Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1177 ｜ Colorado Parents Will Lose Custody for 'Deadnaming'

00:00:01.000 Parental rights and First Amendment rights are hanging in the balance at the Supreme

00:00:05.680 Court and in the Colorado legislature.

00:00:08.280 We will be going through the Supreme Court case, as well as the various bills in Colorado

00:00:13.360 today and why they really, really matter, especially for children.

00:00:18.660 We've got all of this and more on today's episode of Relatable.

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00:06:09.600 we will actually get into the stories that we have to get into today. And I'll call on Brie to bring

00:06:14.400 in some clarity when needed. There's a lot of new stuff that we haven't covered. Yesterday, we went

00:06:18.980 into King of Kings. And so if you want to know about that movie, whether you should bring your kids to

00:06:22.760 see it, go back, listen to or watch that episode. But now we're finally going to get into some

00:06:27.320 political and news items that we've been meaning to talk about and just haven't had time. So first,

00:06:31.660 I want to talk about this case that SCOTUS is hearing right now, Mahmood versus Taylor. And

00:06:37.720 this has to do with LGBTQ plus content books in school libraries. So quite the intersection of

00:06:46.840 the things that we talk about on this show. Here's a summary. Yesterday, the Supreme Court

00:06:51.100 heard arguments in a case addressing whether Montgomery County public schools in Maryland

00:06:54.400 violated parents' First Amendment right to free exercise of religion by not allowing parents to

00:06:59.260 opt their children out of lessons involving LGBT plus storybooks, according to SCOTUS blog. And this

00:07:06.540 is a very reliable source of information for what's going on at SCOTUS. When the county announced in

00:07:12.520 2023 that it would not allow parents to opt to have their opt to have their children excused from

00:07:20.120 instruction involving the storybooks, a group of Muslim, Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox parents went to

00:07:25.280 federal court on the grounds that not allowing parents to opt out of this curriculum for their

00:07:31.460 children violated their First Amendment rights. Two of these books include one where a girl attends her

00:07:37.460 uncle's gay wedding and another titled Pride Puppy, where a puppy gets lost at a pride parade.

00:07:44.620 So this case has now made its way up to the Supreme Court. And yesterday, Justice Brett Kavanaugh brought up

00:07:50.860 in the hearing that there are other situations where parents can opt out of certain curriculum,

00:07:56.940 but it's a little strange when it comes to LGBTQ center curriculum in Montgomery County and Maryland

00:08:02.640 that these parents apparently weren't able to opt out. Here's SOTUS.

00:08:06.540 The country has opt outs for all sorts of things. The county has opt outs for all sorts of things.

00:08:12.080 The other Maryland counties have opt outs for all sorts of things.

00:08:15.040 And yet for this one thing, they changed in mid year and say no more opt outs. I'm just not

00:08:22.860 understanding feasibility. And here, they're not asking you to change what's taught in the classroom.

00:08:28.680 They're not asking you to change that at all. A lot of the rhetoric suggests that they might have

00:08:33.880 that they were trying to do that, but that's not what they're trying to do. They're only seeking to be

00:08:39.740 able to walk out so that they don't have to. The parents don't have their children exposed to these

00:08:46.040 things that are contrary to their own beliefs.

00:08:49.520 These parents are being represented by a law firm called Beckett. It's a nonprofit, nonpartisan law firm

00:08:56.860 that they say that they protect the free expression of all religious traditions. And Kristen Wagner is the

00:09:03.700 CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom. And while they are not directly involved in this case, this falls under

00:09:09.640 the purview of what they do. And so she offered insight on X about this. Kristen Wagner says,

00:09:17.100 anyone who cares about parental rights or religious liberty should be aware of a major case on today's

00:09:22.060 docket at the U.S. Supreme Court. And Mahmood v. Taylor Beckett is representing a diverse group of

00:09:28.100 parents against the school board of Montgomery County, Maryland in 2023. So some of this is repetitive.

00:09:33.720 The board announced, contrary to Maryland law and the Constitution, that it would no longer allow

00:09:38.580 parents to opt their children out of sensitive lessons regarding gender or sexuality. Essentially,

00:09:43.460 the school board has mandated a new orthodoxy of belief, which must be taught to all children,

00:09:49.180 even against parents' wishes. Practically, this looks like three and four-year-olds, so even

00:09:54.400 preschoolers that are going to these public institutions, viewing picture books that promote

00:09:59.580 pride parades, elementary-aged children being taught about, quote-unquote, gender transitions,

00:10:04.800 and children who express opposing views being told their families' values are hurtful. ADF Legal has

00:10:12.880 filed an amicus brief, and we fully support Beckett's important advocacy in this case. The ruling in

00:10:17.960 Mahmood could significantly bolster our own efforts to fight another egregious abuse of parental rights

00:10:23.440 at school, the secret social transitioning of children behind their parents' backs. And she said this was on

00:10:29.540 the 22nd. So yesterday, I'm praying for today's argument. May justice be done, and may the families

00:10:34.380 prevail. Yes and amen. Praying that right along with her. Alan Schoenfeld, who is the attorney

00:10:44.200 representing the Maryland School Board, who of course is saying, nope, can't opt out of this. You have to be

00:10:50.020 indoctrinated with these beliefs. He maintained in his arguments that the school board had tried to

