Ep. 1152 - Arresting Christians For Praying Makes Us The Bad Guys
Summary
Pro-lifers in the United Kingdom are being arrested for praying silently in their heads outside abortion mills. Are we the baddies, or are we the good guys? Michael Knowles explains. Plus, a new report from the U.S. Marine Corps.
Transcript
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It's almost Christmas, and many of you are probably planning on praying over the next
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few days, which is why I want to take this opportunity to warn you that if you do plan
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to pray, and you happen to be in Britain, that could land you in jail.
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Before I ask you any questions about what's going on today, I have to caution you, which
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is just your right, which is you do not have to say anything. It may harm your defense if
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you do not mention one question, something that you later on in court, anything you do
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send me to give you a call. What are you here for today?
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Okay, why here, of all places? I know you don't live nearby.
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Okay, that's why I used to. Is you standing here part of a protest?
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So I'll ask you once more, will you voluntarily come with us now to the police station for
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me to ask you some questions about today and other days where there are allegations that
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you've broken the public space of protection order?
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Okay, well then you're under arrest against suspicion of failing to comply with the public
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space of protection order, which is under the anti-social behaviour climate policing
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after 2014. Now, of course, again, you do not have to say anything. It may harm your defense
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if you do not mention one question, something from which you later on in court, anything you
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say maybe to the police. Now, I would like to think that this sort of evil police action,
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cartoonishly evil police action, is only taking place in the United Kingdom. But it's happening
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here too. The FBI regularly and increasingly targets pro-lifers who pray outside of abortion
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mills. And then they arrest them on trumped up charges that the pro-lifers are obstructing or
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intimidating people who are seeking to kill their children. The UK might be a little bit ahead of
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the curve here, but not by much. People are being arrested for praying silently in their heads.
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And I love my country. And I love my ancestral country, Great Britain. And I love my whole
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civilization. And I have always been raised to believe that we are the good guys. But in recent
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decades, we've sanctioned the killing of almost a million babies a year. In recent years, we've
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essentially abolished marriage. We've started grooming and castrating little kids and pumping
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them full of hormones and mutilating their bodies. And now we're arresting Christians for praying
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silently in their heads. So I don't want to be a downer or anything, but I've got to ask a very
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British question. Are we the baddies? I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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projecting our power abroad, there's a new academic report that the United States Marines have received
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demanding that they stop calling their drill instructors sir and ma'am.
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So our Marines, our wonderful, brave, valiant Marines who sacrifice a lot to defend our country
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and our way of life. They sign up and they end up working for these woke lunatics who tell them
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that they can't call their drill instructors sir or ma'am because they might misgender the drill
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instructor. This according to a 739 page report from the University of Pittsburgh. This was catalyzed by
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a new congressional mandate. So it's our stupid politicians forcing this nonsense on the Marines.
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It's featured PhD biologists Bradley C. Nindel and Mita Lovelaker and 22 academics telling Marines
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that they need to, quote, replace gendered identifiers, for example, sir or ma'am, in the primary
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salutation or response to drill instructors with gender neutral language, such as drill instructor
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or senior drill instructor, senior DI or SDI. Employing gender neutral identifiers eliminates the possibility
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of misgendering drill instructors, which can unintentionally offend or cause discord.
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We're never going to win another war again, are we? We had a good run. The U.S. did a pretty good job winning
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wars for most of our history. Our men and women in uniform are just as tough as nails as they always have been.
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But if the people leading our military don't, they're afraid of misgendering, we're not going
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to win anymore. Maybe we've still got a little bit of gusto left in us. But as long as these military
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leaders remain in place, we are totally screwed. Which is not great because the United States,
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whether we want to admit it or not, administers a global empire. We don't make laws like the bill
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up on Capitol Hill. We're not just a little nation surrounded by oceans. We have a global empire.
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We have states overseas. We've got one state, Hawaii, just in the middle of the Pacific. We have
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basically total control over the European continent because we are the military for Europe.
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That's what NATO does. We run the United Nations. So we have a role as the world superpower.
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And we are currently fighting an imperial war with Russia over the territory of Ukraine and whether
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Ukraine will join NATO or join the European Union or become part of Russia or maintain a kind of
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quasi-independence that allows it to be a buffer state to play great powers off of one another.
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You saw this when our vassal, Vladimir Zelensky, came over to the US and lobbied for more money so
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that we will help fund that war against Russia. And the Democrats were happy to have him. They
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flew him out here to use him and the emotion behind the war in Ukraine to convince Republicans to vote
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for this stupid omnibus spending package, the $1.7 trillion spending package, some of which will go
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toward funding this war in Ukraine. And one of the images that came out of this whole episode was,
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it's a doctored image. It's not an authentic image, but it's an image of Nancy Pelosi and other
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congressmen holding up an American flag. But then the bottom of the American flag is no longer red and
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white. It's yellow and blue. It's the Ukrainian flag. And the stars, it's no longer all the stars.
