00:00:07.000So I'm only going to mention a couple things.
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00:00:57.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:05.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:46.000And as we tell the story of moms and dads stepping up in Loudoun County, you start to see some common themes that this church, proclaiming the gospel, teaching the word of God, doing what it tells us to do in Romans, to proclaim what is good and hate what is evil.
00:02:02.000All of a sudden, you realize that this church has played a major role in that.
00:02:05.000So I just want to encourage you and commend all of you because as believers, we're called to do that.
00:02:10.000Be salt and light and to proclaim the good news and also refute evil where it rears its head.
00:02:17.000And I believe this church has played an integral role in that.
00:02:19.000And so I'm honored to be here for that.
00:02:26.000So, Charlie, we're going to be having a conversation tonight.
00:02:29.000The way that I've kind of explained it to our congregation is that, you know, there are so many things happening in our culture today, but you have started Turning Point Faith as kind of a leg of Turning Point USA because you see, as I do, the importance of the church integrating the church's voice, the evangelical Christian community, and what is happening in our culture.
00:02:52.000And so we're going to be talking about all these hot topic issues.
00:02:55.000We're not going to leave any of them on the table.
00:02:57.000There may not be enough time to talk about all of them, but we're going to touch on the important ones for sure.
00:03:01.000And we're going to be talking about these also from the standpoint of what's the biblical lens to kind of how do we handle these different issues and what do we what do we do about Them and how do we try to be this salt and light in our community?
00:03:15.000So, so we're not just here to talk about all that's wrong.
00:03:20.000We're gonna highlight the things that are wrong that concern us, especially as Christians.
00:03:24.000But then we're also gonna be talking about this through the grid of God's word and through a biblical worldview.
00:03:29.000So, that's kind of what this is all about.
00:03:31.000But explain to everybody, just real briefly, why did you launch Turning Point Faith?
00:03:36.000Yeah, look, we're all in the fight for liberty, and liberty is not man's idea, it's God's idea.
00:03:40.000And we, as Christians, we are called to do more.
00:03:46.000And, you know, I gave my life to Christ when I was in fifth grade.
00:03:49.000So, any fifth graders out there, I encourage you to give your life to Christ.
00:04:02.000And I say it was the most important year in my life when you enter into God's eternal family and you enter into the kingdom of God.
00:04:11.000As you get older, that means more and more to you.
00:04:13.000And you realize really what grace is and what your relationship with Jesus Christ is.
00:04:19.000And I was raised in a Bible-believing church in the suburbs of Chicago, and I was always taught that we as Christians in the church should never comment on what's happening in the news, never comment on what's happening outside of the walls of the church.
00:04:32.000We just do the gospel, you know, we try to increase our budget, build bigger buildings, and do more baptisms.
00:04:42.000And as I started Turning Point USA, I always felt that I had to be outside of the church, never talk about the church.
00:04:48.000And then I met my now pastor, Rob McCoy, who's an amazing American, a great man, in Calvary Chapel, Thousand Oaks, California.
00:04:56.000He said, Charlie, you're looking at this wrong.
00:04:58.000He said, you're trying to set the captives free.
00:05:01.000You're trying to fight for liberty and try to make people live virtuous and moral lives.
00:05:06.000You're trying to fight for a constitutional republic that is a gift from God and try to motivate God's church to do more in that regard.
00:05:14.000And he made a very compelling argument on how the American church founded this country, on how the American church was the leading force for defeating communism internationally and also some of the Marxist forces here domestically in the 1950s and 60s.
00:05:28.000And so he was really, he was kind enough to have me speak at his church.
00:05:32.000And then I went and spoke at Jack Hibbs' church, another great American and dear friend of mine.
00:05:37.000And I thought to myself, wow, what if the church really stood up and proclaimed with courage the way that Jesus told us to in a time where everything seemed to be falling apart?
00:05:48.000The church can be the leader at this time.
00:05:51.000And then the Fauci virus started in spring of March of 2020 and everything gets locked down.
00:06:00.000And I always thought the lockdowns were going down as one of the worst mistakes in American history.
00:06:07.000We quarantined our abused abused with the abusers.
00:06:11.000We had children not be able to have connections with their friends.
00:06:15.000And for almost no net benefit whatsoever, the forcible lockdowns were a massive mistake.
00:06:19.000But what really crossed the line for me is when the church was forcibly closed and called non-essential, while abortion factories remained open, strip clubs remained open, and marijuana shops and liquor stores remained open.
00:06:31.000I said, no, this is not, that dog does not hunt.
00:06:35.000And so I started to speak at churches across the country at a lot of Calvary chapels bringing this message.
00:06:40.000And it was enthusiastically received because I felt that I was positioned as someone who's kind of been in the political cultural space for nine years to try to encourage and motivate the body of Christ to stand for liberty against tyranny as we were being forcibly closed.
00:06:56.000I spoke at 50 churches in 2020, and I realized that if there is any hope for this incredible gift that we have been given, as we know, as Western civilization, a constitutional republic of consent of the governed, separation of powers, independent judiciary, and individual liberty and a natural rights doctrine, that hope is the church.
00:07:17.000That hope is Christians and believers standing up and rising up.
00:07:21.000And we prayed about this and we said, is it time for all the work we've been doing on college campuses to continue, but now grow and see where we can be helpful in the church space and to find pastors like you and Jack Hibbs and Rob McCoy and Greg Farrington and so many others and to support them and assist them and try to be a part of a coalition to try to have the American church take its rightful place as counsel to the king,
00:07:55.000We are having events like this all across the country.
00:07:57.000We're doing this monthly in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:07:59.000We're doing Freedom Night in America at Dream City Church, where we're doing everything we can to try to turn Arizona back to its rightful place as a moral and righteous place.
00:08:08.000And our biggest contribution is we want to be part of a team that realizes, man, it's not going to be secular society that saves us.
00:08:17.000It has to be the gospel of Jesus Christ.
