Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - November 29, 2019


REPLAY： ＂Equality＂ Act


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Missouri has passed a bill that expands the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. Is this a good or bad thing? And what role does the Bible have to play in this matter?

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Wednesday is our news day,
00:00:06.420 as you guys know, and there's a lot of news to talk about. We could go over the abortion stuff
00:00:11.320 yet again, but we have spent what the past four or five episodes, at least over the past couple
00:00:18.500 of weeks, talking about everything that's going on with abortion legislation in Georgia and Alabama.
00:00:24.720 Uh, now Missouri is headed down that track as well. And the pushback and the vitriol that a lot 0.85
00:00:30.940 of you have gotten online or in the articles that you have seen in every day, it does seem like it
00:00:36.020 just gets crazier and crazier and more and more callous from the pro-choice side. I would say
00:00:41.940 that some of the posts that I've seen have made it extremely clear that many on the pro-choice side,
00:00:47.640 I definitely won't say all, but many on the pro-choice side are not in fact pro-choice,
00:00:53.340 but are pro-abortion. There is, uh, I don't know how else to say it except keep using this word,
00:00:58.800 which we know is biblical. We've talked about on this podcast, but a callousness that covers the 0.75
00:01:04.800 hearts of a lot of people on that side. And we know it's not just an abortion issue. It is a
00:01:10.600 spiritual issue that pervades, uh, all aspects of someone's life that robs them of any real direct
00:01:17.100 compassion and any real softness and vulnerability that allows us to love those
00:01:22.560 who are more vulnerable than we are. So I don't want to talk about all of that today. I want you
00:01:28.400 to know that I'm thinking about that and I would love to talk about that, but I want to give us some
00:01:32.960 kind of reprieve because there are other very important things that are going on. I won't say
00:01:38.200 more important, but they're very important and they all kind of work together. We've talked a lot
00:01:42.740 about the onslaught of progressivism and really how that is part and parcel with a lot of things
00:01:47.980 simply aren't true. I am not trying to cast everyone on the other side as bad or, um, not a
00:01:55.260 good Christian or something like that, but the values that we are seeing popularized by the left,
00:02:01.680 by the radical left, and by the socialist left are indeed morally wrong. They are untruthful according
00:02:08.760 to the Bible and we have to make sure to, uh, recognize that when we see it. And one, uh,
00:02:14.520 example of that, that has been in the news lately is this equality act. Uh, you've probably heard
00:02:20.400 about it. If you talk to someone on the left or probably even someone in the middle, uh, they will
00:02:24.600 say this is a monumental and necessary step for the protection of LGBTQ people. Uh, if you talk to
00:02:31.660 someone on the right, they will probably tell you that this is a major infringement on religious
00:02:36.300 liberty. The reality is that it's probably some of both and it can be both. It can be an infringement
00:02:43.060 on our religious individual liberty, and it can also be a so-called, uh, protection for LGBTQ people.
00:02:50.000 But the question is, um, which one is going to give in which one should give in the kind of
00:02:56.320 constitutional Republic that we live in right now. Uh, so the bill was passed on Friday in the house,
00:03:02.080 this equality act it's described as a piece of legislation that would prohibit discrimination
00:03:07.180 based on sexual orientation and gender identity. So that means that it expands on the civil rights
00:03:12.560 act of 1964 to do that. Uh, the civil rights act, you probably know it outlaws discrimination based
00:03:18.660 on race, color, religion, uh, sex, or national origin. Uh, it prohibits unequal application of
00:03:25.620 voter registration requirements, uh, racial segregation in schools, employment, public
00:03:31.780 accommodations. Now, a lot of States, 20 States, I think in particular already outlaw any kind of
00:03:38.120 LGBT discrimination, but this community is now seeking protection on the federal or the national
00:03:44.540 level. So that's what the equality act is about. Uh, according to the wall street journal, this act
00:03:50.360 provides protections in employment and housing and loan applications, education, and other areas. Now we
00:03:56.180 should ask ourselves, is this something that is happening or is this something that is extremely
00:04:01.360 pervasive or prevalent that LGBT, uh, people are being systemically discriminated against? I don't
00:04:08.580 think that there's any evidence to that. And in fact, there is a liberal professor that we'll quote a
00:04:13.260 little bit later who says the same thing, who says, this is probably not a widespread problem. Of course,
00:04:17.880 discrimination of all kinds happens. It does. We live in an imperfect country. We live in an imperfect
00:04:24.140 world. We are all sinful people and people unfortunately have biases against people of
