The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 93 - The Bullying, Intolerant Tactics of LGBT Activists

00:00:00.000 People 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.

00:00:11.300 I 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. 0.54

00:00:25.000 In 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. 0.99

00:00:37.700 This 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?

00:00:46.100 That's a great indication that you're on the right side of things when that's what you're doing.

00:00:50.060 Adoption agencies, bakeries, yes, these are the great villains that the LGBT folks are taking down. 1.00

00:00:59.520 So they should applaud themselves. Pat yourselves on the back. You're real heroes.

00:01:05.880 Anyway, 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...

00:01:20.060 It'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. 0.52

00:01:41.780 And Catholic teaching is that homosexual relationships are disordered and further, children should have a mother and a father.

00:01:49.140 That's not just Catholic teaching. That is the belief of anyone who... Any Christian who takes the Bible seriously.

00:01:56.280 So for that reason, it was forced to close down or to close down its adoption facilities anyway.

00:02:01.080 Now, 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.

00:02:15.260 The fact that they're right about it is it almost doesn't matter when we look at this situation.

00:02:22.200 But I still think we should stipulate that studies have shown children fare better in traditional mother-father families.

00:02:29.060 Children in same-sex-parented households, another study showed, have higher rates of depression, suicide, and abuse.

00:02:34.580 But this should not be a surprise to anyone. This is self-evident. You shouldn't need a study to tell you.

00:02:39.420 You shouldn't need to research. You shouldn't need to read a book and say,

00:02:43.520 well, let me do some research to find out if kids should have a mother and father.

00:02:48.100 I need to do some more research into that.

00:02:51.980 No, any rational person should realize this because every child in history has had a mother and father.

00:03:00.220 Every child who has ever existed or will ever exist or can ever exist has had biologically a mother and father.

00:03:07.540 No child can come into existence without one.

00:03:10.800 Now, this would seem very strongly to indicate that every child should have a mother and father.

00:03:16.960 The fact that every child does biologically would seem to suggest that nature intends for every child to have a mother and father.

00:03:27.240 In the same way, we can say that every person should have two arms.

00:03:33.540 And 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.

00:03:44.520 If 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.

00:03:51.300 We know something went wrong.

00:03:52.720 And we know something went wrong because we know that people should have two arms.

00:03:55.980 And we know that people should have two arms because that's how people are.

00:03:59.320 That's part of what it means.

00:04:02.040 That's part of the human physical identities to have two arms.

00:04:06.900 If you don't have two arms, then something went wrong, right?

00:04:10.920 Same thing with the fact that kids have two parents.

00:04:15.420 That's every person in principle.

00:04:17.660 If a child is raised without their parents or with only one parent, well, then that means something went wrong.

00:04:31.680 There was a—things didn't go according to plan somewhere along the line if a person ends up without both of their biological parents.

00:04:40.680 If 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.

00:04:59.460 It is, in other words, again, natural.

00:05:02.360 That is what's most natural.

00:05:03.980 And if you're an adoption agency, of course you're going to look to put kids into the most natural and ideal circumstances possible.

00:05:15.720 This should be non-controversial.

00:05:18.980 Obviously, if you've got a child that needs to be adopted, you're going to look for a mother and father for the child.

00:05:27.080 But as I said, the rightness of Catholic Charities' position here is beside the point.

00:05:32.020 The 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.

00:05:39.880 They have every right to operate that way.

00:05:43.220 They are the ones who have a right claim.

00:05:45.400 They have a claim to rights here, the right to operate according to their faith.

00:05:50.180 What claim do the LGBT activists have? 0.97

00:05:53.080 The ones who are shutting down an adoption agency, on what basis do they wage that campaign?

00:05:59.300 It seems like there can only be two ways to justify it.

00:06:05.260 The 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.

00:06:17.040 And what they say is, well, if gay couples aren't able to adopt, then kids will be left unadopted. 0.99

00:06:23.760 But that's clearly ridiculous. 0.98

00:06:26.000 Just because a particular child isn't adopted by homosexuals doesn't mean that he won't be adopted by anyone. 0.99

00:06:35.480 This is the false choice that you hear the gay activists make all the time. 0.99

00:06:39.560 They 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? 0.98

00:06:47.760 Well, that's not the choice.

