00:00:33.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:40.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:07.000There is hope out there, and it is a perfect segue.
00:03:10.000So when I'm at Northern Arizona University, surrounded by 100 people screaming at me and yelling at me, and I was looking at the picture that evening, and something very interesting.
00:03:21.000Every single one of the young ladies that was, people screaming were young ladies or men who thought they were women.
00:03:30.000So then I go to Arizona State University and I set up a card table and I speak out there and I spent about an hour and a half and I there was about 100 people there and I said timeout.
00:03:40.000Every single one of the people there was a man listening very intently, very respectfully.
00:03:44.000There's a new poll that shows that Gen Z men, 18 and 19 year olds, are the most conservative young men have been in 50 years.
00:04:01.000Not only is our guest tonight one of the few courageous voices in the U.S. Senate, which he is, but he also has a very important book.
00:04:09.000And let me just brag on Senator Hawley because I know you agree.
00:04:13.000Senator Hawley, even though he's not from technically a border state, he is one of the few people in the Senate that believes we should secure our border instead of sending money to Ukraine while we are being invaded.
00:04:26.000He deserves a lot of credit for that position because he gets a lot of pushback.
00:04:30.000But his book, Manhood, The Masculine Virtues America Needs, is all about creating, instilling, and empowering the next generation of men to fight for liberty, fight for Christ, fight for our country.
00:04:45.000There is a crisis of masculinity in our country.
00:04:48.000And we are so blessed to welcome here tonight, Freedom Night in America, Senator Josh Hawley to talk about it.
00:04:54.000Get on your feet and welcome Senator Josh Hawley.
00:05:00.000Boy, I could tell, I can read the room.
00:05:02.000I wish we had a senator like Senator Hawley, right?
00:05:52.000I think that the most important decision that I ever made was the decision to follow Jesus Christ.
00:05:58.000When I was five years old, I sat on my dad's lap and invited Jesus into my heart.
00:06:05.000And I often say that, you know, the most important conversation my father ever had with me and the most important thing that he ever gave me was telling me about Jesus and saying to me when I was five, Josh, do you want to pray to accept Jesus in your heart?
00:06:17.000And I did that again when I was 12, a little bit older, and made a public profession of faith.
00:07:25.000Well, you know, I think that the thing for me is I come home every night to my family.
00:07:30.000And I was thinking about running for this job when my wife and I were praying about it because it wasn't something we'd intended to do.
00:07:35.000But when we were praying about it, I sat down to talk with my pastor at home.
00:07:40.000And he said to me, Josh, I'll tell you something right now.
00:07:43.000If you do this and you don't keep your family together, then you're making a huge mistake and you're asking for a lot of trouble in your life.
00:07:50.000He said, you got to remember where your first ministry is.
00:07:52.000Your first ministry is to your wife and to your children.
00:08:21.000And then the other thing, Charlie, I always say is that there's one thing, the most important part of my day is first thing in the morning when I get up.
00:09:18.000It is unusual, and I mean this in a positive way, for a senator to write a book like this.
00:09:23.000Typically, when a senator writes a book, it's some ghostwriter.
00:09:27.000It's a picture of them on a farm they've never visited, with a gun they've never owned, with a new American flag, with some sort of poll-tested one-liner of my American story, right?
00:10:11.000And then my two-year-old baby girls, Abigail.
00:10:13.000By the way, if you want to know who's in charge of the household, it's Abigail.
00:10:16.000She runs the house, including beginning with her daddy.
00:10:19.000But, you know, my boys, Charlie, they're at an age when we're starting to think about together, what does it look like for them to become a man?
00:10:28.000And, you know, as I'm talking to them about, okay, what does it look like?
00:11:20.000It's just to look at what God says about what it means to be a man.
00:11:24.000The book just tells stories from the Bible.
00:11:26.000And I tell you, Charlie, of all the different reviews, none of which did I read, but of all the reviews that folks around me told me about, the one I love the most is apparently some Washington Post writer wrote, I can't understand this book at all.
