Ep 288 | Are Pro-Lifers Just Pro-Birth? | Q&A
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In this episode of Relatable, I answer a lot of your questions and talk a little bit about Kamala Harris and what she stands for. I also talk about my new book "You're Not Enough: Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love" and why you should buy it!
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Friday. I hope everyone has had a great week and that
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you are looking forward to the weekend. So we're going to talk about a wide range of
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things today because I took a lot of questions from you guys via Instagram. So we're going
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to talk a little bit about Kamala. We're going to talk a little bit about some other cultural
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things that are going on and answer a lot of the questions that you guys sent. As always,
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I just don't have time to get to every single question and all of them are very interesting
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and good questions to answer. But I tend to sometimes go on this like side rant that makes
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these Q&A episodes go really long and then I am unable to answer all of the questions that I want
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to answer. So thank you to all of you who sent me questions. If I didn't answer your question
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or if I'm not going to today, then trust me, it's not personal and you probably had an awesome
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question. But I'm really excited to get into all of that. Today, if you are someone who listens to
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the Unashamed podcast with Jace, Al, and Phil Robertson, then I'm going to be on that podcast
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today, Friday, August 14th. I think that's today. And so go listen to that. It was a great conversation.
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As you guys know, they're just great guys. I love how clearly they present the gospel
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and how seriously they take the word of God and they're just so funny and lighthearted
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and they're just a joy to be around at least virtually. I also had Phil Robertson on my podcast
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last year when I was pregnant. And there's a really funny story that he tells on air about that moment
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and about when we met that you'll have to listen to. But definitely go listen to that conversation
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that is out today. We're talking about my book, You're Not Enough and That's Okay,
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Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love. Now, most of you listening have already bought the book.
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Either you've been listening to my podcast for a long time and so you've heard me talk about this
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book forever and ever, or you bought the book and now you have decided to listen to my podcast for
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the first time. And if that's the case, I am so glad that you're here. Relatable talks about news,
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theology, politics, culture from a Christian and conservative perspective. Some days we talk
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completely politics. That's probably going to be a lot of the episodes coming up in the next few
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months because we've got an election coming up and it's a very consequential election. And actually on
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Monday, what I'm going to do is give you as thorough as I can of an analysis of what a Biden-Harris
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ticket looks like versus a Trump-Pence ticket. And I might actually only talk about Biden and
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Harris and then we'll get to what Trump-Pence stand for on another episode because I really
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want it to be as kind of thorough and as fair as possible. Obviously, you guys know that I could
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never vote for Biden or Kamala because they are so rapidly pro-abortion and everything else they
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stand for stands contradictory to what I believe in. But I truly do want to give you a fair and a
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thorough assessment so you can do your own analysis and your own research. But other days,
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we won't talk about politics at all. Other days, we might take a verse of the Bible that is
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decontextualized and misused by the culture. And we look into the context and we say, okay,
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here's what this verse actually says. Here's what it actually means. And here's why we read the Bible
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the way we do in the context of what is actually going on in the passage. We'll take cultural myths and
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we'll break them down from a biblical perspective. So that's what you can expect on this show.
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Yes, sometimes it's going to be political heavy, just depending on what's going on. Sometimes it'll
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be news heavy. Sometimes it'll be culture heavy. Sometimes it'll be exclusively theology. So that
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is what you can expect. I'm so glad that you are here at Relatable. And thank you so much to everyone
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who has gone out and bought my book and shared about it on social media, quoted it, and all of that
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encouraged me, sent me kind messages and emails. You guys just mean so much to me. It has been a
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wonderful launch week. And if you haven't, you can go to allibethstucky.com book. That's where you
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can find the book. If you've just been like thinking, do I really want this book? Do I want
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to spend my money on it? Yes, you do. It is worth it, girl. It is worth it. And if you're not a girl,
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you should buy it for a girl because there's just a lot. There's a lot in here. And I feel like I can
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say that because I gain wisdom from people who are a lot smarter than me as well in order to write
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this book and break down a lot of the disastrous myths that unfortunately young women are buying
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into. If you're a woman, as I have said many times, please join Women's Book Club with Allie
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Stuckey on Facebook. Now I've got almost 500 requests that I am trying to work through and
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trying to approve them. I can't approve all of them at once because you get some weird guys who
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are trying to join Women's Book Club with Allie Stuckey. And if I approve all, you're going to
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get the creepers in there. And this is Women's Book Club with Allie Stuckey is a creep free place.
