Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 704 ｜ Midterms： A Matter of Life & Death

00:00:00.000 Election day is tomorrow. And yes, Christian, you are obligated to bring your faith to the

00:00:07.920 voting booth. I know there's a lot of scary accusations about Christian nationalism,

00:00:12.760 but let me tell you today what is on the line and why Christians have every right and the

00:00:19.180 responsibility to make sure that we are voting according to our worldview. We will get into

00:00:26.180 all of that today. This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.

00:00:30.180 Go to GoodRanchers.com slash Allie. That's GoodRanchers.com slash Allie.

00:00:42.700 All right, everyone, it is election week. It's a big week. It's an exciting week. And honestly,

00:00:50.440 here on Relatable, we haven't spent that much time yet talking about the midterms. I've written

00:00:57.400 about them. I've talked to other people about them. And I've talked on Instagram about them. But we

00:01:03.460 really haven't been dedicating that many episodes exclusively to politics. There's been a lot going

00:01:10.220 on culturally, socially within the church. There's been some theological discussions that we've had.

00:01:17.500 And so I guess that the midterms kind of just snuck up on me in a way, at least when it comes to the

00:01:24.140 content that we're putting on Relatable. But in another sense, I do think that everything that

00:01:28.840 we've talked about recently, it has to do with the election. Because in one way or another,

00:01:34.380 a lot of these cultural and moral issues that we are discussing, gender, abortion, marriage,

00:01:41.000 family, the moral foundation of our society is on the ballot. In some ways, explicitly,

00:01:49.100 when you're looking at something like Proposition 3 or Proposal 3, rather, in Michigan, abortion is

00:01:54.540 literally on the ballot. And we'll talk about that a little bit more in a second. But in other ways,

00:02:00.280 we're just looking at candidates who either care about the cohesion of the natural family or who don't,

00:02:05.900 who care about the rights of parents to have a say in what their child is learning or just in what

00:02:12.180 the students in their community are learning as they are funding with their taxpayers that education

00:02:19.240 and those who don't. You're looking at politicians who care about your right to operate your business,

00:02:28.580 your child's right to get an in-person education, your right to be able to earn a livelihood

00:02:34.260 without being forced to get a vaccine that you do not want or need. So even though we haven't been

00:02:40.620 talking exclusively or explicitly, rather, about the polling and the different data points and

00:02:48.940 analyzing those things leading up to these elections, when we've been talking about these

00:02:54.280 so-called culture wars, we have been talking about the things that are at stake. And that's what I want

00:03:00.600 to talk about a little bit more today and a little bit more specifically today. So Monday before the

00:03:06.260 election, if you have not voted yet, if there is early voting in your state, I encourage you to go

00:03:12.300 ahead, go out and do that. I am a proponent of early voting. The reason that I'm a proponent of it,

00:03:19.240 I know that a lot of people are. And if you're the kind of person that you like the ceremony of going

00:03:23.860 on voting day, on election day, voting in person, all that good stuff, you think it's more secure,

00:03:30.040 I'm totally fine with that. The reason that I'm a proponent of early voting for myself

00:03:34.700 is because I like to know for sure that I've gotten it done. Because I mean, there are a million

00:03:41.480 things that could happen in a day that could prevent me from being able to go to our voting

00:03:46.840 location at the time that it's open and cast my vote. There's always a million different directions

00:03:53.340 that a person, especially a mom, is being pulled in any given day. And I just fear that something

00:03:58.900 would happen, something would overtake my day, could be an emergency, or it could just be

00:04:03.600 responsibilities piling up, and you're unable to fulfill your civic duty on voting day. So I early

00:04:10.860 voted, I did my part just to make sure, absolute sure that I got it in when I knew that I had a free

00:04:17.080 afternoon. It didn't take long at all. And I have been on a mission for the past few weeks. I mean,

00:04:24.100 I guess you could say for the past few years of my life, but especially for the past few weeks is I

00:04:28.640 have gone to many universities and talked to many organizations and talked to a lot, a lot of

00:04:35.100 Christians over the past few months. I have been on a mission to convince people who do not typically

00:04:41.520 vote to vote, not just this election cycle, but in the future. And that is part of what I want to do

00:04:47.820 today. So make sure that you share this episode with those in your life who maybe they just think

00:04:54.040 it doesn't matter, especially as Christians. They think, okay, well, Jesus is coming back. Our home is

00:04:59.680 in heaven. Our eyes are on Christ. Our hope is in eternity. Why do we really need to care about

00:05:05.720 politics? Politics is just divisive. It just pulls people apart. And it's not something that you want

00:05:12.560 to get into because you're afraid that it's maybe beneath you as a Christian, or it's going to take

00:05:19.000 your eyes off of the eternal and make you focus on the temporal. And it's going to breed anxiety and

00:05:25.560 division in your life and in your relationships. And so you just don't want to get into it. Or maybe you

00:05:30.780 think that, hey, your vote doesn't matter. Why does it even matter if just one person decides to vote

00:05:40.180 or decides not to vote? So I just want to remind you today, Christian, about why it is so important

00:05:48.040 for you to cast your ballot today or tomorrow on election day. Why I think it is your responsibility,

