Ep 622 ｜ Pride Month & the Christian Response
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June 1st is Pride Month for the Christian, but what does the Bible say about it? What does it say about gender and sexuality? What is a woman? And what does it mean to be a Christian in the 21st century?
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All right, guys, we're going to talk about a few things today. Today is June 1st, so it seems like
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a fitting day to talk about some of the gender ideology madness that is once again not just
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pervading our schools. We're going to talk about that a little bit. I mean, just absolutely insane,
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but also is driving our federal government to make some decisions that I think are absolutely
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cruel, wicked, draconian. We're also going to talk about Matt Walsh's new documentary,
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What is a Woman? That is out today. And I think I'm going to start, though, just kind of with the
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biblical perspective that we've talked about a lot about gender and sexuality and marriage.
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But first, I think it's worth noting that this idea of Pride Month for the Christian should at least
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cause us, just for the name alone, to take a step back and say, I'm not really sure if that,
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that characteristic, is something that we should be celebrating as a virtue. Proverbs 16, 18 says,
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. So pride is not something that the
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Christian sees as a characteristic to emulate or to strive after. In fact, we are constantly told to
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lower ourselves, to humble ourselves, to deny ourselves. Pride is not something that we celebrate.
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It is not a virtue or a value that we uphold. Over and over again, we are told in Scripture that pride
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actually comes before destruction. Pride will be an individual's demise and also a nation's demise.
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So that alone should make us take a step back and say, you know what, I'm not sure that this is
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something that aligns with Christianity. Of course, there is the much deeper and obvious reason there,
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and that is because the orthodox view of marriage and sexuality for the thousands of years that the
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church has been around has been that marriage is between a man and a woman. Now, you often hear,
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well, this term homosexuality, it wasn't in the Bible until 1946. There are only a few verses that talk
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about homosexuality, and they're not really talking about homosexuality, and Leviticus prohibits
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people from doing lots of things. And if you don't follow every single cleansing law in the Old
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Testament, then you shouldn't be following the law that says that a man cannot sleep with another man.
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That's some of the things, or those are some of the things that you hear. You also hear
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that Jesus never talked about sexuality. He never talks about the definition of gender or marriage.
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And so Christians just shouldn't care about that. And you also hear, well, Christians are just called
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to love. And Matthew 7, 1 says this, you're not supposed to judge. So apparently that just means
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unconditional tolerance and acceptance of everyone's choices and lifestyles. And look, every single person,
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no matter how they identify, no matter what behavior they engage in, is made in the image of God.
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And therefore, their innate worth is equal. That is what we believe. And we believe from a political
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standpoint that human beings should have basic constitutional rights, that those rights shouldn't
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be inhibited or prohibited because of how a person says that they identify. So we believe all that. We
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believe in equality under the law. We believe equality in the sense that everyone is valuable because they
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are made in the image of God. That does not mean that Christians don't have a stance based on the Bible
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about sexuality and about gender. So I'll say what I've said many times is that in looking at what Christianity
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says about these things, we don't simply ask, well, what does Scripture prohibit? What does Scripture say that we
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cannot do? That is the wrong mentality in reading the Bible? Because that is a mentality that is an
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attitude, a posture of, well, what can I get away with? How can I finagle these verses? How can I take
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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
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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
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approach the Bible saying, well, what specifically does it say that I can't do? And anything that it
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doesn't specifically say that I can't do, that means that I can do it. No, we read the Bible, if we love
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God, if we believe in His authority, if we believe in Genesis 1-1 that He created the heavens and the
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earth, we approach the Bible by saying, what does God tell me to do? How does He positively define
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things? Not just what does He tell me not to do, but what does He say is? What does He say is not
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just evil, but what does He say is good? What does He say is right? What does He say is true? And
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because we love Him, we want to submit to Him. We want to honor Him. We want to subject ourselves
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to His authority. And what we see in the definition of marriage and sexuality in Scripture is that it is,
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as we have said many times, it's an alliteration rooted in creation. The definition of marriage,
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of gender, of holy sexuality between male and female is rooted in the first chapter of the Bible,
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Genesis 1-27, that God created us in His image, male and female, He created us. It's rooted in creation.