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Okay. And so in order to keep it a creep free place, I have to thoroughly go through each person
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and to make sure that they are not a creeper or a troll. So doing the best I can, if I haven't
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gotten to your request to enter Women's Book Club with Allie Stuckey, I'm doing it. Make sure guys,
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if you haven't done that, you answer all of the security or not the security questions, but
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just the admittance questions. Make sure that admission questions, that's what I'm trying to
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say. Make sure that you answer those because that's the way that I filter it out. Because a lot
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of times people who don't answer the questions, they're just kind of trolls and they want to see
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if I'll let them in. So make sure that you answer all of the questions. And if you've already read the
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book, so many of you have told me, hey, I listened to the book in one sitting or I read the book in one
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sitting. I had a friend who literally was like, hey, I just got your book in the mail. And then it was like
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two hours later. Oh, I already finished the book. Please go on Amazon and leave this a five-star
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review. Of course, if you love the book, I'm not telling you to lie. But if you love the book,
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I would love for you to give me a five-star review on Amazon. It helps me out a lot. And I just,
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I really appreciate that. And that, of course, is if you read the book. Unfortunately, you got people
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who haven't read the book going in there and being like and saying things that are just crazy. So
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if you read the book, if you love the book, or if you listen to the book and you love the book,
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please go on Amazon and give it a five-star review. That would just mean so much to me. And if you love
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this podcast, please give it a five-star review on Apple Podcasts. That means a lot to me. Okay.
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Love you guys so much. Thank you for all the support and encouragement. And now I am going to
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answer some of the questions that you guys have sent me. Okay. So I love relationship questions. Now,
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this obviously isn't a political question. I just told you, we talk about politics and theology
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and culture and all that. And this, I guess, is culture, but it's also a personal question.
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Someone asked me, do you think dating in high school is a good idea? I dated in high school,
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probably starting at 15 or 16. And they were pretty fruitless relationships, I would say. Now,
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do you learn things about yourself and other people? Do you learn how to communicate? Do you learn how to
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set boundaries and all of that? If you date in high school, sure. But in general, high schoolers
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simply have not developed the maturity necessary to have healthier relationships. Again, in general,
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that might not be true. You could be listening to this and you married your high school sweetheart
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that you've been dating since you were 13 and it was all well and good. You always had a great,
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healthier relationship. So I understand that there are exceptions, but in general, how God created,
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people is that we just don't have our frontal lobe developed before we are 25 actually. But
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especially in high school, you are highly emotional. You are highly hormonal. You think
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that you're invincible and you just don't think through consequences very well and you are very
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selfish. Now, some of this is natural, like I said, how God made us. But of course, centuries ago,
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it was not the case for people to wait until they're 25 or 30 to get married. People did.
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They didn't date, but they got married when they were a teenager. So some of it, yes, I think
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is natural that we're immature at that age, but it's also cultural. The fact of the matter is,
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is that our culture, especially in the West, prolonged adolescence way too long. And so we don't start,
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quote, adulting. That's the term until we're like, you know, 30 years old. Some people,
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they don't want responsibility. They don't want marriage. They don't want kids until they are
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very late in life because they don't want to do things that they don't want to do. That's
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obviously not the case for a lot of people who are single when they're 35. But there are people
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who defer sacrifice, who defer that kind of responsibility, who defer commitment for as
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long as possible because they don't want the inconvenience and they want to continue to be the
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center of their own universe. Our culture glorifies that. Of course, I talk about that in my book
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a lot. But this prolonging of immaturity, this prolonging of juvenility of adolescence,
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unfortunately, it glorifies selfishness and that does not lead to great relationships typically
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when you are on the younger end of that. So when you are a teenager, I personally,
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if I could go back and change things, I would not have started dating until I was ready to find my
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future husband. So that means that I don't hate or I don't regret all of the relationships that I
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ever had before I got married. But I think it is much better. You are safeguarding your heart and
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your obedience to God, your holiness. If you wait to start seriously dating people until you are actually
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ready to find a husband or wife and get married. And so typically that is in your 20s. Sometimes that's in
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college. Sometimes that's right after college. I don't recommend if you can help it. And I understand a lot of
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people can't if you can help it. I don't recommend putting off marriage forever and ever or even dating
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the same person, you know, for 10 years without getting married. If circumstances allow you to get
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married, if you are able to get married, if you know the person that you want to marry, then I encourage
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you, as I do in my book, to go ahead and make that commitment. There are so many things that you can
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figure out together that really can't be figured out when you are dating or even when you are engaged.
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And look, I understand there are a million different circumstances that people have that might be
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preventing them from actually getting married even though they want to right now. So I'm just speaking
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to the people. If you can get married, if you have the opportunity to, if the circumstances are at all
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making that possible, then go ahead and make that commitment to the person that you are ready to
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enter a covenant into with for the rest of your life and to unconditionally love them and to
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sacrifice for them and vice versa. But if you're in high school, probably not ready to do that yet.
