Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 212

00:00:00.260 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. Today we are going

00:00:06.420 to talk about a few different things. We're going to talk about the Oscars and a particular

00:00:11.340 part of a particular speech that I took issue with and I will tell you why. We are also

00:00:17.560 going to talk about the New Way Forward Act, an act or a bill that is in the House of Representatives

00:00:23.680 that is being sponsored by several Democrats and I'll talk about what that is and my take

00:00:28.880 on it. And then I'm going to give a little bit of clarification or maybe just expound

00:00:34.740 on a subject that we talked about on Monday in my interview with Doreen Virtue. If you

00:00:41.120 have not listened to that interview yet, you have to. The response to that interview has

00:00:47.380 been absolutely amazing. As I've said, it is probably the most important interview that

00:00:52.300 I've conducted. It was mind-blowing for me and I know it was for a lot of you as well.

00:00:56.420 So if you haven't listened to it, you need to go listen to it. But I am going to make

00:01:01.020 a point about yoga at the end of this episode that a lot of you guys asked me to clarify.

00:01:10.020 But we'll start with the Oscars and then we'll get to that later. All right, let's get into

00:01:14.820 today's episode. So the Oscars happened on Sunday. If you're like me, you didn't know they

00:01:19.220 were happening until they were actually happening. And then you were like, do I really want to

00:01:24.400 subject myself to this misery for however many hours it is? Now, I did know the Oscars were

00:01:31.500 coming up at some point, but by the time they were happening, I had completely forgotten about

00:01:36.800 it and I kept it that way. I didn't actually sit down and watch the Oscars. Now, I used to like

00:01:41.020 award shows. I used to think it was really exciting to sit around and see who won, if I had seen any of

00:01:46.140 the movies. But one, I don't really watch movies anymore. And so it's not relevant to me. And two,

00:01:50.900 it's become so political, as we've discussed so much over the past few years, that it's just

00:01:55.640 it's painful. It's very it's very painful to watch. The only redeeming thing that has happened

00:02:01.340 at an award show in recent history is Ricky Gervais hosting and calling out and calling out

00:02:09.040 celebrities for their hypocrisy. And that's kind of what we're going to do today. So Joaquin Phoenix,

00:02:14.360 he won an Oscar for his performance as the Joker. That was yet another movie I did not see.

00:02:20.040 Now, Joaquin Phoenix is a very good actor. I am a fan of some of his movies. So he is very talented.

00:02:27.460 I am sure even though I didn't see his movie, I'm sure that this award was well deserved. But his

00:02:34.420 speech, his acceptance speech, this is why his acceptance speech is exactly why we cannot tell

00:02:43.160 the difference between satire and reality anymore. Because it was so laughable, so extreme that we're

00:02:51.060 just all sitting there scratching our heads saying, huh, so this this is what you practiced. Like this

00:02:56.200 is what you this is what you wrote out. So I'm going to play you at 30 seconds of that right now.

00:03:01.080 But for me, I see commonality. I think whether we're talking about gender inequality or racism

00:03:10.300 or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights, we're talking about the fight against

00:03:16.800 injustice. We're talking about the fight against the belief that one nation, one people, one race,

00:03:22.760 one gender or one species has the right to dominate, control and use and exploit another with impunity.

00:03:30.100 So he goes on to say this is this is my favorite. This is my favorite part of his speech. I think

00:03:36.540 that we've become very disconnected from the natural world. And many of us, what we're guilty of is an

00:03:41.620 egocentric worldview, the belief that we are the center of the universe. Now, Joaquin Phoenix,

00:03:46.380 I would completely disagree with that. But or I mean, I would completely agree with that. What I

00:03:51.620 disagree with or what I think is odd is how you explain that in the next sentence. We go into the

00:03:57.120 natural world and we plunder it for its resources. We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow.

00:04:03.220 And when she gives birth, we steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable.

00:04:09.260 Then we take her milk that's intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal.

00:04:14.660 Oh, wow. So he is speaking out against dairy and dairy farming. Now, should we have compassion for

00:04:23.580 animals? Should we have compassion for cows? Should we try as best we can to have a system for dairy

00:04:30.360 farming that is compassionate? Yes, I absolutely think we should. But if you are going to use your

00:04:35.640 Oscars acceptance speech to speak out against people using cow milk and their cereal, there's

00:04:42.000 probably a pretty good chance that you're a little out of touch with what's happening in the rest of

00:04:47.000 the country. Now, if I were to guess, I would assume that Joaquin Phoenix is probably pro-abortion

00:04:53.140 because 99.9% of Hollywood is pro-abortion. He's probably also pro-socialism. Actually,