00:05:55.340 your right, of course, but also your obligation as a Christian to make sure that you are civically

00:06:02.960 involved. And then we'll talk about some other things that I want to get into, some election-specific

00:06:09.860 things, respond to some things that we've seen in the media, on TV over the past few days. And so a lot

00:06:16.320 is going to be crammed into this episode, as you can already tell. But before we get into that,

00:06:22.840 before we get into my plea to you for voting, and even if you are voting, by the way, I think that

00:06:28.280 this is just going to reinvigorate you and it's going to re-empower you to ensure that you are

00:06:35.040 involved in every area of government life that you can be and that God is calling you to be. So we'll

00:06:40.800 get into that in a second. I was speaking at a non-profit organization over the weekend in Georgia

00:06:57.060 and it is an organization that's just starting. It's going to provide housing and other resources

00:07:03.660 for women who are pregnant, who find themselves in situations of crisis, poverty, destitution,

00:07:10.240 going to provide a refuge for them and a platform for them to be able to start the rest of their

00:07:17.900 lives and to really change their lives in a very healthy direction so that they can be there for their

00:07:26.680 children. And so just an amazing organization. And I had the privilege of speaking to them over the

00:07:34.600 weekend. And one thing that I encouraged them in as we are heading into this election week and something

00:07:42.660 that I have been talking about every time I speak really for the past few months is what an example

00:07:51.500 we have in the overturning of Roe v. Wade that politics matter. Wow, politics matter. I mean,

00:08:01.260 if you look at what led up to the overturning of Roe, the publishing of the DOPS decision,

00:08:07.820 we are looking at six different justices appointed by three different presidents over a span of 30 years

00:08:18.240 that finally led to a decision that has allowed for states to pass just laws recognizing the dignity

00:08:28.060 and the humanity and therefore the human rights of life inside the womb. I mean, we're talking about 30

00:08:35.400 years of trying to elect the right president to appoint the right justices that will make the right

00:08:44.240 decision on behalf of the unborn. And then it goes back even farther than that. It goes back all the

00:08:49.400 way to 1973. So really, we're looking at 49 years. We're looking at 49 years of people showing up

00:08:57.080 and speaking out of protesting, of lobbying, of electing the right legislators for state

00:09:05.520 representative, for state senators who are going to write laws and try to pass laws that would then

00:09:13.000 make their way to the Supreme Court in the hopes that the Supreme Court would take up their case and

00:09:20.280 then effectively overturn Roe v. Wade. That was 49 years of persistence, 49 years of perseverance, 49

00:09:29.760 years of pro-lifers trying to change people's mind, trying to put the right people in power so the right

00:09:37.320 laws would be written to make a just decision on behalf of the unborn. We're talking five decades of

00:09:44.940 patience. I mean, that is incredible. I think a lot of times we think in our just microwave mentality,

00:09:51.820 especially that we have in my generation and the younger generation, is that things have to change

00:09:57.180 this election cycle for them to change at all. Or we expect things to change quickly. They're going

00:10:02.340 to change in the next six months. They're going to change in the next six years. Whatever it is,

00:10:07.060 we want things to happen quickly. And of course we do. I think that's normal. But what we don't realize

00:10:12.720 is that change doesn't happen all at once. Change happens over time. Change happens over sometimes

00:10:19.560 five decades of millions and millions of people, in this case, pro-lifers simply dedicating their time

00:10:28.960 and their resources and their energy to ensuring that people are put into place to write just laws

00:10:36.260 that would then make their way to the Supreme Court and then put in place in the executive branch,

00:10:42.360 someone that would pick the justices to make that just decision. So much went into this over the

00:10:50.080 course of 50 years. And then in the state of Mississippi, pro-lifers, after 49 years of hard

00:10:56.580 work, put their right legislators in place that wrote a law banning abortion at 15 weeks that then 0.64

00:11:03.720 finally made its way to the Supreme Court. And then we had it, the overturning of Roe v. Wade,

00:11:08.920 the Dobbs decision that, again, allowed states to pass laws that recognize this basic and primary

00:11:16.660 human right to simply not be murdered as an innocent person. I mean, praise God for that.

00:11:23.080 And I know there was so much misinformation that came out after it. It was vitriolic. There were attacks

00:11:29.840 on pregnancy centers. There were threats of violence, threats of terrorism. As far as I know,

00:11:34.680 no arrests have been made for that terrorism against the pro-life, against these pro-life

00:11:42.420 pregnancy centers. And yet I know that that was a scary and intense time. In a lot of ways,

00:11:48.160 it still is. A lot of people are still believing the propaganda that the laws on the books are

00:11:52.240 preventing miscarriage care or preventing the care of ectopic pregnancies or preventing women's lives

00:11:57.980 from being saved. But as we have gone through many times, and we'll link these past episodes,

00:12:03.340 that is not true of any legislation on the books right now. It does not prevent the care

00:12:09.580 of miscarriages. It does not prevent the care of a woman in order to save her life. There could be

00:12:16.000 misunderstanding from the doctors. There could be, in some cases, malice going on here in order to make

00:12:23.020 a political point. But that is not the fault of the laws that make exceptions for the life of the

00:12:30.200 mother that ensure procedures can be done in order to take care of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages.