00:08:21.000And I just want to give some examples of this, though, that when we travel the country, we start to see the people that are showing up at school board meetings, the people that are showing up and calling what is good good and what is evil evil.
00:08:34.000And if we're honest about our history, every single awakening and revival in America is always led by people from the church for the betterment of their nation, their community, and their family.
00:08:46.000It says in Jeremiah 29, 7, one of my favorite scriptures, it says so clearly, demand, which is the Hebrew word, badrash, the welfare or the shalom, of the welfare or the peace of the nation you are in, because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:09:02.000That's the Lord speaking in Jeremiah 29, 7.
00:09:04.000We are called to care about what's happening in the nation that we are in.
00:09:08.000And we have been given a gift, everybody, the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the planet.
00:09:12.000And we as Christians must realize how good we have it.
00:09:15.000And that if we do nothing, it's going to collapse around us.
00:09:18.000And if we do something, not only can we save it, but we can bring it to a level better than it's ever been before.
00:09:43.000I mentioned at the Pray Vote Stand Summit that I felt like there were some parallels between what's happening in America and what was happening in Nazi Germany.
00:09:50.000The right-wing watch, for our friends.
00:10:17.000And also expand that to the Soviet Union.
00:10:19.000Winston Churchill, the greatest man to live in the 20th century, he warned us about how will we be able to manage technological advancements while we have moral decline.
00:10:28.000I want you to think deeply about that.
00:10:30.000How do you manage things getting quicker and faster and better and yet people getting further and further from what is right, what is true, what is good?
00:10:38.000It ends with a small group of unelected scientists calling all the shots of what is right and what is wrong.
00:10:43.000The idea of a mad scientist came from 1920s, 1930s, Germany, where they were run primarily through people that thought they could change human nature in itself.
00:10:54.000The eugenics movement that actually was here in America in the early 1920s, 1930s was this idea of giving an incredible amount of power of unelected, unknown, unchecked scientists, and they will impart their own morality on the rest of society.
00:11:09.000The Soviet Union was similar but was different.
00:11:12.000The Soviet Union had a much greater emphasis on the destruction of the family.
00:11:16.000And this is a characteristic of totalitarian governments that were all throughout the 20th century, which was trying to destroy the bond between a parent and a child.
00:11:26.000What is the only one of the Ten Commandments, the Decalogue, that comes with a promise?
00:11:30.000Honor your mother and father so you may live long in the land of which you are in.
00:11:34.000This is exactly why they're trying to destroy the bond between parents and children here in Loudoun County.
00:11:39.000A certain person running for a certain office in a certain state says, Of course, parents don't have a say in their children's education.
00:12:14.000The Soviet Union went on a deliberate campaign to try and destroy the nuclear family, and they were largely successful in doing this.
00:12:23.000In Mao's China, in the Cultural Revolution, they paid children and trained them to turn in their parents if they were anything but completely loyal to the state.
00:12:33.000And this is where the church needs to not just, you know, say what is right, what is wrong.
00:12:37.000We have to intervene into the public square and say we will not allow families to be destroyed at the expense of the state.
00:12:45.000And so, but this is a really important point, which is that the history of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, they say, oh, it's repeating itself, but why?
00:12:55.000It's because human nature doesn't change.
00:13:13.000We believe that there is a default coding within who we are as human beings as broken, sinful, nasty, brutish, short.
00:13:21.000Now, this is why the Constitution is just as relevant, in fact, more relevant today than it was in the 1780s.
00:13:27.000And there's an accusation that is commonly thrown at the founding fathers: oh, what are you going to honor a document that's 240 years old?
00:13:34.000And now, we as Christians should take offense to this because you know what they're going to say next?
00:13:38.000What are you reading a book that's 2,000 years old?
00:13:43.000Well, if those old things are full of wisdom and they are true, it's because the Constitution was not written for the time, it was written to stand the test of time because it was an observation of how human beings are in their state of nature.
00:13:58.000And so then we can all of a sudden say, Oh, how are tyrants?
00:14:26.000Because it is the habit of a tyrant to make sure that you distrust your fellow citizen, that dialogue, communication, and community disappears, and one person is able to have a say over the collective.
00:14:38.000Now, why is that just as true today as it was 2,500 years ago?
00:14:42.000Because not only are we able to say how human nature was 2,500 years ago, but we know how dictators, tyrants, czars, and Caesars operate.
00:14:51.000They try to make you distrust your fellow man.
00:14:54.000They try to make you not want to have some sort of connection to a transcendent order, try to have objective morality.
00:15:00.000And so, yes, the similarities of the 1930s, 1940s Germany, or 1960s China or 1960s Vietnam are incredibly similar.
00:15:17.000Five years ago, if I spoke here at this church, I would say that we had forcibly masked our four-year-olds, that we would have people take vaccines against their will for a virus they already are naturally immunized against.
00:15:30.000If I would have told you we'd have locked down our country, but we would allow rioting and protesting happening in the streets, you'd say that would never happen here in America.
00:15:38.000Now, all of you are alert and you're aware of what's happening around you, but we must have the humility that even though we are the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, the same tyranny, the same despotism, the same sort of destruction that happened internationally, it can happen here.
00:16:00.000Charlie, I want to ask you, you know, sometimes the accusation against Christians who are politically savvy and culturally involved is that, you know, you guys are crossing the line and, you know, keep church in the church, keep politics out of the church, and you guys shouldn't mix the two.
00:16:18.000I mean, we had candidate Yonkin came by last Sunday and, you know, we welcomed him.
00:16:24.000The sheriff was here and it was Faith and Blue Week and I brought him up and honored him.
00:16:29.000And the sheriff's Facebook page lit up because people said, how dare he go into a church?
00:16:34.000He's an elected official and the separation of church and state.
00:16:50.000First of all, any Christian that says you should not comment on politics, you shouldn't care what happens in government.
