Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 709 ｜ 'Love Is Blind' Goes Full Nazi

00:00:00.000 Jennifer Aniston opens up about infertility. A contestant from Love is Blind says that she

00:00:05.480 would abort a baby who has Down syndrome. And a man has won a female beauty contest in New

00:00:12.560 Hampshire. This is an episode about children, human nature, the rejection of God's intended

00:00:18.220 order, how that is shaping our culture and how Christians should respond. And at the end,

00:00:23.940 we've got a low rise gene segment because unfortunately, they are still on the prowl

00:00:28.980 and scarier than ever. This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to

00:00:33.800 goodranchers.com slash Allie. That's goodranchers.com slash Allie.

00:00:46.460 Okay, guys, it'll be a fun episode. We've got a lot to get through. I know we've been talking about

00:00:51.500 politics for the last week or so because of the midterms. And I do encourage you to go back and

00:00:57.140 listen to last week's episodes if you want to know my take on all that. And there's a lot that

00:01:01.300 we could still talk about. Some of the outstanding elections and all that good stuff. And we will

00:01:07.560 the rest of this week. But I just kind of wanted to take a break and talk about some of the things

00:01:13.440 that are going on in pop culture. Because as we say often, politics is downstream from culture.

00:01:19.480 Culture is downstream from theology. And it tells us a lot about where we are, about our moral

00:01:25.860 landscape. And one of the parts of our culture that I care most about, that we talk most about,

00:01:32.300 is how our society looks at children. How our society sees child rearing, sees raising the next

00:01:41.080 generation, how we are treating children. I often say that children are always the unconsenting 0.84

00:01:48.820 subjects of progressive social experiments. And that is true if you're looking at abortion,

00:01:56.600 if you're looking at the forced virtual learning over the past few years because of COVID,

00:02:02.140 forced masking in classrooms. If you're looking at gender ideology, if you are looking at the 0.81

00:02:10.220 reformation of the family and very often the reproductive technology that is necessary for the

00:02:17.620 reformation of the family, commercial surrogacy, children don't have a say in any of these

00:02:23.280 things. They are unconsenting. And very often we don't know the consequences of these societal and

00:02:30.760 technological changes. And we go forth anyway because, well, kids can't push back. They can't

00:02:38.220 fight back. They can't defend themselves. They have no power. So kids are really just kind of

00:02:44.400 the victims of adults' wishes. And we see that reality in the different shows that we watch,

00:02:51.920 in the music that we listen to, the things that celebrities say, the articles and the books that

00:02:56.920 we read. And I saw a scene from the show Love is Blind. I don't know if you guys are familiar with

00:03:06.040 that. I think I watched one season on Netflix a couple of years ago, maybe like the OG season.

00:03:11.240 I haven't really kept up with it, but people have been asking me, did you hear about this

00:03:15.980 contestant named Nancy Rodriguez on Love is Blind talk about aborting a baby because the baby has 1.00

00:03:25.000 Down syndrome? This is something that apparently she's very proud of. So I wanted to play you this

00:03:31.240 clip and then talk about why I think it's important for us to know about, discuss, and rebut. Here it is.

00:03:37.440 With Down syndrome, there's so many complications, medical and also learning complications. And I see

00:03:46.100 the amount of trauma that it does to like the family. For me, if I knew that I could

00:03:52.760 try again and hope that the second time it's better, then I would go that route, to be honest.

00:04:01.620 Really? Yeah. I would never, I could never do that. But especially knowing that we were trying

00:04:06.120 to have a kid just, just abort mission because they're going to have some challenges and we're

00:04:11.940 going to have some challenges. I am mentally tough enough to handle whatever challenge that may present.

00:04:16.640 And I just could never pull the plug like that. Yeah. That's rough. I could not do that. I'm sorry.

00:04:22.500 So first of all, good for him for pushing back on her. Good for him for seeing that as the brutal

00:04:28.120 argument that it is that just because your child has some kind of disability that you're just going

00:04:32.980 to discard him or her. Now, later on, he does go on to say that he is okay with abortion in some

00:04:40.980 circumstances. And so I don't think he's some like stalwart pro-lifer here. But I do appreciate

00:04:46.980 that you can kind of see him, if you're watching this on YouTube, immediately recoil when she admits

00:04:53.340 that, yes, she would abort a child just because he or she has a chromosomal abnormality in Down 0.86

00:05:01.180 syndrome. He doesn't like that. He does kind of caveat and then say, oh, yeah, he's pro-choice and

00:05:08.140 all of that. But I do think it's interesting to see people's initial reaction when you confront

00:05:13.840 someone, even someone who considers themselves pro-choice with an argument of blatant eugenics,

00:05:21.720 saying, if I have a child that is not genetically perfect, if I have a child that has any kind of

00:05:30.800 abnormality or disability that might make life more difficult for them or for me, then I am going to 1.00

00:05:37.860 kill that child because it might add complications to our lives. I mean, that is brutal. That is cold. 1.00

00:05:46.040 That is calloused. And I think when you are actually met with that kind of argument, it's very difficult for

00:05:54.760 people, even those who might have some reasons for thinking that they are for the choice of abortion in

00:06:01.800 some circumstances. It's really tough to get behind something like that. And so for her to have come to

00:06:09.540 this conclusion, to be able to say so, so confidently on television to millions of people means that her

00:06:19.280 heart has become so hardened that she is so unable to see the humanity of human beings who have genetic

00:06:30.120 differences, who have disabilities, so unable to see the humanity of life inside the womb, so callous has she 1.00

00:06:40.100 become that she doesn't even realize how absolutely demonic she sounds. But in her defense, she really is

00:06:49.640 just carrying the torch of Margaret Sanger. Like she is simply inheriting the arguments that have been made