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It's got these little Ukrainian symbols there, too. So it's not a real image. But it does refer to a real
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sense, I think. All these big libs changing their profile pictures and their names on social media to
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include the Ukrainian flag, which is crazy. My family is Italian. I love Italy. I'm not going to put an Italian
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flag in my handle because I'm an American. I'm not an Italian. That's disloyal to do that.
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I've got British ancestry, as I mentioned in the open. I'm not going to put the Union Jack in my
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hand because that's, but all these libs, they're putting the Ukrainian flag. And then I was looking
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at that. I said, wow, this is the new imperial standard, the red, white, and blue with the
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Ukraine thing at the bottom. And I thought, well, if we're going to have an imperial flag, I guess
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America and Ukraine as a mashup is better than the current imperial standard, which is just the pride
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flag. That is effectively the flag of the American empire. It's the flag we raise over our conquered
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territories overseas. It's the flag that the liberal imperialists all use. They all prefer
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the rainbow flag to the red, white, and blue. It's a flag that denotes not just a particular place with
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a particular people as the American flag does, as all other national flags do, but it denotes
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universal values. So it really does denote a global empire of liberalism. So you have all of these
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libs. We use these kind of flags. They never talk about the nation and the people and the particular
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interests of the United States. It's always this abstract stuff. It's always spreading democracy,
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spreading human rights, spreading gay rights, spreading this right and that right, and all these
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abstract concepts all over the world. That is a claim of domination. That is a claim
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of imperialism, saying that individual nations have no right to rule themselves. People who have
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their own traditions have no right to maintain those traditions. And this is the most important
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part as far as I'm concerned. Even we conservatives here in America have no right to our own
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traditions. Christians here in America, here in Britain, here all over the West, have no right to
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our own traditions. We don't get to go to church. They're going to shut down the churches during
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COVID. They're going to leave the pot stores open. They're going to leave the casinos open,
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but they're going to shut down the churches. And then even after they reopen the churches after COVID,
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they're not going to let you pray silently outside of an abortion clinic. That's the problem for me.
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The problem for me is not even so much this debate between nationalism and imperialism or nationalism
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and globalism. In the way that politics is actually functioning today, that is an important
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distinction. But the Middle Ages were great, and there was plenty of empire in the Middle Ages.
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Nationalism is in many ways a product of liberal modernity. So it's not just that I'm some
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hardcore nationalist. Far from it. But if we're going to have imperialism, if we're going to have an
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empire, I'd like it to be a good Christian empire where we get to keep our traditions and worship
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God correctly and we don't get arrested for praying. What we have instead is this hideous,
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liberal, atheistic kind of empire that promotes all the worst aspects of our culture and suppresses
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all the best parts of it. Well, I don't think we want any part of that. And that is why you'll hear
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Republicans being called Putin stooges and appeasers and all the rest because we don't care
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about the war in Ukraine. Well, that's why. It's about a lot more than Ukraine. It's about this
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question of if we are going to administer a global empire, if we're going to spread our values
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around the world. What values are we spreading? Are we spreading truth, justice, and God and
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religion and virtue and family and prosperity? Or are we spreading abortion and transing the kids
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and arresting people for praying? What is it? Unfortunately, right now it's the latter. Is
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it any wonder that we don't want to fund the empire? No, we want to get back to basics. We want
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to get back to religion. We want to get back to God. When you want to do that, you've got to check
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reading plan for free. Speaking of the rainbow flag, did you know that I am apparently an anti-LGBTQ
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bigot? That's true. That according to Media Matters, apparently. Media Matters has a rundown
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of Tim Pool's guests from the year, and they say extremists, bigots, and conspiracy theorists.
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YouTuber Tim Pool's 2022 guests in review. And I was really honored to make the list. It's sort of a
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best of. So they go through all these guys, you know, let's see, where am I? I want to skip over
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everybody else. I just want to get to me. They've got, I think, a number of other Daily Wire people
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did too. Okay, here we go. Top of the page. Far-right figure Lauren Southern was on TimCast
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multiple times this year. Southern has a history of pushing racist propaganda and white nationalist
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rhetoric. And then you get to me. The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles is an anti-LGBTQ bully.
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Pool hosted Knowles in April. By the way, Pool hosted Knowles like five days ago too,
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so they clearly aren't up on their extremism. And then it goes on and on. But I think Brett made
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it. I think Walsh made it. I think Jeremy made it. I mean, yeah, here we go. Ben. Ben's on here.
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It's kind of, maybe Drew, all of us. But I ranked up here as an anti-LGBTQ bully.
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I performed in my first musical theater production at the age of eight. When I was a child,
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I took jazz, ballroom, and tap dancing lessons. I graduated from the gayest university in the United
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States. I have lived most of my life on the coasts. A disproportionate number of my friends
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are very, very gay. I regularly drink port and sherry at the end of the night.
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I just, how did I become? I like to think I'm a nice open mind. How did I become an anti-LGBTQ bully?