00:04:31.020 certain races against women, against pregnant women, whatever it is. And that is simply going to
00:04:37.460 happen. But, uh, does the level of discrimination that we are seeing, uh, towards this community
00:04:44.200 necessitate the kind of legislation that, uh, the equality act act seeks to put in place. The answer is,
00:04:52.660 in my opinion, no, but this is even more than that to them. It's also symbolic. They want to be
00:04:59.400 protected and recognized and legitimized in a way that is federal in a way that is national. I think
00:05:05.780 that also gives some kind of, in their minds, uh, uh, a peace and assurance that they are being taken care
00:05:13.560 of. It's also a symbolic in that way, but this particular act actually goes further than the civil
00:05:19.800 rights act does. The bill says that individuals cannot be denied access to a locker room or a
00:05:26.300 dresser or a dressing room, no matter their gender identity. So that's been a very, uh, real point of
00:05:33.220 contention between Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, and liberals, uh, eight Republicans in the house
00:05:38.360 did vote. Yes. Along with all the Democrats that were present for the vote. Uh, now this bill probably
00:05:44.520 is not going to get past the Senate. You know, the Democrats control the house Republicans control the
00:05:49.840 Senate. Of course, Republican Susan Collins, uh, in the Senate is supporting the bill. She's trying to 0.80
00:05:55.720 get her Republican colleagues in the Senate to do the same. It's just a reminder of how truly
00:06:00.540 non-conservative Susan Collins, uh, Susan Collins is, uh, if it does get past the Senate, Trump said
00:06:05.980 he's going to veto it, but it's still important to talk about, even if it doesn't get past the Senate,
00:06:11.020 even if it goes to president Trump's desk, which is unlikely, and he does veto it, that's not the
00:06:16.000 end of the story. This is very clearly a piece of legislation that is going to be pushed for our
00:06:21.620 entire lifetimes, as well as the lifetimes of our children until it gets passed or until something
00:06:27.620 drastically changes in the United States. This is going to be a piece of legislation that is pushed
00:06:33.340 harder and harder. This is what the left sees as a requirement to legitimize, uh, transgenderism, 1.00
00:06:41.020 and the rights of the entire LGBT community by punishing anyone who refuses to hire them or
00:06:48.220 treat them how the federal government says that they should be treated. And now all of that to many
00:06:53.520 of you might sound okay. And I understand that maybe you're even a Christian and you're thinking,
00:06:58.300 well, okay, I don't personally agree with transgenderism or I, uh, you're, you might be saying,
00:07:04.840 I don't agree with the LGBT lifestyle, but I don't want them to be discriminated against.
00:07:10.740 I think it is wrong to discriminate it against them. You discriminate against them. You might be
00:07:14.900 saying, and maybe you think, okay, well I'm for this, you know, separation of church and state.
00:07:19.620 I think that this is all fine, uh, except what I would say, and this is what we're going to get into.
00:07:24.540 This is not actually separation of church and state. This is state involvement in churches and
00:07:30.500 religious organizations and parochial schools demanding that these organizations operate how
00:07:36.700 the government tells them to operate no matter their religious objections. Uh, what this really
00:07:43.120 is, what this act really is, is separation of church and all public life. So you hear a lot from the left
00:07:49.560 separation of church and state, which is a very, very misunderstood phrase. Of course, we know that
00:07:55.260 there is no establishment of a state religion in the United States. You are free or should be free
00:08:00.720 to worship who and how you see fit or to not worship any God at all. That is part of religious
00:08:08.160 liberty in the United States. But the left often takes this idea, the separation of church and state,
00:08:14.780 which is not of course in the constitution. It's more a principle that was actually found in a letter,
00:08:19.600 but that's kind of besides the point right now. They, they think that that means that your
00:08:25.020 faith should not dictate at all how you see laws or how you see legislation, how you, uh, see policy
00:08:32.880 whatsoever, that it shouldn't have any effect on your civic life. But of course it does. Any person
00:08:39.140 of faith understands that faith is the hub and the center of the wheel. And so without the hub and the
00:08:44.900 center of the wheel, all the spokes that are connected or supposed to be connected to a hub are just
00:08:49.500 going to be, they're going to be irrelevant. And one of the spokes in our life, uh, is the civic
00:08:55.800 government or is our civic involvement is our civic life. And so of course we see how the government
00:09:01.280 operates through the lens of Christians. That does not mean that we're advocating for a theocracy.
00:09:06.500 That does not mean I want to force you to, uh, worship God, how I want you to worship him. That
00:09:12.360 doesn't mean that I want to force you to live the life that I think that you should be living.
