00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we go through the Equality Act.
00:00:05.000I put that in quotes that is going through Congress, which is one of the most dangerous attacks on religious liberty, Christianity, and freedom.
00:00:14.000It's called HR5 and it's going through Congress very quickly and it's very scary.
00:00:19.000At the recording of this podcast, the bill had not yet passed the House of Representatives, but you might be listening to this and it might have already been passed.
00:00:27.000So we're talking about it as if it's an inevitability that it is going through the House of Representatives and then potentially we'll see what happens in the Senate.
00:00:34.000But it's such an important episode for you to listen to.
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00:01:50.000Who could be against the Equality Act?
00:01:52.000Well, let's get into the specifics of what the Equality Act actually is.
00:01:57.000The Equality Act, which looks like it will pass the House of Representatives any moment now, and if you're listening to this, it might already be passed because it just looks like it's imminent from the House.
00:02:08.000Basically aims to expand civil rights protections from the 1964 Civil Rights Act to add sexual orientation and gender identity as a protected class akin to race.
00:02:27.000So basically, what the Equality Act will do, and this is the New York Post's own reporting, it says, quote, rather than finding common sense, narrowly tailored ways to shield LGBTQ identifying Americans from truly unjust discrimination, this bill would act closer to a sword to persecute those who don't embrace newfangled gender ideologies.
00:02:53.000It would spoil a new sex binary that is quite literally written into our genetic code and is fundamental to many of our laws, not least the laws protecting the equality, safety, and privacy of women.
00:03:07.000So the Equality Act, again, sounds like a great idea, but what does it actually aim to do?
00:03:14.000The Equality Act will expand civil rights protections to men who think they are women, people that are suffering from a psychological disorder called gender dysphoria.
00:03:29.000Now, I am not necessarily going to say that people that are suffering from gender dysphoria should not have equal rights.
00:03:44.000The problem is that when you are suffering from gender confusion, which is a psychological condition that has Been well documented for many decades.
00:03:57.000When you start to violate other people's civil rights, it becomes a massive problem.
00:04:04.000The New York Post continues by saying, The Equality Act would sacrifice the hard-won rights of women while privileging men who identify as women.
00:04:16.000Continues by saying, If it becomes law, such men would have a right to spend the night in a battered women's shelter, disrobe in women's locker rooms, and compete on women's sports teams, even at K-12 schools.
00:04:33.000Here's the text: quote: An individual shall not be denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room.
00:04:43.000That is in accordance with the individual's gender identity.
00:04:47.000You can keep separate facilities for men and women, but then you have to redefine what men and women are.
00:04:53.000So basically, if you are a man who then suddenly proclaims that you are a woman, you can get access to women's locker rooms.
00:05:28.000They have a biological composition of either XX or XY chromosomes.
00:05:34.000And my compassion that I have for people that are struggling with a psychological disorder, which is transgenderism, is not to be conflated or confused with my concern and my compassion for women that want to compete in women's only sports or have access to women-only locker rooms.
00:05:58.000So this is an example of post-modernist thinking that has now taken over our entire country.
00:06:07.000This came from college campuses, universities all across the country.
00:06:14.000The work that we are doing at Turning Point USA on university campuses is in direct defiance, you could say, but also directly targeted at trying to push back against a lot of this nonsense.
00:06:33.000So this is happening in Congress right now.
00:06:35.000So the seemingly fringe campus ideology has now become mainstream in the halls of Congress because whatever happens on college campuses does not stay on college campus, it goes into the halls of Congress.
00:06:51.000The Act continues by saying it would coerce, quote, any establishment that provides a good or service or program, including a store, shopping center, online retailer, or a service provider, salon, bank, gas station, food bank, service or care center, shelter, travel agency, or funeral parlor, or establishment that provides health care, accounting, or legal services.
00:07:12.000They cannot discriminate based on gender or sexual orientation.
00:07:21.000So I just have a couple questions about this.
00:07:25.000Will gay bars in San Francisco be forced to take straight people as members?
00:07:52.000It continues in this article by saying religious institutions are very much included.