00:16:56.000They got to get a pair of scissors and cut out a lot of parts of their Bible.
00:17:00.000They have to cut out the parts of the Bible where God's people were trying to influence their secular government for his purpose.
00:17:05.000How about Esther, Mordecai, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Joseph, just to name a few of people, Daniel, that were trying to influence secular government for God's purpose.
00:17:13.000It's all throughout the Old Testament that the people of God were trying to be counselors to the king.
00:17:20.000So let's just start with that one basic fact.
00:17:22.000And also, in one of the most famous scriptures, Jesus took his disciples up to the Caesarea Philippi, and he asked the question, who do men say that I am?
00:17:31.000And many people believe it says that Jesus pointed to Peter and said, on this rock, build my church.
00:17:37.000But the original Greek word that actually the original translator was killed, Tyndale, was killed for actually discovering this.
00:17:43.000He said, on this rock, build my ecclesia.
00:17:46.000Now, ecclesia is a Greek term that literally meant community, political gathering.
00:17:51.000It was a term used in ancient Greece where the citizens of a certain area would fast and pray, come into a room like this, and they would worry about what's happening in their local community.
00:18:01.000Now, mind you, the word that Jesus used was, you know, on this rock, he did not say, build my temple or synagogue.
00:18:08.000Instead, Jesus Christ commanded us, the disciples of him, the followers of Christ, to not have compartmentalized Christianity, but comprehensive Christianity, to care about all things that are happening around us, to care about the moral decay, to care about the instruments of government.
00:18:24.000So this idea that we as Christians should just not care about what's happening in government, it's not just wrong.
00:18:43.000Which is nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it say separation church and state.
00:18:47.000It was a single letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Convention, and he's even misquoted in the context of the letter because Thomas Jefferson himself even allowed churches to do religious ceremonies in the Supreme Court building.
00:19:00.000Let's pretend, though, for argument's sake, that let's pretend that there was separation of church and state.
00:19:36.000They're trying to suppress you from actually taking your rightful place as counselor to the king and being leaders in your local, state, and federal elections.
00:19:46.000And they're doing this through an unconstitutional and immoral stance while they're trying to say, just stay in your place.
00:19:53.000They violated that kind of non-aggression principle when all of a sudden they started to go through into the public schools and teach the graphic and portographic sexual education that they're doing in Loudoun County schools.
00:20:04.000They violated that principle when they started to go after kids and say, you know what?
00:20:10.000And if you dare say there is a God in my local classroom, they'll be graded differently.
00:20:14.000They violated that principle when they have to take, they tell public school teachers here in Loudoun County that you must call men girls and girls men.
00:20:23.000And so instead of us trying to negotiate on their own book of rules, which is not even a correct book of rules, we must say this.
00:20:31.000We as Christians must understand the founding fathers said clearly, John Adams said, this constitutional republic was made solely for a moral and religious people.
00:20:39.000It is wholly inadequate to the people of any other.
00:20:43.000That this type of government that we have does not, it's not just nice if Christians get involved.
00:20:50.000This government falls apart if Christians are not involved.
00:20:52.000Now, if you want to go live in a collectivist type society, if you want to go live in France or Spain or Italy, where the government is the most important thing, then fine.
00:21:02.000Christians don't have to get involved there.
00:21:03.000They could show up on Easter or on Christmas.
00:21:05.000But if you want to actually have limited government, then you must have big church.
00:21:08.000If you want to have small government, then you must have Christians involved at every level.
00:21:13.000It's because when you have small government, it's hard.
00:21:27.000And if we want to go the way where government runs your whole life, where a small group of unelected tech oligarchs are the most important things in American society, then so be it.
00:21:37.000But here's what they really fear, and here's why they posture and they do this.
00:21:41.000They know that the untapped power and potential of the American church is the greatest threat to their tyranny.
00:21:47.000They know that when the American church and Christians, as demonstrated by this Loudoun County example, when all of a sudden that Christians start running for school board, Christians start showing up to these meetings, they lose control.
00:21:59.000They know that when moms and dads show up to these local school board meetings and say, hold on a second, why are you teaching CRT to my children?
00:22:44.000Like, if you want to voice your objection to things, then you have to also be willing to step up and be involved, which is part of what we're talking about here, too.
00:22:53.000One of the biggest things I hear, Charlie, and then after I ask this, we'll start to take some questions.
00:22:58.000So, if you want to ask a question, go ahead and get in lines at the microphones.
00:23:02.000But please, a little word of instruction: it's not an opportunity to pontificate.
00:23:07.000Don't come to make a statement, don't come to say you're running for something.
00:23:11.000You know, we ask a question, and you know, we want to be able to answer questions.
00:23:28.000And we'll share Jesus on the way down to the floor.
00:23:31.000But here, so here's my question to you, though.
00:23:34.000My question to you is: how do you, what's your advice to Christians, the evangelical church, about how to be against things that conflict with scripture and a biblical worldview and still somehow try to win people over in the argument?
00:24:46.000And so this is important, which is: look, Jesus was 100% grace and 100% truth, which is do not have a heart to seek to offend.
00:24:56.000But if someone gets offended by you telling the truth, that's their problem, not your problem.
00:25:00.000And people say, Charlie, how can I, what can I do?
00:25:05.000What can I do to actually make a difference?
00:25:08.000Be the same person in public that you are in private.
00:25:11.000Be the same person with your friends that you are at work.
00:25:15.000Now, that's tough because some people might lose their job because some people might get ridiculed and mocked, and you might get targeted on social media.
00:25:57.000This is a non-compromising issue for me, which is that biological standards, the science is behind us, the scriptures are behind us, common sense is behind us.
00:26:05.000And dare I need to give any more example in the last week of kind of how these exit how this can go wrong.
00:26:10.000And I'll also give you another example.
00:26:11.000I don't compromise on life when I go to these campuses.
00:26:14.000That I say that life begins at the moment of conception, and we should not apologize or waiver on that issue.
