Q&A with LifeSite co-founder John-Henry Westen： Texas Heartbeat Act, Novus Ordo Mass, SSPX, globalism
Summary
In this week's episode of the John Henry Weston Show, we hear from Danielle Zuccaro, the Sustaining Donor Coordinator at Life Site News, about the upcoming Supreme Court case on abortion in Texas and her thoughts on it.
Transcript
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Welcome to this week's episode of the Sustainer segment of the John Henry Weston Show.
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I'm Danielle Zuccaro, the Sustaining Donor Coordinator with LifeSite News.
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Hello, and thank you for Sustaining LifeSite News and keeping us going, even in these hard
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I wanted to just interject quickly, just to give you a little intro to Danielle Zuccaro.
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She actually moved us from 300 sustainers in 2018 to now over 7,500 of you who are really
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keeping LifeSite going, even in these very tough times.
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But Danielle is amazing, not only in terms of connecting you with what's going on behind
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the scenes at LifeSite, but also with being able to share her awesome personality, her deep
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She's inspired many, not only at LifeSite, but also over at the Catholic University campuses
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And now we'll get underway with our five top questions for today.
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
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Our first question today comes from Jane in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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Jane writes, what are your thoughts on the upcoming Texas case being brought before the
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Supreme Court, and what are the implications of the decision?
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I mean, this, first of all, we're going to have a Supreme Court case on abortion being heard
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So, this is a big deal for the pro-life movement.
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What happened with the Supreme Court back in September is that they refused to allow judges
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to basically nix the Texas law that made abortionists have to check for a heartbeat before they perform
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But these laws, normally pro-life laws, when they're passed in various states, they're always
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nixed by the courts and nothing can be done about it.
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Because basically everybody turns back to Roe v. Wade and therefore says, nope, nope, nothing
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Well, with this one, it was very interesting because the Texas law has a very interesting
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So, if the public finds out that there's a late-term abortion going on or late-her term,
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remember, the heartbeat starts around six weeks.
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Remember, a lot of women don't know that they're pregnant, even in that first month
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They wonder if they've missed a first period or whatnot.
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But by six, seven, eight weeks, that's where you start to understand, whoa, okay.
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And so, a large number of abortions happen in this later period.
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And so, this is very threatening for abortionists.
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You have to understand something about the abortion industry, too.
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For the most part, these aren't people like in the pro-life movement.
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Abortion doctors who actually go in and kill the children, who actually go in and suction
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the babies out piece by piece from their mother's wombs, who are doing the killing, they're
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actually, for the most part, not ideological activists.
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They're not there for the good of, you know, the pro-choice movement.
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And so, that's why you've seen over and over and over again on so many exposés done by the
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pro-life movement, absolute horror going on in terms of the so-called clinics where this
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And what happens is, you know, they find filthy conditions in the clinics.
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They find doctors who rarely care about what's going on with their patients and reuse medical
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equipment that they shouldn't be reusing before sterilization.
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Sometimes you have the staff not properly counseling women as to the effects of the abortion
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And when you have a business and then the law threatens you with possible lawsuit, in
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fact, state-sanctioned lawsuits of civilians toward an abortion business that's happening
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illegally in the state, which is abortions beyond a heartbeat and the necessity to check
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for one, all of a sudden, the businessmen, the abortionists, well, they don't want to get
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in trouble with their business and therefore, they'll shut it down, go to another state,
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That's why this is such a danger to the pro-abortion movement.
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That's why the Biden administration went absolutely crazy.
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In fact, it's been said, and it was really funny, that the very clearest thing we know
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And not only that, that he has made this his cause celeb, that basically fighting the Texas
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heartbeat law, fighting this decision has been his main thing of late.
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Of course, LifeSite will be there to cover it live.
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So, tune in to LifeSite News, where you will see our new, just launched yesterday, LSN TV.
