Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 853 ｜ Ne-Yo Speaks Up Against Transing Kids

00:00:00.000 R&B star Neo is doubling down on his comments, condemning the so-called transition of children.

00:00:08.400 Also, a 19-year-old from Wisconsin displayed amazing courage when he read the Bible at a Pride

00:00:15.140 event a couple weeks ago, then was arrested for it, then took the next public opportunity that he

00:00:21.600 had to share the truth of God's word at a city council meeting. Just amazing stories of people

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00:00:49.180 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone's having a wonderful week so far.

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00:02:23.920 this first story that we're talking about, there's some goods and there's bads to it,

00:02:28.220 but it is a theme of people standing up for what is true and what is right. So this first story is

00:02:35.500 about Neo. He reverses his publicist apology for comments against allowing kids to quote unquote

00:02:42.460 transition. So before we even get into that headline, we got to back up because maybe you

00:02:48.060 haven't seen this story. You don't even know who Neo is. So Neo is a pop and R&B artist. He's

00:02:54.280 really most known for writing a lot of songs. Apparently he wrote a few of Rihanna's greatest

00:03:00.800 hits, but he also sang that song Miss Independent. Not Miss Independent, Kelly Clarkson.

00:03:08.520 Not I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T. Not that one, but another Miss Independent. You can look it up on YouTube

00:03:17.660 and it'll probably jog your memory a little bit. Like she's got her own thing. That. I won't sing

00:03:25.000 it all for you because I don't want to show him up because I know that my rendition would be really

00:03:32.040 good. But you can look it up and you'll be like, oh, I remember this from 13 years ago, however long it

00:03:38.000 was that he came out. So that's who he is. That's Neo rapper or pop and R&B artist. His real name is

00:03:46.200 Schaefer Shamir Smith goes by Neo, but he is going viral right now. Not for any of his songs, not for

00:03:53.820 his artistry, but a conversation that he had on Vlad TV with a woman named Gloria Velez. It featured

00:04:03.020 him slamming parents who allow their kids to make quote unquote life-changing decisions through gender

00:04:10.420 quote unquote transition. So here is a clip of that interview that's got people just going wild.

00:04:17.220 Parents have almost, almost forgotten what the role of a parent is. It's like, okay, if your little boy

00:04:23.220 comes to you and says, daddy, I want to be a girl. And you just let him rock with that. You just let,

00:04:28.820 right. He's five. Right. And where did he get that from? If you let this five-year-old boy decide

00:04:34.400 to eat candy all day, he's going to do that. Like when, when did it become a good idea to let a

00:04:39.120 five-year-old, let a six-year-old, let a 12-year-old make a life-changing decision for

00:04:43.140 theyself? He goes on to say some very logical things like, okay, where does this end? What do we

00:04:49.800 allow kids to identify as? Of course, kids aren't going to be able to make good long-term decisions.

00:04:54.700 They don't have the capacity to do that. A very rational take that I guarantee you the vast

00:05:00.140 majority of people in the United States, whether they say it or not, are fully on board with. If a

00:05:06.860 five-year-old boy, a 12-year-old boy comes to you and says, I want to be the opposite sex,

00:05:13.220 it would absolutely be evil, wicked, a dereliction of duty for a parent to say, okay, let's explore that.

00:05:21.580 No, you're leading them down a path that will lead to the destruction of their body

00:05:26.380 and their mind. And now, of course, I am against this concept for adults too, but he's specifically

00:05:33.520 talking about children. I think that we can all, at least most of us, I mean, all rational people

00:05:39.400 can at least align on that, that we should not allow children to make permanent changes to their

00:05:44.720 bodies before their brains are even fully developed. They don't even have the prefrontal cortex to be

00:05:51.080 able to understand long-term consequences. And yet the people that do have fully developed frontal

00:05:56.680 lobes are just saying, okay, let's do it. Puberty blockers, chemical castration, permanent sterility, 0.98

00:06:02.120 let's go. And so he's saying something that is very common sense, should not be controversial at all.

00:06:08.820 And yet, of course, because we live in a very stupid, stupid, immoral, backwards Romans 1 time, 1.00

00:06:15.000 Romans 1 era, you've got people freaking out about this. So of course, he received backlash on social 1.00

00:06:22.860 media. And there were several outlets, several headlines that condemned him as being transphobic.