00:09:17.500 Now I might have religious opinions on that. I'm of course going to have biblical opinions on
00:09:22.200 sin and which lifestyle is better, but I am not going to enforce the government to force
00:09:28.700 you or ask the government to enforce laws that tell you to be a Christian. I'm not going to do that. 0.93
00:09:35.880 So that is a very, uh, that's a point of confusion. I think for a lot of people on the left that they
00:09:41.300 say that you shouldn't approach any kind of policy whatsoever, any form of public life with any
00:09:47.100 kind of religious perspective, well, that's stupid. Uh, civic life for the Christian is 0.97
00:09:52.940 downstream from your faith. It is always going to be now that doesn't exclude our promotion of
00:09:59.360 freedom. Of course not the founding fathers. Here's another myth. Uh, everyone says that the
00:10:03.840 founding fathers were just deists. They were all deists and they really had no relationship with God.
00:10:08.960 They didn't really care about Jesus at all. They just thought that God was this, uh, this guy who was
00:10:14.920 sitting back, looking over everything. Maybe, you know, he was providential in some ways, but not
00:10:20.180 directly involved in the aspects of our lives, but that's not true of all of the founding fathers.
00:10:25.980 Certainly not. It wasn't true of our first president. It wasn't true of George Washington. It was not
00:10:30.780 true of all of the founding fathers at all. Some of them had more deistic views, but a lot of them
00:10:36.600 were Christians. The, uh, American revolution was actually known as the Presbyterian rebellion. A lot of
00:10:42.560 them were Calvinists. This was a very religiously motivated rebellion from England to establish the
00:10:49.440 United States. Again, that doesn't mean that they established a theocracy, but it was through their
00:10:55.040 love for God and their love for Jesus Christ and their love for the Bible that they said, we want to
00:11:00.620 establish a country that is free. So all that to say, it is okay for us to approach this from a
00:11:09.380 Christian perspective, because that does not exclude freedom. What we actually see is that
00:11:14.440 the religion of progressivism is the religion that excludes freedom. The Christian religion doesn't do 1.00
00:11:20.700 that. Um, I'm talking on a, on a civic level. So anyway, this is not, this is not the separation of
00:11:28.900 church and state. That's not what the equality act is. This is an attempt to separate church from
00:11:34.540 all public life, from your job, from anything that affects the public sphere. And even we'll see in a
00:11:41.760 little bit, even some of the private sphere, uh, anything that's goes outside of just you praying
00:11:48.040 in silent in silence in your head at home, this equality act has something to say about it. So
00:11:54.580 when you hear people say on the left that, Oh, we just want separation of church and state. No,
00:11:58.800 they want separation of church in everything. They don't believe that the church should have
00:12:03.480 have any influence whatsoever. They don't believe that Christians should be able to insert their 1.00
00:12:07.620 opinions anywhere or live by their opinions. If they don't agree with it. That's why we always say
00:12:12.720 progressivism as a religion is extremely intolerant. And as a political view, it's extremely tyrannical.
00:12:20.960 So here are some of the implications, some of the consequences of the equality act. And you can go
00:12:26.460 online, you can read the equality act yourself. There are plenty of briefings, make sure that
00:12:30.600 you're getting it. You know, you can go on Vox and you could read that briefing. That's going to have
00:12:34.240 a certain, uh, bent to it. You can go on national review. That's going to maybe have another bent to
00:12:40.560 it. If you are on the left, so you can go and read all about this if you want to, but here's what
00:12:45.620 I've deduced from reading the act and reading several analyses of it. Uh, it makes irrelevant any
00:12:51.280 religious or conscience, uh, exemptions for doctors. So under this bill, a doctor is going to be
00:12:55.900 required to perform sex change surgery. If they are in that particular field and provide hormone
00:13:00.900 therapy, even to children. And we already know this is happening in other countries. Uh, now they
00:13:06.100 could maybe find protection under free exercise arguments or other conscience, uh, objection
00:13:10.620 legislation, but that's just unsure. So they just don't know, uh, religious schools are going to be
00:13:16.220 regulated under this act. Even if they take no funding from the federal government, uh, meaning that
00:13:21.600 they could, uh, they couldn't choose to not hire or fire a teacher, for example, who was in a gay 0.99
00:13:29.360 relationship or who was transitioning. Now you might be listening to this and say, well, good,
