Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 217 ｜ The Death of Parental Rights

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. I hope that everyone is having a wonderful week.

00:00:06.600 Today we are going to talk about the breakdown of the family and the undermining of parental

00:00:13.640 rights through a few social and political movements that all of us are familiar with,

00:00:18.800 but we might not be familiar with the implications of that and what the consequences are for our

00:00:24.920 families and our children. This is going to be a little bit of a contentious episode. I guess

00:00:31.000 all of the episodes are a little bit contentious and controversial. I will try to be as straightforward

00:00:37.560 yet as gentle and as loving and gracious as I possibly can, but the fact of the matter is

00:00:43.020 the breakdown of the family is something that applies to us and affects us today. It affects

00:00:48.540 our lives, our everyday lives. And even if you don't have children yet, this still affects,

00:00:54.760 even if it doesn't affect you, say you will never get married, say you never want to have children,

00:00:59.340 that's perfectly fine. Whatever affects the society or whatever affects the family affects the society.

00:01:05.460 And so the issues that we're going to talk about today are still directly applicable to you and

00:01:10.260 the people that you know. Okay. First, we're going to talk about this Wisconsin transgender

00:01:16.180 teacher story that maybe some of you have heard about. There is a transgender man. I always get

00:01:24.380 confused on how to describe this. So it is a man who identifies as a woman. Apparently he has gone

00:01:31.260 back and forth between what he actually identifies as, used to identify as what is known as a cisgender

00:01:37.600 man. So just a biological man, a gendered man. And then he called himself non-binary and there was

00:01:45.220 some contention because he actually showed his students, he works at an elementary school in

00:01:49.720 Madison, Wisconsin. He showed his students, a video of him dressed up as a woman. And he did 0.91

00:01:55.060 kind of like a coming out announcement video saying, Hey, I'm actually non-binary, but now he is an out

00:02:02.360 and proud how he describes himself, a transgender woman. And the reason why this is a conversation is

00:02:09.640 not just because there is a teacher who is transgender. There are, I'm sure many of those

00:02:16.080 throughout the country, but because this particular man is who identifies as a woman is fighting to have

00:02:21.740 access, not just to the female faculty bathrooms, but the little girls' restrooms that are close to 1.00

00:02:29.720 his classroom. So we're talking about five and six year old little girls going to the bathroom.

00:02:34.080 He has written an open letter to the Madison, the Madison public school district saying that I need

00:02:40.320 to have access to these bathrooms. And the reason why this has something to do with parental rights

00:02:46.040 is because in 2018, a Madison metropolitan school district, uh, enacted a policy that allows children

00:02:52.380 to change their gender identity at school without parental knowledge or consent. So this became, uh,

00:02:59.100 a huge controversy. And now there are parents in this school district that are suing the school district

00:03:04.720 saying that this goes against, uh, parental rights. Now parental rights, constitutionally, a lot of people

00:03:11.220 will argue it's not necessarily a fundamental right. And of course we know that there are things parents

00:03:16.800 aren't allowed to do with their children, uh, or to their children before the state steps in. And in a lot

00:03:23.380 of ways, we're thankful for that. We're thankful that it's illegal to abuse your children. Children

00:03:27.680 aren't just objects. They are people, they have a fundamental rights. They have the right to life,

00:03:34.040 liberty, to the pursuit and to the pursuit of happiness to a certain extent while they are

00:03:38.060 minors. But of course their life and, uh, their safety is protected under the constitution. So

00:03:43.860 parents, just because they're parents of a child don't have license to do whatever they want to their

00:03:49.680 children, but they are seen as the primary caretaker, not the state. And that is where the Supreme

00:03:56.520 Court, um, has had to, um, has had to battle over the past really for the, I would say century,

00:04:04.780 if not longer than that of where does, uh, the parents right end with their child and the state's

00:04:12.220 right begin and rights begin. And if you look at the Supreme court cases that have covered this,

00:04:18.040 particularly when it comes to a parent versus public school, the Supreme court typically sides

00:04:23.000 with the right of the parent that the state cannot interfere and tell a parent, uh, how they should

00:04:29.260 parent their child unless there is some kind of provable abuse or harm. And of course, when it

00:04:35.200 comes to the transgender issue, we have seen the powers that be on the left, the powers that be in 0.81

00:04:41.020 the leftist parts of the government, uh, push this ideology and push this idea that a parent who does

00:04:46.760 not allow a child to say, you have a five-year-old daughter who says one day, you know, I'm actually

00:04:53.360 a boy and I want to be called a boy name. And I want to be called by boy pronouns. If a parent says,

00:05:00.160 Hey, sweetie, you know, God made you a girl and God made you our daughter. And we think that your body 1.00