00:12:35.520 That is not the fault of the legislation that is simply recognizing the life of an unborn child

00:12:41.420 to live. So that's what politics got us. That's what politics got us. After 49 years of pro-lifers voting

00:12:49.900 the right way, of doing the right thing, of pushing their legislators, of changing hearts and minds,

00:12:56.360 that's why politics mattered. Because after 49 years of legal and, in many cases, unfettered slaughter

00:13:06.960 of human beings made in the image of God, finally, after the persistence of people unafraid of getting

00:13:17.720 their hands dirty, in the political arena, a just decision was made so just laws could be written.

00:13:25.040 That's why politics matters. It's a matter of life and death for the most vulnerable people among us.

00:13:31.980 That's why it matters that you vote. That's why it matters that you don't sit on the couch

00:13:37.140 and just complain about the state of our country. That's why it matters that you get involved. And of

00:13:43.840 course, it's not just that. If you listen to this podcast, you know that there are a lot of things

00:13:47.480 on the line. But with abortion, I mean, we are literally looking at a matter of life and death.

00:13:53.140 You are literally looking at a vote having the power to prevent children from going to the slaughter,

00:14:03.440 being sacrificed to Malak. And so it's not just, of course, politics. 0.99

00:14:10.600 Underneath the politics of abortion over the past 49 years, there has been incredible unseen and unsung

00:14:23.020 work by Christians done to help vulnerable women, vulnerable dads, their babies, to help these

00:14:31.560 families. I know you hear a lot, we can't vote for a pro-life candidate or we can't advocate for

00:14:38.100 pro-life legislation until we're doing the work for these women. Look, the work is already being 1.00

00:14:43.820 done. The work has been done for the past 49 years. The very Christians that the left demonizes,

00:14:50.980 the very pro-lifers that the left says don't care, the very pregnancy sinners that the left terrorizes, 0.57

00:14:58.460 they have been doing the work for the past 50 years that the left says is not being done.

00:15:04.880 The work is being done on behalf of these vulnerable populations. People have been showing up every day

00:15:12.920 for the past 50 years to the pregnancy centers, to the pro-life organizations, to the non-profits

00:15:19.300 that are working on behalf of these vulnerable populations to make sure that they have the

00:15:24.140 resources, to make sure that they have refuge from abuse, to make sure that they have a place to live,

00:15:30.320 a place to stay, to make sure that they have education, that they have parenting classes.

00:15:34.500 If they want to give their child up for adoption, these pregnancy centers and organizations make sure 1.00

00:15:39.380 that they can do that. If they need someone to take care of them, to take care of their child,

00:15:44.020 to help them get a job, to help them with the immigration process, to help them with the welfare

00:15:47.900 process. Christians have been showing up for the past 50 years doing that. Do not allow your 1.00

00:15:56.340 delusions about what work is not or is being done prevent you from voting righteously on behalf of

00:16:04.920 the unborn Christian. It's not an excuse. If you are worried that the work is not being done,

00:16:12.560 and if you sincerely have looked in your area and you've looked for the pregnancy centers,

00:16:18.080 you've looked for the non-profit organizations, and you truly feel in your community that there is

00:16:22.840 nothing being done for pregnant women who are trying to keep their children or who are facing

00:16:28.600 the choice of abortion. If you truly feel like there is no opportunity for these women whatsoever,

00:16:35.160 and that the only choice they realistically have in destitute situations is to abort their child,

00:16:42.660 that is still not an excuse to vote on behalf of murder. It is not. That is your calling.

00:16:49.260 That is what you should take as a hint, that maybe you need to get up and do something. If the work

00:16:57.180 is not being done, that doesn't mean that you get to vote for abortion. If the work is not being done,

00:17:02.060 then you need to do the work. Right? That's what we're called to do. And so while I say politics

00:17:10.460 matter because policy matters, because people matter, and I absolutely believe that. I mean,

00:17:15.820 it is so important. It is okay, by the way, to be a one-issue voter if your issue is abortion.

00:17:20.780 Totally fine. People say, oh, no, that shouldn't be your one issue. What is a better issue? What is a

00:17:26.800 better issue than to vote on behalf of babies living? I say that politics matter for that reason,

00:17:34.960 but gosh, what is underneath our politics also matters. It also matters. The work that we are doing

00:17:41.340 on a daily basis, how we are helping these vulnerable moms and dads and babies and these

00:17:46.040 families in crisis to make sure that we are providing for them in every spiritual and material

00:17:51.580 way that we possibly can without, by the way, voting for the government to force money out of other

00:17:59.500 people's pockets to pay for these people. Really, like, we should be voluntarily, charitably, happily,

00:18:09.840 generously doing everything that we can with our energy and our resources to helping these families.

00:18:18.660 That is also our call. And so it's not one or the other. I know people say, well, I can either,

00:18:24.580 I can either focus on personal evangelism and personal help and making sure that these people

00:18:33.060 are taken care of and sharing the gospel, or I can be a political activist. Look, I'm not even

00:18:38.920 asking you to be a political activist. I'm just showing you that we need both, that both are a way to

00:18:46.100 love your neighbor. Politics is not the exclusive way to love your neighbor. It's not even maybe the

00:18:52.060 primary way to love your neighbor, but it is a way to love your neighbor. Politics matter because

00:18:58.640 policy matters because people matter. If you look at Jeremiah 29, and I think we talked about this

00:19:03.860 recently, I did an episode, a most misused episode on Jeremiah 29 11, for I know the plans I have for

00:19:09.920 you declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope in a future.