00:06:34.860 So this is after he issued an apology, which I'll read you in a second. But just to kind of show you

00:06:41.480 the kind of vitriol he was receiving. Neo apologizes for transphobic comments on gender identity. Neo

00:06:48.280 apologizes for transphobic comments, then doubles down. This is the advocate, LA Times,

00:06:54.600 Out Magazine. Neo apologizes for offensive transphobic remarks about trans youth. Complex.

00:07:00.080 Neo apologizes after criticizing parents of transgender children. And so you've got all these

00:07:06.780 outlets just calling him transphobic, but saying that he apologized for these things. Okay,

00:07:11.900 did he apologize for saying what he said? Well, kind of, but not really. So these outlets are just

00:07:19.020 examples. These headlines are just examples of the kind of reaction that he got from the left on social

00:07:25.200 media, on Twitter, on Instagram, after making these statements. And it's funny how they don't even have to

00:07:31.620 like qualify the description. They just say his comments were transphobic, not his comments were

00:07:37.700 true, but they could offend some people. But his comments were representative of an irrational fear

00:07:43.980 of people who identify as the opposite sex, which is what transgender means. But the headlines all

00:07:49.460 cover this apology, which was clearly written by his publicist. And this was posted to his Twitter

00:07:55.700 on August 6th. After much reflection, I'd like to express my deepest apologies to anyone that I may

00:08:02.380 have hurt with my comments on parenting and gender identity. I've always been an advocate for love and

00:08:07.120 inclusivity in the LGBTQI plus community. So I understand how my comments could have been interpreted

00:08:12.800 as insensitive and offensive. Gender identity is nuanced. And I can honestly admit that I plan to 0.97

00:08:17.900 better educate myself on the topic so I can approach future conversations with more empathy. At the

00:08:22.980 end of the day, I lead with love and support everyone's freedom of expression and pursuit of

00:08:27.260 happiness. Weak sauce. Weak sauce. Moral relativism that's shrouded in absolutely meaningless,

00:08:37.200 quote unquote, empathetic language that completely discounts the very real harm that this movement,

00:08:45.360 that the idea of gender identity has on people, particularly children. There's nothing that he said that

00:08:51.620 isn't true. And there's nothing in this statement that discounts or even rebuts anything that he

00:08:56.160 said. And he obviously meant what he said, because what he said is not even arguable. And yet, of course,

00:09:05.560 his publicist said, I'm sure you have to put this out. We have to save face. We've got to protect

00:09:11.320 your reputation. And so let's go back on your convictions. Let's pretend like you didn't know what you were

00:09:17.300 talking about. You were just ignorant. You were just stupid and that you didn't really mean what 1.00

00:09:22.260 you said. And then we can all move on from that. So people were really disappointed that he put out 1.00

00:09:28.660 this apology. People criticized him. Understandably, a lot of conservatives on Twitter criticized him

00:09:33.560 for being a coward, for backing down and saying, oh, yeah, I said that, but I didn't really mean it. I mean, 0.91

00:09:40.840 we see this over and over again, caveating, apologizing, covering up, making excuses,

00:09:48.220 going back. I mean, it's just exhausting. Conservatives see it all the time. There are so

00:09:54.160 few people with spying these days to say things that are just undeniably true. And yet, he apparently

00:10:01.620 wasn't satisfied with the apology that his publicist seemingly forced him to put out or had him put out

00:10:10.760 because then he put out another video saying, uh, I don't apologize for what I, for what I said.

00:10:18.060 Okay. Neo then, uh, yesterday on Tuesday posted a video response on his Instagram,

00:10:37.880 um, basically saying, I don't agree with the, uh, apology that my publicist put out.

00:10:47.760 So here's part of that video. I need y'all to hear this from the horse's mouth,

00:10:51.680 not the publicist's computer. So check this out. First and foremost, I do not apologize for having

00:10:56.780 an opinion on this matter. I am a 43 year old heterosexual man raising five boys and two girls.

00:11:04.100 Okay. That's my reality. Now, if my opinion offended somebody, yeah, sure. I apologize for you being

00:11:09.800 offended because that wasn't my intention. My intention is never to offend anybody. However,

00:11:13.700 I'm entitled to feel how I feel. I'm absolutely entitled to feel how I feel the same way you are

00:11:18.980 entitled to feel how you feel. I ain't asked nobody to follow me. I ain't asked nobody to agree with me.