00:05:06.040 was made perfectly how it was supposed to be made. And we would love to talk with you about this. We would

00:05:11.120 love to go see a therapist, love to go see a counselor, but let's work through this together rather than say,

00:05:16.640 you know what, let's put you on puberty blockers. There are a lot of powers that be in the government, 0.96

00:05:21.160 in the social sphere, in the cultural sphere, in public school districts that say that is a form

00:05:25.880 of abuse. And of course they're going to be pushing that. They're going to be pushing that idea

00:05:30.700 for years to come. That is going to be, um, a battle until, I don't know, something happens that

00:05:37.000 swings it back in the other direction. But that is the battle that's happening at the Madison

00:05:41.580 Metropolitan School District. Uh, this idea of, okay, well, this battle between a parent's rights

00:05:47.720 and a state's rights, the state in this case, being a public school, public schools are vessels

00:05:52.460 of the state, by the way. I know that is a little bit controversial to say. I get some messages from

00:05:58.700 public school teachers, from people who send their kids to public school. And they think that I'm like

00:06:02.780 a hater on all public schools. Uh, of course, if you are a public school teacher, I have no doubt that

00:06:08.160 you do a wonderful job and you are a light to those kids. You might be the only positive influence,

00:06:12.520 uh, on those kids' lives. And I'm so thankful for you. And for parents who send their kids to

00:06:17.180 public school, I am sure that you have thought long and hard about this and that you are using

00:06:21.400 your best discernment. But the fact of the matter is no matter what school district that you're in,

00:06:26.200 and we see this, the repercussions of this in Madison, Wisconsin is that it is a vessel of the

00:06:32.360 state. It is a vessel, the majority of the time of leftist values. And the leftist value is something

00:06:39.260 that we're going to talk about today, fundamentally wants to undermine the right of the parent to

00:06:44.720 parent the child as they see fit. If how the parent wants to parent, the child goes against

00:06:50.800 leftist ideology, uh, particularly when it comes to gender. So these parents in Madison, Wisconsin,

00:06:56.820 thank goodness they are a suing the school district saying that this undermines our fundamental

00:07:01.860 rights and they are already seeing one of the consequences of this policy. So the policy,

00:07:07.000 uh, that was enacted in 2018 in Madison, Wisconsin that said, Hey, if your six-year-old wants to come

00:07:13.880 to school one day, your six-year-old boy wants to come to school one day and say, actually, I'm a girl

00:07:18.560 and I want you to call me Hermione. And I want you to call me by, uh, you know, uh, female pronouns.

00:07:27.160 Then the teacher not only has to do that, but also is allowed to deceive the parents according to this

00:07:33.440 policy in Madison, Wisconsin, and, uh, not tell the parents that the child is doing that and actually

00:07:40.840 is encouraged. These teachers are encouraged not to tell the parents that, Hey, your son is actually

00:07:45.060 coming to school and putting on a skirt and wants to be called female gender pronouns. The teachers are

00:07:51.600 not supposed to be telling the parents these things. And so their kids are living a double life

00:07:55.580 without the parents' knowledge. And the teacher is told to use the biological pronouns, the real

00:08:02.000 pronouns of this child in front of the parents. So the parents don't catch wind of what is going on.

00:08:07.360 So that is a fundamental undermining of parental rights, which like I said, isn't explicitly in the

00:08:13.420 constitution, but it is backed not only by common sense and history that predates the United States

00:08:18.660 of America that predates the constitution, but is also backed by a lot of historic Supreme, uh, court

00:08:25.300 support. So now this policy has led to, because it has led to what is happening with this male teacher

00:08:33.960 saying, Hey, I want to go into the girl's restroom because they've already laid the foundation with 1.00

00:08:38.360 this policy that says, okay, if a child has the autonomy at six years old to be able to come to school

00:08:44.540 in Madison, Wisconsin and say, I'm a different gender, then of course the parents don't have a

00:08:50.480 right to say that a man who decides that he's a woman, that he can't go into the spaces that other 0.54

00:08:57.000 female teachers can go. Um, and so they've already laid that foundation that the parents don't have a 1.00

00:09:02.040 right to say what happens to their kids at school, as far as gender fluidity or gender defining goes. 1.00

00:09:08.100 And of course they don't have the right then to tell a teacher what he or she can do. If he or

00:09:14.460 she wants to go into a space of the opposite sex, even if the opposite sex is a child, then of course 1.00

00:09:20.220 they're going to be allowed to do that. So, uh, Vika Steele is this transgender man, formerly Mark

00:09:26.820 Busenbark. And I'll actually, I'll just put a picture up of this person. So if you're watching on

00:09:32.140 YouTube, you'll be able to see this. Uh, he wrote an open letter to the school district saying that he

00:09:37.260 needs to use the little girl's room because he would have to walk. This is a quote halfway down

00:09:41.660 our long hallways and down to the first floor to access an adult bathroom and argues that all the

00:09:46.500 female staff at the elementary school use children's bathrooms without issue. And yes, of course they do 1.00

00:09:51.740 because they are women because they're not men. Uh, this is, this is the thing. Uh, we were told we

00:09:58.260 just had to be accepting. We were told to be accepting of transgender people. Just let them live.

