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00:09:52.920well good morning or afternoon whenever you're listening or watching this uh don't usually see
00:10:02.420me in the middle of the week but Allie Beth is in Washington DC and she is part of the 500 people
00:10:10.140that are reading through the bible which is something that uh our friend Bunny Pounds and
00:10:15.400her organization is doing and she'll be doing some reading so you can probably go back and
00:10:20.360find that somewhere online if you want to watch that she asked me to step in for her today
00:10:24.140and we're gonna have a great show it's going to be a lot of good first thing I want to remind you
00:10:28.720of though is don't forget to get your tickets to share the arrows coming up in October it's gonna
00:10:32.920be another great event you know last year she had 7,000 women sold out the arena and it was a lot of
00:10:40.020fun I was able to listen in on a part of it and just did a great job and I know they've got some
00:10:45.180great speakers and great entertainment coming so hopefully that you already have your tickets if
00:10:49.400not, please get your tickets to share the air. Look at some of the speakers. If you're watching
00:10:52.800this, you can see some of the speakers on the screen right now. I mean, it's just going to be
00:10:56.240awesome. And the singing people. It's so funny. Allie and I ran into one of the Shane and Shanes
00:11:02.600at the airport a couple of weeks ago when I was with her flying to go to a speech. And just super
00:11:08.860nice people. You're going to really love them. I'm sure that a lot of you already know who they are.
00:11:12.680So anyway, make sure you get your tickets to that. We're going to talk about two or three things.
00:11:16.700And then at the end, there's going to be a video that you're not going to want to miss that Allie did an interview with a Finnish woman that has been persecuted pretty severely, in my opinion, for her faith.
00:11:29.340And you're not going to want to miss that.
00:11:30.660But first of all, we want to just a little bit of an update on a few things that are going on.
00:11:34.100In fact, as we're recording this, the vote in Virginia to redistrict, meaning to redraw the geographical lines on where their congressional districts are, is taking place.
00:11:50.900As you know, Virginia has a Democrat governor and a Democrat-controlled legislature.
00:11:57.320So what they've done is they have passed a bill.
00:12:02.140Now, we're not even sure that bill is going to pass constitutional muster.
00:15:14.320Second, it's directly in response to what other states decide to do.
00:15:19.480Third, and most importantly for me, it preserves Virginia's fair redistricting process into the future.
00:15:28.200Okay, now that lady, she will lie when the truth sounds better.
00:15:32.560So what they want to do is make it so that 90 percent, actually 91 percent of the congressional districts are Democrat and 9 percent, which would be one, are Republican.
00:15:47.860Now, think about that, how that works out. Kamala Harris only won Virginia with 52 percent of the vote.0.88
00:15:55.600But yet they want to have a 90 percent congressional delegation.
00:16:01.420There's nothing fair about that redistricting.
00:16:03.180The reason they say it's temporary because they say, well, we're going to just put this in now.
00:16:08.080And then after the census in 31, we're going to redistrict again as we normally do.
00:16:12.920So this is only going to this is really going to allow us to cheat for just a couple of terms is what they're saying.
00:16:17.520If you want to read between the lines on that.
00:16:20.140And, of course, some of this is they are talking about, well, we do this because what Texas did.
00:16:26.220However, Texas redistricting was based on voter registration.
00:16:31.760It wasn't racially discriminatory, like people said, and it was upheld in federal court.
00:16:37.420So it's already been tested in court and it's been upheld.
00:16:40.920Now, that's in contrast to Virginia's redistricting, which is taking a 10 to 1 Democrat favoring map.
00:16:48.680The testing redistricting only does a few districts.
00:16:51.020Under the new maps, the Texas Tribune, which is a pretty liberal newspaper, the Texas Tribune reported that Trump would have won three more districts in 24 out of 38.
00:17:00.780So not a big change in Texas, like they said.
00:17:02.880But look at what, if you're watching this, look at what it's going to end up being on the proposed map.
00:17:07.700Basically, everything except the lower southwest corner of Virginia is going to be represented by a Republican and by a Democrat.
00:17:16.340And what they're doing is they're putting suburban Democrats in almost every district.
00:17:22.080That's how they're allowing it to be so controlled by the Democrats, which is that that's going to be a problem.
00:17:29.680This all kind of goes really a little bit.
