Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 622 ｜ Pride Month & the Christian Response

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00:00:13.440 All right, guys, we're going to talk about a few things today. Today is June 1st, so it seems like

00:00:30.360 a fitting day to talk about some of the gender ideology madness that is once again not just 0.92

00:00:37.100 pervading our schools. We're going to talk about that a little bit. I mean, just absolutely insane,

00:00:41.980 but also is driving our federal government to make some decisions that I think are absolutely

00:00:49.780 cruel, wicked, draconian. We're also going to talk about Matt Walsh's new documentary,

00:00:55.240 What is a Woman? That is out today. And I think I'm going to start, though, just kind of with the

00:01:02.080 biblical perspective that we've talked about a lot about gender and sexuality and marriage.

00:01:08.440 But first, I think it's worth noting that this idea of Pride Month for the Christian should at least

00:01:16.100 cause us, just for the name alone, to take a step back and say, I'm not really sure if that,

00:01:21.760 that characteristic, is something that we should be celebrating as a virtue. Proverbs 16, 18 says,

00:01:27.440 Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. So pride is not something that the

00:01:34.860 Christian sees as a characteristic to emulate or to strive after. In fact, we are constantly told to

00:01:42.260 lower ourselves, to humble ourselves, to deny ourselves. Pride is not something that we celebrate.

00:01:50.740 It is not a virtue or a value that we uphold. Over and over again, we are told in Scripture that pride

00:01:56.780 actually comes before destruction. Pride will be an individual's demise and also a nation's demise.

00:02:03.520 So that alone should make us take a step back and say, you know what, I'm not sure that this is

00:02:09.840 something that aligns with Christianity. Of course, there is the much deeper and obvious reason there,

00:02:14.740 and that is because the orthodox view of marriage and sexuality for the thousands of years that the

00:02:19.980 church has been around has been that marriage is between a man and a woman. Now, you often hear,

00:02:26.580 well, this term homosexuality, it wasn't in the Bible until 1946. There are only a few verses that talk

00:02:33.160 about homosexuality, and they're not really talking about homosexuality, and Leviticus prohibits

00:02:39.120 people from doing lots of things. And if you don't follow every single cleansing law in the Old

00:02:46.480 Testament, then you shouldn't be following the law that says that a man cannot sleep with another man.

00:02:51.940 That's some of the things, or those are some of the things that you hear. You also hear

00:02:55.400 that Jesus never talked about sexuality. He never talks about the definition of gender or marriage.

00:03:02.360 And so Christians just shouldn't care about that. And you also hear, well, Christians are just called 0.98

00:03:07.300 to love. And Matthew 7, 1 says this, you're not supposed to judge. So apparently that just means

00:03:12.400 unconditional tolerance and acceptance of everyone's choices and lifestyles. And look, every single person,

00:03:19.340 no matter how they identify, no matter what behavior they engage in, is made in the image of God.

00:03:25.140 And therefore, their innate worth is equal. That is what we believe. And we believe from a political

00:03:31.160 standpoint that human beings should have basic constitutional rights, that those rights shouldn't

00:03:39.040 be inhibited or prohibited because of how a person says that they identify. So we believe all that. We

00:03:46.920 believe in equality under the law. We believe equality in the sense that everyone is valuable because they

00:03:53.320 are made in the image of God. That does not mean that Christians don't have a stance based on the Bible

00:04:00.040 about sexuality and about gender. So I'll say what I've said many times is that in looking at what Christianity

00:04:10.920 says about these things, we don't simply ask, well, what does Scripture prohibit? What does Scripture say that we

00:04:18.100 cannot do? That is the wrong mentality in reading the Bible? Because that is a mentality that is an

00:04:24.280 attitude, a posture of, well, what can I get away with? How can I finagle these verses? How can I take

00:04:30.800 this out of context? How can I kind of do away with the verses that I don't like in order to live the way

00:04:37.100 that I want to live, in order to do what I want to do? That's not how we approach the Bible. We don't

00:04:42.700 approach the Bible saying, well, what specifically does it say that I can't do? And anything that it

00:04:49.640 doesn't specifically say that I can't do, that means that I can do it. No, we read the Bible, if we love

00:04:55.880 God, if we believe in His authority, if we believe in Genesis 1-1 that He created the heavens and the

00:05:01.600 earth, we approach the Bible by saying, what does God tell me to do? How does He positively define

00:05:08.900 things? Not just what does He tell me not to do, but what does He say is? What does He say is not

00:05:15.040 just evil, but what does He say is good? What does He say is right? What does He say is true? And

00:05:21.580 because we love Him, we want to submit to Him. We want to honor Him. We want to subject ourselves

00:05:29.100 to His authority. And what we see in the definition of marriage and sexuality in Scripture is that it is,

00:05:36.040 as we have said many times, it's an alliteration rooted in creation. The definition of marriage,

00:05:42.240 of gender, of holy sexuality between male and female is rooted in the first chapter of the Bible,

00:05:49.140 Genesis 1-27, that God created us in His image, male and female, He created us. It's rooted in creation.