00:13:35.020 but, but even if you don't agree with these religious schools views, uh, Christian schools
00:13:41.020 operate under the Bible and they are free to operate under the Bible. And the Bible is clear
00:13:45.960 about marriage and gender. So by regulating these schools, by the federal government, regulating
00:13:50.220 these schools, they are forcing them to ignore and condone what the Bible says is sin. Uh, that is
00:13:55.860 the opposite of religious liberty. That doesn't, that's not good for anyone, whether you're religious
00:14:01.080 or not, you can still be a fan of freedom. Uh, that is tyranny. There is a Supreme court case
00:14:07.400 employment division V Smith, uh, that held that religious dissenters are subject to generally applicable
00:14:13.220 laws. It's probably not going to be overturned, uh, which means under the equality act, there would be
00:14:17.820 very little, there will be some, but very little recourse for religious people who object to these 0.99
00:14:22.720 kinds of laws. Uh, so under this act, this also means that athletic teams would be forced to allow
00:14:27.900 transgender boys and girls, uh, to compete on athlete on their athletic teams that correspond,
00:14:33.220 uh, with their gender identity rather than their biological sex. There could be some judicial
00:14:39.620 interpretation. I'm told that would rule in favor of objections to this, but in general, under this act,
00:14:45.260 they would have this right. Um, I saw Dan Crenshaw, who is a Republican representative
00:14:51.100 from Texas say that he just couldn't believe what his democratic colleagues were saying about, Oh,
00:14:56.860 Republicans and conservatives, they're just fear mongering. This is not that big of a deal
00:15:00.600 for a transgender girl. So a biological boy to play on a girl's soccer team, for example,
00:15:06.080 that's just fear mongering. That's not that big of a deal as if science doesn't exist or science doesn't
00:15:12.440 matter. I mean, we could go through, this is kind of a different episode for a different day. And we
00:15:16.360 have actually talked about this in the past. We talked about this on an episode when we talked
00:15:20.400 about, uh, women being drafted and how stupid that is because men and women are so different, but
00:15:25.900 men have a different biological makeup that even if they are on hormone therapy, even if they take
00:15:30.760 estrogen, even if they look like a woman that doesn't change their anaerobic capacity, which is better 0.99
00:15:35.880 than a woman's that doesn't change their bone density. That doesn't change their ability to gain muscle. 1.00
00:15:41.500 It might change it a little bit, but it doesn't completely take it away. They are still going to
00:15:45.540 be a man on the inside. And I don't care how bigoted that sounds. It's scientifically true.
00:15:50.620 They are biologically a man. And as a biological man, you are different. You know, I, this is a side
00:15:58.180 note, but I read something really interesting the other day. Y'all know I'm pregnant. And so I'm always
00:16:03.220 reading these different articles. Sorry if this is like just a tad bit inappropriate, but I don't think it
00:16:07.840 is. So you're reading this. I was reading this article about breastfeeding and there was this
00:16:11.180 really interesting point that I read that actually depending on what sex your baby is, the composition
00:16:17.140 of, of, okay, this is actually getting a little bit more graphic than I want. Uh, the composition
00:16:24.060 of breast milk was different for a boy versus a girl. And so you have more protein. If you are having
00:16:29.440 a boy, you have less protein and fat. If you are having a girl, all of that points to the fact that 0.99
00:16:34.940 there is a biological difference between boys and girls. There is going to be a different makeup 0.85
00:16:40.060 between boys and girls that is not going to be changed, uh, by sex change surgery or by hormone
00:16:45.780 therapy. Um, and so these Democrats that are saying, well, this is just fear mongering. This,
00:16:51.880 you know, this isn't really going to have any negative effect on women are lying to themselves. 1.00
00:16:56.960 They're completely lying to themselves, but this is what happens under the equality act where, uh,
00:17:02.400 gender identity actually completely obscure science and reality. Uh, according to national review, 0.92
00:17:08.560 under the guise of anti-discrimination, uh, protections, the bill redefined sex to include
00:17:14.120 gender identity undermines religious freedom, gives males who identify as females, the right to 1.00
00:17:19.080 women's spaces and sets a dangerous political precedent for the medicalization of gender confused 1.00
00:17:24.380 youth. That is a quote from national review. Now there are plenty of Republicans in the house who
00:17:29.640 have tried to add amendments to ensure some more freedom for organizations and, uh, for schools.