00:17:32.220It's entwined with what we've been talking about, the SAVE Act.
00:17:35.080You know, the SAVE Act has not yet passed.
00:17:37.460And Senator Kennedy from Louisiana has been one of the main proponents of, hey, let's get that passed.
00:17:44.720The Democrats are not going to vote for the SAVE Act. We're going to have to do it with Republican votes.
00:17:51.740The FISA bill is one option, but we also ought to attempt to do it through reconciliation, which we're in the middle of right now.
00:17:59.740And I agree with that. The FISA Act is where they're just reauthorizing certain types of surveillance procedures and trying to actually hopefully.
00:18:11.040I know a lot of people are against that, and I understand that because essentially it allows the government, in theory, to spy on U.S. citizens.
00:18:19.820Now, hopefully they're just doing that on people that are, you know, violating the law or people that are here illegally or things like that, potential terrorists.
00:18:29.280But back on the SAVE Act, here's the four things it requires, all right?
00:18:33.060documented proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration, in-person submission of proof of
00:18:39.180citizenship, continual voter list maintenance, meaning that when people move from one state to
00:18:44.700the other, we need to update those voter lists so that people can't vote in two different states,
00:18:50.960or if they passed away or their name has changed, maybe they got married or they got divorced,
00:18:55.340their name changed. And then also when they go to vote, you have to have a photo ID to vote.
00:19:00.920And again, it's so silly that we're even talking about this.
00:19:04.740You know, almost every American at one time or another has to go through some security mechanism where they have to have an ID, whether it's on an airplane or in a government building or things like that.
00:19:14.380So us requiring that does not seem like much to ask.
00:19:19.000But I agree that we should try to pass that, even if it's through budget reconciliation where we only need 51 votes.
00:19:26.820And I know that they'll try to stop that, but I think Kennedy's on the right track there.
00:19:32.040Now, there were a couple of questions that came in from listeners related to elections.
00:19:36.260And the first one from Betty Ann says, what needs to change for us to win the midterms?
00:19:41.420Well, we need to get the Iran thing taken care of, all right, so that gas prices will go back down.
00:19:46.520And we're going to talk about that in just a minute.
00:19:48.900And we also make sure that we're messaging properly.
00:19:52.900Remember, the midterms are not a national vote.
00:19:56.920They're an individual state, an individual congressional district vote.
00:20:01.520And so we need to make sure that in those particular districts, whatever issue it is,
00:20:07.400and most of the districts are not actually competitive.
00:20:10.080Most of them are either pretty far Republican or pretty far Democrat.
00:20:12.700But those in the middle, that'll make the difference in the majority.
00:20:15.900We need to make sure we understand what those issues are in that particular district.
00:20:20.140What might be an issue here in the Dallas area may be different than it is in the Kansas City area or vice versa.
00:20:27.020So just make sure that the way that we win those is that we get our messaging out.
00:20:32.500You know, things like, hey, wages are up six percent, which is more than they have been in the last three years.
00:20:38.160Overall, the economy is doing very, very well.
00:20:40.720We do have the thing going on with the gas prices now, but overall, the economy is doing well.
00:20:44.640People that want to work are working and the wages are up from what they have been.
00:20:49.020So that's the message we have to take. And then someone asked, and I feel bad for who I think is Linda, is that should I just vote for the best Democrat if I live in a blue county in a local election?
00:21:00.820Well, first of all, if they have the opportunity to vote for a Republican, then you should vote for the conservative, right?
00:21:08.340The one that boasts fits your views, which I assume you're conservative.
00:21:11.060If it gets down to two Democrats, you don't want to stay home.
00:21:15.560I agree that you should vote for the Democrat that has most, if at all, aligned with your views.
00:21:22.620It's hard to find a conservative Democrat these days, but sometimes because elections are binary, you have to vote for the lesser of two evils.
00:22:57.420I hope that they will go ahead and extend it.
00:22:59.840But the big talk lately has been about the Strait of Hormuz, which is the little area that connects, you know, the Red Sea and the Strait of Oman and all of that through the Indian Ocean and trying to keep that open because that's a huge shipping route.
00:23:15.180Now, in the past, Iran has used blackmail against companies to be able to go through there and they've charged them and all these types of things.
