The Ben Shapiro Show - The Democrats’ LGBT Town Hall | Ep. 877

00:00:00.000 Democrats lay out an insanely extreme agenda to culturally divide the country.

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00:00:23.000 All righty, so let us begin with a basic truth.

00:00:27.000 All the Democrats had to do was not be insane.

00:00:29.000 That's it.

00:00:30.000 That's all they had to do.

00:00:31.000 I've been saying this since the day of the election of 2016.

00:00:35.000 All Democrats would have to do is not be crazy.

00:00:37.000 If they wanted to defeat Trump in 2020, they did not have to be exceedingly forthgoing.

00:00:43.000 They didn't have to be really winning.

00:00:45.000 They didn't have to be very exciting.

00:00:47.000 All they had to do was not be bat bleep loony. 1.00

00:00:50.000 That's it. 0.92

00:00:50.000 All they had to do was be not totally insane. 0.92

00:00:53.000 Naturally, Democrats have been unable to do that.

00:00:55.000 And so we have seen Democrats not only go insane over things like the Mueller report, but on policy they've been swinging radically to the left.

00:01:01.000 And that's not just true on things like Medicare for all, where frankly, there's a pretty healthy debate in the country over exactly which direction we should go with our national medical system.

00:01:10.000 Should it be more regulated?

00:01:11.000 Should it be less regulated?

00:01:12.000 Medicare for all happens to be a controversial topic, but that is at least within sort of the realm of traditional American discussion.

00:01:19.000 It's been up for debate since at least the 1990s when Hillary care was discussed. 0.99

00:01:23.000 Democrats have decided that they are going to go all out crazy on social leftist issues.

00:01:28.000 And this is where you get into the issues, the kind of issues that divide Americans beyond all recognition.

00:01:33.000 If you want the country to actually divide, all you have to do is keep putting your thumb directly in the social issues and just pushing.

00:01:39.000 That's all you have to do.

00:01:41.000 Because there are certain principles that Americans are not going to compromise on.

00:01:44.000 And if Americans are forced to choose between adherence to religious principle, adherence to moral principle, what they teach their children, and the dictates of the social left, they will stand with their own religious and moral principles.

00:01:58.000 And if they are castigated as bigots, They are still not going to cave to the social left.

00:02:02.000 They're not going to cave to the editorial board of the New York Times or the anchors at CNN.

00:02:06.000 They're not going to cave to the board members at the Human Rights Council, the Human Rights Campaign, who tell them that their attendance at church and their teaching scripture to their children or teaching their children traditional natural law principles about human behavior, that this is somehow bigotry, that this somehow manifests animus.

00:02:24.000 They're not going to do that.

00:02:25.000 And if the Democrats, if the left in this country decide that they're going to shut down religion in the country, if they decide they're going to shut down any moral principle that differs from theirs on very personal moral issues, including issues regarding how they raise their children with regard to gender and sex, Then this country is simply not going to last.

00:02:42.000 Because if you have states like California that decide to go full social leftist and effectively make illegal any viewpoint that is not the social left line, everybody who is not that is going to have to move out of the state.

00:02:54.000 And you're going to see a vast separation in the country.

00:02:56.000 And if you want two Americas, this is how you're going to get it. 0.91

00:02:59.000 Not through economics, not through Medicare for all.

00:03:02.000 Those are open debates that can be had.

00:03:03.000 But if you are fundamentally questioning the principles of a fellow American to the point where you are Effectively threatening to indoctrinate their children with your principles because you think that your principles are so sacrosanct and their principles are so evil?

00:03:17.000 Well, that is the basis for actual conflict in the country.

00:03:21.000 I don't think it'll come to armed conflict in this country.

00:03:23.000 I think instead what you will have is a vast population separation and then a mutual parting of ways if this continues.

00:03:28.000 The reason I say this is because I actually spent some time watching that Democratic Town Hall last night, the so-called Equality Town Hall, the LGBT Town Hall.

00:03:35.000 And it was not about equality.

00:03:36.000 It was about discrimination against religious people.

00:03:38.000 It was about rage against people who disagree with the prevailing social left agenda.

00:03:42.000 It is that simple.

00:03:43.000 That is what that was.

00:03:45.000 And it was not about, we just want tolerance.

00:03:48.000 We just want acceptance.

00:03:49.000 First of all, tolerance and acceptance are not the same thing.

00:03:51.000 They're not.

00:03:52.000 I tolerate lots of behavior that I don't accept.

00:03:55.000 I tolerate lots of behavior that I believe to be wrong, right?

00:03:58.000 That is what it means to be American, is to tolerate viewpoints and behavior that you may not think is wrong, but that does not actually change your life or hurt you in any way.

00:04:07.000 Toleration and acceptance?

00:04:08.000 Not exactly the same thing.

00:04:09.000 But the Democrats want to go one further, and that is celebration.

00:04:12.000 Eric Erickson, my colleague, has said before, you will be made to care.

00:04:15.000 And it's not just you will be made to care.

00:04:16.000 It's not just enough for you to throw up your hands and say, listen, do whatever floats your boat.

00:04:21.000 That's not enough.

00:04:22.000 What the left wants is your approval.

00:04:24.000 It's not just acceptance, it's approval.

00:04:26.000 They want your celebration.

00:04:27.000 If you are not properly celebrating, this is evidence that you are a bad, bad person who's benighted and indoctrinated by centuries of religious bigotry and all of this.

00:04:36.000 And the Democrats went full bore on that last night.

00:04:39.000 They were cutting campaign commercials for Donald Trump last night.

00:04:42.000 If you want Americans to go out and vote for Donald Trump, do this.

00:04:45.000 Because I'll be honest with you, over the last week, Trump's had a terrible week.

00:04:48.000 Trump's had an awful week between all the impeachment gate talk in Ukraine and President Trump pulling out of the Kurdish areas of northern Syria and getting blowback from his own party for that.

00:04:58.000 It's made him an extremely unattractive candidate for a lot of people in the middle and even a few people on the right.

00:05:04.000 But if you want people like me to walk over broken glass on my knees to vote for Trump, all you have to do is tell me you're going to outlaw my synagogue.

00:05:12.000 That's all you have to do.

00:05:13.000 All you have to do is tell me that you're going to tell me I can't raise my kid the way I feel I should raise my kid.

00:05:18.000 Because let me tell you something.

00:05:18.000 You don't know my kid's name.

00:05:19.000 You don't know a damn thing about my kid. 0.98

00:05:21.000 And I will raise my kid better than you will. 0.98

00:05:22.000 And I'm talking to you, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar.

00:05:25.000 If you think you can educate my kid better than I can educate my kid, you can go F yourself.

00:05:30.000 And I know there are millions, tens of millions, probably hundreds of millions of Americans who feel the same way.

00:05:34.000 And what we saw last night on CNN was an abject attempt to seize the reins of cultural conversation, not just to push, not just to convince, but to cram down.

00:05:47.000 If you are talking about using the heavy hand of government to cram down your social viewpoint, you are no different from the people who you label theocrats on the other side.