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Circumstances probably not allowing you to do that. I encourage you to build friendships, to focus on
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your relationship with the Lord, focus on gaining wisdom, focus on obeying God and to cultivating
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your relationship with Him and spending your energy in the ministries, in the friendships that He has
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called you to invest your energy in. There will be so much time for dating, so much time for relationships,
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so much time for marriage, and all those things are so wonderful. But I personally believe that
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you know, in high school, for most people, it's probably just not, it's not the best thing to do.
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Okay, someone asks, how can we prove to our friends and neighbors that we are more than just
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pro-birth? So this is an accusation that pro-lifers get leveled against us all the time, that you're just
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pro-birth. You're not really pro-lifer. You're just pro-fetus. You don't care about the baby after
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they're born when nothing could be further from the truth. Unfortunately, the people who level this
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kind of insane accusation, they don't really care about the data that proves the contrary,
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that if you look at every pregnancy center, every pro-life pregnancy center, every ministry that
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helps women who are pregnant, women in crisis, women in babies, every organization that offers
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free resources, free parenting classes, affordable clothing, affordable baby items, and things like
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that. The organizations that are helping young pregnant women get out of domestic abuse situations.
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These are all pro-life, the vast majority Christian organizations. And so this idea that we are
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only pro-birth, that we just say, okay, please keep your baby. And then we don't care about you after
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that could not be further from the truth. And people say, you know, the church needs to do more to step up
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for these women. Do you know factually that the church isn't? Like, I don't see evidence of that.
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Honestly, I think in general, the church, the true church of Jesus Christ has done an excellent job
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of ministering to women in crisis, not just helping them see that the life inside their womb is sacred,
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that God has a purpose for their life, a purpose for their baby's life, but that they are loved,
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they are valued, they are cared for, and that we are going to be with them every step of the way.
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I mean, you guys know who have listened to this podcast for a long time. I did a couple of online
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baby registries through two pregnancy centers, one in Texas and one in Louisiana. And all I did was
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post on the internet, say, hey, donate some items through an Amazon baby registry, and it'll go to
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moms in crisis through these pregnancy centers. Both of those centers received thousands and thousands
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of boxes because of the generosity of pro-lifers. I guarantee you, the people who were donating
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all of those items to women in crisis, you are taking money out of your wallet, your hard-earned
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paycheck, and you are voluntarily giving your money, giving your resources to people who don't have
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those things, to people who need it. I guarantee you, every single person who placed an order through
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that baby registry, through those baby registries, were pro-lifers. Probably the majority of them,
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Christian pro-lifers. And so this idea that we are pro-birth, there's no evidence that we are only
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pro-birth. We believe in loving the mom, in caring for the mom, and we believe in loving and caring
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for the baby. The only people who take a side, the only people who choose which one we are going to
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care about are pro-choicers, are pro-abortion people. Those are the only people who say, well, we are only
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going to try to love, if you could even call it that, or we're only going to focus on, or we're
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only even going to acknowledge the humanity of one of the two people in this situation. In fact,
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they don't even say that the life inside the womb is a human being. And the thought of loving a baby
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inside the womb is almost disgusting to a lot of pro-choicers, and I'm not exaggerating that.
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It is almost gross reprehensible. They get angry when you talk about the personhood,
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or just the scientific humanity of a baby inside the womb. If you go to PlannedParenthood.com or any
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pro-abortion website and you look at the description of abortion procedures, sometimes the description
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will say fetus, but most of the time it says pregnancy tissue. So what they are trying to do
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so hard is to dehumanize life inside the womb, to make you believe that it's just a root canal
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that is happening, is you're just getting a tooth pulled or something like that. They're trying to
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make you believe that this baby with its own unique DNA, kicking, moving around, feeling pain,
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this life inside the womb, they're trying to make you believe that it's not life at all,
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that it's just this inanimate object, that it's just this cluster of cells that really has no value
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to it whatsoever. So if there's any side that is picking one person to care for, it's not the
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pro-life side. We will do everything we can for a mother in crisis to make sure that she is cared
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for. We will take them into our own homes. We will give every bit of money that we have, every bit of
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prayerful energy that we have to make sure that one mom is taken care of. That is what characterizes
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every pro-lifer that I know. And I'm not saying that there are no pro-choicers who don't also care
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about women in crisis. But if pro-choicers are really pro-choice, what's stopping them? What's
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stopping them from volunteering at this pregnancy center? What's stopping them from volunteering at
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a pro-life place? If they're not, as they say, pro-abortion, but they really just are pro-choice,
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then how many of them are actually helping the moms who want to keep their babies, make sure that they
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are in a situation where keeping their baby is okay? If you're truly pro-choice, then why not make it
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as easy and as comfortable and as safe as possible to allow women to have the baby that is inside
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their womb? Shouldn't we all be for that? Like, is that not the better option? And that's the
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disagreement here, is that one side, the so-called pro-choice side, the pro-abortion side, doesn't
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necessarily believe that keeping your baby is the better option in general. I'm sure there are some
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people out there that would disagree with me. And I have a whole other spiel for you too, if you say
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that you are pro-choice, but not necessarily pro-abortion. That's the deal, is that one side
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doesn't necessarily think, they are not willing to say that keeping the child is the better option.
