Ep 1371 ｜ Ms. Rachel Praises Hijabs on Kindergarteners – Ignores This Dark Truth ｜ Bri Schrader
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Summary
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are married. Miss Rachel praises kindergarten girls wearing hijabs in Minnesota, but there s a huge injustice happening to these kids in these communities that Miss Rachel will not call out. We ve got someone who is going to give us insight on that in today s Lifestyle Pitter-Patter segment.
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Miss Rachel praises kindergarten girls wearing hijabs in Minnesota, but there's a huge injustice
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happening to these kids in these communities that Miss Rachel, for some reason, will not call out.
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Also, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are married. We've got someone who is going to give us
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insight on that in today's Lifestyle Pitter-Patter segment. We've got all of this and more on today's
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hey guys welcome to relatable happy wednesday hope everyone has had a wonderful week so far
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we've got your favorite guest i think she is your all-time favorite guest she is a recurring guest
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and that is producer brie she is back for a lifestyle pitter patter at the end of this
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episode so you have that to look forward to and then we'll get into all of the craziness of course
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that's going on in the world. But first, before we start, I just want to give this shout out to
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a precious family that I got to meet when I was traveling. When we travel across the country,
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we always run into related girls and related bros and different people who come up and every
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interaction has always been so positive and kind. And some people ask me, is it weird having people
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come up? It's really not. As long as it is a kind interaction, a sweet interaction. And as long as
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I'm not trying to like wrangle my kids at the Atlanta airport, which this has happened
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before, that I am totally happy, always happy to stop and talk.
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And I just had this super meaningful conversation with someone who came up to my husband and
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me and he was holding his little two-year-old girl and he was just telling us about how
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through Relatable the Lord was able to change his heart when it came to the issue of life.
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And he told us his story with his wife and their marriage and their faith and just how
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And then he told me that his little girl that he was holding was named Allie.
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And y'all, I just broke down and started crying.
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I just wept for the meaning and the purpose that the Lord has graciously allowed me to
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see through y'all and through the conversations that we have.
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And there is no credit of mine or our team's to be taken.
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It is just a constant reminder to me how the Lord uses imperfect vessels to accomplish his will and
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to advance his kingdom. And let me tell y'all literally the moment that this person came up to
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me, um, I was looking down at my phone and I was reading some comments on Instagram that were
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negative, that were saying the most ridiculous things because of my perspective on the, uh,
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Tyler Robinson trial, just absolute ridiculousness and slander. And it's so easy to get quickly
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discouraged by people who try to malign your motives or just say things about you that aren't
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true because they disagree with you. And then literally, as soon as I am kind of like wallowing
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in that negativity, this person comes up with the most encouraging story. And I don't even want to
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get into all the details for the sake of privacy. And this little sweet girl that was, um, that was
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named Allie. The Lord always is very kind in sending encouragement at just the right time.
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And I just want to thank y'all for the moments that you guys have sent that encouragement and
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sent those prayers. That is what keeps this going. Yes, the Lord, yes, support of family and friends
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and all of that, but this would not exist if you guys weren't consistently communicating with me
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and just letting me know that this is something that has been fruitful in your lives. Because as
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you know, there's a lot of craziness, a lot of negativity that goes on in the world. And it's
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easy to just feel sometimes demoralized and to wonder, okay, is there any purpose in this?
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Like, is everyone just going to lose their minds? Should we just, should we keep going? Should we
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throw in the towel? And then it seems like the Lord just provides encouragement, not just to me,
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but to all members of the body of Christ in the different directions that we're going to say,
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keep slugging keep going and so just thank you for that and um it was so wonderful to meet you
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out there you know who you are and all of you that i get to interact with in person in real life
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and one of my favorite ways to do that also is at share the arrows in dallas texas this is our
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invited. This is a Christian women's conference. We will have a couple of related bros that are
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going to be on stage. We'll have Kosti Hinn who is speaking. We'll have Shane and Shane who are
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leading worship. Um, but everyone in attendance will be a relate a woman. We've got Elisa Childers,
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go to sharethearrows.com for your tickets today. All right, let's get into it, y'all. Let's get
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into the craziness going on in the world. First, we've got Miss Rachel. Okay. I know a lot of you
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love Miss Rachel and for good reason. Okay. I'm not saying Miss Rachel is all bad. I think that
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she puts out a lot of content. I personally never have watched her YouTube. My kids have never
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watched her YouTube. And this was even before she had said some politically questionable things
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before I even knew that she had someone who identified as non-binary who would use pronouns
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like they, them on the videos. It just wasn't, it just wasn't really our thing. But I know for a lot
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of you that Ms. Rachel has really helped your child learn speech and articulation and different,
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you know, social cues and different things like that. So I don't want to take that away from you,
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but she has also become more outspokenly political. And she is a huge purveyor of
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something called cultural and moral relativism in her efforts to be all inclusive. She glosses
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over the very real moral differences and moral problems with ideologies like Islam. And this
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really came out recently when she praises the wearing of hijabs for kindergartners in
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Minnesota. And I'll get into why I think that is problematic. Um, she's got more than 20 million
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subscribers on YouTube. She's got more than 5 million followers on Instagram, huge platform,
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really big influence, especially when it comes to young families. I believe she truly has a heart
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for children. I think that she's very misguided and actually this misguidedness, what I would
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call toxic empathy is not innocent. It actually has a negative impact. Ms. Rachel posted something