00:12:26.000He says, Abraham, leave the comfort of your father's house.
00:12:33.000Go out to a new place that I will show you and become the father of many nations.
00:12:38.000Now, there's a couple things I take from that.
00:12:40.000Number one is: if you want to have true significance of your life, if you want your life to matter, if you want it to mean something, answer the call of God on your life.
00:12:48.000God calls to you, He has a purpose for you, He has a plan for you, and that plan is to join Him in the incredible work that He's doing in the world.
00:13:01.000Number two, what is it do you notice that when God calls Abraham, Abram then, later Abraham, what is it that he tells him, he calls him to do?
00:13:15.000He calls him and he says, I will make you a father.
00:13:18.000I think there's a message in here for men, which is that what the world tells us to do, men, which is live for yourself, entertain yourself, and then do as you're told, right?
00:14:39.000Because I think what so many men, maybe especially young men in our culture, and you all know this, fathers, husbands, grandfathers, what so many young men in our culture are suffering from is a total lack of purpose.
00:15:02.000We're also suffering from an epidemic of fatherlessness in our culture.
00:15:05.000We've now had generations of men in America who do not have a father or even a father figure, which is why I say again to young men, you want to change your destiny?
00:15:15.000You want to change the destiny of this nation?
00:16:09.000We were made to sacrifice ourselves for others.
00:16:11.000We were made to empower others to live and be all that they could be.
00:16:16.000God has written that into our hearts as who He is.
00:16:18.000And I think when you call men to that, that's why they respond and say, Yeah, that's what I want.
00:16:22.000And we're starting to see that politically.
00:16:24.000We're seeing it culturally of men that are starting to resist, just to say, the excesses of modernity.
00:16:31.000And there's an entire portion of this book that focuses on a third rail topic, but that needs to be addressed in the church and more broadly, which is pornography.
00:17:24.000It is available at the touch of a button.
00:17:26.000And particularly to our young men who have grown up with these phones, you know, where it is available at an instant.
00:17:33.000And what we're seeing is, again, an entire generation of young men who now more and more have fewer and fewer relationships with real women and are sucked into the addiction of this virtual fake reality on their screens, on their phones.
00:17:51.000And I just think we've got to be honest about it.
00:17:53.000I mean, this is something that's happening all across our country, all across age groups, but especially with younger men.
00:17:59.000And Charlie, we've got to, number one, say that for men who are struggling with this, and particularly if you are a believer, man, there is hope for you in Jesus.
00:18:07.000I mean, this is not something you have to struggle with on your own.
00:18:13.000And if you want to know the true power of love and deliverance in your life, that is what Jesus can bring you.
00:18:20.000So ultimately, the first answer to that need that drives men to look at porn and become addicted to porn is to know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
00:18:28.000I mean, that is the key thing, number one.
00:18:30.000But number two, we've got to be bold in saying to the rest of the culture that thinks that porn is perfectly fine and the media is saying that all the time.
00:18:44.000And to the young men, I just say again, our message has got to be: turn off the porn, come up out of your parents' basement, go take a real woman out on a date, and go get a job, you know?
00:18:54.000And if you do that, your life will be a lot better.
00:19:01.000Let's talk about, there's another part of this book where you say, king, meaning a man is called to be a king.
00:19:46.000You know, my two little boys, 10 and 8, they love to help me do stuff around the house.
00:19:52.000And I'll be honest with you, sometimes when I say, whether it's changing a light bulb or whether it's, you know, the other day we had to change all our door handles out.
00:20:04.000And what I'm really thinking, just being honest with you now, is if they help me, it's going to take three times as long.
00:20:10.000You know, the help doesn't exactly expedite things.
00:20:14.000But in the moment, in this particular project, when we were changing all these door handles, I had just enough sense to say, absolutely, boys, I would love your help.
00:21:00.000He wants to bring you into his purposes in the world.
00:21:03.000And part of what he wants to do is he wants you to be a king.
00:21:05.000He wants you to exercise authority and to make your part of the world to bring order to it, to bring beauty to it, to make it something that glorifies God and to empower other people in your life.