00:10:55.980 allow parents to opt out of instruction, but it wasn't feasible, he said, due to the sheer amount

00:11:04.320 or sheer number of students that were opting out. He said it wasn't possible for school officials to

00:11:09.440 make arrangements for the space, supervision, and alternate instruction needed for the many

00:11:13.300 students who would opt out. Okay, well, that's probably indicating a problem, right? If this many

00:11:20.880 parents of this many backgrounds at your public institution are saying, this is revolting to us,

00:11:26.720 this is offensive to us, we don't want our kids learning this, well then, I don't know, maybe you

00:11:31.420 shouldn't be teaching kids that. What's important here is that this is basically a religious doctrine

00:11:37.280 that a public institution is forcing children to imbibe. Remember this, okay? Secularism is not 0.97

00:11:46.080 neutral. Whenever you hear people saying, oh, well, your religious views, your Christianity

00:11:53.480 shouldn't affect curriculum or it shouldn't affect the law. Look, a worldview, a religion is going to

00:12:00.860 affect every policy and every law. There is nothing that is neutral. Every law, every policy that we have

00:12:06.560 on the books reflects what someone thinks about right and wrong, which is based upon their beliefs,

00:12:13.460 their philosophical beliefs, their religious beliefs, even atheism itself isn't neutral. An atheist still

00:12:20.380 has their own beliefs about what is right and what is wrong, and that is based on their own personal

00:12:25.480 belief system. So the question is, which worldview wins? And so secular progressivism has its own

00:12:33.300 assumptions. It has its own mantras, its own dogmas. The idea, for example, that a boy can become a girl

00:12:40.540 is not a scientific, neutral, secular viewpoint. I mean, I guess you could say it is secular,

00:12:46.420 but it's certainly not neutral or scientific. That is a superstitious belief. The idea that a baby

00:12:51.620 doesn't really become human until they pass through the birth canal isn't based on objective

00:12:56.220 fact or science. Like, that is your own personal subjective belief. And so you're saying, you secular,

00:13:03.080 progressive teacher, administrator, politician, that your worldview has the right to dominate,

00:13:09.320 but if a Christian says, actually, no, I think that my idea, my Christian biblical idea of life

00:13:14.800 inside the womb and the immutability of gender, that that's a better argument, that that should 0.81

00:13:19.600 prevail, that that enacts the least amount of harm on children. And so I want that to define our policy.

00:13:26.200 All of a sudden, that's Christian nationalism and that's fascism. What I think is so interesting and 0.99

00:13:31.400 actually important about this case is that you do have people of all different kinds of backgrounds,

00:13:35.660 that you do have Muslim parents that are coming forward and saying, absolutely not. My children 0.93

00:13:40.480 are not going to be a part of this. And while I don't think that that should be necessary in

00:13:44.900 creating a compelling argument for a lot of people who are just instinctively anti-Christian and who

00:13:50.000 think Christians are the only ones that have a problem with LGBTQ stuff, this does make it more 1.00

00:13:55.360 credible, which is why I think the majority of justices do seem to be sympathetic to the parents.

00:14:01.000 Justices Sotomayor and Jackson, of course, they are extremely progressive. They are activists.

00:14:08.640 They don't care at all really about the Constitution when you look at their arguments. They argue that

00:14:12.920 exposure to these books did not amount to coercion and express concerns about how far

00:14:17.160 the parents' opt-out request could extend. Well, it can extend as far as they want it to.

00:14:23.140 I think that's fine. Now, you might have a problem if a parent doesn't want their child to learn a

00:14:27.240 certain thing. You might disagree with that, but that's not your child. That's not your child.

00:14:31.480 And of course, in all of this, I think every parent that possibly can, and not every parent

00:14:35.680 can, but every parent that possibly can should ensure that their child has, if you're a Christian,

00:14:40.680 a Christian education, whether that's at home, whether that's a hybrid situation, or whether

00:14:44.700 that is in a Christian school. That doesn't mean that education is going to be perfect, but it is

00:14:49.400 going to have the same biblical basis idea that you are, so you're not having to battle against your

00:14:54.240 teachers who are actively seeking to disciple your child's mind with an anti-biblical worldview.

00:15:00.920 Not all teachers, but the system in general, that's exactly what they're trying to do. And so

00:15:05.800 this just goes to show the public school system is willing to literally go to the Supreme Court to

00:15:12.920 fight to teach your four- and five-year-old that they can butcher their bodies and become the opposite 0.98

00:15:18.140 gender. That's how much the left cares about this. They care about butchering and perverting your 1.00

00:15:23.880 child so much that they will literally fight for their right to do so, to force your child to learn

00:15:31.320 this stuff all the way up to the Supreme Court, okay? So if you have something in your mind, this

00:15:36.260 delusion in your mind that the left has maybe laid down since Donald Trump became president, that they're

00:15:41.000 taking a step back. No. They want to coerce your child into believing things that are not true and

00:15:47.780 destructive for them, and they will go to every single link to do that. And you need to be willing

00:15:53.840 to fight just as hard to protect your child's mind and to indoctrinate, that means place doctrines in

00:15:59.380 them that are good and right and true. Because if you are not discipling your children, someone else

