Ep. 1247 - Why Christians Need To Be A Lot Less Welcoming And Tolerant
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1 hour and 1 minute
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Summary
A Christian music award show became a forum for men to parade around in drag. In fact, this kind of debauchery is becoming increasingly common in supposedly Christian environments, including at church. Also, Joe Biden addresses the nation about the war in Israel, and tries to explain why Americans should fund two global conflicts at the same time. A college professor apologizes after saying Israelis are pigs and savages who should be "burn in hell." Plus, Victoria s Secret tries to rebrand and get away from attractive female models.
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Today, the Matt Walsh Show, a Christian music award show, became a forum for men to parade
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In fact, this kind of debauchery is becoming increasingly common in supposedly Christian
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Also, Joe Biden addresses the nation about the war in Israel and tries to explain why
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Americans should fund two global conflicts at the same time.
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A college professor apologizes after saying Israelis are pigs and savages who should,
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Plus, Victoria's Secret tried to rebrand and get away from attractive female models.
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Turns out the new marketing strategy was not a major success.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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As you may or may not have heard, something called the Dove Awards were held this week
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The Dove Awards are an annual award show held by the Gospel Music Association designed to celebrate
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Except this year, the headlines around the event had nothing to do with Christian music
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Instead, the attention went to a man named Derek Webb, who gained prominence in the Christian
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music space as the longtime lead singer of a popular Christian rock band.
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And then several years ago, Webb had an affair, left his wife, and then became an apostate.
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And he's now remarried to the lead singer of another Christian rock band while he continues
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to put out albums with titles like The Jesus Hypothesis, which should give you a good idea
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But this year, after winning several Dove Awards in the past, Webb decided to attend the
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ceremony, except he was going to attend it dressed in drag alongside his drag queen friend
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Now, you may recall that we talked about Flamey Grant a few months ago when one of his Christian,
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quote unquote, Christian songs, briefly made it to the top of the Christian song charts.
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Webb and Grant have made music together in the past, including a song called Boys Will
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Be Girls, and they put those lyrics into practice, I suppose, or tried this week at the Dove
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Webb tweeted out a picture of himself dressed in his drag outfit, along with the caption,
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As you can see with the picture, Flamey Grant is dressed in the customary drag queen uniform
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that makes him look like a character from a 90s Tim Burton film, while Webb looks like
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he's playing dress-up with clothes that he found in the clearance bin of the women's
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And they both, of course, look utterly ridiculous and aggressively hideous, as men always do when
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After the event, Webb posted a video with the caption, why did I wear a dress to the Dove
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Now, I can easily answer that question, and I will, but first let's hear Webb's version.
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As a cis, straight, white man, I walk into a room like that, and any room, with an incredible
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If I'm attending as an ally of friends and colleagues, I should do everything possible
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If the way you look at my loved ones isn't the way you look at me, I'm not truly standing
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It's like Stan Mitchell says, if you claim to be someone's ally but aren't getting hit
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by the stones thrown at them, you aren't standing close enough.
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Now, first of all, it's hard to take him seriously when he starts the video with fake news, calling
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If that doesn't deserve a community note on Twitter, I don't know what does.
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Aside from that, Webb claims that he showed up to a Christian event in drag because he
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And apparently, being an ally to attention whores means being an attention whore yourself.
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And this is what most of this is about, after all.
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Yes, drag is an outlet for men with cross-dressing fetishes to get their thrills and to impose
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those fetishes on the world and flick them on the rest of us by forcing us to look at them.
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But it's also just a simple expression of narcissism.
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All of these people are narcissists going to absurd lengths to bring all of the attention
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And that is the primary fetish that drives these people.
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Now, there's quite a lot of this kind of allyship in modern Western Christianity.
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Christianity, note the air quotes around Christianity.
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It was just a few weeks ago that a cathedral in Dallas gave a blessing to drag queens during
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Dallas's Cathedral of Hope gave a blessing to drag queens today.
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The church, which has a primary outreach to the LGBTQ community, hosted the event in response
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to Senate Bill 12, which criminalizes performers who put on sexually explicit shows in front of
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Around 40 people protested in front of the church with signs condemning LGBTQ people.
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Senior Pastor Neal Thomas called this a part of a growing persecution of drag queens and
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But SB 12 has quite sincere ramifications specifically aimed at drag community who are using this law
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potentially to discriminate against and to oppress a part of our community that has been
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a vital part since the movement of the LGBTQ plus community.
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Now, supporters say Senate Bill 12 is needed to protect children.
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After the church service, local drag performers were invited onto the stage for a blessing.
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Now, you notice how the anchor claims that there were signs condemning LGBTQ people, and yet somehow
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their own news cameras never managed to get any of those signs on film.
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The only sign we see is one that says, God created them male and female, which is a direct quote from
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So if that is a condemnation of LGBTQ people, it's not the sign doing the condemning.
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The pastor also tells us that a law criminalizing sexually explicit shows for children will have
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severe ramifications for the drag community, and it amounts to oppression against them, which,
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Indeed, LGBT activists have told us everything we need to know by their reaction to laws around
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the country that simply prohibit the sexual and physical abuse of children.