00:05:00.420 in his little diatribe, he seems like he's a straight up communist. Most of the people who talk

00:05:06.020 about the dangers of speciesism, that's something that he talked about and sound the alarms about

00:05:11.520 climate change or dairy farming are pro-abortion. Now, I don't know about Joaquin Phoenix. Maybe he's

00:05:17.340 a closet pro-lifer and that would be great to be able to have that common ground if we could discuss

00:05:21.740 his misunderstandings about dairy farming. But the question is, outside of even Joaquin Phoenix,

00:05:29.160 all of the people who agree with this speech, I mean, you saw the applause, people saying,

00:05:33.960 yes, Joaquin Phoenix, you are so stunning and brave for using your platform to talk about

00:05:39.380 artificially inseminating dairy cows. All of these people who are anti-dairy, who are vegan,

00:05:48.160 are also pro-abortion. The question is, why? So why are the people who sound the alarms on climate change

00:05:54.600 and are extremists on climate change and fight for animal rights and militant veganism, why are they

00:06:00.540 also pro-abortion? Why are socialists and communists, all who claim to care about the

00:06:06.160 most vulnerable among us, why are they pro-abortion? And the reason really isn't complicated. The reason

00:06:13.060 is nothing other than human depravity, the depravity and the corruption of their minds.

00:06:19.100 Their minds are blind. Their minds and priorities are backwards. They are exactly backwards. Everything,

00:06:25.320 virtually everything, maybe there's an issue I can't think about, virtually everything people on the

00:06:29.180 left think is backwards from reality. It's just not true. It has no correspondence whatsoever with

00:06:35.780 truth. How do I know? Because in this particular scenario, you cannot claim to be a voice for the

00:06:41.440 voiceless, as Joaquin Phoenix said, that was a phrase he used, and before abortion, you cannot claim

00:06:46.820 to care about human flourishing and be a socialist or a communist. Socialism and communism are incongruent

00:06:51.940 with human flourishing. The only way to hold these beliefs is so many of these celebrities do,

00:06:57.760 the contradicting beliefs that they are for the rights of the weak and the vulnerable,

00:07:01.960 yet are for things like abortion and socialism, is if your entire mind is corrupted. As 2 Corinthians

00:07:09.940 4 says, the God of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers to keep them from seeing the

00:07:14.160 light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. Now, if you are blinded from

00:07:18.060 seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, you are also blinded to the source of truth,

00:07:22.900 and your ideas are going to be backwards. Now, that's not to say that people who are atheist or

00:07:27.760 agnostic can't be right about anything, but if your ideology is godless, you are going to get most

00:07:33.920 things wrong. And if you get anything right, it is only by the common grace of God. That is why the

00:07:39.580 people in Hollywood who are militant vegans, who care so much about animal rights, who say that they

00:07:44.760 care for the weak and the vulnerable and the least of these, that's how they can be pro-big

00:07:50.500 government. That's how they can be pro-socialism, pro-communism, pro-abortion, and abide in that

00:07:58.340 tension and that hypocrisy, because their minds are corrupted and backwards, or they're just very

00:08:04.940 misinformed. Now, there are people who are just ignorant. They hear messages. They hear, oh, socialism

00:08:09.560 is compassionate. Abortion is compassionate. The baby inside the womb just isn't really a human, and so

00:08:14.520 maybe they're just darkened in their understanding, and maybe they just need to be educated, and that is

00:08:19.500 totally possible. But for you to be able to abide in that tension and that hypocrisy and see nothing

00:08:25.800 wrong with it, what George Orwell would call double think, you have to, something has to be darkening

00:08:33.100 your mind. Something has to be corrupting your mind, and that is what we all are, of course, apart from

00:08:37.300 Christ, is that our minds are totally depraved. Now, like I was saying earlier, should we be compassionate

00:08:44.280 towards animals? Yes, the Bible says we should be compassionate towards animals. Proverbs talks

00:08:48.520 about if you're a righteous person, you should care even for the life of your beast. But what we see

00:08:55.220 out of these climate change extremists is animal worship, is pantheism, believing that there is some

00:09:04.160 kind of divinity in all created things, and it's an exact reflection of Romans 1, which says that the

00:09:10.220 corrupted will elevate the creature to the place of the creator. And these are the same people who are

00:09:16.180 standing up there and saying, look, I am so stunning, I am so brave, I am so courageous that I am going to

00:09:21.180 wag my finger at you about drinking dairy milk or putting cow's milk in your cereal. These are the

00:09:28.380 people who believe that they have the moral superiority necessary to be able to tell us what to do.

