The John-Henry Westen Show - June 16, 2021


Pride Month - manipulating society, church and your children


Summary

June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but our radically anti-Christian culture has dubbed it Pride Month, a month to take pride in an activity, not in persons. It s not pride about love, it s pride in distorting God-ordained marriage between one man and one woman with a counterfeit.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but our radically anti-Christian culture has
00:00:06.100 dubbed it Pride Month. A month to take pride in an activity, not in persons. It's not pride about
00:00:12.400 love. It's pride about sexual activity. It's pride in distorting God-ordained marriage between one
00:00:18.580 man and one woman with a counterfeit. Listen, no one is condemning loving relationships between two
00:00:24.960 men or two women. When it turns sexual is what this is all about. God has ordained or approved
00:00:33.100 only one exercise of the sexual powers, namely inside the marital union. So why are Catholics
00:00:40.500 focusing on homosexuality right now and not on masturbation or polygamy or bestiality? Well,
00:00:46.860 it's not us. The culture is pushing Pride Month. The culture is ramming this down the throats of
00:00:54.220 children, not even respecting religious freedom. So in this episode, we're going to take a look
00:01:00.180 at the latest insanity going on in America and unfortunately in the church as well around
00:01:05.100 homosexuality. We've got a list for you of the most homosexuality promoting bishops in America.
00:01:10.900 One of them caught on video doing a pride blessing. Joe Biden's latest moves to push the LGBT agenda
00:01:17.920 across the globe and children's shows selling it to toddlers. We're also featuring the best prelates
00:01:25.420 and laity standing up for the fight for the truth, despite the cost. So stay tuned.
00:01:32.360 Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father and of the Son
00:01:55.500 and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. In the last decade, we have gone a long way toward total societal
00:02:02.280 rejection of marriage as God ordained it. Homosexual so-called marriage is legal in most of the world
00:02:09.220 and in the USA. Nearly 70% now support homosexual marriage, according to the latest polls.
00:02:17.260 U.S. President Joe Biden, who claims to be Catholic, formally recognized LGBTQ Pride Month.
00:02:23.400 The Biden proclamation dared to mention our Lord in the traditional manner of giving the date while
00:02:30.020 at the same time encouraging Americans to celebrate sin. After telling Americans to, quote,
00:02:36.420 wave their flags of pride high, proclaiming June LGBT Pride Month, Biden uses the traditional rendering
00:02:43.340 of the date as this first day of June in the year of our Lord, 2021, end quote. In a fact sheet for
00:02:52.360 Pride Month, put out by the Biden administration, they note that they have been pushing homosexuality
00:02:57.640 around the world and also ensured U.S. embassies around the world were flying the pride flag.
00:03:04.880 Now, this Biden diktat spared no exceptions, apparently including the U.S. embassy at the Vatican.
00:03:12.440 Tweeting a photo of the pride flag hanging from the balcony of its building in Rome,
00:03:17.900 the representative of the U.S. embassy to the Vatican wrote, and I quote,
00:03:22.780 the U.S. embassy to the Holy See celebrates Pride Month with the pride flag on display during the month of June.
00:03:29.680 The United States respects the dignity and equality of LGBTQI plus people. LGBTQI plus rights are human rights, end quote.
00:03:40.000 And what comes of such huge government pressure to promote the LGBT agenda?
00:03:46.040 The pushing of it on children. There are at least 13 children's TV shows pushing the LGBT agenda on children.
00:03:54.340 Homosexual activist group GLAAD has spent years lobbying Hollywood studios to increase the representation of LGBTQ characters in various programming.
00:04:04.920 The major TV networks, including Nickelodeon, PBS, Cartoon Network, and others, have joined that effort.
00:04:12.380 Now, nearly every TV series animated or live action has added gay characters.
