Ep 709 ｜ 'Love Is Blind' Goes Full Nazi
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Jennifer Aniston opens up about infertility, a contestant from Love is Blind says that she would abort a baby who has Down Syndrome, and a man has won a female beauty contest in New Hampshire. This is an episode about children, human nature, the rejection of God s intended order, and how that is shaping our culture and how Christians should respond. And at the end, we have a low-rise gene segment because unfortunately, they are still on the prowl and scarier than ever.
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Jennifer Aniston opens up about infertility. A contestant from Love is Blind says that she
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would abort a baby who has Down syndrome. And a man has won a female beauty contest in New
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Hampshire. This is an episode about children, human nature, the rejection of God's intended
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order, how that is shaping our culture and how Christians should respond. And at the end,
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we've got a low rise gene segment because unfortunately, they are still on the prowl
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and scarier than ever. This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to
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goodranchers.com slash Allie. That's goodranchers.com slash Allie.
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Okay, guys, it'll be a fun episode. We've got a lot to get through. I know we've been talking about
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politics for the last week or so because of the midterms. And I do encourage you to go back and
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listen to last week's episodes if you want to know my take on all that. And there's a lot that
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we could still talk about. Some of the outstanding elections and all that good stuff. And we will
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the rest of this week. But I just kind of wanted to take a break and talk about some of the things
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that are going on in pop culture. Because as we say often, politics is downstream from culture.
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Culture is downstream from theology. And it tells us a lot about where we are, about our moral
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landscape. And one of the parts of our culture that I care most about, that we talk most about,
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is how our society looks at children. How our society sees child rearing, sees raising the next
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generation, how we are treating children. I often say that children are always the unconsenting
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subjects of progressive social experiments. And that is true if you're looking at abortion,
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if you're looking at the forced virtual learning over the past few years because of COVID,
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forced masking in classrooms. If you're looking at gender ideology, if you are looking at the
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reformation of the family and very often the reproductive technology that is necessary for the
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reformation of the family, commercial surrogacy, children don't have a say in any of these
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things. They are unconsenting. And very often we don't know the consequences of these societal and
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technological changes. And we go forth anyway because, well, kids can't push back. They can't
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fight back. They can't defend themselves. They have no power. So kids are really just kind of
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the victims of adults' wishes. And we see that reality in the different shows that we watch,
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in the music that we listen to, the things that celebrities say, the articles and the books that
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we read. And I saw a scene from the show Love is Blind. I don't know if you guys are familiar with
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that. I think I watched one season on Netflix a couple of years ago, maybe like the OG season.
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I haven't really kept up with it, but people have been asking me, did you hear about this
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contestant named Nancy Rodriguez on Love is Blind talk about aborting a baby because the baby has
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Down syndrome? This is something that apparently she's very proud of. So I wanted to play you this
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clip and then talk about why I think it's important for us to know about, discuss, and rebut. Here it is.
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With Down syndrome, there's so many complications, medical and also learning complications. And I see
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the amount of trauma that it does to like the family. For me, if I knew that I could
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try again and hope that the second time it's better, then I would go that route, to be honest.
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Really? Yeah. I would never, I could never do that. But especially knowing that we were trying
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to have a kid just, just abort mission because they're going to have some challenges and we're
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going to have some challenges. I am mentally tough enough to handle whatever challenge that may present.
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And I just could never pull the plug like that. Yeah. That's rough. I could not do that. I'm sorry.
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So first of all, good for him for pushing back on her. Good for him for seeing that as the brutal
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argument that it is that just because your child has some kind of disability that you're just going
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to discard him or her. Now, later on, he does go on to say that he is okay with abortion in some
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circumstances. And so I don't think he's some like stalwart pro-lifer here. But I do appreciate
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that you can kind of see him, if you're watching this on YouTube, immediately recoil when she admits
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that, yes, she would abort a child just because he or she has a chromosomal abnormality in Down
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syndrome. He doesn't like that. He does kind of caveat and then say, oh, yeah, he's pro-choice and
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all of that. But I do think it's interesting to see people's initial reaction when you confront
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someone, even someone who considers themselves pro-choice with an argument of blatant eugenics,
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saying, if I have a child that is not genetically perfect, if I have a child that has any kind of
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abnormality or disability that might make life more difficult for them or for me, then I am going to
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kill that child because it might add complications to our lives. I mean, that is brutal. That is cold.
