1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,480 S1: Hi friends, thanks so much for downloading this podcast and 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,480 S1: I hope truly that you will hear something that will encourage, edify, 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,160 S1: equip and enlighten you to get out there and influence 4 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,880 S1: and occupy until he comes. And on that note, may 5 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:12,760 S1: I take just a few moments here to describe this 6 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,800 S1: month's truth tool? It's by pastor Jack Hibbs. He's written 7 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,599 S1: the book called Called to Take a Bold Stand. 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But far 12 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,120 S1: too often we retreat out of fear from cultural blowback. 13 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,600 S1: So I want to encourage all of us to just 14 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,800 S1: stand up for Christ, to be unashamed of who we 15 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,080 S1: are in him, and to go into a culture that's 16 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,600 S1: telling us in no uncertain terms, they're lost and they're hurting. 17 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:45,720 S1: So if you'd like a copy of Pastor Hibbs new 18 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,400 S1: book called Call to Take a Bold Stand, just give 19 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,519 S1: a gift of any amount by calling 877 Janet 58. 20 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,000 S1: We are listener supported radio and this is my way 21 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,160 S1: of saying thank you. So that number again is 877 22 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,600 S1: Janet 58. 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Before they get started, let's take a quick 43 00:01:57,340 --> 00:01:59,550 S2: look back at some of the highlights from the week. 44 00:02:04,750 --> 00:02:07,430 S3: Some people have told me the reason the church has 45 00:02:07,430 --> 00:02:09,630 S3: to go through some or all of the tribulation is 46 00:02:09,630 --> 00:02:13,030 S3: to purify the church. And my response to that is, well, 47 00:02:13,030 --> 00:02:15,350 S3: we can't get any more pure than we already are 48 00:02:15,350 --> 00:02:17,390 S3: in Christ. When he died on the cross, he said, 49 00:02:17,389 --> 00:02:21,669 S3: it is finished to to Stella style. So he he 50 00:02:21,669 --> 00:02:24,269 S3: covered it all. We're completely covered in Christ. God sees 51 00:02:24,270 --> 00:02:27,270 S3: us as righteous. All believers will go. Now, I do 52 00:02:27,270 --> 00:02:30,109 S3: believe there's a Bema Seat. So there's a rewards question 53 00:02:30,110 --> 00:02:32,310 S3: about how we live our life for the Lord. But, 54 00:02:32,310 --> 00:02:35,470 S3: but in terms of us being righteous before God, all 55 00:02:35,470 --> 00:02:37,070 S3: believers will go in the rapture. 56 00:02:37,470 --> 00:02:41,870 S4: They are committed to advancing ballistic missile technology and on 57 00:02:41,870 --> 00:02:45,470 S4: top of that, to having a nuclear weapon. If they 58 00:02:45,470 --> 00:02:48,710 S4: could mount a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile that 59 00:02:48,710 --> 00:02:52,070 S4: can reach Washington, I guarantee you that would be a 60 00:02:52,070 --> 00:02:55,389 S4: terrible threat to the United States. And it is that 61 00:02:55,590 --> 00:02:58,730 S4: which motivated the United States to get involved last June. 62 00:02:58,730 --> 00:03:02,570 S4: It is that which gets. That's really gotten the attention 63 00:03:02,570 --> 00:03:07,210 S4: of the current administration, because they will not allow Iran 64 00:03:07,210 --> 00:03:10,090 S4: to have a nuclear weapon armed on top of a 65 00:03:10,090 --> 00:03:12,410 S4: ballistic missile that could reach the United States. 66 00:03:12,930 --> 00:03:16,370 S5: Jesus is lived this perfect life that all of us 67 00:03:16,370 --> 00:03:18,410 S5: should live of, of love for God and love for 68 00:03:18,410 --> 00:03:21,290 S5: the people around us. What he basically says to us 69 00:03:21,330 --> 00:03:23,690 S5: on the cross is what I said to my wife 70 00:03:23,690 --> 00:03:25,810 S5: on the day we got married. He says, all I am, 71 00:03:25,810 --> 00:03:28,010 S5: I give to you all I have. I share with you. 72 00:03:28,490 --> 00:03:31,970 S5: And basically he invites us to to say the same 73 00:03:31,970 --> 00:03:34,290 S5: thing back, to say to him, all I am, I 74 00:03:34,290 --> 00:03:35,890 S5: give to you all I have, I share with you. 75 00:03:36,330 --> 00:03:38,570 S5: And firstly, that means we share with him all of 76 00:03:38,570 --> 00:03:41,130 S5: our guilt and our debt. And he he takes it, 77 00:03:41,170 --> 00:03:42,810 S5: he makes it his own and he deals with it 78 00:03:42,810 --> 00:03:44,090 S5: and buries it forever. 79 00:03:44,730 --> 00:03:48,330 S6: And she spoke these words that made me feel from 80 00:03:48,330 --> 00:03:51,370 S6: the top of my head to the bottom of my toes, 81 00:03:51,810 --> 00:03:55,650 S6: a warmth and a peace that made the entire hallway 82 00:03:55,650 --> 00:03:59,430 S6: just disappear. And I felt like. I felt like the 83 00:03:59,430 --> 00:04:02,910 S6: rest of the world just disappeared and we opened our eyes. 84 00:04:02,950 --> 00:04:06,430 S6: Eventually we were both crying, and I looked up at her, 85 00:04:06,430 --> 00:04:10,630 S6: and I just. Sharon, what was that? And she said, oh, honey, 86 00:04:10,990 --> 00:04:15,110 S6: that was Jesus. And Janet, what happened next was this 87 00:04:15,110 --> 00:04:18,270 S6: holy ripple effect. The only way I can describe it 88 00:04:18,550 --> 00:04:22,510 S6: of God just pursuing me. Until I got to a 89 00:04:22,510 --> 00:04:25,190 S6: place where I was able to learn and meet the 90 00:04:25,190 --> 00:04:26,310 S6: real Jesus. 91 00:04:28,150 --> 00:04:30,590 S2: To hear the full interviews from any of those guests 92 00:04:30,630 --> 00:04:33,830 S2: go to In the Market with Janet Parshall and click 93 00:04:33,830 --> 00:04:36,830 S2: on Past Programs. Here are some other stories making headlines 94 00:04:36,830 --> 00:04:37,430 S2: this week. 95 00:04:38,190 --> 00:04:41,430 S7: Maersk, one of the world's biggest container shipping groups, said 96 00:04:41,470 --> 00:04:45,229 S7: on Friday it has temporarily suspended two services linking the 97 00:04:45,230 --> 00:04:48,150 S7: Middle East to Asia and Europe. It's as the Iran 98 00:04:48,150 --> 00:04:51,350 S7: conflict continues to disrupt global supply chains. 99 00:04:51,350 --> 00:04:54,390 S8: As the war with Iran intensifies. Donald Trump says the 100 00:04:54,390 --> 00:04:57,239 S8: US has a right to help choose the country's next leader. 101 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:01,680 S9: House Republicans rejected an effort on Thursday to stop President 102 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,680 S9: Donald Trump's military campaign against Iran. 103 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,200 S2: Janet and Craig have lots to share, and they'll put 104 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,720 S2: the first story on the table when we return. To 105 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,320 S2: get more information or to download the podcast of any 106 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,280 S2: of the interviews, go to In the market with Janet Parshall. 