00:09:33.500 And the reason why Ricky Gervais, for example, having a speech that went viral, the reason why

00:09:40.040 it was so popular among people who are conservatives, even knowing that Ricky Gervais is an atheist and is

00:09:45.960 not a conservative at all, is because he said the things that we are thinking, that we don't hate these

00:09:51.300 people, we don't hate their work, we don't discount their talent, but we just don't think that they have

00:09:55.640 the platform, that they have the right to self-righteously tell us what is right or wrong, especially when it

00:10:01.140 comes to things like dairy farming. I mean, it just makes us laugh. And Ricky Gervais also said

00:10:07.200 this on Twitter the night of the Oscars. He said it tends to have the opposite effect, that people who

00:10:11.820 are so privileged, who are so rich, who are so insulated, who are so hypocritical, what they say

00:10:17.500 is so diametrically opposed to what they actually do, it tends to have the opposite effect of what they

00:10:23.840 actually intend. So they want to change people's mind. They want to guilt people into living the way or

00:10:29.640 thinking the way that they think, voting the same way that they vote. And the people in the middle

00:10:34.320 of the country who are looking at them, absolutely steeped in privilege, telling them that if you

00:10:38.160 don't have oat milk or almond milk for breakfast, then you're a terrible person. It just makes us

00:10:43.500 laugh and it makes us realize how out of touch they are. And it makes us want to do the exact opposite of

00:10:50.220 what they are encouraging us to do because we look at their lives, okay? And so we see them talking

00:10:55.540 about, you know, we just need to open the border. So we just need liberal immigration policy and what

00:10:59.900 Donald Trump is doing at the border is so bad. I can't believe we're sending people back who are

00:11:04.560 coming here and claiming asylum, which is not exactly what's happening by the way. And we see,

00:11:09.940 okay, they're in there, not just their gated communities, but also when they're gated homes,

00:11:13.780 we see them talking about the evils of gun ownership and we see that they are secured by armed guards.

00:11:20.580 We see them talking about the environment and then they're flying private jets. And so we look

00:11:26.880 at the duplicitousness of their lives and we say, yeah, they're probably not people that I'm going

00:11:32.840 to follow. Like this is probably not going to be the moral arbiter in my life. I mean, if you look

00:11:38.480 at how celebrity influence has actually swayed votes, it doesn't really have that great of a track

00:11:43.860 record. I'm not saying it's never been effective, but especially in recent history, like Taylor Swift,

00:11:48.440 we talked about last week coming out in support of Marsha Blackburn's opponent for the Senate race

00:11:53.900 in Tennessee, that obviously didn't work. Marsha Blackburn is in the Senate. Beto O'Rourke had all

00:11:59.900 the celebrity support in the world. I mean, he had Beyonce coming out from one of the most influential

00:12:04.900 artists in the world saying, oh, everyone should vote for Beto O'Rourke. Obviously Donald Trump didn't

00:12:10.480 have celebrity support, but Hillary Clinton did. And that didn't work out for any of those people.

00:12:14.960 I don't know if this has changed over time, if we've become just even more disenchanted

00:12:20.380 with celebrities and we just disregard what they say even more than we used to. But I think it's

00:12:28.940 being able to see their outright hypocrisy that what they say in an Oscar speech about caring so much

00:12:34.740 about a dairy cow and what they actually do in their lives is so different and so outside of the

00:12:42.840 realm of what any of us think about on a day to day basis that it's just very unlikely that they

00:12:49.000 are going to be able to change anyone's mind. And so I just wanted to I just wanted to point that out

00:12:56.520 in case you had forgotten that Hollywood is who they are, that they are individually and personally

00:13:02.740 for the most part extremely immoral. Like they have made decisions in their own personal lives that

00:13:08.860 most of that make most of us blush. And yet they get all dressed up on a Sunday night and they stand

00:13:14.280 there and they tell us that we are not righteous unless they believe the things, unless we believe

00:13:19.280 the things they believe. There was another woman who quoted Karl Marx. She said, workers of the world

00:13:25.500 unite. Karl Marx, of course, as you know, wrote the Communist Manifesto. He is someone that people like

00:13:31.440 Michael Moore and a lot of people, unfortunately, in this country really admire. But wherever Marxist

00:13:38.980 Marxist ideas have been implemented, people have suffered, people have died, governments have failed,

00:13:44.400 corruption has flourished. And we have people going up there and quoting Karl Marx and quoting the

00:13:52.140 Communist Manifesto as if capitalism hasn't served them so extremely well. Like, why do you think we have

00:13:58.580 these award shows in the United States? Why do you think the majority of the entertainment comes out