00:05:54.000 You say that there are people who are theocratic on the other side, these evil, horrible religious people who want to use religious principle and ram that down on you from above.

00:06:02.000 This is what the left is constantly claiming.

00:06:03.000 And I keep saying, I don't see the theocracy.

00:06:05.000 Where is it?

00:06:06.000 You keep saying Mike Pence is a theocrat.

00:06:07.000 Please name the things that are theocratic that Mike Pence has done.

00:06:10.000 But your religion of social leftism, it is indeed a religion.

00:06:13.000 And you are the ones who are seeking to take control of a government and then use it to destroy how I raise my child, the people with whom I associate, how I practice my religion.

00:06:22.000 I've not done anything to you.

00:06:24.000 I've not done anything to you.

00:06:25.000 I was libertarian on same-sex marriage before, or Birchfell.

00:06:28.000 Okay, the fact is that you are still trying to come in and wreck my community.

00:06:32.000 You're trying to wreck how I raise my child.

00:06:34.000 You're basically at the verge of threatening my ability to raise my own child.

00:06:39.000 It's insane.

00:06:40.000 I'm gonna show you clips from this Democratic town hall in just one second.

00:06:44.000 And you will see the animus for religion.

00:06:46.000 You will see the desire to use the federal government as a club to beat into submission anyone who disagrees on social policy.

00:06:53.000 You want a country to last, you have to live and let live.

00:06:55.000 It was funny.

00:06:56.000 I thought that was basically the slogan of the gay rights movement, right?

00:06:59.000 It was live and let live.

00:06:59.000 We're not bothering you.

00:07:00.000 Leave us alone.

00:07:01.000 Fine.

00:07:02.000 Good.

00:07:02.000 Okay, well, I'm not bothering you.

00:07:04.000 Leave me alone.

00:07:05.000 And if you don't leave me alone, well, then I'm going to have to fight back.

00:07:09.000 I'm either going to have to move or I'm going to have to fight back.

00:07:10.000 Those are the only two choices you are leaving available to people when you will not let them live and let live.

00:07:16.000 And when you dictate that their entire way of raising their children is morally wrong and benighted, and more than that, not just morally condemning those people, which is fine, right?

00:07:26.000 It's a free country.

00:07:27.000 You can morally condemn whoever you see fit.

00:07:29.000 By the way, the left should know this, right?

00:07:30.000 They're busy morally condemning everybody who disagrees with them that there are 93 separate genders that attack Helicopter's agenda. 0.99

00:07:37.000 They're busy telling everyone who's like that that they're ignorant and terrible. 0.93

00:07:40.000 But they have no such sympathy for people on the right who say, you know what? 0.99

00:07:44.000 I disagree.

00:07:45.000 And I think that there are only two genders, male and female, and that my child is born the biology that they are born.

00:07:51.000 Or that I believe, according to natural law principles, that heterosexual behavior is morally superior to homosexual behavior, not because of religious principle, because of natural law principles that men and women belong together, that they produce families, that produce children.

00:08:03.000 And that is not in any way a justification of discrimination against people who are homosexual.

00:08:08.000 That is not in any way a justification of nastiness against people who are gay.

00:08:12.000 That is not in any way a justification of people discriminating against people who behave in certain ways.

00:08:19.000 But that is a moral judgment.

00:08:21.000 I get to make that moral judgment in my own life and with regard to how I raise my kids and live my life, just as you get to make a moral judgment about me.

00:08:27.000 It's a free country.

00:08:28.000 Feel free.

00:08:29.000 Whatever floats your boat morally.

00:08:30.000 But I'm willing to say that.

00:08:31.000 Some people, a lot of people on the left, and the Democratic Party, are simply not willing to say that.

00:08:36.000 They're not willing to acknowledge that in any way, shape, or form.

00:08:40.000 And that is what we are about to see.

00:08:41.000 It's not just about social disapproval of people who disagree.

00:08:44.000 It's about using the power of government to target people who disagree.

00:08:47.000 And this is where you raise everybody's hackles.

00:08:49.000 It's not just about you saying that I'm morally wrong because I disapprove of homosexuality on a religious and natural law level.

00:08:58.000 You can say that.

00:08:59.000 Fine.

00:09:00.000 First of all, I don't even know why you care what I think about these things.

00:09:04.000 As I say, I'm libertarian.

00:09:05.000 Whatever floats your boat.

00:09:06.000 But it's not about that for the Democrats.

00:09:08.000 For the Democrats, it's about how we enshrine our principles in law and force you to behave in ways that conflict with both your religious and moral principles.

00:09:17.000 You want to break apart the country?

00:09:18.000 This is the way to do it.

00:09:19.000 We'll get to more of this in a second.

00:09:20.000 We're going to jump into this Democratic town hall because it was truly insulting on virtually every level.

00:09:25.000 I mean, when Barack Obama suggested that religious Americans are bitter clingers clinging to God and guns and religion, when people talk about the scorn that the high-level left has for traditional Americans and for basically everyone living somewhere between Los Angeles and New York, this is what they are talking about.

00:09:40.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:10:52.000 Okay, so, he actually did a good job pulling clips this morning, I will say.

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00:10:56.000 Okay, so, in any case, this Democratic town hall was a full-scale display of insanity.

00:11:01.000 Let's start with the most ardent of the Democrats. 0.98

00:11:04.000 So, it used to be that Bernie Sanders was the voice of the most crazy Democrats.

00:11:08.000 Now it's Beto O'Rourke. 0.80

00:11:09.000 Beto is desperate for attention.

00:11:11.000 And because he's desperate for attention, And he's just standing outside every Democratic forum, sort of like the weird balloon guy that you see on the top of car dealerships, just kind of waving his arms all wild like a crazy guy.

00:11:24.000 That's Beto O'Rourke now.

00:11:26.000 Beto O'Rourke will say anything for attention, but he does represent the, at root, most radical and most true Democratic positions.

00:11:34.000 So yesterday, Beto O'Rourke said the thing out loud.

00:11:37.000 Last night, he said the thing out loud that Democrats have refused to say.

00:11:40.000 I've been saying that this is what they want for years.

00:11:42.000 I've been saying for years that the real danger of the social left movement in the United States is that they were going to go up against every church, religious institution, religious school in America.

00:11:51.000 But their goal was going to be to use same-sex marriage not to preserve the ability of two men to have tax benefits for being married or two women to have tax benefits for being married or anything like that.

00:12:01.000 That was not the actual end goal.

00:12:03.000 That was not going to be the end of the road.

00:12:04.000 The end of the road was going to be using laws that make such marriages enshrined, sacrosanct by law, using those to club into submission and destroy religious institutions. 0.97

00:12:15.000 The next step would be to do the Bob Jones University move.

00:12:18.000 The Bob Jones University move Back in the early 1980s, there was a federal tax case in which the IRS decided to remove tax-exempt status from Bob Jones University.

00:12:26.000 Well, because Bob Jones University had an anti-interracial dating policy.