00:11:24.140 I was asked a question and I answered the question. I will never be okay with allowing a child to make

00:11:30.520 a decision that detrimental to their life. I will never be okay with that. I don't care. I definitely

00:11:35.300 plan to educate myself a little bit more on this matter. However, I doubt that there's any book

00:11:40.300 anywhere or any opinion that somebody is going to tell me that's going to make me okay with letting

00:11:45.060 a child make a decision like that. That's just period, point blank. And that's how I feel.

00:11:49.200 If I get canceled for this, then you know what? Maybe this is a world where they don't need a

00:11:52.700 neo no more. Okay. So good for him. I mean, he, I liked the second half of that more than I liked

00:11:59.080 the first half because I think a lot of times when we say something that we know is true, we know

00:12:06.080 is absolutely objectively true. We kind of defend ourselves by saying, well, it's just my opinion.

00:12:13.700 I'm sure that I've done that before. Even it's very tempting to do, but I think that the better

00:12:19.000 option when it comes to something like this is to simply say, it's true. That's how you can defend

00:12:25.620 yourself. It's true. Not just, Hey, it's my opinion. I'm going to educate myself and you can have

00:12:29.760 your own opinion and do your own thing. And he, and the second half of that, like, I do think that he

00:12:35.520 kind of doubles down and says, look, sure, I can educate myself, but I can pretty much guarantee

00:12:41.060 you that there's going to be nothing out there that could possibly change my mind on something

00:12:46.000 this, uh, obviously evil and wrong and warped and backwards. And so good for him. Good for him. 0.84

00:12:54.720 Uh, because what he said is true. It's undeniable. It's inarguable. There is absolutely nothing

00:13:02.580 that could convince a rational person that transitioning a child either socially or 0.53

00:13:10.640 medically is healthy and good and moral and compassionate. And you might think, well, yeah,

00:13:15.800 no, there are different arguments. Notice that I use the qualifier rational. There are arguments that

00:13:22.700 exist. Certainly are. They're not rational. They're not compassionate. They're not moral.

00:13:28.900 They're not kind. They're not good. They're powered by fear, by wrong ideology, by false beliefs,

00:13:37.320 by profit when it comes to these doctors and pharmaceutical companies, politics, when it

00:13:43.560 comes to these politicians, but it's, it's not powered by rationale or logic or truth or anything

00:13:49.820 like that. Um, so Neo is absolutely right. And you know what? It took bravery to go against what

00:13:56.060 his publicist said. It would have been a lot easier for him to just say, you know what,

00:14:01.740 whatever. My publicist handled it. I'm just not going to talk about it anymore. I'm just

00:14:06.360 going to kind of let it go away. People will stop criticizing me and pushing back on me as

00:14:12.240 soon as, you know, I just kind of let it die down. He didn't have to post the follow-up

00:14:18.340 video doubling down on his position, but he did. So good for him. Good for him. I hope that

00:14:24.160 his kids look at this and say, you know what? My dad stood for something, even though it was

00:14:28.680 controversial, shouldn't be controversial, but it is. He decided to be, as we say on this

00:14:33.500 show, salmon and swim upstream. That's not easy to do in Hollywood. That's not easy to

00:14:37.840 do in the music industry. That's not easy to do when popular opinion is against you,

00:14:43.140 when it costs you a lot. It shouldn't cost you anything, but it costs you a lot to say

00:14:47.620 something as simple as I don't think 10 year old boys should be chemically castrated.

00:14:52.040 And it's actually, we should affirm that the body that they have been given, the body that

00:14:56.700 they were born in is good. That it tells them something about who they are and that no matter

00:15:01.800 what their feelings are, they should mutilate that body to try to change that body to try to do

00:15:06.940 something that is not possible nor beneficial for them. So you know what? Good for Neo. Neo stood up to

00:15:15.120 the mob mostly. And I hope that he continues to. We'll see because I guarantee you he is going to

00:15:21.540 continue to get backlash. Like we see stuff like this and the LGBTQ lobby, the activist groups,

00:15:29.360 the media, they don't let it go. They're like a pit bull. They can't. They lock their jaw on,

00:15:37.460 in our metaphor, a toddler, and they just can't. They just can't let go. That's basically what the

00:15:43.360 media is. They're like a pit bull attacking a toddler. They just can't let it go until they get what

00:15:50.820 they want. And so I hope that Neo stands strong. I hope he stands strong for his kids. I hope he

00:15:57.320 stands strong for truth because he's absolutely right. And we need more people who are not your

00:16:02.040 like typical Christian conservative whatever saying this simple fact, which again should not receive

00:16:11.400 any pushback whatsoever. But it just goes to show how crazy things have gotten that this is even a

00:16:17.560 story that we have to talk about. But our next story is also a story of courage that I really

00:16:24.820 wanted to highlight because it should give us courage. We say a lot that courage is contagious.