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That is calloused. And I think when you are actually met with that kind of argument, it's very difficult for
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people, even those who might have some reasons for thinking that they are for the choice of abortion in
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some circumstances. It's really tough to get behind something like that. And so for her to have come to
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this conclusion, to be able to say so, so confidently on television to millions of people means that her
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heart has become so hardened that she is so unable to see the humanity of human beings who have genetic
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differences, who have disabilities, so unable to see the humanity of life inside the womb, so callous has she
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become that she doesn't even realize how absolutely demonic she sounds. But in her defense, she really is
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just carrying the torch of Margaret Sanger. Like she is simply inheriting the arguments that have been made
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by eugenesis by the pro-abortion movement for a very long time. Now, the pro-abortion movement has been
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really good over the past couple of years, or couple of years, past hundred years is what I meant to say
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about PR. They are really good at marketing. They are really good at euphemisms. They are really good
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at saying things that they don't actually mean. They have come up with all of this ridiculous terminology
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to make you forget about what abortion is and what the procedure actually does. They'll say pregnancy
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tissue rather than even fetus sometimes, or unborn child. They'll use fetus even though it's just
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Latin for small child in order to make you forget that you're talking about a human being. You're
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talking about a baby. Fetus is not a more scientifically accurate name, by the way. It's just a way for the
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pro-abortion side to kind of dehumanize life inside the womb so you'll forget about what's actually
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happening. They use reproductive freedom, reproductive choice, bodily autonomy, women's rights. They will do
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absolutely anything to avoid saying what an abortion is, what it does, and will do anything to distract
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you from the fact that there are multiple human beings involved in every single abortion. They'll use
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the term medical procedure, life-saving medical procedure. How many life-saving medical procedures
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do you know that have the intention of killing someone? How many safe procedures are there
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in which at least one person always dies? That's what we always hear, that abortion is safe. Safe for
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whom? It's not safe for the other human being involved. And so I'm actually thankful that Nancy
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Rodriguez is just telling it like it is in the sense that she's not really using the euphemisms.
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She's just saying what is inherent in abortion ideology and what is inherent in the pro-choice
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side. Because even if you're like this guy who is kind of disgusted and repulsed initially by
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her statement that she would abort a child with Down syndrome, and then he kind of backtracks a little
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bit on that later on, even in his argument, even in his take on abortion is the same inherent idea that
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she has, even if he had a little bit of a different reaction. Their premise is the same. Their concept of
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human life is the same. That some human beings are not worthy of life. That some human beings,
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either depending on the circumstances surrounding their conception, depending on their ability or
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disability, depending on the desires of the mom or the dad or their socioeconomic status, it's okay to kill
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them. I mean, that is what is the inherent belief among all people who call themselves pro-life.
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Whether you call yourself personally pro-life, but politically pro-choice, whether you say that
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you're only for abortion in certain circumstances, whether you say that you're only for abortion within
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the first trimester, still inherent in your belief and your assertion is that some human beings just
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aren't worthy of life. And you think that you and the government get to determine that. You think
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that the government, I know that like the pro-choice side always says you want to get government out of
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healthcare, but actually by being pro-choice, you are giving the government the power to say that some
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lives are not valuable, that some human beings are okay to murder. So you're actually asking the
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government to do something a lot bigger than pro-lifers are. Pro-lifers are simply saying,
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look, government, recognize the right to life of all innocent human beings, no matter their stage
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of development, no matter how old they are, no matter how developed they are. And so I'm actually
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thankful for her frankness. Like I'm thankful for her honesty. I really hope it causes some pro-choice
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people to think about maybe why did you recoil? If you consider yourself pro-choice, like why are
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you uncomfortable with her argument? Like, does it make you feel a little weird when you hear pro-choicers
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say, oh yeah, if I found out that my kid wasn't perfect in some way, even if I had all the means
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to take care of them, I would have them dismembered. I would have them poisoned. I would then have them
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then have them discarded. If that makes you a little uncomfortable, you should really dig into that
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and ask yourself why. Also, just a second on abortion or on Down syndrome rather.
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I have spent a good amount of time with both children and adults with Down syndrome. When I
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was in high school and going into college, I volunteered and then worked on staff at a place
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called Camp Barnabas. And it is a camp for kids and adults with special needs in Missouri. Some of
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the greatest days of my life, the most joyous days, some of the most difficult days of my life
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were spent at Camp Barnabas. And God has really given me a heart for people with special needs,
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but also I think a particular ability to be able to communicate with them and connect with them
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and love them. We had these Valentine's Day dances when I was in college where we had, it was like a
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Valentine's party with a community in the area that helped adults with Down syndrome and with special
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needs. And again, just some of the most joyous nights of my life. Why? Because these are some of
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the most joyful people, the most fun people that you will ever meet. I mean, their joy and their
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gratitude and their friendliness is so pure and so good that just their presence adds something to the
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world. It adds something to families. It adds something to communities that you and I, just with our
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ability to grow cynical and to be judgmental and to be closed off, we just don't have the same ability,
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I think, to give as much as a lot of people with Down syndrome and with other special needs have. It's
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just different. I mean, when Jesus says that we need faith like a child in order to enter the kingdom of
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heaven, he is talking about the kind of full trust and reliance and dependence that comes with an
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innocent child. And while a lot of kids and adults with Down syndrome, they are able to mature in a way
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that a lot of other adults can, they do maintain in general a child likeness about them in their faith
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and in their dependency and in their joy and in their gratitude that we shouldn't be denigrating,
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but rather we should be trying to emulate. And so for this person to say that just because someone's
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life might be hard, just because someone might have some medical needs that you're going to kill them,
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what if you have a child that you don't find out that there's something wrong with them until after
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they're born? The second they're born, you find out that they had Down syndrome. That's possible,
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by the way. You can miss the markers when they're inside the womb. What are you going to do then?