00:19:14.420 I use that verse as a most misused verse because it very often is decontextualized and it's used to

00:19:20.480 basically say that God is never going to allow anything bad to happen to you and anything bad

00:19:24.880 that happens to you is because he doesn't like you or because you fell out of his favor and you

00:19:31.060 disobeyed him. And so sometimes it's used in a very anti-biblical and anti-gospel way. And so I wanted

00:19:36.340 to look at the context of that verse, which is that verse is not the point of what I'm about to say,

00:19:42.440 but one of the verses that we read in Jeremiah 29, it is to a people in exile. It is to God's people

00:19:50.940 who are in exile in Babylon. And what God tells his people is while you are in exile, while you are in

00:19:58.160 exile, seek the welfare of the city in which you dwell. Seek the welfare of the place in which I've

00:20:06.800 placed you. And we as Christians who are exiles in this world are also called to seek the welfare

00:20:17.080 of the place in which God has providentially and specifically and purposely placed us.

00:20:25.480 1 Peter 2.11, Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh,

00:20:32.540 which wage war against your soul. We are exiles in this world. We are sojourners in this world,

00:20:40.900 and our citizenship is ultimately in heaven. But that doesn't negate our earthly citizenship,

00:20:47.600 and that does not diminish our civic duty. Because yes, our hope is in heaven. Yes,

00:20:54.300 our heart, our eyes, our focus is on eternity. Yes, we long for the day when there are no more politics.

00:21:01.280 There is no more partisanship, when there's no more culture wars. And everyone will know truth

00:21:07.240 because every knee will bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. In John 14.6,

00:21:12.620 Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. And no one comes to the Father except through me.

00:21:17.300 So everyone will know that in Jesus, in God, there is truth. Of course, we long for that day,

00:21:22.920 but we're not there yet. We're not there yet. And we're not just here to take up space.

00:21:27.940 We're not just here to complain. We're here to do something. There are lots of things that we are

00:21:33.100 called to do outside of politics. Of course, politics shouldn't be our God. We don't trust in

00:21:38.520 princes. We don't trust in horses. We don't think that any politician left or right is going to be

00:21:43.840 able to save our country. It is going to be by the mercy of God that any good legislation comes down or

00:21:50.380 anything good happens to this country. But again, we have to understand that we are in the here and

00:21:57.880 the now. God has placed you in the United States of America at this time in history, on this speck 0.71

00:22:03.880 of eternity, specifically and purposely and providentially, not accidentally, not arbitrarily.

00:22:11.500 And your goal, your purpose, as it is for all Christians, is to glorify him. 0.78

00:22:17.080 And everything that you think, everything that you say, everything that you do in part of our

00:22:23.480 blessed responsibility and right and privilege as Americans is to be able to have a say in our

00:22:32.680 elections, to be able to shape our governance, to shape the future of our country in a way that

00:22:38.180 seeks the welfare of our neighbors. And I've got a little bit more to say about what exactly I mean

00:22:44.460 by seeking the welfare and the interests of our neighbors, because as you can probably guess,

00:22:49.600 there are Christians who disagree on what exactly that means.

00:23:02.780 So obviously there is going to be debate and in good faith debate about what it looks like to seek

00:23:08.180 the best interest of our neighbors through politics as Christians. And there are issues

00:23:15.080 that the Bible doesn't explicitly speak to. There are issues that Christians, two Christians who

00:23:21.440 believe fully in the gospel, who believe in the inerrancy of scripture, who believe in the absolute

00:23:27.720 authority of God over the universe, and they are still going to disagree on things like what

00:23:34.320 immigration policy should look like, what restrictions on gun ownership should look like. And there are a

00:23:42.980 variety of issues that two Christians who absolutely and sincerely love the Lord can disagree on. And yet

00:23:51.520 there are some issues, all of which, as I said a few minutes ago, are on the ballot in one way or another,

00:23:58.000 that Christians really cannot disagree on. I'm not saying that disagreement on these issues

00:24:06.280 means that one person is not a Christian, but that one person is wrong. Now, we can be sincere Christians,

00:24:13.760 saved Christians, and be wrong on a lot of things. That's part of sanctification. There are things that

00:24:18.680 I thought a few years ago that I realized were wrong. That doesn't mean that I wasn't a Christian then.

00:24:23.420 It just means that I was wrong. And so there are things that the Bible does explicitly address that

00:24:29.700 if Christians disagree on this, one Christian supports it, one Christian is against it, one of

00:24:34.920 the Christians is wrong. And some of those issues are found in the very first chapter of the Bible. 1.00

00:24:41.800 So Christians believe, and this is something I wrote for World Magazine today. I'll link the article in

00:24:49.100 the description of this episode so you can share it if you'd like. Christians believe

00:24:52.940 that God made the world and everything in it. That's Genesis 1.1. We believe that God is the

00:24:58.160 source of truth, of justice, of righteousness, and love. That's Psalm 89.14. Therefore, we believe

00:25:05.480 that his ways are better. They're better because he made all of it. That means he's the authority over

00:25:11.420 all of it. That means he's the arbiter of truth. That means he's the determinant of right and wrong.