00:04:19.560 The 13 TV shows and characters pushing the LGBTQ agenda include
00:04:24.660 Scooby-Doo, that's from Warner Brothers Cartoon Network,
00:04:28.860 She-Ra and the Princess of Power by DreamWorks,
00:04:31.680 SpongeBob SquarePants by Nickelodeon,
00:04:34.820 DuckTales by Disney,
00:04:36.600 My Little Pony Discovery Family,
00:04:39.500 Arthur from PBS,
00:04:41.140 Adventure Time for Cartoon Network,
00:04:43.720 Andy Mack from the Disney Channel,
00:04:46.080 The Loud House from Nickelodeon,
00:04:48.540 Clarence from the Cartoon Network,
00:04:50.720 Steven Universe from the Cartoon Network,
00:04:53.200 even Blue's Clues from Nickelodeon,
00:04:55.640 and Star vs. the Forces of Evil from Disney XD.
00:04:59.660 And we're not talking just subtle promotion with the characters in the background.
00:05:06.780 Have a look at this,
00:05:07.980 the classic children's cartoon Blue's Clues featuring a drag queen pride parade sing-along.
00:05:15.620 Yes, indeed, it's Blue's Clues.
00:05:19.420 Take a look.
00:05:23.480 Hey Blue, look at all these families!
00:05:26.660 Families!
00:05:27.660 Hi families!
00:05:29.160 It's time for a pride parade!
00:05:31.720 Families marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah!
00:05:35.640 Families marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah!
00:05:39.380 This family has two mommies,
00:05:41.680 they love each other so proudly,
00:05:43.560 and they all go marching in the big parade!
00:05:47.980 Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
00:05:52.980 Families marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah!
00:05:57.100 This family has two daddies,
00:05:59.640 they love each other so proudly,
00:06:01.540 and they all go marching in the big parade!
00:06:06.160 Come on, friends!
00:06:07.680 Families marching three by three, hurrah, hurrah!
00:06:11.500 Families marching three by three, hurrah, hurrah!
00:06:15.120 These babas are non-binary,
00:06:17.660 they love each other so proudly,
00:06:19.540 and they all go marching in the big parade!
00:06:25.620 Families marching four by four, hurrah, hurrah!
00:06:29.660 Families marching four by four, hurrah, hurrah!
00:06:33.720 Trans members of this family all love each other so proudly,
00:06:37.540 and they all go marching in the big parade!
00:06:42.120 Come join the fun!
00:06:43.620 Wow!
00:06:44.680 Thanks, Blue!
00:06:45.980 Happy Pride Month!
00:06:52.340 That was not a parody.
00:06:55.560 That's official Blue's Clues.
00:06:57.980 That show featured Nina West,
00:07:00.380 a popular drag queen,
00:07:02.460 in the role of the cartoon drag queen
00:07:04.720 leading all the other queer animals in song.
00:07:08.500 The song went,
00:07:09.260 This family has two mommies,
00:07:11.380 they love each other so proudly,
00:07:12.720 and they all go marching in the big parade.
00:07:16.140 The Blue's Clues creators took pains with this one.
00:07:20.220 Every variation of queer flag is represented
00:07:23.040 and paraded around by little animals.
00:07:26.740 A hijab-wearing owl is shown proudly waving the rainbow flag.
00:07:31.740 And if you look very closely,
00:07:34.140 you'll notice the Black Lives Matter power first symbol
00:07:37.040 depicted on the microphone of the drag queen character.
00:07:41.260 And it's not only children's television
00:07:43.580 that is targeting your children with the LGBTQ agenda.
00:07:48.700 Children's cereals in the grocery store are in on it too.
00:07:53.200 In an article on LifeSite by Tony Perkins
00:07:56.160 of the Family Research Council,
00:07:57.240 you'll learn that Kellogg's has a special cereal box
00:08:00.880 out for Pride Month called Together with Pride.
00:08:03.820 The cereal is made of rainbow, heart-shaped pieces,
00:08:07.560 tastes like fruit,
00:08:08.620 and is covered in edible glitter.
00:08:11.340 Kellogg's is donating $3 from every box purchased
00:08:14.700 to the extreme LGBT group GLAAD,
00:08:17.540 which is out to recruit and confuse your children.
00:08:21.660 But in reality,
00:08:22.760 how can you blame the secular culture
00:08:25.120 for doing what they are doing
00:08:26.540 when the Church has allowed the confusion
00:08:29.200 and even encouraged it?