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Do you know why? You know what they cite? They link that phrase. It's because I said on Tim Pool's show,
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or maybe it was on my own show. I don't remember exactly the context. I said that there's no such
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thing as gay marriage, that marriage intrinsically involves sexual difference. And so because I
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stated a plain fact of language and anthropology, that makes me an anti-LGBTQ bully. Why do I mention
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it? One, I mention it because I absolutely adore my publicists over at Media Matters. I thank them
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very much for keeping me in the news and top of everybody's mind. The other reason I mention it
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is to show you what a lie it was. When the left told us, when we were a little further up that
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slippery slope, they said, listen, why do you care what people do in their own homes? I say, well,
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it's not exactly what we're talking. We're talking about political matters, the nature of marriage,
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the nature of man and woman, and the nature of the Constitution, and the degree to which the
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Constitution even has a say over these sorts of matters. And so they say, well, you're a, come on,
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you're just, you're just being a weirdo. Why do you care what people do in their homes? Okay,
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we said, do whatever you want in your own homes. Okay, we'll even pretend that it's in the Constitution,
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that you have a right to do whatever weird sex stuff you want to do in your homes. Okay, fine.
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All right, and that's why we also need civil unions. That's all. We just want civil unions,
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okay? Just recognize that certain legal privileges that you can have them in a union between two men,
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just as between a man and a woman. They said, oh, I don't know, because it kind of then blurs
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the definition. They said, what do you care? Why are you, come on, that's all we want. Okay.
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Then they said, we're going to redefine marriage. They said, well, hold on, man, marriage, that's the
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fundamental political institution. That's, that's, for all of human history, everywhere in the world,
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people have thought marriage means a certain thing. Now you're telling me it doesn't mean
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that at all. You're actually abolishing the institution of marriage. They said, that's
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all we want to do. That's all we want to do is just redefine marriage a little bit. But you can,
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you guys, you can still, it's not going to threaten your marriage. You can run your business. You can
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have your life. You can have your church. Okay. Then what did they do? They just passed this
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quote unquote respect for marriage act, which outlaws businesses refusing to participate in a gay
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marriage, quote unquote gay marriage. Now, if you are a Christian, all I did was articulate the
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Catholic view of marriage, which also happens to be, with some exception, the Protestant view of
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marriage, which also happens to be the Jewish view of marriage, which also happens to be the Muslim
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view of marriage, which also happens to be the view of marriage of every even semi-reasonable
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agnostic or atheist for all, pagan for all of human history. They say, it makes you a bully.
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That's how it goes. And had we stood a little firmer on our principles and on reality, further
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up that slippery slope, and had we not allowed the libs and the squishes to tell us to stop being
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such fuddy-duddies and to just, you know, come on, get with the times and get hip and cool, man,
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we wouldn't be where we are. Now, all of the sexual madness that you were seeing, the castrating
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little kids, the pride flags flying everywhere from our state capitals to Kandahar, the now prohibition
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of people to refuse to participate in a so-called gay marriage, all of that flows directly from
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those battles that we conceded further up the slippery slope. It should remind us of how to
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fight moving into the future. Now, beyond the empire of the rainbow, beyond the American empire
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abroad, the political order is a little bit shaky at home. There is a really, really dumb piece in
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Vox. Vox is a left-wing outlet. They call themselves explanatory journalism. I love that
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descriptor, explanatory journalism, as opposed to really dumb, stupid, doesn't teach you anything
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journalism, which I guess describes most journalism, actually. But Vox, I say, we're a very special kind
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of journalism. We explain things, unlike all those dumb, idiotic journalistic outlets. So the headline
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is Sotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring. The U.S. Senate is a fundamentally broken institution.
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Democratic judges need to account for that in their retirement decisions. This is by Ilan
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Nilheiser, who's a big lib. He is a senior correspondent at Vox, and he's focused on the
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Supreme Court. The decline of liberal democracy in the United States, fine by me. Certainly, America was
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not founded to be a liberal democracy. It should not be a liberal democracy. The phrase liberal democracy
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only came to describe the United States really in the middle to late part of the 20th century.
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So forget about that, but you get where he's coming from. And he says, we've now lived with
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the consequences of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's late-life arrogance for more than two years.
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Arrogance. You see, the arrogant RBG decided she wasn't going to retire. She was going to
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die in office, die on the bench, and then she was replaced. And she was replaced by a conservative,
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and this was terrible, according to Nilheiser. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, much like other justices
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on the left and on the right, have said, no, we are not going to time our retirement decisions
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to when a president of our party is in office. Because we are judges. We are not supposed to
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be partisan. Obviously, we have partisan leanings. Obviously, we were appointed by presidents.
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Sometimes the justices disappoint the presidents and the parties that appoint them. But there's,
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the idea at least, is that they're supposed to be above the petty squabbling of partisan politics.
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We need at least one institution to at least pretend to do that at least some of the time.