00:16:04.980 will. If you are not protecting your children, Satan is prowling around like a roaring lion looking for

00:16:10.840 someone to devour, and children are extremely vulnerable. That's why they're always the

00:16:15.660 unconsenting subjects of progressive social experiments. God has placed you in their lives,

00:16:20.720 parents, to protect them from the predation of bad actors who only want bad things for them. So

00:16:26.280 good for these parents who I'm sure I have plenty of disagreements with theologically, but they're

00:16:31.120 fighting for their kids, and I'm very thankful for that. Thank you to Beckett. Thank you to ADF and to

00:16:36.640 all the organizations, First Liberty, all the organizations that fight for our First Amendment

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00:19:02.320 So we won't know the results of that Supreme Court case, the decision on it, probably until

00:19:07.620 about mid-June. Right now, there's a lot going on in the state of Colorado. And y'all, there's a book,

00:19:14.280 I forget what it's called, someone out there probably knows, but it's a book about how Colorado,

00:19:18.160 which used to be this deep red, mostly rural mountain state with good, good-hearted salt-of-the-earth

00:19:27.320 mountain people turned blue. And yes, it's demographics. People just moved in from places

00:19:34.780 like California. Also, the homegrown people there became more progressive. But there was a whole

00:19:39.600 strategy to turn Colorado blue. And it is a very sad state of things. Because just like in places

00:19:48.940 like Washington and Oregon and even California, you have a lot of good, traditional, conservative

00:19:55.620 people who have lived there for a long time and have seen many of their beloved towns like Denver,

00:20:02.520 like Colorado Springs, even like Boulder, deteriorate because of progressive policies.

00:20:09.580 And Colorado has become one of the most rabidly progressive states. Brie notes that the book

00:20:18.820 might be, I actually don't know if it was Brie or Kimberly who put this in, but the blueprint,

00:20:24.020 how the Democrats won Colorado and why Republicans everywhere should care. I think that is the title

00:20:29.160 of the book that I was referencing. I'm sure it has a lot of interesting, interesting insights for

00:20:36.340 you, whether that was the book that I was originally referencing or not. But here's what's going on that

00:20:41.560 indicates just how far left Colorado has gotten. So this month, four Colorado bills, which aim to

00:20:48.160 enhance protections and access to, that's euphemistic language, to quote unquote gender affirming care,

00:20:55.680 reproductive health care, transgender rights were voted on. So if we want to break down what those

00:21:01.660 euphemisms actually mean, because none of them are true, you're not, if you are affirming your

00:21:06.960 gender, you don't need surgery to do that. You are the gender that you were at conception. So that means 0.82

00:21:12.660 butchering bodies, reproductive health care, that means butchering the bodies of babies inside the womb 1.00

00:21:17.360 and transgender rights, the denial of reality. So all these bills are voted on in Colorado. 0.99

00:21:22.420 One has passed and is awaiting signature. That's the abortion one, awaiting signature from the 0.94

00:21:28.080 governor. One has passed with amendments, sent back to the Senate, and two are pending Senate

00:21:32.720 approval. So some of these are still vulnerable to not getting passed, and we don't want them to

00:21:38.380 get passed. And so as I go through them, if you are living in the state of Colorado, you need to call

00:21:42.460 your state senators, the people who represent you, and make sure that your voice is heard. And we will

00:21:48.280 talk about some efforts that are happening right now in Colorado churches trying to stop these bills

00:21:53.500 because they really are so destructive and evil. So let's look at HB 25 first. This is called Protect

00:22:00.900 Access to Gender Affirming Health Care. Whenever you see that word access used by progressives,

00:22:07.640 what they mean is that they are forcing you to pay for something. They're forcing the taxpayer to pay for

00:22:13.160 something to pay for transition, so-called, or to pay for abortion. And this grants access to people

00:22:19.940 who maybe wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it without the help of taxpayer dollars or without

00:22:26.320 the state forcing, say, insurance companies to cover the cost of these procedures. So this bill

00:22:32.800 codifies protections for gender-affirming health care in state law. It mandates that all health insurance

00:22:38.820 plans in Colorado cover, quote, medically necessary gender-affirming care. Well, no,

00:22:45.220 no gender-affirming care is medically necessary, as determined by a healthcare provider, including

00:22:51.200 hormone therapy, psychiatric care, and surgeries like facial, breast, or genital reconstruction. If

00:22:57.040 you have not listened to my conversations with several detransitioners, then I encourage you, 1.00

00:23:02.780 please go back and do that. My conversation with Daisy, my conversation with Soren,

00:23:06.940 my conversation with Laura Perry-Smalt, and you will see that the endocrinologist, that the

00:23:12.160 psychiatrists, that the medical professionals that approved their surgeries and approved their

00:23:18.000 transitions were not doing so because these things were medically necessary, but because they are

00:23:22.620 ideologically captured and motivated, okay? Anything can be medically necessary if you have a worldview that

00:23:29.480 tells you that you can feel something that is different than your biological reality, and that that

00:23:34.540 internal feeling actually trumps biological reality. So all of these words are very malleable. Here are

00:23:41.180 the things that health insurance companies must provide, are coerced to provide by the Colorado state

00:23:48.820 government if this bill passes. So hormone therapy, so a man being injected with artificial estrogen that