00:21:25.000But I think for men, man, this idea that God is my father, he's calling me to be like him and he wants to partner with me, it's amazing.
00:21:32.000Yeah, and in the New Testament, this drives some rabbis nuts: God is not just uses Jehovah or Adonai.
00:21:39.000It is the word Abba in Greek, which is a personal father, that is a relationship that you are, it's a two-way street.
00:21:48.000It's a completely different framing of how we view God, not just one that is as articulated in the Old Testament.
00:21:58.000So it's a really interesting component of this.
00:22:01.000You also have priest, which the idea of a priest goes all the way back to the Old Testament.
00:22:06.000There's a whole book written about priests.
00:22:08.000Leviticus is basically focused on this.
00:22:11.000One of the most quoted now verses, which is a song that you've probably heard, the blessing, may the Lord keep you and let his grace shine upon you, is the priestly blessing in Numbers 6.
00:22:24.000What do you mean by men need to be a priest?
00:22:27.000I just mean that as men, we are called to bring the presence of God into every place that we go.
00:22:33.000So your workplace, you're called to bring the presence of the living God into the place where you work.
00:22:40.000And if you do that, you will transform it.
00:22:42.000You're called to bring the presence of the living God to your family.
00:22:45.000You're called to bring the presence of the living God to the little league team that you coach.
00:22:49.000You're called to bring the presence of the living God into your family reunion everywhere you go.
00:22:53.000You could put it like this: you owe the world an encounter with the living God.
00:22:58.000And he wants to work through you to bring it.
00:23:28.000So now let's connect it as we segue here before we take some questions.
00:23:33.000You write this beautifully on the back of the book.
00:23:35.000It has been a perennial question of political philosophy since the first republics were formed, whether a free nation could survive without soundness of character in its people.
00:23:47.000The old-fashioned word for that is virtue, meaning not just moral uprightness, but the personal fortitude and vision such uprightness produces strength, in other words.
00:23:57.000Senator, walk us through what this means for us politically as if we have grown boys masquerading as men.
00:25:36.000So character matters and the character of men in this country matters.
00:25:41.000And we need men who are willing to step up, take that responsibility, take on the burden, shoulder the load, and say, I'm going to lead my family.
00:25:58.000John 10, 10, the enemy comes to lie, steal, cheat, and destroy.
00:26:01.000I have come to give life and life more abundantly, right?
00:26:04.000That is the scriptures as accurately and succinctly portrayed in one verse that you could possibly imagine.
00:26:10.000Talk about in our fight against tyranny.
00:26:13.000I firmly believe that one of the reasons we are living in this totalitarian moment is because we have overly feminized the American society.
00:26:22.000We are too feeling-based, too emotion-based.
00:26:24.000And before people start screaming at me, you're going to prove my point if you disagree.
00:26:56.000The missing ingredient are the tens of millions of young boys that have been told that you're toxically masculine, that are not living their ultimate purpose.
00:27:06.000It's not a good sign, everybody, when, again, I'm not a big fan of college.
00:27:34.000There's literally right now 15 million lost boys in America.
00:27:37.000And they're not, they don't go to college, which again is fine, but they're not even necessarily working or doing part-time jobs.
00:27:43.000Senators, the numbers are unbelievable.
00:27:45.000While their female counterparts get more master's degrees, more college diplomas, more PhDs, buying more homes, young women in America are less likely to commit suicide.
00:30:50.000That is a Christian teaching, by the way.
00:30:52.000If there's this, if there's something that you can make sure your kid knows for the rest of their life is that human beings are automatically pretty crummy.
00:31:00.000Most of American colleges will teach the opposite.
00:31:04.000They'll say human beings are wonderful and evil is because of racism and homophobia and capitalism and lack of goods and services and all this stuff.
00:31:27.000The tragedy is young women then have to act like men.
00:31:32.000And I don't mean it just as the trans thing because that's bad enough as it is.
00:31:36.000Tens of thousands of young women that are medically mutilating themselves and are on drugs that will irreversibly do damage to themselves.