00:16:30.900 Courage begets courage in other people. We raise a respectful ruckus for the things that matter,

00:16:37.320 hoping that doing so will be a contagion for those around us as we stand up for things that are good

00:16:43.040 and right and true. And this young man by the name of Marcus Schroeder, who's 19, was arrested for

00:16:50.520 reading from the Bible aloud at a Wisconsin Pride event recently. And then he shared the gospel at a

00:16:57.200 city council meeting and of course got a lot of pushback for that because people hate the gospel.

00:17:02.480 So let me read you summaries from the Republican Sentinel, which is the original report of this,

00:17:07.700 as well as Fox News, who picked up the story.

00:17:09.960 So several members of a Christian group, Warriors for Christ, were evangelizing at the Watertown,

00:17:14.840 Wisconsin Pride in the Park event on Saturday, July 29th. So Pride, not exclusive to June,

00:17:20.960 apparently has to go on and on throughout the year. And the video circulating on social media,

00:17:25.120 Marcus Schroeder is seen reading from the Bible into a microphone when officers surround him and grab

00:17:30.220 his microphone. As his group questions the officers, they handcuff Schroeder and explain that he was

00:17:35.320 being arrested for violating a sound ordinance about noise amplification. So let me play you a video

00:17:42.880 of Marcus being arrested.

00:17:45.880 But if you buy and devour one another,

00:17:47.760 beware lest you be consumed by one another.

00:17:53.260 Hey, what are you doing?

00:17:55.720 What are you doing?

00:17:56.440 What is the problem?

00:17:57.880 What are you doing?

00:17:58.880 What's wrong with you?

00:17:59.540 What are you doing?

00:18:00.300 I'll just look at that, man.

00:18:01.500 You didn't give him any warning. You just grab the mic.

00:18:03.160 No, this is the same one that we had over here.

00:18:04.960 Yeah, that was in there.

00:18:05.920 It was not out here.

00:18:06.660 What are the rules?

00:18:07.400 What are you doing?

00:18:07.920 They said we can speak out here on the sidewalk freely.

00:18:13.840 You can speak, but there's no amplification.

00:18:15.380 Nobody told us that.

00:18:16.660 What are you doing?

00:18:19.000 How come there's no amplification?

00:18:21.460 Resist. 0.92

00:18:22.240 You guys are acting like thugs, man. 0.99

00:18:24.380 They're like straight up thugs. 0.99

00:18:26.140 Hey, you're taking away my hand.

00:18:28.300 He has every right to be out here engaging in speech.

00:18:31.000 Okay, so Marcus, as you can see, was arrested.

00:18:37.920 Jason Storms, a fellow ministry member who filmed the encounter, told reporters that police

00:18:43.240 had also arrested three other young people from their group who were praying and talking

00:18:46.860 to attendees.

00:18:49.260 Now, no matter what, I don't think that this is right, but I do just want to say it's not

00:18:53.940 like he was reading even the most offensive passages from scripture about things like

00:18:59.200 homosexuality and gender.

00:19:00.720 It sounds like just from what I heard that he was reading Galatians 5, 14 through 15

00:19:06.580 or through 16, rather, for the whole law is fulfilled in one word, you shall love your

00:19:13.020 neighbor as yourself.

00:19:14.000 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

00:19:18.540 But I say, walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

00:19:22.620 That's a great word.

00:19:24.000 So he got in trouble for reading that out loud at this pride parade.

00:19:29.920 So this other ministry member, this member of this group, Jason Storms, claimed that performers

00:19:35.380 at the pride event, which was advertised as family friendly, were dressed in lingerie and

00:19:39.760 danced inappropriately in front of little children who were invited to give them $1 bills.

00:19:45.200 The Unity Project of Watertown, which organized the event, encouraged families to attend, telling

00:19:50.260 the media there would be a drag story hour and a children's craft and play area.