00:23:56.380 would make him appear more like a woman, never really looks like a woman. So blepharoplasty, eye and lid, 0.79

00:24:06.500 forehead or neck, skin tightening, facial bone remodeling, genioplasty. It can be different kinds of

00:24:16.280 facial reconstruction, lip lift or augmentation. Medically necessary, y'all. Mandibular angle

00:24:25.500 augmentation. So these are all different kinds of facial reconstruction. Rhinoplasty, hair removal,

00:24:31.380 breast augmentation, reduction or reconstruction, genital and non-genital surgical procedures. I'm

00:24:37.940 going to let you in on a little secret. If you have to have any of those things to look like a particular

00:24:42.680 gender, you probably aren't. You just probably aren't. Like if you're a man whose face needs to 1.00

00:24:49.060 be broken and reconstructed to look like some kind of semblance of a female, you were never meant to be 1.00

00:24:57.020 that. And I say that in love. It might be harsh, but I say it in love because a God created you as a man

00:25:04.380 at the moment of conception and you will never ever be a woman. It doesn't matter what you wear. It doesn't 0.99

00:25:09.280 matter what you sound like. It doesn't matter what surgeries you get. You will never be a woman. No 1.00

00:25:14.660 one will even ever see you as a woman. And even the people in your life that call you she, her or call

00:25:19.040 you Kelly or Stacy or Jamie or whatever it is, they don't even believe that you're a woman. And they

00:25:24.160 would be offended if someone told them that they look like a trans woman. I just want you to realize 0.72

00:25:28.560 that and that you are a man and that you are more handsome as a man and that you are needed as a man

00:25:34.820 and your masculinity is a good thing. And I'm sorry if anyone ever hurt you and told you that

00:25:39.240 it wasn't. And the same exact thing applies to a woman who is trying to be a man. You are a woman 0.99

00:25:44.580 and I'm sure that has been weaponized against you. Maybe you have been a victim of assault, but you

00:25:48.680 will never ever be the opposite sex. And I have talked to so many broken men and women who believe 0.64

00:25:54.180 the lie that they could become the opposite sex, that everyone else was wrong and they were right. 1.00

00:25:58.620 And their internal feelings were right. That were exacerbated by their pornography use,

00:26:03.260 by the abuse that they endured, whatever it was. And it's a lie. Okay. It's a delusion and you could

00:26:10.040 be rendered permanently sterile. You will never, ever recover from some of these surgeries. And

00:26:16.200 your body as a man is not meant to house all of that estrogen. Your body as a woman is not meant to 1.00

00:26:21.700 house all of that testosterone. It is physically bad for you. It is mentally bad for you. It is

00:26:25.940 spiritually bad for you. You were made in God's image. You were bought with a price by Jesus Christ on the

00:26:32.180 cross and he cares for you and nothing you have ever done makes you too far off or beyond redemption

00:26:38.320 or salvation. So I want you to recognize that you are a man or woman made in God's image, that you are

00:26:43.360 loved by God and you can be saved by Jesus. Okay. And I don't want you to keep going down this path and

00:26:49.380 any law that makes it easier for someone to get further and further from who they are biologically

00:26:56.400 and further and further into delusion, we should oppose. And it's not because we hate people.

00:27:02.760 It's actually because we love them and we know that God's ways are always better. And if we love

00:27:06.920 our neighbor, we want God's ways for our neighbor. And yes, that does mean through policy. Remember,

00:27:12.140 no policy is neutral. And so Christians have every right and every responsibility to try to infuse truth

00:27:18.320 and light and goodness into policymaking in the state of Colorado and elsewhere. And then there's

00:27:24.320 another part of HB 25. This is 1312. So the other segment that I just described was 1309. This is

00:27:31.080 1312. It's known as the Kelly Loving Act. It was passed by the Colorado House on April 6th, and it now

00:27:39.620 awaits review in the Colorado Senate. And so this is a very, very scary part of this bill. The courts must

00:27:46.520 consider deadnaming all these euphemisms, misgendering, threats to publish material related to gender

00:27:53.520 affirming health care. So like outing someone as coercive control when determining parenting time

00:28:00.420 and child custody. So they must determine, they must look at all of these things when they are

00:28:06.680 determining parental custody and like a divorce custody battle. When it comes to how these parents

00:28:13.620 treat their children, courts shall evaluate reports of coercive control to allocate parental

00:28:18.080 responsibilities based on the child's best interests, but coercive control. So they could

00:28:24.540 accuse a parent of coercive control. Like if a parent, for example, threatens to publish the individual's

00:28:33.120 sensitive personal information, including sexually explicit material or material related to gender

00:28:37.820 affirming health care services or make reports to the police or authorities or deadnaming or misgendering

00:28:42.440 the individual or individual's child or relative. Okay. So if a parent in a custody battle is either

00:28:50.840 calling the other parents, say a woman in a custody battle, she's getting a divorce from her husband who now

00:28:57.020 has declared that he is a woman, his name is Sally. If she keeps on referring to him as Frank, keeps on saying

00:29:02.900 he, him, or say they have a child who claims that they are gender confused. And the little boy named Jack

00:29:09.400 now says that his name is Gracie and the mom refuses to go along with it, refuses to call this child by this

00:29:17.920 new name, then the judge has to, according to this law, consider that when allocating custody to each

00:29:25.540 parent. So the parent who acknowledges reality, acknowledges the reality of their ex-spouse's gender,

00:29:32.420 or acknowledges the reality of their child, refuses to affirm these newfound identities,

00:29:38.320 the not parent could be punished and should be punished, really, if you look at this bill

00:29:44.200 in cases of a custody battle. And so that's what's going on, that basically the state will steal your

00:29:52.720 child from you, will take away your custody rights from your child if you affirm biological reality.