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Would you discard your child then the second they're outside of the womb? If not, why not? The only
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difference is location. The only difference is time. And those are really arbitrary standards
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to apply to someone if you're deciding whether or not they should live or die. There are all kinds of
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things that our children might develop outside of the womb. There are all kinds of medical needs that
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they will have, even the healthiest kids. They will add complication to your life. They will add
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difficulty. They might grow up to have a hard life for things that you could not detect through genetic
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testing while you were pregnant. Yeah, that's part of parenting. Part of parenting is sacrifice.
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Part of parenting is difficulty. And really, there is just no other love like being a mom or a dad
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to kids, whether they have a lot of medical needs or not. There is a selflessness that is inherent in
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motherhood and in fatherhood that is just unlike anything else. And I'm just wondering, maybe
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if Nancy, if she's actually met with this situation one day, if that'll change. I mean, I know people,
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they get sonograms and then they have abortions. There are a lot of evil and callous people out
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there. But man, I'll just never forget seeing my oldest on the sonogram, first trimester, 11 weeks,
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and just being stunned into tears that this child who my husband and I created was a fully formed baby
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in the first trimester kicking and punching and moving. She was small. She just needed time and
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nourishment to grow to be able to meet us outside of the womb. But she was fully formed right there.
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Arms, legs, fingers, toes, brain, lungs, heart. I mean, we saw all of it right there. And it's hard for
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me to believe that even someone as callous as Nancy would be met with the humanity of life inside the
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womb and then say, kill it. It's not beyond imagination. Unfortunately, that happens every
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day. Not all women who get abortions are victims. Did you hear me? Not all women who get abortions
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are victims. I think we as pro-lifers should stop talking about them as if they are. Many women know
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exactly what they're doing. And they do it anyway. I don't know if that's Nancy or not. But wherever you
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fall on this issue, I just encourage you to think about her words. Think about why they make you
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uncomfortable. Think about why you have never really been able to justify or defend your stance
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that some human beings, depending on their size or age or ability, should be killed legally. That's a
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really, really untenable position, especially as a Christian. All people, including babies in the womb,
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including babies with Down syndrome, are made in the image of God. They have souls. They're never
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clumps of cells. They're not just clumps of matter. They are human beings, just like you and me. They
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have just as much value as you and me in or outside of the womb. And when you take away that belief,
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like when you start to say, well, some people are not made in the image of God. Some people are not
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valuable. Some people should be killed. Well, you sound a lot like the Nazis. You do. I mean,
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they killed babies and children and people with disabilities. I mean, that's part of where Margaret
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Sanger got her ideology. They really inspired each other in a lot of ways. Margaret Sanger started
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Planned Parenthood. I mean, it's funny that in an age where we're willing to tear everything down,
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whose foundation we don't like or we disagree with, Planned Parenthood still remains for a lot of people
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who claim to be empathetic and for social justice, like some kind of beacon of women's rights.
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Come on. You know, that's satanic. You're following the father of lies. There's no excuse for it.
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There's really not. All right. I want to switch gears to this next story, another pop culture story,
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but kind of on the other end of this, but similar because we're still talking about children.
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Jennifer Aniston just did this exclusive interview with Allure magazine a couple of days ago,
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a few days ago, and she says that she wishes that she had frozen her eggs. And, you know,
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Jennifer Aniston is someone that I think about whenever I see her on magazines. And I just think
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I wonder why she never had kids, because I still remember several years ago now, I remember reading
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an article about her when I was, I don't know, maybe in middle school or high school,
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that when she was married to Brad Pitt and the reporter asked her, are you pregnant? Or are,
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you know, are you going to have kids or whatever? And I remember her saying, not yet, but we're having
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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
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or a desire that you have. So really, I don't know why that stuck with me, but it's always stuck with me.
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And it's always kind of made me sad that she did not become a mom. And I just kind of wondered
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why that was, if she was just so dedicated to her career, if after her and Brad ended things,
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if she was like, you know what, there's just no one else that I really want to have kids with.
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And I don't know, it just bummed me out whenever I thought about that for her. So I was really
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interested to read this article that she says, because she says to Allure magazine that she struggled
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with, that she struggled with infertility and she really wanted to have kids. Here's what she said.