00:14:02.160 of the United States? Like, was there one celebrity? I think there may have been one. But are there

00:14:08.660 multiple celebrities? Could we find two celebrities that would go up on stage at the Oscars and say,

00:14:14.680 wow, I am so thankful to live in this country. Like, I am so thankful for the privilege of being able to

00:14:20.540 live and work in the United States, this country that has afforded me more opportunities than I

00:14:24.680 ever could have imagined? Are there celebrities who would say, you know, I never thought that I

00:14:29.760 would be able to accomplish my dreams because I was born into poverty. But look what I've been able

00:14:33.560 to do. And wow, thank God that I live in the United States of America, where people, millions of people

00:14:38.980 are dying to come here, would die to come here. Millions of people risked their lives to come here.

00:14:44.920 The country that has allowed more human flourishing and more economic prosperity and more liberty,

00:14:51.620 not just in the United States, but throughout the world. Is there one actor that would go up there

00:14:56.920 and acknowledge that they are beneficiaries of American greatness? Like, is there one of them

00:15:02.820 that would go up and say that? Or is it just cool to hate on the country that has afforded you with so

00:15:08.400 much of what you have? I mean, the kind of privilege and wealth and luxury and opportunities that most

00:15:14.840 people in the world can't even fathom. Like, does Joaquin Phoenix realize that the majority of the world,

00:15:20.240 I will say the majority, a huge number of the world, probably the majority, doesn't know what

00:15:27.280 almond milk is? Like, doesn't know any kind of milk that doesn't come from animals, that they eat what

00:15:34.200 they can eat just to be able to survive, that they don't have the luxury of being vegan? Like,

00:15:40.620 does he realize what a privilege it is to be able to go out there and say, you know, oat milk is the

00:15:46.700 only way? That is an extreme privilege that, again, just shows how out of touch with the rest of the

00:15:51.840 world they are. And if they really, really cared, like if they really cared about the least of these,

00:15:57.680 if they really cared about the poor, if they really cared about the things that they said that they

00:16:01.840 care about. So he talked about inequality and injustice, economic inequality. Well, there is

00:16:07.500 nothing stopping him from giving all of his money either to the government, if he thinks that's

00:16:12.640 where it should go to redistribute or redistributing his money, how he sees fit to the people that are

00:16:17.940 living in L.A. There are, L.A. has the highest number of homeless people out of any city, I believe,

00:16:26.140 in the entire country. So L.A., where all of these people are sitting with their millions and millions

00:16:31.820 of dollars, has the largest income gap, but not, I won't say in the world, but definitely in the

00:16:37.820 country. Nothing is stopping any of these people from allowing the homeless to live in their homes,

00:16:44.000 to give up all their money to the poor so that people can be on an even playing field. But they're

00:16:49.380 not doing that. They're lecturing you, the person who makes $50,000 a year, that you should be willing

00:16:54.480 to do that, that you making, you know, just enough to get by, to provide for you and the rest of your

00:17:00.900 family, that you should be willing to give up the majority of your income to the government so they

00:17:05.540 can redistribute it. You should be okay with being coerced that way. You should be okay, the

00:17:10.660 person who lives in rural Missouri, giving up your guns. Like, you should be okay with letting

00:17:16.280 illegal immigrants in and to take the resources that you need for your family. Like, you should

00:17:21.940 be okay with that when all of these millionaires that are sitting in Hollywood would never do any

00:17:26.500 of these things voluntarily and they're not going to give up their insulation. Like, you should be

00:17:30.680 willing to give up your healthcare. It's just great. It's great, isn't it? But at least you and

00:17:37.600 me, at least we can sit here. At least it gives me content. At least it gives me things to talk about

00:17:42.100 and you and me can laugh about just how painfully out of touch they are and how likely President

00:17:48.200 Trump is to win the election in November. Okay. Let us shift towards the New Way Forward Act. So a lot

00:17:57.040 of you guys asked me to talk about this. The reason why this particular act in the house that has not

00:18:02.820 been in the mainstream media at all, the reason why it's getting attention right now, and I'm guessing

00:18:06.940 why a lot of you guys asked me to talk about it, is because Tucker Carlson did an awesome monologue

00:18:11.700 on Fox. I really encourage people to go listen to it. He did a great job very simply breaking it down.

00:18:19.740 You can just Google it. The video will come up. There's also an article that was adapted from it.

