Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1326 ｜ 'The View' Warns Moms, NBA Condemns Christianity & the Pope Misuses Isaiah 1

00:00:00.660 The view absolutely freaked out when a conservative dared to say that more people should be having

00:00:07.180 children. Their response was absolutely absurd. I can't wait to react to it. Also, Jaden Ivey,

00:00:14.080 a professional basketball player, said that Pride Month is celebrating unrighteousness. He was let 1.00

00:00:19.540 go from the team. Oh my goodness, we've got to dive into the response here. Also, surprise,

00:00:24.780 surprise, I have a disagreement with the Pope. We've got this and so much more on today's episode

00:00:30.100 of Relatable. Before we get into it, I do want to remind you, if you're a Christian woman,

00:00:34.000 join us at Share the Arrows. If you go to sharethearrows.com, you'll get the details.

00:00:38.360 And tomorrow, guys, tomorrow we will be releasing our speaker lineup. It is insane. So sharethearrows.com,

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00:01:04.740 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday and happy Trans Day of Visibility yesterday for 1.00

00:01:12.080 everyone who celebrates. Certainly we here, the Relatable family, we celebrate Trans Day of

00:01:17.040 visibility. We want them to be so, so visible because they're not visible enough. Trans women 1.00

00:01:23.680 are women. Trans rights are human rights. And you know what? You should just swim faster and you 0.98

00:01:32.240 should just get used to peeing next to a trans person. OK, that's my stance on it. I know that 1.00

00:01:38.500 might be shocking to you, but I've evolved a lot. I've learned a lot. And I just wanted to join in

00:01:45.600 with the Democrats and say, yay, transgenderism and yay, trans day of visibility. April fools 0.98

00:01:55.320 everyone. I know that you were probably tricked by that, but I was just joking. There's no such

00:02:01.760 thing as transgenderism. There's no such thing as non-binary. There's no such thing as a trans

00:02:07.020 child. It's not possible to change your gender. It's XX or XY. And in the very first chapter of 1.00

00:02:13.080 the first book of the Bible, God tells us what's up in Genesis 127 that he made us male and female.

00:02:18.160 I couldn't go very long telling you that joke because I'm just afraid that someone tuned in

00:02:21.820 for the first time and I could have led them astray. But I had to do a little bit of something

00:02:25.840 for April Fool's Day. All right, let's get into some serious stuff that is not actually

00:02:30.780 a joke. We have so much to get to today. As we were planning this episode, y'all,

00:02:35.180 I was like, I don't think that it is going to be possible for us to fit in everything that

00:02:40.440 we want to talk about, but we are going to try our darndest. We filmed a segment with Wes Huff

00:02:45.640 about the resurrection, about the historicity of the resurrection, and we don't have time to fit

00:02:50.800 it in today's episode. So we are going to be playing it this weekend. So make sure you tune

00:02:54.600 in for that. It's a 20 minute segment and it is absolutely awesome and encouraging. So let's go

00:02:59.280 ahead, full steam ahead. Let's get into the news of the day. First, we are going to talk about our

00:03:03.800 good, good friends at The View saying things, as always, that are extremely insightful.

00:03:09.860 Well, they are reacting to this week the words of Isabel Brown. Isabel Brown, she's got a show

00:03:16.380 on Daily Wire. She is conservative, Gen Z, and she spoke at CPAC saying that, hey, we need to

00:03:24.160 have more children, which, yes, 100%, she is absolutely right. But the women at The View

00:03:29.960 did not like what she had to say.

00:03:33.040 Here's top 13.

00:03:34.440 And I think it's just really reckless

00:03:38.820 to be suggesting that people should have children 0.97

00:03:41.860 when you now know in this country

00:03:43.520 there's this affordability crisis.

00:03:45.220 And for a two-person household, a married household,

00:03:47.960 you need over $400,000 for childcare, over $400,000.

00:03:52.820 Most people don't make over $400,000.

00:03:55.640 So she's advocating for people to be born into poverty,

00:03:59.120 people not being able to feed those children people not being able to educate those children

00:04:03.020 and people not being able to house those children at the same time when this government is cutting

00:04:07.700 all of the services that would allow people to have families and big families that is just so

00:04:13.860 over the top inaccurate and absurd i know so many people most of the people in my life who have

00:04:19.980 children who do not make over four hundred thousand dollars a year and they feed their children they

00:04:24.600 love their children. They live in a home with their children. Their children thrive. Now,

00:04:28.760 that might mean that they're not taking vacations every other month, or that might mean that there

00:04:32.660 are some luxuries that they have to cut out. Maybe the mom stays home so that they don't have to pay 1.00

00:04:37.500 tens of thousands of dollars in child care. No one said that having children comes without

00:04:42.260 sacrifices and comes without some form of what people may call inconvenience. But the idea that

00:04:49.460 you have to be making almost half a million dollars a year to be able to just survive with

00:04:54.960 children is absurd. It's not true today. It has never been true in all of history. Obviously,

00:05:00.620 there have been people and cultures still are today who are a lot poorer than we are here in

00:05:06.020 America, that we're a lot poorer than even our poorest people here in America who were able to

00:05:10.880 raise their children and feed their children. That's not to say that poverty is wonderful or

00:05:16.280 that it doesn't bring a lot of challenges or that there isn't a place for the government to help

00:05:20.780 those who really need it for a period of time while they get back on their feet or a mother

00:05:25.440 who has been abandoned by her husband. And now she is raising this child alone. I'm not saying

00:05:30.420 there is never any place for welfare whatsoever. And the Trump administration is not cutting all

00:05:35.660 forms of welfare, but it is possible absolutely for most women and for most couples to have

00:05:44.220 children and to raise children today. So this idea that the economic plight is just too hard

00:05:49.700 to have kids in America, the richest country in the history of the world today is just crazy.

00:05:55.540 And Whitney Cummings also has something to say about this. And oh, my gosh, ridiculous. Stop 14. 0.97

00:06:03.320 I gave our girl, Isabella, a little Google. She has a baby. She has a one year old. Of course,

00:06:08.000 she thinks everyone should have a lot of kids. She has a one year old that sleeps all day. I

00:06:11.880 also was like, I'm going to have a bunch more kids. Wait till your kid is up and walking and

00:06:15.780 you spend most of your day trying to get its shoes on. You're probably going to rethink how many kids

00:06:20.480 you have. So many things, Whitney Cummings. So many things. First of all, one-year-olds,

00:06:27.420 do they sleep all day? I must be doing motherhood wrong because my one-year-olds were awake all day

00:06:34.220 and they took a nap for a couple hours in the afternoon, but they were awake. Are you thinking

00:06:39.320 about a one-month-old. A one-year-old is a toddler. A one-year-old is awake all day. A one-year-old

00:06:45.440 very often is walking around. So I know that you have a child, Whitney Cummings, but did you just

00:06:51.920 forget what it was like in the first couple of years of their life? Having a one-year-old is

00:06:57.140 like one of the most challenging times because they're so mobile, they're so energetic, and yet

00:07:01.820 they can't just sit there and be entertained by a book for very long. And so that's crazy. Also,

00:07:07.540 So I guarantee Isabel and all of the people saying, hey, you should have more kids, absolutely

00:07:13.280 are enduring some of the hardships of motherhood, looking forward to adding more children to

00:07:18.880 their family.