00:06:59.660 by eugenesis by the pro-abortion movement for a very long time. Now, the pro-abortion movement has been

00:07:06.640 really good over the past couple of years, or couple of years, past hundred years is what I meant to say

00:07:12.000 about PR. They are really good at marketing. They are really good at euphemisms. They are really good

00:07:20.120 at saying things that they don't actually mean. They have come up with all of this ridiculous terminology 0.97

00:07:25.900 to make you forget about what abortion is and what the procedure actually does. They'll say pregnancy

00:07:32.160 tissue rather than even fetus sometimes, or unborn child. They'll use fetus even though it's just

00:07:39.120 Latin for small child in order to make you forget that you're talking about a human being. You're

00:07:45.220 talking about a baby. Fetus is not a more scientifically accurate name, by the way. It's just a way for the

00:07:53.700 pro-abortion side to kind of dehumanize life inside the womb so you'll forget about what's actually

00:07:59.520 happening. They use reproductive freedom, reproductive choice, bodily autonomy, women's rights. They will do

00:08:06.760 absolutely anything to avoid saying what an abortion is, what it does, and will do anything to distract

00:08:14.760 you from the fact that there are multiple human beings involved in every single abortion. They'll use 1.00

00:08:21.860 the term medical procedure, life-saving medical procedure. How many life-saving medical procedures

00:08:28.940 do you know that have the intention of killing someone? How many safe procedures are there

00:08:37.120 in which at least one person always dies? That's what we always hear, that abortion is safe. Safe for 0.99

00:08:44.040 whom? It's not safe for the other human being involved. And so I'm actually thankful that Nancy

00:08:51.020 Rodriguez is just telling it like it is in the sense that she's not really using the euphemisms.

00:08:57.840 She's just saying what is inherent in abortion ideology and what is inherent in the pro-choice

00:09:04.940 side. Because even if you're like this guy who is kind of disgusted and repulsed initially by

00:09:12.100 her statement that she would abort a child with Down syndrome, and then he kind of backtracks a little

00:09:20.280 bit on that later on, even in his argument, even in his take on abortion is the same inherent idea that

00:09:32.580 she has, even if he had a little bit of a different reaction. Their premise is the same. Their concept of

00:09:40.740 human life is the same. That some human beings are not worthy of life. That some human beings,

00:09:49.240 either depending on the circumstances surrounding their conception, depending on their ability or

00:09:54.180 disability, depending on the desires of the mom or the dad or their socioeconomic status, it's okay to kill 1.00

00:10:02.500 them. I mean, that is what is the inherent belief among all people who call themselves pro-life. 0.98

00:10:09.700 Whether you call yourself personally pro-life, but politically pro-choice, whether you say that

00:10:14.900 you're only for abortion in certain circumstances, whether you say that you're only for abortion within

00:10:20.920 the first trimester, still inherent in your belief and your assertion is that some human beings just

00:10:28.000 aren't worthy of life. And you think that you and the government get to determine that. You think

00:10:34.900 that the government, I know that like the pro-choice side always says you want to get government out of

00:10:39.200 healthcare, but actually by being pro-choice, you are giving the government the power to say that some

00:10:45.940 lives are not valuable, that some human beings are okay to murder. So you're actually asking the

00:10:54.120 government to do something a lot bigger than pro-lifers are. Pro-lifers are simply saying,

00:10:59.560 look, government, recognize the right to life of all innocent human beings, no matter their stage

00:11:06.700 of development, no matter how old they are, no matter how developed they are. And so I'm actually

00:11:13.720 thankful for her frankness. Like I'm thankful for her honesty. I really hope it causes some pro-choice

00:11:20.400 people to think about maybe why did you recoil? If you consider yourself pro-choice, like why are

00:11:26.460 you uncomfortable with her argument? Like, does it make you feel a little weird when you hear pro-choicers

00:11:32.720 say, oh yeah, if I found out that my kid wasn't perfect in some way, even if I had all the means 0.85

00:11:38.700 to take care of them, I would have them dismembered. I would have them poisoned. I would then have them 0.99

00:11:44.580 then have them discarded. If that makes you a little uncomfortable, you should really dig into that

00:11:49.200 and ask yourself why. Also, just a second on abortion or on Down syndrome rather.

00:12:07.920 I have spent a good amount of time with both children and adults with Down syndrome. When I

00:12:14.520 was in high school and going into college, I volunteered and then worked on staff at a place

00:12:18.580 called Camp Barnabas. And it is a camp for kids and adults with special needs in Missouri. Some of

00:12:24.260 the greatest days of my life, the most joyous days, some of the most difficult days of my life

00:12:29.020 were spent at Camp Barnabas. And God has really given me a heart for people with special needs,

00:12:37.920 but also I think a particular ability to be able to communicate with them and connect with them

00:12:45.160 and love them. We had these Valentine's Day dances when I was in college where we had, it was like a

00:12:54.240 Valentine's party with a community in the area that helped adults with Down syndrome and with special

00:13:02.960 needs. And again, just some of the most joyous nights of my life. Why? Because these are some of

00:13:09.600 the most joyful people, the most fun people that you will ever meet. I mean, their joy and their

00:13:17.820 gratitude and their friendliness is so pure and so good that just their presence adds something to the

00:13:27.500 world. It adds something to families. It adds something to communities that you and I, just with our

00:13:33.580 ability to grow cynical and to be judgmental and to be closed off, we just don't have the same ability,

00:13:44.780 I think, to give as much as a lot of people with Down syndrome and with other special needs have. It's

00:13:54.740 just different. I mean, when Jesus says that we need faith like a child in order to enter the kingdom of

00:14:01.380 heaven, he is talking about the kind of full trust and reliance and dependence that comes with an

00:14:12.360 innocent child. And while a lot of kids and adults with Down syndrome, they are able to mature in a way

00:14:22.260 that a lot of other adults can, they do maintain in general a child likeness about them in their faith

00:14:29.300 and in their dependency and in their joy and in their gratitude that we shouldn't be denigrating,

00:14:36.440 but rather we should be trying to emulate. And so for this person to say that just because someone's

00:14:44.440 life might be hard, just because someone might have some medical needs that you're going to kill them,

00:14:51.240 what if you have a child that you don't find out that there's something wrong with them until after

00:14:56.080 they're born? The second they're born, you find out that they had Down syndrome. That's possible,

00:15:00.200 by the way. You can miss the markers when they're inside the womb. What are you going to do then?