00:05:57.380 That dichotomy, that definition of marriage is reiterated throughout Scripture.

00:06:01.800 It is repeated by Jesus Himself. In Matthew 19, 4-5, He reiterates the creation account that a man

00:06:10.420 shall leave his father and mother, hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So, Jesus

00:06:15.900 absolutely does define what marriage and sexuality looks like. So, it's repeated by Jesus. It is 0.80

00:06:23.740 reflective of, or it's representative of Christ and the church. We read that in Ephesians 5, at the end

00:06:33.000 of the chapter of Ephesians 5, when we read that a husband is to love his wife as Christ loves the

00:06:39.360 church, and a wife is to submit to her husband as to the Lord. And we are told that husbands represent

00:06:48.580 Christ, who is the head of the church, and a wife represents the church, who is submissive 1.00

00:06:55.840 to Christ. So, what we see there is that the definition of marriage is between man and a woman

00:07:01.540 doesn't just have physical significance in the way of procreation, but it also has spiritual gospel

00:07:07.480 significance. So, it's representative of Christ in the church, and therefore, it is reflective of the

00:07:13.180 gospel. The Bible starts with a marriage and ends with a marriage, which means, according to Christian

00:07:20.900 theology, that all of time started with a marriage, or human history started with a marriage and ends

00:07:28.300 with a marriage. It started with the marriage between Adam and Eve, it ends with a marriage

00:07:32.260 between Christ and his bride, the church. So, the definition of marriage is not just about a physical

00:07:39.060 reality. It is about an eternal reality. We do not see that gender is interchangeable. We do not see

00:07:46.500 that gender is fluid. We do not see that the marriage roles are interchangeable. We see that

00:07:51.800 there is a deep, profound gospel significance in the definition of marriage as between a man and a

00:07:58.480 woman. So, a person who professes to be a believer, who denies that, you're not just denying some

00:08:04.480 peripheral, tertiary part of Christianity that can be compromised. You are actually denying the

00:08:11.140 creation order. So, you've already denied a fundamental part of Christianity by denying the

00:08:16.260 authority of our Creator that we see in the first chapter of the Bible. You are also denying how Christ

00:08:23.220 defined marriage in Matthew 19. You are denying the gospel and eternal significance of a husband and

00:08:29.980 wife representing Christ in the church. You are denying the gospel, in a sense. This is a gospel

00:08:36.180 issue because the Bible says it's a gospel issue. God created the Bible. And I'm going to get into

00:08:41.400 a little bit more about what love looks like from a biblical perspective rather than a worldly

00:08:48.000 perspective, especially on this subject in just one second. So, the world tells us that we lack

00:08:55.800 love or empathy if we don't agree with someone's lifestyle, if we don't agree with someone's

00:09:01.600 choices, if we don't agree with who they say they are. But Christian love is not the same as

00:09:10.920 worldly love. So, worldly love says unconditional acceptance and unconditional tolerance of what

00:09:21.380 the Christian theology would say is sin. And that's not how we define love in Christianity.

00:09:29.340 1 John 1.9 tells us that God is love. Wow. God is love. Not just that He loves, but that God

00:09:35.660 is love. So, if you are love, that means that everything you say and do, everything God says and does,

00:09:44.260 is therefore done from love. And God says that some things are sin. God says that some things are

00:09:51.080 wrong. God says that some things are good and some things are bad. Some things are true. Some

00:09:57.460 things are false. This God who is love calls people to repentance. This God who is love defines sexual

00:10:03.740 immorality. Again, that goes back to this idea that the word homosexuality was only added into the Bible

00:10:10.300 in 1946. Well, I mean, that forgets the fact that in Romans 1, it actually spells out the behavior. It

00:10:17.980 doesn't just use the word. So, the God who is love is very explicit about the definition of marriage,

00:10:24.020 about the definition of what He calls right and wrong sexual behavior and sexuality. And so,

00:10:31.620 if God is love and He says those things and He's clear about those things, then far be it from us to

00:10:36.860 believe that we can out-love God. The Bible doesn't say that we are love. And so, I think a lot of times,

00:10:42.560 as Christians, we are guilty of self-idolatry in thinking that we are actually more loving or more

00:10:49.800 compassionate than God is. That if we soften what the Bible says, or if we nuance it to the point of

00:10:55.960 being completely unclear about what the Bible says, that we can present ourselves as more loving to the

00:11:01.500 world than God actually is. But you can't out-justice God. You can't out-love Him. You can't out-compassion Him.