00:08:31.680 From Pope Francis on down,
00:08:34.400 in the last eight years,
00:08:35.800 there has been utter confusion
00:08:37.740 on the teaching of the Church on these matters.
00:08:41.040 From Pope Francis's Who Am I to Judge?
00:08:43.760 to his recent comments on film
00:08:46.240 supportive of homosexual civil unions,
00:08:48.580 he has left confusion.
00:08:50.340 His support last week
00:08:52.880 for German Cardinal Reinhard Marx
00:08:54.780 is another example.
00:08:56.500 The Pope refused to accept
00:08:58.520 Marx's resignation last week,
00:09:00.800 despite the fact that Cardinal Marx
00:09:02.580 has led the way
00:09:03.560 on the German Church-blessing
00:09:05.740 homosexual unions
00:09:07.280 in direct contravention
00:09:08.820 to the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith,
00:09:11.020 saying that that could never be done.
00:09:13.180 And have a look at the damage
00:09:15.540 that this confusion unleashes.
00:09:18.180 Just this month,
00:09:19.300 the USA's best-known
00:09:21.580 homosexuality-promoting priest,
00:09:23.720 Father James Martin,
00:09:25.240 the same Father James Martin
00:09:27.000 who the Pope asked to sit
00:09:29.440 as a consulter
00:09:30.300 on the Vatican Council
00:09:31.360 for Social Communications,
00:09:32.600 the same Father James Martin
00:09:33.940 who the Pope asked to speak
00:09:35.580 at the Vatican's World Meeting of Families,
00:09:37.360 and the same Father Martin
00:09:38.800 that the Pope met with
00:09:40.060 in private audience
00:09:41.340 with photos and videos
00:09:42.700 so all the world could see
00:09:44.540 the Pope backing Father Martin.
00:09:47.240 Watch this video
00:09:49.140 where Father Martin
00:09:50.380 encourages Catholics
00:09:51.540 to celebrate
00:09:52.440 homosexual Pride Month.
00:09:53.640 Can Catholics celebrate Pride Month
00:09:58.080 when the LGBTQ community
00:10:00.180 marks its place in society?
00:10:02.060 Especially since pride
00:10:03.240 is, after all,
00:10:04.080 one of the seven deadly sins?
00:10:05.760 Well, first of all,
00:10:06.700 remember that there are
00:10:07.520 two definitions of pride.
00:10:09.420 The first is satisfaction
00:10:10.620 that comes from
00:10:11.440 your own accomplishments,
00:10:12.280 which can morph into vanity,
00:10:14.020 which is bad.
00:10:15.100 But the second kind of pride
00:10:16.480 is a consciousness
00:10:17.280 of your own dignity.
00:10:18.920 And that's closer
00:10:19.920 to what Pride Month represents,
00:10:21.620 a celebration of the human dignity
00:10:23.720 of a group of people
00:10:25.160 who have been for so long
00:10:26.360 treated like dirt.
00:10:27.900 And for the religious person,
00:10:29.160 it's a celebration of them
00:10:30.420 as beloved children of God.
00:10:32.740 It's especially important
00:10:34.080 for churches to celebrate pride
00:10:35.820 since a great deal
00:10:36.960 of the rejection
00:10:37.720 and even violence
00:10:38.700 that the LGBTQ community
00:10:40.700 has faced
00:10:41.460 has been motivated by religion,
00:10:43.220 or at least what people
00:10:43.920 think religion teaches.
00:10:45.540 The Catechism of the Catholic Church
00:10:47.320 asks us to treat LGBTQ people
00:10:49.600 with respect, compassion,
00:10:50.920 and sensitivity.
00:10:52.040 And participating in pride events
00:10:53.400 or at least supporting
00:10:54.280 our LGBTQ friends
00:10:55.920 is one way to do this.
00:10:57.880 And just because
00:10:58.420 you celebrate pride
00:10:59.300 doesn't mean you have to agree
00:11:00.220 with what every video,
00:11:01.340 every article,
00:11:01.900 or even every float
00:11:02.840 in a parade has to say.