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They tell us themselves that these laws seriously cramp their style, and that should tell you something
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It's like if they passed a special law saying, I don't know, you're not allowed to burn nursing
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homes to the ground, which is already against the law.
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And if I were to say, well, this is outrageous.
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That when you simply say you can't expose children to sexually explicit content, that's it.
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When you simply say that, they react like you have personally attacked them.
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I guess it is a personal attack, which is why the laws must be in place.
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But this drag and church combination has become increasingly popular.
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Just this week, there was another drag event at a church, also hosted as a means of protest
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against laws that ban the mutilation and sexualization of children.
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Portland drag queen Poison Waters hosted a brunch event at a northeast Portland church
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The event called Blessed Are the Drag Queens happened this morning at Bridgeport United Church
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It was a celebration of the art of drag, as well as a fundraiser for the church's community
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partnerships, all in support of the LGBTQ community.
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Reverend Tara Wilkins says the brunch was also a form of protest against anti-trans legislation
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and the use of religion as an excuse for discrimination.
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Religious communities today often hide their prejudice in the name of religion.
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And we're here to show that we support and love the LGBT community, particularly our trans
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Man, Tony Soprano has really fallen on hard times there.
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By the way, the drag queen's name is Poison Water.
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It's getting really on the nose with these drag queens.
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You might as well name yourself Creepy Predator.
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Now, you could point out that most of these churches that are inviting cross-dressing
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men to parade around on the altar are Episcopal or United Church of Christ or something similar,
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and therefore don't really count as Christian at all.
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These are social clubs for left-wing boomers that happen to meet in buildings that vaguely
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resemble churches, which is true and a fair point.
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But it's also true that Western Christianity as a whole has become increasingly infiltrated
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by this kind of madness and has generally failed to take a firm stance against any of this,
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You know, recently I told you about the major victory in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals,
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which upheld the ban on child gender mutilation in Tennessee and Kentucky.
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And after that decision was announced, a number of prominent Christian leaders went on Twitter
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to celebrate the decision, which we should celebrate.
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But it was noted by many that most of these leaders, though they were eager to join the party,
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celebrating the win, and to tacitly take credit for it, were nowhere in sight when the battle was raging.
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And the battle's still raging, by the way, and they're still not out on the battlefield.
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In fact, transgenderism and LGBT ideology seized its stranglehold on American culture,
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while most churches and most Christian leaders and most pastors and priests,
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certainly not all, not all, but most, said nothing at all about it.
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You know, they may not have explicitly joined the other side and started waving the rainbow flag,
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though some of them did, but most of them hid from the fight.
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Which is why, you know, of all the people who most prominently led the charge against gender ideology
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and are still leading it, precisely none of us are church leaders.
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And some people at the forefront of this fight aren't even Christian.
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Worse still, and I can say this from experience, while we went to war against this evil,
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many Christian leaders spent their time lecturing us for the way that we fought,
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and the tone that we took, and our harshness, and our meanness,
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All through the years of being in this battle, being in this fight,
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most of the time, if I hear a prominent Christian, Christian supposed leader acknowledge my existence at all,
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it's going to be to, I don't appreciate your tone.
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Sitting on the sidelines, afraid to get their hands dirty,
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while lecturing those of us in the trenches for fighting in a way that they find personally displeasing to watch.
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And this is the story of Christianity in the West, at least in modern times.
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So, the Dove Awards are kind of a perfect encapsulation of this problem.
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Sure, the Gospel Music Association did not, as far as I know,
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officially invite Derek Webb or Flamey Grant to attend,
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did not have them on stage to perform the heretical songs for the audience,
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but they also apparently didn't meet these men at the door and refuse them entry,
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Instead, I guess they were welcomed and they were apparently treated kindly,
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when, in fact, they should have been rebuked and turned away.
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Yes, that would have been the Christian response, believe it or not.
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excuse me, you're not coming in the building looking like that.
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They should not have been permitted to turn, you know,
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to turn a Christian event into a platform for narcissism and degeneracy.
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or it should not mean, tolerating any and all forms of behavior
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and standing idly by while your own events and your own churches
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and your own communities are used to celebrate sin.
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but that doesn't mean you can wipe your muddy shoes on my carpet
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Which means you have to live up to the standards I have established.
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and then let you set it on fire from the inside.
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If I do that, then soon there will be no home left
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And that is exactly what has happened with the Christian church in the West.
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It has welcomed in the arsonists who have spent the past several decades
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Which is what happens when you make tolerance your guiding virtue.
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Very soon you find yourself tolerating your own destruction.
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President Joe Biden addressed the nation Thursday night
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during an Oval Office speech following his visit to Israel
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that his administration is going to try to pass
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Biden called for $14 billion in funding for Israel
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as it fights off attacks from Iranian-backed terrorists
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The funding will go towards sharpening Israel's military edge
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However, he also called for a much larger aid package
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from the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health
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who falsely claimed that Israel bombed a hospital
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and said it was the best speech of Biden's presidency
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I mean, it's the best speech of Biden's presidency