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We will have reporters on the scene, and we're going to be giving you live coverage of what's
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In terms of outcome and what's going on with this bill, well, as pro-lifers, we all know
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This is not about fighting for the right to life.
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This is about looking at abortion, what it is, what it does.
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And the understanding of the bill was that after a heartbeat is there, that's when we
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Pro-life position is from conception till natural death.
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This measure, though, has served to start the discussion, save some babies' lives, and really,
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hopefully, inspire pro-life legislative action across the United States.
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And in fact, globally, working toward our end goal of protection of all life from conception
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Our second question today comes from Linda in West Brandywine, Pennsylvania.
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Linda writes, should we attend the Novus Ordo Mass when we don't have a traditional church
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Well, I'm no theologian, but I will tell you, very honestly, I myself go to a Novus Ordo
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church, parish, because I don't have a traditional Latin Mass near me.
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When I'm traveling, however, I do try and attend the traditional Latin Mass and love it.
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But what I would tell you is to make sure you're going to an Orthodox parish.
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It is so absolutely paramount to get to a parish that's Orthodox, that it's worth doing
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anything you need to, driving long distances or whatever, to get to an Orthodox parish.
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And thankfully, where I live, we have a very Orthodox parish, and it's a Novus Ordo parish.
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And so I've, you know, seen the work of the Lord there and can attest to that myself.
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There is a greater reverence in the traditional Latin Mass, and I think that's obvious for
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But the Church is struggling to get to a place where it comes to a restoration of the place
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I think it's coming particularly because of the fighting against this, this latest thing,
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Traditiones Custodis from Francis has shown us that, you know, when things are going tough,
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And honestly, the traditional Latin Mass is on a comeback.
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And despite everything that Pope Francis and all sorts of leftist bishops are trying to
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do to stomp it out of existence, it continues to grow everywhere it is.
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And everywhere you find these liberal Novus Ordo parishes that look more like gymnasiums,
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and they always talk about inclusivity and don't care about any of the Catholic moral teachings,
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The congregants are old, the congregants are old, and they're dying out.
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So there's a lot of hope for the traditional Latin Mass.
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Our next question comes from Jennifer in Invergrove Heights, Minnesota.
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My question is, what is the ultimate goal of the globalists as millions refuse the job and go jobless?
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This has to have a massive effect on the economy as well as commerce in general.
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So first of all, with regard to the agenda of the globalists, as you say,
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And that makes total sense with COVID, with the lockdowns, with the vax mandates,
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with the coming social credit system, which is, of course, where it's all headed.
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It is an unbelievable way to control people, to control people's lives,
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to control their livelihoods, to control everything about them,
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This is, of course, what's being done in China with the social credit system.
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So, you know, in China, you get extra social credit score by reading Xi Jinping's writings.
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You get docked points from your social credit score for, you know, crossing the street the wrong way,
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or from daring to watch a program from the West, which you shouldn't be, or any of these things.
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So this is a method of control that's just unbelievable.
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Obviously, they want our money as well, because, you know, look at what they've done to suppress the working medications for COVID
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and insist on these harmful treatments that are costing lives and yet costing lots of money at the same time.
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So it's unbelievable what is happening and the lengths to which these globalists will go to attain their power and control.
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And I think that's important to pay attention to as well.
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Archbishop Vigano in his writings talks a lot about where we're at in terms of where we're going to
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And it is an agenda of full control for not these puppet globalists who are doing this.
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It's the devil who wants us to abandon freedom.
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It's the devil who wants us to adopt into our bodies these abortion-tainted jabs
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as the savior solution for mankind, tainting the whole world, as it were, with the blood of aborted babies.
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And we need to fight it because we can see all around us this imposition of a type of communist tyranny
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that's coming along with, you know, really a demonic agenda.
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Our next question comes from Tony in Toronto, Ontario.
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The hierarchy in the church is more than I can endure as a Catholic these days.
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I also don't want to leave Christ's one true church.
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What are your thoughts about attending the Society of St. Pius X masses?