00:07:20.120 Also, I have three kids.

00:07:21.340 Am I allowed to say, and they're six, four, and two, am I allowed to say that people should

00:07:25.580 have more kids?

00:07:26.500 I'm not saying that people should have an infinite number of kids.

00:07:29.140 I'm not saying that there are never any exceptions to that rule or that there are never any

00:07:33.900 reasons why people may not be able to have kids or may choose to have kids. But those are

00:07:38.560 exceptions. I would say most married couples today should choose to have children. And I will get 1.00

00:07:46.060 into more on that in just a second. But first, I want to dispel this myth that they are putting

00:07:50.840 out there that motherhood is so hard. It's so economically hard. It's so just impossible for 0.94

00:07:58.120 most women. And that is why they are sacrificially, very sadly choosing not to have kids. That's not 1.00

00:08:06.820 the case. The child-free by choice movement emphasizes convenience and luxury as the reasons

00:08:13.440 not to have kids. And I'll play you some of those examples in just a second. Let me pause first to

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00:09:25.780 So the child-free by choice movement has taken off. I even saw a video the other day on Instagram

00:09:32.920 of a woman saying we are in the majority women between ages, I don't know, 18 and 45 choosing

00:09:39.320 not to have kids or not having kids, I think is like 55% or maybe 60%. And so now they're in the

00:09:46.180 majority and she felt very triumphant over that as if women have been liberated from something

00:09:52.160 harmful. Here is an example of someone on TikTok talking about how quiet and nice her life is

00:09:58.200 because she doesn't have kids. Stop one. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the right

00:10:01.360 thing by not having kids. And then there's a day like today where all I did this morning was woke

00:10:04.560 up, had coffee with my husband, very chill, very quiet, very easy morning, went and got a massage,

00:10:08.800 came back, took a shower, took a nap. It's 340. I've been in these pajamas all day. I'm on my

00:10:17.260 couch. No other plans. Listen to how quiet my house is. That's such a superficial and selfish

00:10:32.100 reason not to have kids. You know, if you do have kids, you're still going to have maybe 25 to 30

00:10:39.260 years of your life where it's quiet, where you don't have little feet running around. You don't

00:10:43.680 have a lot of noise. You don't have obligations. You're not taking your kid on a walk or going to

00:10:48.460 soccer games or doing school pickup because there's only about 18, maybe a little bit more

00:10:54.580 years of their life, which goes by really fast that you're doing all of those things, maybe even

00:10:59.940 less because once they start driving, they're a lot more independent. There are really only just

00:11:04.660 a few short years of your kids' lives where you are go, go, go, and it's loud and chaotic all of

00:11:10.020 the time. And then there's so much payoff of that relationship and that joy that kids bring. This is

00:11:15.100 so short-sighted. That sounds like a day that I would spend in college. And that was really cool

00:11:19.780 when I was 19, but eventually it gets old just living for yourself. Here's thought three.

00:11:25.880 So I'm child-free by choice. And everyone always says like, what's your purpose? If you don't have

00:11:31.400 kids, what's your purpose? My purpose is getting my nails done, going shopping, treating myself.

00:11:37.920 look at this new bag i just got from goyard stunning um this new sweatsuit i got from aloe

00:11:43.820 and being sober traveling i don't know taking naps have you ever taken a nap it's like the

00:11:50.260 funnest thing ever it's so nice i enjoy naps a lot so don't say i don't have purpose just because

00:11:55.780 i don't have kids how dare you these people are like children i actually thought she was going 0.97

00:12:01.740 to say something more profound there and i would have actually said you know what your purpose as

00:12:07.020 a woman does extend beyond having kids, 100%, because you are made in God's image and you are 1.00

00:12:12.420 part of, if you're a Christian, God's eternal plan of redemption. He saved your soul. Your

00:12:16.280 happiness and fulfillment and responsibilities, whether you're married or not, have kids or not,

00:12:19.980 starts right now. And so your purpose and fulfillment in life is not tied to having

00:12:24.200 children. But then she said, my purpose is getting my nails done. Something that's here today and

00:12:29.380 gone tomorrow that doesn't care about you, that won't last, that has no positive impact on anyone

00:12:34.220 besides yourself. And let me just give you a newsflash too. I get my nails done every two

00:12:39.660 weeks. Okay? I get my nails done every two weeks. I get a pedicure every four weeks. Okay?

00:12:45.400 This is possible. It is completely possible when you have kids. You can also travel with your kids

00:12:51.720 sometimes, rarely, but sometimes my husband and I travel without my kids. If we can get the help

00:12:56.620 of the in-laws and support from my parents to help with our kids during that time, we don't do that

00:13:04.200 very much, but it's totally possible. You can also take a nap. I took a great nap just the other day

00:13:09.820 for a couple hours. I have three young kids. It is possible to do some of the things that you are

00:13:16.120 talking about, be sober, enjoy life, and have children. But when you only live for yourself

00:13:22.700 and your number one goal is temporary things, like getting your nails done or making your life

00:13:28.620 as easy as possible, then anyone, not only kids, but your marriage, your job, everything

00:13:34.560 is going to seem like an inconvenience.

00:13:38.000 But when you see yourself as more than just a consumer, more than just someone who is

00:13:43.340 supposed to get as much pleasure as possible, more than just a hedonist, but someone who

00:13:48.120 is actually supposed to contribute, who is supposed to work, our soul is dignified by

00:13:53.120 some kind of work, paid or not, when you see yourself as much bigger, bigger, bigger,

00:13:58.620 than just you, then that changes your perspective of your priorities.

00:14:03.760 Okay, let's see.

00:14:06.220 Satu.

00:14:08.240 We're not moms.

00:14:09.240 We can make a last-minute dinner reservation without a babysitter.

00:14:12.240 We're not moms.

00:14:13.420 We can sleep until noon.

00:14:15.340 We're not moms.

00:14:16.400 We can have choking hazards on our coffee table.

00:14:18.960 We're not moms. 0.97

00:14:20.140 We can have sex on the counter. 0.99

00:14:22.140 We're not moms. 0.99

00:14:23.320 We can cuss out loud.

00:14:26.160 We're not moms.

00:14:27.080 we can have an alligator pit in a living room just to be clear we do not have an alligator pit 0.90

00:14:33.100 in the room but we could you're also not having sex on the counter you're not fooling me you're 0.54

00:14:40.260 not fooling me lady and by the way some of these things totally possible with kids all of this

00:14:46.680 comes across as a cope like if you're confident in your decision you feel like god has called you

00:14:51.060 to something different, then live that out. I really don't see moms on TikTok talking about

00:14:58.280 like, oh my gosh, it's so much better having children. I'm so much better because I'm a mom.

00:15:03.340 I have so much more in my life. Yes, people talk about how hard motherhood is, how great motherhood

00:15:08.400 is, you know, how much they love their kids. But this kind of superiority complex really comes

00:15:14.680 across as insecurity. Be happy with your life if you want to be happy with your life, but

00:15:19.540 trying to compare your life to mine by making me seem miserable, when we're not miserable,

00:15:25.240 like we're also really fulfilled and really joyful and really happy. It just, I don't know.

00:15:31.420 It reads not super confident in my own choices. Okay, last example of this, top five.