00:11:04.700 It's more about supporting
00:11:05.740 the fundamental human rights
00:11:07.100 of this community,
00:11:08.240 the right to live in safety,
00:11:09.800 the right to be treated as equals,
00:11:11.520 and the right to be fully welcomed
00:11:12.880 into society.
00:11:14.360 Besides, complaints
00:11:15.200 about the use of the word pride
00:11:16.540 don't seem to happen
00:11:17.420 in other situations.
00:11:18.340 People say,
00:11:19.260 I'm proud to be Catholic
00:11:20.160 or I'm proud to be an American,
00:11:21.760 and no one objects to it
00:11:23.080 or says that it's vanity.
00:11:24.820 Pride is not about vanity,
00:11:26.580 but human dignity.
00:11:28.300 Maybe the best way
00:11:29.220 to think about pride
00:11:30.140 is to imagine what you'd say
00:11:31.440 to a young person
00:11:32.360 who finally summoned up
00:11:33.820 the courage to tell you
00:11:34.840 that they were LGBTQ.
00:11:36.600 You know that God created them,
00:11:38.560 you know that God loves them,
00:11:39.760 and you know that God wants them
00:11:40.960 to accept who they are.
00:11:42.680 So you would probably say,
00:11:44.020 I am so proud of you
00:11:45.160 for being able to say that.
00:11:46.360 That's the kind of pride
00:11:47.700 that we celebrate this month.
00:11:49.340 So happy pride.
00:11:52.280 And if that's not bad enough,
00:11:54.640 watch this sitting U.S. bishop
00:11:57.180 give a homosexual blessing.
00:11:59.420 Lexington, Kentucky Bishop John Stowe
00:12:02.740 joined a virtual pride blessing event
00:12:06.280 in early June.
00:12:07.540 The event was hosted
00:12:08.660 by the heretical pro-LGBT organization
00:12:11.420 Dignity USA.
00:12:13.120 Watch for yourself.
00:12:14.000 May God, the source of life and love,
00:12:19.020 fill you with the joy
00:12:19.960 of knowing your great dignity
00:12:21.380 and worth as God's child,
00:12:23.960 who was created in love
00:12:25.220 and filled with blessings
00:12:26.580 from the first moment
00:12:27.980 of your existence.
00:12:30.040 May God, who sustains us all in life,
00:12:33.120 continue to walk with you
00:12:34.340 and share in your joys and sorrows
00:12:36.280 while calling you
00:12:37.640 to something ever greater.
00:12:40.060 May God bless your capacity
00:12:41.620 to love and be loved
00:12:42.940 and to share that divine presence
00:12:45.340 with a broken and struggling world.
00:12:47.760 May God Almighty give you his peace
00:12:50.000 in the name of the Father
00:12:51.620 and of the Son
00:12:52.920 and of the Holy Spirit.
00:12:58.700 Unfortunately, Bishop Stowe
00:13:00.120 is only the tip of the iceberg.
00:13:02.560 And I hate to say it,
00:13:03.540 but one of the best things
00:13:04.700 about Pope Francis
00:13:05.480 is that dissidents in the Church
00:13:07.260 are outing themselves.
00:13:09.160 Those who, under Popes
00:13:10.360 John Paul II
00:13:11.140 and Benedict XVI,
00:13:12.520 remained quiet and hidden,
00:13:14.380 are now out of the closet
00:13:15.800 with their LGBT support.
00:13:18.600 Fourteen U.S. Catholic bishops,
00:13:20.780 one of them a cardinal,
00:13:22.360 have added their names
00:13:23.940 to a public statement
00:13:25.400 in partnership
00:13:26.260 with a pro-homosexual advocacy group,
00:13:28.860 the Tyler Clemente Foundation,
00:13:30.880 in support of young people
00:13:32.140 identifying themselves
00:13:33.320 as LGBT,
00:13:35.180 telling them that
00:13:35.920 God is on your side.
00:13:38.580 It is actually a gift
00:13:40.160 to be able to know
00:13:41.700 who these bishops are
00:13:43.960 that betray the faith.
00:13:45.720 And so here's the list.