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I've heard conflicting views from sources I admire, so I would greatly appreciate your wisdom on this topic.
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Yes, definitely we're in a situation where things are very, very hard to bear.
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You mentioned the don't want to leave the Catholic Church, but should I go to the SSPX?
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Well, let me give you the official—again, I'm no theologian, but I can tell you the take of Bishop Athanasius Schneider.
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He's, of course, he's the Auxiliary Bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan.
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You will have noticed just yesterday he was featured at our first LifeSite lunch,
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blessing our offices and with our staff there in Front Royal.
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But he also was the official Vatican visitator to the SSPX.
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And that's very interesting because that means you're assigned by the Pope to go and assess what is this in terms of the Catholic Church.
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And his position was on the SSPX was, well, they're just Catholics.
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And so in your question, you made it sound like you're leaving the Catholic Church to go to the SSPX.
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They have—in fact, not only do they have a valid Mass and that you can go to as a Catholic,
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remember, Pope Francis actually gave SSPX priests the right to hear confessions and celebrate marriages.
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So this is very interesting because normally in a diocese, you have the bishop that grants the priest the permission or OK or grants him allowability to hear confessions.
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Every priest can always hear confessions in emergency circumstances.
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But ordinarily, you need the bishop's permission in the diocese to be able to hear confessions.
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Interestingly, Pope Francis, who is pope, thus has universal jurisdiction, gave the SSPX the ability or the OK to hear confessions.
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Therefore, because he's the universal bishop, not only in Rome, his diocese, but also throughout the world.
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So if anything, the SSPX priest is able to hear confession in every diocese.
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So, no, there's no problem with going to the SSPX for Masses and for confessions and for marriages.
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And our final question for today comes from Olivia in Gainesville, Florida.
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What do you think devout Catholics can do to support others who do not wish to take the vaccine or others who are being subjected to vaccine mandates?
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Well, yes, it certainly does seem like something sinister.
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I wouldn't yet say the mark of the beast, but it certainly seems that we're headed in that direction.
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With the mark of the beast, and I don't want to go too far down this road, but with the mark of the beast, we will be doing something that is known to be intrinsically evil.
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And I think while for a lot of people it's obvious that, you know, we're accepting an aborted, tainted jab, when you know that and how horrific that is and what that means, I can see that.
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But for the most part, with the Pope, many of the bishops, and a lot of the even theologians and whatnot, professors and well-respected Catholics saying, yes, it's fine, it's good.
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That makes it very difficult to discern what's right and what's wrong.
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And that's why we have the confusion, you might say, a diabolic disorientation.
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So what can we do to support those who are facing VAX mandates and so on?
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So for, let's say, for individuals who are facing the loss of their jobs and whatnot, you have to encourage them to stand up.
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I had a friend who was being removed from his job for this kind of thing.
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In fact, he was suspended without pay indefinitely.
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He went to his employer and showed him, the paralegal showed him, and he, how unjust this was, how illegal it was.
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And so often, people are resigning and just sort of hanging their heads as they leave their professions, their jobs for years and not pushing back.
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There are many legal entities across Canada, across the United States, that are helping individuals to fight back against the COVID tyranny, against the unjust, illegal vax mandates.
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And they're being challenged in courts all over the world.
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So we've got to do our part to encourage them to do that.
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There are both religious and medical exemptions.
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I'm sure around the United States, you can get to a doctor who will give you a medical exemption.
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The, you know, the group that we work with at LifeSite most closely, the Truth for Health Foundation, is working very hard to do just that.
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So you can go visit truthforhealth.org and find out all their resources there.
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And in addition, those businesses that are really standing up for freedom, that are staying open, that refuse to discriminate based on vaccines, we need to patronize them.
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They're really standing up for freedom right now.
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Let's do what we can to support those standing heroically against these vax mandates.
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Well, that brings us to the end of this week's episode of the Sustainer segment of the John Henry Weston Show.
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