00:10:03.340 Doesn't affect you. Doesn't affect your life. Just let them find happiness. Okay, fine.

00:10:07.260 Uh, but now we are being told that unless we allow grown men to share a bathroom with our

00:10:12.620 five and six year old girls, then we're bigots. Then we're wrong for that. How dare you bring up

00:10:17.380 any prospect of abuse? How dare you bring up the idea of, of pedophilia? It's perfectly normal

00:10:22.680 for a man who just a couple of years ago identified as a man. And then a couple of years after

00:10:26.400 or a year after that identified as non-binary and now is dressing up as a woman and coming to school

00:10:32.300 and saying, Oh yeah, I'm a woman. And I'm writing an open letter demanding that you 0.99

00:10:36.960 allow me not just to share the faculty bathrooms with the female teachers, but the bathrooms of 1.00

00:10:43.600 five and six year old little girls. And you have to do that or else you're transphobic

00:10:47.520 or else you are bigots. Uh, this is the kind of stuff. Now, if you're on the other side of the

00:10:52.060 ideological aisle and you're listening to this and you're like, I just don't see, I just don't see

00:10:56.880 the big deal that you might not relate to what I'm about to say, but all of you who are moms

00:11:00.720 or dads, uh, who are listening to this, your blood is boiling. You understand that this is the kind of

00:11:06.860 stuff, this right here that might seem not a big deal to a lot of people, to moms and dads.

00:11:12.420 Even if you're not a Christian, you, you, even if you're not a conservative, even if you're not on the

00:11:17.100 same side of the theological and ideological aisle that I am, uh, you see the issue with this.

00:11:22.780 Like you would have a hard time seeing a grown man go into the bathroom with your, uh, five or six

00:11:28.660 year old little girl. Uh, so if you are not in that position, like if you're not a parent yet,

00:11:34.240 or you just don't understand my social position on this, you might not get what I'm about to say,

00:11:39.380 but this is the stuff that revolutions are made of. Now you might think I'm making a big deal of this,

00:11:45.200 but, uh, the, uh, the rights to parental, uh, or parental rights, parental consent, parental rights,

00:11:53.280 guardianship, uh, whatever it is, the connection that a parent has with their child, this instinctive

00:12:00.300 innate drive that all of us have who are parents to protect our children, uh, to keep them away from

00:12:07.180 harms, keep them away from predators is so strong that things like this truly cause political upheaval.

00:12:14.520 Uh, we're not doing it. We're not doing this. We're not doing this whole charade. We're just not

00:12:19.820 where we pretend like gender doesn't exist to the point to where we have to say, yes, that grown man,

00:12:26.200 this 56 year old man is allowed to go into the bathroom with half dressed five and six, uh, five

00:12:32.100 and six year old little girls. That's totally fine. I'm sure that he has no ulterior motives whatsoever.

00:12:36.800 He just wants to be accepted. He's just your average lady. Like we're just not doing that. I'm not 0.97

00:12:41.780 playing that game. I'm not pretending. I I'm not going to do that just because it's politically

00:12:46.320 correct. Just because it's socially accepting, uh, just because it is seen as the righteous and

00:12:51.720 the morally right thing to do by the powers that be. I mean, think about this, this conversation

00:12:56.440 that we are having would have been, it wouldn't have been even comprehensible five years ago.

00:13:02.440 You wouldn't have known what I am talking about. If I had said the phrase biological male or

00:13:07.840 transgender woman or transgender man, I don't even know the phraseology still. I'm so behind

00:13:12.500 the times. You would have been like, I don't even know what you're saying. You would have thought

00:13:16.020 that I was writing out a satirical bit to show the, um, the, the insane end or the most extreme

00:13:24.820 end to the LGBT movement. You would have said, yo, you're just an extremist. You're just a,

00:13:29.660 this is a slippery slope fallacy, but this is actually reality. This is stuff that is affecting

00:13:35.040 real people today. This is not a slippery slope. Like we've slipped down the slope. We slipped down

00:13:40.360 the slope a long time ago. And here we are all crashing into each other at the bottom. See,

00:13:45.840 this is the problem with, uh, social justice and social by social, social justice. I mean,

