In the latest act of viciousness and vengefulness, LGBT activists shut down an adoption agency in order to force Catholic Charities of Buffalo to stop providing services to same-sex couples. This is just the latest in a series of anti-gay "activism" actions taken by LGBT activists to force adoption agencies to refuse to provide services to gay couples.
00:00:00.000People are extremely concerned these days with the issue of bullying. So let's talk about that. Let's talk about bullying and the problems associated with it.
00:00:11.300I think if we're serious about ridding the world of bullying, then we need to finally look at the biggest bullies in America, and those would be LGBT activists. They are the biggest bullies in America.
00:00:25.000In the latest act of viciousness and vengefulness, LGBT activists shut down an adoption agency. And this isn't even the first adoption agency they've gone after and shut down.
00:00:37.700This is just the latest in a series because you really know that your cause is right and just and true if you're going after adoption agencies, right?
00:00:46.100That's a great indication that you're on the right side of things when that's what you're doing.
00:00:50.060Adoption agencies, bakeries, yes, these are the great villains that the LGBT folks are taking down.
00:00:59.520So they should applaud themselves. Pat yourselves on the back. You're real heroes.
00:01:05.880Anyway, Catholic Charities of Buffalo is just another adoption agency which was made to discontinue its adoption services because, if you can believe it, Catholic Charities of Buffalo...
00:01:20.060It's Catholic. They're also in Buffalo. So I don't know if... But it's the Catholic part of that that was very upsetting to the LGBT mob because the organization would not send children into households with same-sex parents because Catholic Charities abides by Catholic teaching.
00:01:41.780And Catholic teaching is that homosexual relationships are disordered and further, children should have a mother and a father.
00:01:49.140That's not just Catholic teaching. That is the belief of anyone who... Any Christian who takes the Bible seriously.
00:01:56.280So for that reason, it was forced to close down or to close down its adoption facilities anyway.
00:02:01.080Now, here's the thing. The organization's original adoption policy was not only morally correct, but also scientifically and logically correct, although that's kind of beside the point.
00:02:15.260The fact that they're right about it is it almost doesn't matter when we look at this situation.
00:02:22.200But I still think we should stipulate that studies have shown children fare better in traditional mother-father families.
00:02:29.060Children in same-sex-parented households, another study showed, have higher rates of depression, suicide, and abuse.
00:02:34.580But this should not be a surprise to anyone. This is self-evident. You shouldn't need a study to tell you.
00:02:39.420You shouldn't need to research. You shouldn't need to read a book and say,
00:02:43.520well, let me do some research to find out if kids should have a mother and father.
00:02:48.100I need to do some more research into that.
00:02:51.980No, any rational person should realize this because every child in history has had a mother and father.
00:03:00.220Every child who has ever existed or will ever exist or can ever exist has had biologically a mother and father.
00:03:07.540No child can come into existence without one.
00:03:10.800Now, this would seem very strongly to indicate that every child should have a mother and father.
00:03:16.960The fact that every child does biologically would seem to suggest that nature intends for every child to have a mother and father.
00:03:27.240In the same way, we can say that every person should have two arms.
00:03:33.540And we can arrive at that conclusion based on the fact that every person who has ever existed has had two arms unless something went wrong.
00:03:44.520If somebody is born with only one arm or no arms, then we know that there's been a deformity or a mutation or a disease.
00:04:17.660If a child is raised without their parents or with only one parent, well, then that means something went wrong.
00:04:31.680There was a—things didn't go according to plan somewhere along the line if a person ends up without both of their biological parents.
00:04:40.680If something is, in principle, essential, natural, and necessary to the human identity, then logically we must say that it is how things ought to be and ought to be maintained.
00:04:59.460It is, in other words, again, natural.
00:05:18.980Obviously, if you've got a child that needs to be adopted, you're going to look for a mother and father for the child.
00:05:27.080But as I said, the rightness of Catholic Charities' position here is beside the point.
00:05:32.020The real point is that they have a constitutional right to operate according to the teachings of the church, whose name is plastered in huge letters on the building.
00:05:39.880They have every right to operate that way.
00:05:43.220They are the ones who have a right claim.
00:05:45.400They have a claim to rights here, the right to operate according to their faith.
00:05:50.180What claim do the LGBT activists have?