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about kindergartners in Minnesota wearing hijabs and how that's great and it should be celebrated,
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but she didn't just randomly say that. She seems to be responding to a post by President Trump who
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reposted another account pointing out that all of these kindergartners in this video of a
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kindergarten graduation in St. Paul, Minnesota, all of the girls were wearing hijab. So here's
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what the post looks like. And he originally, okay, so it's a lot of retweets. Okay, here is
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a lot of reposts. So first actually we have Donald Trump's post and it's a video and they're at a
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kindergarten graduation and you've got a bunch of girls who are wearing hijab. So it's the
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Islamic head covering where you can only see their sweet little faces and their ears and their hair
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is completely covered up. And then in wokeness's commentary is public school in St. Paul,
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Minnesota, every girl in the classes in a hijab in kindergarten, Donald Trump reposts that. I don't
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even think we need to play the video because we already put up the picture. And so you can see
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what's going on here. And there are a couple of concerns I think that people have. One is just
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the rapidly changing demographics, ideologies, the worldviews of America that someone that a place
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like St. Paul, Minnesota doesn't look like St. Paul, Minnesota. It looks like Somalia. And people
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say you're not allowed to care about that. We're supposed to just be totally fine with the complete
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re-engineering and rearranging of the culture, the belief system of America, the demographics
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of America. We are all supposed to praise mass migration and pretend like it never has
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any negative consequences whatsoever. And I just don't believe that. I don't believe that. I think
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that you are allowed to care that the city in which you were raised looks very different,
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that the values, that the politics, that the patriotism of the community in which you were
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raised is no longer there. I think it's okay to say, I want to live and raise my children in an
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American city around people who are American, who love America, who celebrate the things that
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traditionally America does. If you wanted to live in Somalia, if you wanted to live in Afghanistan,
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you could live in those places, but you have chosen to live in America. And so I think that
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is okay to care about your changing culture. Like if you read about patriotism in CS Lewis's book,
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the four loves, he talks about patriotism as being the love of people that have a great deal
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in common with yourself and how that is actually a natural love that is good and can lead us to
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the higher supernatural love of loving the body of Christ, which includes people that don't look
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like us, that don't sound like us and loving God, the God who created us. But when we try to
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change the order of Morris, when we try to change the order of our loves or pretend like we are not
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supposed to love our culture as Americans, like we are not supposed to love Christianity, like we are
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not supposed to love the American way. And you guilt people out of that. You get all kinds of
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chaos and confusion. It's not about hatred of these people. It's not about judging a whole
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group of people by what they look like, but it's this kind of discomfort that a lot of people feel
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of like, am I allowed to care about this? Like, is it okay for me to want my child to have
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classmates that celebrate Christmas or does that suddenly make me a bad person? And by the way,
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it only makes the like the Western Christian a bad person when they start to care about things
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like that. It never makes anyone else from any African country or Asian country bad if they
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want to live around people that believe the way that they do and share the same values that they
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do. So that is kind of the underneath of what is going on in the thoughts of a lot of Americans
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that I think a lot of people are scared to say, but it's just true. That and the fact that Islam
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is not neutral. It's not neutral. Not all belief systems are the same. Not all rules and regulations
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of every religion are the same. The fruit of every religion is not the same. And I think it's okay
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for people to say, hmm, why would a five and six-year-old be required according to their
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religion to abide by a modesty standard that forces them to cover up their hair for fear of
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lust from a male. That's disturbing. That's disturbing for a lot of people, understandably
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so. And it's okay for people to be uncomfortable and to ask questions about that. Why would little
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girls have to abide by that kind of standard? What exactly are they being protected from in
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their religion? What is wrong or immodest about their beautiful hair, especially when they're
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five and six years old. That's a disturbing thing that people are noticing and worried about.
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said, I saw some of you wore a hijab to your graduation. This is kind of an open letter to
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these kindergartners. I am glad you wore something meaningful and special to you and your family.
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I think hijabs are beautiful. Different kids wear different things that are a part of their
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cultures and religions such as hijabs, kippahs, or necklaces with a cross. Some kids don't wear
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anything that is from their religion or are not religious. No matter what we wear, we all belong.
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It's wonderful to learn about each other's traditions and we can all be proud of our
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family and our tradition. Last year I attended a Hanukkah celebration. This year I attended
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Eid brunch and every year my family celebrates Christmas and Easter. People can try to divide
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us and turn us against each other and say things that aren't true, but we know what's right and
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that we should treat every person with kindness and respect. Some of this stuff is absolutely
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true. We should treat every person with kindness and respect. And I don't think that little
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children are the target for this. Like little children are not the ones that are choosing to
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wear the hijab. I believe little children and especially little girls are victims of Islamic
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ideology. I don't think that they should be the target of our ire. I don't think that they should
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be made fun of. However, seeing a five-year-old girl wearing this forced modesty garb to cover
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up her hair is shocking to the senses. And it is not enough to say, oh, you're wearing something
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meaningful. It's not meaningful to them. This is something that they are forced to wear because of
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Islamic standards of modesty saying that a woman showing her hair is indecent and not just a woman
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showing her hair, but a little girl showing her hair. And just as a reminder that the prophet
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Muhammad that started Islam married a six-year-old girl. Okay. That's what all of this comes back to.
