Ep 853 ｜ Ne-Yo Speaks Up Against Transing Kids
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R&B star Neo is doubling down on his comments, condemning the so-called "transition of children." Also, a 19-year-old from Wisconsin displayed amazing courage when he read the Bible at a Pride event, then was arrested for it. Then took the next public opportunity that he had to share the truth of God's word at a city council meeting. Just amazing stories of people standing up for what's right. That's the theme of today's episode.
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R&B star Neo is doubling down on his comments, condemning the so-called transition of children.
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Also, a 19-year-old from Wisconsin displayed amazing courage when he read the Bible at a Pride
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event a couple weeks ago, then was arrested for it, then took the next public opportunity that he
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had to share the truth of God's word at a city council meeting. Just amazing stories of people
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standing up for what's right. That's the theme of today's episode, which is brought to you by
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this first story that we're talking about, there's some goods and there's bads to it,
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but it is a theme of people standing up for what is true and what is right. So this first story is
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about Neo. He reverses his publicist apology for comments against allowing kids to quote unquote
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transition. So before we even get into that headline, we got to back up because maybe you
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haven't seen this story. You don't even know who Neo is. So Neo is a pop and R&B artist. He's
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really most known for writing a lot of songs. Apparently he wrote a few of Rihanna's greatest
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hits, but he also sang that song Miss Independent. Not Miss Independent, Kelly Clarkson.
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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
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and it'll probably jog your memory a little bit. Like she's got her own thing. That. I won't sing
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it all for you because I don't want to show him up because I know that my rendition would be really
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good. But you can look it up and you'll be like, oh, I remember this from 13 years ago, however long it
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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
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Schaefer Shamir Smith goes by Neo, but he is going viral right now. Not for any of his songs, not for
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his artistry, but a conversation that he had on Vlad TV with a woman named Gloria Velez. It featured
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him slamming parents who allow their kids to make quote unquote life-changing decisions through gender
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quote unquote transition. So here is a clip of that interview that's got people just going wild.
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Parents have almost, almost forgotten what the role of a parent is. It's like, okay, if your little boy
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comes to you and says, daddy, I want to be a girl. And you just let him rock with that. You just let,
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right. He's five. Right. And where did he get that from? If you let this five-year-old boy decide
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to eat candy all day, he's going to do that. Like when, when did it become a good idea to let a
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five-year-old, let a six-year-old, let a 12-year-old make a life-changing decision for
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theyself? He goes on to say some very logical things like, okay, where does this end? What do we
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allow kids to identify as? Of course, kids aren't going to be able to make good long-term decisions.
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They don't have the capacity to do that. A very rational take that I guarantee you the vast
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majority of people in the United States, whether they say it or not, are fully on board with. If a
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five-year-old boy, a 12-year-old boy comes to you and says, I want to be the opposite sex,
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it would absolutely be evil, wicked, a dereliction of duty for a parent to say, okay, let's explore that.
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No, you're leading them down a path that will lead to the destruction of their body
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and their mind. And now, of course, I am against this concept for adults too, but he's specifically
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talking about children. I think that we can all, at least most of us, I mean, all rational people
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can at least align on that, that we should not allow children to make permanent changes to their
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bodies before their brains are even fully developed. They don't even have the prefrontal cortex to be
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able to understand long-term consequences. And yet the people that do have fully developed frontal
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lobes are just saying, okay, let's do it. Puberty blockers, chemical castration, permanent sterility,
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let's go. And so he's saying something that is very common sense, should not be controversial at all.
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And yet, of course, because we live in a very stupid, stupid, immoral, backwards Romans 1 time,
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Romans 1 era, you've got people freaking out about this. So of course, he received backlash on social
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media. And there were several outlets, several headlines that condemned him as being transphobic.
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So this is after he issued an apology, which I'll read you in a second. But just to kind of show you
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the kind of vitriol he was receiving. Neo apologizes for transphobic comments on gender identity. Neo
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apologizes for transphobic comments, then doubles down. This is the advocate, LA Times,
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Out Magazine. Neo apologizes for offensive transphobic remarks about trans youth. Complex.