00:25:17.280 He is the source and the giver of all things good. There is no good and no truth and no beauty

00:25:24.100 outside of him. If we believe that his ways are better, we believe that they're better for

00:25:31.480 ourselves, that they're better for our neighbors, they're better for our nation. And since God is

00:25:36.820 love, I will never outlove him. I will never outlove God by disagreeing with him. Not just in what I say,

00:25:46.480 not just in what I do, but also in how I vote. I will never love my neighbor and seek their interest

00:25:53.740 through my vote if I am voting in a way that opposes God's order. And we see what God's order is

00:26:02.060 on a few issues, on a few fundamental issues in the very first chapter of the Bible. In fact,

00:26:08.280 in one particular verse of the Bible, and that is Genesis 127, that God made us in his image,

00:26:16.660 male and female, he created us. That right there tells us what we need to know about human value,

00:26:23.640 what we know about the gender binary, and the structure of marriage and the family.

00:26:28.220 To vote against these things is to vote for disorder, because God is the creator of order.

00:26:36.200 He is the creator and the source of all things good. So to vote for any policy or any politician

00:26:43.580 who is against the God who is love, the God who is the creator, the God who is the source of truth,

00:26:51.140 it is to vote against what he says is good and right and true, which is both unjust and unloving.

00:27:01.280 If I believe that the God is God is the authority over all things, and he gave us everything that is

00:27:07.120 good, and he knows better than I do. And he tells us who human beings are, what marriage is,

00:27:14.940 why life is valuable, because we are made in his image, then I am never going to love my neighbor or

00:27:20.800 seek their interest. Well, if I am voting against those things, if I am voting for disorder,

00:27:26.120 if I am voting for a new definition of the family, a new definition of marriage, a new definition

00:27:31.240 of when life begins, that's basically me saying that I think I know better than God, or politicians

00:27:36.580 know better than God, that maybe we can create something better than what God has created.

00:27:40.900 Maybe by voting for disorder, voting against God's order, I can love people better than God loves them,

00:27:46.840 and that's blasphemy. So I just can't do that. I'm not saying that any political party is perfect.

00:27:54.380 Certainly no politician is perfect, but I at the very least refuse to vote against God's order when

00:28:01.540 it comes to what he thinks about when life begins, what he thinks about the value of life, which again,

00:28:07.760 we see in that verse that we are made in his image. We're not clumps of cells. Human beings at any stage

00:28:13.920 are not clumps of cells. That we are made male, we are made female. That is determined by our biology

00:28:21.420 that he has given us. That marriage is between one man and one woman. That's what the family

00:28:27.600 structure is supposed to be, which obviously, as we see in this creation account, is the foundation

00:28:32.860 of society. I can't vote against that if I love my neighbor. I can't. I can't vote against that

00:28:38.980 if I care about my country, because I believe that God's ways are better. And I will never out-love

00:28:45.160 him. I will never out-justice him. I will never out-compassion him. I will never out-smart

00:28:50.120 him, out-wisdom him. So the most loving thing that I can do is agree with God in word and deed

00:28:56.220 and in vote. And I understand that a lot of people say, ooh, that's Christian nationalism.

00:29:03.320 That's so scary. And again, you should read my article about that because I do address that

00:29:09.400 accusation of, if Christian nationalism is what some people call Christian nationalism,

00:29:14.580 then I agree it's unbiblical, unconstitutional, or both. But if Christian nationalism is simply 0.78

00:29:20.220 Christians voting in accordance with the belief that God created the world and everything in it,

00:29:28.340 then that pejorative of, well, you're just a Christian nationalist is really meaningless.

00:29:35.520 It's really meaningless because that's what Christians have to do. We can't compartmentalize 1.00

00:29:41.300 God's authority. We can't pretend that politics is somehow independent of the belief that God is

00:29:48.400 sovereign over everything, that there is no, as R.C. Sproul used to say, maverick molecule.

00:29:53.900 We can't separate our faith from how we vote. And you understand, secular progressives don't,

00:30:00.640 and they're never asked to. They bring their worldview to the voting booth. They use it to

00:30:06.480 shape curriculum. They use it to write laws. But for some reason, when Christians bring our faith to 1.00

00:30:12.320 the voting booth or try to infuse God's truth into every sphere we occupy, we're fascists, we're

00:30:18.760 totalitarians in some way, we're Christian nationalists, all of those things, all of those

00:30:24.680 accusations are manipulation tactics to ensure that the only people who do not allow their faith

00:30:31.260 in their worldview to characterize their vote is Christian conservatives. It's not Stacey Abrams

00:30:37.500 who is being called a Christian nationalist for saying that she's running in the spirit of Deborah.