00:13:48.360 Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin,
00:13:51.200 Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey,
00:13:53.500 Archbishop John C. Wester,
00:13:55.840 Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
00:13:58.340 Bishop Stephen Beigler,
00:13:59.960 Bishop of Cheyenne in Wyoming,
00:14:02.140 Bishop Robert McElroy,
00:14:04.160 Bishop of San Diego, California,
00:14:06.620 Bishop John P. Dolan,
00:14:08.240 the Auxiliary Bishop in San Diego,
00:14:11.020 Bishop Joseph R. Copaz,
00:14:13.520 Bishop of Jackson, Mississippi,
00:14:15.940 Bishop Alberto Rojas,
00:14:18.280 Bishop of San Bernardino, California,
00:14:20.720 Bishop Oscar A. Solis,
00:14:23.040 Bishop of Salt Lake City, Utah,
00:14:25.480 Bishop John Stowe,
00:14:26.880 Bishop of Lexington, Kentucky,
00:14:29.280 Bishop Anthony B. Taylor,
00:14:30.780 Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas,
00:14:33.200 Bishop Edward Weisingerber,
00:14:35.660 Bishop of Tucson, Arizona.
00:14:38.000 And then, those are the 11 sitting bishops.
00:14:40.680 There's three retired bishops on the list,
00:14:42.920 including Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
00:14:44.680 from the Archdiocese of Detroit,
00:14:47.480 Bishop Dennis Madden
00:14:48.900 from the Archdiocese of Baltimore,
00:14:50.820 and Bishop Ricardo Ramirez
00:14:53.400 from the Diocese of La Cruces in New Mexico.
00:14:57.300 Of course, it is not only U.S. bishops,
00:15:00.840 but it's only there where we have found such a handy listing.
00:15:05.520 If we look to Canada, for instance,
00:15:07.420 there's Hamilton, Ontario Bishop Douglas Crosby,
00:15:09.880 who's gone so far as to support gay pride flags
00:15:13.400 being flown at Catholic schools.
00:15:14.860 And even more than that,
00:15:16.040 and even worse than that,
00:15:17.360 he's also forbidden local parish priests
00:15:20.620 from opposing the matter from the pulpit.
00:15:24.580 These are not loving, caring bishops.
00:15:27.800 They are cowards who love the adulation of the world
00:15:31.120 more than they care for the souls of the faithful.
00:15:34.300 If they were shepherds
00:15:35.920 after Christ's own sacred heart,
00:15:38.260 they would lovingly call those
00:15:40.200 tempted with sexual sin of any kind,
00:15:42.400 including temptations to homosexual sexual activity,
00:15:45.380 to appeal to Christ for help to avoid temptation
00:15:47.740 and remain chaste despite temptation.
00:15:50.880 They would not be popular for it.
00:15:53.700 They would likely be misunderstood
00:15:55.040 and perhaps even called haters and bigots,
00:15:57.580 but they would be followers of Christ,
00:16:00.220 the good shepherd who laid down his life for his sheep.
00:16:03.680 Christ counseled the leaders in the church
00:16:06.420 that when they see that the world hates them,
00:16:09.080 to know that it hated him first.
00:16:11.100 That's why, my dear friends,
00:16:13.880 we have to take a stand.
00:16:16.060 This is being pushed on our children.
00:16:18.960 These betraying prelates,
00:16:20.860 these wolves in sheep's clothing,
00:16:22.560 are leading our children astray.
00:16:24.920 The esteemed Catholic University of Notre Dame
00:16:27.620 has officially dubbed June to be Pride Month.
00:16:31.920 But this agenda is not only aimed at our adult children,
00:16:35.160 it's pursuing our little children too.
00:16:37.220 Here, check out this video of a teacher in a Catholic school
00:16:41.640 trying to do a full indoctrination of grade one children,
00:16:44.560 that's five-year-olds.
00:16:45.600 Hi, this is Paolo,
00:16:49.440 and this is my classroom, the Rainbow Room.
00:16:52.900 I'm going to show you
00:16:54.080 the miracle of the Rainbow Room.
00:16:56.760 I'm not going to play the rest of it.
00:17:00.100 Go check out the full story about the atrocity
00:17:02.940 at LifeSite News for more.
00:17:05.560 However, I want you to notice a few things.