00:31:43.000I mean young women that are feeling unnecessary pressure to go in the workforce when in reality they want to do the heroically biblical thing.
00:31:52.000They wish that there was a masculine man that they could marry and have kids with.
00:31:57.000And they want a culture to tell them that that's a good thing.
00:32:00.000And instead they say, ah, and it's amazing when I go to these campuses because when I talk to some of the young ladies, say, oh, what do you want to do with their life?
00:32:08.000You could tell immediately, well, I guess I'm here to study 13th century lesbian theory.
00:32:59.000Well, and I would just say to the men out there, you know, our side of the bargain there is we've got to be willing to be the ones who step up and who provide and take on the responsibility.
00:33:13.000I mean, I can't do better than just quote my wife, who is both the beauty and the brains of our operation, I'd like to say for the record.
00:33:21.000But my wife has often said, she's like, you know, Josh, women aren't stupid.
00:33:25.000You know, I mean, how has the human race survived?
00:33:55.000Every man who knows this, who is a husband or father, man, there's nothing better in being able to say, I am providing for my wife and my children.
00:35:38.000So I heard KJP, I call her Coringe John Pierre, say yesterday or today that it was the Republicans' fault that we have this mess at the border.
00:35:50.000And I also heard Senator Representative Jordan yesterday say that the House passed a very comprehensive immigration bill.
00:36:00.000Can you get us up to speed as to why that didn't go anywhere in the Senate?
00:36:22.000And it's a very simple piece of legislation.
00:36:24.000It just says this: if Joe Biden and the federal government are not going to enforce their immigration laws, then let's let the states do it.
00:36:44.000And I just, you know, I don't want to belabor this point because I suspect we agree, but I'll just say this.
00:36:50.000There have been over 300,000, I believe it is, 300,000 children trafficked across the border and sold into sex slavery and labor trafficking slavery in this country just in the last two years.
00:37:05.000It is the biggest human trafficking operation in the history of this nation.
00:37:09.000It is right across the southern border.
00:38:32.000It's about the only thing I agree with him on, but he's right about that.
00:38:34.000The problem is that he's totally wrong about America's soul.
00:38:38.000He thinks that our soul, our history, our nation is fundamentally oppressive and evil, and that's why they need to deconstruct it and tear it all down and completely remake it.
00:38:48.000And you and I know just the opposite is true.
00:38:51.000This nation was founded on the principles of the Bible.
00:38:54.000It is the best nation in the history of the world.
00:38:59.000And we need to reclaim it, revitalize it, re-empower it.
00:39:10.000And Senator, oh, it's a pleasure being here and just listening to you today.
00:39:14.000My question is: I had an original question, but I'm going to change it right now.
00:39:18.000It seems like it's a money scheme, pretty much working on kids' feelings as opposed to the mental disorder, right?
00:39:26.000And I see that there's a lot of doctors and also some pharmaceutical companies are making millions, millions of dollars off of kids' feelings and affirming them as if affirming them by cutting their generos or their breasts is going to make things better.
00:39:42.000And then obviously they're being put on drugs that are not FDA approved.
00:39:46.000And I'm not sure how that's even, it's incomprehensible for me to even understand how that is even going.
00:39:51.000But my question to you, is there anything that we can do to come after these doctors that are performing these surgeries that are underage kids?
00:39:59.000And also these pharmaceutical companies are making millions of dollars.
00:40:27.000We got these gender clinics that are springing up all over the United States.
00:40:31.000By the way, even in Europe, Europe, not conservatives, Europe, they have shut down these gender clinics because they're so terrible for kids.
00:40:39.000But here in the United States, they're popping up everywhere.
00:40:41.000And the question's got to be, where's the money coming from?
00:40:43.000I tell you where the lot of money is coming from.
00:40:45.000It's coming from the pharmaceutical companies who are making billions of dollars, destroying our children.
00:40:52.000So people sometimes ask me, are you a fan of big pharma?