00:19:55.300 And if you look at some of the pictures of what's going on here, some of the drag queens,

00:20:02.040 the men dressed up as women who are performing, I don't even actually know what gender these

00:20:08.980 people are, but they're dressed very explicitly.

00:20:11.360 Like they're very scantily clad.

00:20:13.900 Well, we can show you maybe on YouTube.

00:20:16.340 I don't even know if that's necessary.

00:20:17.600 But has, you know, this person has fishnet tights on, like a bra on, and apparently this 1.00

00:20:23.520 is supposed to be a family friendly kid event.

00:20:26.400 Now, what's interesting is that according to the Republican Sentinel, is that there is

00:20:32.860 a law in Wisconsin that forbids individuals from causing a minor to view or listen to sexually

00:20:38.300 explicit conduct.

00:20:40.240 But when it comes to the law that apparently Marcus and his friends violated, it seems like

00:20:48.320 that doesn't exist.

00:20:50.160 They said the police officers said, we're arresting you for violating some kind of sound ordinance

00:20:56.520 for causing a disturbance.

00:20:58.000 But as far as I could see, this is according to Vicki McKenna.

00:21:02.520 She is a talk show host in Wisconsin.

00:21:05.200 She claimed on her show when she was talking to Marcus Schroeder that through her research,

00:21:09.300 she found that the ordinance in Watertown, specifically in Wisconsin, for amplification

00:21:13.960 without a permit applies only to vehicles, not sidewalk preaching, which is protected

00:21:18.880 First Amendment speech.

00:21:20.500 And of course, I'm assuming that at this event, they also had other people with microphones.

00:21:25.460 And so it seems like this was kind of a bogus accusation.

00:21:29.680 They also accused Marcus of resisting arrest.

00:21:32.200 He absolutely denies that, says that's not true.

00:21:35.020 He was shocked.

00:21:36.240 He was tense, but he didn't resist arrest, he says.

00:21:39.300 Um, uh, there was at this event, which was very disturbing, um, there was a performer

00:21:46.280 named Neo.

00:21:47.060 He's a 16 year old drag performer who's been performing drag since he was 13.

00:21:51.800 He was named Miss Wisconsin, uh, youth entertainer in 2022 is also featured on generation drag in

00:21:59.800 discovery plus.

00:22:00.780 So this was just absolutely a degenerate gathering.

00:22:03.400 These Christian men trying to come together to say some sort of truth, to preach the gospel 0.97

00:22:09.020 to these very lost and perverse people, and then were arrested for doing so.

00:22:16.320 Now Schroeder said that he believes that it was absolutely worth, um, taking this risk.

00:22:21.720 It was worth his arrest.

00:22:23.200 And one of his friends, Nick Prohl, also said that he said, I do it all over again.

00:22:29.660 And he said, also making headlines or the report says also making headlines for this event was

00:22:34.400 a group of Neo Nazis who arrived wearing all black, waving swastika flags and trying to

00:22:41.840 disrupt the event.

00:22:42.800 And of course, critics of Schroeder and his friends who got arrested, the other Christians 1.00

00:22:47.480 there are trying to conflate these two groups saying like, look, this is what side you're

00:22:51.840 on.

00:22:52.240 You're trying to oppose drag queen story hour and minors dressed as scantily clad women 1.00

00:22:59.640 performing. 0.98

00:23:00.340 You must just be a Nazi. 0.54

00:23:02.740 So Schroeder was released with a warning.

00:23:04.960 And then after that, he attended a city council meeting recently where he spoke and he talked

00:23:10.180 about, hey, we were not affiliated with those Nazis.

00:23:12.340 And he also had the opportunity to share the gospel.

00:23:14.780 And I'm going to play you those videos in just a second.

00:23:29.800 Okay.

00:23:30.380 So Marcus Schroeder, this 19 year old kid who got arrested, um, he got up at a city council

00:23:36.740 meeting just the other day.

00:23:38.480 And he said this, he said, I know a Nazi group showed up.

00:23:41.960 At the event Saturday.

00:23:43.100 And people were talking about that.

00:23:45.020 I just wanted all for all of us to really think about this.

00:23:49.680 What's wrong with Nazism?

00:23:52.920 And, uh, he uses this obviously to distinguish his group despite accusations from the Nazis,

00:24:00.180 but he's using this as a question to get people to think about the existence of objective,

00:24:07.520 universal morality, the existence of right and wrong.