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That dichotomy, that definition of marriage is reiterated throughout Scripture.
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It is repeated by Jesus Himself. In Matthew 19, 4-5, He reiterates the creation account that a man
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shall leave his father and mother, hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So, Jesus
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absolutely does define what marriage and sexuality looks like. So, it's repeated by Jesus. It is
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reflective of, or it's representative of Christ and the church. We read that in Ephesians 5, at the end
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of the chapter of Ephesians 5, when we read that a husband is to love his wife as Christ loves the
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church, and a wife is to submit to her husband as to the Lord. And we are told that husbands represent
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Christ, who is the head of the church, and a wife represents the church, who is submissive
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to Christ. So, what we see there is that the definition of marriage is between man and a woman
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doesn't just have physical significance in the way of procreation, but it also has spiritual gospel
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significance. So, it's representative of Christ in the church, and therefore, it is reflective of the
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gospel. The Bible starts with a marriage and ends with a marriage, which means, according to Christian
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theology, that all of time started with a marriage, or human history started with a marriage and ends
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with a marriage. It started with the marriage between Adam and Eve, it ends with a marriage
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between Christ and his bride, the church. So, the definition of marriage is not just about a physical
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reality. It is about an eternal reality. We do not see that gender is interchangeable. We do not see
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that gender is fluid. We do not see that the marriage roles are interchangeable. We see that
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there is a deep, profound gospel significance in the definition of marriage as between a man and a
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woman. So, a person who professes to be a believer, who denies that, you're not just denying some
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peripheral, tertiary part of Christianity that can be compromised. You are actually denying the
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creation order. So, you've already denied a fundamental part of Christianity by denying the
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authority of our Creator that we see in the first chapter of the Bible. You are also denying how Christ
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defined marriage in Matthew 19. You are denying the gospel and eternal significance of a husband and
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wife representing Christ in the church. You are denying the gospel, in a sense. This is a gospel
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issue because the Bible says it's a gospel issue. God created the Bible. And I'm going to get into
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a little bit more about what love looks like from a biblical perspective rather than a worldly
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perspective, especially on this subject in just one second. So, the world tells us that we lack
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love or empathy if we don't agree with someone's lifestyle, if we don't agree with someone's
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choices, if we don't agree with who they say they are. But Christian love is not the same as
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worldly love. So, worldly love says unconditional acceptance and unconditional tolerance of what
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the Christian theology would say is sin. And that's not how we define love in Christianity.
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1 John 1.9 tells us that God is love. Wow. God is love. Not just that He loves, but that God
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is love. So, if you are love, that means that everything you say and do, everything God says and does,
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is therefore done from love. And God says that some things are sin. God says that some things are
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wrong. God says that some things are good and some things are bad. Some things are true. Some
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things are false. This God who is love calls people to repentance. This God who is love defines sexual
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immorality. Again, that goes back to this idea that the word homosexuality was only added into the Bible
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in 1946. Well, I mean, that forgets the fact that in Romans 1, it actually spells out the behavior. It
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doesn't just use the word. So, the God who is love is very explicit about the definition of marriage,
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about the definition of what He calls right and wrong sexual behavior and sexuality. And so,
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if God is love and He says those things and He's clear about those things, then far be it from us to
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believe that we can out-love God. The Bible doesn't say that we are love. And so, I think a lot of times,
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as Christians, we are guilty of self-idolatry in thinking that we are actually more loving or more
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compassionate than God is. That if we soften what the Bible says, or if we nuance it to the point of
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being completely unclear about what the Bible says, that we can present ourselves as more loving to the
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world than God actually is. But you can't out-justice God. You can't out-love Him. You can't out-compassion Him.