107 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,040 S1: As culture continues to stumble into darkness, it's easy to 108 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,320 S1: lose heart and grow weary in your faith. And that's 109 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,479 S1: why I've chosen Call to Take a Bold Stand by 110 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:46,120 S1: pastor Jack Hibbs as this month's truth tool. Learn how 111 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,080 S1: to represent Christ courageously in a hurting world. As for 112 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,120 S1: your copy of Call to Take a Bold Stand, when 113 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,080 S1: you give a gift of any amount to in the market, 114 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,540 S1: call 877 Janet 58. That's 877 Janet 58. Or go 115 00:05:57,540 --> 00:06:03,300 S1: to in the market with Janet. Happy Friday to you, friends. Mr. 116 00:06:03,300 --> 00:06:05,900 S1: Craig is with me and we do things a little 117 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:07,859 S1: bit different on Friday, and we're going to take a 118 00:06:07,860 --> 00:06:09,860 S1: look at a whole lot of issues being talked about 119 00:06:09,860 --> 00:06:12,700 S1: in the marketplace of ideas, but we're going to first 120 00:06:12,700 --> 00:06:15,140 S1: put on a pair of glasses, the lens of Scripture. 121 00:06:15,140 --> 00:06:16,580 S1: Before I go there, though, I got to do a 122 00:06:16,580 --> 00:06:21,060 S1: public service announcement. Don't forget to change your clocks tomorrow night, okay? 123 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:23,900 S1: We spring forward and fall back, so we move the 124 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:26,860 S1: clocks forward Saturday night before you go to bed. I 125 00:06:26,860 --> 00:06:28,740 S1: love history, okay, so I'm looking at a picture of 126 00:06:28,740 --> 00:06:32,020 S1: the Ohio clock in the US Capitol that was turned 127 00:06:32,020 --> 00:06:39,060 S1: forward for the country's first daylight savings time on March 31st, 1918. 128 00:06:39,339 --> 00:06:41,620 S1: And it was the job of the Senate sergeant at 129 00:06:41,620 --> 00:06:44,500 S1: arms to move the arms of the clock. It's a 130 00:06:44,500 --> 00:06:48,220 S1: fascinating and somewhat controversial idea, but most of the US 131 00:06:48,260 --> 00:06:50,859 S1: does observe daylight saving time, the practice of setting the 132 00:06:50,860 --> 00:06:54,719 S1: clock forward by one hour where there is longer daylight 133 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:57,440 S1: during the day, so that the evenings have more daylight 134 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,320 S1: and mornings have less. Exceptions include Arizona, except for the 135 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:04,920 S1: Navajo Nation, which observes daylight saving time. Hawaii and the 136 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,720 S1: territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, 137 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,640 S1: Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands. The Uniform 138 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,160 S1: Time Act of 1966. This will all be on the test. 139 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,880 S1: I hope you're taking notes. Established a uniform set of 140 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:22,760 S1: rules for states optioning to observe daylight savings Time. So 141 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,080 S1: in the US, daylight saving time starts on the second 142 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,960 S1: Sunday in March. That's what's coming up here. And it 143 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,400 S1: ends on the first Sunday in November. Um, and so 144 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,600 S1: it's interesting to see how many people have now remembered 145 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,800 S1: this saying. And it goes back ages. Spring forward, fall back. 146 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:40,280 S1: And so that's what you do before you go to 147 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,040 S1: bed tonight. You move that clock forward. Why am I 148 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:44,080 S1: telling you this? You won't be late for church, okay? 149 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:45,600 S1: You don't want to be embarrassed, right? And show up 150 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,720 S1: at the wrong time. And if you forget to do it, 151 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,360 S1: church will have already been going on for an hour 152 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,200 S1: by the time you get there. So there's your public 153 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,460 S1: service announcement. Move those clocks forward before you go to 154 00:07:54,460 --> 00:07:56,860 S1: bed on Saturday night. For me personally, I love it. 155 00:07:56,860 --> 00:07:59,260 S1: I love having much longer sunlight. At the end of 156 00:07:59,260 --> 00:08:01,500 S1: the day, it just makes like feels like the days 157 00:08:01,500 --> 00:08:04,540 S1: are lasting longer. So there. I've done that now. Fridays. 158 00:08:05,060 --> 00:08:07,500 S1: What do we do? There's all kinds of stuff being 159 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:09,340 S1: bought and sold in the marketplace of ideas. How do 160 00:08:09,340 --> 00:08:11,260 S1: I know? Sit in your car, turn the dial. Every 161 00:08:11,260 --> 00:08:13,620 S1: one of those is a marketplace of ideas, and we 162 00:08:13,620 --> 00:08:16,260 S1: want to look at them from a different perspective. From 163 00:08:16,260 --> 00:08:19,300 S1: a biblical perspective, is there a biblical undergirding? Is the 164 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:22,500 S1: Bible clear on this particular issue? Is there a standard 165 00:08:22,500 --> 00:08:25,380 S1: of righteousness that is either being pulled down or raised up? 166 00:08:25,380 --> 00:08:26,740 S1: So a lot of stuff for us to be thinking 167 00:08:26,740 --> 00:08:30,020 S1: about as we practice applied Christianity, and that's what we're 168 00:08:30,020 --> 00:08:32,020 S1: going to do. And we got a Lollapalooza to begin with, 169 00:08:32,020 --> 00:08:35,940 S1: because this was a big week for news on Tuesday 170 00:08:35,940 --> 00:08:39,060 S1: of this week, it was an emergency order. Six US 171 00:08:39,059 --> 00:08:43,860 S1: Supreme Court justices rebuked the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of 172 00:08:43,860 --> 00:08:49,340 S1: Appeals for blocking a permanent injunction against California. So-called gender 173 00:08:49,380 --> 00:08:53,470 S1: secrecy policies. Hang onto those three words, which require school 174 00:08:53,470 --> 00:08:57,910 S1: districts to hide students gender confusion from their parents, and 175 00:08:57,910 --> 00:09:01,589 S1: even falsely tell parents their children aren't presenting as the 176 00:09:01,590 --> 00:09:03,630 S1: opposite sex at school. I don't even know why we're 177 00:09:03,630 --> 00:09:07,230 S1: having this conversation, so simply put, take away the legal parlance. 178 00:09:07,270 --> 00:09:10,110 S1: Schools were lying to parents, and they were telling kids 179 00:09:10,110 --> 00:09:13,350 S1: to be deceitful to their parents by fostering the deception. 