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Ian Millhiser, Vox.com, totally, completely wrong here. What they are doing is expressing
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the worst kind of degrading, leveling tendencies of democracy. We in the United States
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have a broadly democratic government. It's not purely a democratic government, but there's a big
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democratic representation. And we don't have a monarchy here. We have elements of monarchy in
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the presidency, but we don't have a monarchy. We explicitly don't have a monarchy. And whatever
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you think about monarchy, a lot of Americans hate the idea of monarchy. But one of the good things
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that monarchy does is it gives a nation a kind of dignity, at least in the pomp and the circumstance,
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if not in the personal comportment of the monarchs. Though in Britain, you just had one of the most
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dignified monarchs in history. But even just the pomp and circumstance, even just the big castles
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and the grand parades, it gives the nation a sense of dignity. That the monarch as sovereign
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gives the nation a sense that there is something above just the petty little squabbling over this
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tax policy or that tax policy. This is why the royals are not permitted to behave in a party
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political sort of way. Because you want the country to look up and say, oh, there's something that
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unifies all of us. In the United States, because we're not a monarchy, the Supreme Court has served
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that function before. That it's above the election cycles. That it's above public opinion polls.
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That the building that it operates in is one of the grandest buildings in our country.
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It's a big, nice, solid, grand building with nice, big, serious columns. And the justices,
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they don't wear business suits. They wear robes. And they're supposed to elevate themselves above this.
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That's why they hang out together. That's why Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were buddies. And they'd
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go riding camels, or elephants, rather, and things. They'd go on vacation. Okay? They were friends.
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I think they were genuinely friends. But it was important to see that they were friends.
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Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas apparently are kind of friends. It's good to see that.
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America needs something like that. But the leveling Democrats don't want us to have any dignity at all.
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They want to take us all right down to the gutter. And totally gut the last institution that ever,
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Christmas, the Senate has passed that ridiculous omnibus bill, $1.7 trillion spending package.
00:25:20.100
Passed it on Thursday with a 68 to 29 vote with at least 18 Republicans joining Democrats to push
00:25:27.420
this massive omnibus over the line. The Republican senators who voted for it were all the usual
00:25:34.660
suspects, the Romneys of the world, but even some who are generally pretty good, they voted for it
00:25:40.680
too. Really, really pathetic. I made the point on the show yesterday that no Republican needed to vote
00:25:49.380
for this spending bill. No Republican needed to do it. The Democrats could just have owned it.
00:25:56.500
The Republicans are about to take over the House. That will give the Republicans a lot more leverage
00:26:03.040
because spending bills, first of all, originate in the House and the House is needed to get them
00:26:07.660
through to get it up to the presidency. They could have passed a short-term spending plan if they wanted
00:26:14.220
to avoid the government shutdown. And then they could have had a proper debate about this in January.
00:26:19.180
They didn't do it because they didn't want to do it. The Republicans who voted for this didn't vote
00:26:25.080
for it because they had to, because what else would happen? The government would shut down. The war in
00:26:30.340
Ukraine would collapse. Whatever nonsense. No. They certainly didn't vote for it because it was going
00:26:36.040
to take on any problems that Americans actually care about, like the southern border or the economy.
00:26:39.720
They didn't do that. The bill is going to make inflation much worse and the border is wide open.
00:26:44.120
And while we're all debating this bill, Joe Biden is flying illegal aliens into red states like my own
00:26:49.200
state of Tennessee. So it's not that at all. The Republicans who voted for this wanted to vote for it
00:26:55.260
because we are very often governed not by two parties fighting each other tooth and nail over principle
00:27:01.620
and policy, but rather by a uniparty that sometimes duke out issues in the performance of opposition,
00:27:11.840
but it's really a false opposition. Now the House can move on to really serious business.
00:27:19.060
Now they can finally get into really serious things such as releasing Trump's tax returns.
00:27:26.920
Republicans. Remember the other day when Mitch McConnell, he was interviewed about the omnibus
00:27:33.160
and he said, the number one, the number one priority for Republicans is to the war in Ukraine.
00:27:42.360
Say hello to my little friend, right? Remember when he did that? This might be even more ridiculous
00:27:49.380
than that. Some Republicans care about the war in Ukraine. I don't know a single Republican who cares
00:27:53.920
about Trump's taxes. And so there's the House. The House is Wile E. Coyote and they're chasing the roadrunner,
00:27:59.180
Donald Trump. And they say, we've got him now. And they've got the Acme Anvil. And they say,
00:28:02.840
we're going to release his tax returns. The walls are closing in. We've got him. Do they have him?
00:28:10.280
You listening out there, probably disproportionately conservative and Republican. Many of you, I'm sure,
00:28:17.200
love Donald Trump. Many of you probably don't like Donald Trump that much. Whatever you think about Trump,
00:28:21.880
is there anything that could be in Donald Trump's taxes that would change your opinion of him?
00:28:30.200
Anything? Anything. Like, I don't think there's really bad stuff in there. In fact, in the last
00:28:35.220
tax fraud case against the Trump organization, the one that was brought up in New York, what they
00:28:39.780
discovered was that Trump was actually overpaying his taxes in that he was artificially inflating the
00:28:45.860
value of his businesses to try to get better loans. And it was a kind of a complex thing.