00:26:20.000And so, and you know, some people say that I should water it down, or you're not going to win over the people at the University of Vermont.
00:26:33.000Like, okay, to win them over, I'd have to make quite a lot of adjustments to my worldview.
00:26:41.000It has a way to defend itself once you let it out.
00:26:44.000And I'm of the opinion that one of the reasons we've been losing the last 20 to 30 years is that we have been trying to pander and water down the truth to try to win over the world and not defend the word.
00:26:58.000And that does not mean you have to be insulting or incendiary.
00:27:02.000And there's people that come to my events, and there are people that have had abortions before.
00:27:06.000I don't try to judge them or try to castigate them.
00:27:10.000I try to tell them the gospel of Jesus Christ.
00:27:13.000But if they asked me directly, do you think I made the right choice?
00:28:03.000Never water down your message, everybody.
00:28:05.000Do not ever, in any instance, try to say something you don't believe because you think it's going to win over a different type of audience.
00:28:12.000That right there is a massive negative.
00:28:33.000Okay, so I think what you've been saying is that the first priority is God and then we have conservatism.
00:28:39.000But I've also witnessed some conservatives feel like they need to be Christians just because that's what conservatives are or that's where values come from.
00:28:47.000So how do we actually fit Christianity in conservatism?
00:28:52.000Is that we need to witness the gospel to people through conservatism while also not falling prey to thinking that we should be Christians just because we're conservatives?
00:29:01.000Yeah, I haven't experienced that as much, but I'm sure it's out there.
00:29:22.000My life's work is to make sure churches can remain open, that you don't have to get vaccines against your will, that your children don't have to be taught curriculum that's against your values, to make sure that homeschooling is allowed and legal in the law of the land.
00:29:39.000It's not as important as the kingdom of God.
00:29:42.000But it is important to make sure all of you know that sometimes the second is needed for the first because there's plenty of examples right here on this planet where this gathering would be illegal.
00:30:24.000Usually you call people pilgrims when they go to Israel.
00:30:26.000We call them pilgrims because they came to a new land trying to start a new covenant, trying to start a new covenant with God on earth, saying that we want to worship you in all ways possible, starting something ex nihilo, which means out of nothing, where they birthed a new civilization.
00:30:40.000And when you read the writings of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, of Jonathan Mayhew, of George Whitfield, of Jonathan Edwards, the original pastors and the people in colonial times that actually inspired the American Revolution, you realize that this constitutional republic that we have with the Constitution of the United States that was ratified and started in 1787 after the Constitutional Convention, we the people, these are ideas that are so profoundly biblical that the failure for us to recognize, I think, is a big mistake.
00:31:09.000But I want to just make sure that I reinforce this point.
00:31:13.000The most important thing for us and for the church is to win people over for Jesus Christ.
00:31:17.000And if anyone here tonight that might follow my commentary and might not have given your life to Christ, we'll have an opportunity.
00:31:23.000I think we're going to do that tonight.
00:31:33.000One word, grace, which is no matter how good of a life you live, no matter how many boxes you check, we are all in need of the sacrifice and the gift that is Jesus Christ and you accepting Jesus into your life.
00:33:01.000And I just want to add one thing, though, that I think one of the greatest injustices in American society has been the suppression of treatments that are proving to be rather compelling.
00:33:13.000And regardless of your stance on the vaccine, the fact we're not even allowed to talk about ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, vitamin D, aspirin, monoclonal antibodies, I think has been one of the great injustices.
00:33:25.000Even a discussion about it, it gets clamped down on social media, news media.
00:33:32.000And so for federal workers, I'm afraid to say there really is not much hope in sight, minus some judges intervening, which I do hope happens sometime soon.
00:33:41.000And it's been a real learning lesson to see how few conservatives have stood up at this moment for people that are forced to get the vaccine against their will.
00:33:51.000So many people in the U.S. Senate and Congress say, what's the big deal?
00:33:55.000And they really don't first understand the overwhelming tyranny that's embedded in this.
00:33:59.000They don't understand the truth of why so many of us are trying to reject it.
00:34:03.000I don't think they've ever heard about natural immunity before, which is a major issue.
00:34:08.000And so as long as I have a platform, I'm going to continue to advocate for this.
00:34:13.000And make no mistake, everybody, a lot of people on the conservative side, they're getting paid off by Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson and Moderna and AstraZeneca.
00:34:22.000This has been, in my opinion, a refiner's fire.
00:34:25.000We have seen who on the conservative side really cares about individual sovereignty, the rights of the individual, and also pushing back against this overwhelming leviathan that is trying to force you to get vaccines against your will.
00:34:40.000And let me just say this with the children.
00:34:42.000I think it is immoral and it is evil to force children to get this vaccine.
00:34:47.000And that has to be the line that we do not let them to cross.
00:34:52.000And so, you know, I just informed our congregation this morning that the State Board of Health is allowing public commentary until midnight tonight, folks.
00:35:04.000Make your voices known because they want to issue a mandate that all K-12 students and teachers, public and private schools, must be vaccinated and no religious exemption.
00:35:14.000Also, explain, educate people real quickly, and then we'll go over here to this microphone.
00:35:18.000But we talked earlier about how the executive order applies to federal employees and to government contractors, but not go ahead and talk about OSHA.
00:35:25.000Yeah, this is an important distinction.
00:35:27.000As of right now, there is not an executive order through OSHA for private companies.
00:35:34.000There is an executive order for federal contractors.
00:35:36.000So you might work for Boeing that technically is a federal contractor, right?
00:35:40.000You might work for, I know that a lot of people in Northern Virginia work for these companies, which is why I'm saying this.
00:35:44.000You might work for Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman.
00:35:46.000Therefore, you're a federal contractor.
00:35:48.000Even if you work for Southwest Airlines, you might be a federal contractor because 5% of their business is a federal contractor.