00:06:50.260 There's a third option.

00:06:51.260 The third option is that they're adopted by a heterosexual couple.

00:06:54.740 And there's a line 50 miles long of heterosexual couples waiting to adopt.

00:07:00.140 So 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.

00:07:17.760 And so if a child is not adopted by a gay couple, he still could very likely be adopted by a heterosexual couple.

00:07:23.240 This, 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? 0.93

00:07:42.840 They are, you nincompoops.

00:07:44.660 That's exactly what they're doing.

00:07:46.040 There 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.

00:08:00.640 So that argument is just not true.

00:08:03.240 And 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.

00:08:20.240 Even 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.

00:08:37.440 So if this was really about the kids, you wouldn't be doing that.

00:08:41.440 The 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.

00:08:51.900 It's very mean.

00:08:52.640 It hurts my feelings.

00:08:54.420 However, 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.

00:09:02.240 And so let's leave them alone.

00:09:03.920 That'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.

00:09:14.780 They would make their case.

00:09:16.140 They would make their argument.

00:09:17.400 They'd make it passionately.

00:09:18.660 And then when they're told by the, by the other party concerned that, listen, I hear your argument.

00:09:24.980 Don't agree with it.

00:09:26.280 These are my convictions.

00:09:27.620 This is my organization.

00:09:28.880 This is how I'm running it.

00:09:29.880 So I'm not going to do what you want me to do.

00:09:31.940 At that point, if the LGBT activists, if they cared about kids, they would say, okay, all right. 0.94

00:09:38.940 Well, then we'll, you know, we'll find an adoption agency that we'll adopt, that we'll let gay couples adopt.

00:09:46.920 So this isn't about children.

00:09:48.660 No, it's, it's about the homosexuals themselves, as always. 1.00

00:09:53.460 Everything on the left.

00:09:55.020 It's always just about, anytime a leftist is arguing, but all their causes, everything, it's all about them.

00:10:01.600 It's about their own advantage, their own priorities, their own benefit, their own gain.

00:10:07.320 That's always what it's about.

00:10:09.320 Now, 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,

00:10:15.460 or to claim that they're all, you know, virtuous and selfless and everything like that, because that's certainly not the case.

00:10:21.940 But on the conservative side of the spectrum, some of the movements traditionally associated with conservatism, like the pro-life movement, these are selfless movements.

00:10:32.040 Like, a pro-life woman does not gain anything materially from being pro-life. 1.00

00:10:42.200 She doesn't, she doesn't stand to gain anything from that. 0.81

00:10:44.380 It's not, it's not a selfish position.

00:10:46.080 It's an inherently selfless position.

00:10:48.320 Because 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. 1.00

00:11:02.100 So that's a sacrifice she's willing to make.

00:11:05.120 But you notice on the left, there are no sacrifices.

00:11:08.000 They never make any, it's never about anyone else, there's never any sacrifices being made.

00:11:12.660 And it's always me, me, me, me, me, me, this is what I want.

00:11:18.300 But 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. 0.92

00:11:25.240 But they all say, well, it's about rights.

00:11:27.060 This is a, this is a fight for rights.

00:11:31.460 Well, what right was being violated?

00:11:34.260 If a gay couple is told that they can't adopt, what right was violated?

00:11:38.900 The right to adopt, that right doesn't exist.

00:11:43.500 Children aren't commodities that you're entitled to possess.

00:11:47.460 You don't have a right to a child in an adoption agency.

00:11:50.620 That's a human being.

00:11:51.640 It's not a thing you can own.

00:11:54.160 What kind of person, what kind of person walks into an adoption agency and says, I have a right to one of these.

00:12:00.500 One of these are mine.

00:12:01.600 I have a right to them.

00:12:03.960 What kind of, what kind of arrogance is that? 0.97

00:12:06.480 I mean, it's disgusting. 0.92

00:12:08.900 To, to, to, to, I don't know how else to put it.

00:12:14.720 They're not things.