00:11:07.020 Therefore, the most loving and compassionate and just thing that we can do as people is to simply

00:11:13.220 agree with what God says because He is love. Now, that doesn't mean that you're purposely harsh or

00:11:22.840 you're cruel or that you are degrading towards someone or that you make someone feel less than. 0.72

00:11:30.020 That is definitely the opposite of loving. We know that love is patient and kind. It rejoices.

00:11:36.800 with the truth. And so, we want to make sure that we are communicators and messengers of love,

00:11:46.020 God's definition of love, and not just clinging symbols, as 1 Corinthians 13 says. But that does

00:11:54.840 not mean that we have to compromise. It means that we should not compromise because we trust the God who

00:12:01.000 has the authority over the universe, who created all of us, who knows what is good for us,

00:12:05.160 who knows what is in our best interest, who cares about us, who loves us so much that He sent His Son

00:12:12.440 to die for us, to cover our sins, so that we could be forgiven and reconciled to God forever,

00:12:18.960 and not just trust that we will spend eternity with Him in heaven, but also be free from our sin here on

00:12:27.840 earth. I think one thing that we do have to remember that homosexuality or any kind of, you know, 0.98

00:12:35.240 whatever the Bible calls sexual immorality is not the thing that a person is first going to be

00:12:43.740 repenting of if we shared the gospel with them. The first thing that all of us repent of is our

00:12:50.400 unbelief. And it takes the power of the Holy Spirit. It takes the grace of God. It takes the goodness

00:12:56.340 and the kindness of God, as Romans 2 tells us, to repent, to change our hearts, to change our minds.

00:13:04.040 And do let us be careful not to condemn and to wrongly judge someone who maybe isn't where we

00:13:16.600 think that they should be when they just became a Christian. Let us think back, all of us, to when we

00:13:21.280 first became a Christian, when we first heard the gospel, when we first started reading the Bible and

00:13:26.440 consuming theological books, we had a lot wrong, didn't we? Did we have perfect theology all at once?

00:13:31.560 Does anyone ever have perfect theology all at once? No. Now, I do think repeated denial of core

00:13:37.840 tenets of Christianity, that's a problem and indicative of someone who is probably not saved.

00:13:43.620 But let us also be gracious and patient with people who are just coming into the faith. God is in charge

00:13:51.840 of their sanctification. We can admonish and we can encourage and we can instruct out of love and we

00:13:58.440 can call people through kindness to repentance. Also realizing that even if we are full of grace and

00:14:04.920 truth and power, as both Jesus and Stephen are described to be, that the reaction that we receive

00:14:11.380 may still be anger and hostility, that doesn't mean that you're not doing the right thing. It doesn't

00:14:16.640 mean that your tone is wrong. It doesn't mean that you didn't communicate well. We have to understand

00:14:21.700 that people are going to be hostile to the gospel, potentially. And our job is to simply obey God,

00:14:28.200 to speak the truth in love, and to glorify Him in what we do, realizing that that is the most

00:14:34.400 loving thing that we can possibly do. All right, now that we've kind of got that, I've kind of like,

00:14:41.180 hopefully set the tone and reminded us of kind of like the Christian mentality in the midst of all

00:14:46.040 of this. I want to talk first about Matt Walsh's new documentary, What is a Woman? The reason why I

00:14:52.960 want to talk about it, I won't reveal a whole bunch of details because you can go to the Daily Wire site,

00:14:58.240 you can go subscribe, and you can watch it today. So I don't want to give away too much of what it is.

00:15:05.040 I really recommend it though. It's funny at parts. It's terrifying. It's sad. It's also hopeful.

