Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 15, 2022


Ep 709 ｜ 'Love Is Blind' Goes Full Nazi


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

164.70543

Word Count

8,454

Sentence Count

573

Misogynist Sentences

30

Hate Speech Sentences

29


Summary


Transcript

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
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
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
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
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
00:05:37.860 kill that child because it might add complications to our lives. I mean, that is brutal. That is cold.
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
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
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
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
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
00:10:02.500 them. I mean, that is what is the inherent belief among all people who call themselves pro-life.
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
00:11:38.700 to take care of them, I would have them dismembered. I would have them poisoned. I would then have them
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
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
00:17:05.300 womb and then say, kill it. It's not beyond imagination. Unfortunately, that happens every
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,
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,
00:18:29.860 they killed babies and children and people with disabilities. I mean, that's part of where Margaret
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
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
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
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,
00:22:44.900 for some women, it wasn't an option. They didn't meet the person they were going to marry. They
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:25:48.020 to have a biological child without any intention of having the father around, of taking that child
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
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.
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,
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
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
00:31:11.060 going on here? Is it on purpose? Like, do all the women know that you are also getting these other
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
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
00:32:03.060 get married to someone else. And statistically, while there are amazing stepdads, so don't hear
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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.
00:39:58.660 Women can somewhat pass as men by looking more masculine. Men have a really hard time looking
00:40:03.960 like women. Even the most handsome guy, when he dresses up like a woman, he looks ugly.
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:49:23.160 be comfortable. If she takes another step further with her tiny little denim bag, her pants are gonna fall
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
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