00:28:49.040
But I don't think there's going to be bad stuff. But even if there were, let's say that Donald Trump
00:28:53.240
were, I don't know, paying off the mob to do some construction project in New York and doing this
00:29:00.140
and burying a body here and do, would any of that change your opinion of Donald Trump? No, of course
00:29:06.560
not. So I assume this will be an absolutely, they're just throwing spaghetti at the wall. They
00:29:12.500
just want to stop this guy. And it's a reminder that the Democrats keep trying to stop this guy and
00:29:16.560
kill his campaign in the cradle. Why? It is not because they think that Donald Trump is so super
00:29:24.040
easy to beat in 2024. If they really believed, if Democrats were making a bet right now that Donald
00:29:30.480
Trump is the easiest candidate for them to beat in 2024, they would be doing everything they can to
00:29:37.100
make sure he's the nominee. And they would be doing everything they can to kill Ron DeSantis'
00:29:41.800
campaign in the cradle or kill Tim Scott's campaign in the cradle or kill Nikki Haley's or Mike Pence's
00:29:47.500
or Mike Pompeo's or Ted Cruz's or anybody's. Only some of these people have actually said that they
00:29:54.100
are running or will run. But there are plenty of people, Josh Hawley or whoever, there are a lot of
00:29:57.860
people who could run. But they're going after Trump. Why? Because though they tell us that Trump will be
00:30:06.160
super duper easy to beat, they don't seem to believe it themselves. Speaking of changing minds,
00:30:12.840
there's a story, another bit of a downer story. Well, luckily we'll have an upper before we all
00:30:18.740
head into Christmas with the mailbag and the voicemail bag. Make sure you get your questions
00:30:22.060
in for after we come back from Christmas. But this is a little bit of a downer. Church attendance and
00:30:27.060
general belief in God has dropped in the United States over the past few years. No surprise there.
00:30:33.560
COVID appeared to accelerate the trend. Church attendance has dropped by roughly 45%
00:30:42.400
since the start of the COVID lockdowns. A Gallup survey released over the summer found that belief
00:30:50.180
in God sunk to an all-time low this year, down to 81%. It also identified young individuals and leftists
00:30:57.560
as being the most likely not to believe in God. Nothing really surprising there. It's actually
00:31:03.220
somewhat edifying or gratifying that at least 81% of people still sort of at least believe in God.
00:31:11.180
But the key here is shutting down the churches coincided not only with a drop in belief in God,
00:31:19.040
but with an acceleration of a drop in the belief in God. And I suspect it was probably the main driver.
00:31:26.120
And it gets back to a principle that we sometimes talk about on the show,
00:31:28.720
which is the principle, lex orandi, lex credendi. The way that you worship will determine the way
00:31:37.040
that you believe. And we've been using all sorts of Latin phrases on the show. We've got Vox
00:31:42.760
Populi, Vox Dei from Elon Musk. Now we've got this, lex orandi, lex credendi. It's really important.
00:31:47.520
And there is an impulse, even among modern Christian people, to say, well, it doesn't matter how I pray.
00:31:54.120
I don't need to pray on my knees. I don't need to receive the sacraments. I don't need to go to
00:31:57.860
church in person. I can just do it all kind of in my head. No, you can't. You are a body. You're a
00:32:03.500
soul, but you're also a body. And we live in time and space. And you've got to actually do this stuff.
00:32:07.580
And when you pray, and when you go to church, and when you have Christmas dinner, don't forget,
00:32:12.300
they shut down our Christmas dinners too. And you have your family over, and you even read
00:32:16.220
Twas the Night Before Christmas. You even engage in certain rituals that are not religious,
00:32:22.160
or only tangentially religious. But you do these things that are associated with your religion.
00:32:27.520
You are more likely to believe in your religion. Because we are not pure reason. We're not just
00:32:33.540
brains floating in the air or something like that. We're bodies. You've got to get it in your muscle
00:32:37.720
memory. This is why if you want to memorize a poem or a speech or a script or something,
00:32:42.320
it helps to say it out loud. Really exaggerate your mouth movements. Because you get it in that
00:32:47.360
muscle memory. If you want to get good at a sport, I am reliably informed. What you've got to do is
00:32:51.720
you've got to swing that bat a lot. You've got to get it into your muscle memory. You don't just
00:32:55.040
read it in a book and think about it. You don't even just read it in your Bible and think about
00:32:59.120
that and pray in your head. People are getting arrested out there for praying, even silently,
00:33:03.400
even in their own heads. So I get why people are intimidated. Do not be intimidated. Do not let
00:33:08.940
these liberal, secularist, atheist jerks get you down, stomp on your joy, especially at Christmas
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Hi, Michael. It's Elise again. I wanted to press you further about a question you received last week
00:35:23.340
about how a wife can serve her husband. I have also been searching for an answer to this question.