00:13:51.960 what Thomas soul calls cosmic justice. So if you haven't read Thomas soul's quest for cosmic justice,

00:13:58.360 I highly recommend it. And what he says is usually what people mean by social justice is cosmic

00:14:04.880 justice. So trying to even out the playing field by doing all of these, uh, different equations to

00:14:12.080 make things totally equal. So that's, what's behind so much of leftism. That is what is behind

00:14:17.700 transgenderism. That's what's behind abortion is trying to make the genders totally equal, 1.00

00:14:22.340 having the same capacity, having the same characteristics. And they think having everyone

00:14:27.120 be the exact same, having this just like hodgepodge, amorphous blob of gender, that doesn't actually

00:14:33.260 mean anything, having no, you know, different gender roles or capacities or capabilities or

00:14:38.140 anything like that is going to create equality. And so, uh, the social justician or the cosmic

00:14:44.680 justician says, okay, well, in order to have total equality, uh, a man has to be able to identify as a

00:14:50.140 woman because then that just blurs the line between what a woman is and what a man is. And of course, 1.00

00:14:54.360 this person who identifies as a woman is a real woman and they get to access every single space that a 0.67

00:14:59.640 biological woman gets to access, including a space that includes five and six year olds, little 0.99

00:15:05.760 girls. That is what it takes for equality. And if you, uh, push back on that at all, then you are 1.00

00:15:12.580 anti-equality, you're anti-love, you're transphobic and all of these different things. But any equation

00:15:18.280 or any, uh, policy that is pushed, any idea that is pushed by these cosmic justicians never looks at the

00:15:24.960 other side of the equation, the people who are victimized, the people who are hurt by this. So

00:15:29.240 certainly not just parents, but also the children that are made uncomfortable by the fact that they

00:15:33.240 know that this teacher is a man and they're having to get undressed to go to the bathroom in front of

00:15:37.680 a man. When a man is washing his hands, do you think they're not uncomfortable by that? Do you 1.00

00:15:41.260 think they're not a little traumatized by that? I mean, we're joking ourselves if we don't think

00:15:45.060 that little kids know the difference innately between a man and a woman, and that they feel

00:15:48.980 uncomfortable with that. And they feel not only uncomfortable, but victimized and even traumatized by

00:15:53.600 that. And so social justicians never think about the other side of the equation. It's anything as true of

00:15:58.800 anything that has to do with social justice. And so, for example, decriminalizing, uh, border,

00:16:03.700 border crossings. Well, that social justice, you're creating equality between the people who

00:16:07.540 are oppressed in other countries and America, who's just so privileged. Okay. The one side of

00:16:12.380 the equation is that, yeah, illegal immigrants, they get all of these benefits and it's great.

00:16:16.700 They basically become American citizens without actually having to become citizens without actually

00:16:20.600 having to be, uh, having to wait in line. And they get away from whatever situation they were

00:16:25.220 in in Guatemala or Mexico or wherever it was. And so that's the side of the equation that the social

00:16:30.480 justicians say, yes, that's right. That's good. That's compassionate. That's just, but they never

00:16:34.740 look at the other side of the equation. So who is not benefiting from that? Who is victimized by that?

00:16:39.780 Who is put in harm's way by that? So the other side of the equation is that we lose sovereignty.

00:16:44.040 If we lose sovereignty and the ability to enact laws and we don't have borders anymore, then we're not

00:16:49.360 really a country. We can't protect our citizens. Uh, not to mention the financial strain that, uh,

00:16:55.680 illegal immigration. We're not talking to immigrants here. Illegal immigration, uh, puts on 1.00

00:17:00.320 our country as well as the, the crimes that are committed by illegal immigrants. I'm not saying 1.00

00:17:05.420 that they are worse or even more than the crimes that are committed by citizens, but if we already

00:17:10.360 have crimes that are committed by citizens, we don't need to add to that by, uh, adding the crimes

00:17:15.220 of people who are illegally here in the first place. So all this to say social justicians who

00:17:21.020 are behind this, this transgender stuff in public schools, they never think about the other side of 1.00

00:17:27.000 the equation. They're always trying to say, okay, who is most marginalized? Who is most oppressed?