00:29:59.200 It also prohibits Colorado courts from enforcing or recognizing another state's law that allows child

00:30:05.620 removal from a parent or guardian for supporting gender-affirming health care services. So if a

00:30:11.060 parent in Texas, for example, the judge decided because one of the parties is actually pushing

00:30:18.500 their child towards transitioning, and that judge in Texas says, okay, no, we're taking away your rights 0.84

00:30:25.660 because of that. Colorado is not going to recognize that. So Colorado is becoming almost like a sanctuary

00:30:30.380 state for these parents who want to transition their child. It requires any chosen name policy

00:30:36.320 by local education providers, educators, or contractors to be inclusive of all reasons a

00:30:41.200 student might adopt a chosen name, differing from their legal name. So a teacher will be obligated to

00:30:47.580 call Jack Gracie even if it violates her beliefs. Mandates that school dress codes must not enforce

00:30:54.440 gender-based rules and must allow students to choose any dress code variation. I mean, think about

00:31:00.440 that. Not only are you allowing a boy to dress up as a girl and vice versa, just sowing so much 0.73

00:31:05.320 confusion and perversion in these young impressionable minds, but there's just no sense of modesty anymore

00:31:11.600 because apparently that's gender-based bias. Defines deadnaming and misgendering, so calling someone by their

00:31:19.140 real name as discriminatory acts under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. This is from the bill.

00:31:25.680 It is a discriminatory practice and unlawful to, with specific intent to discriminate,

00:31:30.280 publish materials that deadname or misgender an individual. The refusal of a pre-publication

00:31:34.700 request for the publisher to use an individual's chosen name, honorifics, or pronouns can serve as

00:31:39.160 evidence of the intent required by subsection 6A of this section. Now, I don't have on here

00:31:46.740 what the punishment will be if someone violates that. I'm sure someone out there has the punitive

00:31:54.120 details that are included in this bill, but it will be against the law in these entities to use

00:32:01.840 the quote-unquote wrong name for someone who says that they are now the opposite sex. And so this is

00:32:08.140 anti-First Amendment. This is anti-parental rights. And this should scare the ever-living daylights out of

00:32:16.020 you. And again, this is how far Democrats will go to violate your right. So while they're all

00:32:20.500 pretending out there like they care about due process, they care about the First Amendment when

00:32:24.840 it comes to deporting MS-13 gang members, they don't. I mean, Colorado is the same place where

00:32:30.780 Jack Phillips, the baker from Masterpiece Cake Shop, has been targeted for over a decade by progressive

00:32:37.560 activists, by the courts in Colorado, because he simply refused to bake a cake that celebrated a gay

00:32:44.820 wedding and refused to bake a cake that celebrated a so-called gender transition. And they haven't let 0.99

00:32:51.180 him live in peace. It's not live and let live. It's not believe whatever you want to, as long as you

00:32:55.520 don't impose it on me. It's that you can't believe whatever you want to, and you certainly cannot live

00:32:59.400 it out, even in your own private business that you own. That's what the left believes. So whenever

00:33:03.920 they accuse you of being a fascist, just remember the state of Colorado. All right, we've got a couple

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00:34:26.840 All right. SB25. This is the one that is heading to the governor's desk right now. So it is almost

00:34:38.280 signed into law. Unfortunately, it passed the House and the Senate just a few days ago,

00:34:43.980 and it conforms, quote unquote, abortion rights. It updates the state statutes to reflect Amendment 79,

00:34:53.040 which repealed the constitutional ban on public funding for abortions and enshrined the right to

00:34:58.760 abortion prohibiting state and local governments from denying, impeding or discriminating against

00:35:03.060 this so-called right. It also, again, mandates insurance coverage. So the insurance companies

00:35:09.100 have to cover the cost of abortion. Your taxpayer dollars in Colorado have to cover the cost of

00:35:15.560 abortion. And Colorado is allowed through all nine months in the state of in all nine months

00:35:21.120 throughout the state. And it is one of the most radical laws regarding abortion in the country.

00:35:29.840 And that's actually where a lot of the late term abortions that occur in this country happen. 0.99

00:35:35.880 And we've talked about this in the Atlantic and the New York Times. Some of the most prolific

00:35:41.440 abortionists live in practice in Colorado. And no, they are not doing abortions on women who have

00:35:48.720 serious health issues. It's not because of fetal anomalies. They have actually admitted that they

00:35:55.900 are performing these abortions because these women want abortions. And by the way, there is never,

00:36:00.480 ever, ever a medical reason to have an abortion in the third trimester. It doesn't even make sense.