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Neo apologizes after criticizing parents of transgender children. And so you've got all these
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outlets just calling him transphobic, but saying that he apologized for these things. Okay,
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did he apologize for saying what he said? Well, kind of, but not really. So these outlets are just
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examples. These headlines are just examples of the kind of reaction that he got from the left on social
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media, on Twitter, on Instagram, after making these statements. And it's funny how they don't even have to
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like qualify the description. They just say his comments were transphobic, not his comments were
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true, but they could offend some people. But his comments were representative of an irrational fear
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of people who identify as the opposite sex, which is what transgender means. But the headlines all
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cover this apology, which was clearly written by his publicist. And this was posted to his Twitter
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on August 6th. After much reflection, I'd like to express my deepest apologies to anyone that I may
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have hurt with my comments on parenting and gender identity. I've always been an advocate for love and
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inclusivity in the LGBTQI plus community. So I understand how my comments could have been interpreted
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as insensitive and offensive. Gender identity is nuanced. And I can honestly admit that I plan to
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better educate myself on the topic so I can approach future conversations with more empathy. At the
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end of the day, I lead with love and support everyone's freedom of expression and pursuit of
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happiness. Weak sauce. Weak sauce. Moral relativism that's shrouded in absolutely meaningless,
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quote unquote, empathetic language that completely discounts the very real harm that this movement,
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that the idea of gender identity has on people, particularly children. There's nothing that he said that
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isn't true. And there's nothing in this statement that discounts or even rebuts anything that he
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said. And he obviously meant what he said, because what he said is not even arguable. And yet, of course,
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his publicist said, I'm sure you have to put this out. We have to save face. We've got to protect
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your reputation. And so let's go back on your convictions. Let's pretend like you didn't know what you were
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talking about. You were just ignorant. You were just stupid and that you didn't really mean what
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you said. And then we can all move on from that. So people were really disappointed that he put out
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this apology. People criticized him. Understandably, a lot of conservatives on Twitter criticized him
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for being a coward, for backing down and saying, oh, yeah, I said that, but I didn't really mean it. I mean,
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we see this over and over again, caveating, apologizing, covering up, making excuses,
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going back. I mean, it's just exhausting. Conservatives see it all the time. There are so
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few people with spying these days to say things that are just undeniably true. And yet, he apparently
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wasn't satisfied with the apology that his publicist seemingly forced him to put out or had him put out
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because then he put out another video saying, uh, I don't apologize for what I, for what I said.
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Okay. Neo then, uh, yesterday on Tuesday posted a video response on his Instagram,
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um, basically saying, I don't agree with the, uh, apology that my publicist put out.
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So here's part of that video. I need y'all to hear this from the horse's mouth,
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not the publicist's computer. So check this out. First and foremost, I do not apologize for having
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an opinion on this matter. I am a 43 year old heterosexual man raising five boys and two girls.
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Okay. That's my reality. Now, if my opinion offended somebody, yeah, sure. I apologize for you being
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offended because that wasn't my intention. My intention is never to offend anybody. However,
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I'm entitled to feel how I feel. I'm absolutely entitled to feel how I feel the same way you are
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entitled to feel how you feel. I ain't asked nobody to follow me. I ain't asked nobody to agree with me.
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I was asked a question and I answered the question. I will never be okay with allowing a child to make
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a decision that detrimental to their life. I will never be okay with that. I don't care. I definitely
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plan to educate myself a little bit more on this matter. However, I doubt that there's any book
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anywhere or any opinion that somebody is going to tell me that's going to make me okay with letting
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a child make a decision like that. That's just period, point blank. And that's how I feel.
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If I get canceled for this, then you know what? Maybe this is a world where they don't need a
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neo no more. Okay. So good for him. I mean, he, I liked the second half of that more than I liked
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the first half because I think a lot of times when we say something that we know is true, we know
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is absolutely objectively true. We kind of defend ourselves by saying, well, it's just my opinion.