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And so at a place like Planned Parenthood, you are not going to get to know all of your options.
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You're going to get to know that you can have an abortion and they're not going to offer you to
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hear the heartbeat. They're not going to offer you, if they don't have to, according to the law of the
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state that they're in, if they don't have to show you the sonogram, they're certainly not going to.
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They're not going to tell you about gestation. They're not going to tell you about how far
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along your baby is in development. They're not going to show you pictures of what your baby looks
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like right then. And so how can you possibly say that you're pro-choice when these abortion centers
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are telling these women as little information as possible to ensure that they have an abortion
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so these abortion centers can continue to capitalize off of the brutal murder of unborn children.
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So, and this is part of why, I mean, this is part of why I can't, I can't even have a conversation
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about, um, I can't even have a conversation with the people who say, you know, you're on the wrong
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side of history. You lack compassion. I'm like, really? Because you advocate for baby murder.
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And we've talked about, uh, we've talked about on this podcast before what abortion is. You can go
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back. You can listen to several of my podcasts on the subject that I talk about what exactly happens
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in an abortion procedure, what goes on, um, how the baby is actually killed, how the beating heart is
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actually stopped, the brutal way in which babies are ripped out of the womb and the brutal way in which
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a needle is inserted through the mother's womb into the uterus, into the beating heart of a moving,
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kicking, alive baby to make sure that the baby goes into cardiac arrest, to make sure that the baby
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has a heart attack. And we all know if you've seen Unplanned, uh, if you have heard testimonies of this,
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even from abortion doctors, that sometimes it's very hard to get the needle into the beating heart of the
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baby because the baby is moving away from the needle because the baby knows because there's an
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instinct there for survival because the baby is wiggling around. So sometimes it's very hard to
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kill a baby in the second trimester in this way, because the baby is moving around. So I really
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don't want to hear from people. Oh, you're just pro birth. Even if we were just pro birth, which were
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much more than that. Even if we were just pro birth, it's better than being pro murder. So I really don't
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want to hear your sanctimony over who is on the right side of this. Uh, not only does the left,
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does the democratic party say, Hey, her body, her choice, which is stupid anyway, because there are
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two lives there. Uh, not only do they say, you know what? I think this should be the woman's decision,
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which again is a stupid argument. You're talking about killing someone in what other case is killing
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someone justified by choice and by autonomy. And what other case, why is it just when we're talking
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about a baby in the womb, do we get to use autonomy to justify murder? Oh yeah. Because the baby is
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defenseless because the baby can't vote because the baby can't speak up for itself. Because, uh,
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unfortunately there is, uh, there are doctors like Dr. Leah Torres in Salt Lake City who admits to
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cutting the baby's, um, vocal cords. If the baby didn't die in the proper way during the abortion and they
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have to take the baby out, she cuts the baby's vocal cords. So the baby can't scream. So because
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we can't hear the baby, that is why autonomy is used as the justification for abortion, but is not
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used as the justification for any other kind of murder. So not only does the democratic party use
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those stupid, stupid euphemisms to try to justify the absolutely unjustifiable, but they celebrate it.
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They celebrate it. That is not an exaggeration. I mean, Chelsea Handler, she's selling these
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abortion AF shirts and was wearing them on her Instagram. You've got organizations like Shout
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Your Abortion, which has been touted by people like Oprah, who also wants to, uh, preach to the rest of
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the country constantly about how everyone just needs to do better. This organization, Shout Your Abortion,
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which is trying to destigmatize the murder of unborn babies and say that women should be proud of their
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abortions. You've got people like Busy Phillips. She is, um, she was giving her screed, her speech
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at some, you know, women's rally last year saying how proud she is of her abortion. Alyssa Milano,
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the same thing. Do you remember when that terribly draconian murderous bill passed in New York a couple
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years ago? And we did an episode, I think it was called Calling Evil Good, where New York lit up the,
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lit up the empire, uh, state building. And I think other buildings pink after they passed this act
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that said a woman, a woman is able to, actually, they would probably say a person, but we know only
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women get pregnant. A woman is able to legally have an abortion at any stage of pregnancy whatsoever,
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as long as the doctor says that actually doesn't even have to be a doctor, according to this bill,
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as long as the reason for the abortion is some kind of, for her emotional wellbeing, for her
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emotional health, which really can just mean anything. That actually includes, according to
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Doe v. Bolton, which was a Supreme Court case, emotional health can just mean family situation.