00:07:57.000Under the Equality Act, religious schools, adoption agencies, and other charities would face federal sanctions for upholding teachings of mainstream biology in the Bible, modern genetics, and Genesis when it comes to sex and marriage.
00:08:10.000This will be immediately challenged in court, and it might be successful, or it might not be successful.
00:08:17.000So, basically, the new position of the Democrat Party is the way God made you, the way you were created, the way you were born, is completely and totally irrelevant, and it's up to you.
00:08:33.000If you believe you are something other than how you were created, then you should be given complete and total privilege to then violate the rights and the protections of others.
00:08:47.000You see, this is an inherent contradiction I have with Democrats and the left.
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00:09:02.000You talk all the time about how you elected more women than ever before in the 2018 midterms.
00:09:08.000Speaker Pelosi, you talk all the time about how young girls, young women need to get a step up in America.
00:09:54.000This Equality Act is being debated and possibly passed through the House of Representatives today.
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00:11:50.000The Equality Act is making its way through Congress.
00:11:57.000I'm waiting for all the unity that Joe Biden promised.
00:12:02.000How exactly are you supposed to unify America by now mandating religious institutions go against their deeply held beliefs?
00:12:12.000I thought Joe Biden was a practicing Catholic.
00:12:17.000If Joe Biden now wants to sign the Equality Act, which is anything but equality, I'm going to get into this idea of how the left uses terminology and words that are close to our value system.
00:12:30.000When I say our, I mean conservatives, people that believe in the biblical construct of government, which is the American formula of government, against us.
00:12:38.000So let me go through the top five harms of House Resolution 5, the Equality Act.
00:12:46.000This was sent to me by Pastor Paula White, who's a friend of mine.
00:12:59.000HR 5 will force girls to share showers, locker rooms, and bathrooms with boys and hotel rooms.
00:13:07.000HR 5 will allow boys to compete in girls' sports, taking away opportunities for young women to receive opportunities and scholarships.
00:13:15.000HR 5 specifically attacks faith-based adoption and child welfare services, which seek to place children with a mother and a father.
00:13:27.000Faith-based adoption and child welfare services who receive federal funding would be forced to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs on life and marriage.
00:13:37.000Before I go any further, I hear all the time from the secular atheist groups that they want to have separation of church and state, which, by the way, is nowhere in the United States Constitution.
00:13:49.000Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it mandate separation of church and state.
00:13:54.000This was in a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention, believe in 1803.
00:13:58.000We can get a fact check on the year on it.
00:14:00.000However, this narrative, this talking point, separation of church and state.
00:15:08.000That if you run an adoption clinic in Lombard, Illinois, if you run an adoption clinic in Secaucus, New Jersey, and you have part of your adoption services that you require a mother and a father to adopt that child, which, by the way, we know statistically and objectively is the most effective way to raise a child.
00:15:33.000The government will now come into your church and say you can't do that.
00:15:38.000What happened to separation of church and state?
00:15:47.000Because the Equality Act, as they call it, we're going to dive more into this idea of equality, which is very important, aims to overthrow religious institutions, to make them in a secular leftist image.
00:16:01.000Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:16:03.000I just had someone email us at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:16:06.000They say, Charlie, how can we stand up against the Equality Act?
00:16:11.000Well, unfortunately, the Democrats control the House of Representatives.
00:16:50.000I'm very pro-life, and one of my criticisms of pro-life activists is we do not talk enough about adoption or making it easier to have children.
00:17:00.000I think that we need to make that excuse that people give not to have children, the financial excuse, a societal excuse, go away.
00:17:09.000That's my one point of criticism towards the pro-life community.
00:17:14.000And there are some amazing pregnancy crisis centers.
00:17:16.000There are some incredible people that have dedicated their life to adoption.
00:17:21.000But I think we have to be even more assertive of how pro-adoption we are.
00:17:28.000And I know people that run adoption clinics.
00:17:30.000I know people that have adopted my pastor, Rob McCoy, Godspeak Calvary Chapel, Thousand Oaks.
00:17:37.000He and his family have adopted his church.
00:17:41.000They are very, very engaged in the local adoption centers.