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I'm sure that I've done that before. Even it's very tempting to do, but I think that the better
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option when it comes to something like this is to simply say, it's true. That's how you can defend
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yourself. It's true. Not just, Hey, it's my opinion. I'm going to educate myself and you can have
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your own opinion and do your own thing. And he, and the second half of that, like, I do think that he
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kind of doubles down and says, look, sure, I can educate myself, but I can pretty much guarantee
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you that there's going to be nothing out there that could possibly change my mind on something
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this, uh, obviously evil and wrong and warped and backwards. And so good for him. Good for him.
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Uh, because what he said is true. It's undeniable. It's inarguable. There is absolutely nothing
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that could convince a rational person that transitioning a child either socially or
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medically is healthy and good and moral and compassionate. And you might think, well, yeah,
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no, there are different arguments. Notice that I use the qualifier rational. There are arguments that
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exist. Certainly are. They're not rational. They're not compassionate. They're not moral.
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They're not kind. They're not good. They're powered by fear, by wrong ideology, by false beliefs,
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by profit when it comes to these doctors and pharmaceutical companies, politics, when it
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comes to these politicians, but it's, it's not powered by rationale or logic or truth or anything
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like that. Um, so Neo is absolutely right. And you know what? It took bravery to go against what
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his publicist said. It would have been a lot easier for him to just say, you know what,
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whatever. My publicist handled it. I'm just not going to talk about it anymore. I'm just
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going to kind of let it go away. People will stop criticizing me and pushing back on me as
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soon as, you know, I just kind of let it die down. He didn't have to post the follow-up
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video doubling down on his position, but he did. So good for him. Good for him. I hope that
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his kids look at this and say, you know what? My dad stood for something, even though it was
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controversial, shouldn't be controversial, but it is. He decided to be, as we say on this
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show, salmon and swim upstream. That's not easy to do in Hollywood. That's not easy to
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do in the music industry. That's not easy to do when popular opinion is against you,
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when it costs you a lot. It shouldn't cost you anything, but it costs you a lot to say
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something as simple as I don't think 10 year old boys should be chemically castrated.
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And it's actually, we should affirm that the body that they have been given, the body that
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they were born in is good. That it tells them something about who they are and that no matter
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what their feelings are, they should mutilate that body to try to change that body to try to do
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something that is not possible nor beneficial for them. So you know what? Good for Neo. Neo stood up to
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the mob mostly. And I hope that he continues to. We'll see because I guarantee you he is going to
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continue to get backlash. Like we see stuff like this and the LGBTQ lobby, the activist groups,
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the media, they don't let it go. They're like a pit bull. They can't. They lock their jaw on,
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in our metaphor, a toddler, and they just can't. They just can't let go. That's basically what the
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media is. They're like a pit bull attacking a toddler. They just can't let it go until they get what
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they want. And so I hope that Neo stands strong. I hope he stands strong for his kids. I hope he
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stands strong for truth because he's absolutely right. And we need more people who are not your
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like typical Christian conservative whatever saying this simple fact, which again should not receive
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any pushback whatsoever. But it just goes to show how crazy things have gotten that this is even a
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story that we have to talk about. But our next story is also a story of courage that I really
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wanted to highlight because it should give us courage. We say a lot that courage is contagious.
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Courage begets courage in other people. We raise a respectful ruckus for the things that matter,
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hoping that doing so will be a contagion for those around us as we stand up for things that are good
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and right and true. And this young man by the name of Marcus Schroeder, who's 19, was arrested for
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reading from the Bible aloud at a Wisconsin Pride event recently. And then he shared the gospel at a
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city council meeting and of course got a lot of pushback for that because people hate the gospel.
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So let me read you summaries from the Republican Sentinel, which is the original report of this,
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So several members of a Christian group, Warriors for Christ, were evangelizing at the Watertown,
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Wisconsin Pride in the Park event on Saturday, July 29th. So Pride, not exclusive to June,
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apparently has to go on and on throughout the year. And the video circulating on social media,
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Marcus Schroeder is seen reading from the Bible into a microphone when officers surround him and grab
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his microphone. As his group questions the officers, they handcuff Schroeder and explain that he was
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being arrested for violating a sound ordinance about noise amplification. So let me play you a video
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You didn't give him any warning. You just grab the mic.