00:15:38.520 And having kids is not all that it's packed up to be. I have none. I don't miss it. I'm not a

00:15:44.180 mother i'm not a granny and when they want to call me granny in an interview article i say call me

00:15:50.180 which anything but do not call me granny it's by choice that i'm not a granny and i never will be

00:15:57.040 thank you very much kids are not all that they're cracked up to be by the way i'm not a mom how

00:16:03.320 would you know how would you know you don't know if having kids isn't all it's cracked up to be

00:16:09.000 you don't have them and you don't have grandkids. Look, all of it, all of this is true that it is

00:16:17.000 more convenient not to have kids. Okay. Like you have to sacrifice, give up less if you don't have

00:16:23.820 kids or if you don't get married. It's true that committing to someone in a covenantal marriage

00:16:29.240 and having children that you love with your entire being and that you want to sacrifice for,

00:16:37.820 that it's hard, that there are going to be days that you get less sleep. There are going to be

00:16:42.960 many days where you don't get to do everything that you want to do. You are going to be less

00:16:47.420 free. You're going to have less time to do what you want to do. But the purpose of life is not

00:16:52.720 just to live for yourself. And here's where I just want to encourage you out there. For those of you

00:16:58.720 who are married, who have decided, hey, I'm going to put off kids until some arbitrary date. I'm

00:17:06.760 going to put off having kids so that we can travel the world. I'm going to put off having kids so I

00:17:11.020 can pursue my career. I'm going to put off having kids for XYZ reason. And maybe you've never really

00:17:16.960 thought about the why behind deferring having children, but those are not good whys. Those are

00:17:24.300 not biblical whys because it actually speaks to a wrong view of kids in motherhood. You are still

00:17:31.380 viewing kids as a burden, kids as an impediment to your real goal, which is doing what you want to do

00:17:37.300 and doing what makes you feel good, making your name bigger, whatever it is, and not seeing kids

00:17:42.800 as they are repeatedly and exclusively described in scripture, which is as a blessing, something

00:17:48.520 that the Lord gives you as a gift, arrows in your quiver. You are not seeing life as God meant it

00:17:59.240 to be lived, which is yes, joy and fun and all of those good things, but also sacrifice like the

00:18:07.820 friction and the difficulty of life is part of what makes you a better person. It's part of what

00:18:13.460 makes you more compassionate. It's part of what makes you a better contributor to the world around

00:18:19.120 you. God puts you on this earth to glorify him and to make the world around you better. One of the

00:18:24.520 biggest and best contributions that you Christian couple can give to the world around you and give

00:18:30.200 to the future even long after you're gone is a strong, brave, godly, wise child that becomes a

00:18:37.900 strong, brave, godly, wise, bold, evangelistic, hardworking adult. That is what the world needs

00:18:45.480 more of. And if Christians, Christians are the ones who are echoing this worldly mentality of 0.68

00:18:51.580 having kids is too hard, and I'm just going to put it off for these arbitrary worldly reasons,

00:18:56.440 we're in a lot of trouble. It's a dark world. We need more lights. We need more Christians 1.00

00:19:02.240 raising up more kids for the glory of God. As I said, there may be some health exceptions. There

00:19:09.080 may be some exceptions to having your own biological children as a married couple,

00:19:13.720 and I acknowledge that, but most of us don't live within those exceptions.

00:19:20.180 Most of us are the rule.

00:19:22.540 And so if you can have children, Christian couple, have children and maybe have one more

00:19:28.020 too.

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00:21:07.480 okay you know i couldn't let today pass without talking about the pope the pope was in the news

00:21:17.880 over the weekend and he had a message it seemed to specifically president trump and the united

00:21:26.060 states just considering the timing some of the recent comments that he's made about the iran war

00:21:31.680 and he made this statement which proved very controversial that a lot of protestants myself

00:21:36.560 included, took issue with. But I also saw a lot of conservative Catholics saying,

00:21:40.240 that just isn't right. Here it is, thought six.

00:21:59.060 So he says, Jesus, King of Peace, he rejects war. No one can use Jesus to justify war. He

00:22:06.400 He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying, even

00:22:11.420 though you make many prayers, I will not listen.

00:22:13.560 Your hands are full of blood.

00:22:15.320 Actually, we cited that passage in Isaiah on Monday when we talked about this subject,

00:22:21.900 does God answer all prayers?

00:22:23.720 You'll hear a lot of people say, yes, God answers all prayers, but that's not actually

00:22:26.820 true.

00:22:27.680 And so the Pope is right about that, that there is a category of people whose prayers God

00:22:31.900 doesn't listen to, and he doesn't actually answer.

00:22:33.980 Go back to Monday's episode, and you can get a full response to the wrong theology of the idea

00:22:38.580 that God answers all prayers. I disagree with the idea that God will categorically reject the

00:22:44.800 prayers of those who wage war because of the Bible, because the Bible paints a clear and

00:22:51.500 opposite picture of that. So let me just read you the response that I put on X. And so first,

00:22:56.900 I quoted what Pope Leo said. And then I said, Christians should strive for peace. Yes,

00:23:01.160 we don't revel in death and destruction. And a Christian could make a sound argument against 1.00

00:23:06.100 the particulars of many wars throughout history, including the war with Iran today. A Christian

00:23:10.520 could also agree that God shouldn't be used to justify unjust wars. But to say that God is

00:23:15.940 against war per se is flat out false. All throughout the Old Testament, God calls for

00:23:21.020 war in defense of his people. Exodus 15.3 declares the Lord is a man of war. The Lord is his name.

00:23:27.880 David constantly prayed to the Lord while battling his enemies.

00:23:32.020 He says his cries to the Lord reached his ears and God answered him.

00:23:36.420 God didn't just answer David by hiding him away, but by giving him lethal strength.

00:23:41.360 He trains my hands for war.

00:23:45.400 And then I go on to say, because I can always hear this response that I get from a lot of

00:23:51.660 Catholics who will just kind of dismiss the Old Testament altogether. 0.99

00:23:55.080 Not all Catholics, but many do.

00:23:57.140 It's always like, well, we don't believe in the death penalty, or we don't believe in

00:24:00.220 X, Y, Z, because that's in the Old Testament, as if the Old Testament isn't inherent, and

00:24:04.380 as if the Old Testament isn't authoritative, and as if the Old Testament doesn't also contain

00:24:10.080 Jesus on every single page.

00:24:11.340 So this was the rest of what I said.

00:24:13.400 I said, if you discount these examples because they're in the Old Testament, the examples

00:24:17.400 of David, for example, you don't understand Scripture or God.

00:24:20.960 Jesus is God.

00:24:21.960 Therefore, everything God has ever done, Jesus has fully agreed with and participated in,

00:24:26.280 and he does not change. Hebrews 13, 8, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

00:24:32.140 Mind you also that Jesus himself promises to come back as a warrior to wage war against evildoers.

00:24:37.860 There are categories of people whose prayers God does not answer, the self-righteous,

00:24:41.520 those who pray with selfish motives. People who wage war are not automatically in one of those

00:24:45.880 categories. I'm so glad our founders did not believe this way. I love this retelling of the

00:24:51.740 story of the pacifist quaker who allegedly heard washington praying in the woods at valley forge

00:24:57.700 this is what the quaker said he was at prayer to the god of the armies beseeching to interpose

00:25:02.800 with his divine aid as it was his crisis and the cause as it was his crisis and the cause of the

00:25:08.540 country of humanity and of the world sometimes force is necessary to defeat evil and advance

00:25:14.600 good i say when it comes to these matters pope leo has repeatedly proven that he is not

00:25:21.660 wise, because he has said things in the spirit of this many times. We could go through all of

00:25:27.560 the examples in the Old Testament when God, the Alpha, the Omega, the Creator, the Triune God,

00:25:33.860 God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, he heard the prayers and answered the prayers of those who prayed to him.