00:35:54.000That's where the mandate has applied, and there's a lot of kind of wiggle room there.
00:35:58.000But right now, if you are working for a private company, and I know this because we're going to sue because we have 195 employees at Turning Point USA, and you're not going to tell me how to run my business Biden regime, like that's not going to happen.
00:36:28.000I think they know that the courts would overturn it, and they're trying to dictate policy by press release and the threat of it by creating confusion by doing a big press conference and not even having a follow-up policy by saying, like, oh, we said it, therefore people think it's law, even though there's no executive order behind it.
00:36:47.000And let me be very clear why that executive order was written.
00:36:50.000It was written as an intervention into the labor market to bail out big business.
00:36:56.000Big businesses were about to lose their best workers and they were going to go to smaller businesses and mid-level businesses that weren't mandating the vaccine.
00:37:05.000So big businesses, you know, think Goldman Sachs, think JPMorgan Chase.
00:37:10.000They called up Biden through the Chamber of Commerce and they said, hey, we need you to bail us out and you need to make it seem as if all businesses were going to do this.
00:37:18.000Therefore, we don't lose 20% of our employees.
00:37:21.000Because they were about to have a labor shortage of their best employees at top businesses that were about to leave and go to competitors.
00:37:28.000It was going to create an unvaccinated, non-mandatory, mandatory vaccine, competitive labor market.
00:37:34.000This was a move of crony capitalist, anti-competitive measure to try to make those of you that are being forced to get the vaccine at private companies think as if you have no choice.
00:37:52.000Now, again, if you are a federal contractor or a federal employee, that is a real order.
00:37:57.000I don't have great news for you in that way.
00:38:00.000But if you're a private business, if you're a 200-employee accountant that doesn't do work for the federal government, not a federal contractor, it does not apply.
00:38:07.000Now, there might be county-level stuff.
00:38:09.000There might be state-level stuff, but you cannot hide behind that at the Biden level, at the national level or the federal level.
00:38:16.000By the way, it's just unconstitutional in every way, shape, or form.
00:38:19.000And sense one, is it your employer's business to tell you what to do with your most intimate medical history?
00:38:25.000Could you imagine the outrage if all of a sudden that I or Gary or anyone went to their employees and be like, oh, yeah, by the way, I need to see all the medication you're taking, and you're not allowed to take birth control if you work for me.
00:38:35.000Could you imagine the outrage that would happen in America?
00:38:39.000That of course it would be overwhelming.
00:38:41.000And so we actually have more job applications than ever before.
00:38:45.000It's like, oh, wow, at Turning Point USA, you're not going to force a vaccine.
00:39:59.000Thank you for being here this evening.
00:40:00.000My name's Mike Hart and my question has to do with a reference you made to the techno-oligarchs.
00:40:06.000If I made the pitch that the leftist political power center is not in Washington Dc, that's right, and it is in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, where a certain governor recently won in a runoff.
00:40:29.000We have two governments in our country, one we elect and one we log into, and which one's more powerful?
00:40:39.000They both actually have more power in different ways, but I think currently our tech government is more powerful.
00:40:45.000The federal government is able to put you in prison, that is true.
00:40:49.000But if the if the federal government walked in today, like they did with moms and dads, with the school board meetings, with the Department OF Justice, like they're domestic terrorists, like yeah right, we were part of that memo.
00:40:59.000By the way, at Turning Point Usa, according to the National School Board Association, they said, use the Patriot Act against Turning Point Usa because they have a school board watch list.
00:41:14.000Um, I guess it's like, whatever, we already know.
00:41:17.000We're living in a police state, you know.
00:41:18.000It's just a matter of time of trying to stop it but yes, at least I get a lawyer when the government comes after me.
00:41:24.000Yeah, when Google comes after me, there's no right of recourse, redress or grievance.
00:41:29.000When you try to sue these companies, you just disappear into tech oblivion.
00:41:33.000Google has thousands of people that work for them and all they do is try to manipulate google search to try to have you and your children spend more time staring at their screens, to try to control your social behavior and your political Viewpoints.
00:41:48.000The federal government takes off Arbor Day.
00:41:50.000Like, not exactly, I mean, I know some of you work for federal government.
00:41:54.000You're probably very hardworking people.
00:43:22.000The second government that you log into in Menlo Park, California, the CEO of Facebook put $420 million in this last election through the Center for Technology and Civic Life and changed the way we did elections in this country in the most partisan intervention in our elections in our nation's history.
00:43:40.000That is an unprecedented infiltration into how we do elections by actually hiring the people that count the ballots in many swing states in Gwinnett County, Georgia, in Fulton County, Georgia, in Antrim County, Michigan, in Maricopa County, Arizona.
00:43:55.000That sort of power, that sort of funding into our democratic process is wrong.
00:44:03.000And so what do we do about this second government that's been created?
00:44:07.000Well, this was my biggest complaint out of congressional Republicans that served in office back when all three chambers of power were there.
00:44:14.000Instead of cutting corporate taxes of Facebook, Google, and Twitter, why aren't you trying to restrain the power of these tech companies that are dominating our lives?
00:44:22.000By the way, they're making your children less self-confident, less loving of the Lord, less likely to have functional relationships.
00:44:30.000I'm going to say something super provocative, but I say it at every place I speak at a church.
00:44:35.000Parents, your children should not have a smartphone till they're 18 years old.
00:45:04.00010 years ago, I didn't text with anyone in high school.
00:45:06.000It was great, delightful, wonderful, fulfilling.
00:45:09.000It was the most amazing experience there was in existence before these awful tech machines that control our lives.
00:45:16.000Let's just for a moment give our children a gift of going back to that type of existence.
00:45:19.000Stop giving these companies all the data, the control over your children.
00:45:23.000I'm telling you, you want to get freaked out?
00:45:26.000Apple, Facebook, and Google have hundreds of full-time people, hundreds of neuroscientists on full-time payroll earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year that get five, six, and seven-year-olds that come in and they do experiments on five, six, and seven-year-olds and how to get them more addicted to these devices.