00:15:09.900 It's just like very interesting and very well done. But I do want to talk about,

00:15:14.300 because it connects to what we just discussed, one thing that I noticed, a theme in his conversations

00:15:20.800 when he was talking to people who are advocates of gender so-called transition or what they would

00:15:28.720 call like gender affirmation procedures, especially in children. I mean, advocates of this idea that a man 0.98

00:15:35.580 can become a woman or a boy can become a girl and vice versa. Not only would they not define

00:15:41.800 what a woman is, they would say something along the lines of, well, a woman identifies as a woman.

00:15:47.500 Of course, that's a circular definition. You can't use the word that you're trying to define

00:15:53.960 in the definition. But one thing that I realized was kind of the thrust of all of their arguments was

00:16:02.800 that a person cannot know truth, that there is no objective truth. Even in some of just like the

00:16:08.880 random people on the street that he was talking to, you realize that that is kind of what the

00:16:16.800 foundation of their belief system is. This kind of relativism, this subjectivism, this idea that

00:16:25.420 really there's no external reality. There's not even a fixed biological reality that not just gender

00:16:32.440 is fluid, but all reality is fluid. That if you say something is your truth and it contradicts what

00:16:39.880 we can feel and see and think and can actually prove with data, then you still, like your truth is still

00:16:50.260 legitimate. It can't actually be contradicted. And this is not just something we see in the progressive

00:16:55.120 view of gender. This is something that we see in the progressive view of a lot of things. We've

00:16:58.880 talked before about this idea of standpoint epistemology. It is a subset of feminist theory

00:17:05.160 that has also had a big impact on critical race theory and queer theory. And it is this idea that

00:17:14.040 you gain knowledge. So epistemology, you learn knowledge through your particular standpoint. That is how

00:17:22.260 you attain knowledge. So that's why like when you hear that you have to learn about a particular

00:17:27.240 subject from a so-called queer person or a person of color and your data or your logic or your argument

00:17:35.820 doesn't matter. Their lived experiences matter. What they think matters, their opinion and their

00:17:42.520 perspective trumps whatever data exists. That comes from this idea of standpoint epistemology,

00:17:48.220 that knowledge actually comes from your standpoint in the world of intersectionality. And there is no

00:17:56.020 objective means of knowing what is true. It's kind of a form of like Gnosticism, of someone being able

00:18:02.720 to gain special knowledge because of their sexual orientation or because of their identity or because

00:18:08.980 of their skin color. And that runs directly opposed to what Christianity knows about truth. That not only is 1.00

00:18:17.140 an objective, observable reality, not only do we believe in data, we believe in mathematics, we believe

00:18:23.040 in the scientific method, we believe that God created all of these things, and that it is a gift of common

00:18:30.480 grace that we can observe objective reality. There is something called nature, which does not lie. There is

00:18:37.700 something called science that is based on observation and data. We believe in all of these things, but also we

00:18:46.380 believe in knowledge that is revealed to us in scripture. We believe that there is a universal

00:18:53.940 morality, that there is objective truth that can be accessed by people who aren't Christians. But then 0.92

00:19:01.080 also Christians believe that there is an objective truth found in Christ, that Jesus in John 14, 6 says

00:19:08.540 that I am the way, the truth, the life, and no one comes to the Father except through me. So there is

00:19:14.340 salvific objective truth, an exclusivity to that salvific objective truth. So Christianity does not buy

00:19:22.080 into this idea that someone's lived experience or someone's subjective perspective trumps reality.

00:19:29.200 The Bible tells us it echoes science or science echoes the Bible in that God made us male and female.

00:19:37.500 There are no other categories there. There's nothing in between there. Those are not interchangeable.

00:19:43.000 And it actually makes so much sense that the people who deny the reality that the dichotomy of male and

00:19:49.620 female, they reject the idea of truth, period. And so really the conversations that we are having 1.00

00:19:56.340 about gender, they are theological, philosophical conversations. They're not primarily political

00:20:01.760 or culture war conversations. Now, most people don't realize when they have a particular perspective

00:20:07.880 on gender. They don't realize that they have like they're like borrowing from a philosophical tradition

00:20:17.340 that goes back hundreds of years back to, you know, Descartes and other philosophers that kind of

00:20:25.840 share that mentality. Really, you need to read Love Thy Body by Nancy Piercy, who explains all of this

00:20:31.920 really well. But it struck me that really, almost like anything else as I was watching this documentary,

00:20:37.400 that this is primarily a religious conversation, that this really does go back to not only do you

00:20:42.760 believe in truth, but do you believe in God? Because if you don't believe in God, then it actually

00:20:50.300 is hard to make the case for objective truth and universal morality. The reason we believe in objective

00:20:56.880 truth and universal morality is because we believe in a God and a creator that transcends all governments,

00:21:03.780 transcends our minds, is infallible, and is infinite, and created the universe and has that transcendent

00:21:11.780 authority and is supreme. If you don't believe in that, then where do you believe the truth comes

00:21:16.480 from? If you don't believe in the God of Scripture, why wouldn't you believe in the God of Self?