180 00:09:13,429 --> 00:09:16,309 S1: It's unconscionable to me. And so the Supreme Court decided 181 00:09:16,309 --> 00:09:18,949 S1: to weigh in. Yes, it's a procedural victory, but it's 182 00:09:18,950 --> 00:09:22,790 S1: a victory nonetheless. Reportedly, now the Ninth Circuit, which is 183 00:09:22,790 --> 00:09:25,350 S1: often referred to as the most overturned federal appellate court 184 00:09:25,350 --> 00:09:30,870 S1: since 2007. They brushed aside last summer's monumental decision that 185 00:09:30,870 --> 00:09:33,870 S1: came down from the Supreme Court, Mahmood v Taylor. You'll 186 00:09:33,870 --> 00:09:36,030 S1: remember in a nutshell, again, this was a group of 187 00:09:36,030 --> 00:09:39,790 S1: very interesting group of parents of different religious perspectives saying 188 00:09:39,830 --> 00:09:42,710 S1: to the Montgomery County School District in the state of Maryland, hey, 189 00:09:42,910 --> 00:09:44,310 S1: we want to be able to opt our kids out 190 00:09:44,309 --> 00:09:46,829 S1: from this stuff. We don't like this stuff. It's violative 191 00:09:46,830 --> 00:09:49,630 S1: of our religious worldview, and we want the right to 192 00:09:49,630 --> 00:09:52,250 S1: be able to opt out. For a while. The school 193 00:09:52,250 --> 00:09:54,610 S1: allowed an opt out policy and then for no reason whatsoever, 194 00:09:54,610 --> 00:09:56,930 S1: took it away. And the parents said no, no, no, no, no, no. 195 00:09:56,970 --> 00:10:00,170 S1: You are trampling underfoot our sincerely held religious beliefs because 196 00:10:00,170 --> 00:10:02,090 S1: the way, all the way to the Supreme Court, victory 197 00:10:02,090 --> 00:10:05,170 S1: for parents, victory for every parent across the land, not 198 00:10:05,170 --> 00:10:07,610 S1: just in Montgomery County. And you would have thought that 199 00:10:07,610 --> 00:10:10,610 S1: would have set the stage that you can't trample underfoot 200 00:10:10,610 --> 00:10:13,770 S1: parents religious rights. They are and forever will be the 201 00:10:13,770 --> 00:10:16,130 S1: best Department of Health, education and welfare. And one of 202 00:10:16,130 --> 00:10:18,730 S1: the primary jobs for a parent is to raise up 203 00:10:18,730 --> 00:10:21,689 S1: their child for us. What we know the Bible teaches 204 00:10:21,690 --> 00:10:25,090 S1: with a biblical worldview, then the nurture and the admonition 205 00:10:25,090 --> 00:10:28,010 S1: of the Lord. So the Ninth Circuit basically thumb their 206 00:10:28,010 --> 00:10:29,890 S1: nose and said, nope, not going to do it. Six 207 00:10:29,890 --> 00:10:32,210 S1: of these justices stepped in then and rebuked it. And 208 00:10:32,210 --> 00:10:35,210 S1: that was, again, their way of saying, okay, you're permanent blocking. 209 00:10:35,210 --> 00:10:37,689 S1: That's when an injunction is it's a stop that's going 210 00:10:37,730 --> 00:10:39,610 S1: to be removed. And guess what? You are not going 211 00:10:39,610 --> 00:10:42,410 S1: to be allowed to have those secrecy policies in place. 212 00:10:42,410 --> 00:10:44,890 S1: Now again, Craig, it's deemed to be a, quote, procedural victory. 213 00:10:44,890 --> 00:10:47,490 S1: I don't care, I don't care how the sausage is made. 214 00:10:47,530 --> 00:10:50,309 S1: I just it's a victory for parents. And it's not 215 00:10:50,309 --> 00:10:52,030 S1: just going to be for the Ninth Circuit. It sends 216 00:10:52,030 --> 00:10:54,670 S1: a ripple effect all across the United States that schools. 217 00:10:54,670 --> 00:10:57,030 S1: You can't play hide and go seek with my child. Period. 218 00:10:57,030 --> 00:10:59,150 S1: End a statement. I don't care if Gavin Newsom wants 219 00:10:59,150 --> 00:11:01,069 S1: to run for president of the United States. Your thoughts? 220 00:11:01,070 --> 00:11:04,390 S10: Well, it was procedural, but it was also substantive. In 221 00:11:04,390 --> 00:11:08,790 S10: one sense, yes. It was about an injunction against the 222 00:11:08,790 --> 00:11:13,950 S10: law in California. Ninth circuit said, uh, yes, the the 223 00:11:13,990 --> 00:11:17,189 S10: law should not be barred, should not have an injunction 224 00:11:17,190 --> 00:11:22,080 S10: against it. It's it's fully constitutional. Supreme court 6 to 225 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:27,110 S10: 3 said no, no, the injunction was proper. The injunction 226 00:11:27,110 --> 00:11:31,030 S10: was proper because it's likely that the complaining parents are 227 00:11:31,030 --> 00:11:34,069 S10: going to win this case likely means they looked at 228 00:11:34,070 --> 00:11:37,790 S10: the merits enough to make the decision about the in 229 00:11:37,830 --> 00:11:41,910 S10: the temporary injunction, uh, preliminary injunction for the time being. 230 00:11:42,190 --> 00:11:46,550 S10: But the Supreme Court, six justices all agreed on one thing, 231 00:11:47,110 --> 00:11:50,840 S10: and that is the language, in its opinion, where the 232 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,560 S10: six justices said that California, by this law, by this 233 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:59,360 S10: procedure and policy, cut out of the equation the most 234 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:04,480 S10: important and primary protectors of the best interests of the child, 235 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,599 S10: namely the parents. So they made a very bold, clear, 236 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,920 S10: black and white statement that you have cut the parents 237 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:18,160 S10: completely out of this equation. And that's almost certain to 238 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,360 S10: be a violation of their constitutional rights as parents. And 239 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,040 S10: we'll see what happens when it gets kicked back to 240 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,240 S10: the lower court. But I have a feeling, Janet, that, uh, 241 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,560 S10: this is the end of this case. In other words, 242 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:34,080 S10: it won't be reversed, uh, from that six three decision. 243 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,280 S1: I love the way that the court quotes itself. So 244 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,920 S1: the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their First Amendment 245 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,440 S1: free speech exercise claim because California's policy and here's the 246 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:46,600 S1: court writing, substantially interfere with the right of parents to 247 00:12:46,780 --> 00:12:50,179 S1: guide the religious development of their children. And they were 248 00:12:50,179 --> 00:12:52,660 S1: quoting Muhammad v Taylor in a case that we know 249 00:12:52,660 --> 00:12:54,380 S1: because it came out of the state of Wisconsin, which 250 00:12:54,380 --> 00:12:57,500 S1: was the Yoder case, which basically gave parents the right 251 00:12:57,500 --> 00:13:00,580 S1: to opt out, uh, based on, again, the same principle, 252 00:13:00,580 --> 00:13:02,500 S1: the idea of parents have the right to raise their 253 00:13:02,500 --> 00:13:05,780 S1: children religiously as they see fit. So it'll get cut back. 254 00:13:05,820 --> 00:13:08,460 S1: They'll do the procedural move again. This time they'll go 255 00:13:08,460 --> 00:13:11,380 S1: forward on the substance. What's going to happen to somebody 256 00:13:11,380 --> 00:13:14,260 S1: like Gavin Newsom? I mean, he's trying to score political 257 00:13:14,260 --> 00:13:16,220 S1: points right now because he's trying to position himself to 258 00:13:16,220 --> 00:13:17,100 S1: be the favored candidate. 259 00:13:17,140 --> 00:13:19,540 S10: But he's losing case after case with some of these, 260 00:13:19,620 --> 00:13:20,540 S10: if you're counting. 