00:17:36.200 There is a representative, Tom McClintock. He's from California. He provided an amendment that
00:17:41.400 I would have said that the bill would not be construed to require a healthcare provider,
00:17:45.620 uh, to affirm the self-professed gender identity of a minor. So just of a minor,
00:17:50.940 not of an adult of a minor. So we're talking about someone, obviously a minor is under the age of 18,
00:17:56.140 but say you've got someone who comes in who is eight or nine, which are the cases that we have
00:18:00.200 heard both here and abroad. If you've got an eight or a nine year old who says, mommy, daddy,
00:18:04.460 I know that I was born a girl, but I really think I'm a boy. And who insists, maybe they've seen
00:18:09.240 something on YouTube. They insist that they transition, whatever it is, or maybe they've
00:18:12.820 got loony parents who say, you know what, we're just going to affirm you. They go to a doctor's
00:18:17.600 office, say that doctor is a Christian. And that doctor does not want to affirm the gender identity
00:18:22.680 and says, you know what? I'm sorry. I'm not going to be able to take this case. Good luck to you
00:18:27.720 under this bill. They apparently may not be able to do that. And I think that it is,
00:18:34.260 that is proven by the fact that Tom McClintock offered an amendment that would have made sure
00:18:39.200 the healthcare provider doesn't have to affirm the self-professed gender identity of a minor
00:18:44.420 and Democrats turned it down. So HR five, that's what this bill is, is a dangerous attempt. This is
00:18:51.260 what McClintock says by the Democrats to use the force of government to bend biology and human nature
00:18:56.920 to their ideological whims. He says, I'm not surprised that my amendment to ensure that
00:19:01.580 physicians cannot be sued for exercising their professional medical judgment towards minors
00:19:07.580 was rejected. Viewed along with the rejection of my colleague's amendment relating to protecting
00:19:13.420 parents from being sued for discrimination for the act of parenting, the Democrats radical agenda is
00:19:19.640 on full display in the house. And that is absolutely true. The fact that these amendments have been
00:19:24.900 turned down. So an amendment just saying, Hey, if a physician has a, an objection to affirming the
00:19:31.960 gender identity of a minor. So we're talking about a child or a young teenager who wants to get hormone 0.80
00:19:37.500 therapy, uh, that they would be protected from being sued by, by the parents or sued by whoever the
00:19:45.720 Democrats turn that down. That means that they think that a doctor should be sued. They should be free
00:19:51.820 to be sued. If they turn down this kind of therapy for a minor crazy, um, representative Greg Stoob,
00:19:59.800 I don't really know how to pronounce his last name. He's also Republican from Florida. Uh, he also,
00:20:04.980 he also proposed an amendment that would have, uh, ensured that the act would not be construed to
00:20:10.360 require a biological female to face competition from a biological male in any sporting event. That's 1.00
00:20:15.680 what we were just talking about. Democrats turn that down as well. And this is what, uh, he,
00:20:20.960 the representative had to say about that. I offered this amendment to ensure that our daughters are 1.00
00:20:25.140 provided an equal playing field in sports for generations to come and that female athletes 0.99
00:20:29.800 are not competing against male athletes for athletic scholarships and title nine funding.
00:20:34.060 I, for one, don't think it's fair or equal to make young biological women compete against 1.00
00:20:38.620 biological males. That's why I introduced this amendment in committee. And again, to the full house,
00:20:44.040 of course, of course, he's absolutely right for all of the reasons that we just listed.
00:20:48.040 Democrats say that that's fear mongering. That's basic. Isn't it crazy? I was just saying this to
00:20:52.680 someone the other day that the longer we have gone throughout history, the more science we know,
00:20:57.600 obviously the more scientific knowledge that we have, we know the differences, uh, between men and
00:21:02.280 women between boys and girls. We know that boys and girls brains actually start developing differently 0.86
00:21:07.020 inside the womb. Of course they do because boys and girls are inherently extremely different.
00:21:12.100 We just talked about that. Even, uh, how they feed and the food that they naturally eat right after
00:21:18.000 they're born is different. It's composed differently. Uh, their chromosomes are different and Democrats are
00:21:23.740 saying, no, no, no, in favor of identity, in favor of a feeling in favor of a dysphoria, we need to deny 0.93
00:21:32.040 all scientific reality. We need to, in essence, discriminate against girls who are competing in sports 1.00
00:21:38.200 because of this small minority of people who think that they're the opposite sex and they actually
00:21:43.340 are. That's insanity. That is insanity. Another representative Republican from Louisiana, Mike
00:21:49.680 Johnson, he proposed an amendment, uh, that said that the act would not be construed to deny a parent's
00:21:55.480 right to be involved in their minor child's medical care. Just think about how basic that is a
00:22:01.380 parent's right to be involved in, uh, their minor child's medical care. So again, we are talking
00:22:09.060 about children or we are talking about teenagers, high schoolers. Uh, the act was rejected by or the
00:22:16.080 amendment was rejected by Democrats. Uh, he replied with this, the so-called equality act would actually
00:22:22.240 eliminate sex-based protections for women by forcing rape crisis centers, ladies, locker rooms, female 0.98
00:22:27.560 prisons, women's sports leagues, and other sex-based organizations to admit biological males. Additionally,
00:22:32.660 this bill would eviscerate constitutionally protected rights by empowering the federal
00:22:36.860 government to voice a force, employers, uh, medical professionals, parents, business owners,
00:22:42.040 and all Americans to act in violation of their conscience. The federal government should not be able
00:22:46.440 to dictate a belief system. And that last line is absolutely right. The federal government should not
00:22:52.500 be able to dictate a belief system. I just want you to think about this, that under this act,
00:22:59.420 possibly parents could be, uh, sued. Parents could be sued for violating the civil rights of their child
00:23:07.540 by saying, look, Sally, you're not Johnny. And I am not going to take you to a gender identity affirming 1.00
00:23:15.280 doctor to change your sex. I'm not going to do that. I I'm sorry. I'm not going to do it. 1.00
00:23:21.900 We are going to pursue other methods. We are going to go to counseling. We love you.