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It can mean financial situation. So read, for any reason, this act, the Reproductive Women's Health
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Care Act or something stupid like that, that passed in New York, that has also passed in places like
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Illinois, a similar legislation has also passed in places like New Mexico. It's very similar in
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California. For any reason, in many states, a woman can have an abortion as long as she categorizes it
00:24:04.640
vaguely under emotional health until 40 weeks of pregnancy. And we actually know from the Virginia
00:24:11.480
governor, Ralph Northam, who said on a radio show, this is not a myth, said on the radio show,
00:24:16.680
if a baby survives an abortion, we will take the baby, put it on, put it to the side, make the baby
00:24:23.540
comfortable. And then we talk to the parents about what we want to do. What you talking about, Ralph?
00:24:28.100
Are you talking about murdering the baby after that, letting the baby die? Republicans have tried now
00:24:34.020
multiple times to pass an act that says, hey, if a baby survives an abortion, then you have to
00:24:40.640
provide that baby the same care that you would provide any other person. Democrats, all Democrats
00:24:45.200
have shut it down and said no. So we're talking about infanticide here. And for all of you who say,
00:24:49.740
oh, well, it's so rare for that to happen. Oh, well, it's so rare for women to have an abortion
00:24:55.680
late term. Okay. If that's the case, then why not make it illegal? And people say, oh, well, you know,
00:25:03.140
sometimes you need a late term abortion for the health of the mother. No, you don't. No, you don't.
00:25:08.340
You deliver that baby anytime after viability, especially. But before that too, of course,
00:25:14.340
abortion is not justified, but you deliver the baby. You have to get the baby out of you.
00:25:18.600
That is the problem. If you have a health problem, you have to get the baby out of you. You don't
00:25:21.780
have to kill the baby to get the baby out of you. Oh, some people say they found out that their baby
00:25:26.440
is deformed or they have special needs or something like that. Okay. It's still a human being. Do we
00:25:31.680
justify taking the life of special needs people when they're outside of the womb? Do we justify
00:25:36.500
murder of special needs people outside of the womb? No, of course we don't. So why just a matter of
00:25:41.840
sheer location? Why does that change our justification for murder? Again, because these
00:25:48.440
people inside the womb don't have any power. So Democrats, they celebrate this. They celebrate
00:25:56.260
it. It is part of their platform. Kamala Harris, huge Planned Parenthood advocate, especially when she
00:26:02.480
was the AG of California. She is the one who went after David Delighton. David Delighton is the
00:26:09.020
journalist who revealed, who through his journalism revealed that Planned Parenthood is, this is a fact,
00:26:17.020
they do harvest baby parts and they sell them. They sell them for money. That is something that is
00:26:22.240
actually happening. She went after him, violating the First Amendment. And it was a political
00:26:28.780
prosecution. And she, the whole thing is so crazy because as she is going after David Delighton,
00:26:36.580
who just exposed all the corruption that is in Planned Parenthood, which of course, you have an
00:26:40.860
organization that celebrates baby murder. They're going to be corrupt in other ways too. Would you
00:26:44.760
really expect them to be above board? You'd expect them not to make money off of the baby parts? Of
00:26:49.140
course they are because they're sick, sick people. So as Kamala Harris is going after David Delighton for
00:26:55.640
exposing Planned Parenthood, she is also, she is supported by Planned Parenthood and their money.
00:27:00.760
Planned Parenthood as an organization, especially in California, supported her, supported her campaign,
00:27:06.700
supported her candidacy, donated money to her. And so what would have been the right thing is for her
00:27:13.620
to recuse herself because there was a conflict of interest there, but because she is so deeply corrupt
00:27:17.640
and because she loves abortion so much and she loves Planned Parenthood so much as she has proven
00:27:23.580
over and over again throughout her career. She tried to execute a political prosecution
00:27:30.100
against someone like David Delighton. And so that is who Kamala Harris is. So for all the people,
00:27:36.320
back to the question, see, I told you, I go on these rants and I'm only able to answer two questions.
00:27:41.380
For all the people saying that you are just pro-birth, I'm sorry, give me a break. Give me a break.
00:27:48.540
Are you saying, so I, like I said, I would rather be pro-birth than pro-baby murder. And for anyone
00:27:54.960
who says, you know, the Democratic Party, they're the more compassionate party. Yeah, it aligns with
00:28:00.420
Christian values. Okay. You're going to have to square that circle for me. You're going to have to
00:28:04.580
tell me how in good conscience, any person, but especially any Christian who believes that God made
00:28:10.960
all of us in the image of God, that he formed us all in the, in the womb, that we are fearfully
00:28:15.540
and wonderfully made. The God who you, I'm sure would agree, cares for the powerless, is the voice
00:28:21.720
for the voiceless, cares about the oppressed. You're going to have to explain to me why that doesn't
00:28:27.140
include unborn babies. And I know people say, well, there's other issues. There are racial issues.