00:23:24.880And so recently what we did is we put a naval blockade on all of the Iranian ports so that
00:23:32.440Iran could not send their ships out of there.
00:23:35.900And the goal of that was to cut off their money supply.
00:23:39.780Well, of course, they hadn't liked that either.
00:23:42.240And so they've tried to say, well, we're going to close the Strait of Hormuz.
00:23:45.900Well, they don't have the capability to close the Strait of Hormuz.
00:23:48.560Let me explain this to you real quickly.
00:23:51.020The Strait of Hormuz does have some mines in it, you know, some mines in the water.0.61
00:23:58.860However, the U.S. Navy has the ability to clean all of those things out.0.98
00:24:04.040But what we're trying to do is to avoid further casualties.
00:24:08.500And not just for us, but we really would like to avoid casualties on both sides.
00:24:13.800And that's why we're trying so hard to negotiate with them.
00:24:16.840However, a lot of the reason that the traffic has slowed down, for example, there were, you know, 24 ships on Saturday, 30 ships on Sunday.
00:24:26.960And the reason for that primarily is because insurance companies that insure these ships, they do not want to insure them going through that strait when there's danger there.
00:24:39.620And so Iran, I think, took some pot shots at a couple of the ships and what have you.
00:25:30.760It's in our capabilities to be able to get that open, and we will get that open no matter what it takes,0.60
00:25:38.960even if it does take us going back and doing some more bombing of some of their facilities.
00:25:43.920Now, I noticed they came out yesterday and said, hey, we've got a secret weapon that we are, you know, another idea on how we're going to be able to fight back against America.
00:25:53.900Don't believe that. That's just that's just that's just rhetoric.
00:25:57.500OK, it's another red herring where they're simply trying to delay, delay, delay.
00:26:02.940And so they can build back up their forces or whatever it is they're doing.
00:32:09.720Tulsi Gabbard, our Director of National Intelligence, DNI, has looked into some of the impeachment
00:32:22.600things that were politically motivated against Donald Trump, and some of those dealt with
00:32:28.260intelligence. So that's how she got involved in it. About a week ago, Gabbard sent criminal
00:32:35.020referrals to the Department of Justice for two of the central figures in the conspiracy to
00:32:39.700impeach Donald Trump. Michael Atkinson, who served as the inspector general, the one that's supposed
00:32:44.760to be inspecting what other people do of the intelligence community, and the unnamed CIA
00:32:51.880analyst whistleblower who filed a complaint about Trump's 2019 telephone call with Zelensky in
00:32:58.260Ukraine. You guys remember that? They said they tried to do a quid pro quo on there related to
00:33:03.960Biden's son and all that type of stuff. But here's what Director Gabbard had to say.
00:33:11.540This is really such a violation of public trust and the responsibility that we expect all of our
00:33:16.960inspectors generals to have in that he didn't conduct a full investigation. He didn't even
00:33:22.280ask to see the transcript of the phone call between President Trump and Zelensky. And he
00:33:27.920admitted to Congress that he didn't have any first. He did not have any evidence that he was
00:33:34.340relying on. He had made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice based on this so-called
00:33:38.740whistleblower's complaint. Department of Justice came back and said there's nothing here. This
00:33:44.100inspector general then went to Congress anyway and presented it to them. All of this coming down to
00:33:49.920the bottom line of which this was a partisan political attempt once again to undermine the
00:33:55.320will of the American people who elected Donald Trump as president of the United States.
00:33:59.340I'll tell you, whatever you think about President Trump, the witch hunt after him
00:34:03.860has been the most relentless thing I've ever experienced. And I know what the other side
00:34:10.740basically are thinking, because I have people in my, not my immediate family, but extended family,
00:34:16.300that I know what they believe. They believe that the ends justifies the means. And they believe
00:34:20.880he's such an evil person that no matter what you have to do to get rid of him, then that's okay.