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He married a six-year-old girl and reportedly consummated the marriage when she was nine years
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old. Okay. That is the person who founded Islam. So for us to whitewash that and to say, it's the
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same thing as wearing a cross. Like you see how wearing a cross, like a symbol of Jesus's victory
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over death is not the same thing as a little five-year-old girl being forced to wear a modesty
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garb over her hair. Like we see on its face that it's not the same thing, but it doesn't even
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represent the same thing. It seems like a kind message and I'm sure she means to be kind. I think
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that is her intention. She is a professing Christian, but this kind of philosophy reflects
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the cultural relativism, the moral relativism that I actually think is very dangerous has led
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us to a really bad place and has led us to this toxic empathy, this feeling, this guilt that we
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have to allow on the same footing, every single ideology into our country or else you're a bad
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person. No other nation thinks that way, except for like Canada and France, only the Western
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nations. No other nation believes that every ideology, every belief system, no matter how
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hostile, no matter its tenants deserve to have equal footing and equal honor in its country and
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culture. Cultural relativism, if you don't know, is this philosophical framework that holds that
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a culture's beliefs and practices should be understood and evaluated within the context of
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that culture's own values and norms rather than judged according to the moral standards of another
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culture. So even that definition is culturally relativistic. How I would say it is that
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there is a denial of objective truth and goodness, a denial that as a Christian, you know, we believe
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that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, that he is the source of truth. He is the source
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of goodness. He is the source of logic and everything has to be judged according to that
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standard. Here you see that Rachel denies that, that she believes that every culture has its own
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same level of validity. It's based on the idea of moral relativism, that there is no absolute truth.
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There is no objective morality, that it's really that what's good and bad is relative to each
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individual, to each culture, to each different time. And there is part of that where we are
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judging people based on the time that they were in, that there was no understanding of certain
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things being right or wrong, but that doesn't change objective morality and objective truth.
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God doesn't change. That standard doesn't change over time. People change, culture changes,
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the standard of truth and justice and goodness and righteousness does not change because God
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doesn't change. Hebrews 13.8. And so we reject moral relativism. Again, going back to C.S. Lewis
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and mere Christianity, he talks about this so brilliantly. And just to kind of paraphrase
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his points, like he talks about the reality of an objective truth and everyone understands
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objective truth when it comes to like the physical sense. Like if I were to draw you a picture
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of New York city, I'm just based on my drawing abilities, you would be like, well, that's not
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New York city. It's not, it doesn't look anything like New York city, but if an artist drew you a
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picture of New York city, you would say, yes, that is very close to what Manhattan actually
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looks like because there is a real New York city. And some people are closer to what it actually
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looks like. And some people are far away, um, from what it actually looks like. And so you
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were judging the goodness and the rightness of someone's drawing based on the reality of Manhattan
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based on the reality of New York city. And, um, CS Lewis makes this point that truth is the same
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way. Everyone knows it. You can feel it instinctively. You can say that you're a moral
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relativist until someone steals your bike. And then when someone steals your bike, suddenly
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theft is wrong. Someone has wronged you. You know that that action that was against you is far away
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from what objective rightness and goodness is. And so it's a nice theory until you are the victim of
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an injustice. You're the victim of an assault. You're the victim of murder. You're the victim
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of rape. You're the victim of theft. Then suddenly there really is immorality and immorality needs to
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be punished. So we reject cultural relativism. We reject moral relativism. We know that there
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is a real biblical standard of truth. And some people might brush this off as well. We're you're
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not supposed to judge. You just shouldn't judge. No, you shouldn't judge hypocritically. John 7
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24 actually tells us how we should judge. We don't judge by appearances. We judge with right
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judgment. So we are not judging this group by the appearance of what they have, but we are judging
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right from wrong based on what the Bible actually says. And we can look at what the hijab actually
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represents. Um, and we can look at the fact that it goes all the way back to Muhammad,
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Muhammad marrying Aisha when she was only six years old. And then we can also look at the other
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very real issues that come from this idea that little children and little girls somehow hold
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the power of sexuality over men and therefore have to be covered up we can look at what is
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happening with female genital mutilation in places like somalia to little girls just like this
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little girls who are muslim and it's not just happening in africa there's also a problem with
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it happening here in these kinds of communities. And I just think it's interesting that Miss
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Rachel, she is incensed by people pointing out that, huh, it's strange that little girls are
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forced to wear hijabs and we're expected to celebrate it. But I've never seen her talk about
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the very real abusive practices that can happen in these kinds of communities to these little
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girls. Like if you really care about kids, this should be a big one. I haven't seen her bring up
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this practice of female genital mutilation. It's the non-medical removal or alteration of female
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genitals in Minnesota, especially in the Twin Cities. So in St. Paul, where this video was
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taken, this is a problem. This is a problem that the Minnesota Department of Health, state lawmakers
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and several nonprofits are actively trying to address. According to a 2016 analysis by the
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Population Reference Bureau using U.S. Census Bureau data and prevalence estimates, 37,417
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girls and women in the Minneapolis, St. Paul, Bloomington metro area were estimated to be at
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risk of female genital mutilation based on 2013 data. The number includes both those who may have
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already undergone the procedure and those who might be at risk in the future. We don't know
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the precise actual number as the practice is illegal in the United States. It's very secretive.