00:24:12.360 And to make people think, why, why do you believe in a right and wrong, which is a great

00:24:18.140 Christian apologetics tactic, uh, that we've seen several times throughout history.

00:24:22.040 I think one of the most notable is in, um, CS Lewis is mere Christianity. 0.91

00:24:26.780 So that's the tool that he's employing here.

00:24:28.820 Here's a clip of him saying that.

00:24:30.140 I just wanted for all of us to really think about this.

00:24:33.800 What's wrong with Nazism?

00:24:37.160 Like seriously, what's wrong with Nazism?

00:24:39.420 Because imagine for a moment that there is no God above us, no hub below us, no heaven

00:24:45.620 to live for as John Lennon wanted to imagine.

00:24:49.100 If we are truly the result of evolved stardust and our ancestors were fish and were the descendants

00:24:54.580 of monkeys, then where do we find our value as human beings?

00:24:58.260 He then goes on to explain that if it weren't for the Christian worldview that tells us murdering

00:25:04.380 innocent image bearers is wrong, there wouldn't be a problem. 0.98

00:25:09.460 He also says that Christians were the number one people, uh, the number one group to oppose

00:25:14.260 the Nazis, which is true. 0.98

00:25:15.660 So his point is that without the existence of a God, without the existence of a moral arbiter,

00:25:23.140 a great moral law giver, then there is no reason to say that anything is objectively wrong.

00:25:30.920 That morality really is just relative.

00:25:33.540 If there's no one who ultimately places in our hearts the understanding of good and bad,

00:25:38.800 right and wrong, we have no authority to look at Nazi Germany or look at Pol Pot or look at

00:25:45.260 any human rights atrocity anywhere throughout history or anywhere on earth and say that that

00:25:50.260 is objectively wrong. Um, and so again, this is a point that is well articulated by C.S. Lewis and

00:25:57.020 mere Christianity. And so he is kind of pointing out the hypocrisy here that Christians are called 0.83

00:26:02.440 judgmental for saying some things are wrong. And yet the world is okay with saying a lot of things

00:26:07.220 are objectively wrong, like Nazism, which of course I agree with, but there is a reason why Nazism 0.99

00:26:12.020 is wrong. And it's because there is a great moral law giver who, as Marcus says, made us in his image.

00:26:19.600 And then he goes on, uh, to talk a little bit more about Christian morality. Here's what he says.

00:26:27.020 As we become more and more tolerant of sexual immorality in our culture,

00:26:30.480 we've become more and more intolerant towards Christian morality. And the more we become 0.64

00:26:35.480 intolerant towards Christian morality, the more we're going to see lawlessness in our streets. 0.93

00:26:40.700 The more we become intolerant of Christian morality, the more we're going to see Nazis. 0.71

00:26:45.120 The more we're going to see people who don't hold to a Christian worldview, who think that everybody

00:26:49.920 is a result of animals. Drag queens twerking on kids in lingerie is unacceptable. And that's something 1.00

00:26:56.020 that we have to notice as a culture. We can have our disagreements, but there comes a time when we

00:27:01.260 have to understand that we are all going to stand before God one day. And we're going to have to give

00:27:05.920 an account for what we have done with the children in our society, the innocent minds and the children

00:27:11.440 who deserve to be protected.

00:27:14.000 So good for him. So I said that he shared the gospel. We didn't share a clip of him sharing the

00:27:19.480 gospel, but he does share biblical truth that I think is really, um, important there. And obviously

00:27:26.200 he believes in the gospel and he was sharing God's inerrant word and he got arrested for that.

00:27:33.040 And then rather than cowering in a corner and saying, I'm not going to talk about this anymore

00:27:37.080 because I don't want to take the arrows for it. He decided that he was going to speak out again

00:27:41.840 at a city council meeting. And I just commend him for that. And, um, I praise God for the courage of

00:27:47.600 young people that exists. And even though this is something that makes headlines or that has made

00:27:52.700 headlines that has kind of gone viral, at least in the Christian media sphere, it's a good reminder 1.00

00:27:58.320 that this kind of thing happens on a daily basis, not just here in the United States, but also around

00:28:03.500 the world. Like there are Christians that are standing up that are counting the costs and have 1.00

00:28:07.740 decided that following Jesus, that denying themselves, taking up their cross and following

00:28:12.700 Christ is absolutely worth it. It's worth the arrests. It's worth the pushback. It's worth the bullying.