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No, this is the same one that we had over here.
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They said we can speak out here on the sidewalk freely.
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He has every right to be out here engaging in speech.
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Jason Storms, a fellow ministry member who filmed the encounter, told reporters that police
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had also arrested three other young people from their group who were praying and talking
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Now, no matter what, I don't think that this is right, but I do just want to say it's not
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like he was reading even the most offensive passages from scripture about things like
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It sounds like just from what I heard that he was reading Galatians 5, 14 through 15
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or through 16, rather, for the whole law is fulfilled in one word, you shall love your
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But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
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But I say, walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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So he got in trouble for reading that out loud at this pride parade.
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So this other ministry member, this member of this group, Jason Storms, claimed that performers
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at the pride event, which was advertised as family friendly, were dressed in lingerie and
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danced inappropriately in front of little children who were invited to give them $1 bills.
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The Unity Project of Watertown, which organized the event, encouraged families to attend, telling
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the media there would be a drag story hour and a children's craft and play area.
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And if you look at some of the pictures of what's going on here, some of the drag queens,
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the men dressed up as women who are performing, I don't even actually know what gender these
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people are, but they're dressed very explicitly.
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But has, you know, this person has fishnet tights on, like a bra on, and apparently this
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Now, what's interesting is that according to the Republican Sentinel, is that there is
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a law in Wisconsin that forbids individuals from causing a minor to view or listen to sexually
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But when it comes to the law that apparently Marcus and his friends violated, it seems like
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They said the police officers said, we're arresting you for violating some kind of sound ordinance
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But as far as I could see, this is according to Vicki McKenna.
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She claimed on her show when she was talking to Marcus Schroeder that through her research,
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she found that the ordinance in Watertown, specifically in Wisconsin, for amplification
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without a permit applies only to vehicles, not sidewalk preaching, which is protected
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And of course, I'm assuming that at this event, they also had other people with microphones.
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And so it seems like this was kind of a bogus accusation.
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He absolutely denies that, says that's not true.
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He was tense, but he didn't resist arrest, he says.
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Um, uh, there was at this event, which was very disturbing, um, there was a performer
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He's a 16 year old drag performer who's been performing drag since he was 13.
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He was named Miss Wisconsin, uh, youth entertainer in 2022 is also featured on generation drag in
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So this was just absolutely a degenerate gathering.
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These Christian men trying to come together to say some sort of truth, to preach the gospel
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to these very lost and perverse people, and then were arrested for doing so.
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Now Schroeder said that he believes that it was absolutely worth, um, taking this risk.
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And one of his friends, Nick Prohl, also said that he said, I do it all over again.
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And he said, also making headlines or the report says also making headlines for this event was
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a group of Neo Nazis who arrived wearing all black, waving swastika flags and trying to
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And of course, critics of Schroeder and his friends who got arrested, the other Christians
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there are trying to conflate these two groups saying like, look, this is what side you're
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You're trying to oppose drag queen story hour and minors dressed as scantily clad women
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And then after that, he attended a city council meeting recently where he spoke and he talked
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about, hey, we were not affiliated with those Nazis.
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And he also had the opportunity to share the gospel.
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And I'm going to play you those videos in just a second.
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So Marcus Schroeder, this 19 year old kid who got arrested, um, he got up at a city council
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And he said this, he said, I know a Nazi group showed up.
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I just wanted all for all of us to really think about this.
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And, uh, he uses this obviously to distinguish his group despite accusations from the Nazis,
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but he's using this as a question to get people to think about the existence of objective,
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universal morality, the existence of right and wrong.
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And to make people think, why, why do you believe in a right and wrong, which is a great
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Christian apologetics tactic, uh, that we've seen several times throughout history.