00:18:24.440 But what I would like you to do even more than that is to go read the bill for yourself. So

00:18:29.260 it's HR 5383. Sorry. It's HR 5383. You can look it up online. You can type that in. You can just

00:18:41.300 Google it and say HR 5383, or you can say the New Way Forward Act, and it'll come up and you will be

00:18:47.440 able to read it on congress.gov. So I encourage you to do that. I'm just going to give you an overview,

00:18:53.360 a general overview on what this act does so you can be aware. I will probably do an entire episode

00:18:58.920 on it in the same way that I did an entire episode on the Equality Act. If you haven't listened to

00:19:03.800 that episode, go back and listen to the Equality Act because what you'll hear is people like Taylor

00:19:08.620 Swift saying at the, I don't remember where she said this, MTV Awards, something like this. I think

00:19:14.840 it was last year. She was saying that the Equality Act has to pass because it's basically just human

00:19:20.800 rights for LGBT people. Well, that's of course not why it is such a controversial bill. So go back,

00:19:26.740 listen to my episode titled The Equality Act, or you can watch it on YouTube. And I will probably

00:19:31.460 do a similar episode breaking down in detail the New Way Forward Act. But today I just want to give

00:19:36.520 you an overview to give you an awareness of what it is. And I am not exaggerating anything I say.

00:19:42.240 Everything I say should be checked. I encourage you to check it for yourself in the bill.

00:19:46.820 So, so this is by, so I read it myself, obviously, Representative Garcia from Illinois. It is co-sponsored

00:19:55.000 by other Democrats, including every member of the squad. So AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar,

00:20:00.540 Ayanna Pressley. The goal of this legislation is this, make it easier for illegal immigrants to come

00:20:08.220 into the country and to stay here illegally. That's it. And they wouldn't even call it illegal

00:20:12.460 immigrants. They call them, they do call them aliens in this bill. And so that's the language

00:20:16.260 that I'm going to use. So the goal is to make it easier for anyone in the world to come into the

00:20:20.720 country, no matter how they want to come in and to stay here illegally. The underlying thought is

00:20:26.580 that residing here as a non-resident or as a non-citizen isn't in and of itself enough to be

00:20:33.500 considered a criminal. And in fact, grants you, if you read the bill, more immunity than you would

00:20:38.840 have if you were a citizen. So for example, this is what the bill says. If you are an illegal,

00:20:45.100 undocumented, whatever you want to say, undocumented alien who is gay, who is lesbian,

00:20:50.200 who is transgender, bisexual, or intersex, this is spelled out in the bill, it is almost impossible

00:20:56.020 for you to be able to be detained by authorities. The government has to prove that it would be really,

00:21:01.900 really bad, a really bad idea for you to be undetained. Whereas the threshold, if you're just a

00:21:07.680 plain old, straight, cisgender illegal alien is much lower. Same is true if you are under 21.

00:21:14.680 This bill considers an illegal alien who is 20 years old, vulnerable. So under the age of 21,

00:21:21.060 quote, vulnerable is the language they use and virtually protected from detainment. Just a

00:21:25.740 reminder, just a reminder in this that most gang members, specifically members of MS-13,

00:21:31.280 the gang that rapes, tortures, and brutally murders young girls, typically in immigrant communities,

00:21:36.340 are under 21 years old. So in this bill, if you are an 18-year-old member of MS-13,

00:21:43.140 you are here, you are undocumented, you are illegal, you are still considered a vulnerable

00:21:48.600 person. And authorities would have to prove that that person is a direct threat to the public to

00:21:54.040 keep them from being detained. And you might be thinking, okay, well, that wouldn't be that hard.

00:21:57.560 Obviously, they're a part of MS-13. It wouldn't be that hard for authorities to prove this person

00:22:01.900 needs to be detained, but not necessarily. Listen to this line. This is straight from the bill. I'm

00:22:07.160 quoting, the fact that an alien has a prior conviction or a criminal charge pending against

00:22:12.980 the alien may not be the sole factor to justify the continued detention of the alien. And that's not

00:22:20.360 just for the, quote, vulnerable illegal aliens. That is for all illegal immigrants. So if you are here

00:22:27.040 illegally and you have any conviction against you, I don't see any specifications, so any conviction

00:22:32.320 against you. So rape, child molestation, sexual assault, whatever it may be, this bill says that

00:22:38.640 that isn't a good enough reason for authorities to detain you. Not that reason alone. For who this bill

00:22:45.700 qualifies as vulnerable legal aliens, it is even harder to detain them, like I said. So vulnerable

00:22:51.760 people. Uh, this bill says are, are people under 20 and over 60 pregnant people. Now it says pregnant

00:22:59.320 people. Of course it's pregnant women, but they use that specifically because they believe that any,

00:23:04.140 any gender can get pregnant. Now I would love for them to tell me why pregnant women are more