00:35:31.680
My husband is very self-sufficient and rarely asks me to do anything for him. I feel like there is this
00:35:39.140
higher goal that God is calling me to as a wife that I'm not reaching simply by doing his laundry
00:35:45.600
when he hasn't done it himself or cooking him dinner or things like that. All the resources about
00:35:52.040
marriage I've looked into seem to be encouraging the wife to ask for more from her husband, and rarely
00:35:59.400
do they acknowledge God's design for a woman to serve and a man to love, which is frustrating.
00:36:06.280
If you have any specific examples of deeper ways to fulfill this calling, or if it really is just
00:36:12.880
about the everyday tasks that make his life easier, I would love to hear it. Thanks so much, and God
00:36:21.480
Based. Very, very. Is that what the kids call it these days? Thank you so much for that excellent
00:36:27.560
question. Your hunch is right. Serving your husband and acting in the role of a wife and a mother and
00:36:35.660
the matriarch of a family is not just about the little things. The little things are a huge part
00:36:41.360
of it. Because women excel at the little things in a way that men do not. Men seek after big, glorious
00:36:48.540
endeavors all the time. And frankly, we often neglect the little things that most productive work is
00:36:55.360
actually made of. So we are not nearly as organized as women are. We're often not as meticulous or
00:37:02.880
fastidious in certain sort of banal tasks as women can be. So those little acts of love, you know,
00:37:10.500
cooking breakfast for your husband, or doing the laundry, or whatever. Those really do matter.
00:37:17.160
But there is much more to that, to being a wife in a marriage than just that. I think with Sweet
00:37:24.440
Little Elisa, she's the only person that I allow to write my show, that I beg to write my show,
00:37:31.640
because she gets it. And it's not just that she and I have the same mind. We don't really have the
00:37:37.700
same mind. We have complimentary minds. She compliments things that I miss, that I don't
00:37:42.800
quite see. She sees it. And she can say it. And we speak the same language. And we often,
00:37:48.000
and this is true of married couples, we often don't even need to speak to be able to communicate,
00:37:53.980
just a little glance or just a little look. And that happens more and more over time,
00:37:57.100
the longer that you are married. Part, I don't know exactly how to establish that.
00:38:04.860
But you have to, I don't know. And I don't know what your husband does. So, you know,
00:38:12.420
certain jobs are going to lend themselves more to this than others. Sweet Little Elisa listens to my
00:38:17.380
show every single day, because I, of course, force her to. No, she voluntarily listens to my show,
00:38:22.060
and she'll give me thoughts on it. And it's always constructive. And it's, it's, she's just
00:38:28.040
really plugged in. She knows exactly what I am doing, probably more so than I even know what she
00:38:32.680
is doing. And I live where she works, you know? And I, I am the father of the children who she is
00:38:38.580
raising and, you know, the other things that she's doing as well. But we're just so plugged in on what
00:38:45.420
each other is, is doing that I can say, it can be 10 o'clock at night. I'll be lying there. I'll say,
00:38:50.640
I don't know what to talk about. And she'll say, oh yeah, well, did you see this thing today? You
00:38:53.500
got to put this in the show. And then I think that, you know, not only did this woman cook me
00:38:57.080
dinner and clean my clothing, she just wrote my show too. She just did my whole, my whole show.
00:39:01.580
It's pretty good. You, you, you ought to be involved in pretty much every aspect of your lives
00:39:09.080
together. Next question. Hello, Miguel. You have talked about the rapidly decreasing sperm count since
00:39:16.400
the 1950s. Joe Rogan has had on several people as well, discussing this over the past couple of
00:39:21.100
years. Given this, if the trend continues, aren't we as a society obligated to embrace more artificial
00:39:27.500
forms of reproduction like IVF? Don't get me wrong. I don't like the idea of this at all. But if it
00:39:33.920
continues to get harder and harder to reproduce and we do nothing as a society, say decreasing
00:39:39.260
pesticides, petrochemicals, banning vegans, do we have any other choice as a species? Also, as a note, I
00:39:48.000
expect this problem to continue, especially with the trans agenda, making a bunch of our kids infertile.
00:39:55.360
I guess the question is, would God rather our species go extinct or have some fertilized eggs frozen
00:40:03.400
away? It's a tough question. I don't think it's a tough question because good ends do not justify
00:40:11.340
immoral means. And I think that IVF is intrinsically immoral. And I know it's a tough one because a lot
00:40:19.460
of people out there got their kids through IVF and a lot of people out there may have been conceived
00:40:22.900
themselves through IVF. This is not to say that you're certainly going to burn in hell. This is not
00:40:29.900
to say that the kids conceived through IVF are not as valuable as the kids conceived not through IVF
00:40:34.700
any more than it would be to say that a kid conceived through rape is somehow not as valuable
00:40:40.020
as a kid conceived in the conjugal act between a married mother and father. But it is to say
00:40:45.800
that certain actions are immoral. And I think that in the case of IVF, it's immoral. For one,
00:40:51.960
you're separating the conjugal act from the procreative act, which is disordered and I think gravely
00:40:58.080
sinful. Even if you're not willing to go with me that far, you are establishing the domination of
00:41:03.180
technology and industry and perhaps even the state over the origin and destiny of human life.