00:36:05.760 I mean, after 24 weeks, I mean, at least after 24 weeks, you deliver that baby and that baby can go to

00:36:12.440 NICU and the mom can get the care that she needs. If the baby is going to come out either way, 0.76

00:36:16.620 there's no reason to kill the baby before he or she comes out. It doesn't even make any logical

00:36:21.120 sense. And so people are having abortions in the third trimester when they're having them

00:36:25.520 at least 10,000 times a year, by the way, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which is Planned

00:36:31.160 Parenthood's research arm. Those late term abortions, third trimester abortions are happening at least 0.74

00:36:37.840 10,000 times a year. Many of them happening in the state of Colorado. And now Colorado is saying

00:36:42.740 you are going to pay for them. So again, when people try to tell you that you, Christian,

00:36:48.000 you just need to leave your beliefs at home, you don't need to infuse your beliefs into this fight,

00:36:52.840 that is just a silencing and manipulation tactic because progressives are forcing you to not only

00:36:59.520 conform to their ideas, but to fund their ideas. So while they're calling you a fascist, they are using

00:37:06.040 every bit of power they have to push their demonic worldview on you at the harm of the most vulnerable,

00:37:13.820 the child inside the womb. And then we also have the SB 25129 pass the House with amendments. We'll

00:37:21.160 sit back to the Senate for concurrence on those amendments. And it basically creates Colorado as

00:37:28.820 a sanctuary state for abortion. So if someone leaves the state for because their state has more

00:37:35.740 restrictive abortion laws, say like the state of Arkansas, they want to get an abortion, they can 0.55

00:37:40.980 go to Colorado and get that abortion. It amends multiple sections of the Colorado revised statutes

00:37:46.900 to safeguard providers, patients, related entities from out of state civil or criminal action. So

00:37:52.540 they're basically protected. If you want to go to Colorado, not only to get an abortion,

00:37:56.560 but also to get quote unquote gender affirming care, if that is restricted in your state,

00:38:02.380 then you can go there and you can be protected. Those states that you are coming from can't.

00:38:08.840 Colorado is saying, come there and try to come after you for that, which I can't even really

00:38:12.980 imagine that a state would do that. And so Colorado has become a sanctuary state for evil. And not only

00:38:21.000 that, it's also become a sanctuary state for illegal aliens as well. According to Denver7.com, that's

00:38:28.640 the ABC affiliate, the immigrant protection bill, again, just another euphemism, has passed the Colorado

00:38:36.280 Senate. It's moving to the House. It would expand the state's protections on disclosing personal

00:38:43.420 information, including immigration status and further limit cooperation with federal agents

00:38:48.700 over civil immigration issues, restricting their access to non-public areas inside places like

00:38:54.920 jails, schools and hospitals. Okay, so ICE can't come into the jail and get an illegal alien to deport 0.59

00:39:02.260 them. This is just reinforcing that Colorado is a sanctuary state. You'll remember that Trin de

00:39:07.960 Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gang, had taken over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, where there was

00:39:14.060 murder and all kinds of violence happening, where people have died due to the violence that has been

00:39:19.540 inflicted by illegal aliens, whether it's a hit and run or whether it's direct violence like murder, 0.94

00:39:25.540 assault. We've seen that in the state of Colorado. And yet Colorado, the Democrats there care more about

00:39:30.980 protecting these illegal aliens and abortion and gender transition than they actually care about 0.99

00:39:36.080 protecting children, protecting families, protecting American citizens in the Colorado. That is the state of

00:39:41.200 the Democrat Party. They can't not be insane. Like they could, they could beat Trump. They could beat 0.98

00:39:46.960 Republicans. They could run on the economy. They could try to be representative of the working class.

00:39:52.680 They could pick those 80-20 issues and say, we do them better than Republicans, but they can't. 0.98

00:39:57.960 They can't not be insane. They are bound by the gender lobby. They are bound by the illegal alien lobby, 0.88

00:40:04.580 and they want destruction for the United States. Everything that is good and that Christians want to 1.00

00:40:09.620 protect the current Democrat Party wants to destroy. Don't be distracted by the criticisms you're

00:40:14.960 seeing by Donald Trump and start thinking, oh, should I have voted for him? I mean, just imagine

00:40:19.700 all that I just explained to you nationalized and made true everywhere. That is what would have

00:40:27.740 happened if Kamala Harris would have become president, okay? And so, no, I mean, I'm not saying you can't

00:40:33.220 criticize Donald Trump or think bad things about anything that he's done, but it is by the mercy of God

00:40:39.340 that we have the administration that we do and not an administration like this running the rest of

00:40:43.920 the country. So, there is a church response to what's happening in Colorado, and I'm very thankful

00:40:50.500 for that in response to HB 25, the protections for transgender individuals. Specifically,

00:40:59.280 a small group of pastors and faith leaders from churches across the state of Colorado have banded

00:41:04.960 together. They've formed a coalition to oppose the Colorado legislature passing these bills. They have

00:41:11.720 a website, fight1312.com, has information about the bills as well as resources. They've got sample

00:41:19.460 letters that you can send to your representatives. They're available to Colorado citizens. One of the

00:41:25.620 pastors, Matt Johnson of Brave Church Colorado, he co-wrote a letter to big churches aimed at targeting

00:41:31.080 the two Democrat senators most likely to flip and vote no on the bills in question. So, you can go to