00:23:10.320 vulnerable than anyone else. If they're just carrying around a clump of cells, they might have to

00:23:14.920 acknowledge that unborn babies are people, uh, other vulnerable people identify as I've already listed

00:23:20.680 LGBTQIA, um, is a victim or a witness of a crime is filed. A civil rights claim has a disability is

00:23:28.020 facing persecution as limited English language proficiency. That's, uh, included in the list

00:23:33.380 of vulnerable people that it is virtually impossible to detain. Um, and they have to, the person without

00:23:40.200 English language proficiency has to be given some kind of help or is suffering trauma. Now here's what

00:23:46.340 I can agree with. Okay. People under 16, they do need special care. People with severe disabilities

00:23:51.840 do need special care. Pregnant women do need special care. People in domestic violence situations

00:23:56.580 who are trying to get rid of or trying to get away from an abusive boyfriend in the United States. Yes,

00:24:02.400 I agree. They need some kind of special protection. So I'm fine with that. Um, illegal aliens, of course,

00:24:08.520 are human beings. They are human beings who are made in the image of God. I do not think that they

00:24:12.200 should be subject to, uh, worse conditions than Americans are. And I don't think they should be

00:24:17.720 left out in the cold to fend for their lives, but should they be, unless they have a very specific

00:24:23.620 special need, should they be detained? Should they be deported? Absolutely. Of course, that's how we

00:24:28.600 remain a sovereign country. That's how we are able to enact our laws. Uh, the bill decriminalizes illegal

00:24:34.600 border crossings. So you can cross the border from anywhere at any time in any way, no matter what.

00:24:41.580 And that is not considered a crime. You are all well and good. Now, if you were an alien who came

00:24:47.520 here illegally, an alien, by the way, I just want to say for anyone who's freaking out about that,

00:24:52.680 that is the language that this bill uses. Uh, if you were an alien who was deported, uh, you can

00:24:57.820 reapply to be admitted into the United States. Um, an immigration judge is not allowed. If you reapply

00:25:05.240 to reenter the United States, say you're in Guatemala and you were deported for whatever reason,

00:25:09.400 doesn't matter why you were deported. You could have been deported because you raped someone,

00:25:12.740 whatever it is. Um, no matter why you were deported, you can reapply to get back into the

00:25:18.240 United States. And an immigration judge is not allowed to ignore your case. Uh, if is not allowed

00:25:24.980 to ignore your case, uh, if, or really for any reason, they're not allowed to ignore your case.

00:25:29.540 And by the way, if you need to travel from your country to the United States for court proceedings

00:25:33.960 to hear your case, that's going to be paid for by the American taxpayer. Again, that is in the bill.

00:25:39.660 You can go read it. So if someone is in Guatemala who was deported for committing a crime or just

00:25:44.480 because they were here illegally, whatever it is, and they reapply to come back into the United States,

00:25:49.680 the immigration judge has to hear their case. And if they want to fly back to America for their

00:25:55.480 court proceedings, they don't have to pay for it. You and I have to pay for it. This is the citizens of

00:26:00.520 the United States have to pay for it. You and I will be funding the plane transportation for illegal aliens

00:26:05.500 who, for whatever reason, were already deported. That's what this bill does. Uh, just so you know,

00:26:11.460 this makes us not a country. Uh, if you don't have enforceable borders, uh, you are not a nation. If you

00:26:17.120 are not a nation, you don't have sovereignty. That means that you don't have executable laws. Uh, you don't

00:26:21.920 have a means of protecting citizens of your country for all intents and purposes. You don't even have

00:26:26.900 citizens. Everyone's the same, no matter where they come from, no matter how they get here,

00:26:30.360 whether they're documented, undocumented. Of course, they believe that whether you're here

00:26:34.380 illegally or not, you should have a right to vote. You should have a right to healthcare.

00:26:39.260 And so healthcare funded by the American taxpayer. They also believe that abortion is healthcare. And

00:26:44.240 so paying for all kinds of services for illegal immigrants who couldn't bother to come here

00:26:48.980 legally. Uh, by the way, there are millions of people, uh, hundreds of thousands, at least people

00:26:54.300 who are waited in line to become citizens the right way. So if you want to skip that line,

00:26:59.760 if you don't care about justice, like if you don't care about legality, if you don't care about how

00:27:05.120 things go, if you are not worth or not willing to consider the people who have been waiting patiently

00:27:11.360 and doing this the right way, uh, then that's fine. You can just come on in. Like I know someone,

00:27:16.080 someone who is very close in my life. Uh, she and her husband, they, um, went to university here.