00:05:53.080The ones who are shutting down an adoption agency, on what basis do they wage that campaign?
00:05:59.300It seems like there can only be two ways to justify it.
00:06:05.260The first one is they could claim, and they have claimed, that they're forcing these adoption agencies to let gays adopt kids or else shut down because they're worried about the kids.
00:06:17.040And what they say is, well, if gay couples aren't able to adopt, then kids will be left unadopted.
00:06:26.000Just because a particular child isn't adopted by homosexuals doesn't mean that he won't be adopted by anyone.
00:06:35.480This is the false choice that you hear the gay activists make all the time.
00:06:39.560They say, well, what, so you're saying it's better for a child to be left languishing in the adoption agency than to be adopted by a gay couple?
00:06:51.260The third option is that they're adopted by a heterosexual couple.
00:06:54.740And there's a line 50 miles long of heterosexual couples waiting to adopt.
00:07:00.140So by no means can you argue that the lack of gay adoption will necessitate that children will be left abandoned in the system because there are many heterosexual families, mother, father, natural families that are waiting to adopt and that can adopt.
00:07:17.760And so if a child is not adopted by a gay couple, he still could very likely be adopted by a heterosexual couple.
00:07:23.240This, by the way, you hear the same kind of argument when it comes to adoption, you hear the same kind of argument from pro-aborts where they will say, well, if you're so against abortion, then why aren't people lining up around the block to adopt kids?
00:07:46.040There are tons and thousands of pro-life families that are desperately want to adopt and have been wading through the system, trying to adopt and waiting to adopt.
00:08:03.240And besides which, if you were really concerned about kids being, you know, about kids getting adopted, then clearly it makes no sense to shut down adoption agencies.
00:08:20.240Even if a small minority of children have been left in the system because they weren't adopted by a gay family, which isn't happening, but even if it were, many, many, many more will now be left in the system because you're shutting down adoption agencies.
00:08:37.440So if this was really about the kids, you wouldn't be doing that.
00:08:41.440The LGBT activists, if they really cared about the kids, which they don't, but if they did, they would say, well, look, Catholic charities, I disagree with their policy.
00:08:54.420However, obviously they should be able to stay open and do what they do because they're doing a wonderful thing and they're making sure the kids get adopted.
00:09:03.920That's how they, if LGBT activists, if they gave a damn about kids or about anyone other than themselves, they would, that's how they would approach these situations.
00:10:09.320Now, you notice when you go over to the other side of the spectrum, and I'll be the last person to issue a blanket defense of all conservatives,
00:10:15.460or to claim that they're all, you know, virtuous and selfless and everything like that, because that's certainly not the case.
00:10:21.940But on the conservative side of the spectrum, some of the movements traditionally associated with conservatism, like the pro-life movement, these are selfless movements.
00:10:32.040Like, a pro-life woman does not gain anything materially from being pro-life.
00:10:42.200She doesn't, she doesn't stand to gain anything from that.
00:10:44.380It's not, it's not a selfish position.
00:10:48.320Because she's arguing on behalf of children, and not only that, but she doesn't, it means if she gets her way and abortion is made illegal, and then she gets pregnant, that option won't be open to her either.
00:11:02.100So that's a sacrifice she's willing to make.
00:11:05.120But you notice on the left, there are no sacrifices.
00:11:08.000They never make any, it's never about anyone else, there's never any sacrifices being made.
00:11:12.660And it's always me, me, me, me, me, me, this is what I want.
00:11:18.300But what they will try to do, and what the LGBT activists here have also done, on top of saying, oh, we care about the kids, they don't.
00:11:25.240But they all say, well, it's about rights.
00:11:27.060This is a, this is a fight for rights.
00:12:34.720And no one has a right to take them from you unless the law has to step in because you are victimizing your child in some horrible way.
00:12:41.900Or, if you do actually adopt a child, you know, parents that do actually adopt a child, well, that's their child in every sense of the word now.
00:12:52.980And no one has a right to take that child from them.
00:12:54.980But, the children who are not adopted, who are in adoption agencies, and you, you know, you're going, and you walk into an adoption agency, none of those children are yours yet.
00:13:08.080You have no legal claim over them whatsoever.
00:13:10.200And, besides which, there are many rules governing who can adopt.