00:12:26.000 Why?

00:12:29.000 The policy was benighted and stupid and ignorant and immoral. 1.00

00:12:33.000 Okay, Bob Jones had that policy. 1.00

00:12:35.000 There was nothing in IRS policy that suggested that you could simply remove tax-exempt status from organizations that had such rules.

00:12:42.000 But the folks at the IRS decided, you know what?

00:12:44.000 We don't like what Bob Jones University is doing.

00:12:45.000 It's discriminatory.

00:12:47.000 Tax-exempt status removed.

00:12:48.000 So the Supreme Court ruled that they could do that.

00:12:50.000 They could remove tax-exempt status.

00:12:51.000 Well, by basically equating same-sex marriage, which is not the same as interracial marriage, but equating the two, by saying that race is the same as sex when it comes to marriage, which is a patently insane position because male and female are inherently different in a very, very different way.

00:13:05.000 Then people who have different skin colors, right?

00:13:08.000 Different skin colors is a thing that does not matter when it comes to the ability to function as a married couple. 0.98

00:13:14.000 Okay, when it comes to two males and two females versus a male and a female, one of the key functions of marriage, historically speaking, has been the production and rearing of children.

00:13:21.000 When I say one of the key functions, I mean really the key function.

00:13:24.000 Right, so that makes a bit of a difference, but by equating same-sex marriage with interracial marriage, I said the next move of the left was going to be to declare that every major religious institution in the United States was basically operating in discriminatory fashion, remove their tax-exempt status.

00:13:39.000 Once you remove their tax-exempt status, and you say they don't have tax-exempt status anymore, you treat them like a normal LLC.

00:13:44.000 Well, if you have anti-discrimination laws in states like California, or if you're the Democratic Party, and you're trying to pass the so-called Equality Act, which is really a way of cracking down on religious institutions, And forcing people to abide by social rules that they don't want to abide by, and in violation of the First Amendment, blatant violation of the First Amendment, the founders are spinning so fast in their graves, they're drilling directly to the core of the earth at this point.

00:14:06.000 The fact is that the goal here...

00:14:09.000 would be to then kick these religious institutions from 501c3 tax-exempt institutions into normal LLC territory and then declare that those LLCs are in violation of non-discrimination policies and shut them down as violative of law.

00:14:23.000 We've already seen them do this with Arlene's Flowers in Washington State, where if you are a florist who is religious and only will cater to weddings that are traditional, you'll be shut down or fined.

00:14:34.000 We've seen it with photographers.

00:14:35.000 We've seen it with with Jack Phillips, the baker in Colorado, right?

00:14:40.000 We've seen all of that.

00:14:42.000 Again, we've seen the Democrats and the left do this.

00:14:45.000 They're gonna do that to your church. 0.96

00:14:46.000 They're gonna remove tax-exempt status and they're gonna shut it down.

00:14:48.000 They're gonna do it to your religious school.

00:14:49.000 In fact, they're more likely to go after the religious school.

00:14:51.000 They'll just say, no more accreditation.

00:14:53.000 If you don't teach what we want on LGBT topics, we're just gonna shut you down because you're not teaching your children properly.

00:14:58.000 And if you say, listen, I'm gonna, fine, do that.

00:15:01.000 I'm gonna now have homeschool, right?

00:15:02.000 Me and my friends, we're gonna get together at homeschool.

00:15:04.000 They will come in and they will shut that down.

00:15:06.000 As a fake school, they will come after your children for truancy.

00:15:09.000 Those will be the next steps.

00:15:11.000 And people say, oh, that's alarmism.

00:15:12.000 We would never do that.

00:15:14.000 We would never do that.

00:15:14.000 We would never come after you.

00:15:16.000 I mean, come on, live and let live, right?

00:15:19.000 You're not bothering anyone.

00:15:20.000 Live and let live.

00:15:21.000 Yeah, Beto O'Rourke just destroyed any semblance of that notion last night during this CNN town hall.

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00:16:36.000 Okay, so as I say, the Democrats decided they were going to cut a bunch of ads for Donald Trump last night.

00:16:42.000 Beto O'Rourke led the way.

00:16:43.000 Here's Beto explaining that colleges and churches that oppose same-sex marriage should lose their tax-exempt status.

00:16:48.000 So he is saying exactly what I have been saying for 10 years.

00:16:51.000 People have been saying that I was alarmist about all of this.

00:16:53.000 One of the reasons I'm libertarian on same-sex marriage is not just because I don't think that the government has a role in regulating activity that doesn't harm anybody else, but also because I was deeply afraid that the government getting involved and redefining marriage to include same-sex marriage would end in exactly with what Beto O'Rourke is talking about right here.

00:17:10.000 So here is Beto O'Rourke.

00:17:12.000 saying straight out that he wants to remove tax-exempt status, which is the first step toward basically getting rid of these institutions altogether, from every college, every church that opposes a same-sex marriage, right?

00:17:24.000 Any institution, he says any charity.

00:17:25.000 What does he think churches are?

00:17:27.000 Churches are charities.

00:17:28.000 Remove tax-exempt status.

00:17:29.000 They won't be tax-exempt any longer.

00:17:31.000 So you won't be able to give charity to your church because if you do, you'll be acting in discriminatory ways.

00:17:36.000 Here's Beto O'Rourke saying it out loud.

00:17:37.000 Colleges, churches, charities, Should they lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage?

00:17:44.000 Yes.

00:17:48.000 There can be no reward.

00:17:50.000 Okay, so in other words, if you're a church, you're not infringing on anybody's rights.

00:17:55.000 You're just saying, you can't come here for your marriage.

00:17:58.000 and the full civil rights of every single one of us.

00:18:02.000 And so as president, we're going to make that a priority and we are going to stop those who are infringing upon the human rights of our fellow Americans. - Okay, so in other words, if you're a church, you're not infringing on anybody's rights.

00:18:12.000 You're just saying you can't come here for your marriage.

00:18:14.000 Go to the church down the street.

00:18:16.000 You're saying, listen, you want to learn about gay rights?

00:18:18.000 Go to the public school down the street.

00:18:19.000 Okay, you want to learn about gay rights?

00:18:21.000 You can just go to that secular atheistic crossroads school in Santa Monica.

00:18:25.000 Like, enjoy yourself.

00:18:25.000 That's your problem.

00:18:26.000 Go enjoy.

00:18:28.000 Fine.

00:18:29.000 You're not infringing on anybody.

00:18:30.000 Your mere existence is an infringement, according to Beto O'Rourke.

00:18:33.000 The institutional existence is an infringement on liberty, according to Beto O'Rourke, and you must be shut down.

00:18:40.000 You want a culture war in this country?

00:18:41.000 You damn well have it, Beto O'Rourke. 0.64

00:18:43.000 You want a culture war in this country? 0.94

00:18:44.000 You want this country to come apart that seems, this is how you do it.