00:27:22.180 They got married. They have kids. They both work really hard and they've been here for 17 years

00:27:27.660 legally. And now they are just now able to get their citizenship this year. And it's their first

00:27:32.640 year that they are going to be able to vote or that she is actually, the wife is going to be able

00:27:36.400 to vote ever because she was 17 when she left her country in Africa. And so she's so excited to be

00:27:41.920 able to exercise her right to vote when they become citizens this year, they have worked so hard.

00:27:46.500 They've paid a lot of money. Uh, that is, you know, some people say that's a huge inhibition that needs

00:27:51.380 to change how expensive it is to become a citizen. And we can talk about all that,

00:27:54.800 but they have gone through the right, the righteous, the just process to become legal

00:28:00.460 citizens. And all of us, no matter what side of the aisle that we're on, we celebrate that. Like,

00:28:04.740 I'm so excited from the, for them, that two people from Africa, they came to America legally

00:28:10.060 in order to, uh, find opportunities to be able to provide for themselves and to provide for them,

00:28:17.000 family, their families. And they did it in the right way. And I am celebrate, like I am over the

00:28:21.540 moon excited for them. The left believes that you don't have to do it that way. And you can cut in

00:28:28.180 front of those people to be able to gain all of the rights, all of the privileges that those people

00:28:34.200 have waited almost two decades and worked for almost two decades to be able to get legally.

00:28:39.460 Uh, you can cut in front of those people. You can undermine that process completely by coming here

00:28:44.140 illegally and obtaining all of the rights and the privileges that these citizens have,

00:28:48.580 whether they were born here or not. Uh, that's not justice. Again, that is social justice. We've

00:28:54.340 talked about so many times social justice is not justice because social justice tries to somehow

00:29:00.340 even out all inequality by making sure that the, there is a ceiling on outcomes. So there's a ceiling

00:29:06.980 on achievement. There's a ceiling on success to make sure that everyone, um, doesn't just have the

00:29:12.540 same opportunities, but has the same conclusions, has the same outcomes, has the same in their

00:29:17.780 utopia, which is really a dystopia, has the same amount of wealth, has the same amount of privileges,

00:29:22.980 has the same amount of any kind of success at all. And so they believe that in pushing illegal

00:29:29.240 aliens forward and holding, uh, legal immigrants and citizens back, they will somehow even the

00:29:35.620 playing field. This is social justice. And that's not justice because it's not justice because you

00:29:41.540 are undermining a legal process because you were spitting in the faces of legal immigrants,

00:29:45.620 because you are basically making moot citizenship. That is not honoring to God. Like that is not

00:29:52.960 compassionate. You have to look at the other side of the equation when you're saying, Oh,

00:29:56.360 I'm going to be compassionate by letting everyone in who wants, who wants to be here. No matter what,

00:30:01.780 I'm just going to open up the borders. That's so compassionate. That's so loving one. That's

00:30:05.560 unbiblical because the Bible speaks of borders and acts. It says that God, uh, has created borders and

00:30:10.580 has created, uh, countries or the lines, the boundaries of, of countries. He is sovereign

00:30:16.680 over all of that. He has even given people their languages. And so it is not difficult to say that,

00:30:22.740 uh, a borderless country, which is an oxymoron by the way, is more compassionate, but it also

00:30:29.440 just isn't logical. You can't care for the citizens that you have only an evil, uh, an evil ruler

00:30:35.700 would open up the borders of its country because the, uh, the, the goal and the responsibility of

00:30:42.960 a ruler is to care for the citizens that they have. That doesn't mean you have to be cruel to

00:30:46.760 aliens, but it also means that you enforce and you acknowledge the, the laws that you have in the

00:30:53.540 sovereignty of your country. So this is another one of those topics that Christians get caught up in

00:30:59.040 by saying, well, maybe it really is more compassionate to just let people in who want to be here. Well,

00:31:03.380 that's just not biblical and it's not just, and because it's not just, uh, God doesn't approve

00:31:08.120 of it. God is a God of justice. God is not a God of confusion. He is a God of peace and he is a God

00:31:14.880 of, he is a God of order. He is a God of laws. By the way, if you look at how a God set up Israel,

00:31:20.720 obviously we don't believe in abiding by as Christians, all of the laws that were applicable

00:31:26.800 to Israel, but we do believe in, uh, the morals under underneath them. Like the 10 commandments,

00:31:32.280 for example, we believe that that's a pretty good set of regulations and rules for any country to

00:31:37.780 abide by. Uh, okay. That's all I have time for today. But like I said, you should look into the

00:31:43.380 new way forward act and you should read it for yourself and you should fact check me to make

00:31:48.960 sure that what I'm saying is correct. Like I said, I hopefully will be able to do an entire episode on

00:31:54.020 it sometime soon. Okay. Well, I forgot. I got to do one thing. So I want to clarify about yoga. Some of

00:31:59.900 you asked me about the yoga stuff and I've talked about this before actually, and I do believe,

00:32:07.500 so I have kind of changed my mind. I used to say, isn't it kind of legalistic to say I can't do warrior

00:32:13.380 two, but I can do a lunge. And the reason was what Doreen said, anything that has roots in paganism,

00:32:20.520 just isn't something that Christians need to be a part of. I agree with that. But the other side of

00:32:26.220 that, the, the question is that a lot of you have, which I think is a great question is okay.