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I think one of the most notable is in, um, CS Lewis is mere Christianity.
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I just wanted for all of us to really think about this.
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Because imagine for a moment that there is no God above us, no hub below us, no heaven
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If we are truly the result of evolved stardust and our ancestors were fish and were the descendants
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of monkeys, then where do we find our value as human beings?
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He then goes on to explain that if it weren't for the Christian worldview that tells us murdering
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innocent image bearers is wrong, there wouldn't be a problem.
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He also says that Christians were the number one people, uh, the number one group to oppose
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So his point is that without the existence of a God, without the existence of a moral arbiter,
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a great moral law giver, then there is no reason to say that anything is objectively wrong.
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If there's no one who ultimately places in our hearts the understanding of good and bad,
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right and wrong, we have no authority to look at Nazi Germany or look at Pol Pot or look at
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any human rights atrocity anywhere throughout history or anywhere on earth and say that that
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is objectively wrong. Um, and so again, this is a point that is well articulated by C.S. Lewis and
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mere Christianity. And so he is kind of pointing out the hypocrisy here that Christians are called
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judgmental for saying some things are wrong. And yet the world is okay with saying a lot of things
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are objectively wrong, like Nazism, which of course I agree with, but there is a reason why Nazism
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is wrong. And it's because there is a great moral law giver who, as Marcus says, made us in his image.
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And then he goes on, uh, to talk a little bit more about Christian morality. Here's what he says.
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As we become more and more tolerant of sexual immorality in our culture,
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we've become more and more intolerant towards Christian morality. And the more we become
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intolerant towards Christian morality, the more we're going to see lawlessness in our streets.
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The more we become intolerant of Christian morality, the more we're going to see Nazis.
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The more we're going to see people who don't hold to a Christian worldview, who think that everybody
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is a result of animals. Drag queens twerking on kids in lingerie is unacceptable. And that's something
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that we have to notice as a culture. We can have our disagreements, but there comes a time when we
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have to understand that we are all going to stand before God one day. And we're going to have to give
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an account for what we have done with the children in our society, the innocent minds and the children
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So good for him. So I said that he shared the gospel. We didn't share a clip of him sharing the
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gospel, but he does share biblical truth that I think is really, um, important there. And obviously
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he believes in the gospel and he was sharing God's inerrant word and he got arrested for that.
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And then rather than cowering in a corner and saying, I'm not going to talk about this anymore
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because I don't want to take the arrows for it. He decided that he was going to speak out again
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at a city council meeting. And I just commend him for that. And, um, I praise God for the courage of
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young people that exists. And even though this is something that makes headlines or that has made
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headlines that has kind of gone viral, at least in the Christian media sphere, it's a good reminder
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that this kind of thing happens on a daily basis, not just here in the United States, but also around
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the world. Like there are Christians that are standing up that are counting the costs and have
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decided that following Jesus, that denying themselves, taking up their cross and following
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Christ is absolutely worth it. It's worth the arrests. It's worth the pushback. It's worth the bullying.
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It's worth losing their job. It's worth hurting their reputation. It's worth even going to the
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point of death. And so this is just one small example of the courage that the Holy Spirit gives.
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I hope it gives us courage as well to remind us that we were not given a spirit of fear and timidity,
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but one of power because of the gospel. That this is just one, in the grand scheme of things,
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small example of the courage that Christians have displayed throughout history,
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not because of our own strength, but because of Christ in us. And this is happening in a much
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bigger way and even more consequential ways around the world throughout the church. And that is
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the power that God gives us. It's the power that he's always given the church. The power that
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he displayed in the beginning 2,000 years ago is still alive in us today. And we have the complete
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capability and the power, the authority to be able to speak as this young man is speaking. So I just
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hope that the Lord continues to use him, that his courage is contagious, that he, in the midst of all
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this craziness and chaos that we see in the world, that he does raise up young people that are unafraid
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to say what is good and right and true. Marcus is getting a lot of praise online, as he should,
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from fellow Christians for his courage. So I just wanted to make sure that we highlight that. We've
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had several stories of these, of young men standing up for what is right, saying the unpopular thing. And
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as much as I can, I want to shine light on things like this because I know, especially in the generation
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of like, online bullying, that just always go with the flow, it seems, and are typically, it appears
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in Gen Z, not very thoughtful about the issues of the day, especially from a biblical perspective. I want to
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give us some hope that there are and that God will always choose and raise out the people that he wants
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to raise up. All right, we're going to talk about another positive story with negative reactions to it.