00:17:32.220 Can we push them up while pulling back who we think is not oppressed, who we think is, uh, more

00:17:37.460 privileged because they're trying to even the playing field. They're trying to constantly find, uh, even

00:17:43.900 outcomes, equal outcomes, no matter what. And this is an example of that. They think social

00:17:49.320 justicians think by pushing forward this transgender teacher, because if you're transgender, you're 0.64

00:17:53.720 ultra uber marginalized on the intersectionality scale and, um, holding back or putting in harm's

00:18:00.500 way, all of these, uh, you know, cisgendered people, even children, then you are creating some 0.54

00:18:07.040 form of equality. And of course it's madness. And of course it's craziness. And of course we should 0.53

00:18:12.440 have absolutely nothing to do with it. Uh, but this is leftism. Leftism looks to not just operate

00:18:20.000 by crazy intersectionality, not just, uh, create equal outcomes for everyone, which equal outcomes

00:18:25.400 are just impossible. They're just impossible. You can't create equal outcomes. And that's what

00:18:29.760 leftism wants to do. But in an effort to do those things, it seeks to undermine the family,

00:18:35.340 undermine parental rights. Why? Because if you are part of a cohesive family unit, if you are part

00:18:42.060 of anything that is more, uh, nuclear or is closer to you, is more intimate, is more solid than the

00:18:49.840 state, then you are going to derive your values. You're going to derive your provision from your

00:18:55.180 family, from your community, from your church, from your religion, uh, and not the states. And in order

00:19:01.720 for leftism to survive, in order for leftism to move forward and to flourish, people have to not only be

00:19:08.000 depending on the state for their healthcare, not only depending on the state for their provision,

00:19:14.300 whatever it is, they also need to be depending on the state and the state's vessels like public

00:19:18.860 schools for morality, for social views. And so the more dependent people can make, or the state can make

00:19:26.760 you on them, the more they can control you, the more they can control what they think. And look,

00:19:31.120 I think that a lot of people that are on that side think that that is a virtuous effort. I think a lot

00:19:36.680 of people truly think that if we can control the minds and indoctrinate the minds of children,

00:19:41.220 and we can normalize this behavior, like men going into female bathrooms, then we really will have 0.99

00:19:46.240 total equality one day. We'll have a bunch of kids that don't see anything wrong with, you know,

00:19:51.400 transgenderism. We'll have a bunch of kids that think there's 72 genders and it'll all be accepting

00:19:55.560 and good. And we'll be loving because they see the fundamental problem, um, as conservative

00:20:00.780 Christians. Like they see, the left sees the fundamental problem is that there are people like you and me

00:20:05.260 who believe in God that believe in the most controversial verse in the Bible, Genesis 1,

00:20:09.580 1, that God created the heavens and the earth. And therefore he is the moral authority, all of it,

00:20:13.540 over all of it. Therefore he says what male and female is. He says what marriage is. Uh, he says

00:20:18.880 what the family is. He says the importance of the family. They think that we are the enemy that is

00:20:25.320 against ultimate equality. But what we know is that equality of outcome is impossible. That the family

00:20:32.280 is far more important than the state, that the child, that children belong to the family. They're

00:20:36.680 not just objects or agents of the state. Um, and we also, yes, we believe that God made them male and

00:20:43.000 female and that has implications, not just for gender, but also for marriage. And so they see us

00:20:47.940 as the ideological enemy. And so if they can take our children away from us, indoctrinate them as much

00:20:53.220 as possible by, um, by indoctrinating them in the public school system, or even through the YouTube

00:20:59.360 videos that they watch the mom and dad aren't paying attention to the things they watch on Hulu

00:21:02.860 on Netflix that mom and dad aren't paying attention to, then they truly see that as a worthy aspiration,

00:21:08.880 as a, as a worthy journey, as a worthy goal and their intentions from their perspective. I won't

00:21:16.960 say their intentions are good. I think their intentions are evil and wrong, but from their

00:21:21.000 perspective, their intentions are good. Of course, they don't think that they are doing anything

00:21:25.480 wrong. I want to read you, um, part of this article from Vox that talks about the transgender bills 1.00

00:21:32.860 that are, they call them transgender bills that are in a variety of States trying to solidify parental

00:21:39.560 rights over minors, uh, rather than the States saying, Hey, you can transition when you are a minor

00:21:47.380 without parental consent. When you're a teenager, you can get hormone blockers. You can get surgery

00:21:53.420 or whatever. Uh, right now in a lot of States, doctors are able to do that without parents signing

00:21:59.600 on. And there are several States, Texas, uh, Kentucky, I think South Dakota, Missouri are all

00:22:05.840 trying to pass bills that say, no, Hey, the parents have to have a say in this until this child is 18. 1.00

00:22:11.700 But this Vox article sees this as abuse, uh, because they see the child wanting to transition as,

00:22:19.280 um, as more important than whatever the parents think. So here's how this article starts just to

00:22:26.000 kind of give us an idea of how people on this side of the aisle think Grayson was already menstruating

00:22:31.460 when he started taking puberty blockers at age 12. So when he stopped getting his period because of