00:32:30.960 Well, what about Christmas? What about Easter? They have pagan roots. Should we not have a Christmas

00:32:35.040 tree? Should we not have Easter eggs? And I think that those are all really good questions. I think

00:32:42.780 that, okay, you can try to track with me here. Uh, I think that you can, we can redeem things like

00:32:50.820 Christmas trees. We can redeem things like Easter eggs. We can redeem certain things that might

00:32:56.280 theoretically have, uh, pagan roots and we can use them for God's glory. And there might be an argument.

00:33:04.520 There might be an argument that yoga can be redeemed in that way, but yoga is more than that. It's not

00:33:12.600 just the specific moves. It is the entire world of yoga that is intended for something that Christians

00:33:20.640 are not intended for. It is intended for the emptying of the mind, which is unbiblical.

00:33:25.500 The Bible, when the Bible describes meditation, it's meditating on truth, not meditating on nothing,

00:33:31.100 not trying to find some sort of energy or vibration vibe or, uh, balance or something like that. It is

00:33:39.760 focusing on meditating on God's truth. Whereas yoga tries to empty your mind, all of the moves,

00:33:46.060 all of the spirituality, everything that yoga is, uh, is, uh, is about is mystic. It is new age.

00:33:54.780 Now, can you stretch? Of course, like Doreen said, can you exercise, can you do lunges and things like

00:34:01.220 that? But the intention, all of the movements, the intention behind yoga is to worship the Hindu gods.

00:34:09.460 Do I think that every Christian who does yoga is a pagan whose heart is inclined towards Hinduism?

00:34:17.240 No, I don't. I think there are a lot of people like me who just thought that you were, you know,

00:34:23.380 doing a good exercise and you weren't convicted about it. And of course, I'm willing to have

00:34:27.220 conversations and debates and, and discussions on this. I just don't know if it's the hill for

00:34:32.040 Christians to die on knowing how intertwined something like yoga is with the new age movement,

00:34:37.300 knowing that yoga means yoked, that you're yoked to the God that yoga is meant to worship and why

00:34:42.600 Jesus and how Jesus tells us to be yoked to him. Uh, it seems a little incongruent, doesn't it? It

00:34:49.200 seems a little bit different than the issue of Christmas or the issue of Halloween, even. Uh, I

00:34:55.040 know that's controversial, but I did an episode on that. Should Christian, or is it okay for

00:34:58.880 Christians to celebrate Halloween? So you can go back and listen to that. Um, a little bit different

00:35:03.580 than Easter. I, I think, I think it's different than those things because of all that yoga stands

00:35:11.080 for and the entire world of yoga and what it represents. It's not the same thing with Christmas

00:35:16.800 and, and Easter. We've basically hijacked the paganism and we've made it Christian. I don't

00:35:22.040 think that's really possible. I don't think that's really possible with yoga. So I just wanted to give,

00:35:27.140 I wanted to give some clarity on that because I do think the devil's advocate position,

00:35:31.380 the other side of that was, uh, was legit. I think it was a perfectly valid question.

00:35:37.340 If you have any more thoughts on that, you can send me, you can send me a message on Instagram.

00:35:43.200 Y'all know that I replied to those pretty well. Thanks again for the response, by the way,

00:35:47.800 to Monday's episode. You guys liked it so much and you shared it. I have like thousands of shares on my

00:35:53.920 Instagram. Some of you were like, why do you repost all of these posts of your podcast? Well,

00:36:00.180 because most people really like me to do that, which is why you tagged me in it.

00:36:04.280 And if you only knew, I probably post 1% of all of the reposts that I actually get on Instagram. So

00:36:11.320 you are welcome for sparing you on that. Okay. That's all that we have for today. I will be

00:36:16.020 back here on Friday with a wonderful interview, another wonderful interview that you are not going

00:36:21.840 to want to miss. So have a great couple of days and I will see you then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 12, 2020

Ep 212 ｜ How Dairy You？

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