00:15:05.920 Would you discard your child then the second they're outside of the womb? If not, why not? The only 0.82

00:15:13.640 difference is location. The only difference is time. And those are really arbitrary standards

00:15:19.980 to apply to someone if you're deciding whether or not they should live or die. There are all kinds of

00:15:27.400 things that our children might develop outside of the womb. There are all kinds of medical needs that

00:15:34.020 they will have, even the healthiest kids. They will add complication to your life. They will add

00:15:39.140 difficulty. They might grow up to have a hard life for things that you could not detect through genetic

00:15:45.000 testing while you were pregnant. Yeah, that's part of parenting. Part of parenting is sacrifice.

00:15:51.720 Part of parenting is difficulty. And really, there is just no other love like being a mom or a dad

00:16:00.480 to kids, whether they have a lot of medical needs or not. There is a selflessness that is inherent in

00:16:07.460 motherhood and in fatherhood that is just unlike anything else. And I'm just wondering, maybe

00:16:13.220 if Nancy, if she's actually met with this situation one day, if that'll change. I mean, I know people,

00:16:21.020 they get sonograms and then they have abortions. There are a lot of evil and callous people out

00:16:24.520 there. But man, I'll just never forget seeing my oldest on the sonogram, first trimester, 11 weeks,

00:16:32.200 and just being stunned into tears that this child who my husband and I created was a fully formed baby

00:16:40.500 in the first trimester kicking and punching and moving. She was small. She just needed time and

00:16:46.420 nourishment to grow to be able to meet us outside of the womb. But she was fully formed right there.

00:16:51.800 Arms, legs, fingers, toes, brain, lungs, heart. I mean, we saw all of it right there. And it's hard for

00:16:58.940 me to believe that even someone as callous as Nancy would be met with the humanity of life inside the 0.98

00:17:05.300 womb and then say, kill it. It's not beyond imagination. Unfortunately, that happens every 0.98

00:17:12.960 day. Not all women who get abortions are victims. Did you hear me? Not all women who get abortions

00:17:19.100 are victims. I think we as pro-lifers should stop talking about them as if they are. Many women know

00:17:24.420 exactly what they're doing. And they do it anyway. I don't know if that's Nancy or not. But wherever you

00:17:31.760 fall on this issue, I just encourage you to think about her words. Think about why they make you

00:17:37.140 uncomfortable. Think about why you have never really been able to justify or defend your stance

00:17:46.760 that some human beings, depending on their size or age or ability, should be killed legally. That's a

00:17:54.840 really, really untenable position, especially as a Christian. All people, including babies in the womb, 1.00

00:18:02.300 including babies with Down syndrome, are made in the image of God. They have souls. They're never

00:18:07.020 clumps of cells. They're not just clumps of matter. They are human beings, just like you and me. They

00:18:13.100 have just as much value as you and me in or outside of the womb. And when you take away that belief,

00:18:19.120 like when you start to say, well, some people are not made in the image of God. Some people are not

00:18:23.180 valuable. Some people should be killed. Well, you sound a lot like the Nazis. You do. I mean, 1.00

00:18:29.860 they killed babies and children and people with disabilities. I mean, that's part of where Margaret 0.99

00:18:34.660 Sanger got her ideology. They really inspired each other in a lot of ways. Margaret Sanger started

00:18:39.460 Planned Parenthood. I mean, it's funny that in an age where we're willing to tear everything down,

00:18:44.660 whose foundation we don't like or we disagree with, Planned Parenthood still remains for a lot of people

00:18:50.040 who claim to be empathetic and for social justice, like some kind of beacon of women's rights.

00:18:57.040 Come on. You know, that's satanic. You're following the father of lies. There's no excuse for it.

00:19:02.820 There's really not. All right. I want to switch gears to this next story, another pop culture story,

00:19:08.760 but kind of on the other end of this, but similar because we're still talking about children.

00:19:14.860 Jennifer Aniston just did this exclusive interview with Allure magazine a couple of days ago,

00:19:19.040 a few days ago, and she says that she wishes that she had frozen her eggs. And, you know,

00:19:25.700 Jennifer Aniston is someone that I think about whenever I see her on magazines. And I just think

00:19:31.220 I wonder why she never had kids, because I still remember several years ago now, I remember reading

00:19:38.900 an article about her when I was, I don't know, maybe in middle school or high school,

00:19:42.560 that when she was married to Brad Pitt and the reporter asked her, are you pregnant? Or are,

00:19:52.220 you know, are you going to have kids or whatever? And I remember her saying, not yet, but we're having

00:19:56.580 fun trying. And you don't say that if you don't want kids. You don't say that if that's not a hope

00:20:02.940 or a desire that you have. So really, I don't know why that stuck with me, but it's always stuck with me.

00:20:08.500 And it's always kind of made me sad that she did not become a mom. And I just kind of wondered

00:20:12.580 why that was, if she was just so dedicated to her career, if after her and Brad ended things,

00:20:18.660 if she was like, you know what, there's just no one else that I really want to have kids with.