00:21:20.340 But don't you see how that leads to all kind of moral anarchy? Don't you see how the questioning,

00:21:26.620 the upending of a universal morality can pave the way for the justification of all kinds of human

00:21:33.500 rights atrocities? In fact, the concept, the reality of rights is built on the Bible. It's built on the

00:21:42.060 Judeo-Christian belief that we have a creator who made us in his image, and therefore we have rights

00:21:48.080 that cannot be taken away from us because they were given to us by God, not the government. In most of

00:21:53.880 the world, you don't have human rights. You don't have the right to life. You don't have the right 0.90

00:21:57.500 to free speech. You don't have the right to not be arbitrarily detained or tortured by the state.

00:22:03.280 Go to China. Go to most of the Eastern world today, and you will not find the concept of human rights.

00:22:10.600 And so, really what we see in this conversation about gender is something that is so much bigger and

00:22:17.440 so much more destructive than only boys and girls kind of being indoctrinated by what I think is just

00:22:25.800 an immoral and confusing ideology. It actually has societal, civilizational implications that I don't

00:22:39.800 even think that we have started to see the effects of those. And so, let us just remember that.

00:22:45.920 Let us remember that the reason that we're having these arguments today, it doesn't just go back

00:22:50.860 to crazy wokeness or crazy politics or the left has just gotten so crazy. All of those things are

00:22:56.100 true. It actually comes back to godlessness. It comes back to a loss of the knowledge of and the belief

00:23:02.920 in the Bible, which is the foundation for Western civilization, the foundation for rights, the foundation

00:23:09.340 of the belief in truth. Whether or not you're a Christian, that's true. And because that's no 1.00

00:23:16.240 longer taught in schools, I think that we are seeing some of the fruits and the repercussions

00:23:20.120 of that, especially when it comes to the sexual and gender revolution.

00:23:23.440 All right. I want to talk about this crazy story that I saw at the beginning of May. And I just

00:23:34.120 wrote an article for World Magazine about it that I think is going to come out probably sometime this

00:23:40.540 week. And that is about the Biden administration forcing schools to allow boys into girls' bathrooms

00:23:51.580 and locker rooms and sports teams and private spaces in order to get federal lunch money that

00:23:58.920 is typically given to students, provided for students who are below the poverty line. Is that

00:24:05.580 not insane? So talk about a godless, destructive ideology that is guiding the president of the United

00:24:13.160 States, that is guiding his administration. And, you know, the irony in all of this, and I'll explain

00:24:18.780 exactly what's going on, is that the people who are on the other side of me on this issue claim that

00:24:25.560 we are the ones who are not loving, who are not empathetic. That if we had empathy, then we would

00:24:31.100 just agree with them. If we were loving, then we would just get on board with everything that they

00:24:34.860 believe and say and just affirm a lifestyle that Orthodox Christianity has been against for thousands 0.99

00:24:39.580 of years. Is it empathetic to take away federal lunch money from K-12 schools because they don't get

00:24:46.920 on board with a completely anti-scientific and destructive agenda? It's insane. So this is

00:24:54.000 according to the Federalist. The USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture, has a school lunch

00:25:03.440 program, the National School Lunch Program, that feeds about 30 million kids every school day and about

00:25:10.620 100,000 public and private and residential care facilities. And these are typically kids, as I said,

00:25:17.440 that are under the poverty line that really rely on their schools for breakfast, for lunch, for snacks to

00:25:25.360 be fed throughout the day. Now, they have developed a new rule, the USDA, under the guidance of the Biden

00:25:32.820 administration that says establishments that accept any of this federal food funding, including food stamps,

00:25:40.620 must allow males who claim to be female to access female private spaces such as showers, bathrooms and 0.99

00:25:47.440 sleeping areas. Such organizations must follow protocols such as requiring staff to use preferred

00:25:53.840 pronouns, so requiring them to lie, and allowing male staff to dress as women while on the job. Religious

00:26:01.640 institutions may qualify for a waiver exempting them from these requirements, no paperwork required,

00:26:07.600 but that is the only exemption that you can hope to have. The Human Rights Campaign is pushing for