00:28:18.580 It's worth losing their job. It's worth hurting their reputation. It's worth even going to the

00:28:24.360 point of death. And so this is just one small example of the courage that the Holy Spirit gives.

00:28:31.520 I hope it gives us courage as well to remind us that we were not given a spirit of fear and timidity,

00:28:37.380 but one of power because of the gospel. That this is just one, in the grand scheme of things,

00:28:42.800 small example of the courage that Christians have displayed throughout history,

00:28:46.280 not because of our own strength, but because of Christ in us. And this is happening in a much

00:28:52.320 bigger way and even more consequential ways around the world throughout the church. And that is

00:28:58.240 the power that God gives us. It's the power that he's always given the church. The power that

00:29:02.720 he displayed in the beginning 2,000 years ago is still alive in us today. And we have the complete

00:29:10.840 capability and the power, the authority to be able to speak as this young man is speaking. So I just

00:29:17.940 hope that the Lord continues to use him, that his courage is contagious, that he, in the midst of all

00:29:23.660 this craziness and chaos that we see in the world, that he does raise up young people that are unafraid

00:29:28.600 to say what is good and right and true. Marcus is getting a lot of praise online, as he should,

00:29:38.060 from fellow Christians for his courage. So I just wanted to make sure that we highlight that. We've

00:29:43.040 had several stories of these, of young men standing up for what is right, saying the unpopular thing. And

00:29:50.100 as much as I can, I want to shine light on things like this because I know, especially in the generation

00:29:56.040 of like, online bullying, that just always go with the flow, it seems, and are typically, it appears

00:30:04.520 in Gen Z, not very thoughtful about the issues of the day, especially from a biblical perspective. I want to 1.00

00:30:10.200 give us some hope that there are and that God will always choose and raise out the people that he wants

00:30:15.800 to raise up. All right, we're going to talk about another positive story with negative reactions to it.

00:30:26.040 Okay, so I wanted to talk about this story in Texas. This is the headline from Outkick. Texas Governor

00:30:42.340 Greg Abbott signs Save Women's Sports Acts while protesters outside chant Save Trans Lives. So this is

00:30:49.340 actually ceremonial. This was a bill that he signed into law in Texas, the Save Women's Sports Act, but this

00:30:59.960 was ceremonial. So he was in Denton, Texas, which is the home to Texas Women's University. The law seeks to

00:31:07.320 prohibit biological men, this is the language used in Outkick, that's not the language that I use,

00:31:16.060 as I just say, men pretending to be women, from competing in women's sports. Protesters also

00:31:22.000 showed up at the event. The videos that I've seen are just absolutely vile and disgusting, vitriolic,

00:31:28.440 these protesters who think that men should have the right to enter into women's private spaces and

00:31:34.620 their competitions. Governor Abbott said this, the legacy of women's sports will be safeguarded for

00:31:40.700 generations to come because of the law I'm about to sign. Women in Texas can be assured that the 1.00

00:31:45.480 integrity of their sports is protected in our great state. Riley Gaines, whom we've had on this

00:31:51.940 podcast, she's actually the host of an Outkick podcast, I didn't know that, Gaines for Girls. 1.00

00:31:57.680 She has been at the signing of a lot of these bills. Again, good for her. She's had so much courage

00:32:02.060 since she was forced to compete against a man named Leah Thomas. She says this new law will protect

00:32:07.080 the integrity of women's sports by prohibiting men from competing against women's athletes at Texas

00:32:13.660 colleges and universities. So there are a lot of tweets saying F Greg Abbott, all this stuff,

00:32:22.840 and organizing this protest. There was a protest at Texas Women's University. And no, they were not just

00:32:31.520 expressing their opinion, which of course they are free under the First Amendment to do. They were

00:32:37.260 also trying to cause violence. And they had their ridiculous signs basically saying that men are 0.97

00:32:45.160 women and have the right to go into women's spaces with their baby colored flags and saying all kinds of 1.00

00:32:51.440 ridiculous and absolutely delusional and hateful things. And as I said, throwing bottles and saying all 0.98

00:32:57.720 kinds of awful things about and to Greg Abbott. And yet he stood strong. Good for him. There are a lot

00:33:04.960 of governors in a lot of different red states who have said, no, we're going to protect children.