00:34:27.480You know what? Even if you believe that he's an evil, evil person, which I do not, I think he's0.53
00:34:32.980done a lot of really good things. It doesn't mean I agree with him on everything, as we've talked
00:34:36.660about before, but he's done a lot of good things. His policies have been much more in line with what
00:34:41.300I believe that any other president, maybe since President Reagan. The way that we have attacked
00:34:49.300him or the way that he has been attacked is absolutely illegal. It's not the way our system
00:34:55.160works. Our system, for sure, allows us to elect people that are not good people. And if you think
00:35:01.800he's a bad person, I get it. Don't vote for him. You didn't. But don't do methods like Director
00:35:08.500Gabbard talks about in here. And don't do all the other things that you tried to do in New York,
00:35:12.780that you tried to do in Georgia. All of those types of things are that James Comey tried to do,
00:35:17.460All right. I mean, it's just absolutely ridiculous. But look at the graphic that that director Gabbard put out. I want to talk about that for just a second.0.95
00:35:26.900All right. So this is a graphic that she put out, which I think is pretty well done.
00:35:32.500It highlights the weaponized whistleblower process, observing that the inspector, the investigation relied on secondhand evidence and self-declared Democrat whistleblower who lied about speaking with Democrats in Congress.
00:35:52.320This whistleblower was talking to Democrats in Congress.
00:35:54.860It also notes that Russiagate author was a key witness.
00:35:58.880So remember the whole Russiagate type of thing that they, you know, said Russia was helping President Trump, you know, beat Hillary Clinton, which proved not to be the case.
00:36:08.300Even Mueller couldn't figure that out.
00:36:45.040And so this matter has now been referred to the Department of Justice with potential charges, including false statements, obstruction and conspiracy.
00:36:53.780I hope that they're able to put some of the people in jail over this.
00:36:57.440It's probably doubtful the way this seems to work out, but I sure hope so.
00:37:01.200We need to send a strong message on the types of taxes that you use against duly elected officials.
00:37:07.980Now, speaking of duly elected officials, we had a couple of resignations this week in Congress.
00:37:14.660And one of them, one of them was just awesome.
00:37:18.680Representative Eric Swalwell, Democrat from California, resigned because of that.
00:37:25.560You know, he's running for governor of California, and he resigned because of all the charges against him for sexual misconduct.
00:37:35.260And also Representative Tony Gonzalez, a Republican, Swalwell's a Democrat.
00:37:40.560And Swalwell was probably going to win the nomination for governor.
00:39:44.380And he had other expenses that were included, alcohol deliveries, hotel rooms, Ubers, paying his live-in nanny, who didn't have authorization to work in the United States.
00:39:59.040And when did they decide he needed to drop out of the California governor's race?
00:40:02.360Well, I think what happened is they were so afraid if we don't get him out of the race now, it's kind of like they did with Joe Biden.
00:40:08.180If we don't get him out of the race now, then all these allegations are going to come out in the general election and we're going to put a Republican in the governor's mansion, which they might do anyway.
00:40:19.180Steve Hilston could very well win that.
00:40:21.900It's not likely because California is such a Democrat state, but that could happen.
00:40:27.620And Tony Gonzalez, Republican, you know, military veteran, really hate that for him.
00:40:34.560But he made mistakes and he needs to move on.
00:40:37.580We don't need to have people like that representing us in Congress, whether they're at the state level or the national level or whatever.
00:40:44.660We don't need that here in Texas in our Senate races.
00:40:48.180We don't need it in our House of Representative races and we don't need it anywhere in our government.
00:40:53.920Also, one final one is that Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez de Rimmer, which is hard to say, she has resigned.
00:41:07.460And she stepped down from her position on Monday amid a probe into her alleged use of government-funded travel to visit friends and family, which, again, innocent until proven guilty.
00:41:18.380But I didn't hear her denying any of these things.
00:41:22.320The report claims that Chavez de Rimmer had staffers falsify government trips and destinations she wished to visit on her personal time.
00:41:30.320Also accused her of drinking in her office during work hours and having an extramarital affair with a security guard.
00:41:36.800And also talked about her husband having inappropriate conduct with some of her staffers.
00:41:41.600So I don't know what's going on in that relationship, but no matter what type of labor secretary she was, it's good that she has moved on.
00:41:49.620And now Kevin Sunderland will serve as the acting labor secretary.
00:41:53.580A couple of questions here at the end that that relate from listeners that come back to listeners relating to finances.
00:42:03.820But before I get into that, you know, here's the challenge.
00:42:08.340We need good people in our government because remember, there's in government and in politics, there's never a vacuum.
00:42:15.100It's always somebody's going to fill it.
00:42:18.420And if good people don't run, bad people will every single time.