00:17:46.000However, if you look at who runs the most effective adoption agencies in the country, who does that?
00:17:53.000Does the local atheist organization run the adoption agencies?
00:18:06.000Almost every single county and city that you look at with effectively run adoption agencies are almost always faith-based, almost always, especially through the Catholic Church or through mainline Protestant-funded organizations.
00:18:24.000Now, there's exceptions to that, but it's a general rule that adoption in America is given a massive boost by faith-based organizations.
00:18:38.000This bill, the Equality Act, will penalize and almost criminalize faith-based organizations, Christian, Jewish, Catholic organizations that have been participating in adoption for even the last 100 years.
00:19:00.000The Equality Act will put important pro-life appropriation laws at risk, including the Hyde Amendment and the Weldon Amendment.
00:19:08.000The Hyde and Weldon Amendments protect taxpayer funds from being used for abortions.
00:19:14.000The Equality Act will create a precedent for children to be taken from their parents should the parents not agree to their children receiving sex reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, or counseling that encourages a sex change.
00:19:29.000If you are a 14-year-old and all of a sudden you say, I am a woman, and you were born a biological man, and your parents say, no, no, no, you're still a boy, you're still a man, you can now go to the state, and the state can take custody of you outside of the will of your parents and give you sexual reassignment surgery.
00:19:50.000In the state of Oregon, there is already taxpayer-funded sexual reassignment surgery that exists outside of the agreement and the will of the parents.
00:19:57.000This is nationalizing what has happened in Oregon and California and Illinois and New York.
00:20:02.000One of the main reasons why this is happening, and this is a pattern.
00:20:09.000One of the patterns of the totalitarians in a lot of these countries where they are successful is to always turn the children against their parents.
00:20:22.000Do you notice they did this in Russia?
00:20:26.000There's a joke that goes around in many conservative circles always calling Russia Mother Russia.
00:20:35.000Why do you think that phrase came to be?
00:20:38.000That phrase came to be because in the Soviet Union, they taught young children that their parents were actually the country, not their biological parents.
00:20:52.000In Mao Zedong's China, children were incentivized, they were rewarded to turn in their parents.
00:20:59.000The biblical commandment to honor your mother and father is a civilization protection commandment.
00:21:15.000I'm struggling for the right word, but it's a commandment that basically allows your civilization to survive and continue.
00:21:20.000Because if you have parents that have children that disobey them, not just disobey them, but are incentivized to defy them, turn them in, well, then the state becomes more important than that bond and the family disappears.
00:22:35.000And if you are not allowed to ask that question without being called all these awful names, then we really have destroyed all free speech and dialogue in this country.
00:23:02.000Ten years ago, when I was in high school, there was plenty of cultural acceptance that existed for people that were gay, for people that were lesbian.
00:23:19.000We didn't have any people that were transgender in my high school.
00:23:22.000The whole high school, by the way, of 2,000 people.
00:25:24.000The Equality Act will harm healthcare.
00:25:27.000The Equality Act will force faith-based health care providers to provide abortions and sexual reassignment surgeries and therapies.
00:25:35.000So if you are a Christian hospital, if you're a Catholic hospital, you are now going to have to open an abortion clinic.
00:25:44.000If you are Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami and you are a religious, devout, practicing, Orthodox rabbi, you are now going to have to oversee and approve sexual reassignment surgeries at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
00:26:12.000The Equality Act would force many health care providers, including doctors and nurses, to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs on life and human sexuality.
00:26:30.000The Equality Act, which is moving its way through the House right as I am doing this right now, and it's going to go in the Senate, and we don't know how it's going to happen in the Senate.
00:26:40.000And this is why the filibuster is so important.
00:26:42.000This is why Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema are so important.
00:26:50.000But it will harm churches and faith-based organizations.
00:26:53.000Joe Biden, who went out of his way to religialize the swearing-in ceremony, his inauguration, is now going to punish and penalize the very same churches that he pretends to protect and platform.
00:27:08.000Joe Biden calls himself a practicing Catholic.