00:33:09.780 We're going to protect women's rights. We're going to protect women's sports. And the activists can just 1.00

00:33:15.980 be mad. And I completely support that. Activists can leave. You can leave if you want to. If you think

00:33:22.780 that men have the right to be in women's spaces, if you think it's possible for a man to become a woman,

00:33:27.360 if you think it's possible for a woman to become a man, if you think it's good or beneficial in any 1.00

00:33:32.500 way for a healthy child to be placed on puberty blockers, for a minor to receive a double mastectomy

00:33:38.280 or to get breast augmentation to try to be the opposite sex, and you don't like the laws that 1.00

00:33:45.260 are being passed in the red states, I highly recommend you move to Portland or Seattle. I hear

00:33:50.160 it's absolutely beautiful this time of year. If you don't like it, you don't have to live here.

00:33:57.020 Isn't that what we're always told as conservatives? Oh, it's a free country. You can move anywhere you

00:34:05.060 want to. Or this is a private company. It's okay if they suppress your speech. It's okay if they

00:34:11.120 discriminate against you because of your views. They can do what they want to do. You can start

00:34:16.260 your own company. You can start your own tech platform. You can leave. You can do something else.

00:34:23.200 All right. Well, if you don't like these common sense, compassionate laws that are being passed

00:34:29.660 to protect women and children, then you can go somewhere else that aligns with your values.

00:34:37.320 That's not to say they don't have the First Amendment right to dissent and to express their

00:34:42.900 opposing views. That's fine. But if you literally cannot handle laws like this being passed without

00:34:49.200 pitching violent temper tantrums, then I'm just not sure if red states are the place for you.

00:34:54.800 Like, I'm not sure if the people around you really want to be your neighbors. It seems like you'd be a

00:34:58.940 lot happier in a place like San Francisco or in a place like Portland or New York City or all of

00:35:06.260 these cities that have just become so wonderful and thriving and safe from the progressive policies

00:35:12.160 that you say that you love. So just try it out. I'm sure that we could organize even like a GoFundMe

00:35:19.340 if you need someone to cover your moving services or something like that. But I just don't have a whole

00:35:24.480 lot of tolerance and a whole lot of respect for dialogue with people that think it's okay for men

00:35:30.140 to go into women's bathrooms. I'm sorry. We're no longer having any kind of rational conversation. 1.00

00:35:35.820 Um, I can't really have a respectful debate with someone who believes that a child should be placed

00:35:42.920 on Lupron and chemical castrate. It's just not even, it's not a discussion that I want to have. So

00:35:48.700 I would recommend the people who are so angry about very logical bills like this to just

00:35:53.900 head on out, to head on out. All right. So we've got some good stories today, right? Like they were

00:35:59.720 pretty, pretty positive. Some good examples of courage. All we can do in our own lives,

00:36:05.960 it might not be like signing a bill for you. It might not be making a video for your millions

00:36:11.280 of followers. It might not be protesting at some kind of pride or drag event or speaking at city

00:36:16.760 council. Maybe it will be those things. Maybe it's standing up to your school board. Maybe it is running

00:36:21.960 for office. Maybe it is some big public display of courage, but maybe it's not. Maybe it's courage in

00:36:27.360 your private conversations. Maybe it's courage in your own life to simply do the next right thing

00:36:32.480 in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. And to decide right now that when your courage is

00:36:38.160 tested, that you are not going to compromise. That's all any of us can do. And to hope and to

00:36:43.820 pray for the power of the Holy Spirit, that when it does come time to actually speak the truth and do

00:36:49.900 what's right, that we will do it without fear of other people's opinions. So I'm glad to see that

00:36:55.200 there are people who are willing to make that stand.

00:37:10.540 All right, guys, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow is our last day before maternity leave. Tomorrow is our

00:37:18.600 last episode before maternity leave, which is pretty exciting. Of course, I'm going to

00:37:25.100 miss y'all. But as you know, we've got new episodes coming out every day or Monday through

00:37:32.980 Thursday when I'm gone. So you don't have to worry your little head and heart about missing

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00:38:03.660 dinosaurs are really what are depicted today. I'm so excited for you to listen to that conversation.

00:38:09.920 I learned so much. There's so many different conversations like that that are coming out that

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 09, 2023

Ep 853 ｜ Ne-Yo Speaks Up Against Transing Kids

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