00:18:47.000 Because I promise you, if you come to tell me that you're going to indoctrinate my kids in particular policy, and that I can't pull my kid out of the school and send my kid to a school I want to send them to, that I can't go to the church or synagogue that I want to go to, And if you make that national policy, not just California policy where I can move, but national policy, people are not gonna stand for that.

00:19:05.000 They're not going to stand for that.

00:19:07.000 And if you send a truant officer to remove my child, I have two choices at that point, right?

00:19:12.000 If I have no place to move, because you've now made this national federal policy, I now have two choices.

00:19:17.000 One is to leave the country utterly.

00:19:19.000 Two is to pick up a gun.

00:19:20.000 Those are the only choices that you have left me.

00:19:21.000 And now people are like, oh, this is, how could you say stuff like that?

00:19:24.000 How could you be so extreme?

00:19:26.000 It's not extreme to defend the fundamental rights the Constitution was created in order to protect.

00:19:31.000 These rights pre-exist government.

00:19:34.000 My right to raise my child in my faith is my right.

00:19:37.000 That is a First Amendment right.

00:19:39.000 There's only one reason the government exists, to protect those rights, not invade those rights.

00:19:42.000 It is my right to raise my child with the moral precept that I find to be beneficial for my child.

00:19:48.000 Beto O'Rourke does not get to raise my child. 0.90

00:19:51.000 And if he tries, I will meet him at the door with a gun. 0.65

00:19:53.000 That is insane. 0.99

00:19:54.000 That is insane.

00:19:55.000 If he tries to remove my child from a home, and, well, he's not suggesting that.

00:19:58.000 Where do you think this goes?

00:20:00.000 What do you think the next step is?

00:20:02.000 If, I mean, he's saying it openly, that there can be no reward for doing this.

00:20:06.000 How far is reward from compulsion?

00:20:08.000 How far is reward from compulsion?

00:20:09.000 Because the Equality Act basically suggests that businesses should be shut down if they disagree with Beto O'Rourke.

00:20:14.000 Okay, I'm looking three steps down the road.

00:20:18.000 This is where this is going.

00:20:20.000 And the fact that there are people on the left who are cheering for this, do they want this conflict?

00:20:24.000 You want to live in a country with me?

00:20:25.000 I want to live in a country with you.

00:20:27.000 I disagree with Beto O'Rourke on all this stuff.

00:20:29.000 He's still an American.

00:20:30.000 I still want to live in a country with him.

00:20:32.000 He obviously doesn't want to live in a country with me or anyone like me.

00:20:35.000 He wants us changed to meet his definition of the good, his definition of the higher moral decency.

00:20:43.000 The answer there is no.

00:20:44.000 And it wasn't just Beto O'Rourke last night.

00:20:46.000 As we'll see, it was a bunch of candidates.

00:20:48.000 A bunch of candidates.

00:20:49.000 And if they weren't saying it out loud, that was the basic theme.

00:20:52.000 The basic theme was, we're gonna cram down on all of American society, our views.

00:20:57.000 This is theocracy.

00:20:58.000 It is theocracy of the left.

00:20:59.000 It is religious rule of the left because there is no data to back this up, okay?

00:21:03.000 This is not a data-driven, social science-driven teaching.

00:21:05.000 This is not driven by evidence.

00:21:07.000 This is driven by a religious conviction that the leveling of all human beings and the attempt to level all human behavior to the same moral level is an inherent good.

00:21:16.000 That is a religious faith-based belief.

00:21:18.000 There's no evidence of it whatsoever. 0.83

00:21:20.000 I'll show you the lack of evidence for what these folks are saying in just one second, because it's patently crazy.

00:21:25.000 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:21:26.000 First, let's talk about the Second Amendment.

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00:22:42.000 Okay, so it's not just Beto O'Rourke who has been doing this extremist routine.

00:22:46.000 It's also Cory Booker.

00:22:47.000 Here's Cory Booker yesterday, suggesting that Catholic schools across the country... He's basically suggesting we should shut down every Catholic school in America, Cory Booker.

00:22:54.000 He says Catholic schools across the country are using religion to justify discrimination.

00:23:00.000 Insane.

00:23:01.000 And so, for me, I cannot allow, as a leader, that people are going to use religion as a justification for discrimination.

00:23:10.000 I could respect your religious freedoms, but also protect people from discrimination.

00:23:14.000 And as I said in an earlier answer, I grew up in a household where my parents talked to me about how people used to use religion to justify the discrimination against African Americans.

00:23:23.000 I cannot allow? 0.93

00:23:24.000 Who the F are you, dude? 0.99

00:23:26.000 You cannot allow? 1.00

00:23:28.000 Guess what?

00:23:29.000 That's not your right.

00:23:30.000 My right is to act in ways that don't harm anybody else.

00:23:35.000 And if I choose to have an institution where I am going to elevate heterosexuality above homosexuality, that is not harming anyone else.

00:23:43.000 You don't have to participate in that institution.

00:23:45.000 It's a free country.

00:23:46.000 I mean, you have institutions where you don't tolerate my religious beliefs.

00:23:50.000 I don't expect that when I walk into a mosque, that suddenly they're gonna start practicing Judaism.

00:23:55.000 I don't expect that when I walk into an atheist meeting, they're gonna start keeping kosher.

00:23:59.000 And I don't expect that when I walk into the offices of the Human Rights Campaign, that they're going to start handing out literature from Leviticus.

00:24:04.000 Like, why in the world would you not express the same degree of tolerance toward people who disagree with you than toward people you agree with?

00:24:11.000 If you are only tolerant to people who agree with you, this is a good indicator you're not a very tolerant person.

00:24:17.000 You will not allow... First of all, the very implication that the reason the Catholics are... 0.88

00:24:24.000 against homosexual activity is simply out of bigotry and discrimination is an absolute ignorance of Catholicism.

00:24:31.000 It's an absolute ignorance of the natural law history of Catholicism, of the natural law arguments with regard to human sexuality.

00:24:38.000 For the same reason that Catholics are against abortion and contraception, they're also against homosexual activity. 0.65

00:24:42.000 Namely, they believe that the end of the sexual act is procreation and that because Sex is directed toward procreation and toward the deepening of relationships that end with procreation.

00:24:54.000 Heterosexual sex ought to be favored over homosexual activity, or by the way, over activity that ends with pregnancy outside of marriage. 0.93

00:25:02.000 Over adultery, over polygamy, right? 1.00

00:25:04.000 I mean, there are plenty of sexual rules in religion, and picking out one of them and pretending that that's the only one that matters is pretty insane by the left anyway. 0.56

00:25:11.000 It demonstrates a full-scale lack of understanding of how religion works.

00:25:14.000 But notice that for the left, they truly believe, many people on the left, like Booker, they truly believe that practice of religion is in and of itself discrimination.

00:25:22.000 Okay, well guess what?

00:25:24.000 Religion is exclusive. 1.00

00:25:26.000 My synagogue is about practicing 613 commandments.

00:25:30.000 And if you don't practice a commandment, that'd be a sin.

00:25:33.000 Catholic faith.