00:30:41.940 It's not Gavin Newsom being called a Christian nationalist for using a Bible verse to try to 0.99

00:30:47.960 advertise to women in red states to come to California and kill their babies. It's not Christian 1.00

00:30:53.700 nationalism when you have almost every black pastor, it seems, in America that I've seen on 0.98

00:30:59.500 Twitter say that you need to vote. You need to vote Democrats from the pulpit. Apparently, it's not

00:31:06.160 Christian nationalism when people like Raphael Warnock say that it is the Christian and righteous

00:31:11.480 thing to do to vote on behalf of abortion or when Kamala Harris says the same thing. We never hear that

00:31:18.340 that's Christian nationalism. Those people are never accused of trying to push a theocracy.

00:31:23.700 It's only when Christian conservatives say, cite Psalm 139 to say, you know what, I don't think

00:31:29.540 I can vote against the slaughter of babies that God purposely created in the womb, that all of a 1.00

00:31:34.080 sudden we're on the precipice of the handmaid's tale. So you see the hypocrisy there that it has

00:31:38.480 nothing to do with them thinking that no one should bring their worldview to the voting booth.

00:31:43.620 It's only about yours. It's only about your politics. It's only because they disagree with

00:31:49.720 your morality. And so they use extortion manipulation tactics to make you think that you are the only

00:31:57.080 group of people who cannot allow your worldview to shape your political view. And that doesn't make

00:32:03.480 any sense. It's not scary Christian nationalism, whatever you want to call it, to vote in accordance

00:32:10.140 to what God's word says. You're not forcing people to believe in Christ. You're not forcing people to go to

00:32:15.900 church with you. You're not forcing people to say Jesus is Lord. This is not a theocracy.

00:32:20.900 This is voting in accordance with what we know God's way is and understanding and believing that

00:32:27.600 God's way and that God's order is better. And by the way, that's what everyone else is doing too,

00:32:32.980 according to what they believe is right and what their worldview is. So it's not Christian 0.99

00:32:39.120 nationalism. It's simply being a Christian. It's simply what Christianity is believing and speaking

00:32:47.380 and living and voting as if God is the creator of the heavens and the earth and that he knows better

00:32:52.980 than us. And he does. So that's my pitch to you. That's my pitch to you to vote. That's my pitch to you

00:33:00.080 to vote in accordance with Christian values, to never vote against God's order when it comes to

00:33:06.260 the value of life inside the womb, when it comes to the reality of gender, the definition of the

00:33:15.280 family and marriage. And I'm going to link some past episodes in this description of this episode

00:33:21.160 so you can go listen to them. Put them on two times if you have to. If you're like, wow, this is the

00:33:25.780 first time I'm hearing this stuff and I never knew that I should vote. I've never thought about these

00:33:30.620 issues. I want you to inform yourself. Just pick a few. I'll categorize them. Listen to a couple on

00:33:39.000 abortion. Listen to a couple on gender. Listen to one or two on marriage. Listen to just a couple on

00:33:46.180 what Democrats versus Republicans believe, and I'll provide those for you. Listen to them. Listen to

00:33:51.460 them as quickly as you can. Think about them. Pray about it and make sure that you vote tomorrow. And by

00:33:55.840 the way, because I know that the vast majority of people listening to this are already voting,

00:34:00.620 share this with your friends, but also go out to your friends right now. Text your friends,

00:34:06.120 call your friends, have a conversation with them. It's uncomfortable, but there's a lot on the line.

00:34:11.780 There's a lot on the line right now. And like, for example, we'll talk about this a little bit more

00:34:16.880 in a second. In some states, like lives are on the line. As we spoke about when it comes to

00:34:23.060 abortion, there's a lot at stake. So make sure that your friends who are on the fence, who are

00:34:28.740 apathetic, who are overly busy, make it as easy for them as possible to vote. Make it really easy

00:34:37.380 for them to be able to show up. So if you need to babysit their kids, if you need to make them dinner,

00:34:45.160 if you need to pick them up, if you need to take them from work to where they need to go,

00:34:49.980 if you need to make sure that they have lunch because they don't have time, the only time that

00:34:54.940 they have to vote tomorrow is on their lunch break and they got to eat, bring them lunch,

00:35:00.480 whatever you have to do. As I'm saying this, I'm racking my brain and I'm like, okay, who in my

00:35:04.980 life do I need to make sure has voted? And how can I make that as easy as possible for them?

00:35:09.140 But I think that that's one role that we can play in this as people who understand

00:35:13.460 that politics matter because policy matters because people matter. And at the voting booth is how

00:35:17.940 we raise a respectful ruckus. All right, I'm going to talk about a couple of these proposals and just

00:35:24.020 a couple of my predictions. And if we have time, I'm going to respond to a couple of clips that I saw

00:35:28.680 last week from Trump and The View.

00:35:31.300 All right. So I've alluded to this a couple of times now and a lot of you guys have asked me

00:35:45.580 about it and we don't have time to get into the nitty gritty. I'm just and you can read it. We

00:35:50.620 can link it in the description of this episode. You can read it for yourself. But Michigan Proposal

00:35:55.400 Three, the Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative, which, of course, is a misnomer as a lot of

00:36:01.960 proposals and bills are. It has nothing to do with reproductive freedom. Everyone in this country

00:36:08.920 has the freedom to reproduce. People like me who are pro-life care about what happens specifically

00:36:15.760 after reproduction. So you've already made your free choice to reproduce. Now we would say that you

00:36:22.280 shouldn't be allowed to kill the product of that reproduction, which happens to be a unique human

00:36:29.720 being with unique DNA. And therefore, because it is a unique human being at the point of conception,

00:36:35.680 it is also entitled to human rights, just like you and me, the foremost being the right to life.