00:22:37.220 the drug, he was over the moon happy. So if you're confused by that, uh, it's okay. You're supposed to

00:22:43.380 be. He is this author of this Vox article is talking about a young girl who now identifies as

00:22:49.220 a boy also talks about little James younger, the case out of Texas, where the parents were divorced

00:22:54.960 and the mom was trying to transition this kid into a girl and dress the kid like a girl. And the, 1.00

00:22:59.740 and the, uh, little boy always wanted to be a boy. He had a twin brother and he always wanted to dress

00:23:05.500 like a boy. He acted like a boy and, you know, talks like a boy was identifying as a boy when he went to

00:23:11.040 school whenever he was with his dad. Well, this Vox article, uh, refers to James Younger as Luna,

00:23:16.680 as, uh, the female pronouns also says that the dad is trying to force this young boy to be a boy and

00:23:24.980 force the young boy to cut his hair. And so this is an entirely different perspective. And this is how

00:23:31.200 this article in Vox describes what is, uh, what's going on in these different states that are trying

00:23:37.280 to pass bills that are solidifying parental rights over their children. So they don't transition

00:23:42.000 without parental consent. So, uh, the article says this Kentucky's bill, which was introduced on

00:23:46.460 Tuesday goes well beyond those of Missouri and South Dakota. It would allow, uh, it would allow

00:23:51.800 either parents to override consent for transition care, a right, which the state cannot overrule.

00:23:57.480 It would require all government agents to disclose to parents, whether a child expresses gender dysphoria

00:24:02.280 or gender variant behavior, and it would protect the right of any government employee,

00:24:06.040 including teachers to express their views on gender identity, including misgendering or harassing

00:24:10.420 transgender students. Additionally, any adult or minor with parent or guardian permission who had

00:24:14.900 previously been given transition care would be allowed to sue doctors for damages for the next 20

00:24:20.260 years. So, I mean, to us, that sounds good. These bills that are being passed in states, I mean,

00:24:25.180 I don't believe in any teacher being allowed to harass any student for any reason whatsoever. So I'm

00:24:31.360 certainly not condoning harassment, but, uh, these bills that are protecting teachers that are

00:24:37.760 protecting parents, we would see as a positive thing. Of course, this article sees as a negative

00:24:41.960 thing. They see this as abuse and we need to be very careful to pay attention to that kind of

00:24:47.240 language because what leftism wants again, to make sure that children are agents of the state can be

00:24:53.620 indoctrinated, can be controlled, can be used for their purposes. That's why they want to break down the

00:24:59.580 family. Once again, uh, we need to pay attention to that language because of course, what they want

00:25:04.920 eventually, and we already see this in the UK, we already see this in Canada. They want to be able

00:25:09.280 to, uh, take your child by way of CPS if you do not affirm their gender identity of the day. So if you

00:25:17.620 have a child who decides one day, Hey mommy, you know, I know I was born a boy, but I would identify as

00:25:23.740 a girl today. And like we were saying earlier, if you set them down and say, you know what, that's not,

00:25:28.420 that's not how God made you. God didn't make a mistake. God made your body perfectly. How,

00:25:33.200 how they were supposed to make it. And you're a boy and we absolutely love you. Now, if you want to,

00:25:38.340 let's, let's talk about this. Let's talk about why you think that. Do you just think that because

00:25:42.740 you liked to play with your sister does dolls. That's not a reason. Do you just think that

00:25:47.280 because you like dance or because you like these things? That's not a reason to be, to think that

00:25:52.200 you're a girl. It's okay to be interested in those things. So you're not allowed to have that 0.84

00:25:56.020 conversation. That's what they want. They want, unless you are fully affirming of your child,

00:26:00.940 your child who thinks that they want jello for breakfast, like your child who yesterday told you

00:26:07.440 they were, uh, uh, I don't know what kids like that. They told you they were a dolphin yesterday.

00:26:13.500 Your child is supposed to have complete autonomy over changing their gender to the point to where you 0.94

00:26:20.360 don't even have consent over that at all. Eventually the left wants to be able to use

00:26:25.960 that as a reason for CPS to take your child, to have your child belong to the state. That is the

00:26:31.820 end game here. And so, and they also want all of these policies that are enacted by public schools

00:26:37.200 that affirming genders, uh, mandatory sex ed. That's something that we are seeing in California K

00:26:43.640 through 12 that is fully affirming of transgenderism, fully affirming of different kinds of families

00:26:48.100 that conservatives and Christians. And a lot of people just aren't down with that is mandatory

00:26:53.500 K through 12, not just public schools, but, uh, also private schools. They're trying to make it.