00:25:34.000 One of the tenets of Catholic faith is that you have to believe in Jesus.

00:25:37.000 If you don't believe in Jesus, you're doing something wrong.

00:25:40.000 You have to have a faith in Christ.

00:25:41.000 And if you don't, then you're excluded from the Catholic faith.

00:25:44.000 You are not a practitioner of the Catholic faith.

00:25:46.000 Is that discriminatory?

00:25:48.000 Sure, but that's called religion.

00:25:51.000 And guess what?

00:25:51.000 Cory Booker is discriminatory too because I am barred from the kingdom of heaven because he and I disagree on social leftism.

00:25:58.000 Amazing.

00:25:58.000 Tolerance only flows one way.

00:26:00.000 It only flows one way.

00:26:01.000 It flows from people like me, religious people like me, who don't have any problem with Cory Booker feeling what he wants to believe, or Human Rights Campaign believing what they want to believe, or GLAAD believing what they want to believe.

00:26:09.000 Do what you want, man.

00:26:10.000 It's a free country.

00:26:11.000 But that tolerance does not extend back the other way.

00:26:13.000 Not in any way, shape, or form.

00:26:15.000 And you can't have a society that operates this way. 0.99

00:26:17.000 By the way, Cory Booker is crazy. 0.60

00:26:18.000 Okay, Cory Booker was asked about the Pulse terror attack. 0.83

00:26:22.000 For those who don't remember the Pulse terror attack, it was, up until the attack in Las Vegas, I believe, the deadliest terror attack in the United States since, and we still don't know if Las Vegas was effectually a terrorist attack or a mass shooting.

00:26:33.000 It's kind of on that fuzzy border of classification, because there's no actual political motive there.

00:26:37.000 We know the motivation in Pulse, where 49 people were killed at this gay bar.

00:26:41.000 The motivation at Pulse was Islamic radical terrorism.

00:26:44.000 Cory Booker tries to blame it on white supremacy, because we can never mention the intersectional conflict between radical Islam And gay rights.

00:26:51.000 Whenever Cory Booker or Beto O'Rourke are attacking someplace, notice how they always attack synagogues and churches.

00:26:56.000 They never have anything to say about mosques that believe exactly the same thing as synagogues and churches on traditional sexual morality. 1.00

00:27:02.000 Now here's Cory Booker being a moron and suggesting that white supremacy was responsible for the Pulse terror attack. 0.99

00:27:08.000 So first of all, very clearly, it is a national emergency. 0.99

00:27:12.000 The majority of terrorist attacks in this country since 9-11 have been right-wing extremist groups.

00:27:17.000 The majority of them have been white supremacist and hate groups.

00:27:21.000 And I will elevate, as President of the United States, an office on hate crimes and white supremacy to make sure it is a presidential-level effort to protect our country as a whole.

00:27:33.000 But I'm not stopping there.

00:27:35.000 Okay, by the way, the question here, the question that Booker was asked was about the Pulse terror attack.

00:27:39.000 It sounds like he's being asked about Tree of Life or something.

00:27:41.000 He was asked about the Pulse terror attack, which was committed by an actual terrorist. 0.97

00:27:44.000 Okay, by an actual Islamic terrorist. 0.99

00:27:46.000 Tree of Life was committed by a white supremacist terrorist. 0.98

00:27:48.000 A bit of a difference there. 0.70

00:27:49.000 In just one second, we are going to get to more from this insane town hall, because some of this was attitudinal.

00:27:55.000 And you've noticed that I'm putting the attitudinal stuff below the compulsive stuff, the compulsory stuff, because I don't think it's quite as important.

00:28:01.000 It's still important because the attitudinal The attitudinal direction toward these issues is informing the Beto O'Rourke, Cory Booker, we are going to cram down our viewpoints on you routine.

00:28:12.000 And the viewpoint itself is wildly out of step with evidence.

00:28:15.000 So as I say, this is not about, we're bringing the best social science data to bear in a completely secular way.

00:28:20.000 And if that affects religion, it affects religion.

00:28:22.000 As Justice Scalia would have said about religious practice, it is a neutral law of neutral applicability, right?

00:28:27.000 That it's just a law that applies to everybody and it is not, Specifically directed at religion?

00:28:33.000 No.

00:28:33.000 This is not a neutral law, okay?

00:28:35.000 This is a non-evidence-based viewpoint on human relations that is going to be crammed down in religious fashion.

00:28:40.000 We're going to get to that in just one second.

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00:29:54.000 And then we'll get to the Rudy Giuliani of it all, and the whistleblower of Impeachment Day 2019.

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00:30:54.000 All righty.

00:30:59.000 So the attitude of the Democrats here is just as insane as their contention that the government ought to be used to cram down that attitude.

00:31:07.000 Amy Klobuchar, who's the supposed moderate, senator from Minnesota, she committed, in the middle of this town hall, to putting a third gender on federal identification. 1.00

00:31:15.000 So you can arbitrarily decide that you are this third gender. 0.84

00:31:18.000 Now, notice, this is not evidence-based.

00:31:20.000 There is no test that we can use to determine whether you are this third gender. 0.76

00:31:23.000 Now, there are pretty obvious tests we can use.

00:31:25.000 To determine whether you're a male or female.

00:31:27.000 Namely, we can look at your birth certificate as a first line of resort.

00:31:30.000 And if you're intersex, well, that is a very small percentage of the population, but that's an objective test too.

00:31:35.000 Because we can either use genetic testing, or, in some cases, if you happen to have genetic anomalies, then we can actually check you.

00:31:42.000 There needs to be some objective metric, in other words.

00:31:44.000 When you're looking at government data, what you would like is objectivity.

00:31:47.000 You don't want subjectivity.

00:31:48.000 For example, We would laugh if Rachel Dolezal said on her ID that she's a black person. 0.96

00:31:53.000 Right?

00:31:53.000 We'd want to reclassify her as a not black person, as a white person.

00:31:57.000 Why?

00:31:57.000 Because she's a white lady.

00:31:59.000 Okay?

00:31:59.000 And that's... How do we know?

00:32:00.000 By looking at her.

00:32:02.000 And looking at her parents.

00:32:03.000 Right?

00:32:03.000 Really not difficult as it turns out.

00:32:06.000 Sex is even less difficult because race is to a certain extent a fuzzy construct.

00:32:10.000 There are sort of fuzzy lines around race, because how black is black, how white is white, we don't actually know.

00:32:15.000 But we damn well know how female is female, namely you got two X chromosomes, right? 1.00

00:32:19.000 You have the SRY gene.

00:32:21.000 And this will help determine whether you are male or female.

00:32:24.000 This is really not tough.

00:32:26.000 But Amy Klobuchar wants, in completely evidence-less fashion, to allow you to randomly recategorize yourself I currently identify as non-binary.

00:32:43.000 In California, I am able to change my gender to X. However, on the federal level, there is no such option.

00:32:50.000 Will you recognize third gender markers on a federal level?

