The Young Turks ATTACKED Me
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A few weeks ago, I made the, I thought, uncontroversial observation that condoms are kind of gay. The hosts of The Young Turks apparently took issue with my clear-as-day observation. So I am going to examine their refutation of my point, and Producer Ben Davies has issued a challenge: try not to laugh at Cenk Uygur for as long as possible.
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A few weeks ago, I made the, I thought, uncontroversial observation that condoms are kind of gay.
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The conclusion that one draws is that condoms are kind of gay.
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The hosts of The Young Turks apparently took issue with my clear-as-day observation.
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I am going to examine their refutation of my point,
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and producer Ben Davies has issued me a challenge,
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which is to try not to laugh at Cenk Uygur for as long as possible.
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That's the expert commentary that you can hear by Michael Knowles.
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Maybe we need to hear more, but first, some more context.
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So, in order to understand what could have possibly led to him making that statement,
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we'll have to watch him whine about fringe culture war nonsense.
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It's terrible for me to whine about fringe culture war nonsense, but it's very, very important for
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them to whine about me whining about the supposedly fringe culture war nonsense.
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I think a lot of people are beginning to notice the contraceptive mentality is the beginning of
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Because the contraceptive mentality divorces sex from the consequences of sex,
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People are beginning to realize, okay, if I don't like this insane anarchistic view of
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sex that is totally self-centered and divorced from any ends, well, then maybe I got to rewind
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I mean, I can just quickly answer one of the main questions he had there about like,
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why engage in this narcissistic act if you're not trying to procreate?
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However, if I were a religious person, I would thank the Lord, okay, for giving us the physical
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I know not all of us and thoughts and prayers for those folks, but generally speaking, the
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physical capability to experience sexual pleasure.
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Yes, that's one of the main things that draws us to it.
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Just like pleasure is a point of eating a big hamburger.
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It's not the point of eating the hamburger, though.
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I'm glad it's one of the allurements of eating a hamburger.
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But the point of eating the hamburger is to nourish me and to sustain me so that I can go
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about my life and pursue my other higher purposes.
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If I divorced the purpose of the hamburger from the pleasure, what would I do?
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Well, I'd probably stuff my face with a lot of different hamburgers.
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And then I'd, I don't know, I'd probably go vomit up those hamburgers because I don't
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You know, I just want the pleasure of the taste.
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As our culture has divorced the pleasure of sex from the end of sex, which is procreation,
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we've got a declining birth rate, so a dying population.
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We've got people getting divorced at much higher rates.
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It's made men kind of weak and it's made us all very selfish.
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That's not to say sex is bad, but it's to say that divorcing things from their purpose
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That's a massive difference between the right wing and the left wing.
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And this clarifies things and why I think no rational person could be a right winger.
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That caught me by surprise because I said, okay, I'm not going to laugh.
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But then what made me laugh was not some bombastic comment from Cenk.
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It was the suggestion that his statement were somehow bold.
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You know, he said, I don't think a rational person could ever be conservative.
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Most people don't have the courage to say such an uncommon expression as that.
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He is saying the only sex that should be allowed, presumably, is the purpose of procreating
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You see, this is where he slips in the little trick because he says, well, presumably what
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he's saying is that every other kind of sex shouldn't be allowed.
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My only point was that the sterile sexual ethic is not good.
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What if I want to have sex before I get married?
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The sexual revolution broadly is responsible for that.
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Have the consequences of this really been good?
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No one in America believes that only these radical lunatics believe it.
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Does this guy realize how out of touch he is with the vast majority of people who have
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Sex has a point and ought to be ordered toward that point, which is procreation.
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Even if today we live in a particularly bizarre liberal moment, statistically 100% of people
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for all of human history have believed what I believe roughly about sex.
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Matt Walsh has the anti-trans niche covered and he got really famous over that.
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Unfortunately, in this media ecosystem, that works.
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Well, yeah, yeah, the star of sexual sex, I don't want that.
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And he's going to convince like 2 to 3% of people.
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I think you're being far too generous to Michael Knowles and thinking that that argument would
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even convince 2 to 3% of Republican voters to like turn on contraceptives, like
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This is the official doctrinal teaching of the Catholic Church forever.
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There are a lot more than 2 or 3% of the country.
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I'm like basically just reading out of the catechism, okay?
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If I wanted to get attention, I'd put on a soft shoe and wear a sequined blazer.
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I'm just reading basic elements of traditional sexual ethics.
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And look, again, you want to go up against 99% of women who actually use it, even if
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some of them answer in a poll, oh, yeah, maybe we should ban it.
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I mean, I use it earlier in my life, and I'd like to be a hypocrite now, or whatever reason.
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Or I use it, but I'm evil because Michael Knowles said I'm evil because I use-
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When did I ever say anyone is evil for committing a sin?