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It is not systematically reported. There was a big news story about this, um, happening just
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a couple of years ago where it was being reported that these girls would go to a Somalian,
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not even real doctor, but in some cases, maybe a Somalian doctor, but a Somalian
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healer or another woman, um, who is, it's the removal of the clitoris just to be
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very clear. That is what is going on in these little girls. Okay. This is happening around
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the world today in these Islamic communities. This is happening in the United States and these
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Islamic communities as has been reported by these official sources. And I don't see those who claim
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to care about the feelings and the protection of these kids talking about this. This is according
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to an article in pbs from 2017 an investigation by the fbi is now highlighting the extent of
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female genital mutilation in the united states in april the agency opened its first ever federal
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case against two michigan doctors for performing the procedure on dozens of girls over more than
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a decade federal agents announced earlier this month that they are also investigating newly
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identified targets in los angeles chicago new york dr jumana nargawala a 44 year old emergency
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room doctor is charged with performing female genital mutilation on at least eight girls in
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the Barani Medical Clinic, a facility run by Dr. Fakruddin Attar. His wife, Farida, was also
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arrested, accused of holding at least two patients' hands during the procedure to keep them from
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squirming and calm them. A federal prosecutor said in court last month that the three were
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responsible for cutting the genitals of nearly 100 girls over a 12-year period, and the estimate
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is conservative. Okay. This has been happening for several years in these Somalian communities
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and these Muslim communities. So I'm just saying, if you are going to care about the feelings and
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the emotions of these kids, um, you should also maybe care about what they're physically going
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through. But again, if you believe in cultural relativism, then you'll look at a heinous practice
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like this. And it makes you unable to say this is objectively wrong because, well, it's just
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their culture. It's just what they feel is right. We maybe don't understand it. That makes you a bad
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advocate. That makes you a really bad decision maker. You don't have discernment. You don't
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have wisdom. You don't even have true compassion because that is what I mean by toxic empathy.
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it's not that all empathy is toxic it's empathy that blinds you to reality and morality
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um this is something that is very widely practiced in Somalian culture according to the BBC the most
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frequently cited reasons for carrying out FGM acceptance religion misconceptions about hygiene
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a means of preserving a girl or woman's virginity making the woman marriageable enhancing male
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sexual pleasure. They're also sewing up these girls. Um, and so it's even smaller because they
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think that this is better for men. It is just so awful. And it also speaks to how Islam regards
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women as objects. I mean, think about what paradise is in Islam. It is literally a fleet
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of virgins. It's a brothel, like the future for us, for like heaven, for the Christian is that
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we get to be with Jesus. We get to be with our savior. There's no more sin anymore. We could
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spend forever and ever with him and with the body of Christ. And for Islam, it's a brothel.
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Like that's the future. And that is manifested here on earth and how women are treated and also
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how these little girls are treated and how they are regarded. And so I just can't go along with,
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oh, well, you know, it's all just fine. It's the same thing as wearing a cross. No, it actually
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represents something very dark and very dangerous that so many of these little girls are going
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through. So if you're going to speak up, Ms. Rachel, about something, about an injustice
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against Muslim girls, maybe talk about FGM because it's happening on a daily basis around the world
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at the very least, if not in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the very places where these little girls
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Code Alley. Modesty is a biblical virtue, but the Bible places the responsibility for resisting lust
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on the person experiencing it. That is one huge difference, again, between Christianity and
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between something like Islam. The responsibility is not on the object of their desire, the object
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of their lust. We do have a responsibility separately as women to dress with modesty
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and to dress with dignity. Um, we are not supposed to dress in a way that is unbecoming
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of our dignity and honor as women. And there's not a strict rule in the Bible about what exactly
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that looks like. Modesty. When you break that verse down, which we have before really is a
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matter of the posture of the heart. Are you dressing in a way that says lust after me,
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look at me, desire me, or are you dressed in a way that enhances your face and that enhances
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the natural beauty that God has given you? And I can't give you a strict set of rules for what
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that looks like, but I think that all of us can take stock of like what our heart is when we're
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getting dressed in the morning and try to glorify God in the things that we wear. But it does not
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mean being ashamed of being a woman. It does not mean wearing a burlap sack. It does not mean that
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our body is something to be embarrassed about or that our hair is something that has to be
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covered up because if we don't cover up our mouth and our hands and our hair,
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then we are responsible for another person's sin. Matthew 5, 27 through 28, you have heard that it
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was said you should not commit adultery, but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman
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with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. People say,
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oh, Jesus didn't care about the rules or he didn't care about the law. No, no, no.