00:20:22.500 And I don't know, it just bummed me out whenever I thought about that for her. So I was really

00:20:27.020 interested to read this article that she says, because she says to Allure magazine that she struggled

00:20:32.380 with, that she struggled with infertility and she really wanted to have kids. Here's what she said.

00:20:38.020 She said, I was trying to get pregnant in my 30s and 40s. It was a challenging road for me,

00:20:43.180 the baby making road. All the years and years and years of speculation, it was really hard. I was

00:20:49.060 going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. I would have

00:20:53.580 given anything if someone had said to me, freeze your eggs, do yourself a favor. You just don't think

00:20:58.620 it. So here I am today, the ship has sailed. Now, here's something that she says, which I think

00:21:03.840 is interesting. She says, I have zero regrets. I actually feel a little relief now because there

00:21:10.060 is no more. Can I? Maybe, maybe, maybe. I don't have to think about that anymore. Now, I guess what

00:21:18.480 she is saying then is that she is relieved because now she's in her 50s and she is relieved that she

00:21:24.760 doesn't have to, I mean, the window has completely closed. She is unable to get pregnant. Her biological 0.99

00:21:31.300 clock says no. And so she doesn't have to worry about it anymore. But the problem is, of course,

00:21:38.980 that she waited until her late 30s and 40s to try to get pregnant. Now, I say that 0.92

00:21:46.920 as someone who has lots of friends and lots of family who got pregnant in their 30s and even

00:21:54.080 friends who got pregnant in their 40s. I'm not saying that that's not something that someone

00:21:58.340 should try to do or that's a bad thing or anything like that. But we also know that it is the older

00:22:05.380 that you get, especially after the age of 35, the more difficult it is to get pregnant, which is one

00:22:11.360 of the reasons why our birth rate is lowering in the United States more precipitously than it has

00:22:19.500 ever in all of history. Because very many women, whether voluntarily or not, some women don't want 1.00

00:22:26.380 to be, but they are pursuing careers in their 20s and 30s and putting off having children and in some

00:22:32.600 cases getting married until they're 38 years old. And they are surprised to find that they just don't

00:22:39.000 have the same ability to get pregnant as they did when they were 25 years old. As I said, 0.97

00:22:44.900 for some women, it wasn't an option. They didn't meet the person they were going to marry. They 1.00

00:22:49.020 wanted to, but they didn't. Or they weren't able to get pregnant until they were 38. Whatever. I know

00:22:54.560 that there are a variety of reasons why some people might wait. But there are certainly more women than 1.00

00:22:59.880 ever in all of history at any place who now both have the ability and the desire to put off having

00:23:07.720 children for work until their late 30s. Now, I don't know exactly why Jennifer Aniston apparently 1.00

00:23:16.980 waited until her 30s and 40s. I'm guessing it probably had to do with career, but maybe it also

00:23:22.740 had to do with relationships. Now, I do think it's interesting. We see this in celebrity culture a lot

00:23:30.220 that she was trying to get pregnant, I guess, when she was not married. So I don't know if she had a

00:23:36.940 sperm donor or what was going on here, but apparently that wasn't something that was super important

00:23:43.060 to her. And we do see this more and more with reproductive technology that you can just get a sperm 1.00

00:23:49.240 donor. You can be a single woman. And if you want a biological child, then you can figure out a way to 0.60

00:23:55.580 do that. Now, I think that's wrong because you are forcing fatherlessness. And fatherlessness, if we look

00:24:01.800 throughout scripture, it's exclusively a category of vulnerability. We are called to advocate on behalf

00:24:07.700 of the fatherless because fatherlessness is such a tragedy. It's not a good thing. It's something that

00:24:14.660 is to be mourned over and a problem really in society to fix, not a problem to cause simply because you

00:24:21.920 want a biological child, which is a very natural desire, a very strong desire for women. There's nothing 1.00

00:24:27.560 wrong with having that desire, but to purposely create a child different than adoption, purposely

00:24:34.680 create a child with the intent of taking them away from their father through sperm donation or from 0.50

00:24:41.280 their mother through egg donation. You are causing fatherlessness and motherlessness. These are

00:24:47.760 categories of vulnerability. They also lead, even just outside of the biblical problems with it,

00:24:53.880 they also lead to different issues as the child is growing up. We have more data on fatherlessness

00:25:01.360 because motherlessness is almost like a, it's a complete historical aberration. Fathers tend to

00:25:07.620 leave more than mothers do. But we know the consequences of fatherlessness. You are far more likely to have an 0.71

00:25:13.800 eating disorder, to be depressed, to be anxious, to be sexually active as a teenager, to be delinquent as a

00:25:20.360 teenager, to skip school as a teenager. There are all kinds of issues that are far more likely when you

00:25:27.660 do not have a father at home. And so I don't know what she thinks about that. I don't know what her plan

00:25:36.180 was for that, if she was using a sperm donor, if she was in a long-term relationship. But this is

00:25:41.800 certainly something that we see more of now. Women who satisfy that very natural and God-given urge 1.00

00:25:48.020 to have a biological child without any intention of having the father around, of taking that child 0.62

00:25:54.600 away from their biological father through sperm donation.

00:26:08.460 We saw Van Jones and his friend, I think it was last year, I wrote an article about it for World

00:26:14.000 Magazine. They created a child because they wanted a child, but no intention of getting married, no

00:26:19.060 intention of living together, just basically, I guess, friends with benefits. I mean, maybe it's

00:26:23.740 a little better because Van Jones is going to be around, but again, you are purposely creating a

00:26:29.220 child to put them in a situation of instability. And I think that that's cruel. I think that's cruel.