00:41:10.000And that's what the victims, these kids who have had their future stolen from them by these pharma companies and by these so-called doctors, they ought to be able to go and sue the socks off these folks.
00:41:21.000And I tell you what, that would put a stop to it.
00:41:28.000I'm 15 years old and I'm the president of a chapter.
00:41:31.000And also I work at our church, the Trinity Church.
00:41:35.000And I was wondering what can people my age do, I'm 15, to like, you know, change the course of America and see what it can be in 50 years and make it so there is an American in 50 years.
00:41:48.000So what advice would you give to people my age, my generation who are getting better?
00:42:05.000I would just say this, being who you are is what's going to change this country.
00:42:10.000Being someone who is willing to, number one, who follows the Lord, number two, who's willing to go out and be bold in your faith and say, this is what I believe.
00:42:23.000And then, you know, going out and listen, getting a job.
00:42:27.000If you, at your age, if you get up in the morning, you know, put on your clothes, go to school, then go get a job, you're ahead of like 98% of all of your cohort.
00:43:09.000How can I encourage the young men around me is the question.
00:43:12.000I think what you can say is to the young men is that, hey, listen, there's nothing that is awesome or attractive or interesting about a man who is only interested in entertaining himself.
00:43:25.000You know, because what the culture, the message that the culture is sending to young men right now is just entertain yourself.
00:43:31.000Just spend your life on entertainment and then do as you're told.
00:43:35.000And I think that the message we need to send is quit entertaining yourself and start giving your life to other people.
00:44:31.000I guess that when I look at the scripture, when I look at the Bible, and I look at Joseph, who was in a pretty tough place and who served in a pretty tough place, and I look at Daniel, heck, when I look at David, what I see is not so much extraordinary men, although those guys were extraordinary.
00:44:49.000What I see is an extraordinary God who will sustain the people that he calls.
00:44:55.000So I am a very ordinary person, as my wife and children will tell you.
00:44:59.000You know, I mean, as any of you, you spend five minutes with me.
00:46:13.000And, you know, listen, in states like this one, where we're sitting right now with the, I mean, you guys vote for like three months, right?
00:46:22.000I mean, it's a long, it's election day.
00:46:27.000I just think that every place where we have, where we have a conservative majority, we've got to do everything we can to make sure that I think ballot harvesting ought to be banned.
00:46:39.000I think that we ought to say you've got to have the voter ID 100%.
00:46:46.000You know, you ought to have, if you're going to do absentee ballots, they ought to have to be notarized and signed.
00:46:50.000Now, in this state, for example, where you have none of those laws, I think that the answer here is that I'm Republican.
00:46:58.000Republicans are going to have to, we're going to have to legally, we're going to have to stand up and compete on the same terms as everybody else.
00:47:05.000So I just think that we can't anymore say as Republicans that, well, we'll only just vote on Election Day and we won't do any of the mail-in balloting.
00:47:12.000I just think we're not going to be able to do that anymore.
00:47:14.000In states like this one, where the laws are what they are, I can't change them.
00:47:18.000All the voters of the state, I hope maybe you change them one day, but we can't change them.
00:47:22.000We've got to stand up an operation legally to compete on the same terrain and to go out there and to get the vote and to bank the vote and to go and recruit folks all across the state.
00:48:53.000If there are people that are comfortable with that, it's better for them to mail in than for them not to vote at all.
00:48:58.000But in-person early voting has been underutilized in Maricopa County.
00:49:04.000It has been significantly underutilized, okay?
00:49:08.000Again, not going to say it's the most secure, but you might say, well, Charlie, how do we fix it?
00:49:13.000They got us between a rock and a hard place, guys.
00:49:15.000They have the governor's mansion, they have the AG's office, and the Secretary of State.
00:49:20.000And so we have nothing but pretty poor options.
00:49:23.000So this is the final thing that does need to happen: I wish we had a National Republican Party that would spend the necessary millions of dollars for the lawsuits that need to happen here because we can win some lawsuits here.