261 00:13:20,580 --> 00:13:23,540 S1: That's exactly right. But what I don't like Craig and 262 00:13:23,540 --> 00:13:25,180 S1: what's kind of stunning to me. But on the other hand, 263 00:13:25,179 --> 00:13:27,220 S1: it shouldn't be because we're seeing exactly what the Bible 264 00:13:27,220 --> 00:13:29,140 S1: said we would see in the latter days, which is this, 265 00:13:29,780 --> 00:13:33,980 S1: this unbelievable rise in lawlessness. And sometimes a governor of 266 00:13:33,980 --> 00:13:36,219 S1: a state can be just as lawless as a thug 267 00:13:36,220 --> 00:13:38,980 S1: in the street. So what if they decide to just 268 00:13:38,980 --> 00:13:40,580 S1: thumb their nose at the Supreme Court and say, we 269 00:13:40,580 --> 00:13:43,300 S1: don't care, teachers. You know, if you look the the 270 00:13:43,340 --> 00:13:46,760 S1: socialist unions, otherwise known as the Teachers Union or the NEA, 271 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,480 S1: and the AFT in particular, if they say to their teachers, no, no, no, no, 272 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:52,600 S1: you keep doing what we tell you to do, basically 273 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,000 S1: ignoring what the Supreme Court says. How long do we 274 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:55,880 S1: keep litigating? 275 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:01,520 S10: Well, uh, uh, remember back in the civil rights days 276 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:05,240 S10: in the mid part of 20th century where federal troops 277 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,880 S10: were brought in to make sure that, uh, children of 278 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,920 S10: all races were allowed into public school under the federal 279 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,360 S10: Civil Rights Act and under the Constitution. Now, are we 280 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,200 S10: going to get to that point now where parents who 281 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:23,320 S10: believe in Judeo-Christian values for their kids and they aren't 282 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:26,880 S10: told that, in fact, their child is going to be secretly, 283 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:33,520 S10: secretly transitioned into a different gender, quote unquote, without parental consent. Uh, 284 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,120 S10: are we going to start forcibly closing down public schools 285 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,040 S10: until they comply? I mean, there are look, there are 286 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,400 S10: some some federal remedies here, but I, I don't think 287 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:47,130 S10: it'll get that far because right now we are, of course, 288 00:14:47,170 --> 00:14:50,570 S10: approaching a midterm series of elections. And then, of course, 289 00:14:50,610 --> 00:14:52,730 S10: sooner than a lot of us would like to see, 290 00:14:53,010 --> 00:14:55,050 S10: simply because it sucks the air out of the room 291 00:14:55,050 --> 00:14:57,570 S10: for every other bit of news and information going on 292 00:14:57,570 --> 00:15:00,850 S10: in the headlines. Another presidential election in a couple of years. 293 00:15:01,370 --> 00:15:07,130 S10: But this is ultimately a political, um, uh, bullet point 294 00:15:07,490 --> 00:15:10,610 S10: that I think is being made to a certain, uh, 295 00:15:10,610 --> 00:15:18,770 S10: political group, many of them supporting, uh, California Governor Newsom 296 00:15:19,490 --> 00:15:23,450 S10: on these very radical ideas. It does tell you, though, uh, 297 00:15:23,450 --> 00:15:26,930 S10: how the idea of left, right and middle of politics 298 00:15:26,930 --> 00:15:31,850 S10: in America that has now been expanded to some real, 299 00:15:32,010 --> 00:15:36,250 S10: very troubling and very radical ideas about forgetting about the 300 00:15:36,250 --> 00:15:38,570 S10: rights of parents. You know, there was always some rumbling, 301 00:15:38,570 --> 00:15:41,330 S10: and you and I will, will remember this, uh, over 302 00:15:41,330 --> 00:15:43,550 S10: the last couple of decades because we've seen the move 303 00:15:44,070 --> 00:15:49,790 S10: against parental involvement in public education and more control by 304 00:15:50,350 --> 00:15:54,910 S10: state educational boards and so forth in certain states to 305 00:15:54,990 --> 00:15:58,670 S10: keep parents from objecting to curriculum and so forth. Um, 306 00:15:58,670 --> 00:16:01,310 S10: but this is a new low, I think, in terms 307 00:16:01,310 --> 00:16:02,910 S10: of the problems of public education. 308 00:16:02,950 --> 00:16:04,790 S1: Well, can we just linger on the problem for a minute? 309 00:16:04,830 --> 00:16:07,070 S1: I mean, I'm thrilled about the legal victory, and I 310 00:16:07,070 --> 00:16:10,070 S1: really appreciate the legal scholars who commented on this and 311 00:16:10,070 --> 00:16:13,630 S1: a particularly strong state of applause for the Thomas More 312 00:16:13,630 --> 00:16:16,670 S1: Society who took this case on because they've done a 313 00:16:16,670 --> 00:16:19,950 S1: stellar job. And I really appreciate their work always. Um, 314 00:16:20,230 --> 00:16:22,230 S1: but the fact that we even had to litigate this 315 00:16:22,230 --> 00:16:24,310 S1: is absolutely stunning to me that you would I mean, 316 00:16:24,350 --> 00:16:25,910 S1: let me here it is in the shoe letter. Okay. 317 00:16:25,950 --> 00:16:28,870 S1: This is the common around the kitchen table conversation. So 318 00:16:28,870 --> 00:16:32,230 S1: Johnny is struggling probably because Johnny has an undiagnosed mental 319 00:16:32,230 --> 00:16:36,750 S1: health issue. He's either got early onset bipolar, perhaps he's 320 00:16:36,750 --> 00:16:39,790 S1: autistic and hasn't yet been diagnosed. Maybe there's some abuse 321 00:16:39,790 --> 00:16:42,930 S1: in the background. Whatever it is the precursor to this. 322 00:16:42,930 --> 00:16:45,330 S1: I'm in the wrong body doesn't come ex-nihilo. It doesn't 323 00:16:45,330 --> 00:16:47,490 S1: come out of thin air. There has to be some 324 00:16:47,490 --> 00:16:50,010 S1: mitigating reasons that get someone starting to think, oh, I'm 325 00:16:50,050 --> 00:16:52,210 S1: trapped in the wrong body. That's not a normal state 326 00:16:52,210 --> 00:16:54,650 S1: to be right out of the gate. So Johnny goes 327 00:16:54,690 --> 00:16:56,570 S1: and plus you add to that a social contagion, the 328 00:16:56,570 --> 00:16:58,850 S1: fact that everybody and their brother is talking about this 329 00:16:58,850 --> 00:17:02,490 S1: from preschool kindergartens on Netflix. I mean, there's a there's 330 00:17:02,530 --> 00:17:06,250 S1: a trans character on Strawberry Shortcake. Now to the stuff 331 00:17:06,250 --> 00:17:08,409 S1: in movies, to the fact that people are picking it 332 00:17:08,410 --> 00:17:10,330 S1: up at school, they're picking it up on TikTok. They're 333 00:17:10,330 --> 00:17:12,930 S1: telling everybody, I know I'm in the wrong body. So 334 00:17:12,930 --> 00:17:16,290 S1: there's the social contagion aspect of this. And so it's exploded. 335 00:17:16,290 --> 00:17:18,970 S1: So let me go back to Johnny standing there thinking 336 00:17:19,010 --> 00:17:21,370 S1: to himself, I think I'm in the wrong body. And 337 00:17:21,369 --> 00:17:24,369 S1: what were they doing in California before the Supreme Court ruled? 338 00:17:24,369 --> 00:17:49,470 S1: We'll talk more about that when we return. So I 339 00:17:49,470 --> 00:17:52,350 S1: left Johnny in the home. Okay? Johnny struggling in his body. 340 00:17:52,350 --> 00:17:54,510 S1: And he says suddenly I think I'm trapped in the 341 00:17:54,510 --> 00:17:56,790 S1: wrong body. And again, that doesn't come out of thin air. 342 00:17:56,950 --> 00:18:00,350 S1: It becomes, because Johnny's been influenced. My goodness, they're reading 343 00:18:00,350 --> 00:18:02,310 S1: books in the library. You got drag queens that are 344 00:18:02,310 --> 00:18:04,750 S1: showing up at school. It's showing up in their cartoons 345 00:18:04,750 --> 00:18:08,110 S1: on Netflix. You've got friends at school watching TikTok going, yeah, 346 00:18:08,109 --> 00:18:10,070 S1: I think I'm trapped in the wrong body. Look, when 347 00:18:10,070 --> 00:18:12,350 S1: you get a local school district where the number of 348 00:18:12,350 --> 00:18:14,270 S1: people who think they're trapped in the wrong body goes 349 00:18:14,270 --> 00:18:18,389 S1: up 4,000%, you got a problem. That's a social contagion. 