00:27:12.000Joe Biden, if he signs this into law, and he already supports this bill, will do more damage to the Catholic Church than any other president in American history, even more than Barack Obama, even more than Lyndon Baines Johnson, even more than Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
00:27:28.000The Equality Act will force churches and faith-based nonprofits to provide public accommodations for men to go into women's facilities.
00:27:39.000The Equality Act could potentially overturn the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that protects faith-based individuals and organizations from government overreach on religious freedom.
00:27:53.000The Equality Act targets faith-based counseling when it comes to gender identity and human sexuality and marriage.
00:28:02.000The Equality Act will deny federal funding to all faith-based colleges and universities that believe they hold conduct standards on the biblical definitions of life, marriage, and human sexuality.
00:28:16.000So my friends at Grand Canyon University in their mission statement say that they believe that life begins at conception and marriage is one man, one woman.
00:28:27.000You might be able to lose access to federal funding, not be able to.
00:28:31.000You might lose access to federal funding.
00:28:33.000And by the way, it's not just the Christian perspective.
00:28:36.000I happen to be offering a Christian perspective because that is my religious belief.
00:28:39.000I know a lot of our listeners have that.
00:28:41.000But Glenn Greenwald, who is a gay man and a courageous gay man, has spoke out against the Equality Act as well from a gay perspective, saying that this actually reverses a lot of the progress that he believes the gay community has done over the last couple decades.
00:28:59.000And so the Equality Act, as I was mentioning, will harm higher education.
00:29:05.000If you're a small Christian college and you do not hold their specific view on marriage or life or human sexuality, you could lose access to federally subsidized student loans.
00:29:16.000This is why Hillsdale College is so great.
00:29:19.000Hillsdale College, a long time ago, said, we're not going to take any federally subsidized student loans.
00:29:24.000In the Gospels, Jesus very clearly said that God created every human being.
00:29:31.000God created two distinct sexes, male and female, and that marriage is a union between them.
00:29:38.000HR5, through the state, is going to mandate certain beliefs.
00:29:46.000And quite honestly, it's a huge attack on freedom of speech and the association establishment clause.
00:29:50.000I can't imagine that this will be held up constitutionally, but I've been surprised before.
00:29:57.000And so Eric from Phoenix asks, Charlie, do you think Democrats could actually get 10 Republicans in the Senate to vote for this bill to overcome the filibuster?
00:30:12.000I don't think Manchin or cinema will agree to break the filibuster, largely because Manchin represents a very Christian state, West Virginia, so does cinema.
00:30:20.000And I just don't think Kyrsten Cinema will be able to come back to Arizona, even though she's very much in the kind of transgender advocacy world and be able to justify this vote.
00:30:34.000Some of the largest institutions in Arizona are Grand Canyon University, the Mormon Church in the East Valley where she used to represent in East Phoenix.
00:30:46.000So I do not think that Kirsten Cinema will be able to justify that vote, nor will Joe Manchin.
00:30:51.000So do I think 10 Republicans alongside both Mansion and Cinema?
00:31:48.000And quite honestly, now that gay marriage is effectively the law of the land, a lot of these activists that have very well-funded organizations, they're kind of looking for the next fight.
00:32:02.000And so they've concocted this equality bill, Equality Act, that actually reverses a lot of their original arguments.
00:32:10.000It weakens a lot of the positions that they took.
00:32:16.000For example, what does being gay have to do with being transgender?
00:32:22.000The whole idea of being gay is that you are the same sex.
00:32:26.000Therefore, by definition, it recognizes sexual identity.
00:32:30.000The Equality Act says that sexual identity is nothing more than an opinion.
00:32:36.000That sexual identity can change like the weather.
00:32:40.000And sexual identity means next to nothing.
00:32:43.000And so I do not think that this bill has a high likelihood of passing the Senate.
00:32:52.000And I believe firmly that if we do not do a good enough job of activating the church, of activating even the gay community against this, activating all people, eventually a bill like this will pass on the federal level.
00:33:14.000And this consequence would be dire and severe, and they would pay a price for it.
00:33:19.000But the sooner we can publicize and communicate what's actually in this piece of legislation, the less likely they will actually be able to pass it now or in the future, not to mention Biden signed the transgender executive order.
00:33:35.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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