00:32:53.000 Yes.

00:32:54.000 Thank you.

00:32:55.000 I will.

00:32:55.000 Yes.

00:32:56.000 Oh, yeah.

00:32:57.000 Of course.

00:32:58.000 I identify as non-binary.

00:33:00.000 I identify as non-binary.

00:33:02.000 I identify as an immediate giveaway that the government should not actually be recognizing Your self-identification is of zero relevance when it comes to checking your gender when you get pulled over at a traffic stop.

00:33:14.000 Your ID is used to identify you.

00:33:17.000 Notice, ID has to do with identification.

00:33:19.000 How others identify you.

00:33:21.000 That's what an ID is for.

00:33:22.000 Your ID is not a five paragraph essay on how you feel about the movie Titanic.

00:33:26.000 Your ID is about objective identification by others of you.

00:33:31.000 When I travel with a passport, you know what they do?

00:33:32.000 They look at my picture on the passport, then they look at me, then they look at the picture, then they look at me, and they go, oh, that's you!

00:33:37.000 You know how I can tell it's you?

00:33:38.000 Because I have this objective identification right here, this ID, and it tells me exactly who you are.

00:33:43.000 What if instead of that, it didn't have, I said, you know what?

00:33:45.000 I don't identify as my picture.

00:33:46.000 I don't.

00:33:47.000 That's not how I feel on the inside.

00:33:49.000 I feel like a woman.

00:33:51.000 And so my picture does not really identify who I am on the inside.

00:33:55.000 Like, this defeats the purpose of an ID.

00:33:56.000 What the hell are you talking about?

00:33:59.000 This is not based in evidence. 0.85

00:34:01.000 Now, everybody cheers because it's very tolerant.

00:34:02.000 Oh, it's so tolerant.

00:34:03.000 But guess what?

00:34:04.000 The government policy is not about tolerance.

00:34:07.000 When it comes to ID, there are certainly other areas where it is.

00:34:10.000 When it comes to racial non-discrimination, for example.

00:34:13.000 But when it comes to Trying to identify you to get on a plane.

00:34:16.000 It seems like it should matter to the TSA whether they can identify you as the correct gender or not.

00:34:22.000 They're pretty clear, obvious physical markers of this sort of thing.

00:34:25.000 Like this woman, okay, this is pretty obviously a woman, identifies as quote-unquote non-binary.

00:34:32.000 But I just told you this is a woman because how could I, by using my eyes. 0.99

00:34:36.000 I know it was very, very difficult.

00:34:39.000 And then you had the pandering of Kamala Harris, who announced her pronouns. 0.95

00:34:42.000 This is the new routine on the left.

00:34:43.000 To demonstrate that you believe that gender doesn't exist, and that gender is an arbitrary construct, and that you can pick your own gender, you now have to identify the own pronouns by which you wish to be called.

00:34:53.000 Because the world must be shaped according to your whim.

00:34:55.000 When you talk about tolerance, by the way, tolerance is expressly about your ability to recognize that other people view the world in a way different from you.

00:35:04.000 That's what tolerance is.

00:35:05.000 Tolerance is about, I recognize that you view the world in a way that is different from me.

00:35:10.000 But the entire basis of the pronoun debate is the rest of the world must never view the world in a different way based on objectively defined characteristics.

00:35:19.000 The rest of the world must define the world how I wish to define the world.

00:35:23.000 Because I have no objective standard.

00:35:25.000 My standard changes day to day.

00:35:26.000 I can change my gender however I please.

00:35:28.000 But you have to identify me by what I wish to be identified as.

00:35:31.000 That is the least tolerant position of all time.

00:35:34.000 The least tolerant position is I identify the world in a certain way based on no objective markers that you can see or that I can see.

00:35:40.000 But you're supposed to redefine your entire reality and the rest of the world is too around whatever pronouns I choose. 0.98

00:35:45.000 So here's Kamala Harris announcing her pronouns and then Chris Cuomo being an idiot and trying to identify as a woman as well. 0.99

00:35:51.000 Good to see you, Senator. 0.99

00:35:52.000 Thank you for joining us.

00:35:54.000 How are you?

00:35:57.000 Anna.

00:35:58.000 Thank you, guys.

00:35:59.000 And my pronouns are she, her, and hers.

00:36:01.000 She, her, and hers? 0.92

00:36:03.000 Mine too.

00:36:04.000 All right.

00:36:06.000 All right.

00:36:06.000 First question.

00:36:07.000 I mean, is Chris Cuomo just like a complete full-scale idiot and he just made a mistake there? 1.00

00:36:16.000 Or is he actually making a joke about the pronoun stuff? 1.00

00:36:19.000 Because if he's making a joke about the pronoun stuff, it's kind of funny. 1.00

00:36:21.000 If, in fact, he is identifying as a woman, well then that sort of undercuts the entire basis of the argument, does it not?

00:36:28.000 Because we all know Chris Cuomo is not a woman.

00:36:30.000 Chris Cuomo is not Fredo.

00:36:32.000 I mean, we all know how to identify Chris Cuomo at this point.

00:36:35.000 The over-the-top nature of this event is so crazy.

00:36:40.000 I mean, so crazy.

00:36:41.000 For example, Joe Biden is just the most awkward human being alive. 0.60

00:36:45.000 And there are a couple of moments that prove this.

00:36:46.000 So in the middle of this debate, Joe Biden just launches into this thing about the wonders of same-sex marriage.

00:36:51.000 Fine.

00:36:52.000 You know, make that case.

00:36:52.000 That's totally cool.

00:36:53.000 You want to make the case that same-sex marriage is better than non-marriage? 0.99

00:36:57.000 And that monogamy is better than non-monogamy?

00:36:59.000 Great, go for it.

00:37:00.000 But he starts launching into this soliloquy about how gay couples are better than straight couples.

00:37:06.000 Gay couples are more likely to stay together than straight couples.

00:37:08.000 Now, by data, This is not true.

00:37:10.000 There's exactly one study of which I am aware out of Vermont, and it surveyed like 500 couples, and what it found is that female same-sex couples are significantly more likely to break up than heterosexual couples, and that male couples are more likely to stay together.

00:37:21.000 That is a small sample size, and it's in Vermont.

00:37:24.000 There's a broader study that happened in Bowling Green State University.

00:37:27.000 In 2017, they sampled 14,000 individuals, including three distinct types of couples, different sex, female same-sex couples, and male same-sex couples.

00:37:35.000 And heterosexual couples were far more likely to stay together than either of the other two types of couples.

00:37:40.000 What's more, when Joe Biden says this sort of stuff and he talks about couples staying together, He's failing to also define the nature of the relationship.

00:37:47.000 What I mean by that is that if you were going to define staying together as like living in the same house, then I guess that's one way to define it.

00:37:54.000 If you were going to define it as monogamy, then same-sex couples are not operating in the same universe as heterosexual couples in terms of monogamy.