350 00:18:18,390 --> 00:18:20,710 S1: So then Johnny goes to school thinking I should really 351 00:18:20,710 --> 00:18:23,149 S1: be a girl. And he tells a friend who either 352 00:18:23,150 --> 00:18:26,110 S1: then tells the teacher, or the teacher overhears the conversation 353 00:18:26,350 --> 00:18:30,230 S1: and the teacher goes In California pre this ruling. Oh, Johnny, 354 00:18:30,230 --> 00:18:31,750 S1: let me help you. First of all, what pronoun would 355 00:18:31,750 --> 00:18:33,950 S1: you like and what name would you like us to use? 356 00:18:34,470 --> 00:18:36,150 S1: And over here we have a wardrobe. You can pick 357 00:18:36,150 --> 00:18:38,270 S1: whatever clothes you want. And from now on, when you 358 00:18:38,270 --> 00:18:40,030 S1: come to school, you can dress in whatever out what 359 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,120 S1: you want, and we'll use your pronouns and we'll use 360 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:44,520 S1: whatever name you want. And we're not going to tell 361 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,800 S1: your parents. Uh, it's ludicrous on its face. And so 362 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:51,280 S1: what the Supreme Court did in the six three majority 363 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,800 S1: was step in and say no. In fact, this ruling 364 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,920 S1: that came down on Tuesday is probably the strongest parents 365 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,520 S1: rights ruling, in addition to Mahmood that we've had in 366 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,959 S1: well over ten years. So now again, it was a 367 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,959 S1: procedural decision. So it gets kicked back. Craig. And so 368 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,280 S1: for people who want to know how the sausage is 369 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,800 S1: made when it gets kicked back, does it go back 370 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,040 S1: to the to the trial level or does it go 371 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:13,760 S1: back to the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals? 372 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,040 S10: Well, just from a technical standpoint, it has to go 373 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,399 S10: back to the Ninth Circuit. Who then, uh, sends it 374 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,920 S10: back to the trial court. Um, so it'll end up 375 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,160 S10: in front of the trial judge with a new set 376 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,800 S10: of instructions and what the law is a reminder of 377 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,480 S10: what the law is. And that's what's important here, because 378 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,639 S10: in this decision, the six three decision, uh, in Mirabelli 379 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,280 S10: versus Bonta, uh, which is the case we're talking about 380 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:43,220 S10: out of California, the Supreme Court. The six justices cited 381 00:19:44,300 --> 00:19:47,940 S10: other opinions by the US Supreme Court that go back 382 00:19:49,260 --> 00:19:54,740 S10: 100 years ago. They cited the first case about parental rights, 383 00:19:54,740 --> 00:19:59,740 S10: the Pierce case that goes back to 1925. So we 384 00:19:59,740 --> 00:20:06,619 S10: have had parental rights viewed as a constitutional basic for 385 00:20:06,660 --> 00:20:11,619 S10: more than 100 years now. Now that we're into, uh, 2026. 386 00:20:12,260 --> 00:20:16,739 S10: So you wonder, at what point did someone think it 387 00:20:16,740 --> 00:20:19,780 S10: was a good idea to depart from 100 years of 388 00:20:19,980 --> 00:20:23,820 S10: Supreme Court jurisprudence about the rights of parents as the 389 00:20:23,820 --> 00:20:31,500 S10: primary nurturers and inculcation of values, both religious and non-religious, 390 00:20:31,740 --> 00:20:35,619 S10: and and determiners of what is in the best interest 391 00:20:35,619 --> 00:20:38,960 S10: of the child. What's happened in the last hundred years 392 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,520 S10: that we should take that body of law and scrap 393 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:47,360 S10: it for a new vision of no parental rights at all. 394 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:51,119 S10: According to the state of California. Uh. That's how radical 395 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:55,280 S10: this proposal is. Wiping clean the slate of 100 years 396 00:20:55,280 --> 00:21:01,400 S10: of the same doctrine that parents, absent abuse or neglect, 397 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,360 S10: unusually of the physical kind, uh, are the ones in 398 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:09,040 S10: charge of making those primary and most central decisions about 399 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,800 S10: their kids and have a right to find out what's 400 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:12,879 S10: going on at school. 401 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,760 S1: We're going to take this topic to the bottom of 402 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,879 S1: the hour just because it's so stunning. And boy, if 403 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,639 S1: there were ever a reminder when the Bible tells you 404 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,600 S1: to look well to the ways of your household, it 405 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,600 S1: is this story. The schools were never, ever meant to 406 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,720 S1: be in competition with the parents. They were to work 407 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:30,520 S1: in conjunction with the parents in cooperation with the parents, 408 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,840 S1: but not in conflict with the parents. I run out 409 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,200 S1: of letter C's, but I could keep going. The bottom 410 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,370 S1: line is, again, ideas have to start somewhere and good 411 00:21:38,369 --> 00:21:41,490 S1: ideas have good consequences. Bad ideas have bad consequences. So 412 00:21:41,530 --> 00:21:43,370 S1: where does this come from? You know, I point to 413 00:21:43,410 --> 00:21:46,450 S1: Gavin Newsom only because he's he's a purveyor of these 414 00:21:46,450 --> 00:21:49,210 S1: kinds of things. This is his worldview. This is his agenda. 