00:45:42.000You know, they treat your children like lab rats.
00:45:44.000You know if they can get your kid staring at an iPad at a restaurant.
00:45:59.000And I'm telling you, you have no idea the damage it's doing to your children.
00:46:04.000It is making them tech-obsessed, screen-dependent, less likely to be able to communicate with their fellow citizen or their fellow peer to their generation.
00:46:14.000And so all that put together, what do we do about it?
00:46:17.000Well, the biggest thing we could do is stop using them as much, right?
00:46:25.000We need to go after them with antitrust lawsuits.
00:46:27.000And more than anything else, I think we need to have a total step back of do we actually want this tech tyranny of staring at our phone all day long, being constantly anxious?
00:46:36.000I don't know about you, but 99% of my interactions with this thing is anxiety-driven.
00:47:53.000And when I was first, when I was in the couple early, the early stages of starting Turning Point USA, it's like, man, I don't want to offend people by sharing my faith.
00:48:01.000And maybe we could be conservatives first and Christians second.
00:48:05.000That we should always proclaim ultimate truth, that there is a creator.
00:48:09.000In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, that we're made in his image, mind, body, spirit.
00:48:14.000That we are here to try to connect people back with the ultimate promise, which is Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
00:48:20.000How do we talk to our families and friends?
00:48:22.000Well, the first way is by first and foremost talking, which is dialogue comes from two Greek words, dia, which means through, log, which is logos, which means rational speech.
00:48:32.000The moment we stop having dialogue or having rational speech, we stop being fully human.
00:48:38.000Now, this is a very interesting question, which is what makes a human being different than a French bulldog?
00:49:49.000No other being on this planet can make sense of the world.
00:49:52.000And all of a sudden, you bring a three-year-old to a farm.
00:49:56.000You say, that's a cow, that's a pig, that's a horse.
00:49:58.000You bring it back three weeks later, they'll say, oh, that's a cow that's pig, that's a horse, even though it might look a little bit different.
00:51:00.000As soon as you stop talking to your fellow countrymen, your sister, your brother, your mom, your dad, even someone who disagrees with, well, then you're going to start to think things that might not be true.
00:51:29.000He went into places where he was hated at an absolute core and proclaimed truth.
00:51:33.000And no matter what, they were never able to trip him up.
00:51:36.000And so I just want to encourage you and all of you that might have liberals in your life or people on the others, might be liberals here up tonight, by the way.
00:51:59.000This is the fundamental way of how we communicate and how we're able to use God's greatest gift to us, which is in the beginning was the word and God spoke it into existence.
00:52:13.000So someone asks, why do you think, why do you think, what do you think of the growing number of Americans willing to become more convinced that communism is better than capitalism?
00:52:29.000There's a rising trend, especially among millennials and Gen X and Gen Zers, that socialism and communism is better than what we have in America.
00:52:37.000Yeah, I'm going to give the non-politically correct answer, which, by the way, if you want the definition of politically correct, it's that which the left hates.
00:53:30.000It's that as we get away from the church, as we get away from community, as we get away from objective morality and a transcendent order, we become significantly less free.
00:53:42.000As soon as you abolish Christianity, the Bible, as people stop going to church, all of a sudden they're going to need a replacement for that.
00:53:48.000Oh, yeah, why don't we just give that guy all the power?
00:55:16.000Every American, if they're honest, would say the five men were just at a Bible study.
00:55:20.000Because deep down, they know that if people take the Bible seriously, it betters their life.
00:55:27.000No matter, you can say, oh, it's worse for society.
00:55:28.000That's not, you know, that's not true.
00:55:30.000We know that the fruit of the scriptures create better people and decent people.
00:55:34.000And so, look, secularism and socialism are directly tied together.
00:55:38.000They know they must abolish our relationship with the Lord and they replace it with a different type of religion.
00:55:43.000And look, I'll just kind of get into this idea of like the rise of biblical socialism.
00:55:47.000Socialism is directly against what the Bible teaches.
00:55:50.000First of all, it's against two of the Ten Commandments: thou shalt not steal and thou shalt not covet.
00:55:54.000And not to mention social, embedded in socialism is a belief that you can perfect man, that man can be perfected with more programs, more intervention.
00:56:04.000It has a priority in abolishing the family, getting rid of private property, and try to micromanage your decisions.
00:56:10.000All these things are against how we are called to be as Christians.
00:56:14.000Now, here's an interesting question, if I can.
00:56:16.000Do we as Christians believe people want to be free in their state of nature?
00:56:20.000Now, the body of Christ has different answers on this, but the Bible is very clear.
00:56:25.000Now, after Moses, led by God, led the people of Israel out of Egypt.
00:57:00.000They preferred luxurious slavery over freedom where they did not eat as well.
00:57:08.000People don't necessarily want to be free.
00:57:11.000What the business we are in is trying to set the captives free, set the captives free from spiritual darkness, set the captives free from government tyranny.
00:57:20.000Set the captives free from moral chaos.
00:57:23.000And we must recognize that more people want to be taken care of than want to be free.
00:57:30.000And if, boy, if that was one lesson after the last year and a half, that should be one thing.
00:57:43.000I thought that's what the vaccine is supposed to do.
00:57:45.000I thought it's supposed to protect you.
00:57:46.000No, you must get vaccinated because of me.
00:57:48.000It's like that's a really interesting new moral argument.
00:57:51.000And if I may say one other thing, did you notice that the most effective way that they were able to shut down society was they say, hey, we need to shut down society not because of you, but because it protects other people.
00:58:04.000Now, this is a very interesting thing.
00:58:06.000They didn't do that because they actually thought you cared about other people.
00:58:09.000They did that because they knew that most people didn't want to live with the guilt of spreading something to other people because secular society doesn't know how to deal with guilt.
00:59:24.000Getting married is a great thing for a young man.