00:12:16.440 They're people.

00:12:17.840 And you don't have a right to them.

00:12:20.340 The only children you have a right to, if we want to put it that way, are your own children.

00:12:24.860 So, if you conceive or give birth to a child, you have a right to that child.

00:12:31.500 As in, that is your child.

00:12:34.720 And 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.

00:12:41.900 Or, 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.

00:12:51.680 That is their child.

00:12:52.980 And no one has a right to take that child from them.

00:12:54.980 But, 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.

00:13:05.960 So, you don't have a right to them.

00:13:08.080 You have no legal claim over them whatsoever.

00:13:10.200 And, besides which, there are many rules governing who can adopt.

00:13:17.460 If 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. 0.88

00:13:25.920 But, that's not how it works, and that's not how it should work.

00:13:27.900 Talk to any, talk to any, any, any couple that's been through the adoption process.

00:13:33.040 They'll tell you there are tons of hoops that you have to, you have to jump through.

00:13:36.940 There are probably too many hoops, but we, I think we all agree that there should be some hoops.

00:13:40.760 I mean, there should be some qualifications.

00:13:45.560 And, so, it's got nothing to do with rights.

00:13:47.240 It's got nothing to do with the kids.

00:13:50.020 It's just about being bullies. 0.98

00:13:51.300 And, 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. 1.00

00:14:01.160 Jack Phillips is another, of course, example.

00:14:03.740 You won a victory against them in the Supreme Court, but they haven't relented.

00:14:06.660 They're still going after him.

00:14:08.260 They're still trying to destroy his livelihood.

00:14:10.480 And, they'll continue the assault for another five years, ten years, twenty years, until they get their way.

00:14:15.380 And, we're seeing this repeated across the country with other bakers and photographers and people in the wedding industry and so forth.

00:14:22.880 They're all being, it's being demanded of all of them that they bow before the LGBT altar or they go out of business. 1.00

00:14:29.960 Those are the choices they're being given.

00:14:31.440 Speaking of bowing before the altar, just this week, Brown University pulled down a study which indicated that teenagers become trans to imitate their peers.

00:14:40.860 The 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.

00:14:50.680 If 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. 0.73

00:14:59.880 So, 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.

00:15:09.220 And, so, they're looking and their friends are doing it too.

00:15:11.440 And, so, they're looking at that and they're saying, well, I guess I'm transgender also.

00:15:15.920 It's because of peer pressure and because of, you know, because of, it's a trend, basically.

00:15:24.540 Well, a study was, which was conducted, which lent some credence to that view.

00:15:29.940 But the LGBT mob reacted with outrage at this study and they demanded that its contents be suppressed.

00:15:38.140 They simply will not allow any discussion of the social and biological facts related to the trans thing.

00:15:45.880 They will tolerate only a complete and unthinking acceptance of their dogmas and that's what makes them bullies.

00:15:51.200 By the way, keep this in mind.

00:15:54.420 Keep it in mind how the LGBT folks suppressed a scientific study because they didn't like the conclusion.

00:16:00.500 Not because they had any problem with the methodology, not because they could scientifically disprove it,

00:16:05.300 but they just didn't like the conclusion so they insisted that it be suppressed.

00:16:09.740 Remember this the next time the left demands that you produce a study to prove some self-evident point that you've made.

00:16:16.680 Well, if you have trouble locating studies like that, this is why.

00:16:20.600 Because they won't tolerate studies that contradict them.

00:16:23.640 They'll punish anyone who conducts them and they'll throw them out.

00:16:27.860 So, and then they demand that we produce studies to prove our points after they've thrown out all those studies

00:16:33.860 and they've, you know, burned them in the bonfire and they've threatened any researchers who might try to repeat the sin.

00:16:39.540 Again, the same thing happened with the DSM, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

00:16:48.580 LGBT activists insisted that transgenderism, which up until a few years ago was considered a mental disorder,

00:16:54.680 they insisted that it be removed from the DSM.