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Therefore, the most loving and compassionate and just thing that we can do as people is to simply
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agree with what God says because He is love. Now, that doesn't mean that you're purposely harsh or
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you're cruel or that you are degrading towards someone or that you make someone feel less than.
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That is definitely the opposite of loving. We know that love is patient and kind. It rejoices.
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with the truth. And so, we want to make sure that we are communicators and messengers of love,
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God's definition of love, and not just clinging symbols, as 1 Corinthians 13 says. But that does
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not mean that we have to compromise. It means that we should not compromise because we trust the God who
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has the authority over the universe, who created all of us, who knows what is good for us,
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who knows what is in our best interest, who cares about us, who loves us so much that He sent His Son
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to die for us, to cover our sins, so that we could be forgiven and reconciled to God forever,
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and not just trust that we will spend eternity with Him in heaven, but also be free from our sin here on
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earth. I think one thing that we do have to remember that homosexuality or any kind of, you know,
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whatever the Bible calls sexual immorality is not the thing that a person is first going to be
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repenting of if we shared the gospel with them. The first thing that all of us repent of is our
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unbelief. And it takes the power of the Holy Spirit. It takes the grace of God. It takes the goodness
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and the kindness of God, as Romans 2 tells us, to repent, to change our hearts, to change our minds.
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And do let us be careful not to condemn and to wrongly judge someone who maybe isn't where we
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think that they should be when they just became a Christian. Let us think back, all of us, to when we
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first became a Christian, when we first heard the gospel, when we first started reading the Bible and
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consuming theological books, we had a lot wrong, didn't we? Did we have perfect theology all at once?
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Does anyone ever have perfect theology all at once? No. Now, I do think repeated denial of core
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tenets of Christianity, that's a problem and indicative of someone who is probably not saved.
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But let us also be gracious and patient with people who are just coming into the faith. God is in charge
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of their sanctification. We can admonish and we can encourage and we can instruct out of love and we
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can call people through kindness to repentance. Also realizing that even if we are full of grace and
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truth and power, as both Jesus and Stephen are described to be, that the reaction that we receive
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may still be anger and hostility, that doesn't mean that you're not doing the right thing. It doesn't
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mean that your tone is wrong. It doesn't mean that you didn't communicate well. We have to understand
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that people are going to be hostile to the gospel, potentially. And our job is to simply obey God,
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to speak the truth in love, and to glorify Him in what we do, realizing that that is the most
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loving thing that we can possibly do. All right, now that we've kind of got that, I've kind of like,
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hopefully set the tone and reminded us of kind of like the Christian mentality in the midst of all
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of this. I want to talk first about Matt Walsh's new documentary, What is a Woman? The reason why I
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want to talk about it, I won't reveal a whole bunch of details because you can go to the Daily Wire site,
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you can go subscribe, and you can watch it today. So I don't want to give away too much of what it is.
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I really recommend it though. It's funny at parts. It's terrifying. It's sad. It's also hopeful.
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It's just like very interesting and very well done. But I do want to talk about,
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because it connects to what we just discussed, one thing that I noticed, a theme in his conversations
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when he was talking to people who are advocates of gender so-called transition or what they would
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call like gender affirmation procedures, especially in children. I mean, advocates of this idea that a man
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can become a woman or a boy can become a girl and vice versa. Not only would they not define
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what a woman is, they would say something along the lines of, well, a woman identifies as a woman.