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Okay, so I wanted to talk about this story in Texas. This is the headline from Outkick. Texas Governor
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Greg Abbott signs Save Women's Sports Acts while protesters outside chant Save Trans Lives. So this is
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actually ceremonial. This was a bill that he signed into law in Texas, the Save Women's Sports Act, but this
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was ceremonial. So he was in Denton, Texas, which is the home to Texas Women's University. The law seeks to
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prohibit biological men, this is the language used in Outkick, that's not the language that I use,
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as I just say, men pretending to be women, from competing in women's sports. Protesters also
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showed up at the event. The videos that I've seen are just absolutely vile and disgusting, vitriolic,
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these protesters who think that men should have the right to enter into women's private spaces and
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their competitions. Governor Abbott said this, the legacy of women's sports will be safeguarded for
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generations to come because of the law I'm about to sign. Women in Texas can be assured that the
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integrity of their sports is protected in our great state. Riley Gaines, whom we've had on this
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podcast, she's actually the host of an Outkick podcast, I didn't know that, Gaines for Girls.
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She has been at the signing of a lot of these bills. Again, good for her. She's had so much courage
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since she was forced to compete against a man named Leah Thomas. She says this new law will protect
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the integrity of women's sports by prohibiting men from competing against women's athletes at Texas
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colleges and universities. So there are a lot of tweets saying F Greg Abbott, all this stuff,
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and organizing this protest. There was a protest at Texas Women's University. And no, they were not just
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expressing their opinion, which of course they are free under the First Amendment to do. They were
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also trying to cause violence. And they had their ridiculous signs basically saying that men are
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women and have the right to go into women's spaces with their baby colored flags and saying all kinds of
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ridiculous and absolutely delusional and hateful things. And as I said, throwing bottles and saying all
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kinds of awful things about and to Greg Abbott. And yet he stood strong. Good for him. There are a lot
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of governors in a lot of different red states who have said, no, we're going to protect children.
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We're going to protect women's rights. We're going to protect women's sports. And the activists can just
00:33:15.980
be mad. And I completely support that. Activists can leave. You can leave if you want to. If you think
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that men have the right to be in women's spaces, if you think it's possible for a man to become a woman,
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if you think it's possible for a woman to become a man, if you think it's good or beneficial in any
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way for a healthy child to be placed on puberty blockers, for a minor to receive a double mastectomy
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or to get breast augmentation to try to be the opposite sex, and you don't like the laws that
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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
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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
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to protect women and children, then you can go somewhere else that aligns with your values.
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That's not to say they don't have the First Amendment right to dissent and to express their
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opposing views. That's fine. But if you literally cannot handle laws like this being passed without
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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.
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
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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
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pretty, pretty positive. Some good examples of courage. All we can do in our own lives,
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it might not be like signing a bill for you. It might not be making a video for your millions
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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
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for office. Maybe it is some big public display of courage, but maybe it's not. Maybe it's courage in
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your private conversations. Maybe it's courage in your own life to simply do the next right thing
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in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. And to decide right now that when your courage is
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tested, that you are not going to compromise. That's all any of us can do. And to hope and to
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pray for the power of the Holy Spirit, that when it does come time to actually speak the truth and do
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what's right, that we will do it without fear of other people's opinions. So I'm glad to see that
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there are people who are willing to make that stand.
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All right, guys, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow is our last day before maternity leave. Tomorrow is our
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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
00:37:38.440
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00:37:43.820
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00:37:53.180
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00:37:57.860
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00:38:09.920
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