00:25:40.980 Gideon, in the book of Judges, God repeatedly tells Gideon to go to war against the Midianites.

00:25:45.760 And the Lord turned to Gideon and said, go in this mind of yours and save Israel from the hand

00:25:51.000 of Midian. Do I not send you? And of course, Gideon asks him, how am I supposed to do this?

00:25:57.880 God confirms his command to Gideon over and over again, giving him signs, telling him, yes,

00:26:02.960 this is what I'm asking you to do. Joshua, who, by the way, like Jesus is named after Joshua,

00:26:09.720 this man of war. After the death of Moses, God commissions Joshua to lead the Israelites to the

00:26:15.780 promised land. God tells Joshua, now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all the people

00:26:20.980 into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. Every place that the sole of

00:26:25.660 your foot will tread upon, I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. And so he goes on 0.85

00:26:31.380 telling him how he is going to give these people into his hand. Now, if God was categorically

00:26:36.740 against all violence and all killing, he could have simply just taken these people away, wiped

00:26:43.160 them away somehow and never urged his people to wage war. Let me make clear right here, just in

00:26:49.940 case you haven't heard me make this clear many times before, I am not saying that any of these

00:26:53.880 passages are directives for America today. I'm not saying America is God's chosen people. I'm

00:26:59.320 not saying that any of these passages are justification for the war with Iran. I am using

00:27:03.600 these passages to point out that when it comes to the principle, the rule that the Pope is putting

00:27:08.720 forth that it's unbiblical. The rest of the book of Joshua, of course, chronicles the Israelites

00:27:14.340 conquering the promised land and dividing the territory up among the tribes. Also, I think 0.98

00:27:20.940 it's important to note, as I said in my expost, that Jesus returns as a warrior. He is leading

00:27:25.700 heavenly armies to defeat the beast and the false prophet. John writes that in the book of Revelation.

00:27:32.920 it. Of course, we have other references too. Psalm 144.1, blessed be the Lord, my rock,

00:27:38.440 who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle. David, earlier in this chapter,

00:27:43.740 he actually says, look, I cried out to the Lord. I asked the Lord for help and he helped me.

00:27:48.820 How did God help him? By making him lethal, by making him strong, by helping him commit violence

00:27:55.600 to protect himself. Romans 13.4, okay? New Testament now. We read, for he is God's,

00:28:02.720 the government is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid. For he does not

00:28:08.080 bear the sword in vain. Bear the sword. That's a symbol of execution. For he, the government,

00:28:13.520 is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. That's why it's so

00:28:19.240 important to have a government that defines good and evil in accordance with how God defines it.

00:28:23.720 I see a lot of people, Catholics in particular, they get wrong one of the Ten Commandments. They

00:28:29.500 say thou shalt not kill. That's it. That's obvious. Obviously all killing is wrong. Obviously

00:28:36.320 not all killing is wrong. Or you're saying God is violating his own Ten Commandments by directing

00:28:41.800 his people over and over again to wage war, to kill, and also commanding the death penalty for 0.86

00:28:48.460 many broken laws in the Old Testament. So not all killing is wrong. Not all killing is against the

00:28:55.200 Ten Commandments. That's not what the Ten Commandments say. The commandment says thou

00:28:58.680 shall not murder. And there's a difference between killing and murder. Of course, you would agree

00:29:03.220 that self-defense killing is not the same thing as murder. Murder is the intentional killing of

00:29:09.160 an innocent, a legally innocent person that is not committing violence against you. And so not all

00:29:15.160 acts of war are murder. Not all killing is murder. Abortion is murder. Lots of other kinds of killing

00:29:21.200 or murder. The death penalty is also not murder. You can be against some of those things for

00:29:26.700 whatever reason, war, the death penalty, but they're not murder. And they're certainly not

00:29:31.060 in principle, um, in violation of the word of God. And, you know, you got a lot of people being

00:29:37.580 like, oh, you think, you know, better than the Pope. You, you think, you know, better than the

00:29:42.180 vicar of Christ. Well, first of all, I don't believe that the Pope is the vicar of Christ.

00:29:45.040 You think that you believe more than the successor of Peter. I don't believe that he succeeded Peter.

00:29:49.380 Okay. That's first of all, but yeah, I believe that anyone with the Holy spirit in the Bible

00:29:54.120 has the ability to disagree with any leader of the faith, Protestant or Catholic.

00:30:00.080 So, of course, and I saw a lot of my Catholic friends, by the way, disagree with the Pope on

00:30:04.940 this, which is possible. I know that there are Catholics out there that are like, yeah, this is

00:30:09.480 not, you know, ex-cathedra. We can disagree with the Pope. And I'm like, hmm, you got 94 more of

00:30:15.220 those disagreements? You want to post them on a door somewhere? Huh? I'm like, I think you're

00:30:19.740 starting to understand like where Protestantism comes from. Like we are protesting. Martin Luther

00:30:27.300 was protesting against some of the teachings of the Pope at that time. I agree with you. It's

00:30:33.640 possible to disagree with the Pope and any kind of argument from authority fallacy that like,

00:30:38.240 well, you can't disagree with the Pope because you're not the Pope and he can't be wrong because

00:30:42.720 he's the Pope. It's not going to work. It's not going to work on a Protestant. It's also not 0.92

00:30:48.080 going to work on any thinking Christian who understands logic and values reason and believes 1.00

00:30:53.520 that the word of God is inerrant and infallible. Like we can all read it and we can be able to say

00:30:59.820 that pastor is wrong. That Pope is wrong. That priest is wrong because they're fallible and the

00:31:05.960 word of God is not. Again, you can have your arguments against war, against the war in Iran,

00:31:12.120 But to say categorically that God rejects the prayers of all those who wage war, it's just not true.

00:31:19.020 That passage in Isaiah about those who shed blood and their prayers won't be answered, it's not about war.

00:31:24.880 Go read the chapter.

00:31:26.060 It's about Israel disobeying God, oppressing the weak, oppressing people that they shouldn't have been oppressing, 0.83

00:31:34.820 disobeying God and committing idolatry and all of those things.

00:31:37.360 It was not about just war, which, by the way, is a theory put forth by Augustine.

00:31:44.600 There's a lot more that I could say about the Pope.

00:31:48.360 There's a lot more.

00:31:49.340 It's interesting, his timing and why he chose to say what he did.

00:31:54.000 I really want to talk about this segment where the Pope recently said that, you know, we

00:31:58.380 need to have communion with people of other faiths.

00:32:01.480 We need fellowship.

00:32:02.460 That is the work of Christ that I completely disagree with.

00:32:04.880 But we've got so much to get to that I'm going to put that to the side, and I will talk about that in a coming episode.

00:32:12.940 This pope gives us lots of content to go through.

00:32:16.780 And by the way, this is not an attack.

00:32:18.720 It's not an attack on the pope.

00:32:19.780 It's not an attack on Catholicism.

00:32:21.800 We've got to be intellectually tougher than that.