00:59:27.000I said, as soon as I got married to my wonderful wife here, all of a sudden you realize that we as conservatives need to protect the true, the good, and the beautiful.
00:59:35.000That we as Christians and conservatives need to be called to try to tell young people to get married, to be in relationships loyally, and make God number one.
00:59:46.000And also, we should be advocates for having big families and for having lots of children, that that is a moral good for society.
00:59:54.000And I just want to say this: that we as conservatives and Christians should reject people in the conservative movement that do not want to talk about social issues.
01:00:03.000People say, Oh, I don't want to talk about pro-life stuff.
01:00:06.000I don't want to talk about the transgender stuff.
01:00:09.000No, we must understand that the most important things are making sure that we defend laws and we defend ideas that are consistent with the natural law, that are consistent with a transcendent order.
01:00:21.000These are things that are so critically important for all of us.
01:00:24.000And let me say this for the young people in this room: which is reject the lies of secular culture.
01:00:29.000But they're like, oh, you know, go make your job first or, you know, go into society and like go hook up with as many people as you can.
01:02:09.000It's kind of more of a philosophical thing.
01:02:12.000But I said that in the context of saying the other side with the separation of church and state, they violated leaving the church alone, is what I'm saying.
01:02:22.000And my own personal opinion is that if you're in, and I believe this is biblical, if you're in a place where the church is being persecuted and Christian values are being persecuted, we are not called to roll over and take it.
01:02:35.000So actually, this is really important.
01:03:29.000So Romans 13, I'm paraphrasing, and Gary, you could fill in what it says, but it says, God puts leaders in authority, and they are there for your good, and you must submit to those rulers.
01:03:38.000So this is a really interesting thing that in America, in a constitutional republic, who's the authority?
01:03:47.000But the document says the people are the authority.
01:03:50.000So if you read, and this is for every pastor out there that hides behind Romans 13 as a reason not to challenge government, government is not actually in charge.
01:04:40.000And so if this is, and Jonathan Mayhew, who is the number one pastor who inspired the American Revolution, according to Adams and Madison, said, obedience to tyrants is disobedience to God.
01:04:52.000And so we as Christians are commanded, as Daniel disobeyed the orders to disobey God, where when he was told to disobey God, what did he do?
01:05:20.000And if a government official ever gets in the way of your religious beliefs, your deeply held convictions, or what is good, what is true, what is beautiful, as it says in Philippians 4.8, whatsoever is true, whatsoever is noble, whatever is good, ponder on those things.
01:05:34.000That's right before one of those popular verses in the scriptures, Philippians 4.13.
01:05:38.000I can do all the things through Christ who strengthens me.
01:05:41.000So let me just kind of say about this, which is in the part that we're in, I use the non-aggression principle in this framing, which is we as Christians must understand that they, the government, they, the oligarchs, they, the tyrants, are violating our rights.
01:06:13.000I'm a student at Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and religious exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccine are not being accepted currently.
01:06:24.000So we are being prevented from continuing in our curriculum.
01:06:28.000What advice do you have for those of us who wish to go into healthcare professions but are under this medical tyranny?
01:06:35.000Yeah, so I want to just make sure I'm understanding this because I've had ties with Liberty and I think very highly of them.
01:06:41.000And I know a lot of people that went there and literally got an honorary doctorate from Liberty.
01:08:04.000And just two days ago, Delta Airlines rescinded their mandatory vaccines because they realized that the numbers were against them.
01:08:16.000So I want you to just hold the line for as long as you can because I think, and I might be overly optimistic here, I pray that we're going to hit a point where they're going to back off a little bit in certain areas.
01:08:28.000I will say, though, the healthcare field might be the least likely place they're going to back off.
01:08:33.000So I just want, I want you to, I want to be very honest with you on that.
01:09:25.000Well, first of all, thank you for being here tonight.
01:09:28.000And so I'm going to tell you something that's true, but it's hard to hear, but I think it'll bless you.
01:09:33.000I don't do hopium, everybody, which is hope and opium mixed together, which is things you want to hear, but are actually really bad for you.
01:09:39.000I tell you what is true, and that will actually benefit your life.
01:09:44.000So you're going to have to make a decision that you want to be a tough person.
01:09:49.000And that will be hard at first because you might lose friends and people will call you names and you'll get mocked and you'll get ridiculed, but it will bless you beyond you could ever imagine in the years to come.
01:09:59.000That at a young age, at 14, you say, you know what?
01:10:01.000I'm going to say what is true and I'm not going to back down from it.
01:10:05.000I'm going to do it with the grace of the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ, but I'm not going to back away from it.
01:10:10.000Now, this is hard because I'm telling you as a 14-year-old, you will be called names, you will lose friends, and you will be kicked out of social circles.
01:10:42.000And I'm not accusing, by the way, I'm going to be very clear.
01:10:44.000If you are the breadwinner in your house, there's a moral argument to be saying you're going to keep your mouth shut at home to get the paycheck, to feed your family.
01:12:31.000My question is: my oldest daughter, my six-year-old, is now going to kindergarten.
01:12:35.000We moved to Loudon County for Loudon County Public Schools.
01:12:38.000And then all of a sudden, this happens.
01:12:39.000I drop her off of the bus, I wave to her, and my heart sinks because I don't know what's going on the next six, seven hours.
01:12:46.000I try to talk to her, but sometimes it feels like I'm interrogating a six-year-old, which is kind of hard.
01:12:50.000How do I make sure that my influence, my wife's influence, my church's influence, is good on her so that when she's 14, she's like that lady over there.
01:13:24.000And so, And I will give an idea for this church, which is creating like a homeschool network of homeschool parents to meet homeschoolers and try to encourage others to do it.
01:13:35.000I know of churches that have done it, and it's been a great blessing.
01:13:38.000I'm just trying to make a list of all the things I got to do.
