And especially kids now that 0.95

00:27:42.860 watch YouTube and get so much misinformation from public schools and sometimes even private schools.

00:27:48.840 And when you're a teenager, you're dumb too. You think that you're going to marry the guy that you

00:27:53.120 dated in high school. You should not be free to make these monumental decisions, especially if you

00:27:59.400 are seriously suffering from gender dysphoria, which is a dysphoria. That is something that is wrong 1.00

00:28:05.780 with your brain, should be treated with compassion, should be treated with love, but also should be

00:28:11.780 treated with counseling, not affirmation. And this bill is opening up parents who simply want

00:28:19.240 discretion and want discernment over their child's lives who don't even have developed brains yet,

00:28:25.180 opening them up to possibly being sued for not going along with their gender affirming therapy.

00:28:30.540 It's very sad. So obviously there are a lot of first amendment objections here. There are medical

00:28:35.820 objections, there are moral objections. There are objections also from a feminist perspective. I 0.84

00:28:43.300 don't consider myself a feminist, but I think it's interesting that this whole, the transgender 0.99

00:28:48.120 movement truly is eating the feminist movement because men are becoming better at being women than

00:28:54.140 women are. And so what happened to feminism? Transgenderism is really just a tool of the patriarchy. 1.00

00:28:59.760 When you think about it, uh, there was an article titled, uh, why the equality act means a setback

00:29:05.340 for women. This is written by Mary Vaught. Uh, it points out that these protections of the equality 0.92

00:29:10.760 act actually are going to harm the access that women now have, uh, to various freedoms that they have 1.00

00:29:15.920 developed over time. Uh, she points out that there is a lot of harm in the language that the bill uses,

00:29:21.700 uh, when it defines gender, because the bill states that gender is all gender related identity,

00:29:26.920 its appearance, its mannerisms, or other gender related characteristics of an individual,

00:29:31.700 regardless of the individual's designated sex at birth. That means that a biological man,

00:29:36.640 even a guy who hasn't even started his transition, just a guy who looks like a guy is a man could say,

00:29:42.980 Hey, I'm a female today. I want to compete against a woman in this wrestling match. Now, 1.00

00:29:48.560 do I think that's going to happen very often? No, I really don't. I don't think that a lot of guys

00:29:52.820 have that desire. And I think that's going to be very rare. The point is that that still could

00:29:57.920 happen. And the point is also just how ridiculous and fanciful this whole conversation has become

00:30:03.460 about sex and gender, that it's just something that you wake up and decide no sex corresponds with

00:30:08.940 gender. And there are only two biological sexes. That doesn't mean that a biological male can't have

00:30:15.340 more traits that are seen as feminine. That doesn't mean that he can't like dance, that he can't,

00:30:21.140 uh, be soft spoken, that he can't, you know, like things that women typically like, or that he has to

00:30:28.240 be, uh, this gun toting, mud slinging, four wheel driving football player. That's not what it means

00:30:34.840 to be a man. And it doesn't mean that biological women can't have more traditionally masculine traits 1.00

00:30:41.660 or like things that men do. That doesn't mean that in that sense, sure. You could say that gender

00:30:46.620 is fluid, but coming up with all of these different genders, uh, that may or may not correspond to sex.

00:30:53.240 That is when we get out of the realm of the nuanced conversation that is actually based in reality. And

00:30:58.960 we get into some kind of fairy tale where we base science on people's feelings. And now we base

00:31:05.800 legislation on people's feelings, which is really just crazy. And so you've got all of these high school

00:31:11.780 college women who have worked really hard in their sport to be the best that they can be maybe to get 1.00

00:31:17.200 scholarships, uh, for women's sports. I mean, we didn't even talk about that, that women who have 1.00

00:31:22.180 been working hard for scholarships to, to go to college, to play tennis, whatever it is, to play

00:31:27.420 soccer, uh, now have to be also competing against men for that. That's that really sucks. And I, I'm not

00:31:34.860 an athlete. And so I can't empathize exactly with that, but I can imagine working so hard to be the best

00:31:41.680 in your field. I mean, in order to get a scholarship, especially to like a D one school to play a

00:31:47.340 sport is really hard. You have to be the best of the best. And now the best of the best is going to

00:31:54.180 be a completely different scale because you're going to be competing against people that are

00:31:58.100 always going to be, if you're a woman biologically faster than you biologically stronger than you 1.00

00:32:03.820 biologically have a better anaerobic capacity than you do, um, is going to be able to endure a lot