00:32:23.480 If a Catholic disagrees with something I say as a Protestant, I don't see that as a personal attack.

00:32:27.580 And if you do, then I would encourage you to strengthen your theological and apologetics

00:32:33.820 knowledge, because you should be able to see that as a battle of theology and ideas that

00:32:38.240 you are equipped to engage in, not as a personal attack that you need to shrink away from or

00:32:43.240 get like outraged about.

00:32:44.960 So just one thing I want to say.

00:32:46.960 All right.

00:32:47.460 I want to talk about, I just want to make sure that we note and encourage you to pray

00:32:51.620 for the Christian persecution that is happening in Nigeria.

00:32:56.900 This is happening in Nigeria's what's called the Middle Belt, where these attacks are taking

00:33:02.740 place a lot.

00:33:03.540 It is where the country's Muslim-majority North and Christian-majority South meet.

00:33:07.660 It has been the site of religiously motivated bloodshed for years.

00:33:11.380 And yet these Christians, impoverished, knowing that their lives are on the line, knowing

00:33:16.660 that they could be kidnapped, their kids could be murdered, they show up week after week,

00:33:22.200 day after day to worship their Savior.

00:33:24.460 Wow, that kind of boldness, that kind of courage should convict us here in the United States.

00:33:29.240 Some of us won't even stand up for the gospel if it means that someone's going to unfollow us

00:33:34.020 or that we're going to feel awkward at the grocery store or with the person next to us

00:33:39.460 on the plane, and these people are willing to lay down their lives for the gospel and to celebrate.

00:33:47.480 President Trump redesignated Nigeria, a country of particular concern,

00:33:50.940 saying, according to Reuters, that Christians are being targeted and authorities were failing to

00:33:55.400 protect them. That's absolutely true. You'll hear, and I think I even heard Tucker Carlson say this,

00:34:01.540 that it's actually a myth that Christians are the ones being targeted in Nigeria, or maybe it was a

00:34:06.500 guest on his show who said this, that it's both Muslims and Christians. It's not. Christians and 0.81

00:34:11.480 those who die at the hands of the radical Muslims there far outnumber the Muslims, and Christians 0.95

00:34:17.240 are kidnapped far more because they know that the Christian community will pay more, will pay a 0.99

00:34:23.420 higher ransom for Christians who are being kidnapped than the Muslims will, because of 0.99

00:34:28.740 course that's what the body of Christ does. And Christianity is associated with America and the

00:34:34.060 West, and we know that Muslims in Africa and in the Middle East, of course, hate the West as much 0.67

00:34:40.560 as they hate Christ and hate Christianity. And it's interesting how, which people will talk

00:34:46.020 about this kind of persecution and which ones don't, which ones will only talk about persecution

00:34:51.480 if Israel is somehow involved and not talk about the much, much, much, much, much bigger problem

00:34:56.840 of the Muslim persecution and the systemic killing of Christians, both in Africa and the

00:35:02.100 Middle East. So I just want to encourage you in your prayers every day to cover in prayer those

00:35:08.200 who are being persecuted everywhere. And you don't have to know every single detail of this

00:35:11.960 persecution in order to pray but this is who jesus is talking about in matthew 25 when he says

00:35:17.320 whatever you do for the least of these my brothers you do unto me he's not talking about the least of

00:35:21.720 these of the world he's talking about persecuted christians he's talking about these nigerians who 0.89

00:35:26.420 are being slaughtered we're guaranteed persecution but we are so beyond blessed in america to not

00:35:32.200 have the same kind of persecution as our brothers and sisters in christ are having around are

00:35:37.060 enduring around the world. So pray for them, see how you can encourage them. We've had a couple

00:35:42.320 people on that are evangelizing in Gaza, that evangelize in Nigeria. Go back, listen to those

00:35:47.880 conversations. We'll link them in the episode. You can see how you can get involved, how you can help

00:35:52.620 and how you can pray, how we can be sharing the gospel here to even help those abroad. So I just

00:35:58.400 wanted to make sure that we note that. I always want to highlight that and make sure that we're

00:36:01.760 praying for those brothers and sisters. All right, we've got some good news in the Christian world.

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00:38:22.180 Alley. On Palm Sunday, Trump shared a letter to Truth Social from Pastor Franklin Graham. This

00:38:34.400 letter came in October, on October 15th, but Trump is just sharing it for the first time.

00:38:42.080 And I just, I love it so much. The reason why he wrote this is because, as we'll play in a second,

00:38:47.700 Trump had just gone viral for a clip that had been going around in which he seems to kind of

00:38:54.020 be joking, but kind of not about not getting into heaven. He's talked about wanting to get into

00:38:58.640 heaven and thinking maybe he's done right. But then he doesn't think that anything is going to

00:39:03.540 get him into heaven. And maybe he's trolling. Maybe he's being sarcastic. But I love that

00:39:07.620 Franklin Graham, with access to the president, took this seriously. So he writes this in the

00:39:12.780 letter. He says, maybe you responded to this interview in jest, but it is an important issue

00:39:18.860 to know for certain that your soul is secure and will spend eternity in the presence of God.

00:39:23.640 The only one who can save us from hell is Jesus Christ. You can't save yourself. I can't save

00:39:28.880 myself. Good works, prominence, success, none of these things get us to heaven. The only way to

00:39:34.940 heaven is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. God requires us to turn from our sin and by faith,

00:39:40.820 believe in our heart that Jesus came to earth, died on the cross for our sins, was buried,

00:39:46.220 and God raised him to life on the third day. If you accept that by faith and invite him to come

00:39:51.120 into your heart, you are heaven bound. I promise you. So I love this and people can quibble

00:39:57.940 on some of the like Baptist theology there in the wording, invite Jesus into your heart. But

00:40:04.880 the message is true that there's nothing that you can do to save yourself. There's nothing that you

00:40:10.760 can do to be good enough to get to God. We talk about that a lot, that that's the distinction

00:40:15.020 of Christianity. Every other religion tells you how to get to God. And Christianity says,

00:40:19.220 you can't, can't, you can't, you're actually dead in your sin. It's not even that just you're a

00:40:23.720 little bit dirty and you could clean yourself off, bring yourself to me, and then maybe I'll 0.82

00:40:27.780 accept you. It's actually you're dead in your sin. You have to be revived. You have to be given life, 0.97

00:40:33.120 which is what Jesus does by grace through faith. It's just so incredible. And like I was thinking

00:40:38.500 this morning because I lost something this morning. It's somewhere in my house and I can't

00:40:43.980 find it. And it's just this nagging feeling of, I really want to find that thing. I really want

00:40:50.040 to find that item. And it's almost like this just underlying buzzing anxiety until you find it. And

00:40:56.360 it's the best feeling ever when you find something that you've been looking for, especially something

00:41:00.820 that's really valuable. And of course, we read in scripture, Jesus says that the angels rejoice

00:41:05.560 when a sinner turns to Christ, when a sinner turns to God, when a sinner repents,

00:41:11.080 and that the kingdom of God or like God seeking out the lost is like a shepherd going to find

00:41:17.860 the lost sheep or it's like finding a lost coin. And I just love that description of losing

00:41:23.320 something and finding it because we can all relate to the relief of that. But this is going

00:41:28.960 to be a feather in the cap of predestination. I'm just inserting some like theological thought here.