00:49:39.000For example, one of the most incredible revelations from Kerry Lake's lawsuit, which I supported 100%, that got glossed over by a judge, was that the average time that the signature was verified was half of a second.
00:50:03.000They're just approving every single ballot.
00:50:06.000That's a really good attack vector for a well-funded law effort to come in and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, this needs to be looked at by a fair judge, which there are still some very fair judges in the state, thankfully, not all of them, but some that can say it should be a minimum of five to ten seconds per signature, right?
00:50:25.000I could list a thousand things like that.
00:50:48.000And just the question I have for you today is: you know, as you were saying earlier in today's presentation, a lot of us didn't really grow up a generation.
00:50:59.000Like there's generations that didn't grow up with a father.
00:51:02.000And not only am I a part of that generation, I didn't grow up with a mother.
00:51:06.000I would really appreciate it if you would like just give some words of guidance and like share your moment of deliverance and what it would, what us as a generation of young men should do in just being trendsetters of Christ and our Lord and Savior, you know?
00:51:24.000Man, first of all, thank you for being here tonight.
00:51:30.000I think part of the hope that we have in Jesus Christ is that for those of us who either didn't grow up with a dad or for many men, your relationship with your dad was not a good one, not a good experience.
00:51:42.000Part of the incredible hope we have in Christ is God is our Father.
00:53:07.000And so when you choose to follow the Lord, you choose to step out.
00:53:11.000You can change your destiny and you can change the destiny of the people around you by being the kind of man who you never had in your life.
00:53:18.000So, man, I just bless you in the name of the Lord.
00:54:22.000It doesn't require you even to take them out to dinner or lunch.
00:54:25.000Find those people in your life, youth people that are here, teams that you're coaching.
00:54:29.000I could tell you, you know, some people in this audience do that, especially for those of you that are in the fire, in the fire, in the fight, when I get text messages, Charlie, keep going.
00:54:46.000So if you have more time than you know what to do with, find those five to seven people, create that text prayer list, and text them every day, praying for you.
00:54:54.000You know, let me know how I can help you.
00:55:08.000My question is about freedom of speech.
00:55:11.000So shortly after Biden occupied the White House, he gave a live speech where he said that African Americans don't have government issued IDs.
00:55:25.000And that's why it's racist to, you know, require voter ID.
00:55:34.000got my purse with my voter ID in my wallet and drove in my car.
00:55:39.000But recently I was banned from posting on the White House Instagram because I commented on Senator, or not Senator, sorry, Buddha Judge's comment about extremist Republicans and the shutdown and how dangerous it was.
00:55:55.000And so my comment were my opinions that we should stop sending money to Ukraine, that we should stop the invasion of the southern border.
00:56:03.000And Instagram slapped me with a label and said I'm no longer able to post on the White House Instagram until December.
00:56:12.000But my question to you is, how is our current president able to flat out lie as if they're facts and his cult followers, how are they able to lie with freedom of speech, but they're not slapped with a label.
00:56:28.000They're not fact checked or anything like that.
00:56:36.000Thank you for being here for your boldness in asking it.
00:56:38.000And let me just agree with you by saying this, that recently, for the first time in American history, a federal court actually found that this president, he's the first president in American history from whom this is true, violated the First Amendment of the United States by directing the biggest social media companies in America to censor people like you.
00:57:52.000And I went to the hearing and I said, I'm so glad that we're here today to talk about censorship because we have the biggest book banner, book burner in American history sitting in the White House who's trying to shut down all of our speech, such that if you post on his website or you want to circulate a petition about your school, your kids' school, that we don't think we should wear masks or be taught CRT, this White House will have you banned.
00:58:16.000So all I know to do is we have to continue to expose this at every turn and to do what the states are doing, some of them, including my home state of Missouri, which is to take these people to court.
00:58:28.000And in that lawsuit, I'll close with this.
00:58:30.000In that lawsuit, the reason it's so important, the state of Missouri brought the lawsuit.
00:58:34.000The court actually slapped an order on Joe Biden's White House and said, you can't meet anymore with these social media companies because you are using them to do illegal stuff.