415 00:21:49,250 --> 00:21:50,850 S1: He can't say he ain't been told this is what 416 00:21:50,850 --> 00:21:53,450 S1: he believes. He's trying to score political points. So he's 417 00:21:53,490 --> 00:21:55,290 S1: weighing in on this kind of subject all the time. 418 00:21:55,530 --> 00:21:57,649 S1: But the governor just can't have a worldview. He needs 419 00:21:57,650 --> 00:21:59,609 S1: an agent that has to be able to put these 420 00:21:59,650 --> 00:22:02,330 S1: ideas into the schools. So I can't help but think, 421 00:22:02,330 --> 00:22:05,409 S1: but it's going to be the National Education Association and 422 00:22:05,410 --> 00:22:08,530 S1: the American Federation of Teachers. These are like union bosses 423 00:22:08,530 --> 00:22:11,250 S1: that have a socialistic worldview. I mean, they're not protecting 424 00:22:11,250 --> 00:22:14,010 S1: the kids and they're not protecting the teachers. They're all 425 00:22:14,010 --> 00:22:18,730 S1: about advocating particular politicians and particularly policies. And it has 426 00:22:18,730 --> 00:22:21,490 S1: nothing to do with education. So this idea of creating 427 00:22:21,490 --> 00:22:24,210 S1: secrecy between the parent and the child, which is the 428 00:22:24,250 --> 00:22:28,649 S1: antithesis of what's been historically the relationship between parents and 429 00:22:28,650 --> 00:22:31,370 S1: public schools, is just unconscionable to me. I mean, Craig, 430 00:22:31,369 --> 00:22:33,290 S1: when you and I had kids that went to school, 431 00:22:33,290 --> 00:22:35,050 S1: we had to get a signed permission slip to get 432 00:22:35,050 --> 00:22:36,709 S1: them on the bus if they were going on a 433 00:22:36,710 --> 00:22:39,910 S1: field trip. So to go from that to Johnny, we're 434 00:22:39,910 --> 00:22:42,350 S1: going to help you transition without your mom and dad 435 00:22:42,350 --> 00:22:46,030 S1: knowing that is educational malpractice. And I'm going to be 436 00:22:46,030 --> 00:22:49,430 S1: curious to see in the future if states are non-cooperative 437 00:22:49,430 --> 00:22:52,430 S1: with what I hope will be a universal and unilateral 438 00:22:52,430 --> 00:22:55,590 S1: Supreme Court decision affecting every public school in the country, 439 00:22:55,910 --> 00:22:58,550 S1: is what parent can step up to the board and 440 00:22:58,550 --> 00:23:01,670 S1: then start suing these schools again because they're detrimental harm, 441 00:23:01,710 --> 00:23:03,109 S1: irreversible harm to their children? 442 00:23:03,150 --> 00:23:07,110 S10: Well, right now, the basis of both Mahmoud as well 443 00:23:07,109 --> 00:23:11,270 S10: as this case, uh, is that the parents had religious 444 00:23:11,270 --> 00:23:18,230 S10: based objections to, um, in Mahmoud, it was, uh, curriculum 445 00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:24,109 S10: that was force feeding kids with, uh, gender ideology that they, 446 00:23:24,109 --> 00:23:29,670 S10: the parents disagreed with. Fundamentally, uh, here, it's something even worse. 447 00:23:29,710 --> 00:23:33,629 S10: And as a matter of fact, the six justices in the, uh, 448 00:23:34,410 --> 00:23:39,050 S10: The procuring decision in this case. The most recent case 449 00:23:39,369 --> 00:23:42,330 S10: made it clear that the situation here is even more 450 00:23:42,330 --> 00:23:46,290 S10: extreme than Mahmoud, which was a matter of curricula and 451 00:23:46,290 --> 00:23:52,010 S10: reading books and discussion in class that violently conflicted with 452 00:23:52,010 --> 00:23:54,810 S10: the religious beliefs of the family and the child here. 453 00:23:55,050 --> 00:24:01,850 S10: It's actually molding and remolding the students idea of who 454 00:24:01,890 --> 00:24:05,850 S10: he or she is in terms of gender. That's even 455 00:24:05,850 --> 00:24:08,889 S10: more radical. And the court made that point. So at 456 00:24:08,930 --> 00:24:13,690 S10: what point does the public school systems around the country 457 00:24:13,730 --> 00:24:17,050 S10: get the memo that the Constitution doesn't give you the 458 00:24:17,050 --> 00:24:22,410 S10: right to inculcate values, like some Soviet system of education, 459 00:24:22,410 --> 00:24:24,170 S10: where you say, now we're going to tell you what 460 00:24:24,170 --> 00:24:27,090 S10: you should believe, regardless of what your parents believe. 461 00:24:27,770 --> 00:24:29,570 S1: All right. That's one topic. And by the way, you 462 00:24:29,570 --> 00:24:32,570 S1: see the intersection between what happened at the Supreme Court, 463 00:24:32,609 --> 00:24:35,659 S1: legislation being pushed by a California governor and what the 464 00:24:35,660 --> 00:24:38,380 S1: Bible says, you are to look well to the ways 465 00:24:38,380 --> 00:24:40,860 S1: of your household. You are to fight for your families 466 00:24:40,859 --> 00:25:13,700 S1: back after this. Anyone can read the news every day 467 00:25:13,700 --> 00:25:15,700 S1: and in the market, we're committed to telling the news 468 00:25:15,740 --> 00:25:18,179 S1: as seen through the lens of Scripture. As Christians, we 469 00:25:18,180 --> 00:25:20,140 S1: must be informed about what's going on in the world 470 00:25:20,140 --> 00:25:23,179 S1: and respond appropriately. When you become a partial partner, you 471 00:25:23,180 --> 00:25:25,659 S1: ensure that we continue here on your station, equipping the 472 00:25:25,660 --> 00:25:28,020 S1: church to discuss current events, using the Bible as our 473 00:25:28,020 --> 00:25:31,180 S1: solid foundation. Why not become a partial partner today? Call 474 00:25:31,180 --> 00:25:34,560 S1: 877 Janet, 58 or go online to in the Market 475 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:39,199 S1: with Janet Parshall. So we just told you about this 476 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,320 S1: monstrously important ruling by the Supreme Court that came down 477 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,360 S1: on Tuesday, that came down on the side of truth, justice, 478 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,120 S1: and the biblical way in which we look forward. We 479 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:53,160 S1: look towards our families. That's a huge a humongous decision. 480 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,840 S1: And it was a very positive one. What I'm pleased 481 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,920 S1: about is, remember Craig and I just talked about now 482 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,560 S1: what happens in terms of the the law. So it 483 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,200 S1: gets kicked back. It has to be relitigated again. And 484 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,400 S1: one would think that the decision, especially when you've seen 485 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,600 S1: quite literally you see Book of Daniel, you've seen the 486 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,480 S1: writing on the wall where the Supreme Court has basically said, uh, 487 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,919 S1: you can't interfere with the religious training of a child. 488 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,800 S1: So they've signaled. So in other words, you know, they 489 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,520 S1: can go back to the drawing board, but the people 490 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,200 S1: who are pushing for the secrecy policies have a 100. 491 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,600 S1: And well, I guess it'd be 90 degree climb straight 492 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,320 S1: up a wall to try to outdo this. So we'll 493 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,780 S1: see what happens. But what I'm pleased about is that 494 00:26:31,780 --> 00:26:34,980 S1: our government stepped forward. Okay. Three branches of government legislative, 495 00:26:34,980 --> 00:26:40,180 S1: judicial and executive. Part of the executive branch is the cabinet. 496 00:26:40,180 --> 00:26:43,780 S1: The president's cabinet. And I am so happy that we 497 00:26:43,780 --> 00:26:47,580 S1: had people who have gravitas in the cabinet that happens 498 00:26:47,580 --> 00:26:52,699 S1: to be our surgeon general and a representative of the HHS. 499 00:26:52,859 --> 00:26:55,780 S1: Make a statement about what the government is going to 500 00:26:55,780 --> 00:26:58,820 S1: do in light of this new decision. So have a listen. 