00:28:32.480
There are immigration issues on which Democrats are more compassionate. No, they're not. They're
00:28:39.240
actually not. There's no facts to actually back that up. You're going to have to tell me what the
00:28:43.100
Democratic Party has done for minority communities ever. Tell me, what have they done? They talk a big
00:28:50.840
talk. They talk about reparations. They talk about the importance of getting rid of systemic racism.
00:28:58.600
What have they actually done? I want to know that has made life better for the poor and mostly
00:29:04.880
minority communities. They've fought against school choice. They've fought against welfare
00:29:08.840
reform. They've fought against a lot of the things that we know, even in some cases, police reform.
00:29:17.840
They fought against teachers unions reform. They're for teachers unions. And all of these,
00:29:22.480
we know, disproportionately negatively affect minority communities, poor communities as well,
00:29:28.160
not equating those two. Sometimes, often they overlap. They don't always overlap. But I'm talking
00:29:32.800
about two different groups. Democrats have not fought for the little person. They don't fight
00:29:39.060
for the little person. They're just as much elite as anyone else. And I'm not saying the Republican
00:29:43.560
Party is our savior. I'm not. I've talked about their imperfections a lot. But tell me, like what
00:29:49.640
policies are actually more compassionate and more effective and have made things better for the
00:29:55.840
country and for the least of these in this country? I just can't. I can't think of any. I can't. I mean,
00:30:02.300
Democrats have been running the cities like Chicago, like Detroit, like Portland, like Seattle, like L.A.,
00:30:10.660
like New York for literally decades, decades and decades. Democrats have been running these cities.
00:30:17.340
And yet these are the cities with the greatest income gap, with the greatest disparities,
00:30:21.560
with the greatest success gaps. Unfortunately, a lot of times with the greatest police brutality,
00:30:27.580
same thing with Minneapolis. And so you're going to have to you're going to have to convince me with
00:30:32.960
some kind of statistic, with some kind of data that tangibly the Democratic Party has actually helped
00:30:39.840
the people that you claim to fight for. I just haven't seen it. Again, I'm not vouching for the
00:30:45.980
perfection of the GOP. But I'm certainly never going to vote for the party that that opts for baby
00:30:52.820
murder. And that I just don't believe has been helpful to the country at all. And actually,
00:30:57.900
I believe that the policies have led to destruction and oppression and more suffering.
00:31:02.740
Someone asked, are events in NYC Portland, so he's talking about the riots, the chaos, the huge rising
00:31:18.820
crime that has happened, because unfortunately, the leaders in those cities have tried to neuter the
00:31:23.160
police and defund the police and have not allowed their police to actually do their jobs. And so they're
00:31:29.000
allowing just people to be to run down the streets with criminality and with riots and with chaos.
00:31:37.880
He's asking, are these events reminiscent of white flight in the 1960s? Yes, I would say this is
00:31:43.500
probably true. I mean, you're going to get a lot of people that are going to be fleeing these cities
00:31:47.600
because they don't want to live there anymore. It's not safe for them anymore. It's not safe for them
00:31:51.500
to go outside. It's not safe for them to enjoy their lives by walking downtown. It's not safe for these
00:31:57.420
small businesses to conduct their business anymore. There was actually a piece of journalism in the
00:32:02.080
New York Times that was really interesting that talked about how businesses in Seattle,
00:32:06.680
these business owners who are all progressive, they're all leftist, how they have been unable to
00:32:12.780
run their businesses and to provide for themselves and to provide for their families because of the
00:32:16.820
intimidation tactics, the mob tactics of Black Lives Matter and Antifa who are owning the streets in
00:32:23.340
these cities and not allowing them to do their jobs. They're demanding even the space that their
00:32:29.720
business occupies. They're demanding money from their sales. I mean, this is extortion. These people
00:32:34.980
are mob-like. They're mafia-like. And there was actually a BLM advocate the other day who yelled out,
00:32:41.840
you know, I don't care if people loot. I don't care if people steal stuff. That's, they deserve that.
00:32:46.860
That's reparations. Okay, so are you seeing now how this has no correlation to biblical justice
00:32:53.540
whatsoever? Like, do you see that? That God, he says that we're not supposed to steal, that we're
00:32:59.740
not supposed to covet, but they're saying that that is reparations. And by the, like, this is such
00:33:04.840
all a perfect example of cosmic justice. By the way, if you haven't read Thomas Sowell's quest for cosmic
00:33:10.580
justice, I encourage you to do so. What people typically call social justice, they actually mean
00:33:15.960
it as cosmic justice. And so it has no actually grounding in reality or in objectivity, but is just
00:33:25.160
this cosmic equation for what justice looks like. And always on the other side of the equation
00:33:30.800
is hurt people. And so you do something, you do something that you say you do in the name of
00:33:37.260
justice, like you loot the Gucci store, you loot the Amazon store, you loot the Tesla store,
00:33:41.640
or something like that. You say, this is justice. This is reparations. Well, who is hurt on the
00:33:45.940
other side of that? Is that really justice? Who's hurt on the other side of that? Well,
00:33:50.260
I'll give you a great example. They decided that they were going to loot the Ronald McDonald house.