00:41:09.580
Very, very dangerous and I think quite immoral. Third, the way that you get the male contribution
00:41:17.080
to IVF is intrinsically disordered and deeply shameful and the sort of thing that when one does it,
00:41:23.820
one closes one's blinds and there's a good reason for that. So that you wouldn't want to do that.
00:41:28.000
And then of course, those are the four problems before you even get to the issue of you're
00:41:34.760
creating human beings in a petri dish and then freezing them away indefinitely. Not acceptable.
00:41:41.660
And then in some cases, you're implanting them and then it doesn't catch. And then people will
00:41:46.360
kill them for abortion if too many of the embryos catch in the womb. And this doesn't even take into
00:41:54.400
account what happens when people mix up the petri dishes and they put the wrong baby into the wrong
00:42:01.040
mother. And it doesn't take into account what happens through surrogacy, where women are basically
00:42:06.240
rented out as cattle. They're rented out as just vessels by wealthy gay men or even just wealthy
00:42:15.280
couples who struggle with infertility. So the whole process is immoral. And you wouldn't see it
00:42:22.100
necessarily when you just think, well, I want to have a kid and this is a technology to do it.
00:42:26.960
What could be wrong? Isn't that pro-life? No. It is a good end. The kid is a good end,
00:42:32.060
but good ends do not justify immoral means. Another reason is that the sperm counts have dropped in no
00:42:39.340
small part because people are just fatter and lazier than they used to be. So obesity has skyrocketed
00:42:44.500
and sedentary lifestyles have become much more widespread. But there are multiple studies that
00:42:50.260
show that when people lose some weight, when guys lose some weight and get off the couch,
00:42:54.360
their sperm count jumps back up pretty quickly. Maybe not to the level that it ought to be because
00:42:59.160
environmental factors and chemicals and things like that play a role in it too. But no, I don't think
00:43:03.980
that any sort of good end would justify immoral actions. We're not consequentialists like the
00:43:12.180
libs. But in this case, there are so many simpler remedies than that. Okay, next question.
00:43:18.580
Hey, Michael. I'm a long-time listener, but this is my first time submitting a question for the mailbag.
00:43:24.640
I'm a homeschooling Latin mass mom of three little girls. You had mentioned on your show the other day
00:43:31.800
about near occasions of sin, and that's a perfect segue into my question for you. What do you think
00:43:40.020
about people kissing before they get married, like even if you're engaged and all of that? To me,
00:43:47.640
that's always seemed like a near occasion of sin because, I mean, we know where kissing leads. So
00:43:56.500
just wanted to get your opinion on that. Thanks and love the show.
00:44:04.720
Great question. You might have seen my heart was fluttering out of my chest when you said,
00:44:08.560
I'm a Latin mass attending homeschooling mother who listens to your show all the time. So that's
00:44:15.120
great. And not at all surprised by your extremely trad question. Is it okay to forget about the other
00:44:22.120
stuff people do before marriage? Is it okay to kiss before marriage? I think it probably is.
00:44:27.120
I think it probably is. But I take seriously your fear here, which is we all know what kissing leads
00:44:33.580
to. And that's true. I guess it depends on the kind of kissing and where you're kissing and the
00:44:39.580
circumstances of the kissing. That's true. But we also know where going out to dinner leads.
00:44:45.300
Going out to dinner, that's what happens before you start kissing. And kissing is what happens before
00:44:48.920
you start doing that other thing. And then doing that other thing is what happens before you start
00:44:52.780
doing that other thing is you're definitely not supposed to do before marriage. So one has to
00:44:56.920
have some prudence here. And a kiss can be an elevating experience. I don't think that a kiss
00:45:02.860
necessarily needs to lead you into the willful entertainment of impure thoughts and desires.
00:45:09.020
I don't think that it necessarily needs to lead you into committing a sinful act or anything
00:45:15.540
anything like that. But it's something you got to be careful of. It's true.
00:45:21.420
Maybe we'll draw the line. Hi, Michael. My name is Courtney. And I've been listening to you for,
00:45:25.280
I don't know, about a year or so now. I discovered you around the same time I
00:45:29.420
became a subscriber to Daily Wire. Anyways, I have a cousin who just posted on social media about
00:45:38.940
a week ago that he just became a certified Reiki person or teacher or whatever you call it. And
00:45:48.040
after watching your interview with Angela, I got very, very uncomfortable with this. And I was just
00:45:55.240
wondering what you thought I should do. If I should just pray for him, talk to him, something. I'm not
00:46:03.580
really sure. Anyways, love your show and can't wait to see what you say. Thank you. Have a very Merry
00:46:10.580
Christmas. Thank you. I hope that you have a very Merry Christmas as well. Yeah, that's bad juju.