00:26:13.660 even narrower religious exemptions for this rule and for a list of organizations who request the

00:26:19.540 exemptions. I'm sure that they'll be super responsible and not at all vengeful and vindictive

00:26:24.620 when it comes to that. Government schools, however, no matter their religious objections,

00:26:30.300 if they have them, can receive no exemption. All right, so they are going to withhold money. Let's

00:26:38.020 just be really clear about this. They are going to withhold money from schools who feed, who have

00:26:45.820 impoverished people, impoverished children. They are going to refuse to give them the money for food for

00:26:53.420 these people. If teachers don't use so-called preferred pronouns, if these entities do not allow boys into

00:27:01.300 girls' locker rooms, showers, bathrooms, sports teams, residential care facilities. I mean, you are

00:27:09.880 withholding sustenance, nutrition from children who did nothing wrong, who are already vulnerable.

00:27:18.780 Because some schools don't want boys to go into girls' bathrooms, there is nothing more wicked 0.82

00:27:26.740 than that. And progressives want to talk to conservatives about having empathy. Where's the

00:27:31.960 empathy here? Where's the love here? How is this anything other than evil? See, here is part of the

00:27:39.340 issue, is that when Obergefell happened in 2015, believe it or not, the majority of Americans, I think it was

00:27:46.060 about 60% of Americans actually didn't believe in legalizing gay marriage. This wasn't something

00:27:50.380 that was allowed to go through the legislature as it should have, or state legislatures. It was

00:27:55.120 something that happened through a judicial decision, which is not how it should have gone down.

00:28:02.200 A lot of conservatives worried Christians talked about the slippery slope. We could not have imagined

00:28:08.320 how slippery the slope would have been, or what was awaiting people at the bottom. I don't think

00:28:14.680 anyone could have even foreseen. In 2015, that's only seven years ago, what gender identity would 0.83

00:28:20.760 be. That there would be boys trying to identify as girls and go into girls' private spaces. We have

00:28:26.140 already seen, in some cases, these boys victimizing girls, like in Loudoun County. We talked about that

00:28:30.840 last year. We don't even know how often this is happening. I'm sure a lot of girls don't want to speak 1.00

00:28:35.220 up, and a lot of teachers and districts don't want to talk about it because it's so politically

00:28:38.420 incorrect. And hey, they don't want to lose their lunch money for the poor kids. We could not have

00:28:43.760 seen how slippery the slope was. And this has become so detached from civil unions, remember that,

00:28:50.380 how quaint, and hospital visits for gay partners. It has moved so far beyond that to the realm of

00:28:58.000 complete absurdity. And again, the denial of reality, not just objective, physical, biological reality,

00:29:05.840 but any kind of moral truth as well. To the point to where, once again, once again, what do we always

00:29:11.300 say? Children are always the unconsenting subjects of progressive social experiments. And that is

00:29:18.040 exactly what's happening. They are saying they would rather kids starve, they would rather kids starve

00:29:23.580 than a school say that a boy can't go into a girl's bathroom. That's the Biden administration. 0.99

00:29:28.200 How we doing, pro-life evangelicals for Biden? How we doing? Things going well? Doesn't really seem so.

00:29:34.780 So this is happening while, by the way, CBS reports that inflation hits the lunch line,

00:29:43.240 how higher costs and supply chain issues are affecting school lunches. So school lunches are

00:29:47.780 already having a hard time at schools. Like, they're already having a hard time getting the

00:29:52.120 supplies and the food that they need to provide for kids, especially vulnerable kids. So this is

00:29:57.760 according to CBS. Some districts have been forced to pull back or make substitutions to deal with the

00:30:02.400 cost of ingredients. Mead Middle School in Maryland used to offer five entrees a day and now it's down

00:30:07.560 to just one. You know some kids rely on schools to eat in a day? Elijah Lee, an eighth grader at Mead

00:30:15.640 Middle School, said, we had no more condiments like ketchup and mustard and the ranch, which I loved.