00:33:56.740
And that, you know, that's the place where kids with cancer, where they go and they get some kind
00:34:03.080
of birthday celebration. That's where, you know, a lot of their wishes get to come true. A lot of these
00:34:07.800
kids have terminal cancer and they don't have very long to live. And this is the one thing that they
00:34:12.500
have to look forward to. And unfortunately, this was looted. So this was completely ransacked by
00:34:20.900
Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists. And so this story of this little boy, I'll put it up on the
00:34:27.620
screen. The story of this little boy is that he actually didn't get to go celebrate his birthday
00:34:33.600
at the Ronald McDonald house because it was ransacked, because it was looted. Now tell me,
00:34:38.740
is that justice? Did this little boy do anything to the Black community? Did this little boy,
00:34:45.160
did he commit police brutality? Did he commit some kind of injustice? So is that justice punishing him
00:34:53.100
for the crimes of who knows who? Is that justice? I don't think that's justice. This is what social
00:34:58.840
justice, cosmic justice does, because it is rooted in revenge. It's rooted in Marxism, which says
00:35:05.460
the oppressed, the so-called oppressed, the perceived oppressed, have the right to do absolutely
00:35:12.600
anything. They don't have any moral agency. They have the right to violence. They have the right
00:35:16.440
to looting. They have the right to everything. That is what is meant when this girl said these
00:35:20.320
are reparations. It's not actual justice. It hurts people who did nothing wrong. That's not God's
00:35:26.240
justice. That is not godly justice. And thank God for that. So I just want you to see the lunacy of all of
00:35:34.100
this, that we are getting to see, by God's grace, we're getting to see the logical conclusion of
00:35:38.940
Marxism. Like we're getting to see the manifestation of what leftism causes, what it looks like. It
00:35:44.600
causes chaos. It causes chaos. It causes hurt. It causes further oppression. It causes further
00:35:50.660
injustice. Anyone who tells me rioting is the language of the unheard. Okay, well, what about this
00:35:58.340
little boy? What about this little boy? What about all of the poor people, the mostly minority people
00:36:04.340
in places like Minneapolis, who now they don't have a place to conduct business. They don't have a place
00:36:09.000
to grocery shop. They don't feel safe going out of their homes and going to get the things that they
00:36:13.700
need to get. What about the poor people, the vulnerable people, the special needs people, the
00:36:18.120
elderly people, the single moms in places like Portland and Seattle and LA and New York who don't feel
00:36:23.100
they can go outside? Is that justice to punish them for something that they didn't do? So just
00:36:29.780
realize that when we hear calling out for justice, when someone says, oh, God wants justice, you need
00:36:35.240
to ask them, what do you mean by that? By the way, forcing people to define their terms is absolute
00:36:39.380
kryptonite to the anti-racism, critical theory, social justice movement. You make them define their
00:36:46.100
terms. Tell me what that means. Where did you get your definition of justice? Is it really justice to
00:36:51.300
punish people who didn't do anything wrong? Is retribution and revenge and destruction really
00:36:58.220
justice? No, it's not. So you've got an entire side now that is for this disarray, who believes
00:37:04.440
this kind of disarray is justified. And unfortunately, our media perpetuates it. I'm not sure that you saw
00:37:10.420
this terrible story of this five-year-old boy. His name was Cannon, and he was playing outside on his
00:37:20.040
bike with his two young sisters. And a man, his next-door neighbor, decided to come outside to
00:37:26.760
shove a gun in the face of this little boy to shoot him at point-blank range and to execute him
00:37:33.900
right there. And we only heard about it because there were small little local outlets that were
00:37:39.080
reporting on it. And we don't hear about these stories in the national news. And of course,
00:37:45.280
so I guess I didn't bring up this part, but the man who executed this little boy was black and the
00:37:51.220
little boy was white. And it might not have been racially motivated. I'm going to give the same
00:37:55.720
benefit of the doubt that I would give to anyone. I don't know that it was racially motivated. I don't
00:37:59.960
know what this person's heart was. The reason why it matters is because an image bearer, a person made in
00:38:05.920
the image of God, was murdered and God hates murder. That is wrong. So I have no idea if it was racially
00:38:11.780
motivated. What I do know is if the races were reversed, this would be talked about for months on end
00:38:19.420
in the media. And unfortunately, that is what is causing so much of this chaos in so many of the false
00:38:27.260
narratives that we are only told about instances in which the perpetrator is white and the victim is
00:38:34.060
black. And it makes us think that that happens every day, that that's happening all the time. And that's
00:38:38.480
just not true. It's not statistically true. It's not statistically true that black people are
00:38:43.780
disproportionately affected by police brutality. It is not. If you look at the number of police
00:38:48.140
interactions between white and black people rather than just population size, if you look at the number
00:38:52.920
of crimes committed between white and black people, not just their population size, and you weigh that
00:38:57.540
against the number of conclusions of police interactions that are police brutality, you will see
00:39:06.000
that there is not a disproportionate effect on the black community of police killings. It's just not
00:39:13.340
true. For every unfortunate and tragic instance of a white police officer killing a black person,
00:39:21.780
whether they were armed or not, there is one or more instance of a white person that is killed in the
00:39:29.300
same way. And you don't hear about it. You don't hear about it ever. It's just not interesting to most of
00:39:35.000
the media. There is a really good, there's a really good article by Coleman Hughes in City Journal.