00:26:35.720 So it doesn't surprise me necessarily that Jennifer Aniston doesn't have the same ethical

00:26:40.080 stance that I do on the rights of children. But I did think that this was interesting. She wanted a

00:26:47.380 child so much, she threw everything at it, but then she says that she has no regrets. I wonder if that's

00:26:52.420 true. I wonder if she can honestly say that she has no regrets. I also think you look at someone who

00:26:58.880 has everything, who is beautiful, who has been an idol of beauty, especially her hair, for the past 30

00:27:07.480 years, who has so much money, so much power, so much influence. And yet, she still threw everything 1.00

00:27:19.280 at the one thing that she did not have, and that was pregnancy and having a child. So she obviously

00:27:25.900 still felt at that time like something was missing. I mean, there are just some things that money really

00:27:33.680 can't buy. And it also speaks to just how strong that biological urge is that God has given women. 0.99

00:27:43.760 Also, speaking of egg donation, something that I meant to say in the last segment about the Love

00:27:48.280 is Blind girl, Nancy Rodriguez, there's another scene in Love is Blind where she talks about donating

00:27:52.800 her eggs, donating like tons of her eggs. And so, I mean, she could potentially have like hundreds of

00:28:00.740 children out there who are going to long to see their mother, to meet their mother. We inherently

00:28:10.580 want to know from whom we come. We inherently want to know whose we are, how we got here. And we

00:28:19.360 inherently want to know the people that we are a part of, where we get our traits from, our physical

00:28:25.440 traits, our personality traits. I think God gave that to us. It's part of being made in His image,

00:28:31.380 and also part of why He calls Himself our Father, because He alone can really meet that strong,

00:28:38.180 inherent need that we have. But again, you are forcing, she is forcing her children into motherlessness, 0.99

00:28:45.660 into estrangement. And how are you going to deal with that when they grow up and they want to know who

00:28:50.640 their mom is and why she gave them away? It's really sad. If you can't tell, I am against commercial,

00:28:58.420 I'm against ag donation and sperm donation. I'm against a lot of the reproductive technologies

00:29:04.440 that we have today, and I'm against commercial surrogacy. That gets me in trouble, even with

00:29:09.520 Christians that listen to this podcast. And I have done, but I've done several episodes on it.

00:29:15.320 We'll link the past ones. You can go listen to them. This does not mean that I think that you are

00:29:19.780 not a great mom, or that I think that your kids aren't made in the image of God, because they

00:29:23.640 are. They absolutely are. And I am sure that you are a wonderful mom. It has nothing to do with that.

00:29:29.200 It has to do with the rights of children. And just because something is possible through technology

00:29:33.700 does not mean that it is good. When we go from what's natural to what's possible, we have the

00:29:39.640 obligation, especially as Christians, to ask what's at stake and if this is virtuous or not.

00:29:47.180 All right. A few more things that I want to talk about. Let's just stay on the baby subject for a

00:29:54.660 second, and then we'll get into a couple more things. Okay. Nick Cannon, again, kind of like

00:30:01.040 the opposite end of the spectrum. So Nick Cannon is now fathering his 12th child. 12th child. And now

00:30:08.500 this would be awesome if it was just him and his wife, and they just decided to procreate. They 0.98

00:30:16.680 wanted to, you know, have a bunch of children. They don't believe in birth control. I would have

00:30:22.340 been like, what is he Catholic? Is he Mormon? I don't know. Or does he just really like having kids?

00:30:28.780 I would be happy about that. But the fact is, is that he has several mothers of his children. Let's

00:30:35.120 see. How many mothers? I think I have a list here. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Um, we got to repeat,

00:30:49.800 uh, a 7. It's, it's a little difficult because they're like, you got Mariah Carey, Brittany Bell,

00:30:57.400 Brittany Bell, Abby De La Rosa, Alyssa Scott, Brie Tiesi, Lanisha Cole, then back to Brittany Bell,

00:31:04.860 then back to Abby De La Rosa, then back to Alyssa Scott. Like you got, is it polyamory? What's 1.00

00:31:11.060 going on here? Is it on purpose? Like, do all the women know that you are also getting these other 1.00

00:31:15.840 women pregnant? Is it intentional? Or do you purposely not use anything to inhibit pregnancy?

00:31:24.820 Like it's got to be some kind of, he's got to be motivated by something here. Because I mean,

00:31:30.600 this is a lot, these are a lot of people to support. These are a lot of women to make happy 0.92

00:31:35.400 and to take care of. These are a lot of children to take care of. But the truth is this kind of

00:31:41.080 sexual sin is going to cause disorder, not just in his life, not just in these women's lives, but

00:31:46.700 also in their kids' lives. Not only because they will have a father who just simply cannot be around

00:31:52.540 unless they're all living in a commune. Um, so they're not going to have a present father.

00:31:58.200 Also, like a lot of these women are probably going to start dating someone else. They might 1.00

00:32:03.060 get married to someone else. And statistically, while there are amazing stepdads, so don't hear 0.96

00:32:08.700 me say that there aren't, statistically, the most likely person to abuse a child is the mother's

00:32:14.620 boyfriend or whatever man, non-father that the mother brings into the home. That's just statistically

00:32:21.880 true. So these kids are put into a state of perpetual instability, uh, chaos, not knowing

00:32:28.780 when they're going to see their dad, probably, and not knowing what kind of father figure or man

00:32:35.160 or boyfriend is going to be in their home and how safe they are. That is why anytime you step away

00:32:40.660 from God's intended order for the family, there is going to be suffering. There is going to be

00:32:46.540 disorder. There is going to be chaos. There is going to be sadness. There is going to be

00:32:51.160 loss there. Like, even if we look at, uh, Abram and Sarah or Abraham and Sarah and Hagar and how she

00:33:02.200 became pregnant with Abraham's child, sometimes people use that as like a defense of commercial

00:33:07.500 surrogacy. But actually, we saw that that really wasn't what was supposed to happen in that that wasn't

00:33:14.140 the, uh, that, that wasn't the first intended route and it ended up in a lot of brokenness

00:33:22.600 and sadness and rejection and pain and resentment. So we see anytime we go outside of God's intended

00:33:30.120 order, there is hell to pay. I mean, I guess in more ways than one, but the victims of this primarily

00:33:37.540 are going to be the kids who again, did not consent to this kind of family makeup. And

00:33:44.040 are possibly going to suffer from the trauma that this causes for the rest of their lives.