00:59:43.000But my grandfather and my father are both military.
00:59:49.000And if my son had shown any inling to want to go in the military, I really would have had second thoughts about it because the embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan was just shameful.
01:00:08.000Those families that are still suffering to this day with a commander-in-chief that just doesn't care.
01:00:14.000So how do you encourage boys to want to step into a position when they're going to put their lives on the line just to be disrespected?
01:00:24.000Same with the men and women in blue and first responders, all of them.
01:00:49.000I think young men need to hear from us that they are needed.
01:00:55.000Because what they're told all the time by the culture is they're useless.
01:01:01.000They're told that they're the problem.
01:01:03.000You know, young men are told by being a man, you contribute to systemic oppression and racial injustice and climate change and da-da-da-da-da.
01:01:50.000And I think as we call men to that, then many of them will say, you know what?
01:01:55.000I do want to go put my life on the line and serve my community by wearing blue, serve my country by wearing the uniform of my country.
01:02:01.000And I just think that whether it's in uniform for the United States or whether it's serving in the police force, living or being a first responder, whatever it is, living a life of sacrifice is a praiseworthy thing.
01:02:14.000And I think that we should say to young men, there is nothing higher you can be doing with your life than living a life of sacrifice for your community, for your country, for your family.
01:02:28.000So the question is, see, kids don't get Bibles, get the Bibles daily, kids don't, and schools don't.
01:02:37.000What are we going to do about putting the Bible and the Bible reading back in the school so that way kids like me, I'm 25 years old, my name is Elijah.
01:02:48.000Kids like me putting the Bible back into like elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and get the faith built back inside the schools.
01:03:01.000Well, listen, you know, I think all those years ago when the Supreme Court said, our Supreme Court said that you can't read the Bible in school and kids can't pray in school and heck, you can't even pray before football games.
01:03:11.000That was just ridiculous and is totally wrong.
01:03:13.000You know, we should be able to read the Bible.
01:03:16.000People should be able to pray before football games for heaven's sake.
01:03:33.000And that's what makes us an exceptional nation, is that we're founded on the principles of the gospel.
01:03:39.000And I just think this is, as Christians, I just think that now more than ever, man, we have got to teach the Bible to our children, but we also need, we need Christian schools.
01:03:52.000So can I just say that, can I make a plea to the pastors out there?
01:04:03.000If COVID didn't teach us that, nothing will.
01:04:05.000And we really, we need the church to step up.
01:04:07.000I mean, we are in a desperate way here.
01:04:09.000We need the churches all across this country to open up schools and to teach our kids and to take kids from every background and every walk of life and teach them about Jesus and teach them about the Bible and also teach them how to read and write because they're not learning anywhere else.
01:04:24.000So as you guys know, we have Dream City Christian, a turning point academy that we have here locally.
01:04:30.000I also, I was just made aware of this, Senator.
01:04:33.000There's an organization out of Ohio that's really started small called LifeWise.
01:04:38.000And they reread the 1950s Supreme Court ruling on prayer.
01:04:42.000I don't know if, you know, many people don't know this.
01:04:45.000The Supreme Court said no prayer in school, no Bible in school, but they made three exceptions, which is they said that the school actually has to allow one hour a week during school hours for a kid to be able to have religious instruction, but it has to be off campus.
01:05:00.000The parents have to sign a waiver and no money of the school can be used.
01:05:04.000So this nonprofit called LifeWise in Ohio said, okay, we'll raise the money, find the space, and the school has to allow one hour of religious instruction.
01:05:15.000And no one's ever thought to build a charity around this.
01:05:18.000I just learned about this a couple days ago.
01:05:20.000This could be a revolution in government schools across the country.
01:05:24.000And we're going to talk Luke about this to get one at every single Scottsdale school where during school hours, one hour of Christian education could occur.
01:06:07.000We pray for our leaders and those in authority.
01:06:09.000As you say in 1 Timothy, we pray for wisdom and guidance and courage and boldness for the senator as he continues to fight for what is good, true, and beautiful.