00:38:01.000 And that's not according to me, that's according to the gay couple study out of San Francisco State University, which followed 500 gay couples over many years and found that about half the couples By the way, that is a statistically driven argument about the nature of these relationships that Joe Biden is ignoring in order to pander.

00:38:14.000 at least the rule and the exception, at the very least it's a very large minority of same-sex couples that are engaged in extra-marital sexual behavior with the consent of the other partner.

00:38:25.000 It's a very different type of relationship than monogamous heterosexual relationships, which are generally expected to be monogamous.

00:38:31.000 By the way, that is a statistically driven argument about the nature of these relationships that Joe Biden is ignoring in order to pander.

00:38:37.000 So here is Joe Biden pandering. - Gay couples are more likely to stay together longer than heterosexual couples.

00:38:44.000 Okay, again, not statistically true, except for one study from Vermont, which tends to be an outlier.

00:38:49.000 That wasn't even nearly the weirdest moment for Joe Biden.

00:38:51.000 He went over to Anderson Cooper and nearly kissed him.

00:38:53.000 I mean, this was the Michael Scott and Oscar scene from The Office, where Michael is trying to demonstrate how tolerant he is of same-sex couples because Oscar comes out of the closet.

00:39:01.000 And so Michael goes over and tries to kiss him on the lips.

00:39:03.000 This nearly happened on national TV with Joe Biden.

00:39:05.000 How they think this guy is a frontrunner is beyond me.

00:39:07.000 And I got to tell you, you know, he's a great guy.

00:39:11.000 I went in on Monday and all the national press said Biden's going to really get nailed when he walks in and sees the president every morning.

00:39:17.000 He got up and he walked over to me, said, well, you told me you gave me a kiss.

00:39:22.000 I swear to God.

00:39:22.000 So.

00:39:27.000 So anyway, it was, but it's just, look folks, it's just kind of basic stuff.

00:39:32.000 Do your love.

00:39:34.000 And Anderson, the crowd laughs awkwardly, Anderson Cooper leans away like, oh my god.

00:39:39.000 Worst moment for Anderson Cooper since Donald Sterling asked him if he had ever been in love with a woman.

00:39:43.000 So that was, that is one of the great moments in TV history.

00:39:46.000 And Anderson is like, uh, no?

00:39:51.000 Good stuff there from Joe Biden.

00:39:53.000 The cruelest moment, I thought, was a moment from the CNN producers, okay?

00:39:58.000 And this is cruel because you should not exploit children on national TV, no matter what the children are doing, no matter who the children are.

00:40:07.000 You should not exploit children.

00:40:08.000 Okay, so there was this moment during the debate, and there's a nine-year-old transgender kid, okay, which is a girl who believes that she is a boy.

00:40:15.000 This is a child who is suffering from gender dysphoria.

00:40:18.000 Okay, that is a- that- I cannot imagine what it would be like to suffer from gender dysphoria.

00:40:22.000 I seriously have nothing but sympathy for people who suffer from gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria. 0.99

00:40:27.000 It must be just the most painful thing.

00:40:29.000 And when people write about it, they say it is the most painful thing.

00:40:31.000 You have a nine-year-old who is suffering from this.

00:40:33.000 A nine-year-old, right, who's not hit puberty yet and so doesn't know the full meaning of what it means to be a member of the quote-unquote opposite gender because without the full development of brain, the full development of testosterone or estrogen, how could you possibly know what it's like in prepubescent fashion to be a member of the opposite sex? 0.53

00:40:51.000 Things change pretty radically when you become hormonal.

00:40:53.000 And anyways, in any case, this nine-year-old transgender boy is brought out by by her parents, because this is a girl, brought up by her parents, and she asks a question to Elizabeth Warren.

00:41:03.000 And the purpose of this for CNN is to make it impossible to question Elizabeth Warren's answer, and also to basically emotionally blackmail the audience into suggesting that if you believe it's exploitative for CNN to do this, if you believe it's exploitative of this kid's parents, and I do, I believe it's deeply exploitative of this kid's parents, I feel awful for this child, It's a terrible, terrible thing.

00:41:26.000 To turn a child into a political tool is a deeply wrong thing.

00:41:31.000 And this is true whether you are taking your kid and forcing your kid to protest at rallies on police brutality or abortion.

00:41:38.000 Or whether you are choosing to take your kid and trot them out on national television to talk about their own mental state at nine years old.

00:41:45.000 I don't care what your mental state is. 0.98

00:41:46.000 Talking about your mental state on public television at nine years old is insane. 0.97

00:41:50.000 It's insane for CNN to do this to this kid.

00:41:52.000 I feel awful for this kid.

00:41:54.000 And they bring out this kid to question Elizabeth Warren, and this is treated as a great heroic moment for Elizabeth Warren.

00:42:00.000 Children should not be treated like this in any context, let alone a context where the kid is suffering from a condition.

00:42:04.000 And whatever you believe about transgenderism and the maleability of gender, there's no question that gender identity disorder is a condition, and that gender dysphoria is a condition, and a painful condition at that.

00:42:15.000 Here is this moment, this very terrible moment, that CNN voiced.

00:42:18.000 Again, this has nothing to do with My name is Jacob and I'm a 9-year-old transgender American.

00:42:24.000 exploitation of the child for whom I feel awful.

00:42:26.000 Really, truly.

00:42:27.000 I have a child who's five, I have a child who's three.

00:42:30.000 I cannot imagine doing this to my kid.

00:42:32.000 And I can't imagine allowing a national television network to do this to my child.

00:42:35.000 Anyway, here is CNN doing this.

00:42:37.000 My name is Jacob and I'm a nine-year-old transgender American.

00:42:40.000 My question is...

00:42:42.000 All right, Jacob.

00:42:43.000 Hold on.

00:42:50.000 What will you do in your first week as president to make sure that kids like me feel safer in schools?

00:42:55.000 And what do you think schools need to do better to make sure that I don't have to worry about anything but my homework?

00:43:01.000 Oh, I like that question, Jacob.

00:43:02.000 We're gonna do this.

00:43:08.000 Hey, there's no purpose to having the kid ask that question.

00:43:11.000 The mom can ask that question. 1.00

00:43:12.000 The mom is right there.

00:43:13.000 She has a microphone next to her.

00:43:15.000 The only purpose in having the kid ask the question is to create the situation where if you say anything that is politically incorrect about the nature of, for example, locker rooms in schools, that girls should have their own locker rooms and boys should have their own locker rooms, and that girls should not be allowed to go into boys' locker rooms and vice versa.

00:43:32.000 If you say any of that stuff, you are now considered intolerant and bigoted.

00:43:34.000 That's the whole purpose of doing that.

00:43:36.000 It's the whole purpose.

00:43:37.000 And the evidence-free cheering of a declaration that a child can determine their own gender at 9, show me the evidence that this is the case. 0.99

00:43:47.000 Show me the evidence that this is objectively speaking the case, that this child is actually a boy and not a biological girl.

00:43:58.000 This is a child suffering from a condition, the exploitation of that condition, I mean, I want these people raising my child?