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he actually cared about the law even more than the pharisees did because they were paying lip
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service to the law he said no no it goes all the way down to the heart if you've even thought in
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this way you've already broken the law first thessalonians 4 3 through 5 for this is the
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will of god your sanctification that you abstain from sexual immorality that each of you know how
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to control his own body and holiness and honor not in the passion of lust like the gentiles
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who do not know god the bible also teaches that the human body created by god possesses an
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inherent value and dignity and should not be unnecessarily harmed or desecrated. And by the
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way, like God created our anatomy. He created it not only for procreation. He also created it for
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within the context of marriage, sexual pleasure. Like that is a gift that has been given to us by
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God. It is not something that needs to be taken away from girls and women to maximize male
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satisfaction, the way that God has already created it naturally maximizes satisfaction for both men
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and women. That is why marriage is beautiful. That is why sex is a gift. First Corinthians 6,
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19 through 20. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy spirit within you,
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whom you have from God, you are not your own for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in
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your body. That is the mentality. When we are getting dressed every morning, we want to glorify
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God with our body, not draw attention to ourselves, not try to be objects of people's desire, not
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again, that that's our responsibility, their sin, but to try to glorify God in our body and
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the things that we wear. Psalm 139, 13 through 14, for you formed my inward parts. You knitted
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me together in my mother's womb. Every single part of us was knitted together in our mother's
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womb. It's not to be desecrated. It's not to be mutilated. I praise you for I am fearfully and
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wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works. My soul knows it very well. Finally, Jesus emphasizes
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the importance of protecting children from harm while scripture instructs parents to nurture and
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care for them rather than exploit them. Matthew 18, six, but whoever causes one of these little
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ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around
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his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. And the interpretation of little ones who
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believes in me. Many have said, essentially, it does mean Christians, but we see elsewhere
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in scripture when Jesus says, let the little children come to me for such as these belong
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the kingdom of heaven, that Jesus was radical and revolutionary at the time in the way that
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he regarded vulnerable children in a culture that really didn't honor them, especially in
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the pagan culture, who really regarded them as subhuman, as we've talked about many times.
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Owen Backey wrote the book, When Children Became People. And he talks about children going from
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being subhuman, being regarded as having no rights, to being regarded as this special class
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of people entitled to our compassion and our special care. And it's all because of Christianity.
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It is still true today. That's why moral relativism doesn't work. When you look throughout history,
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the ab the aberration the exception to child sacrifice to child exploitation to child
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objectification and prostitution all of those exceptions have existed not because of islam
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not because of hinduism not because of paganism but because of christianity everywhere that
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christians have gone throughout history we have said the child sacrifice ends now the child
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objectification ends now. Okay. It's not the same as these other religions. The fruit of Christianity
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has been orphanages, have been the organizations that have advanced the protection of children.
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That's not to say that those who have identified as Christians have not committed atrocities
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against children. Unfortunately, that has been true and that is always sinful and always wrong,
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but the doctrines of Christianity produced the fruit of child protection and still must today.
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All of these religions equal wearing a hijab wearing a cross all the same thing for kindergartners that great
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That's great because there's too much underneath that that we know and we have to say this is right
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This is wrong. This is light. This is darkness. What fellowship does light have with darkness none
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Treat everyone with respect treat everyone with dignity have compassion for every single child
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but having compassion for every single child does not mean accepting every ideology especially those
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that harm them all right i know that was heavy and that was a lot and that was a lot to read
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into a miss rachel post but i just want you to know that satan disguises himself as an angel of
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life that even things that seem casual that seem nice that seem simple that there's something
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underneath there's a worldview beneath statements like that that christians have to be really
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thoughtful in, in analyzing. All right. Now we were going to talk about like two other stories,
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but now we don't have time to do that because I got so into that particular subject. And so
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Okay, Brie, thanks so much for joining us, our Taylor Swift pop culture celebrity liaison.
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on um were you invited to taylor swift's wedding that's yes that's my first question were you
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invited i signed an ironclad nda i can't say anything about it okay okay so all of this
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we'll just have to pretend is hypothetical we don't know she could have been there she may not
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have been there but in order to honor your nda you'll at least have to just pretend like you
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don't really know what went on i'm speculating yeah okay so hypothetically let's look at this
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invitation um we've got the t and t together in the intertwined hearts you're invited july 3rd
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2026 manhattan love taylor and travis one night only early evening black tie apparently this is
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the invitation that was leaked. Do you think it is the real invitation? And what do you think about
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it? I think it is. There were rumors before the wedding that all of the invitations would be
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watermarked with the guest name. And you can see this one is watermarked with the guest name
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so that you would know if they leaked them. And that is the little logo that's been on
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everything that's been leaked. So I think it's real. And she's probably not thrilled that it
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was leaked. Okay. Ashish Ferguson decided, I'm just going to risk it all. And I don't really
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care because people are going to want to see this. And maybe he got paid some money by some
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outlet to leak this. Are there any Easter eggs in this invitation that you noticed?