00:36:42.840 And so this Michigan Proposal Three and this Michigan Proposal Three provides a state constitutional

00:36:50.220 right to reproductive freedom, again, a euphemism, which is defined as, quote, the right to make and

00:36:57.040 effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including but not limited to prenatal

00:37:03.580 care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management,

00:37:10.380 and infertility care. So there's a lot in there, as you can probably tell, that's very general and

00:37:16.800 overarching and far-reaching language that no doubt is going to have a lot of consequences that are not

00:37:25.560 explicitly listed in this proposal. But one thing that we know for sure is that this is trying to

00:37:32.160 solidify the so-called right to abortion without restriction. So under this proposal, there would be

00:37:40.740 virtually no restriction on a woman's decision to abort her baby through all nine months of pregnancy,

00:37:50.620 because if this is seen as a human right, then the state is not going to violate that human right,

00:37:58.040 except for maybe for very specific and rare reasons, exceptional reasons. And so this solidifies

00:38:07.100 the ability of a doctor to dismember a child, to poison a child, to stop the heart of a child by

00:38:15.840 injecting poison into its heart while she is wiggling in her mother's womb. That's something 1.00

00:38:22.060 that happens thousands of times a day. That's not fear-mongering. That actually is what a second

00:38:27.480 trimester abortion is. Again, we have talked about explicitly what abortion is many times,

00:38:33.780 and I encourage you to actually know what the procedure is and does, that Michigan is saying

00:38:39.680 this is a right. Of course, it's not a right to kill an innocent human being. Of course, it's not.

00:38:44.520 And yet in Michigan, they're trying to say that it is. And if you reelect Governor Whitmer instead of

00:38:51.640 the Republican challenger, Tudor Dixon, who I think is an excellent candidate, by the way,

00:38:55.860 you are going to get an advocate for this atrocious and brutal and godless procedure

00:39:04.540 of abortion. And then, of course, we also know in Michigan, we've got children's education on the

00:39:10.500 line. Governor Whitmer was one of the most draconian governors during COVID. She shut down schools. She 1.00

00:39:16.240 shut down businesses. She prevented people from being able to go to the store and buy seeds so that

00:39:22.720 they could plant their gardens and grow their own food. I mean, she really was one of the harshest 1.00

00:39:28.920 leaders, and she was hailed by Democrats as one of the best. In a recent debate with Tudor Dixon,

00:39:34.820 she said, oh, schools were only shut down for three months, which is absolutely not true. That's

00:39:39.260 actually a lie. And thank the Lord that Tudor Dixon called her out on this, because the fact is,

00:39:45.960 in some areas of Michigan, there are schools that only recently opened back up. And by the way,

00:39:52.340 even if it had only been three months, you cannot get those three months back. That's still significant,

00:39:58.180 by the way. And so her arrogance of just brushing off the consequences, in some cases, the lifelong

00:40:06.080 consequences of robbing our kids, not just education, but the social development, the emotional

00:40:14.120 development that comes from being able to have normal social experiences that very often come

00:40:25.360 with school. I mean, a lot of these kids are never going to recover. And of course, that's not a knock

00:40:31.420 on homeschooling. Homeschooling provides all of those opportunities as well. But for the kids who are robbed

00:40:37.900 of their education suddenly during COVID, they didn't just go have like a normal, healthy homeschool

00:40:44.580 experience. They were forced into their homes, forced to virtually learn. In many cases, they didn't

00:40:51.420 learn at all because they didn't have parents who were either willing or able to kind of make sure that

00:40:57.500 they were staying on track. And so they really did lose the development and lose the education and

00:41:04.100 learning that came from that. Some of those kids were forced into a depression or an isolation

00:41:09.340 induced depression, anxiety, suicide, abuse rates went up because of these policies that were put

00:41:17.040 into place to basically force people into their homes by closing down businesses and schools.

00:41:22.440 There was a story, an article that I'm sure you saw in The Atlantic that said that we need amnesty,

00:41:29.640 that all of the people who are way too harsh in forcing the vaccines and forcing school shutdowns

00:41:35.120 and forcing businesses to close down, just killing the economy in so many places, killing people in

00:41:41.520 a lot of cases. If we're looking at the rates of suicide and the rates of opioid use and opioid

00:41:49.520 overdose, that we just need to kind of forgive those people. And look, there is forgiveness in a sense,

00:41:56.800 but there shouldn't be forgetfulness, especially when you go to the voting booth, because a lot of

00:42:03.060 these policymakers, they kept on making these decisions, especially Whitmer, while they were

00:42:08.740 doing something else themselves. Whitmer was saying, you can't enjoy your freedom. You can't have a

00:42:15.100 normal life. But she was. She and her husband were traveling, even as she told everyone else to stay

00:42:21.080 inside. I mean, it was the same thing with Lori Lightfoot in Chicago. It was the same thing with

00:42:25.560 Muriel Bowser in D.C. It was the same thing with Gavin Newsom in California. It was the same thing

00:42:33.980 with these Democrats across the country who said, freedom for me, but not for thee. So yes, of course,

00:42:40.800 there's grace and forgiveness from the Christian, but there should not be forgetfulness when you are

00:42:45.840 going to the voting booth that these people took away your freedoms. They want you to forget about it.