501 00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:03,659 S11: I'm Admiral Brian Christine, the assistant secretary for health here 502 00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:05,740 S11: at the US Department of Health and Human Services. 503 00:27:05,780 --> 00:27:07,939 S12: And I'm Alex Adams. I'm the assistant secretary for the 504 00:27:07,940 --> 00:27:09,899 S12: administration for Children and Families. 505 00:27:10,140 --> 00:27:12,859 S11: At his state of the Union address, President Trump shared 506 00:27:12,859 --> 00:27:15,580 S11: the story of Sage Blaire, a young woman who was 507 00:27:15,580 --> 00:27:18,659 S11: separated from her parents at the age of 14 after 508 00:27:18,660 --> 00:27:22,340 S11: school officials attempted to secretly transition her to a male. 509 00:27:22,859 --> 00:27:25,980 S11: Our president exposed the reality of what is taking place 510 00:27:25,980 --> 00:27:29,300 S11: in some of our schools across the country. And in response, 511 00:27:29,340 --> 00:27:32,590 S11: HHS is sending a clear and unequivocal message to all 512 00:27:32,590 --> 00:27:36,750 S11: 50 states about cases like that of Sage Blair. Acknowledging 513 00:27:36,750 --> 00:27:41,510 S11: biological reality and exercising sincerely held religious beliefs should not 514 00:27:41,510 --> 00:27:45,070 S11: constitute child abuse or neglect under federal law. 515 00:27:45,109 --> 00:27:48,470 S12: Today, we sent letters to every state reminding them that 516 00:27:48,470 --> 00:27:51,310 S12: children may not be removed from their homes solely because 517 00:27:51,310 --> 00:27:56,310 S12: parents declined to support a child's self-identification as the opposite sex. 518 00:27:56,510 --> 00:28:00,190 S12: The letter reinforces that HHS oversees the Child Abuse Prevention 519 00:28:00,190 --> 00:28:03,950 S12: and Treatment Act, also known as Capta, and removing a 520 00:28:03,950 --> 00:28:07,190 S12: child from their home must be based on objective evidence 521 00:28:07,190 --> 00:28:10,510 S12: or imminent risk of serious harm, so states decision to 522 00:28:10,550 --> 00:28:13,189 S12: break up a family cannot be based solely on a 523 00:28:13,190 --> 00:28:17,869 S12: parent's objection to radical gender ideology or irreversible sex rejecting 524 00:28:17,869 --> 00:28:22,429 S12: medical interventions. Our letter encourages states to adopt clear definitions 525 00:28:22,430 --> 00:28:26,390 S12: of abuse and neglect that explicitly protect parents rights to 526 00:28:26,430 --> 00:28:29,690 S12: raise children consistent with their biological sex. 527 00:28:30,050 --> 00:28:33,410 S11: Public health and child welfare policy must be rooted in 528 00:28:33,410 --> 00:28:38,770 S11: sound science. Faithful adherence to statute and respect for constitutional protections. 529 00:28:39,090 --> 00:28:41,970 S11: When definitions of abuse and neglect are stretched beyond their 530 00:28:41,970 --> 00:28:46,690 S11: legal limits, families are torn apart, parents suffer, children experience 531 00:28:46,690 --> 00:28:50,290 S11: unnecessary trauma, and foster care systems are further strained. 532 00:28:50,730 --> 00:28:54,770 S12: This action reaffirms our commitment to keeping families together whenever 533 00:28:54,770 --> 00:28:57,690 S12: it is safe to do so. As President Trump said 534 00:28:57,690 --> 00:29:00,970 S12: during the state of the Union, no state can be 535 00:29:00,970 --> 00:29:04,370 S12: allowed to rip children from their parents arms and transition 536 00:29:04,370 --> 00:29:08,490 S12: them to a new gender against the parents will. Families 537 00:29:08,490 --> 00:29:11,890 S12: across the country can be confident that HHS will defend 538 00:29:11,930 --> 00:29:16,210 S12: their sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions across all 539 00:29:16,250 --> 00:29:17,890 S12: of the programs that we administer. 540 00:29:18,370 --> 00:29:20,530 S11: At the Department of Health and Human Services, we will 541 00:29:20,530 --> 00:29:23,970 S11: continue to stand for children's safety, parental rights and the 542 00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:27,290 S11: rule of law without apology and without exception. 543 00:29:28,310 --> 00:29:30,230 S1: I bet you didn't hear that before. And I just 544 00:29:30,230 --> 00:29:32,590 S1: want you to know that sometimes something good can come 545 00:29:32,590 --> 00:29:35,910 S1: out of Washington. I mean, that's a strong, clear declaration 546 00:29:35,910 --> 00:29:39,190 S1: that parents are penumbral. It's an old fashioned word that means, really? 547 00:29:39,310 --> 00:29:40,670 S1: You don't even have to argue about it. It's such 548 00:29:40,670 --> 00:29:43,270 S1: a self-evident truth. So I had the titles wrong, by 549 00:29:43,270 --> 00:29:44,989 S1: the way. I'm glad they corrected me. So you had 550 00:29:44,990 --> 00:29:47,430 S1: representatives out of the Department of Health and Human Services 551 00:29:47,430 --> 00:29:51,630 S1: basically saying no, straight across the board, all 50 states. 552 00:29:51,670 --> 00:29:53,990 S1: Now that's going to make the ideologues and the activists 553 00:29:54,030 --> 00:29:57,390 S1: just tremble, because what they've got to face now is 554 00:29:57,390 --> 00:30:01,230 S1: not just the pushback from groups that disagree, but, you know, 555 00:30:01,270 --> 00:30:03,630 S1: you've got the federal government. Now, this is why it's 556 00:30:03,630 --> 00:30:06,870 S1: important to go and vote, because ideas have consequences now. 557 00:30:06,910 --> 00:30:10,230 S1: Things will change. Different administration might have a completely different worldview, 558 00:30:10,390 --> 00:30:12,870 S1: but this current administration says, no, they're not going to 559 00:30:12,870 --> 00:30:16,470 S1: stand for states removing children from their families and transitioning 560 00:30:16,470 --> 00:30:19,270 S1: them to a new gender against the parents will. But 561 00:30:19,270 --> 00:30:21,910 S1: that's about as strong. And they're not quoting scripture. They 562 00:30:21,910 --> 00:30:24,030 S1: don't need to. But it's reflective of the truth of 563 00:30:24,030 --> 00:30:29,250 S1: Scripture that families are that cornerstone that God created in 564 00:30:29,250 --> 00:30:33,610 S1: a place of perfection family, government, church, in that order. 565 00:30:33,610 --> 00:30:36,170 S1: And of those three, the only one created in a 566 00:30:36,170 --> 00:30:38,770 S1: place of perfection was the family. And there's lots of 567 00:30:38,770 --> 00:30:41,330 S1: reasons why it was done in Eden. But Satan's been 568 00:30:41,330 --> 00:30:43,970 S1: trying to go after the family since it was created. Craig, 569 00:30:43,970 --> 00:30:44,770 S1: your thoughts on this? 570 00:30:44,810 --> 00:30:49,410 S10: You know, this is another example of how the law 571 00:30:49,970 --> 00:30:55,330 S10: is dependent on language, specifically clarity of language. And when 572 00:30:55,330 --> 00:31:01,130 S10: language gets ambiguous or stretched beyond its original meaning, and 573 00:31:01,130 --> 00:31:04,810 S10: particularly if it's done quietly and parents aren't aware of it, 574 00:31:04,810 --> 00:31:08,170 S10: and citizens don't realize the game that's being played in 575 00:31:08,170 --> 00:31:13,970 S10: enlarging language beyond the common understanding, in this case, the 576 00:31:13,970 --> 00:31:18,090 S10: terms abuse and neglect. Now, that concept, either literally the 577 00:31:18,090 --> 00:31:21,580 S10: word abuse and neglect, which has been around for 100 578 00:31:21,580 --> 00:31:26,900 S10: to 200 years in American common law, but also in, in, uh, 579 00:31:26,900 --> 00:31:30,660 S10: English common law. For hundreds of years, the concept of 580 00:31:30,660 --> 00:31:34,780 S10: abuse and neglect were the only conditions under which a 581 00:31:34,780 --> 00:31:39,260 S10: natural parent of a child could lose either custody or 582 00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:44,420 S10: decision making regarding that child. But then something happened, and 583 00:31:44,420 --> 00:31:47,900 S10: I observed this in cases that I was handling in the, uh, 584 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:53,500 S10: late part of the 20th century, where suddenly now social 585 00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:59,620 S10: service agencies and social scientists and some judges were all saying, 586 00:31:59,660 --> 00:32:03,540 S10: you know, uh, it's not just physical abuse or physical 587 00:32:03,540 --> 00:32:07,580 S10: neglect not feeding your child or hurting your child, but 588 00:32:07,580 --> 00:32:10,900 S10: also emotional. Well, okay, I can agree with that. And 589 00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:13,900 S10: I saw some cases of real emotional abuse. But then 590 00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:20,580 S10: slowly emotional abuse extended to actually best interests. Best interests 591 00:32:20,580 --> 00:32:24,880 S10: means we're better equipped than you, the parent, to decide 592 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,760 S10: what's best for the child. And then that shift took place. 