00:26:58.320 Uh, and that is what is going to be the model for the rest of the country for the left. They would

00:27:04.060 like no matter who you are, public school, private school, homeschool, if they can find a way to do it,

00:27:10.200 they would like to force you to teach them, uh, the brand of sexuality that they want your kids to 0.99

00:27:16.220 learn. And not just that, but probably anti-capitalism, anti-Americanism, uh, all of the

00:27:21.580 stuff that we as parents, uh, at least on this side of the aisle don't want our kids to know,

00:27:27.060 but they are finding ways to be able to encroach on that parental relationship. If you remember,

00:27:32.860 we talked about a while ago, there is a group called feminism against the family. It's a real group.

00:27:40.260 The woman who wrote this book full surrogacy. Now she lives here in America, but she's not American. 0.98

00:27:45.760 Of course, these people come to America and they bring their terrible ideas. There's plenty of

00:27:49.820 Americans with terrible ideas too, by the way. Uh, she believes in forced, uh, paid surrogacy, 1.00

00:27:55.920 that children belong to themselves. And something that she said is that capitalism depends on the

00:28:02.740 nuclear family. And so she believes that we should break up the nuclear family. And she believes and 0.80

00:28:09.080 knows something that unfortunately a lot of conservatives don't, uh, that social conservatism,

00:28:16.200 AKA the belief in the family and the cohesion and the strength and the upholding of the family

00:28:22.080 and economic conservatism go hand in hand. And they can't be split apart because again, uh, we want

00:28:27.940 people to depend on their families for values and provision. Even if I disagree with the principles

00:28:34.240 that you are passing down to your kid, like, I think it's more important that, uh, you teach

00:28:39.000 your kids the values that you want to teach them rather than the state. Even if the state

00:28:42.600 we're teaching things that I agreed with, and you as a parent, we're teaching things that I disagreed

00:28:47.340 with. I would still believe that it is your right as a parent and should be your right as a parent to

00:28:51.620 teach your kids the things that you want to teach them and that you should have an option not to have

00:28:56.140 your child have the same sexual ad that they are learning in public schools and elsewhere.

00:29:01.040 But this idea that breaking down the family is integral, is, uh, important to taking away

00:29:07.440 people's freedom is not just true here in America. This is not a new trend. This has happened in every

00:29:13.260 dictatorial regime ever to make people depend on the state. If you look at Pol Pot's Cambodia, 0.85

00:29:18.160 it's a perfect example of the familial consequences of communism. Uh, they would steal children from

00:29:22.760 their families to indoctrinate them and use them. They abolished family, they abolished religion, 0.98

00:29:27.560 or they tried to do these things. They abolished anything that could threaten a person's allegiance

00:29:31.840 to the state. And of course we know what happened there. People were slaughtered. If you haven't read

00:29:36.640 about Cambodia's killing fields, you should, uh, here is a post, a Washington post article from 1998.

00:29:41.560 Um, as the Kamara Rouge turned society upside down, one of the most bizarre features of Pol Pot's rule 1.00

00:29:47.120 was the power given to children, including preteens who had been indoctrinated in the new ideology

00:29:52.320 turned against their families and taught to harden their hearts towards their countrymen.

00:29:56.540 Sounds familiar. But soon the revolution began devouring its own children as Pol Pot launched, 0.92

00:30:01.680 uh, repeated purges of those he believed were plotting against him or working for his Vietnamese

00:30:06.260 or American enemy. So this is communism. This is what communism tries to do. Tries to break up the

00:30:11.600 family to make, uh, the state, your parents, uh, the breakdown of the family and communism and

00:30:16.940 socialism and leftism, they all go hand in hand. Indoctrination of children is necessary. 0.62

00:30:22.320 To the survival of leftism. And you parents are getting in the way, uh, the preservation of the

00:30:28.160 family of God defined morality of the church, all of these things from which people derive meaning

00:30:34.160 and purpose and community and values and provision. Uh, they are why we have remained free because they

00:30:39.900 have given us what we need not to have to go to the government for these things. So this is also,

00:30:44.540 uh, a complex, uh, a consequence and an implication communism and socialism and leftism thriving.