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um people speculated that it was like painted by her it matches like the painting in I forget what
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it is off the top of my head but some other thing that she made like a poem or something she
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published um but other than that I don't I don't know if there's anything any easter eggs why do
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they care if their invitation gets out so yeah well to back up i think the biggest drama surrounding
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the wedding in general was it being at madison square garden that was speculated weeks before
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the wedding and it caused a lot of drama because people said that's tacky i am on record saying
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i know taylor swift and taylor swift would never have her wedding at madison square garden
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why would she want to be right in the middle of Manhattan to get married
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I think now looking back, I still think it's an odd choice,
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but I kind of see the desire for control over privacy.
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I don't think she wanted it to be a secret, clearly.
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And when you're in a place like that with high security, it can be private.
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I think she wanted to release some of these things on her own terms.
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We still don't have pictures of her in her wedding dress or what it actually looked like
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I think she wanted to be the one to release that in her own time.
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So she probably just, one, didn't want these invitations leaked because she didn't want
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people to show up and know in advance that that was happening for sure.
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But two, I think just all the details were under wraps for privacy.
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Where would you have predicted that she would have had her wedding?
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I would have thought she, I mean, she has all the money in the world, right?
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I would have thought that she would have like rented a private island or something,
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you know, somewhere completely off the grid.
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um i i feel like when you have enough money you could make anything you could find somewhere
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private but i guess that wasn't the goal here i guess the goal wasn't to go get married on an
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island i also i know we haven't gotten here yet but as soon as she did get married madison square
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garden showed like an image on this on the outside screens that said just married said just tnt
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she married, um, which maybe she could have workshopped a little bit, but, um, but yeah,
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that's what showed right after they got married apparently. And, um, and I saw a lot of people
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who are Taylor Swift fans saying that that was for us, which I think is a little parasocial,
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but to be honest, maybe it was, maybe she just really wanted people to know as soon as it
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happened. Cause obviously, you know, Taylor Swift fans weren't invited. So, um, I think it was kind
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of a fun thing for people who love her. And, um, and I think that was always her plan was for people
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to know when it happened. So that sign that we just put up the just TNT married, it's just like
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black text with a white background. It's giving Dwight, it is your birthday period, which is kind
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of surprising. Yeah. She probably, she's a writer. She probably could have thought of something a
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little a little flashier but yeah whatever no one expected anything not bad not bad but
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that's true okay so we have these pictures that are leaked allegedly by daily mail the first one
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is full screen seven and i want you to tell us like what you think exactly is going on so this
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is inside madison square garden i've never been to madison square garden so i don't really know
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what it typically looks like i mean i'm sure i've seen pictures and videos of concerts and things
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like that i know it's a huge concert venue um it looks like a created world that you would see at
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like disney world or like on broadway or something like that it looks like they have
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fashioned some kind of fake castle they've covered all of the chairs in beige there are a bunch of
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curtains everywhere. They've got some kind of greenery. And then you've got the very well-dressed
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attendees, guests filing in this like giant door. This also, Brie, is a surprising aesthetic for me
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when it comes to her wedding. It's almost like a concert, you know, like something that she would
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do at one of her performances. What did you think about it? Yeah, it's hard to say without seeing
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the details but I mean I think her goal she said since she got engaged that she wanted to have a
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big wedding supposedly there were a thousand people there um approximately um so one I'm like
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well that automatically you can fit those people in there I don't know if it looked tacky or not
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I can't really tell from that picture but I feel like it is kind of on brand from what I'm seeing
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Like, her building herself, like, a little garden castle to get married in, that's, like, very Taylor Swift to me.
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I think there was some leaked descriptions of it from someone who attended, just, like, a written description of it that was, like, they built a whole garden and kind of, like, describing the experience for guests.
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Another thing is, when you have enough money, you can transform any venue into anything you want.
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So I think people were envisioning like, oh, she's getting married on a basketball court at Madison Square Garden.
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But she could have made it look like anything in there and apparently did.
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And when pictures come out, I think it will be – I think it will look a lot nicer than that leaked photo too.
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Just seeing her heiress tour, I'm like she has capacity to design something really cool.
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I say this as someone who doesn't know anything about Taylor Swift. And like you said, I'm sure
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it is going to look very beautiful and very cool when we see the professional photos and all of
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that. And I'm sure absolutely none of it was cheaply or thoughtlessly done, but definitely
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I would have been picturing something like remote somewhere in the world that maybe like no one even
00:46:13.780
knew. I think I would have pictured it more intimate. I don't know why. Again, I'm not
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someone who like knows her personality, but also like we don't know, and this would be a question
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just for what you think, but how much Travis contributed his thoughts. Like, do you think
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any part of this is his personality? Did he want to go big? Like, do you think that he had opinions
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that were weighed at all? Or do you think that this was Taylor Swift's moment and her thing?
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And she basically drove all of these decisions. She's probably thought about this her entire life.