00:17:08.600 This grade one teacher in the Toronto, Ontario,
00:17:11.860 Catholic School Board
00:17:12.720 is indoctrinating Catholic children
00:17:14.780 against the Catholic faith blatantly.
00:17:17.620 And he's not stopped by Cardinal Archbishop of Toronto,
00:17:21.040 Thomas Collins.
00:17:21.740 Notice he has placed a sacrilegious image
00:17:24.960 of Our Lady of Czestochowa
00:17:26.260 with a rainbow halo
00:17:28.000 in the background under the cross.
00:17:30.340 This teacher revealed in a June 1st tweet
00:17:33.540 the kind of pro-homosexual conversations
00:17:36.000 he has with his Catholic students.
00:17:38.800 And this is from his tweet.
00:17:40.360 He said he was talking about
00:17:41.800 this morning in my grade one classroom
00:17:43.880 waiting for the live stream.
00:17:45.460 The student says,
00:17:46.420 I know what pride means.
00:17:48.220 The teacher says, tell me.
00:17:49.480 The student says, it means others
00:17:52.100 who are lesbian, who are gay.
00:17:54.180 The teacher responds very good.
00:17:55.920 It also means us.
00:17:57.260 Some of our students in this classroom,
00:17:59.180 some of our family members
00:18:00.320 are lesbian or gay.
00:18:02.200 You know, these are our children
00:18:04.420 being brainwashed,
00:18:05.920 being presented with a false Catholicism
00:18:08.520 in a Catholic school,
00:18:10.340 which can lead our children
00:18:12.440 to the loss of eternal life.
00:18:14.480 And the Cardinal refuses to act?
00:18:16.820 This is why we must act.
00:18:20.500 And some are doing just that.
00:18:22.760 Courageous priests have spoken out publicly.
00:18:25.520 Check this out from Father Mark Goring
00:18:27.060 reacting to Catholic schools
00:18:29.300 flying the gay pride flag.
00:18:33.100 Children are very good
00:18:35.100 at picking up on things.
00:18:37.700 They're not stupid.
00:18:39.560 You can tell them that
00:18:40.760 that little flag represents
00:18:42.520 inclusivity and not bullying people,
00:18:46.220 but they know
00:18:47.660 or they'll figure out
00:18:50.420 that that flag represents
00:18:53.720 a whole lot more than that.
00:18:56.320 I'm already hearing stories.
00:18:59.100 Children,
00:19:00.600 as young as grade one,
00:19:03.740 the first grade,
00:19:05.940 coming home,
00:19:06.980 announcing that they're having questions,
00:19:10.360 they're wondering
00:19:11.220 about their sexuality.
00:19:14.140 First grade,
00:19:15.920 is that what you send
00:19:17.160 your kids to school
00:19:18.320 to become preoccupied with?
00:19:21.380 To start questioning?
00:19:23.800 What letter in the alphabet soup
00:19:26.080 fits them best?
00:19:28.080 So,
00:19:28.740 the obvious thing is
00:19:30.480 if you want
00:19:31.480 your children
00:19:33.060 to be preserved
00:19:35.560 from the ideologies
00:19:37.680 of the world,
00:19:39.480 you need to find
00:19:40.680 an alternative.
00:19:41.520 But I wanted to show you
00:19:45.600 courage from laymen, too.
00:19:47.860 One Toronto Catholic
00:19:49.140 School Board trustee,
00:19:50.300 Mike Delgrande,
00:19:51.460 tried to defend
00:19:52.440 Catholic teaching
00:19:53.420 in the school board,
00:19:55.020 in the school board meetings,
00:19:57.120 and for it,
00:19:57.860 he was found in breach
00:19:59.020 of the board code of conduct.
00:20:01.220 He is fighting it in court,
00:20:02.960 and we at LifeSite
00:20:03.860 have a life funder
00:20:05.180 to support him.
00:20:06.480 Two other Catholic
00:20:07.500 School Board trustees
00:20:08.400 have publicly resigned
00:20:09.720 in protest of the decision
00:20:11.240 of their Catholic board
00:20:12.480 to fly the gay pride flag.