00:23:27.080 And we want what's best for you. That is not what's best for you. Possibly, possibly parents
00:23:33.420 could be put in trouble because of this equality act, because now affirming one's identity is going
00:23:39.000 to be seen as a civil rights. And they would be saying that, uh, you know, a parent, uh, would be
00:23:45.560 violating their child's civil rights. We already saw this in Canada where a dad is getting charged for
00:23:51.380 violence, emotional violence against his child for not saying that his biologically female child,
00:23:58.820 uh, biologically. Yeah. Biologically female child is a male. He won't call her by, uh, her by male 0.89
00:24:06.080 pronouns because she is a girl. And now he is being found guilty in court, uh, of mistreating his
00:24:14.020 daughter. It's insane. And if you think that that's not coming to the United States, you should just
00:24:18.840 read this equality act. That's exactly what this would do. The fact that Democrats shot this
00:24:25.860 amendment down to give parents any discretion, any right to be involved in a minor child's medical care
00:24:32.020 tells you exactly what they think. They don't believe in parental rights. They don't. They believe
00:24:37.360 that you, that I, that our children should be agents of the state because apparently bureaucrats,
00:24:43.120 many of whom don't have any kids by the way, and don't really care about their families. Apparently,
00:24:48.900 well, I shouldn't make that judgment. I shouldn't say that. Don't care about our families. I will say
00:24:53.480 that don't care about our families think that they can parent better than we do that. That's what they
00:24:59.380 believe. They think that religion, they think that morality, they think that any kind of principle
00:25:05.000 that, uh, goes against what they think that it is, that it should be outlawed basically, or it should
00:25:12.280 be as outlawed as humanly possible. It should, your views should have to be kept as private as possible.
00:25:18.360 And then if they step outside of the tiny circle of what's allowed by the federal government,
00:25:22.720 the federal government is going to punish you. That's what this bill is about. And I want you to
00:25:29.620 think for a second, when you think about the fact that this bill could open up parents to being sued,
00:25:33.920 uh, for not going along with their child, who's a girl wanting to be a boy or vice versa.
00:25:40.000 Think about how stupid you were when you were young. Think about that. I'm thinking about it
00:25:45.460 myself. Think about how stupid you were. Think about how stupid you were when you were a teenager.
00:25:49.240 And when I was a teenager, we didn't even have all of this stuff. Like my husband and I talk about all
00:25:54.060 the time, all of the things that we're going to have to teach our daughter that we didn't have to be
00:25:58.080 taught that boys are boys and girls are girls. We didn't have to, we didn't have to be taught that.