00:30:50.220 That's a consequence of people staying single for longer. Now, of course, there are a lot of you

00:30:54.920 out there who don't want to be single, but, uh, especially the people who purposely stay single,

00:31:00.320 uh, for much longer than they have before not starting families, this hyper individualism that

00:31:06.300 our culture has become that society has become also lends to this idea that we need to depend on

00:31:11.860 the government, not just for our provision, but to be our moral arbiter, to save us from our

00:31:16.120 purposelessness and our loneliness. And that's not what the state should ever be because it controls

00:31:20.540 your life. And then it ends up ruining your life. Uh, this is what Bernie Sanders in all of his ilk

00:31:25.780 ultimately want to do. Now, I don't think that Bernie Sanders is Paul Pott. Of course, I don't think that,

00:31:31.800 uh, he honestly has purposely bad intentions. I think that all of the ideas that he has, he honestly

00:31:38.260 believes will be good for the country. But if we look at his rhetoric about the state taking care of you,

00:31:45.000 the state taking over, basically nationalizing everything that can possibly be nationalized

00:31:50.680 people fully depending on the government for everything, it mirrors dictatorial regimes that

00:31:55.980 have not ended. Well, I don't think that Bernie Sanders wants to be a dictator. I really don't.

00:32:01.340 Again, I think that he probably has somewhat pure motivations in the things that, you know,

00:32:07.980 in the things that he believes, but I want to read you a quote and you can tell me who said it.

00:32:12.280 Uh, why should some people walk barefoot so that others can travel in luxurious cars?

00:32:17.440 Why should some live for 35 years so that others can live for 70 years? Why should some be miserably

00:32:22.640 poor so that others can be hugely rich? I speak on behalf of the children in the world who do not

00:32:27.440 have a piece of bread. I speak on the behalf of the sick who have no medicine of those whose rights

00:32:32.080 to life and human, human dignity have been denied. Sounds like Bernie Sanders. It's actually Fidel Castro.

00:32:37.960 So the murderous dictator of Cuba who, uh, tortured and imprisoned anyone who disagreed with him, 0.95

00:32:43.520 who threw people in jail for being gay, who ran Cuba further into the ground, living in luxury 1.00

00:32:47.760 while everyone else died in poverty, an evil person who, by the way, Bernie Sanders loves. 0.74

00:32:54.660 Bernie Sanders has praise. He's never retracted his praise from Fidel Castro. And again, Bernie Sanders is

00:32:59.660 not Fidel Castro, but he holds the same kind of ideas, which should show us that the ideas that

00:33:04.500 Bernie Sanders holds are not just bad for the family. They're bad for everyone because they've

00:33:09.020 never worked. They've always ended in suffering. They've always ended in more inequality. They've

00:33:13.700 always ended in more oppression in the name of taking away oppression. And part of that, part of

00:33:20.120 their movement depends on the breakdown of the family to get individuals to depend on the government,

00:33:25.340 not just for provision, but also morality. And we're seeing the consequences of that

00:33:30.160 in, uh, the, uh, the Madison, the Madison school district, while parents don't have a say to say

00:33:35.480 that a grown, uh, man can't go into the bathroom with their five and six year old little girls.

00:33:39.820 We're seeing it also in the push in various States, uh, for minors to be able to obtain an abortion

00:33:45.800 without their parents, letting them know, uh, the same thing with, I know this is very contagious

00:33:50.520 to talk about. We're not even going to get into it, but also vaccines. There are parents who have

00:33:54.640 legitimate, uh, reasons, whether they be medical, whether they be religious, not to administer at

00:34:00.780 least all the vaccines to their kids. For example, a lot of people have, um, contention with Gardasil

00:34:06.360 with the HPV vaccine, not only that it's not effective, but also that it has caused very real

00:34:11.580 side effects for a lot of women, not just short-term, but long-term. But now in Iowa and in New York

00:34:16.700 state, they are saying that, uh, this is going to be a mandatory vaccine, no matter which school you go

00:34:22.040 to, no matter what kind of school you go to starting at age, uh, 12 and that these little

00:34:27.460 girls can get the Gardasil vaccine without their parents telling them. So whatever you feel about 0.95

00:34:32.360 vaccines, that should probably make you feel a little bit icky that the state is encroaching that

00:34:36.200 much on parental rights to be able to inject something into your child's body without you 0.59

00:34:40.280 even knowing your child who doesn't have a developed frontal lobe, won't until they're 25 can't even,

00:34:46.660 you know, spell the word excellence without, you know, missing two letters. And they are going to

00:34:53.500 make these decisions, not just about their sexuality and their gender and their, uh, you

00:34:59.120 know, reproductive and having an abortion, but also about injecting things into their body. So 0.77

00:35:03.260 this is leftism. This is part of the reason why we have to be so vigilant against it and make sure

00:35:09.120 that we are teaching our kids from day one, the values that we want them to know, because we don't

00:35:14.960 know how long we're going to be able and free to do that. And also don't vote for Bernie Sanders.

00:35:20.120 Okay. That's all we have time for today. I hope you guys have a wonderful day. We will be back here

00:35:25.540 on Friday with Felicia Masonheimer. I'm so excited about this interview. You are going to love it. I

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 26, 2020

Ep 217 ｜ The Death of Parental Rights

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