00:20:15.020 We must stand up
00:20:16.880 and demand of our bishops
00:20:18.680 that they adhere
00:20:19.540 to the one true faith
00:20:20.680 and support these courageous Catholics
00:20:23.100 who are taking a stand.
00:20:25.100 In Washington, D.C. last week,
00:20:27.100 several individuals
00:20:28.020 who lived a homosexual lifestyle
00:20:29.760 give public testimony
00:20:31.060 about the possibility of change
00:20:32.840 and finding happiness in Christ.
00:20:35.240 Have a look.
00:20:35.740 Many, like us, have changed.
00:20:40.620 We left LGBTQ because we wanted to,
00:20:43.620 and others join us every day.
00:20:46.520 Homosexuality doesn't have
00:20:47.540 to last a lifetime.
00:20:48.940 All of us here prove
00:20:50.360 that change is possible.
00:20:52.140 Today, I stand before you
00:20:53.500 a fully changed man,
00:20:54.980 a faithful husband
00:20:55.840 of almost 10 years,
00:20:57.220 and a father of three beautiful girls.
00:20:59.780 I'm standing here
00:21:00.760 for the future of this country,
00:21:02.500 a future in which my daughters,
00:21:05.740 their future spouses,
00:21:07.860 their children,
00:21:09.000 and their grandchildren
00:21:10.220 will have the right
00:21:11.720 to publicly go to public schools
00:21:13.880 without worrying
00:21:15.500 about being sexually indoctrinated
00:21:18.020 to believe that their daddy,
00:21:20.200 their grandfather,
00:21:21.860 was a hateful bigot
00:21:23.020 for simply choosing to heal
00:21:25.160 from his childhood trauma
00:21:26.520 and being willing
00:21:28.120 to stand before you today
00:21:30.120 fighting for people's rights
00:21:32.180 to be able to do the same.
00:21:35.300 And finally,
00:21:36.660 here is a teacher in Virginia
00:21:38.380 giving public testimony
00:21:39.660 he knew may cost him his job,
00:21:42.060 but he does it anyway.
00:21:43.400 Watch.
00:21:45.620 I love all of my students,
00:21:47.280 but I will never lie to them
00:21:48.380 regardless of the consequences.
00:21:50.300 I'm a teacher,
00:21:51.000 but I serve God first,
00:21:51.960 and I will not affirm
00:21:52.760 that a biological boy
00:21:54.080 can be a girl
00:21:54.800 and vice versa
00:21:55.780 because it's against my religion,
00:21:57.320 it's lying to a child,
00:21:58.560 it's abuse to a child,
00:21:59.900 and it's sinning against our God.
00:22:02.180 That was teacher Tanner Cross,
00:22:05.760 who testified at a school board hearing
00:22:08.060 and was suspended
00:22:09.440 for defending his faith
00:22:10.960 and God-ordained sexuality.
00:22:13.660 We must stand up for our children.
00:22:16.520 We can do it too.
00:22:17.940 And we often can have a major impact.
00:22:20.500 Remember a few weeks ago
00:22:21.560 when the Bishop of La Crosse
00:22:23.000 said publicly he was removing
00:22:24.660 our beloved Father James Altman
00:22:28.100 from his parish?
00:22:28.820 We held a fundraiser
00:22:30.520 looking for $100,000
00:22:31.720 and raised over $300,000 for him.
00:22:34.280 We had over 90,000 people
00:22:36.100 sign a petition
00:22:36.840 and delivered it to the diocese.
00:22:38.920 And I encouraged some of you
00:22:40.400 to call the diocese,
00:22:41.760 and phones were busy
00:22:43.240 all week over there.
00:22:44.860 And in fact, today,
00:22:46.320 Father Altman is still
00:22:47.820 at the parish saying Mass.
00:22:49.760 So we can stand up.
00:22:51.640 We can have an effect.
00:22:53.400 It's time.
00:22:54.740 It's for our children's future,
00:22:56.920 for our faith,
00:22:58.140 and in honor of Christ
00:22:59.480 and his sacred heart,
00:23:01.640 which we celebrate
00:23:02.760 this month of June.
00:23:05.040 For LifeSite News,
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