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Of course, that's a circular definition. You can't use the word that you're trying to define
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in the definition. But one thing that I realized was kind of the thrust of all of their arguments was
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that a person cannot know truth, that there is no objective truth. Even in some of just like the
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random people on the street that he was talking to, you realize that that is kind of what the
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foundation of their belief system is. This kind of relativism, this subjectivism, this idea that
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really there's no external reality. There's not even a fixed biological reality that not just gender
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is fluid, but all reality is fluid. That if you say something is your truth and it contradicts what
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we can feel and see and think and can actually prove with data, then you still, like your truth is still
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legitimate. It can't actually be contradicted. And this is not just something we see in the progressive
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view of gender. This is something that we see in the progressive view of a lot of things. We've
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talked before about this idea of standpoint epistemology. It is a subset of feminist theory
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that has also had a big impact on critical race theory and queer theory. And it is this idea that
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you gain knowledge. So epistemology, you learn knowledge through your particular standpoint. That is how
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you attain knowledge. So that's why like when you hear that you have to learn about a particular
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subject from a so-called queer person or a person of color and your data or your logic or your argument
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doesn't matter. Their lived experiences matter. What they think matters, their opinion and their
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perspective trumps whatever data exists. That comes from this idea of standpoint epistemology,
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that knowledge actually comes from your standpoint in the world of intersectionality. And there is no
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objective means of knowing what is true. It's kind of a form of like Gnosticism, of someone being able
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to gain special knowledge because of their sexual orientation or because of their identity or because
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of their skin color. And that runs directly opposed to what Christianity knows about truth. That not only is
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an objective, observable reality, not only do we believe in data, we believe in mathematics, we believe
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in the scientific method, we believe that God created all of these things, and that it is a gift of common
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grace that we can observe objective reality. There is something called nature, which does not lie. There is
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something called science that is based on observation and data. We believe in all of these things, but also we
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believe in knowledge that is revealed to us in scripture. We believe that there is a universal
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morality, that there is objective truth that can be accessed by people who aren't Christians. But then
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also Christians believe that there is an objective truth found in Christ, that Jesus in John 14, 6 says
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that I am the way, the truth, the life, and no one comes to the Father except through me. So there is
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salvific objective truth, an exclusivity to that salvific objective truth. So Christianity does not buy
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into this idea that someone's lived experience or someone's subjective perspective trumps reality.
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The Bible tells us it echoes science or science echoes the Bible in that God made us male and female.
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There are no other categories there. There's nothing in between there. Those are not interchangeable.
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And it actually makes so much sense that the people who deny the reality that the dichotomy of male and
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female, they reject the idea of truth, period. And so really the conversations that we are having
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about gender, they are theological, philosophical conversations. They're not primarily political
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or culture war conversations. Now, most people don't realize when they have a particular perspective
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on gender. They don't realize that they have like they're like borrowing from a philosophical tradition
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that goes back hundreds of years back to, you know, Descartes and other philosophers that kind of
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share that mentality. Really, you need to read Love Thy Body by Nancy Piercy, who explains all of this
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really well. But it struck me that really, almost like anything else as I was watching this documentary,
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that this is primarily a religious conversation, that this really does go back to not only do you
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believe in truth, but do you believe in God? Because if you don't believe in God, then it actually
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is hard to make the case for objective truth and universal morality. The reason we believe in objective
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truth and universal morality is because we believe in a God and a creator that transcends all governments,
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transcends our minds, is infallible, and is infinite, and created the universe and has that transcendent
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authority and is supreme. If you don't believe in that, then where do you believe the truth comes
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from? If you don't believe in the God of Scripture, why wouldn't you believe in the God of Self?
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But don't you see how that leads to all kind of moral anarchy? Don't you see how the questioning,
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the upending of a universal morality can pave the way for the justification of all kinds of human
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rights atrocities? In fact, the concept, the reality of rights is built on the Bible. It's built on the
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Judeo-Christian belief that we have a creator who made us in his image, and therefore we have rights
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that cannot be taken away from us because they were given to us by God, not the government. In most of
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the world, you don't have human rights. You don't have the right to life. You don't have the right
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to free speech. You don't have the right to not be arbitrarily detained or tortured by the state.
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Go to China. Go to most of the Eastern world today, and you will not find the concept of human rights.
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And so, really what we see in this conversation about gender is something that is so much bigger and
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so much more destructive than only boys and girls kind of being indoctrinated by what I think is just
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an immoral and confusing ideology. It actually has societal, civilizational implications that I don't
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even think that we have started to see the effects of those. And so, let us just remember that.