00:16:57.560 Again, not because there had been any scientific breakthrough, 0.99

00:17:00.880 not because it had been proven that, oh, actually a man with a penis can be a woman. 0.99

00:17:06.080 No, that never happened. 0.97

00:17:07.500 They just didn't like it being in there because it offended them and it wasn't ideologically convenient.

00:17:14.040 And so for those ideological and political reasons, they demanded that it be removed and they got their way as usual.

00:17:21.920 But now they'll actually try to use that to prove their case.

00:17:27.240 So if you say transgenderism is a mental disorder, which it is, they'll say, oh yeah, well, it's not in the DSM.

00:17:33.680 Yeah, it's not in the DSM because you had it removed.

00:17:36.720 You demanded they take it out.

00:17:38.180 You kicked and screamed and stomped your feet until it was taken out.

00:17:41.400 That's why it's not in there, as you well know.

00:17:45.860 Now, I could cite a thousand other examples, but there's no need.

00:17:52.860 The point is plain enough. 1.00

00:17:54.260 LGBT activists are the worst bullies in America. 1.00

00:17:56.980 By far, it's not close. 0.98

00:17:58.200 They believe that their goal is manifestly good, and so they can resort to whatever means are necessary to achieve it.

00:18:05.040 And 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.

00:18:10.320 Not even really a price, more like a perk because they enjoy it.

00:18:13.320 I mean, they were celebrating when an adoption agency was closed down.

00:18:16.460 They were celebrating it.

00:18:17.420 They loved it because that's how bullies are. 1.00

00:18:20.580 They just want to get their way, and that's how they get their kicks that way.

00:18:28.720 And what is this good goal, anyway, this good that they're working towards?

00:18:33.480 Well, they'll say that they seek equality, but that can't be it because they already have equality.

00:18:37.620 Homosexuals have all the same rights as heterosexuals. 0.83

00:18:40.120 In fact, they have rights that heterosexuals don't have. 0.99

00:18:42.100 For 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.

00:18:53.140 They'll just laugh me out of the room.

00:18:55.160 But if you're a homosexual, you actually have a right, supposedly, in some states, in many states, you have a right to cake. 0.88

00:19:02.360 That's a right I don't have.

00:19:03.260 In 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. 0.86

00:19:28.840 However, the rates of HIV in the gay community are much, much, much, much higher than they are among heterosexuals.

00:19:38.000 And so for that reason, logically, in the name of safety, gay people were not able to give blood. 0.95

00:19:47.740 But even that is now under attack, and those rules are being repealed everywhere.

00:19:52.300 The LGBT lobby will risk giving HIV to hospital patients if it means they get their way. 0.83

00:20:01.460 They will shut down adoption agencies.

00:20:04.260 They will risk giving HIV.

00:20:06.640 They will tear down businesses, ruin lives, take people's livelihoods from them.

00:20:13.720 That's what they'll do.

00:20:18.960 And it has nothing to do with equality.

00:20:20.720 So if equality isn't the aim, then what is the aim?

00:20:22.920 Tolerance?

00:20:23.400 They want tolerance?

00:20:25.300 Well, homosexuality is not only tolerated, but celebrated. 0.95

00:20:30.620 There's not going to be any parades marching down the street celebrating my sexual proclivities. 0.99

00:20:35.900 No, that's only what homosexuals have. 1.00

00:20:37.920 So they have much more than tolerance. 0.89

00:20:40.000 They have, in many quarters, something much closer to worship, which is what they demand.

00:20:47.360 So what is the point?

00:20:48.340 It's not tolerance, not equality.

00:20:50.800 Well, the point is just vengeance, spite, imposing their will, expressing their hatred, getting their way, power. 0.59

00:21:02.140 They are bullies. 0.96

00:21:03.340 And that's all the gay rights fight in America is anymore, because they have all the rights. 0.97

00:21:12.480 And so now, anytime someone says they're fighting for gay rights, that's not what they're fighting for.

00:21:16.980 They're fighting to impose themselves now.

00:21:19.900 That's all it is.

00:21:20.760 Thanks for watching, everybody.

00:21:26.840 Thanks for listening.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 29, 2018

Ep. 93 - The Bullying, Intolerant Tactics of LGBT Activists

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