00:30:20.800 So sad. At some schools, there are no more hamburgers or chicken patty sandwiches because of the price of

00:30:26.920 buns and ketchup. Offering more tacos are bunless options and trying to navigate a shortage of

00:30:31.940 healthy options like carrot sticks. Even trays and plates are in short supply. School Nutrition

00:30:36.760 Association says that 97 percent of meal programs reported challenges with higher costs. The Department

00:30:42.580 of Agriculture has been offering schools a $4.56 reimbursement for every meal served and will reduce

00:30:51.060 the reimbursement to pre-pandemic levels $3.75 on July 1st. So as all of this is happening because

00:30:58.880 of inflation, because of the poor economy, because of the supply chain issues, which is not all Biden's

00:31:04.020 fault, to be fair. It's somewhat Democratic policy's fault, but it's not all Biden's fault. It is because

00:31:09.860 of a variety of factors. While all of that is happening, they are saying, hey, guess what? We're going to

00:31:16.280 take away your funding for food, period, if you do not go along with our radical trans agenda. That,

00:31:23.480 by the way, victimizes young girls, puts them in a vulnerable spot. Guess what? Girls, young girls 1.00

00:31:29.980 who don't want to share the bathroom with, I'm sorry, but a penis, which is normal, that used to 1.00

00:31:35.600 be sexual harassment, by the way, that used to be a form of sexual assault for a girl to be flashed or to 0.80

00:31:40.860 be forced into a private space with a male. Girls who don't want to do that are just not going to go to 1.00

00:31:44.800 the bathroom. They're just not going to go into the locker room anymore. See, this is the flip side

00:31:50.340 of toxic, superficial empathy. Oh, we just need to have empathy for just this one group of people.

00:31:57.300 What's the flip side of that? It's always the flip side of so-called social justice. Who is paying

00:32:03.720 for this, what is called progress? Who is paying for it on the other side? What's the cost? The cost is

00:32:11.440 high here. The cost is vulnerable kids not getting food. The cost is girls being forced into vulnerable

00:32:18.320 situations with naked boys. I mean, it's insane. So this is what I'm talking about when I say that

00:32:24.280 this is a religious theological issue that we are discussing. It's not just, well, what do you think

00:32:29.080 about the science of gender? It's not just a political or cultural war issue. This has to do 0.92

00:32:33.920 with what you think about human nature, what you think about truth, what you think about who created

00:32:38.880 all of this and why we're here. That is why we are seeing the destructive consequences that we are.

00:32:46.020 Okay, so Lips of TikTok and Chris Rufo have done better journalism than most so-called journalists

00:32:53.600 at the mainstream media outlets over the past few years in just revealing the moral cultural rot

00:32:59.380 that is in our institutions, that's in our major corporations, that's in our federal government,

00:33:06.360 and that's in a lot of schools, especially public schools, it seems, but also private schools,

00:33:11.340 unfortunately, that are untethered to any kind of objective truth or morality or goodness.

00:33:16.480 And so Lips of TikTok put together what she called a mega drag thread. She says they say it's innocent. 0.79

00:33:23.640 They say it's about inclusion and acceptance. They say no one is trying to confuse, corrupt,

00:33:26.820 or sexualize kids. They lie. And then in this thread, which I'm, you know, we might put up some

00:33:32.780 examples on YouTube so that you can look at them. I really would rather not put up some of the videos.

00:33:39.940 We can link this thread in the description of this episode so that you can look at it.

00:33:44.480 But let me let me read you a little bit of what's going on here. I mean, these are sexual shows that

00:33:49.780 are targeting children. Again, how far have we come from talking about hospital visitation rights,

00:33:56.480 which is what we heard was the whole like sexual revolution really was about a few years ago.

00:34:02.640 Now we're having drag shows for children and the parents are to blame mostly. The parents are to

00:34:06.900 blame. So let me not put it all on activists. This wouldn't be happening if parents wouldn't take

00:34:11.360 their kids to these godforsaken events. So here's one thing. A gay nightclub in Minnesota held a drag 0.96

00:34:17.620 show for children earlier this month. One of the performers said in an interview,

00:34:21.080 I want to give the kids an opportunity to see what drag queen slash king life is like on a day 0.99

00:34:27.880 to day basis. I mean, this is a guy that is scantily clad that is dancing in a sexual way.

00:34:34.620 This is basically like going to a strip club. Why? A preschool in Massachusetts is hosting a pride 1.00

00:34:39.460 event, including drag queen story time and a pride parade. So at a lot of these drag queen story

00:34:44.980 times, I mean, you've got men who are dressed in fishnets and leotards. And obviously, they're like

00:34:52.340 a caricature of what a woman actually is, which I think is offensive in itself. And then they've got

00:34:57.420 the huge like fake boobs. They've got like the fake cleavage. If this were an actual woman dressed 1.00

00:35:02.900 like this, would this be appropriate? That was something that I asked a couple years ago when this

00:35:07.520 was happening. If this were a woman basically dressed like a prostitute, prostitute story hour, 1.00

00:35:12.360 like, would that be appropriate for children? So why is it appropriate when a man dresses like 1.00

00:35:16.620 this? It doesn't make any sense. There is absolutely no innocent reason for a kid to go

00:35:22.240 to a drag show. There's no innocent reason for an entity to host a drag show for kids. There's no

00:35:28.540 innocent, non-predatory reason for a man to dress sexually in front of children.