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so I'm sure she drove most of these decisions um he is now I know that I now that I know who he is
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I know that he I mean his whole personality is like go big so I'm sure he was totally on board
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with inviting a thousand people and making it as big of a spectacle as possible um I'm sure he
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didn't shy away from that at all outside of that I don't know that he had any I don't know that he
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cared but i don't know that he had any say in any of this this seems to be all her
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now they did get the marriage was a or the wedding was officiated by um adam sandler which again odd
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choice um pretty sure that was his decision if i had to guess i feel like she gave him something
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and he was like okay that's it so that's my guess okay so this is another thing and i had texted you
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about this adam sandler i don't know if he is actually religiously jewish probably like secular
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in most ways but whatever he's not a christian and i think that taylor swift at least nominally
00:48:00.540
has called herself a christian i assume that the kelseys were probably raised like in a christian
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home i have no idea if travis identifies as that but i thought that that like choosing adam sandler
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as the officiant was a signifier that, okay, there's probably no faith aspects or Christian
00:48:19.760
faith aspects interwoven in the ceremony at all, which I just think is interesting because typically
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when you have people, even if they are kind of secular, but they say that they're Christian,
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the wedding is the time that they would have Christian elements, that they would have a
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Christian officiant, that you would have someone that would pray to Jesus, that would like read
00:48:37.940
a bible verse but to me choosing adam sandler who seems like a super funny guy and probably did a
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great job of officiating then like it was probably hilarious and fun and all of that stuff like that's
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just a symbol to me of this was probably a completely secular ceremony what do you think
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about that yeah no it absolutely was but i mean those of us who have followed her for a while
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have known like she's not a christian she's always been maybe maybe nominally christian at best and
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that's only from a couple comments she's made politically like um from her documentary when she
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um was upset that some politician was doing something and she was like i'm a christian
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i don't and she's from tennessee and pennsylvania um and so those are just things that they say
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you know she's never said anything to indicate that she actually is a believer and i don't think
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she cares too so i don't i don't think either of them were interested in putting on appearances
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in that regard and probably almost every guest who was there would have thought that that was
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weird anyway so you know yeah i'm i'm assuming it was completely secular and yeah adam sandler
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is jewish so i don't think he would have done a christian wedding anyway so yeah yeah do you
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think that they played welcome to new york as people were entering i don't i don't know but i
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do know that she walked down the well okay this is a legend she walked down the aisle to love story
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so i thought that was kind of funny also there i know also she handed out that's like
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it's i mean again it's very taylor swift i feel like she quotes herself a lot it's very cringy
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i have to admit um she also handed out like favors i think they were like handkerchiefs that
00:50:33.740
had her lyrics on them i forget the lyric off the top of my head yes we have a picture of that
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so it's gonna be forever yeah okay also interesting obviously taylor swift knows
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her lyrics better than I do but the second half of that sentence so it's gonna be forever or it's
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gonna go down in flames not great to put the ellipses after that like okay interesting choice
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of all the lyrics she could have chosen yeah I don't know that I would have picked that one but
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of all I know and assuming everyone knows that too right if I know it then everyone else knows
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too um i do like the handkerchief i think that's really pretty um and then we have someone who was
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apparently an attendee who wrote this long thing on x about it but he deleted it which i'm like
00:51:34.340
did you not read that part of the nda that you weren't supposed to be describing what happened
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so just a little bit i won't read the entire thing because it's long but he says it did not
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look like madison square garden immediately upon entry everything floors walls ceilings
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was draped in peach and white large blown up pictures of taylor and travis at each age year
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by year from one year old to late teenagerhood were on display somehow magically someone created
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an outdoor garden at a lush countryside retreat everything draped off this time in green and white
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real flowers and i think artificial trees i think artificial trees welcomed 15 rows of maybe 75 or
00:52:14.100
no chairs they say there were around 1000 attendees but surprisingly it all felt intimate and small
00:52:19.920
yeah it seems like inside that little castle thing i guess maybe friends and family were all kind of
00:52:26.340
sitting there in those 75 seats and then the seats around the venue were also occupied by people
00:52:33.920
right then the party an even larger stage set of a secret garden that was just exquisite with five
00:52:40.840
story tall lit tree superb food and drink i bet the food and drink was amazing that's what i'm
00:52:45.580
most interested about i want to know what food and drink was served an a-list audience uh music
00:52:52.700
music music um and then we also have this statement after the wedding from taylor's
00:52:58.880
publicist the bride and groom's wedding ceremony uh looks have been created by christian dior
00:53:04.840
hot couture they are designed by Jonathan Anderson creative director of Dior women's
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men's and hot couture uh collections in close collaboration with the bride and groom
00:53:17.440
Cartier jewelry I can't wait to see all of that I know yeah they okay tell me your prediction for
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her dress oh I don't know here's the thing I've always loved almost everything she's worn I just
00:53:34.800
really love her style. Whoever her stylist is, I love. So I anticipate it being pretty elaborate
00:53:42.960
and pretty clitzy. I don't think she would have ever gone with the simple route. But again,
00:53:48.500
I'm like questioning everything because I also said she'd never get married at Madison Square
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Garden. So who am I to say? Who am I to say? I don't know. She also didn't have bridesmaids,
00:53:57.940
which surprised me. And, um, I like, I really, I really thought that she would have. So there's a
00:54:05.060
lot that is different than when I had her brother, right? Her brother was like her best man kind of
00:54:11.720
yeah. Her like man of honor. And then Jason Kelsey was Travis's best man. And it was just the two of
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celebrities who were snubbed and did not get an invitation there are rumors that blake lively
00:55:50.220
was not invited um i don't know if that's true or not i know she wasn't at the rehearsal dinner
00:55:55.660
because she was photographed elsewhere um and that was surprising for people because they
00:56:01.960
historically have been really close friends but all the justin baldoni stuff maybe caused a rift
00:56:07.920
I don't know. Um, and I think that there were some other notable ones too, who are like married to
00:56:14.700
her friends who weren't there, but I think that says more about the marriages than it does her
00:56:19.580
being friends with them. So I don't know. I'm sure, I'm sure someone had to get cut out of a
00:56:25.360
thousand, right? She knows a lot of people. Um, but I think Blake Lively was the most dramatic
00:56:30.740
one probably. Yeah. Interesting. I wonder why they would have had a falling out after the
00:56:37.520
Justin Baldoni think because somehow Taylor Swift got looped into that drama yeah her texts got
00:56:45.020
well leaked is the wrong word they got released um and uh and so I'm sure she wasn't thrilled
00:56:51.200
about that but I don't know that that's Blake's fault maybe it is probably not for starting at
00:56:56.720
all yikes I don't know I don't know um okay at a press conference uh Zoran Mamdani said that
00:57:04.820
Taylor has paid New York city back for over $160,000 in police overtime. Okay. That's great.