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I don't think I use the word evil anywhere in my monologue.
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The other thing he's wrong about is he says 99% of women use contraception.
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Half of women have gone through menopause already, right?
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And then some of them at some point have used contraception.
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And a lot of those women have turned against it.
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Forget about even conservatives and religious people.
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Just ordinary, kind of crunchy, liberal women who say, huh, you know, maybe there's something
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wrong and something not so wise about pumping my body full of unnatural hormones simply so
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that I can be used for the sexual pleasure of random men who don't want to commit to me.
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Michael Knowles said I'm evil because I use, I have anachronic, anarchistic sex.
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And by the way, now, seriously, about these 20s.
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You're making fun of me because you're using talking points from 1990s, I am woman, hear
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We're living in the era where we've seen the consequences of the sexual revolution that
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the conservatives have been warning about the whole time.
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And so even as she's making fun of me for saying sex should not be anarchistic, but should
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actually have some rule and order to it, even as she's making fun of me, then after the
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laugh line, she says, well, actually, though, he's kind of, he's right, obviously.
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Because after this whole windup of this ad hominem, these straw man arguments, this
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Knowles is a moron, this he's seeking attention, this is crazy, this is fringe, this is extreme.
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They both admit, they both admit that I am completely right, at least on the point that
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sex should not be totally anarchistic, that actually there are rules, there is order.
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So then the logical next question is, well, what's the whole thing ordered toward?
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And they probably don't want to state that explicitly, but it is implied by the point that
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Let's actually look at the current polling, let's do that.
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Yeah, because Data for Progress put out a poll in October of 2022, asking, would you be more
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likely or less likely to vote for a candidate for Congress who opposes protecting the right
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So that is a broader question, not only having to do with condoms, but also birth control.
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40% say they are less likely to vote for someone who wants to ban birth control, only 25% say
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But now, Anna, we're kidding around about 2 or 3%, but there it is, 25% of Republicans
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I know, but this is a very broad question pertaining to-
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You're right, it's extremely broad, so you'd expect the numbers to be much smaller.
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I'm not saying Republicans need to go campaigning on, we're going to ban all these things.
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I'm just, all I am articulating is the perfectly normal and obviously true moral point that
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And you can extrapolate from that, as all political societies do, but don't put the words in my
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mouth that I'm saying that every member of Congress needs to go campaign against condoms
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If push came to shove, we think, obviously, they're not actually going to try to, even
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the Republican, even a majority of the Republican voters are going to be like, no, don't ban
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And obviously, everyone else thinks it's the craziest thing in the world.
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Although, as you see in the poll, 9% of Democrats are like, maybe.
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I thought he was going to be arguing against my point in this video.
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But they keep, as they've got locked and loaded, their talking points to knock down my point.
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But they say, huh, actually, you know, a lot of Republicans actually do think that contraception
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Well, but they're those crazy Republicans, because they're conservative.
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And that makes sense that conservatives are conservative.
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But the Democrats, though, they're going to, actually, man, almost one in 10 Democrats
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You're going to be making my argument for me better than I did.
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In the great majority of the country's bubble, we're like, yeah, this is the year 2023.
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We believe in freedom, and people can have sex for whatever reason they want.
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That one wasn't, can we judge whether it wasn't fun enough?
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No, you have to only do it for the reasons Michael Knowles wants.
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So the great majority of the country thinks these guys are lunatics, okay?
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But there is a religious contingent in this country, including some Democrats, who go,
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And I'm not saying that that's the only point at all.
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And even if you don't believe in God for some reason, at the very least, you would have
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to admit that is our civilization's rules for 2,000 years.
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My position is, you know, I think probably our civilization pretty much kind of had it
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They weren't completely off base when they had a consistent sexual ethic for millennia.
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Maybe we shouldn't just upend the whole thing overnight because there might be some negative
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consequences to that that some of us can foresee and others of us cannot, but which are there
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So by the way, if you're married and you only want to have three kids, I guess that means,
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okay, enjoy the three times you have sex in your life because you can't have sex before.
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First of all, Cenk seems to think that, you know, you knock a lady up every single time you
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But two, there are non-artificial contraceptive means of measuring exactly when a lady is likely
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to be fertile, which I'm not necessarily recommending.
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I don't, I think it's good to be open to life, but in a grave circumstance, if one wanted
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to do that, they are extremely effective and they're mocked, these methods, but they're
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extremely scientifically advanced, much more scientifically advanced and sophisticated
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than, you know, pulling a rubber out of a box from the gas station.
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Again, the great majority of the country thinks lunatics, but there is a conservative
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religious element that goes, sounds right to me.
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They're giant, enormous, overwhelming hypocrites.