00:33:49.380 But again, adults' desires, I mean, that's the theme that we've seen throughout this. Adults' 0.57

00:33:53.900 desires seem to trump the wellbeing of children, especially when it comes to the sexual revolution

00:34:00.660 that has just changed everything about how we view marriage, how we view divorce, how we view sex,

00:34:06.400 how we view childbearing and childrearing. It is because we have exchanged the foundation

00:34:15.180 placed for us by the God of scripture with a worship for the God of self. In the world of the

00:34:21.160 God of self, our feelings rule, our emotions reign, and we can't even really comprehend what it means to

00:34:29.380 do something that we do not want to do because we worship ourselves. And that's got us to a really

00:34:35.460 dangerous place. You know, for so long, like progressives talked about a new society. We have

00:34:41.060 to create a new society. We have to tear down traditions and the old institutions and the old

00:34:48.700 ways. And we have to do things differently and we have to create something new. And I used to say,

00:34:53.640 okay, what are you going to do when we get there? I mean, what does that really look like? Are you

00:35:00.140 ever going to say, is the left ever going to say, okay, this is the new society that we've been

00:35:07.240 working toward? We've redefined everything. We've broken down all the old things. And now people are

00:35:12.420 just free to be who they want to be, live how they want to live and to follow their own truth and

00:35:17.300 their own happiness. And I've wondered what that world would look like. And then I realized that we are

00:35:22.460 there. We're there. I don't think it's as bad as it could be. But yeah, I mean, when you have two men,

00:35:29.720 for example, who are legally able to buy the eggs of one woman and rent the womb of another woman

00:35:36.020 to create a child, to purposely take that child away from both their biological mother and the

00:35:42.200 woman who gestated them and to bring them into their home, into a motherless situation, that's just 1.00

00:35:47.220 one example of the consequence of the sexual revolution. Then yeah, I would say that we have

00:35:52.240 reached the society that progressives wanted. How are we doing? How are we doing? Are we happier?

00:35:58.820 Are we more fulfilled? Do we have more friends? Do we feel a greater sense of purpose? More belonging?

00:36:06.660 Are we more stable and secure? Are we safer? Are we happier than we were 50 years ago?

00:36:13.500 So after the past few decades of just following our hearts, of determining our own truth,

00:36:19.000 of doing what we want to do, of getting rid of that old religion and the chains of Christianity 1.00

00:36:25.440 and just ignoring all of that archaic stuff and redefining everything, how we see fit? Are we

00:36:32.120 happier? Are we smarter? Are we better off? No, actually, I think we're the opposite. We're lonelier.

00:36:37.460 We're more isolated. We're more depressed. We're more anxious. We're more purposeless

00:36:43.700 than we ever were before. And so I don't know, maybe just taking a wild guess, the promise that

00:36:53.820 progressives gave us that just trust us if we tear down everything that used to be and just let you do

00:36:59.700 whatever you want to, you'll be happier. Maybe it didn't fulfill. Maybe that's because it's a satanic

00:37:05.420 lie. And just like Satan tempts you to sin by painting a picture of how awesome it'll be

00:37:11.500 when you do sin, never telling you the consequences on the other side. Maybe that's kind of what's

00:37:16.580 happened here. Here we are. We're not happier. We're much worse off.

00:37:20.980 Um, all right, just a couple more segments. Um, I want to talk about this. Speaking of like

00:37:38.240 disorder and rearranging God's order, this, uh, guy who identifies as a girl, you might've seen this

00:37:47.040 on social media. Uh, he won a beauty pageant in, let's see, where is it? Oh, in New Hampshire.

00:37:57.900 He won Miss Greater Dairy 2023. And we will put up the picture. You can see, um, we might have to

00:38:05.780 circle this person because you won't be able to tell otherwise. Um, sorry, that was sarcasm,

00:38:11.980 but this is according to Redux magazine. Uh, Brian Nguyen, uh, 19 was awarded the crown in the Miss

00:38:20.840 Greater Dairy pageant held on November 8th in the Greater Dairy area of New Hampshire. The

00:38:25.300 competition is a locally run event under the national Miss America series of pageants. And so

00:38:30.680 the picture that we put up, they're standing on the stairs and, um, a bunch of girls are around him

00:38:37.920 and he's standing there. I mean, probably three times as big as them. It's very obvious that this

00:38:45.220 person is a man. This person won this pageant. And I'm wondering not just, okay, not just how does a man

00:38:53.560 win a pageant against all of these very cute girls, but also how does this person win? Because under like 0.73

00:39:02.100 no definition of beauty would this person ever win a pageant? Like it doesn't make any sense. It's

00:39:11.480 obviously pity. And I don't think that's mean to say because men who dress up like girls don't look

00:39:18.120 attractive when they dress up like girls. They don't. That's not mean to say. You can be a really,

00:39:22.700 really handsome guy. You can look awesome as a guy. But then when you dress up like a girl, you're ugly 1.00

00:39:27.880 all of a sudden. Because guys do not make cute girls. Like I don't care how much makeup you put 0.95

00:39:32.780 on. I guess maybe if you do a ton and ton and ton of surgery and procedures, like you might look like