00:44:04.000 You think I want Elizabeth Warren deciding how I raise my child? 0.94

00:44:08.000 You think I want the Democrats and Chris Cuomo and CNN deciding how I raise my child?

00:44:12.000 Yeah, good luck with that.

00:44:13.000 Good luck with that.

00:44:14.000 Okay, well, unfortunately, we weren't able to get to any of the other news because this filled up the entire episode of this show.

00:44:21.000 We'll bring you all the latest news next week when we are not in the middle of Jewish holidaying. 0.72

00:44:26.000 Again, there's another Jewish holiday that is Monday, Tuesday in the United States.

00:44:31.000 So we'll get to all of the latest on impeachment in 2019 and all of that next week.

00:44:35.000 Suffice it to say that in the great social battle, which is the most divisive battle, because you're talking about how we raise our kids, where we go to church, how we deal with our neighbors.

00:44:44.000 If you believe the government should cram down the left's point of view, You're dividing the country in a way that is making it nearly irreconcilable.

00:44:51.000 And that is what the left is seeking to do on a daily basis, and they will even exploit children who are suffering with a condition in order to do that.

00:44:59.000 They will exploit children to do that.

00:45:00.000 You think I'm gonna trust these folks on how to raise my kid, handle my church, deal with charity in my community? 0.98

00:45:07.000 Not a damn chance. 0.81

00:45:09.000 Okay, time for a quick thing I like. 0.72

00:45:11.000 So, things that I like to do.

00:45:12.000 We're not going to do a thing I hate, because, frankly, the prospect of a Democratic Party that wants to shut down all religious practice across the nation and dictate how you raise your kids is frightening enough for today's episode.

00:45:22.000 But, a thing I like.

00:45:23.000 So, as I mentioned, I am in Israel for all the Jewish holidays, and it's pretty amazing.

00:45:29.000 Yesterday, I had the opportunity to visit a place called the City of David.

00:45:32.000 Now, when people think of the City of David, they think of the Tower of David in Daldavid.

00:45:35.000 The Tower of David, which is in Old Jerusalem, does not actually have anything to do with David.

00:45:39.000 It was built by the Crusaders, so it was way after the time of David.

00:45:43.000 The City of David is the actual archaeological dig site that is just to the southeast, I believe, of Jerusalem, in the valley.

00:45:50.000 And that's where the actual original city of Jerusalem used to be.

00:45:53.000 The old city of Jerusalem has only really been built up over the past 500 years.

00:45:58.000 The original city of Jerusalem, like where David used to live and where his dynasty ruled, is actually away.

00:46:05.000 It's kind of to the south of the Temple Mount.

00:46:08.000 And they've been uncovering All sorts of antiquities over there.

00:46:11.000 One of the big battles right now in politics is the Muslim world's, large swaths of Muslim world's, their denial of the Jewish history of Israel, the Jewish history of Jerusalem, which is patently insane. 1.00

00:46:23.000 They deny the Christian history. 0.97

00:46:24.000 The Palestinian Authority, for example, will deny the Christian history of Israel as well, because that's based on the Jewish history, so they can't allow that either.

00:46:30.000 Well, you go and visit the city of David, you can actually see what they now believe was the palace of the Davidic dynasty.

00:46:36.000 And not only that, they have now obviously uncovered the 2400 year old staircase that went from the large scale pool where people would cleanse themselves in ceremonial fashion They would actually ascend to the temple mount for the temple worship service.

00:46:57.000 This road, it's now underground.

00:46:58.000 They've been uncovering it at exorbitant cost.

00:47:00.000 They've been uncovering this vast stone staircase that travels upward probably half a mile.

00:47:06.000 And this is the place Jesus walked.

00:47:08.000 I mean, the chances that Jesus walked this exact road are 100%.

00:47:12.000 Not 90%, not 95%, 100%.

00:47:15.000 Because this is the road that everybody took to go toward the Temple Mount.

00:47:18.000 So when it talks in the New Testament about Jesus overturning money tables of the money lenders along, this is the road that they're talking about.

00:47:24.000 Not the Via Della Rosa, none of that stuff.

00:47:26.000 We're talking about the actual places where Jesus walked, and for a thousand years before, people were walking.

00:47:31.000 Hundreds of years before, people were walking.

00:47:33.000 They've uncovered seals with names on them in ancient Hebraic script.

00:47:38.000 That are the exact names that are mentioned in Tanakh, that are mentioned in the prophets.

00:47:43.000 It's an amazing, amazing thing.

00:47:45.000 Here's a little bit of video, in case you can see it, of what some of this looks like.

00:47:51.000 So you can see, this is all antiquities that have been uncovered.

00:47:54.000 These are thousands of years old.

00:47:55.000 One of the fun things about coming to Jerusalem is that when you're in the United States and you visit an ancient place in the United States, maybe you visit Gettysburg.

00:48:01.000 That's like 150 years old.

00:48:03.000 Maybe you go visit Independence Hall.

00:48:05.000 That's 230 years old, maybe.

00:48:08.000 And then you come to Israel, and you're visiting places that are 3,000 years old, right?

00:48:12.000 You're walking on the same exact pathways that were walked by people 2,000 years ago, 2,500 years ago, when people deny the Judaic nature of the origins of this land, they are just denying history.

00:48:26.000 And the city of David proves it full-scale.

00:48:29.000 We are talking about Jewish occupancy of the land of Israel fully 2,000 years before the rise of Islam.

00:48:36.000 So when people when the UN when the UN declares that the old city of Jerusalem is Islamic territory, that is insane.

00:48:42.000 Okay, I'm sorry.

00:48:42.000 That's insane.

00:48:43.000 If you're declaring that they've tried to stop a lot of the digging for antiquities specifically because they don't like the Jewish connections to these places.

00:48:50.000 The the Palestinian Authority has famously urged the Islamic Waqf on the Temple Mount to actually dig up and destroy antiquities on the Temple Mount in order to prevent the Jews from claiming that the Temple Mount is Jewish.

00:49:02.000 The Obama administration, in all of their horrific ridiculousness about the state of Israel, they actually, in the very late stages of the Obama administration, allowed a UN resolution to go forward declaring that the Temple Mount, as well as the Western Wall, were occupied territory.

00:49:16.000 Okay, if you're talking about the holiest sites in Judaism that pre-exist Christianity by a full thousand years and Islam by full 2,000 years, if you're talking about that as occupied Jewish territory, it's because you are deliberately ignoring history.

00:49:26.000 The city of David proves it.

00:49:27.000 If you're in Jerusalem, you should totally check it out.

00:49:29.000 It's a pretty amazing experience.

00:49:31.000 Alrighty, well, we will be back here next week after the Jewish holidays. 0.78

00:49:34.000 I'm sure I'm gonna miss a lot, so when I come back, there will be a lot to talk about.

00:49:37.000 In the meantime, have yourself a wonderful weekend, or join us a little bit later today for two additional hours.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 11, 2019

The Democrats’ LGBT Town Hall | Ep. 877

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