00:42:23.320So I hope that some of you that are listening to this, whether you want to do it or your husband wants to do it,
00:42:28.460that you'll think about getting involved in your local political scene and becoming an elected official.
00:42:33.480And the best place to do it is locally, whether that's your school board or your county boards or your city council, those types of things.
00:42:42.120Think about that because we need good people to be involved in our government.
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00:47:41.180Again, I want to remind you that if you haven't had the chance to buy Life Lessons from The Little Red Wagon, I think it's a great book that you'll enjoy.
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00:48:03.560You can email me to get this, or you can just get it off of Allie's website, merchandise website.
00:48:10.080And, you know, Allie just did a great episode with David French and Allie of last week.
00:48:15.040You need to go watch that because he evidently wrote a couple of articles in the New York Times
00:48:19.480that was trashing Allie's thoughts on empathy.
00:48:23.140And, you know, her New York Times bestseller book,
00:48:25.120Toxic Empathy, is something that if you haven't got,
00:50:30.500It started almost seven years ago from a Bible tweet that I published in regard of human sexuality.
00:50:41.860It was a Twitter update that was against the Evangelical Lutheran Church that had announced its support to the Pride event.
00:50:55.040So when this process started, there became more and more criminal complaints and charges against my views about, I would say, classical Christianity, what the Bible teaches about sexuality and homosexuality.
00:51:14.700And there was a pamphlet that I had written already 20 years ago, which was titled as Male and Female He Created Them.
00:51:29.020And the Supreme Court found me guilty for authoring this booklet.
00:51:41.480I was happy that it acquitted unanimously me for publishing the Bible tweet,
00:51:51.660where I took a photo from the Book of Romans, its first chapter.
00:51:57.480Right. So it was it was a mixed ruling. But of course, I was disappointed for for conviction for my pamphlet, for the church booklet that I had.
00:52:11.920Yeah, I mean, people, I think, really need to understand that what's going on here is Christian views about human sexuality held by millions of people across the world have been declared hate speech under Finnish law.
00:52:29.440And so that's a startling outcome in the case.
00:52:33.240Another thing that's so strange about the case is how hard the court had to work to convict Pivey for a 2004 pamphlet.
00:52:40.240But they convicted her under a law that didn't even exist at the time she published that pamphlet.
00:52:46.260So they had to retroactively apply the law to something she wrote years and years ago.
00:52:51.180It's like being punished for something you tweeted in 2020 or 2010, 2004, and suddenly you're held responsible for it because some law came on the books 10 years after your tweet came out.
00:53:05.620It's pretty audacious and very concerning for free speech.
00:53:09.060And Jeremy, can you explain why Pyvee was acquitted for the tweet? Romans 1, very clear,
00:53:17.220as you said, millions of Christians around the world for 2,000 years have held to the Bible,
00:53:22.300including what Romans 1 says about male and female and sexuality. She tweeted that Bible verse. She
00:53:28.540was acquitted for that, but it was the pamphlet that the Supreme Court found made her guilty of
00:53:34.960hate speech. Like what exactly does that mean? Why did they go that direction? Well, this is exactly
00:53:40.380the problem with hate speech laws. They're completely inscrutable. Nobody knows what they
00:53:44.100mean. People who are subject to them, like Pivey, don't know what they mean. They don't know what
00:53:48.760they can and can't say. But the government officials applying it don't know what they mean
00:53:52.760either. And they're just like subjectively coming up with whatever they think they want to do
00:53:57.260and using the law, which is completely vague and gives no direction to the enforcement officers
00:54:02.460or to the people who are governed by it, what they can do or what they can say.
00:54:06.280And so I think, you know, I can't answer your question except to say, I think, you know,
00:54:11.820what we had here was three separate prosecutions of Pivey for her religious expression about
00:54:22.580And they were determined somehow to get a conviction against her.
00:54:26.520And unfortunately, they finally were at the Finnish Supreme Court.
00:54:29.620And the Finnish Supreme Court, as I described, had to do some pretty amazing legal gymnastics to even reach back and punish her for something that the law didn't even apply to.
00:54:40.020It didn't even exist at the time she wrote the pamphlet.
00:54:42.580So, I mean, it's a story of why we don't have hate speech laws in the U.S.