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Let us remember that the reason that we're having these arguments today, it doesn't just go back
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to crazy wokeness or crazy politics or the left has just gotten so crazy. All of those things are
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true. It actually comes back to godlessness. It comes back to a loss of the knowledge of and the belief
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in the Bible, which is the foundation for Western civilization, the foundation for rights, the foundation
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of the belief in truth. Whether or not you're a Christian, that's true. And because that's no
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longer taught in schools, I think that we are seeing some of the fruits and the repercussions
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of that, especially when it comes to the sexual and gender revolution.
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All right. I want to talk about this crazy story that I saw at the beginning of May. And I just
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wrote an article for World Magazine about it that I think is going to come out probably sometime this
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week. And that is about the Biden administration forcing schools to allow boys into girls' bathrooms
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and locker rooms and sports teams and private spaces in order to get federal lunch money that
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is typically given to students, provided for students who are below the poverty line. Is that
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not insane? So talk about a godless, destructive ideology that is guiding the president of the United
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States, that is guiding his administration. And, you know, the irony in all of this, and I'll explain
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exactly what's going on, is that the people who are on the other side of me on this issue claim that
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we are the ones who are not loving, who are not empathetic. That if we had empathy, then we would
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just agree with them. If we were loving, then we would just get on board with everything that they
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believe and say and just affirm a lifestyle that Orthodox Christianity has been against for thousands
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of years. Is it empathetic to take away federal lunch money from K-12 schools because they don't get
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on board with a completely anti-scientific and destructive agenda? It's insane. So this is
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according to the Federalist. The USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture, has a school lunch
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program, the National School Lunch Program, that feeds about 30 million kids every school day and about
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100,000 public and private and residential care facilities. And these are typically kids, as I said,
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that are under the poverty line that really rely on their schools for breakfast, for lunch, for snacks to
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be fed throughout the day. Now, they have developed a new rule, the USDA, under the guidance of the Biden
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administration that says establishments that accept any of this federal food funding, including food stamps,
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must allow males who claim to be female to access female private spaces such as showers, bathrooms and
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sleeping areas. Such organizations must follow protocols such as requiring staff to use preferred
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pronouns, so requiring them to lie, and allowing male staff to dress as women while on the job. Religious
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institutions may qualify for a waiver exempting them from these requirements, no paperwork required,
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but that is the only exemption that you can hope to have. The Human Rights Campaign is pushing for
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even narrower religious exemptions for this rule and for a list of organizations who request the
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exemptions. I'm sure that they'll be super responsible and not at all vengeful and vindictive
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when it comes to that. Government schools, however, no matter their religious objections,
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if they have them, can receive no exemption. All right, so they are going to withhold money. Let's
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just be really clear about this. They are going to withhold money from schools who feed, who have
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impoverished people, impoverished children. They are going to refuse to give them the money for food for
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these people. If teachers don't use so-called preferred pronouns, if these entities do not allow boys into
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girls' locker rooms, showers, bathrooms, sports teams, residential care facilities. I mean, you are
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withholding sustenance, nutrition from children who did nothing wrong, who are already vulnerable.
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Because some schools don't want boys to go into girls' bathrooms, there is nothing more wicked
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than that. And progressives want to talk to conservatives about having empathy. Where's the
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empathy here? Where's the love here? How is this anything other than evil? See, here is part of the
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issue, is that when Obergefell happened in 2015, believe it or not, the majority of Americans, I think it was
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about 60% of Americans actually didn't believe in legalizing gay marriage. This wasn't something
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that was allowed to go through the legislature as it should have, or state legislatures. It was
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something that happened through a judicial decision, which is not how it should have gone down.
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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
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
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
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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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,
00:35:12.360
like, would that be appropriate for children? So why is it appropriate when a man dresses like
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,
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
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,
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
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.
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That's all we've got time for today. We will be back here tomorrow with a really fun interview.
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I know that you guys are going to like, and we will see you then.