00:26:02.880 It was just like, yeah, duh, obviously, obviously. Uh, but we're going to actually have to teach our
00:26:10.000 daughter that we're going to have to teach her. No, this is the only way that babies are made. 1.00
00:26:15.600 No, this is a boy has different biological, a different biological makeup than a girl does. 0.98
00:26:22.420 This has different implications. No, no, no, no. There are only two genders. I know this is all 1.00
00:26:27.760 confusing because you're learning all of these different things, but I was like, kids are already
00:26:33.500 really dumb in so many ways. They're just made like that. They're supposed to be dependent on
00:26:37.480 their parents. Their brains aren't fully developed. Our frontal lobe isn't fully developed until we're
00:26:41.740 25. Think about all the dumb stuff you believe. Like I remember, let me tell you a story just to tell
00:26:48.360 you a story about how dumb kids are. I, when I was eight years old, I went to the dentist and I was
00:26:55.380 getting sealants for the first time because I, uh, they found a cavity for the first time. So I get,
00:27:00.280 yeah, I was eight. And the lady told me, the lady told me we are going to put, um, stickers of, of
00:27:08.220 NSYNC or the Backstreet Boys on, on these sealants. They're going to be invisible, but they're going to
00:27:13.840 be on there. It was years before I realized that she was lying to me years. It was years before I realized
00:27:22.000 that she was just trying to get me to be excited about my first dental procedure and that I didn't
00:27:26.360 actually have invisible stickers of the Backstreet Boys on my molars. Like that's just, kids just
00:27:32.280 believe things. We believe in Santa Claus. We believe in the tooth fairy. We are not capable of
00:27:39.880 making decisions about our gender. And especially kids now that watch YouTube and get so much
00:27:44.480 misinformation from public schools and sometimes even private schools. And when you're a teenager,
00:27:49.900 you're dumb too. You think that you're going to marry the guy that you dated in high school. You
00:27:55.580 should not be free to make these monumental decisions, especially if you are seriously
00:28:00.180 suffering from gender dysphoria, which is a dysphoria. That is something that is wrong with 0.99
00:28:06.380 your brain. It should be treated with compassion, should be treated with love, but also should be
00:28:11.820 treated with counseling, not affirmation. And this bill is opening up parents who simply want
00:28:19.300 discretion and want discernment over their child's lives who don't even have developed brains yet,
00:28:25.160 opening them up to possibly being sued for not going along with their gender affirming therapy.
00:28:31.080 It's very sad. So obviously there are a lot of first amendment objections here. There are medical
00:28:35.880 objections. There are moral objections. There are objections also from a feminist perspective. I don't
00:28:43.500 consider myself a feminist, but I think it's interesting that this whole, the transgender 1.00
00:28:48.160 movement truly is eating the feminist movement because men are becoming better at being women than
00:28:54.180 women are. And so what happened to feminism? Transgenderism is really just a tool of the 1.00
00:28:59.280 patriarchy. When you think about it, there was an article titled why the equality act means a setback
00:29:05.380 for a woman. This is written by Mary Vaught. It points out that these protections of the equality act
00:29:11.140 actually are going to harm the access that women now have to various freedoms that they have 0.99
00:29:15.960 developed over time. She points out that there is a lot of harm in the language that the bill uses
00:29:21.740 when it defines gender, because the bill states that gender is all gender related identity.
00:29:27.240 It's appearance, it's mannerisms, or other gender related characteristics of an individual,
00:29:31.760 regardless of the individual's designated sex at birth. That means that a biological male,
00:29:36.920 even a guy who hasn't even started his transition, just a guy who looks like a guy,
00:29:41.160 is a man could say, Hey, I'm a female today. I want to compete against a woman in this wrestling 1.00
00:29:47.860 match. Now, do I think that's going to happen very often? No, I really don't. I don't think
00:29:52.220 that a lot of guys have that desire. And I think that's going to be very rare. The point is that that
00:29:57.540 still could happen. And the point is also just how ridiculous and fanciful this whole conversation
00:30:02.520 has become about sex and gender, that it's just something that you wake up and decide.
00:30:06.520 No, sex corresponds with gender. And there are only two biological sexes. That doesn't mean that
00:30:13.520 a biological male can't have more traits that are seen as feminine. That doesn't mean that he can't
00:30:19.080 like dance, that he can't, uh, be soft spoken, that he can't, you know, like things that women typically 1.00
00:30:27.040 like, or that he has to be, uh, this gun toting, mud slinging, four wheel driving football player.
00:30:33.780 That's not what it means to be a man. And it doesn't mean that biological women can't have 0.96
00:30:40.020 more traditionally masculine traits or like things that men do. That doesn't mean that in that sense,
00:30:45.460 sure. You could say that gender is fluid, but coming up with all of these different genders 1.00
00:30:50.120 that may or may not correspond to sex. That is when we get out of the realm of the nuanced conversation
00:30:57.260 that is actually based in reality. And we get into some kind of fairy tale where we base science
00:31:03.120 on people's feelings. And now we base legislation on people's feelings, which is really just crazy.