00:54:46.960And it's because they are just enforced at the whim of the government officials who are wielding them.
00:54:53.780And that's not a place where free speech can thrive.
00:54:56.880Right. And before we go back to Pivey, Jeremy, can you tell me what is the consequence of this conviction?
00:55:03.420Well, Pivey has been fined and it's a criminal. So this is under the war crimes code of Finnish law.
00:55:11.400So it's a criminal conviction under war crimes for ultimately hate speech.
00:55:16.480And essentially the conviction is essentially something like you've offended a protected group of people.
00:55:22.780And so, you know, that's like you can't even criticize people or express a view that people might find offensive.
00:55:28.960And that's essentially what's going on here.
00:55:30.840If somebody thinks that your expression is offensive to any person, any group of people that's protected under finished law, then you could be subject to free speech prosecution, prosecutions for your freedom of speech as well.
00:55:46.840And have we seen others deal with this same kind of prosecutorial punishment? Does it seem to be Christians who are singled out? Have Muslims also dealt with this kind of targeting from the Finnish government?
00:56:01.640it? Well, I think you have to broaden the scope and maybe probably have something to say here,
00:56:06.460too. But across Europe, this is a huge problem. You know, in the UK, 12,000 arrests over the last
00:56:14.520couple of years each year for what people are posting online. And that's led to thousands of
00:56:21.200convictions each year for people's expression online, whether they're opposing, you know,
00:56:25.320immigration policies in the UK or, you know, some other aspect of what the UK is doing. What we've
00:56:30.000seen across Europe is European officials don't want to be criticized. They don't want views that
00:56:36.840they find to be unpopular or that they disfavor to be able to be expressed online or even on the
00:56:46.540public square of the streets and sidewalks of the cities of Europe. And so we're at the beginning,
00:56:52.660I think, edge of a existential free speech crisis in Europe. Pivey's case is one very extreme example
00:56:59.800of that. Paivi, do you have anything to add to that? Yes, I think that the main target of these
00:57:08.360processes, they have been really the Christian view of man. For example, we have had in Finland
00:57:15.020a case where a Muslim imam said in TV that homosexual people should be stoned if they0.87
00:57:24.300they have found and they didn't prosecute or file up charges against him but what i have said
00:57:34.220in in pamphlet has not been anything cruel against homosexual people i have said only that
00:57:42.380god has created all people as his own image and and we all are equal but it is the god's creation
00:57:51.740and intention that the human sexuality is between male and female and the marriage is just intended
00:58:03.420between man and woman and the supreme court stated that if you say that the homosexuality is some
00:58:15.580kind of deviation from normal sexuality then you think that these people are inferior to other
00:58:23.020people and it is hate speech so this was the core of the ruling of of the supreme court and i i think
00:58:31.020that it is against a christian view of man and and that's why it is also a matter of of not only
00:58:40.700freedom of speech, but also freedom of faith. Definitely. And here you are again saying the
00:58:49.200very things that have been convicted in Finland of hate speech. And so tell me why you have decided
00:58:55.260to push back against this, why you've decided to fight, why you've decided to keep declaring
00:58:59.840these things that God says are true, when you could easily just say, you know what, I'm going
00:59:04.740to go quiet, I'm going to back down, I'll pay my fine, and this will all be over.
00:59:10.980Yes, I have to tell that in the beginning when the police started the interrogations,
00:59:16.740they gave me two weeks' time to take away these writings. But I said that these are not only my
00:59:24.720opinions. This is what the Word of God says. It is what Apostle Paul has said. So it is not only
00:59:32.800my opinion and i think that we are now living in that kind of time that we have to be open about
00:59:39.200our faith also in these contradictory issues and what has given a big joy to me is that this has
00:59:48.760given a lot of possibilities and chances to tell about what bible teaches about about these things
00:59:58.020but also to tell about gospel, that what is the solution to the problem of sin in the Bible.
01:00:04.780So I have had chances to testify about Jesus and about gospel.
01:00:09.820And I have got also many messages from people, also from gay people,
01:00:15.000who have told that when they have followed this case, they have started to read the Bible
01:00:21.940and they have found Jesus and salvation in their lives.
01:00:26.100So I think that there has been a purpose in this fight, and I think that this has been all the time in God's hands, and I trust that also in the future this is, if I'm going to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.