00:39:39.780 an attractive girl that has had a lot of work done. But look, God made men different. They made them

00:39:45.740 with broader, he made them with broader shoulders, a bigger jaw, a brow ridge, an Adam's apple,

00:39:52.020 with smaller hips, with bigger hands, with bigger feet. I mean, they just don't look like women. 1.00

00:39:58.660 Women can somewhat pass as men by looking more masculine. Men have a really hard time looking 1.00

00:40:03.960 like women. Even the most handsome guy, when he dresses up like a woman, he looks ugly. 1.00

00:40:10.240 That's just the truth. So I'm sure that Brian is an attractive guy. I mean, he's, you know,

00:40:15.700 he's a human being. He's made in the image of God. He's no less valuable,

00:40:20.100 but he does not belong in a women's pageant. That's just the truth. And obviously, he won 0.97

00:40:26.080 this women's pageant, not because he is more attractive in any way than all of the cute girls

00:40:31.680 that competed against him, because there were a lot of legitimate beauty queens that you can see 1.00

00:40:35.880 that competed against him, but because they were trying to make a statement. Or maybe they were

00:40:40.440 scared of backlash, because they were trying to virtue signal. And that's just really sad. But that's

00:40:45.900 also what progressivism does. It doesn't just destroy truth. It also destroys beauty. It can't

00:40:51.620 create anything. It can't create anything at all, but it can't create anything beautiful. It hates

00:40:56.680 beauty. And that's why you see it fighting against not just the family, but also the concepts of like

00:41:03.340 health and physical fitness. And I mean, that's part of just what it does. It's destructive in nature.

00:41:10.000 And so, of course, it's trying to destroy that which is objectively beautiful. I'm not saying

00:41:15.460 that everyone has to look the same or everyone has to be a size two in order to be beautiful. I don't

00:41:20.520 believe that at all. But I also don't think we should lie to ourselves and say that this guy,

00:41:26.000 who is very clearly a man with a lot of makeup on, is more beautiful than all of the very pretty

00:41:33.260 girls that he competed against. You only do that if you're scared. You only do that if you have

00:41:37.720 just completely become diluted in your mind. And I think it's really sad. I think it's sad that his

00:41:44.060 parents have allowed him to do this. I think I feel I'm sure that there are parents of girls in

00:41:48.880 that beauty contest that won't say anything, but are like, this is absolutely bogus. And by the way,

00:41:55.380 he won a scholarship for this. He won, I think it was a $7,500 scholarship for winning this that was

00:42:01.940 supposed to go to a woman. Okay, like you see what's happening now? Like, do you do you understand 0.98

00:42:08.640 why maybe this is unfair? Or maybe this isn't right? Wow, it is so important for us as parents

00:42:15.000 to make sure that we are teaching our kids that which is beautiful and true and just affirming that

00:42:20.340 to them in every single way. All right. The theme of all of that was disorder is bad

00:42:37.620 and order is good. There is a God who created the heavens and the earth. There is a God who created

00:42:43.180 order. He created our bodies. He created our genders. He knit us together in our mother's womb.

00:42:48.860 All of us are made in his image, male or female, at the moment of conception onward. We love our

00:42:57.000 neighbors and in a healthy and right sense, love ourselves. I don't mean in the typical superficial

00:43:04.140 secular self-love sense, but just in being grateful for being made, being made how and who you are,

00:43:11.240 we do those things by aligning ourselves with his order, by teaching our kids his order, by infusing

00:43:16.680 the goodness of his order in every sphere that we occupy. Going outside of God's order, whether it's

00:43:22.780 how we create children, whether it's destroying the children that we create, whether it's trying

00:43:27.760 to deny the reality of male or female, whether it's trying to subvert his order when it comes to how

00:43:33.860 we arrange families and marriages, it's always going to create chaos. It's going to create the

00:43:40.660 depressed and anxious and sad and listless and purposeless world that we live in now.

00:43:47.180 God is love, 1 John 4, 8. His order is good that we see in Genesis 1. Now, speaking of things,

00:43:52.980 just to end that are not beautiful and good, we've got our last segment of the day, and that is

00:44:00.040 a low-rise jeans segment. You guys know that I am against low-rise jeans. As you can see,

00:44:06.900 my little middle sticker right there, if you're watching on YouTube, I'm against low-rise jeans.

00:44:13.000 I will protest against low-rise jeans. This whole, like, early 2000s trend that we have

00:44:17.860 coming back, thanks to Gen Z, I don't hate it. I don't. I actually think some of the trends coming 1.00

00:44:23.060 back are cute. You guys have seen some of my outfits look like I'm in 1999. I love it. I'm not

00:44:28.400 complaining. But look, I've had two kids. I've had two C-sections. Like, I am not going to wear low-rise

00:44:34.460 jeans. And by the way, no matter how cute you are, I personally think that a good mid-rise or even

00:44:41.560 high-rise looks better on almost everyone. A low-rise below your hips? It just, I'm protesting

00:44:50.520 against it. That is going to be my platform if ever I start my own political party. So, as we have done

00:44:57.360 in the past, my team is going to show me some pictures of low-rise jeans, and I am going to rate

00:45:03.260 them for you. You need to watch this segment on YouTube. It's that important. All right. First,

00:45:08.800 first low-rise jean. Okay. So, we got, is this Katie Holmes? Oh, I could even tell with her mask on.