00:39:41.220
Coleman Hughes is a liberal. He is a Biden supporter. And he talks about how his mind changed on Black Lives
00:39:48.940
Matter, his mind changed on police brutality, because the data just doesn't prove the narrative and stories
00:39:53.700
don't prove the narrative. And he actually goes through a lot of the major stories. He looks at the facts and
00:39:59.580
he points out that there is an alternative story to every story that we hear of a white police officer
00:40:05.900
killing a black police officer. And it's all bad. Like, we shouldn't, we shouldn't just dismiss that
00:40:11.740
because it's happening to both white and black people. We should look at every single instance and
00:40:15.540
to make sure that it was justified, that there was no injustice there. I think we're all for
00:40:19.820
accountability. We are all for better and more training and more funding for police departments so that
00:40:25.240
they can do a better and more efficient job so that they can deescalate as best as possible.
00:40:30.740
But to create a racialized narrative surrounding that is causing so much chaos and so much division,
00:40:36.380
and it's based on a lie. And so for us as Christians, we have to be willing to push back on it. We have to
00:40:41.660
be willing to say, okay, when I talk about justice, I'm going to have a biblical definition of what
00:40:45.620
justice is. I'm not going to excuse writing and alluding that disproportionately hurts vulnerable
00:40:50.580
people and very often minority people, just because people tell me that I can't criticize
00:40:56.620
writing and looting. That's not a biblical definition of what justice is. I'm not going
00:41:01.440
to latch onto organizations and hashtags and movements that stand for things that Christians
00:41:06.020
don't stand for, like dismantling the nuclear family as Black Lives Matter does. I am not going to
00:41:12.460
justify violence of any kind. I'm not going to justify retribution. I'm not going to justify
00:41:18.520
revenge. And I am not going to latch on to narratives that are simply not grounded. In fact,
00:41:24.560
I'm not going to do it. No matter how compassionate it might make me sound, I'm just not going to
00:41:30.180
perpetuate a lie in the name of fitting in. You have to be really careful about the things that
00:41:35.640
you agree to, but the things that you nod your head at, at the things that you just tacitly accept
00:41:40.880
at your place of work, in your family, with your friends, at your church. You push back against
00:41:46.160
everything that isn't true, using the word of God and using facts, using statistics. That is what we
00:41:51.880
are called to do as believers in objective truth. And I'm not saying I have it all figured out.
00:41:57.060
I'm not saying that you should only listen to me, that you shouldn't listen to other perspectives.
00:42:00.880
I think that we should. We absolutely should. And I am for talking about some kinds of reforms. I am
00:42:07.840
for talking about what can actually help a lot of these communities that I know both sides,
00:42:13.780
you know, a lot of people on both sides really care about, but I'm just not going to buy into
00:42:19.540
false narratives. So the question was, do I think there's going to be a white flight? I think there's
00:42:24.060
going to be a flight of all kinds of people, of all kinds of ethnicities who don't want to feel
00:42:28.020
unsafe in these cities anymore. Again, we are graciously getting a look at what leftist policies
00:42:33.200
end up as. It's chaos. It's anarchy. As Dan Crenshaw says often, leftism doesn't lead. It
00:42:39.820
doesn't actually build something. It's good for activism. It's good for passion. It always sounds
00:42:45.580
good, but it can't actually build something. Its logical conclusion is always just destruction and
00:42:51.440
revolution. That's what it's been throughout history. Conservatism, at least parts of conservatism,
00:42:57.500
always have to be adopted in order for leftism to work at all. So, okay, that's all I have to talk
00:43:05.880
about today. I know I only got through three questions, kind of. I don't even know if I
00:43:09.880
answered all of them, but I know we talked about some controversial things today, but hey, that is
00:43:14.700
what we do on Relatable. You can let me know what you think. You can message me on Instagram and let
00:43:19.960
me know. Thank you guys so much for listening. We'll be back here on Monday, and we'll be talking