00:35:34.760 And a bar in Dallas, Lips of TikTok says, it's advertising a drag show for children,

00:35:40.000 including the opportunity for some kids to perform with the drag queens on stage. And oh my goodness, 0.97

00:35:47.280 the picture, the picture that is being shown in this advertisement is just absolutely insane.

00:35:54.880 Bristol Library, Bristol Library advertised a drag queen story hour tour where drag queens will be

00:36:02.700 going around to libraries across the UK to read to children. Children and drag queens dance for 1.00

00:36:09.640 adults with some kids even collecting money on stage at a drag convention earlier this month called

00:36:16.600 DragCon. And there is literally a video of a kid on stage dancing for a crowd of people. This is

00:36:23.980 young kids. It goes on and on and on and on. These drag shows are happening. These encouragement of

00:36:34.680 transgender identity events are happening at schools across the country targeting children. Again, 0.98

00:36:42.780 this goes back to the destruction of any kind of concept of right and wrong. And it is all to just

00:36:50.060 to use the, I think, correct term, groom children into this kind of abuse. This is absolutely abuse.

00:36:57.080 Now, I think it is worth saying that not all LGBTQ people, I would say the vast majority of people

00:37:02.940 who identify as LGBTQ do not identify with a lot of the stuff and a lot of the behavior and a lot of 0.99

00:37:09.640 the movements that we are seeing from the activist class. I think that's absolutely true. I don't think

00:37:14.080 we need to lump them all together. But this is the ideology that is driving the movement. It goes all the

00:37:19.300 way back, as Matt Walsh's documentary talks about, as we've talked about many times, goes all the way

00:37:23.520 back to John Money. It goes all the way back to Alfred Kinsey. It goes all the way back to a

00:37:28.640 destructive worldview that really does prey upon the innocence of children, at least in the

00:37:35.680 manifestations of the ideology that we are seeing today. So I think that if we care about this,

00:37:41.200 it's something that we have to speak out about. It's really a shame that the federal government

00:37:44.380 is on board with something like this and is willing to sacrifice poor children on the altar of it.

00:37:49.460 But that's where we are. I mean, seriously, go check out that thread so you don't have to just

00:37:57.260 take my word for it. You can see it for yourself. Again, there's no innocuous safe reason for kids to

00:38:04.860 be sexualized, no matter what your belief system is. Can we just agree on that? No matter how you

00:38:09.160 identify, and I think a lot of us do, no matter our political backgrounds or our views on sexual

00:38:14.580 orientation and what people refer to as gender identity, no matter our views, can we just agree

00:38:19.120 on that? Can we come together on that? Hopefully most of us agree on that. But realize that means

00:38:26.240 that we have to agree on some kind of objective truth, not just biological truth, but also moral

00:38:31.140 truth. And it gets harder and harder to do that when you do not have the same basis, the same

00:38:38.040 foundation, the same understanding of where truth comes from. So do not be afraid, Christian, to

00:38:43.840 recognize this is a theological issue that we are dealing with. This is a biblical issue that we are

00:38:49.360 dealing with, to hold fast to the word of truth that God has given us, to be so clear, to be so

00:38:54.120 courageous about that, to be so loving about that. I mean, if we're loving towards children, we're

00:38:58.820 against the stuff that we're seeing in this thread, right? That's what love, true love, looks like,

00:39:04.140 not the worldly superficial definition of love. And be undeterred in your kindness and your clarity

00:39:09.680 for this. We are called not to sacrifice children as the world continually does and has done basically

00:39:15.180 throughout human history, but to save children, to save those who are being taken to the slaughter,

00:39:20.960 which they are in many ways, both literally through abortion and figuratively through destructive

00:39:27.340 ideologies like this. So be undeterred. The fight is absolutely, absolutely worth it. All right.

00:39:33.360 That's all we've got time for today. We will be back here tomorrow with a really fun interview.

00:39:38.080 I know that you guys are going to like, and we will see you then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - June 01, 2022

Ep 622 ｜ Pride Month & the Christian Response

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