00:41:37.540 fight1312.com, and you can see that. Several of the pastors are trying to get the word out about these

00:41:45.020 bills to speak out against them. They hosted a march and a prayer walk against this bill specifically

00:41:52.620 on April 17th. And you can see that advertisement there. They also put up this graphic, 10 reasons to

00:42:01.800 oppose these bills that are an assault on parental rights, on free speech. And so, I'm very thankful

00:42:10.880 for the churches in Colorado and what they're doing. I just encourage you to support them, to pray with

00:42:15.740 them, to do what you can to get involved. And there will be weak Republicans, spineless Republicans,

00:42:22.220 and conservatives who don't want to get involved. But I'm very thankful for the Christians there who

00:42:27.120 are putting up a fight, and I just pray that they would continue to do so. All right. We do have some

00:42:32.120 good news. It looks like, for once, the UK is actually ahead of us in a good way, especially when

00:42:37.240 it comes to this gender madness. So, we'll get into that in a second. Let me pause and tell you about 0.97

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00:45:01.460 On April 16th, 2025, the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the legal definition of woman under the

00:45:09.660 2010 Equality Act refers to biological sex, which is a it's repetitive, but that's how people say it

00:45:18.420 today for the sake of clarity, excluding, quote unquote, transgender women, even those with gender

00:45:23.680 recognition certificates, which is a legal document in the UK that allows so-called transgender people to

00:45:30.340 change their legal gender. Now they're saying, I guess that you can still do that. But for the 0.98

00:45:36.220 purposes of bathrooms, for the purposes of prisons, you have to actually be a woman. So the Supreme 0.98

00:45:43.060 Court in the UK, there are five judges led by Lord Patrick Hodge, did not conduct a public vote, but

00:45:48.200 issued a unanimous judicial ruling, which is amazing. The case brought by Four Women Scotland, a Scottish

00:45:54.000 feminist advocacy group that protects the rights of women and children, challenged a 2018 Scottish law

00:45:59.280 that included trans women with GRCs in the definition of a woman for public board quotas. 0.99

00:46:05.060 The court determined that sex and woman in the Equality Act mean sex at birth, overturning earlier

00:46:11.500 Scottish court rulings. That is another place which has just gone off the deep end when it comes to

00:46:17.280 progressive ideology. So here's what it means regarding single sex facilities. It means that providers of

00:46:25.100 single sex facilities, so as I said, changing rooms, refuges for, you know, women who are victims of

00:46:33.920 violence can, they can lawfully exclude, quote unquote, trans women, even if they do have that GRC 0.75

00:46:42.380 from women's spaces, if it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, such as ensuring 1.00

00:46:49.180 privacy, safety or fairness for women. And of course, that's always the case. It's always going to be 1.00

00:46:55.700 the case if you have a single sex facility to make sure that it really is single sex, that that is

00:47:01.440 always going to be the case that that ensures the protection of women for sports. The ruling provides

00:47:08.080 legal clarity for sports organizations to exclude trans women from female only categories to ensure

00:47:14.140 fairness and safety aligning with policies from bodies like world athletics. However, it does not

00:47:19.740 mandate exclusion. That's the same thing when it comes to single sex facilities. They can still set

00:47:24.800 their own policies, but they can exclude so-called transition if they want to. So we got some people

00:47:31.860 who are very upset about this. Drag Race UK is apparently a TV show there, and some of these stars from that

00:47:40.320 show are very upset. This person, Davina DeCampo, says, the fight back starts today. We will not go

00:47:47.440 back into the shadows to make you comfortable. F all the way off. And I've seen a lot of very angry

00:47:54.640 protesters who say that they're not going to switch bathrooms, and they're not backing down from this.

00:48:02.720 Okay, well, we'll see about that. It doesn't surprise me at all. They are disproportionately 1.00

00:48:06.700 extremely violent, which it makes sense, because if you are a man that doesn't care about making

00:48:14.500 women uncomfortable, doesn't care about making them feel unsafe, and you are forcing yourself 0.99

00:48:19.500 into a woman's restroom, that probably means that you are a predator. I mean, because what other kind 1.00

00:48:25.680 of man would want to do something like that? The Good Law Project is a UK-based nonprofit that uses

00:48:31.660 legal action to challenge abuses. The Supreme Court sided with FWS, but it didn't hear from a single

00:48:40.020 trans person. Well, it doesn't really matter, because that doesn't change reality. J.K. Rowling,

00:48:46.080 who is British, has lived in Scotland. She has been one of the biggest, most prominent voices

00:48:51.300 on the side of reality. She said, it took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women with an 0.66

00:48:57.200 army behind them to get this case heard by the Supreme Court, and in winning, they've protected the

00:49:01.380 rights of women and girls across the UK. And now, I mean, what you're going to have to do is you're

00:49:06.260 going to have to push very hard for these private businesses and just for institutions to enact policies

00:49:13.000 that are protecting women and girls. Even Richard Dawkins, the famous atheist, he says, aggressively

00:49:20.320 dominant male mammals typically urinate to scent mark their territory. And so he's talking about,

00:49:28.180 you'll have to look at it, but he's talking about in reference to some of the signs of these men who

00:49:32.740 think they're women. They, like, at these protests, one says, I love pissing on turfs. And then another 1.00

00:49:43.120 one, I guess, is about urinating where they want to. And he says, yeah, this is dominant male mammals.