00:46:15.540
Your buddy should not be doing Reiki stuff. And he probably doesn't know. I mean, I've known people
00:46:20.420
and I've had friends of friends who have gotten into Reiki and they don't know. I mean, they're just
00:46:26.420
hippies. They don't know any better. So yes, I would pray for your friend, but I probably would
00:46:31.820
confront him about it depending on how close you guys are. You could do it in a funny way. It doesn't
00:46:39.700
have to be this very somber, well, I have been running this over in my head for two weeks and
00:46:46.540
we have to sit down and have an intervention. You could just say, hey, buddy, you're doing the
00:46:51.760
Reiki thing. Just so you know, you're worshiping demons and you shouldn't do that because demons
00:46:55.720
are real and they're very bad and the thing you're doing is not good. And so, bro, just quit
00:47:00.240
worshiping the demons and like go to church and be a normal person, please. That would be,
00:47:05.800
that's one way to do it. And it's kind of funny, but it's also true. Okay, I want, there's actually
00:47:09.120
more voice mailbag that I want to get to. We will get to it on the member block, but I don't want to
00:47:13.840
leave without getting into at least one real old-fashioned written mailbag from Austin.
00:47:22.600
Hello, Michael. I'm 21 years old. I have a very conflicting situation at the moment. I have not
00:47:26.960
so slowly watched my 12-year-old sister go from first dating one of her female friends to calling
00:47:32.520
herself non-binary to now starting to go by a guy's name. I'd like to speak up to my dad about my
00:47:38.640
problems with it. However, he's always right and will call me uneducated if I communicate my points
00:47:43.200
in a less than perfect manner. I'm going home for Christmas and I fully expect to be corrected if I
00:47:48.780
say her pronouns are named the wrong way. Any advice? Thanks for the great podcast and Merry Christmas.
00:47:52.160
Oh, that's a tough one, Austin. And it's weird that it's your dad who's really into all the weird
00:47:57.400
trans stuff. Sometimes mothers are really into it, but usually dads are a little more level-headed
00:48:03.920
and not as brought in emotionally on when their kids get into weird sex stuff. So that's really
00:48:11.340
bizarre. It's really funny that you are sort of the rational one in this family of libs. But she's your
00:48:19.220
sister. You have to love her and should love her and you have to respect your parents and honor your
00:48:24.620
parents. But you can respectfully say, you know, dad, this is really bad and it's going to really screw
00:48:30.540
up your daughter. And here's the evidence and here are all the detransitioners who talk about what a
00:48:35.680
terrible thing this is. And actually men just can't become women and women can't become men. And I don't
00:48:40.960
know if your family has any even hint of religion, but you could say this is actually opposed by the
00:48:45.740
church and the church, you know, and you guys, you just lost it here. And dad and mama and sis, I'm happy
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to love you and honor you as much as I possibly can, but you can't make me lie. Okay, so you don't need
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to walk in there and host a screening of, you know, what is a woman or anything like that. But you really
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can't lie. So I wouldn't use the pronouns. You can try to avoid it to keep the peace at Christmas, maybe. You
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probably can't avoid it though, totally. I would just, one has to speak the truth in love. So make
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sure you do the love part, but you got to tell the truth. Now, speaking of Walsh, it is the season of
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good tidings and cheer. And I am forced under duress and coercion here by the Daily Wire and by some bets
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that apparently we have made to give just a really big shout out to the old big burly bearded
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sweet daddy himself, the one and only Matthew Walsh. His sweet baby gang is second to no other
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sweet baby gang. I just can't get enough of this guy. Who wrote this? Just ask sweet little Elisa.
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She bought me a ton of Matt Walsh merchandise for my birthday. No, you're making me lie. And it's so
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good that I asked for more of it for Christmas. He's got this incredible super fan gift bundle, which
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as a super fan myself, I've been trying to get my hands on. The bundle comes with a ton of what is a
00:50:13.720
woman stuff and cooking supplies and stickers and even a Johnny the Walrus plushie. I actually do want
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a Johnny the Walrus plushie. Those are great. Which if you haven't read it, Johnny the Walrus,
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it's a great book. And it's got words in it. That's nice. That's nice that they put that in there.
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Anyway, I'm just so happy to be buddies with Matt. And I definitely was not forced to say any of this
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because of some election bet or whatever that I don't even remember. All of this comes from the
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heart. And it's just a spur of the moment inclination to give the man praise that he
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deserves more than anybody else here at the Daily Wire. Certainly deserves more praise than whoever
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wrote this. Matt, you're truly one of a kind. Matt Walsh show streaming every Monday through Friday,
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1.30 Eastern, dailywire.com. We got a lot more show coming up. It's Fake Headline Friday. So we
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have got you. I need your help. Before you all go to the airport and miss your flights because the
00:51:04.900
snowstorm is canceling every flight in the country. Before you head down, hunker down, and eat some
00:51:10.340
nice turkey or seven fishes if you're Italian, I need you to help me figure out which is the fake
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headline for Fake Headline Friday. We've also got more voice mailbag. We've also got more mailbag mailbag.
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