00:42:50.760 You can't. And by the way, they would do it again tomorrow. Kathy Hochul in New York, that's another

00:42:56.220 gubernatorial race that I'll be looking at. Very interesting. A lot closer than it should be in New

00:43:02.020 York because New York is so deeply blue. She said in a recent debate against Lee Zeldin that she would do

00:43:09.320 it all again. She would fire all of the nurses who refused to get the COVID jab. Again, can you believe

00:43:16.320 that? And so they're not remorseful at all. Do not vote for people who, God forbid, another disaster

00:43:24.460 strikes would take away your freedoms tomorrow, have learned nothing from COVID. Do not care about your

00:43:31.500 grandmother or your mother who died alone. Do not care that you weren't able to get married with your

00:43:38.920 friends and family there during COVID. Do not care that you weren't able to hold a funeral service

00:43:44.340 for your dad who died. Who do not care that your child can't read even though he's in fourth grade

00:43:52.260 because he lost two years of normal school. Who do not care that your special needs child has now

00:43:59.000 regressed because he was unable to get in-person learning and he doesn't understand what his speech

00:44:04.840 therapist is saying with the mask on. They do not care about those consequences. They don't care how much

00:44:10.020 you're suffering. They don't care that you lost your business of 30 years. These politicians,

00:44:15.140 Democrat politicians, for the most part, do not care that their policies destroyed your life. They

00:44:20.020 would do it again tomorrow. Remember that as you vote. Remember that. Remember that inflation in the

00:44:29.060 United States, while it is global for the most part, it is being made worse by politicians in charge

00:44:35.200 who are spending money that we do not have. The gas prices are as high as they are because of energy

00:44:41.780 policy that is being purposely decided upon by the Democrats who are in charge, who are openly hostile

00:44:51.600 and adversarial to drilling on our own land, to fracking, to the oil industry. And so the reason

00:45:00.100 that you can't make ends meet right now, the reason that you are struggling, the reason that you are

00:45:07.300 aghast every time that you go to the grocery store and you look at the receipt and you can't believe

00:45:11.660 how much it costs to feed a family of four. Remember, those are the consequences of policies

00:45:19.180 that have been deliberately put in place. The reason why you don't feel safe to ride on the subway anymore,

00:45:24.920 the reason why you used to be able to go to Seattle with your family and spend a wonderful Sunday

00:45:29.580 afternoon there, but now you feel worried. The reason that Portland is decimated, the reason why

00:45:34.520 San Francisco is a hellscape that no one wants to visit, the reason why Austin and Denver and 0.97

00:45:41.480 Philadelphia and DC and New York and all of these major once beautiful cities are now crap that people 0.95

00:45:50.040 don't want to live in, that people are moving out of, is because of progressive policies. It's because 0.96

00:45:57.680 of Democrats. You cannot find a city in the country that has improved because of Democrat policies. In

00:46:05.180 fact, all of them have become markedly worse, less safe, dirtier, poorer over the past few years

00:46:10.760 because of policies masquerading as social justice, equity and equality, but bring nothing but

00:46:18.340 destruction. Don't vote Democrats. Let's just be explicit about that. There's really no good reason

00:46:24.320 to, especially as a Christian, but really as a thinking person. There's no good reason. Do not 0.97

00:46:29.160 buy the fear-mongering propaganda that you're saving democracy. Come on. Come on. All right. I don't have

00:46:36.760 time to react to the clips that I wanted to react to. We've got to get out here.

00:46:40.440 All right, guys, we'll have a fun episode tomorrow. I'll react to some of the clips that I saw

00:46:55.620 from Trump rally and from The View over the past few days. I have a lot more to say than I did today,

00:47:01.880 and yet I have to cut us off. Make sure, though, that you watch the election coverage

00:47:08.500 on blazetv.com. It will be live election coverage. It'll be me, Glenn Beck, Jason Whitlock,

00:47:16.880 Steve Dace, all of your favorite Blaze TV hosts will be live on election night tomorrow night.

00:47:25.640 We'll have a lot of fun things to say. I'm super excited about it. Election night is always really

00:47:29.980 fun, stressful, but fun. So if you're like, I don't have any friends that care about this or want

00:47:35.500 to talk about this, you can join me, girl. You can join me. Go to blazetv.com slash midterms.

00:47:40.680 That's blazetv.com slash midterms. Plus, you can subscribe to Blaze TV using Red Wave as your

00:47:46.080 promo code for $30 off your Blaze TV subscription. All right, guys, I'll see you tomorrow on Relatable.

00:47:52.580 Then I'll see you tomorrow night. You're going to see me a lot this week because I'll have a lot to

00:47:57.060 say about everything going on. Thanks for listening. See you guys tomorrow.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 07, 2022

Ep 704 ｜ Midterms： A Matter of Life & Death

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