00:41:35.560 that you only feel the weight and the anxiety and the sadness about losing something that was

00:41:43.340 already yours, like something that you already know, that you already love, that you can already

00:41:48.620 see and envision, a thing that is already precious to you. That's really the only way to lose

00:41:54.660 something. And that's really the only reason that we feel relief and joy when it's found.

00:42:00.240 Like the shepherd didn't go out and hunt a new sheep. This sheep was a part of his flock and

00:42:05.180 he went out and rescued it and brought it back. And I think that's a perfect depiction of what

00:42:10.720 the gospel is and what actually happens when we are saved, that it is God who is seeking us and

00:42:16.860 finding us. The shepherd doesn't go to the sheep and say, hey, you want to come along? No, the sheep

00:42:22.540 has already proven that it's stupid, that it's fallen into a ditch and it can't get out. It 1.00

00:42:26.740 actually can do nothing to save itself. It has to be the shepherd picking up the sheep, putting the

00:42:31.020 over its shoulders, taking it back to the flock and making sure that it stays in line. And that,

00:42:38.180 of course, is the gospel for us, that Trump, there's nothing that you can do. There's nothing

00:42:43.240 that you can do. You can't reach up to God. He's reaching down to you by grace through faith. You

00:42:48.140 can be saved. Good for Franklin Graham. Like this is a good friend. It's a good friend. This is what

00:42:53.560 a good friend does. A lot of us are just concerned about being cool, about not offending someone,

00:42:59.020 especially someone like Trump. I mean, he's got a lot of access to the president. It would have

00:43:02.740 been easy for him to just kind of say, you know, he was just kidding. He was just trolling us. I

00:43:08.000 don't want to seem too serious. I don't want to take things too seriously and then look stupid. 1.00

00:43:12.700 But he was like, you know what? I'm going to take this opportunity to make sure he knows. I know for 0.99

00:43:16.640 a fact that Trump has been told the gospel multiple times. Phil Robertson, there are other people in

00:43:21.780 his life who are solid. And so that really just goes to show it's not just a matter of hearing.

00:43:26.380 not just a matter of head knowledge. It's got to go into your heart. It's got to be a matter of

00:43:30.780 faith that God gives you. And obviously this letter meant something to Trump because six

00:43:36.460 months later, he's posting it on Truth Social on Palm Sunday. And so Trump took it seriously.

00:43:42.020 I don't know how that has translated into the faith that he has in his heart, but he took it

00:43:48.080 seriously. It actually meant something to him. And I think that we've seen multiple times over

00:43:53.120 the years that he doesn't fully understand what gets you into heaven and what makes you right

00:44:01.080 with God. And so we just need to pray that God would continually show up and God would continually

00:44:07.920 reveal himself to Trump and that Trump would fully believe, just like we pray for all of our leaders.

00:44:14.620 All right. I want to get into another story of Christian boldness and someone going out on a

00:44:22.200 limb and doing the right thing, even when it was difficult. And that is Jaden Ivey. We weren't

00:44:28.720 going to talk about this today, but this was one of these stories that popped up last night. And I

00:44:32.780 was like, okay, I have to talk about this. This is so in line with the things that we discuss.

00:44:38.460 So I don't really follow any sports really, but when they intersect with our lane, I think it's

00:44:44.860 important to talk about. So on Monday, March 30th, 24 year old Chicago Bulls guard Jaden Ivey

00:44:49.800 released a video condemning the NBA for celebrating Pride Month. Here it is.

00:44:55.520 They proclaim Pride Month and the NBA. They proclaim it. They show it to the world.

00:45:05.920 They say, come join us for Pride, for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness.

00:45:14.940 true no lie spoken shouldn't surprise you that within hours the bulls waved ivy after he made

00:45:23.200 the statement saying his video was detrimental to the team okay can i call on the audience and

00:45:27.420 we can keep rolling what does nate do you follow basketball do you know what waved means what does

00:45:33.360 waved mean okay so not necessarily like fully dismissed but maybe yeah chief related bro what

00:45:44.520 does waved mean okay so it is like you're you're not on the bench you're gone okay so he's come

00:45:53.660 he's gone from the Chicago Bulls um for saying this and they said it was detrimental to the team

00:46:01.720 well Jaden Ivey has a response to that we'll get into it in just a second let me pause tell you

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00:47:26.540 So more clarification on that.

00:47:28.240 He could get picked up by other teams, but he is totally off the Chicago Bulls.

00:47:32.060 So Jaden Ivey responded to them saying, this is detrimental to our team by saying, they're

00:47:37.180 lying, saying that my conduct is detrimental to the team.

00:47:39.560 That's a lie.

00:47:40.240 Ask any one of them coaches in there.

00:47:42.320 Was I a good teammate?

00:47:43.680 All I'm preaching about is Jesus Christ.

00:47:45.400 And they waved to me.

00:47:46.120 They say, I'm crazy, right? 0.99

00:47:47.280 I'm psycho.

00:47:48.860 This comes after the statement that he made, all of this, where he said, I am not the same

00:47:56.140 player I used to be.

00:47:57.120 That's why.

00:47:57.800 I'm not the J.I., the Jaden Ivey I used to be.

00:48:01.460 The old J.I. is dead.

00:48:02.520 I'm alive in Christ no matter what the basketball setting is.

00:48:05.940 And he's right that people are calling him psycho for this, okay?

00:48:09.940 So there's a sports writer named Seth Davis.

00:48:12.180 He ended up deleting his post after a ton of backlash.

00:48:15.400 But he said, Seth Davis says, Jaden Ivey is 24 years old, which is the time when many

00:48:19.380 serious mental illnesses on set.

00:48:21.720 If that is what is happening, I truly hope he gets the help he needs.

00:48:24.960 I pray for his health and peace of mind.

00:48:26.640 this is in response to that short clip that we played you of him saying you know they celebrate

00:48:33.160 pride they celebrate unrighteousness so this is first corinthians one the world sees the gospel 1.00

00:48:38.880 of christ the message of the bible as foolishness makes sense to us because we're spiritual because

00:48:45.520 we have the holy spirit it doesn't make sense to the world it literally looks like insanity

00:48:48.900 remember they called jesus insane too they called the early the early followers of christ insane

00:48:54.260 they called them drunkards um also the chicago uh sun times this is uh according to this is

00:49:03.220 according to the chicago sun times chicago bulls player josh giddy says obviously the whole thing

00:49:08.520 is kind of unfortunate in a way i hope he gets the help he needs whatever he's going through

00:49:14.180 or not going through i do really hope that he gets help it's not going to be with the bulls

00:49:20.000 anymore, but wherever it is, I hope he gets it. And then you had a number of Christian athletes

00:49:24.900 who took to social media, thankfully, in support of Ivy's courage. You had New England Patriots

00:49:31.460 running back, Travion Henderson. He responded by quoting Matthew 510, blessed are those who

00:49:37.220 are persecuted for righteousness's sake, which is exactly what's going on here, by the way.

00:49:41.340 He is being persecuted for the sake of righteousness. Also, Patriots coach Mike

00:49:46.400 of Rabel responded to Travion Henderson in support of Ivy. I love Travion. He cares deeply

00:49:51.380 about his faith. I want them to be able to express what they believe, but I also want to make sure

00:49:56.160 they're educated. We want to be exclusive. Boo! Boo! I don't even know you. Boo! That was a dumb

00:50:03.540 statement. So you want them to be genuine about their faith. You want them to be outspoken, 0.99

00:50:08.980 but not if we don't promote homosexuality and transgenderism. Sorry, not going to happen. It's 1.00

00:50:14.700 kind of like in the first chapter of the first book of the Bible. And by the way,

00:50:18.340 we actually love the people around us because we love the people who identify in this way.