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She said, I was trying to get pregnant in my 30s and 40s. It was a challenging road for me,
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the baby making road. All the years and years and years of speculation, it was really hard. I was
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going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. I would have
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given anything if someone had said to me, freeze your eggs, do yourself a favor. You just don't think
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it. So here I am today, the ship has sailed. Now, here's something that she says, which I think
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is interesting. She says, I have zero regrets. I actually feel a little relief now because there
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is no more. Can I? Maybe, maybe, maybe. I don't have to think about that anymore. Now, I guess what
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she is saying then is that she is relieved because now she's in her 50s and she is relieved that she
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doesn't have to, I mean, the window has completely closed. She is unable to get pregnant. Her biological
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clock says no. And so she doesn't have to worry about it anymore. But the problem is, of course,
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that she waited until her late 30s and 40s to try to get pregnant. Now, I say that
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as someone who has lots of friends and lots of family who got pregnant in their 30s and even
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friends who got pregnant in their 40s. I'm not saying that that's not something that someone
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should try to do or that's a bad thing or anything like that. But we also know that it is the older
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that you get, especially after the age of 35, the more difficult it is to get pregnant, which is one
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of the reasons why our birth rate is lowering in the United States more precipitously than it has
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ever in all of history. Because very many women, whether voluntarily or not, some women don't want
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to be, but they are pursuing careers in their 20s and 30s and putting off having children and in some
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cases getting married until they're 38 years old. And they are surprised to find that they just don't
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have the same ability to get pregnant as they did when they were 25 years old. As I said,
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for some women, it wasn't an option. They didn't meet the person they were going to marry. They
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wanted to, but they didn't. Or they weren't able to get pregnant until they were 38. Whatever. I know
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that there are a variety of reasons why some people might wait. But there are certainly more women than
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ever in all of history at any place who now both have the ability and the desire to put off having
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children for work until their late 30s. Now, I don't know exactly why Jennifer Aniston apparently
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waited until her 30s and 40s. I'm guessing it probably had to do with career, but maybe it also
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had to do with relationships. Now, I do think it's interesting. We see this in celebrity culture a lot
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that she was trying to get pregnant, I guess, when she was not married. So I don't know if she had a
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sperm donor or what was going on here, but apparently that wasn't something that was super important
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to her. And we do see this more and more with reproductive technology that you can just get a sperm
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donor. You can be a single woman. And if you want a biological child, then you can figure out a way to
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do that. Now, I think that's wrong because you are forcing fatherlessness. And fatherlessness, if we look
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throughout scripture, it's exclusively a category of vulnerability. We are called to advocate on behalf
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of the fatherless because fatherlessness is such a tragedy. It's not a good thing. It's something that
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is to be mourned over and a problem really in society to fix, not a problem to cause simply because you
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want a biological child, which is a very natural desire, a very strong desire for women. There's nothing
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wrong with having that desire, but to purposely create a child different than adoption, purposely
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create a child with the intent of taking them away from their father through sperm donation or from
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their mother through egg donation. You are causing fatherlessness and motherlessness. These are
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categories of vulnerability. They also lead, even just outside of the biblical problems with it,
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they also lead to different issues as the child is growing up. We have more data on fatherlessness
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because motherlessness is almost like a, it's a complete historical aberration. Fathers tend to
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leave more than mothers do. But we know the consequences of fatherlessness. You are far more likely to have an
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eating disorder, to be depressed, to be anxious, to be sexually active as a teenager, to be delinquent as a
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teenager, to skip school as a teenager. There are all kinds of issues that are far more likely when you
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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
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was for that, if she was using a sperm donor, if she was in a long-term relationship. But this is
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certainly something that we see more of now. Women who satisfy that very natural and God-given urge
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to have a biological child without any intention of having the father around, of taking that child
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away from their biological father through sperm donation.
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We saw Van Jones and his friend, I think it was last year, I wrote an article about it for World
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Magazine. They created a child because they wanted a child, but no intention of getting married, no
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intention of living together, just basically, I guess, friends with benefits. I mean, maybe it's
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a little better because Van Jones is going to be around, but again, you are purposely creating a
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child to put them in a situation of instability. And I think that that's cruel. I think that's cruel.
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So it doesn't surprise me necessarily that Jennifer Aniston doesn't have the same ethical
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stance that I do on the rights of children. But I did think that this was interesting. She wanted a
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child so much, she threw everything at it, but then she says that she has no regrets. I wonder if that's
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true. I wonder if she can honestly say that she has no regrets. I also think you look at someone who
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has everything, who is beautiful, who has been an idol of beauty, especially her hair, for the past 30
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years, who has so much money, so much power, so much influence. And yet, she still threw everything
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at the one thing that she did not have, and that was pregnancy and having a child. So she obviously
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still felt at that time like something was missing. I mean, there are just some things that money really
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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
00:51:08.040
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