00:57:12.800
Travis and Taylor donate $26 million to charities before the wedding. Among the recipients are
00:57:18.980
several food banks in New York, Los Angeles, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Missouri. Um, I think
00:57:23.440
that's interesting. I wonder why they decided that they were going to make those huge donations
00:57:28.780
right before the wedding. If it was correlated at all with the wedding, the space that they were
00:57:33.100
using, the resources they were using, or if that's just something that they decided to do
00:57:36.980
before they got married? So all of those locations are places that they have, well,
00:57:42.580
that Taylor has a house, she has many houses. And then Missouri is where Travis plays. And so I
00:57:48.620
think they selected places where they've lived or know to donate to. And I'm pretty sure there
00:57:54.920
hasn't been an official statement, but I'm pretty sure that 26 million was kind of like their
00:58:00.540
making a wedding gift, essentially, to these places. I thought it was a really sweet gesture.
00:58:08.000
I thought it was nice that they didn't donate to anything absolutely insane. I'm sure some of
00:58:12.980
these organizations don't do much and are actually kind of corrupt, I'm sure. But I also heard that
00:58:20.020
some of them, some of the smaller ones that they donated to, were given such a huge amount that
00:58:25.660
they were able to... Now they're changing the whole structure of how they operate because of
00:58:29.940
how much money they gave which i think is just really cool so um yeah yeah a lot of like cancer
00:58:35.580
programs and children's hospitals and stuff like that so i thought it was a nice gesture and yeah
00:58:41.920
maybe it was for appearances but still you know it's nice it's nice okay brie what else do we
00:58:50.640
need to know what else do we need to know about taylor swift and this whole era and everything
00:58:55.860
that's happening right now she's gone pretty quiet to be honest i don't know what she's cooking up
00:59:03.860
but um she had that toy story five song and that's yeah yeah and that's what we're hoping for
00:59:12.020
is a taylor travis baby she has a whole song about wanting a bunch of kids with him so i say it's
00:59:19.200
time and i think it'll be nice it'll be a nice change of pace that they're getting married
00:59:23.420
and then after that they're having kids it just is like for someone like her it feels traditional
00:59:29.780
and I think that that's kind of nice so hopefully this year we'll see yeah yeah yes we shall see
00:59:39.580
um all right anything else going on I know that you've been following the world cup
00:59:44.800
closely because I've been following your stories and your stories are really my only connection
00:59:50.520
to the World Cup. So that shows you how loose my connection is, because I don't know that you are
00:59:56.380
a tried and true soccer fan either. No, I was not interested at all when the World Cup started. And
01:00:03.560
then the team USA started winning games. And then I got more excited and into it every time they
01:00:10.440
won a game. But they lost. They lost to Belgium, I think. So my interest immediately went back down
01:00:18.640
to zero um i'm pretty sure france is in there i really now i'm like i'm not invested anymore
01:00:27.740
because america lost so that's where we're at yeah okay that's where we're at that's good to
01:00:34.140
know i don't think i even knew that america was no longer in the world cup so thank you for that
01:00:40.420
update also our sports correspondent um yes okay brie are you going to be at share the arrows this
01:00:46.840
year yeah i'm planning on it okay good just making sure that everyone's prepared share the arrows
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october 10th you heard it here brie is going to be here yep there we go we got the graphic and
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everything share the arrows.com and brie you have you have some important travel coming up
01:01:06.480
and so everyone pray for brie pray for safety and effectiveness with everything that she's doing
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that the organization that she works with is doing.
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Brie, thank you so much for lending your insight today.
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I know we had a wide range of things today on Relatable.
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We will be talking to a criminal defense attorney
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and what it actually means, what we can expect in the future.