00:32:11.080 longer than you can. It's going to be able to hit a lot harder than you can. And so it's not,

00:32:16.640 it's not fair. And I don't always believe in fairness as Democrats do, or as liberals do,

00:32:22.680 they believe in equality of outcomes, but I do believe in equality of opportunity. And this is

00:32:27.560 no longer equality of opportunity. You're obscuring opportunities for people who have worked hard

00:32:32.040 simply because they are what the left called cisgender. So you are punishing people who don't have

00:32:39.420 gender dysphoria, but that's exactly what cosmic justice and social justice always does. It uplifts 1.00

00:32:46.160 who they believe are oppressed always at the expense of who they believe are not oppressed.

00:32:51.200 And we, I actually have an episode on social justice coming out this summer that explains, uh,

00:32:57.840 all of that really in depth. So this is, as we've already talked about scary for parents,

00:33:03.260 they could potentially be found guilty of violating their children's civil rights.

00:33:06.840 We already noted that, um, if they declined to consent to sex transition surgery. So this is a

00:33:12.500 violation of a lot of privacy. So the same people that, uh, say that the constitution grants a right

00:33:19.960 to privacy for women who want to get abortions and who say, Hey, get the government out of my doctor's 1.00

00:33:25.060 office, get the government out of my healthcare. Now actually want the government directly involved in 0.99

00:33:30.080 their healthcare directly telling doctors what treatments they can and cannot give a child and

00:33:37.220 what parents or what can, what parents can do, uh, with their children as far as treatment goes.

00:33:42.760 And so that's just another example of how the whole privacy, how the whole, this is a doctor's choice

00:33:48.780 argument that we hear about abortion from the left is all, it's all a lie. They don't really care about

00:33:55.680 freedom. They've never cared about autonomy. If your autonomy gets in the way of theirs, they don't

00:34:00.300 care about any of that. What they want is their agenda pushed at all costs. And you cannot have

00:34:05.620 any kind of objection to that whatsoever without being called a bigot. But this is what happens.

00:34:11.520 Again, we've talked about this so much. This is what happens when you exchange the God of scripture

00:34:17.000 with the God of self. The God of scripture is the giver of all truth. He is the giver of all wisdom.

00:34:23.520 He defines, uh, what sex is. He defines what is right and what is wrong. And even if you reject

00:34:31.020 God, even if you say that you're not a Christian, but you align with what the Bible says, uh, whether

00:34:36.980 you know it or not, you are going to find yourself in a place of truth, at least in, um, a temporal way.

00:34:43.820 Uh, but on the other side of that, you've got the God of self. You've got, you know what? The only

00:34:49.640 value, the highest value that I have is authenticity. The highest value that I have

00:34:54.420 is individuality and being special. And everyone has to bow down to the God of self and the God of

00:35:01.200 self that we are glorifying. Now is the kind that, uh, the left sees is typically discriminated against

00:35:08.100 typically oppressed. And all of us have to sacrifice our freedoms, religious, moral,

00:35:13.960 and otherwise on the altar to the God of self of the people that they deem, uh, more worthy of

00:35:20.240 protection than us. The reality is, is that the left, many on the left don't see Christianity as,

00:35:26.520 uh, any kind of legitimate objection to have, or any religion as any objection to have. Um,

00:35:33.960 they believe that it really shouldn't matter, that we should embrace self secularism, that we should

00:35:38.940 embrace their ideology. And in that way, you see who the real tyrants are, who the real bigots are.

00:35:45.600 So I just wanted to give you a brief rundown on all of that. We didn't even touch all of the topics

00:35:50.840 that we could have about the equality act, but you need to know that this is happening. You need to be

00:35:55.360 aware. If it does go to the Senate, you need to look at who's actually voting for this stuff. And

00:36:00.020 you need to uncover the headlines to see what this really is. This is a violation of religious freedom.

00:36:05.460 So that's all we're going to get into today, but I will be back Friday. We are probably going to do

00:36:11.640 a rundown of other stuff that has happened this week on Friday, rather than an interview,

00:36:16.840 just because there's a lot that I still want to cover that happened this week. So

00:36:19.880 I hope that you have a great few days and I will see you back here on Friday.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - May 22, 2019

Ep 115 ｜＂Equality＂ Act

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - May 22, 2019

Ep 115 ｜ ＂Equality＂ Act

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Ep 115 ｜＂Equality＂ Act