00:50:23.080 We want to speak God's truth to them because God knows better. God made them. God loves them,

00:50:28.380 mind, body, and soul. And God wants what's best for them. And we don't believe that we're nicer

00:50:32.480 than God as all these people do. They believe that they're nicer and we're compassionate and

00:50:36.320 we're loving than God. I don't believe that. Like you think that we're arrogant for the beliefs

00:50:40.940 that we have, no, we are humble enough to realize that we don't know what's best. God knows what's

00:50:46.640 best. And so the most loving thing we can do is agree with God. That is exactly what Jaden Ivey

00:50:51.100 is doing. He's just agreeing with God. It's God and his authority that y'all take issue with, okay?

00:50:56.320 Not Jaden Ivey. You've got several other players from different leagues who are supporting them.

00:51:03.680 And so praise God for that. People are quoting different passages of the Bible when it comes to

00:51:09.320 persecution. I also just want to point out that there are several NFL players who have not only

00:51:16.500 said degenerate things. I mean, think about like LeBron James, for example, but who have done

00:51:22.700 degenerate things. I mean, been found guilty of domestic violence, who have paid for abortions 0.99

00:51:27.800 for their baby mamas, who are just degenerate, lawless people. But all of that is fine. But 0.98

00:51:35.740 basic Christian doctrine is beyond the pale. Of course, we got Emmanuel Akko weighing in. 0.64

00:51:42.260 Emmanuel, Emmanuel Akko, he manages to be like he in the name of trying to be nuanced and trying to

00:51:49.400 be different. He always just says the wrong thing when it comes to abortion, when it comes to

00:51:53.980 justice. And we've actually gotten into it before. And of course, he's throwing Jaden Ivey under the

00:51:59.380 bus. Some of the things that he said in his message were true. I didn't tell my team I wanted

00:52:03.280 to play this clip. It's just coming to mind, which is why I'm not playing it. So you can go

00:52:06.560 find it on your own, where he says, you know, your talent makes room for you. If you're super

00:52:11.440 talented, then you can kind of say what you want to say. Maybe that's true. I don't really know

00:52:14.820 that much about this player and his success. But then he goes on to the Christian aspect of it.

00:52:19.740 And, you know, he preaches about how, you know, he should have said it differently or he shouldn't

00:52:24.380 have said it at all. Boo. Boo. Again, you're not nicer than God. If God's word says it,

00:52:29.800 the nicest thing that we can do is agree with it and repeat it, speaking the truth in love,

00:52:34.520 gently, persuasively, yes, but without compromise, okay? Maybe you are just a little bit convicted

00:52:41.420 about the compromises that you've made to be friends with the world. I don't know. Just

00:52:46.580 something to consider. So share the arrows with Jaden Ivey. I don't even, you know, I don't have

00:52:51.640 any connection to him. A lot of times we're sharing the arrows. I have some kind of way to

00:52:55.720 communicate with the person. Probably not possible, but you can pray for him. You can send him a

00:53:00.200 message. He might check his Instagram messages and just say, great job praying for you, standing with

00:53:05.960 you. Because this is going to be difficult. This is no small thing to lose your job and to possibly

00:53:11.300 lose your job in the industry that you love forever by saying something that is blatantly true,

00:53:17.260 that is blatantly good, that is actually loving. Okay. So stand with, share the arrows with Jaden

00:53:25.100 ivy all right um let's talk about one more thing good news actually really really good news but

00:53:31.640 it's within the umbrella of lgbtq before we get to our last segment i just saw this before we started

00:53:38.620 filming um the supreme court strikes down colorado's ban on so-called conversion therapy okay

00:53:48.420 so the supreme court struck down a ban that colorado had on so-called conversion therapy so

00:53:54.180 On March 31st, SCOTUS struck down this decision.

00:53:57.460 That's according to the Washington Post.

00:53:59.200 And to explain what this law is, Colorado's 2019 law prohibited licensed mental health

00:54:05.680 providers from engaging in conversion therapy with minors to find his efforts to change

00:54:10.480 a person's sexual orientation or gender identity and made it subject to professional discipline.

00:54:16.900 The case centered on a Christian counselor who argued that the state unfairly restricted

00:54:20.600 what she could say to clients seeking faith-based guidance.

00:54:23.360 The court ruled 8-1. That's incredible. It was only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson who was the

00:54:30.880 dissent there. But 8-1 decision that the law violates First Amendment free speech protections.

00:54:36.180 Of course, that is the state saying you can't say your sincerely held beliefs or we will punish you.

00:54:41.320 They did Colorado. So crazy. They did the same thing to the masterpiece cake baker, Jack Phillips, 0.94

00:54:50.600 that we've talked about a lot before and we shared the arrows with him at the time, but they said,

00:54:55.380 no, you have to bake the cake. You have to bake the cake celebrating transgenderism or you have 1.00

00:55:00.000 to bake the cake celebrating gay marriage. And he said, no, that goes against my faith. I mean, 0.97

00:55:04.520 Colorado, talk about fascism, talk about a totalitarian regime, talk about having kings.

00:55:12.160 These Democrat states are so tyrannical. It's insane. The tyranny that the liberals are talking 0.98

00:55:19.700 about when it comes to Republicans or Republicans being like, yeah, I think, you know, you shouldn't

00:55:24.780 murder your baby. Maybe. The tyranny by progressives is you will say the pronouns, you will bake the

00:55:32.220 cake, you will not say your sincerely held beliefs, you will not acknowledge biological reality to a

00:55:38.860 child who is confused about their gender. Okay, that is dystopian trash. Okay, that is actually 1.00

00:55:46.560 tyrannical. So all the accusations of tyranny from the left, it's just projection, okay? It is

00:55:52.560 projection because they are guilty of far worse as a whole. Justice Neil Gorsuch in this decision

00:55:58.880 writes for the majority that the law censors speech based on viewpoint. The First Amendment,

00:56:03.540 he wrote, stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this

00:56:08.300 country. Praise God. In a solo dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote states should be free

00:56:13.560 to regulate health care, even if that means incidental restrictions on speech. She said

00:56:19.700 the decision opens a dangerous can of worms that threatens to impair a state's ability to regulate

00:56:24.120 the provision of medical care in any respects. Typical progressives just says a bunch of word

00:56:28.000 salad that doesn't actually have any constitutional substance to it. But what this means is that

00:56:32.920 Christian counselors, Christian mental health professionals are allowed to say what is true,

00:56:39.300 not only say what they believe biblically, which they should have a right to do,

00:56:42.460 but also say what is true biologically. They were being punished by acknowledging and affirming

00:56:48.080 biological reality. And people, including minors, should be free to have access to biblical

00:56:54.620 counselors, counselors who will tell them the truth. Like it's difficult for Colorado and

00:56:59.780 progressives to understand, but not everyone who is attracted to the same sex, not everyone who is

00:57:04.540 confused about their gender wants to feel that way. Some of them need help. Some of them want