00:13:17.460If we have a right to adopt, then that means that any old person should be able to stroll into an orphanage and adopt whatever kid they want with no qualifications.
00:13:25.920But, that's not how it works, and that's not how it should work.
00:13:27.900Talk to any, talk to any, any, any couple that's been through the adoption process.
00:13:33.040They'll tell you there are tons of hoops that you have to, you have to jump through.
00:13:36.940There are probably too many hoops, but we, I think we all agree that there should be some hoops.
00:13:40.760I mean, there should be some qualifications.
00:13:45.560And, so, it's got nothing to do with rights.
00:13:51.300And, this is just another in a long, long line of examples of the gay left scorching the earth, wrecking lives in an effort to impose its ideology on everyone.
00:14:01.160Jack Phillips is another, of course, example.
00:14:03.740You won a victory against them in the Supreme Court, but they haven't relented.
00:14:08.260They're still trying to destroy his livelihood.
00:14:10.480And, they'll continue the assault for another five years, ten years, twenty years, until they get their way.
00:14:15.380And, we're seeing this repeated across the country with other bakers and photographers and people in the wedding industry and so forth.
00:14:22.880They're all being, it's being demanded of all of them that they bow before the LGBT altar or they go out of business.
00:14:29.960Those are the choices they're being given.
00:14:31.440Speaking of bowing before the altar, just this week, Brown University pulled down a study which indicated that teenagers become trans to imitate their peers.
00:14:40.860The reason why this study was conducted is because if you look around and you see there's this massive uptick in people identifying as trans, which doesn't make any sense.
00:14:50.680If transgenderism is an actual natural biological phenomenon, there's no reason why there should be more of it now just because it's in the news.
00:14:59.880So, it really seems like, you know, kids are seeing how this gender fluidity stuff is in the news and it's in the media, it's in Hollywood.
00:15:09.220And, so, they're looking and their friends are doing it too.
00:15:11.440And, so, they're looking at that and they're saying, well, I guess I'm transgender also.
00:15:15.920It's because of peer pressure and because of, you know, because of, it's a trend, basically.
00:15:24.540Well, a study was, which was conducted, which lent some credence to that view.
00:15:29.940But the LGBT mob reacted with outrage at this study and they demanded that its contents be suppressed.
00:15:38.140They simply will not allow any discussion of the social and biological facts related to the trans thing.
00:15:45.880They will tolerate only a complete and unthinking acceptance of their dogmas and that's what makes them bullies.
00:17:58.200They believe that their goal is manifestly good, and so they can resort to whatever means are necessary to achieve it.
00:18:05.040And if that means ruining lives, tearing down businesses, leaving children without families, well, as far as they're concerned, that is a price worth paying.
00:18:10.320Not even really a price, more like a perk because they enjoy it.
00:18:13.320I mean, they were celebrating when an adoption agency was closed down.
00:18:17.420They loved it because that's how bullies are.
00:18:20.580They just want to get their way, and that's how they get their kicks that way.
00:18:28.720And what is this good goal, anyway, this good that they're working towards?
00:18:33.480Well, they'll say that they seek equality, but that can't be it because they already have equality.
00:18:37.620Homosexuals have all the same rights as heterosexuals.
00:18:40.120In fact, they have rights that heterosexuals don't have.
00:18:42.100For instance, if someone refuses to make me a cake, I can't go to the Human Rights Commission and complain about it and have anything done.
00:18:53.140They'll just laugh me out of the room.
00:18:55.160But if you're a homosexual, you actually have a right, supposedly, in some states, in many states, you have a right to cake.
00:19:03.260In fact, the one and only inequality that was left between homosexuals and heterosexuals, the inequality, was the rule prohibiting active homosexuals from donating blood due to the fact that homosexuals have a much, much, much, much, much higher probability of contracting HIV than a heterosexual non-drug user.
00:19:28.840However, the rates of HIV in the gay community are much, much, much, much higher than they are among heterosexuals.
00:19:38.000And so for that reason, logically, in the name of safety, gay people were not able to give blood.
00:19:47.740But even that is now under attack, and those rules are being repealed everywhere.
00:19:52.300The LGBT lobby will risk giving HIV to hospital patients if it means they get their way.
00:20:01.460They will shut down adoption agencies.