01:13:46.000But here's the one thing you can do that I can give you to do right now, which is every parent can do this, whether you're in public school, private school, or homeschooling, which is one hour a week, call it the Liberty Hour, where you turn off every device in the home.
01:14:02.000You sit down at the kitchen table and you teach.
01:14:05.000And you might say, Charlie, I'm not a teacher.
01:14:06.000Well, we've partnered with Hillsdale College to be able to, they're phenomenal, for a series of 30-minute to an hour lectures to give you the parent.
01:14:16.000You watch the lecture, you take a test, and then you consume the information and you teach it back to your kid.
01:14:22.000And so it's charlieforhillsdale.com if you guys are interested to empower parents to have one hour a week.
01:14:28.000I can tell you this, my parents did this with me, and I went to public school and people say, How do you turn out fine?
01:14:33.000Because the one hour where my parents want, yeah, I know it's the jury's out, Gary, right?
01:14:45.000Okay, so because my parents taught me geography, history, ethics, civics, outside of that, you, if I want you to think about the compounding interest of this: 52 hours a year, you would sit down with your kids and you become the teacher.
01:14:58.000Now, that might be intimidating for some of you.
01:15:49.000So we're trying to create a no excuse situation for every family across America to do the Liberty Hour.
01:15:55.000I'm telling you, this will prevent the indoctrination of your children, but also the indoctrination of other children when your children are standing up for what's right, when other teachers try to infuse.
01:16:05.000And then the final thing: get involved in your school boards.
01:16:08.000I know you probably are, but it's so incredibly important.
01:16:11.000And I will say this: I don't say this lightly.
01:16:12.000It is criminal what the Loudoun County School Board has been doing in this local area.
01:17:06.000There's some benefits too, but conservatives seem to have a strategy that if we just pass legislation to have like free speech laws on the internet, then we'll solve the problem.
01:17:16.000But I feel like it was our very values of free speech that brought on the authoritarian left.
01:17:23.000Please ask your question, though, because we've got people.
01:17:25.000So, I was wondering, like, what is your take on that?
01:17:27.000Because it seems like it's sort of a catch-22 where if we make it free speech, then we're just spreading the leftist authoritarianism.
01:17:34.000So, my personal position, and I've been very clear about this, is that we need to have some form of a body that can be agreed upon to slow down the rise of artificial intelligence.
01:17:45.000I'm talking more fundamental and just kind of technology advancements to try to make the human being the center of society and not technology.
01:17:52.000We are going to cross the Rubicon in about 15 years, might be less, where machines have more power than human beings.
01:17:57.000It's coming and we need to do something about it.
01:18:43.000As well as having open homosexuals represent the organization.
01:18:47.000Now that we're in a church of believers, do you still believe that the sin of homosexualism is morally relative to Christian righteousness?
01:18:54.000Well, first of all, I've never believed in gay marriage, so don't lie.
01:18:56.000But I will say this: yes, we do have gay people that work for us at Turning Point USA.
01:19:01.000And so we are a secular organization, and we have just started a new faith initiative.
01:19:05.000And I've always been very clear that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that is what marriage is in the Bible, and we should stand for that.
01:19:12.000But as a secular organization, someone that works on college campuses, and we get qualified people who love the country, and some, yes, do love the Lord, that engage in a homosexual type lifestyle, we hire them, and they do a great job for us.
01:19:25.000And in fact, Donald Trump had plenty of people that worked in his administration that were gay and were homosexual, Rick Grinnell being one of them, the head of the director of national intelligence.
01:19:35.000And so I think this is a very important thing, which is that you could take a moral position, which I do, which I've been very clear about, and also build a coalition for liberty and understand that, hey, the Galatians 3 model is that the law is a school teacher to Christ, that we're trying to build a coalition around these things.
01:19:52.000But I also just want to make this very clear, which is that I'm an uncompromising in my positions.
01:19:56.000But misrepresenting my positions and lying about them is not cool.
01:20:00.000And so I hope that you'll adjust that in the future.
01:20:04.000But you just to make sure we're clear, you do believe that saying you're a Christian and practicing a homosexual lifestyle is incompatible.
01:20:49.000I think we have time for one more question.
01:20:51.000So when you said that people are saying that the Constitution doesn't matter, does that mean that the saying all people are created equal don't matter?
01:21:02.000I didn't quite hear the first part of your question.
01:21:04.000So you said that all the people, like the Constitution doesn't matter.
01:21:38.000I think what you're getting at is kind of the exceptionalism of the Constitution, which really allows the separation of powers, consent to the govern, independent judiciary, and decentralization of power.
01:21:49.000But it also is a document that protects your natural rights that are given to you by God and not by government.
01:22:12.000I'm a student in the public school system here.
01:22:15.000And we're really struggling at the moment because even though stuff from the school board hasn't been passed, there's already been CRT and feminist movements integrated into our curriculum.
01:22:27.000So how can I practically fight that in the classroom when there's not really a lot of support from teachers and other adults?
01:22:59.000You have a huge support network here tonight of people that want to support you and want to lean into you.
01:23:05.000And so let me just say this: that, and for everyone out there, these are the most courageous people out there in high school that they're now making it.
01:23:20.000I think we have to do an even better job of getting into these schools and supporting these young patriots that are fighting for these truths that are experiencing a price for it.
01:23:28.000And also say, hey, we're going to be there to support you and to back you when you take these stands.
01:23:33.000And so that's exactly what we're trying to do every single day at Turning Point USA.
01:24:09.000We're talking about everything from a biblical perspective.
01:24:11.000Every single person here has a smartphone.
01:24:13.000We're under constant threats of cancellation.
01:24:16.000If you decide not to destroy your smartphone, which I highly recommend you do, we'd be super blessed if everyone took out their podcast app and typed in Charlie Kirk Show and hit subscribe.
01:24:42.000And then finally, everybody, I am seeing a new resolve and a strengthening of unity from people in the church and people that love this country and love the Lord.