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Put a pause right there because now he's making an accusation about something that is just
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At the recording of this video, I have one child who is one year old.
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I have one child who's two and a half years old.
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I promise you, I am not a hypocrite on this issue.
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What's so telling about that commentary there is Cenk, I think sincerely, doesn't believe
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it's possible that people could just be open to life, that people could actually just want
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to have children, not want to divorce the pleasure of sex from the point of sex, would
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not want to, you know, go buy a box of rubbers from a convenience store.
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All of them use contraception and none of them actually believe this, but they go, yeah, we
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We should ban other people from having fun sex, sex for just fun, no, okay?
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All right, if you're in that group, yeah, you're likely a right winger and you're probably
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nuts and we're gonna fight you and we're gonna win.
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They've driven down support for gay marriage by seven points and it keeps going down.
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We've driven down support for same sex relations period by seven percentage points in just a
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couple of years, I think it was, according to Pew.
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It's the reality of the culmination of the sexual revolution that has done that.
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I suspect Drag Queen Story Hour had a lot more to do with that.
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I suspect the indoctrination in the elementary school classrooms had a lot more to do with
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the decline, the precipitous decline in support for the weird sexual revolution type stuff.
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These guys batter and batter and batter and batter.
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But they're gonna keep going and they're gonna try to convince religious people,
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Unlike Mr. Cenk Uygur over here, who believes that his religion should rule everyone.
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Well, his religion of liberalism and decadence and decay.
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Well, that has been ruling everyone for a number of decades now.
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And the consequences have been completely disastrous, measured in pretty much any way.
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Support for our institutions, patriotism, hope for the future, self-reported levels of happiness,
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It's just every measure of a nation's success, other than material financial success, sometimes.
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So maybe we ought to try a different religious view, since Cenk's has not been very successful.
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Sorry, I don't agree, and I'm gonna fight you 2,000%.
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And so, okay, and by the way, Michael Knowles is a giant, giant lie.
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I don't think I ever said I've never done anything wrong in my life.
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I was still sort of right-wing, but in that libertarian, kind of like not cool way.
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Fortunately, on a lot of them, I've ceased to do them, or I've greatly, you know, diminished the amount that I do bad things.
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And on certain issues, like the one that Cenk and I here are talking about,
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I've completely changed my mind on it and then just got rid of it.
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Which is great to do, especially when you're married.
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Even so, even if one were to sin, let's say a married person did use contraception for whatever reason,
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if you have a standard and then you fall short of that standard and you regret that, that's not hypocrisy.
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That's called sin, which is a fact of human life.
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And we, mean old religious people, are quite in favor of grace and forgiveness and, you know,
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forgiving other people their debts as we wish our sins to be forgiven by God.
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Hypocrisy is when you pretend to hold one view and then you behave in a way that's contrary to that view.
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But no, even at the end there, he can't believe that anybody would not use contraception.
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Okay, he was in a movie where he's having gay sex and et cetera.
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I was in this undergraduate thesis movie at Yale, but it wasn't gay.
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But anyway, you know, look, to Chank's point, in my acting career brief though it was,
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I've played, I don't know, like two or three kind of more effeminate type, you know, like
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Although he, I guess South Park depicts him as kind of gay.
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But you know, you play one bisexual character in one Yale undergraduate thesis film, that's
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At least, I will say, at least people are talking about my acting work.
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Most actors never, you know, their work never really sees the light of day.
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This guy, back when he was trying to be an actor and trying to be famous, he was like,
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And now that he's a loser, total failure in life, and he couldn't be famous with that.
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I guess I need to teach Chank one more thing, which is when you go to see a movie or a play
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or a TV show, you'll see people on screen and they'll say things and they'll do things.
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And they'll move around and kind of wear costumes.
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But those costumes are not necessarily those people's real clothing.
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And the things they say are not necessarily the things that those people actually believe.
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And like the names that they're referred to sometimes in the play or the movie or the TV show,
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Often they're not the names of the real people because they're doing something called acting.
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So, I mean, it's like, no, it's bad, bad, only for procreation.
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I'm going to rule all of your lives with my BS, totally made up, totally hypocritical principles.
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You got slightly famous by saying something totally and utterly asinine.
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In this case, I want you to keep saying it because I want Republicans to lose all elections
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I do applaud you for being as passionate in protection of condoms.
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Like the only man in the country who feels this passionately about protecting condoms.
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I mean, I really get a kick out of her because after Cenk's kind of diatribe,
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Because she says, wow, Cenk, you really get passionate about condoms.
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That's good to be passionate about something that's so important.
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If you're getting really fired up in defense of little pieces of plastic to have meaningless sex
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so you don't have any children and you remain sterile,
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and certainly something's gone wrong in your mind,
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I hope that I've been able to correct some of that in this brief instruction.