00:57:10.140 someone who is like-minded to talk to to help them through what is sin, what the Christian faith

00:57:15.180 calls sin. What is actual quote-unquote conversion therapy is the psychiatrist who tells the young

00:57:22.240 autistic schizophrenic woman who is coming from an abusive household that, yeah, those feelings

00:57:29.320 of distress that you feel about your body, it's because you're the opposite gender. That is 1.00

00:57:34.880 conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is when you tell a young boy, yeah, sure, you're actually

00:57:39.740 you, girl, let's get you on those hormones. I'll sign the waiver for you. I'll sign the form 1.00

00:57:46.260 telling the endocrinologist and telling the surgeon that you're good to go. That is actually

00:57:50.760 harmful, real conversion therapy that absolutely should be banned because it's a lie. Like there

00:57:56.920 are restrictions on what mental health providers can do, but there should never be a restriction

00:58:02.500 on saying what is true, right? But of course, again, this is the same kind of thing that we

00:58:09.940 talked about in the Jaden Ivey story. When you exchange evil for good, when wisdom looks like

00:58:16.140 foolishness, it's really like a heart issue. It's a refusal to submit to God's authority issue,

00:58:21.620 as every one of these problems really comes down to. While Democrats are realizing that they're a

00:58:29.240 bit radical to most of the country. I mean, even though the official Democrats account

00:58:33.780 just posted, as we said in the beginning, you know, yay, Trans Visibility Day. And so they're

00:58:39.540 still running on this idea that men should be in little girls' restrooms and, you know, play on 0.96

00:58:44.720 girls' soccer teams and all of that. But they've realized they've got to appeal to Christians.

00:58:48.960 They've got to appeal to the suburban woman. They've got to appeal to white people in this 0.93

00:58:54.020 country. As much as they hate white evangelicals, they see, okay, this is a huge voting block. 0.60

00:58:59.640 Many of them don't vote. They're ripe for the taking. Some of them don't like Trump. And so 0.87

00:59:04.460 how are we going to win them? And they have come up with a strategy and it actually might work.

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01:00:58.780 You know, I saw something the other day that I never thought about before. It was just like a

01:01:02.500 funny video on Instagram. And it was like, how do you think Trump feels knowing that he has

01:01:08.780 never had to run against a man or something like that it was funnier how it was phrased but it is

01:01:15.140 funny that the two people that trump has ever run against uh for the for the presidency have been

01:01:22.080 women and why did they think going against someone who is so macho like president trump who a lot of 1.00

01:01:28.800 people really like why it would be successful to run a mom like hillary clinton against him or

01:01:34.420 someone who is maniacal like Kamala Harris against him it's just not it's not almost like

01:01:38.460 not even a fair race honestly so now apparently this is according to Axios Democrats are going

01:01:45.080 to run a straight white Christian male candidate in 2028 uh Michelle Obama has added insight to

01:01:53.260 this saying they're not ready for us girls not 12. That's why I'm like don't even look at me

01:01:58.720 about running because you all are lying. You're not ready for a woman. You are not. So don't 1.00

01:02:04.860 waste my time. Okay. So I asked my team, let's put in who we think is going to be the candidate.

01:02:13.500 So white, straight, male, Christian, which they've done with the VP candidate. Um, what,

01:02:21.060 I don't even remember his name. What is the name of the guy who ran with Kamala Harris? Tim Walls,

01:02:26.640 right? Tim Walls. Now, white, male, Christian, straight. At least two of those are questionable.

01:02:35.760 And I will let you guess which ones they are. Can we put up, let's put up the tweet by the

01:02:41.380 Republicans the other day when Tim Walls tweeted, no kings. I'm not even going to say anything about

01:02:47.640 this. I'm just going to let y'all watch it if you're on YouTube. Okay, moving on. Okay, here

01:02:53.220 is the tally. Um, we've got three votes on team relatable for Gavin Newsom for the straight white

01:02:59.540 male Christian. I'm trying to remember all of the descriptors that are going to run. Remember

01:03:05.840 Gavin Newsom fancies himself a Catholic. Okay. He fancies himself a Catholic, but back in the day,

01:03:12.440 he was arguing with John, John MacArthur on CNN about why gay marriage is great. Okay. So he's 0.54

01:03:18.380 kind of been a lost cause for a long time. We've got two votes for James Tallarico. Again, two of

01:03:24.280 these descriptions, very questionable about these people, okay? I'll just let you read between the

01:03:29.740 lines. We've got one for Pete Buttigieg. If you know, you know. If you know, you know. Now, some

01:03:37.400 people are saying, I know, I hear you out there, Pete Buttigieg is gay. And so he doesn't qualify 0.74

01:03:43.700 is straight. There's a conspiracy out there right along with the moon landing and dinosaurs not

01:03:49.860 being real that Pete Buttigieg is actually straight, that he is pretending to be gay for 0.90

01:03:54.380 identity politics. I didn't say that. And whoever said that and whoever voted for Pete Buttigieg,

01:03:59.320 that is very offensive. Very offensive. I would never. Okay. And then we have, this was my serious

01:04:06.180 one. And this is Andy Beshear. I think Andy Beshear is a contender because he's Southern,

01:04:11.840 white male Democrat. He was just on The View talking about his so-called faith, which he

01:04:17.100 believes that his faith encourages him to be pro-trans kids. We've got honorable mention.

01:04:23.200 We've got Richard Levine, Rachel Levine, whatever. It suits your fancy there. Also,

01:04:33.180 a possibility, a possibility. This person was in charge of our health during COVID. Exciting times,

01:04:40.440 exciting times all right those are our predictions can you put your predictions please in the

01:04:46.700 comments or you can message me is there some dark horse that we don't even know yet who they are

01:04:54.240 grooming to take the place I'm telling you for real like it's not going to be James Tallarico

01:04:58.560 I'm not sure to be rude but he's too fruity like he's he doesn't count like I think someone like

01:05:03.880 Beto was maybe like a better more masculine choice but James Tallarico is also just too

01:05:10.360 kooky with his beliefs. Gavin Newsom, he's got a villain aura that's probably not going to happen.

01:05:15.840 Pete Buttigieg, I actually think he's manlier than James Tallarico, so maybe that'll work.

01:05:21.200 I think it's probably going to be someone like Andy Beshear and honestly, probably smart. 0.87

01:05:26.300 Republicans do this really dumb thing sometimes where they're like, oh, I know how we're going 0.90

01:05:29.880 to win over the moderates. We're going to have like a non-binary astronaut, immigrant, I don't 1.00

01:05:39.320 know. And we're going to try to run them and we're going to be able to get some victim points and get

01:05:44.080 some moderates. And then the Democrats are like, I'm going to run this straight white Christian 0.88

01:05:48.860 guy. And of course the Democrat ends up winning. Come on guys, just get someone normal. Just get

01:05:55.320 someone normal. And Democrats have figured that out and Republicans should as well. All right.

01:06:03.100 We got through all of it and I wanted to do this in under an hour, but it was just impossible,

01:06:07.260 But hopefully you enjoyed this.

01:06:08.780 We'll be back here on Friday with an awesome interview

01:06:10.840 in that bonus segment with Wes on Saturday.

01:06:14.320 And we will see you guys then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - April 01, 2026

Ep 1326 ｜ 'The View' Warns Moms, NBA Condemns Christianity & the Pope Misuses Isaiah 1

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