00:49:50.440 They pee where they want to, to try to mark their territory and to show their dominance. And so these men

00:49:57.060 who's saying they're women, they're acting like other male mammals. And Richard Dawkins says, they

00:50:01.640 think they're women, but can you imagine a better walking, talking, reeking advertisement for toxic 1.00

00:50:05.900 masculinity? Hashtag sex matters. So at least Richard Dawkins understands that. So in a lot of ways, as I 0.97

00:50:13.100 said, the UK is ahead of us, and I'm very thankful for that. I mean, they banned puberty blockers in

00:50:19.440 children a while ago, a little while ago. And so I'm just thankful for the people who are doing exactly

00:50:24.880 what they were supposed to do. And that is raising a respectful ruckus for the things that matter.

00:50:30.000 And Christians should be on the front lines of those things. Because again, it's not just that

00:50:33.960 we recognize biology, but we know the importance of biology because we know that God created us

00:50:39.340 biologically and created us in his image. So not only does physical reality have physical and material

00:50:46.560 significance, but also spiritual and eternal significance. And again, if we are called to love

00:50:52.040 our neighbor, then that means we want God's best for them. And God's ways are always best.

00:50:56.800 The most loving thing we can do, both publicly and privately, politically, personally, is agree

00:51:02.260 with God. And I'm very thankful for those who are fighting this fight, and our voices should always

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00:52:28.000 So at the end of all of that, I just want to encourage you that God has placed you where you

00:52:40.340 are at the time that you are in for a specific reason. Because this is a God, the one that we

00:52:45.840 serve, the only God that exists. He does nothing arbitrarily. He does nothing accidentally. He's

00:52:51.180 never thrown off. He's never taken aback. He's never wondering what's going to happen next. He's

00:52:55.720 never swooping in to just clean up the mess. But he has placed every single person here

00:53:00.980 purposely. And he chooses, he doesn't have to, but he chooses to use the obedience, the boldness,

00:53:09.360 the courage, the words, the prayers of Christians to accomplish his purpose. And as I've talked about

00:53:16.640 a lot, but I'm just so encouraged by this, the history of the church is carrying the baton of human

00:53:23.720 dignity and human protection. And the history of the church is culture warring and culture building

00:53:32.260 and fighting against evil. And as I've often said, politics is not the only way to love your

00:53:38.500 neighbor. The culture wars, not the only way to love your neighbor. I wouldn't even say that they

00:53:42.980 are the primary way to love your neighbor, but they are a way to love your neighbor. Because when we're

00:53:48.140 looking at all of these laws, at the other side of all of these laws, the effect of all of these

00:53:53.180 laws, they're on people. They're really on our neighbors. They are on our fellow emerge bearers

00:53:58.720 of God. They're not just arguments. So when Christians say, I don't want to get involved 1.00

00:54:01.920 in politics because I'm afraid of being divisive. Well, that's easy for you to say if you don't

00:54:06.860 think that you or your children are ever going to be affected. That's really a much more selfish

00:54:11.540 way to think. It's not loving. It's kind of just like a cop-out. Well, I'm never going to choose

00:54:17.300 abortion, so I guess that doesn't affect me. Or my child is never going to have to go through a

00:54:21.660 custody battle where one parent thinks that the child should be the opposite sex. So I just won't 0.99

00:54:27.440 have to worry about that. That shows that you care more about protecting yourself, your reputation,

00:54:32.780 your comfort than you do the children on the altar of these things. So I just encourage you to do what

00:54:39.200 you can. It doesn't mean that you have to have a podcast. It doesn't mean that you have to become

00:54:42.160 an activist. It doesn't mean that you have to be on the front lines, but you can contribute

00:54:46.480 something through your obedience. And I'm talking discipling your children in the truth,

00:54:51.380 ensuring their education is filled with biblical truth, ensuring that your pastor, that your elders,

00:54:57.540 that your church members know the laws that are being passed in the state of Colorado or whatever

00:55:02.400 state you're in, knowing who is on the school board in your local community, and getting involved

00:55:08.460 on whatever level you can. It could just be volunteering at a pregnancy center. All of these things

00:55:14.500 contribute to good outcomes. All of these things amount to collective courage that can really make

00:55:21.860 a difference. And we know in the end, Jesus is coming back. No matter what any legislature does,

00:55:27.200 we know that Jesus wins, but he's not back yet. And so we have to do the next right thing in faith

00:55:32.920 with excellence and for the glory of God. Even when that takes courage and sacrifice, it's courage and

00:55:38.800 sacrifice on behalf of the most vulnerable when it comes to these policies. So I just wanted to end

00:55:44.300 on that hopeful note. And we will be back here tomorrow. We'll be having a really interesting

00:55:48.440 episode. I'll be talking to a guest that I've never had on before, Bill O'Reilly. And we'll be

00:55:53.340 talking about all things Trump administration. Also be talking a little bit about the future of the

00:55:58.020 papacy within the Catholic Church. A really interesting conversation that you're going to learn a lot from.

00:56:02.600 We will be back here for that tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - April 23, 2025

Ep 1177 ｜ Colorado Parents Will Lose Custody for 'Deadnaming'

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