00:45:16.860 I think Katie Holmes is beautiful. Now, here's, like, another, like, low-rise jeans trend that I

00:45:22.200 don't understand, and it's called the saggy baggy crotch. She has, it's, like, these are very low,

00:45:28.860 but they're also about three sizes too big, and the jeans have a saggy baggy crotch, and I don't

00:45:35.440 understand that. She's a beautiful person. She's got a beautiful figure. Just like I just said,

00:45:41.020 everyone would look better with a nice little fitted mid-rise. And so, I'm going to rate these,

00:45:49.540 let's see, one through ten. I never remember the scale, ten being the okayest and one being the

00:45:54.980 absolute worst. It's Katie Holmes, and I feel like I like Katie Holmes. And so, I'm going to say that,

00:46:01.100 I'll say that they're a five. I mean, they're pretty bad, but they're maybe not as worse as the,

00:46:08.320 as bad as they could be. So, I'll rate these a five. Okay. Next one. Is this Zendaya? Is that how

00:46:16.340 you pronounce it? Zendaya? Zendaya? She's also so super cute. I think that she's, like, one of the

00:46:23.380 prettiest people in the world. I, oh, okay. So, obviously, like, not a huge fan of the

00:46:29.540 cardigan as a shirt. Also, gosh, such a flashback to the early 2000s. I so remember when the short,

00:46:38.540 like, the short cardigans were in. Now, I was wearing a shirt under it, unlike our girls,

00:46:44.860 Zendaya's and Zendaya here. Yeah. And also, those, like, short, juicy jackets. I didn't have one,

00:46:54.080 but I remember my friend had a pink, like, short, juicy jacket that you would wear, like, a wife 0.83

00:46:59.640 beater under, and that was supposedly cute at the time. We're probably talking, like, 2002.

00:47:05.400 So, let's see. I mean, these kind of look like men's jeans, once again.

00:47:09.560 Um, but, and we got saggy baggy crotch, once again. All right. I think that's, I guess that's

00:47:17.700 the thing. Oh, and again, I just think that it would look so much cuter if, in just, like,

00:47:25.560 a nice little fitted jean. But the sides are up over her hip, so I appreciate that. And she's,

00:47:32.320 I mean, she looks really cute. I, I'm gonna go with, like, a six and a half. I think it's okay.

00:47:37.120 Okay. Okay. Next one. Oh, this is one of the Hadids. Don't know which one. I don't think I like

00:47:45.340 them. Um, and this one is, like, we've got a cargo situation going on. Um, and what is the deal?

00:47:54.780 Except for the Katie Holmes one, all these people wearing low-rise jeans, and they forgot the other

00:48:00.540 part of their shirt at home on accident. And so, for, and it kind of looks like she, like, has her shirt

00:48:06.860 lifted up. It's very odd. And you can, like, see her underwear. Very weird situation. Don't like it.

00:48:13.360 It does remind me of, like, what was it? Xenon, the girl of the 21st century. Do y'all remember that?

00:48:20.280 Yeah. It reminds me of some kind of futuristic thing like that. Like, 2001, or maybe something

00:48:26.120 that they would have worn on Brink, like, while you're skateboarding. I'm gonna go with, like, a

00:48:31.000 3.2. I feel like she shows up on every list of low-rise jeans. And so, I could, like,

00:48:37.780 I could attribute this trend to her. And so, I have some animus against her. All right. Do we have

00:48:42.960 any more? Okay. Oh, my gosh. Is this Julia Fox? I'm really actually proud of all of my ability to

00:48:51.900 identify all these celebrities. Um, oh, my gosh. She is such an odd person. I kind of respect how odd

00:48:59.620 she is, though, that she just seems to not care about anyone. And she, I guess, makes her own

00:49:05.640 clothes. I feel really weird about this outfit. It's really, really ugly. But I think that she

00:49:13.980 knows that it's ugly and she's just gonna go for it. I don't want it up on the screen any longer.

00:49:18.420 I'm gonna have to give this a 2. I mean, her pants are almost on the ground in this picture. It cannot 1.00

00:49:23.160 be comfortable. If she takes another step further with her tiny little denim bag, her pants are gonna fall 1.00

00:49:28.980 off. So, I'm gonna go with a 2. It's not a 0 because I think Julia Fox, I mean, you know,

00:49:36.660 she's probably trying to be fashionable. But let's just go with the 2. Okay. Last one. What? Is this

00:49:41.880 also Julia Fox? Okay. This is the worst thing that I've ever seen in my life. Okay. This is gonna be a

00:49:47.460 0. And I think that we need to take it down. I think we need to take it down. It's just a little

00:49:52.260 too inappropriate. Um, yeah. She, like, had her, like, pants unzipped. No, no, no, no, no. Why does

00:49:59.180 anyone want to do this? Bring back the mid-rise. Bring back the high-rise. I am going to stay with

00:50:05.160 that. Just trust me on that. I know that I betrayed a lot of you when I moved my hair towards the

00:50:10.460 center. And a lot of you are still bitter about that. Because I said that I was never going to do

00:50:16.580 the middle part. And that I liked my side part. But now I look back and I'm like, I hate my side.

00:50:24.000 I hated that. I hated that. I can't believe. I didn't like it on me. I'm sure it looks great on

00:50:29.240 those of you who still have it. But I didn't like it. I like this a lot better. And by the way,

00:50:32.660 it's not a full middle part. It is still off center. So you can say that I've compromised a

00:50:38.200 little bit, that I've given into the culture, that I've allowed Gen Z to influence me. But if I ever

00:50:44.440 show up with low-rise jeans, I don't know what you can do to me. You can get angry at me. You can

00:50:53.660 throw tomatoes at me. I don't know what it is. But I will have lost my mind if I ever show up in

00:51:02.240 low-rise jeans. Just could never do it. I continue my campaign against it. All right. That's all we've

00:51:08.040 got for today. Please leave us a five-star review. If you love this podcast, subscribe on YouTube.

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 15, 2022

Ep 709 ｜ 'Love Is Blind' Goes Full Nazi

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