00:31:10.060 And so you've got all of these high school college women who have worked really hard in their sport to 1.00
00:31:15.460 be the best that they can be, maybe to get scholarships, uh, for women's sports. I mean, 0.96
00:31:20.060 we didn't even talk about that, that women who have been working hard for scholarships to, 1.00
00:31:24.760 to go to college, to play tennis, whatever it is, to play soccer, uh, now have to be also competing
00:31:30.200 against men for that. That's that really sucks. And I, I'm not an athlete. And so I can't empathize
00:31:36.960 exactly with that, but I can imagine working so hard to be the best in your field. I mean,
00:31:42.520 in order to get a scholarship, especially to like a D one school to play a sport is really hard. You
00:31:48.760 have to be the best of the best. And now the best of the best is going to be a completely
00:31:55.020 different scale because you're going to be competing against people that are always going
00:31:58.940 to be, if you're a woman biologically faster than you biologically stronger than you biologically 1.00
00:32:04.740 have a better anaerobic capacity than you do, um, is going to be able to endure a lot longer than you
00:32:12.000 can. It's going to be able to hit a lot harder than you can. And so it's not, it's not fair. And I
00:32:18.100 don't always believe in fairness as Democrats do, or as liberals do, they believe in equality of
00:32:23.860 outcomes, but I do believe in equality of opportunity. And this is no longer equality
00:32:28.660 of opportunity. You're obscuring opportunities for people who have worked hard simply because
00:32:32.800 they are what the left called cisgender. So you are punishing people who don't have gender dysphoria,
00:32:40.260 but that's exactly what cosmic justice and social justice always does. It uplifts who they believe
00:32:47.120 are oppressed always at the expense of who they believe are not oppressed. And we, I actually
00:32:52.300 have an episode on social justice coming out this summer that explains, uh, all of that really in
00:32:59.460 depth. So this is, as we've already talked about scary for parents, they could potentially be found
00:33:04.620 guilty of violating their children's civil rights. We already noted that, um, if they declined to consent
00:33:10.540 to sex transition surgery. So this is a violation of a lot of privacy. So the same people that,
00:33:16.600 uh, say that the constitution grants a right to privacy for women who want to get abortions
00:33:22.360 and who say, Hey, get the government out of my doctor's office, get the government out of my
00:33:26.520 healthcare now actually want the government directly involved in their healthcare directly
00:33:31.300 telling doctors what treatments they can and cannot give a child and what parents or what can,
00:33:39.140 what parents can do, uh, with their children as far as treatment goes. And so that's just another
00:33:44.300 example of how the whole privacy, how the whole, this is a doctor's choice argument that we hear
00:33:50.520 about abortion from the left is all it's all a lie. They don't really care about freedom. They've
00:33:56.360 never cared about autonomy. If your autonomy gets in the way of theirs, they don't care about any of
00:34:01.260 that. What they want is their agenda pushed at all costs. And you cannot have any kind of objection
00:34:06.660 to that whatsoever without being called a bigot. But this is what happens again. We've talked about
00:34:12.440 this so much. This is what happens when you exchange the God of scripture with the God of self. The God
00:34:19.620 of scripture is the giver of all truth. He is the giver of all wisdom. He defines, uh, what sex is. He
00:34:27.120 defines what is right and what is wrong. And even if you reject God, even if you say that you're not
00:34:33.200 a Christian, but you align with what the Bible says, uh, whether you know it or not, you are going to find
00:34:39.140 yourself in a place of truth, at least in, um, a temporal way. Uh, but on the other side of that,
00:34:46.240 you've got the God of self. You've got, you know what? The only value, the highest value that I have
00:34:51.780 is authenticity. The highest value that I have is individuality and being special. And everyone has to
00:34:57.960 bow down to the God of self. And the God of self that we are glorifying now is the kind that, uh,
00:35:05.740 the left sees is typically discriminated against typically oppressed. And all of us have to
00:35:10.740 sacrifice our freedoms, religious, moral, and otherwise on the altar to the God of self of
00:35:17.640 the people that they deem, uh, more worthy of protection than us. The reality is, is that the
00:35:23.340 left, many on the left don't see Christianity as, uh, any kind of legitimate objection to have,
00:35:29.700 or any religion as any objection to have. Um, they believe that it really shouldn't matter,
00:35:35.380 that we should embrace self secularism, that we should embrace their ideology. And in that way,
00:35:41.820 you see who the real tyrants are, who the real bigots are. So I just wanted to give you a brief
00:35:48.080 rundown on all of that. We didn't even touch all of the topics that we could have about the equality
00:35:52.300 act, but you need to know that this is happening. You need to be aware. If it does go to the Senate,
00:35:57.140 you need to look at who's actually voting for this stuff. And you need to uncover the headlines to
00:36:02.660 see what this really is. This is a violation of religious freedom. So that's all we're going to
00:36:08.160 get into today, but I will be back Friday. We are probably going to do a rundown of other stuff that
00:36:14.020 has happened this week on Friday, rather than an interview, just because there's a lot that I still
00:36:18.580 want to cover that happened this week. So I hope that you have a great few days and I will see you
00:36:22.820 back here on Friday.