593 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,720 S10: And once you take a shift in language from abuse 594 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,840 S10: and neglect to best interests and who makes the decision, 595 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,120 S10: and it's the state that wins and the parent that loses, 596 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,720 S10: then you have these cases, and you have the hubris 597 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,240 S10: of California to say, yeah, we're going to we're going 598 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,640 S10: to we're going to codify this in law, saying, basically, 599 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,240 S10: we're in charge of your child. 600 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,400 S1: You know, the only thing that gives me comfort in 601 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,000 S1: an otherwise totally absurd conversation. I mean, again, I don't 602 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,280 S1: think I'm the only person who feels this way. I 603 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,719 S1: can't believe we're having discussions about whether or not the 604 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,480 S1: school has the permission to secret my child away and 605 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,840 S1: feed into a delusional idea, and not feel the slightest 606 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,760 S1: compulsion to have to say, maybe I better talk to 607 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,120 S1: mom and dad. It's ludicrous on its face. But the 608 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,440 S1: only thing that makes sense out of chaos is by 609 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,360 S1: looking at the world around us through the lens of Scripture. 610 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,480 S1: If God created family in a place of perfection, which 611 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,120 S1: he did, it's inarguable. He defines family as a man 612 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:24,740 S1: and a woman. He tells Adam and Eve to be 613 00:33:24,740 --> 00:33:28,580 S1: fruitful and multiply. It's also there because it's God tells 614 00:33:28,580 --> 00:33:30,219 S1: us and tells us and tells us again. So we 615 00:33:30,220 --> 00:33:33,260 S1: can't say we ain't been told we are adopted into 616 00:33:33,260 --> 00:33:36,260 S1: the family of God. There's a relationship between the father 617 00:33:36,260 --> 00:33:39,140 S1: and the son. We are adopted into the family of 618 00:33:39,140 --> 00:33:41,340 S1: God when we accept Christ as our personal Savior. So 619 00:33:41,340 --> 00:33:44,260 S1: the paradigm of family is used, and that's just a 620 00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:45,940 S1: couple off the top of my head. But over and 621 00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:48,220 S1: over and over again in Scripture, we look at families 622 00:33:48,220 --> 00:33:51,140 S1: and we understand how important they are for transmitting values 623 00:33:51,140 --> 00:33:53,459 S1: from one generation to the next. The directives to parents 624 00:33:53,460 --> 00:33:56,180 S1: in Scripture are to teach them. You quoted this last week, Craig, 625 00:33:56,180 --> 00:33:58,380 S1: when you talked about hanging the teachings of the Lord 626 00:33:58,380 --> 00:34:00,500 S1: around the necks of our children as we read that 627 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:04,020 S1: in Deuteronomy. So it makes sense only when you put 628 00:34:04,020 --> 00:34:06,540 S1: on those glasses and you go, I get it. The 629 00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:09,540 S1: Prince of the air, the chief liar, the one who's 630 00:34:09,540 --> 00:34:13,380 S1: still prowling, seeking whom he may devour. He hates families. 631 00:34:13,380 --> 00:34:16,219 S1: So naturally he would come up with this absurdist idea. Remember? 632 00:34:16,219 --> 00:34:19,020 S1: Here's another encouragement. God is not the author of confusion. 633 00:34:19,020 --> 00:34:23,070 S1: It creates confusion. When you say to a child, Johnny, 634 00:34:23,070 --> 00:34:24,950 S1: I'm going to make you feel like Susie, if that's 635 00:34:24,950 --> 00:34:28,510 S1: what you feel like today. That's confusion. That's absolutely utter confusion. 636 00:34:28,510 --> 00:34:31,750 S1: It's demonic, but it's also confusion. But we can make 637 00:34:31,750 --> 00:34:34,470 S1: sense of this by saying, okay, I get it. It's 638 00:34:34,469 --> 00:34:37,310 S1: not a governor, it's not legislation. It's not a judge 639 00:34:37,310 --> 00:34:42,629 S1: or an appellate court. It's the enemy himself. And I 640 00:34:42,630 --> 00:34:45,029 S1: think it's important that we recognize not the tail of 641 00:34:45,030 --> 00:34:48,230 S1: the snake, but the head of the snake. And we recognize, okay, 642 00:34:48,350 --> 00:34:50,630 S1: I'm going to suit up. And when you hear me 643 00:34:50,670 --> 00:34:52,450 S1: say this a thousand times and I'll say it a 644 00:34:52,450 --> 00:34:55,790 S1: thousand times more, should the Lord allow, when Nehemiah is 645 00:34:55,790 --> 00:34:58,509 S1: on the walls, repairing the shattered walls of Jerusalem after 646 00:34:58,510 --> 00:35:00,910 S1: they had been attacked, he said, when you hear the 647 00:35:00,910 --> 00:35:04,150 S1: sound of the trumpet, fight for your families. He didn't say, 648 00:35:04,190 --> 00:35:07,830 S1: fight against the enemy. He said, fight for your families. 649 00:35:07,830 --> 00:35:09,509 S1: And so when you hear this kind of stuff, rather 650 00:35:09,510 --> 00:35:12,069 S1: than being afraid, rather than think, oh, it's the teachers union. Oh, 651 00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:13,910 S1: it's the public school. Oh, there are giants in the 652 00:35:13,910 --> 00:35:16,549 S1: land and I'm just a grasshopper. Hey, greater is he 653 00:35:16,550 --> 00:35:18,670 S1: that is in you than he that is in the world. 654 00:35:18,670 --> 00:35:21,450 S1: So you need to look at this from a spiritual perspective. Otherwise, 655 00:35:21,450 --> 00:35:23,089 S1: I think you'd just go to bed, pull the covers 656 00:35:23,090 --> 00:35:24,850 S1: over your head and say, wake me when it's over. 657 00:35:24,890 --> 00:35:25,370 S1: Do you agree? 658 00:35:25,410 --> 00:35:28,970 S10: Yeah. When the Israelites were put into captivity and hauled 659 00:35:28,969 --> 00:35:33,529 S10: out of what is now current day Israel by a 660 00:35:33,530 --> 00:35:40,569 S10: pagan civilization, God spoke to Jeremiah to give them a message. 661 00:35:40,690 --> 00:35:42,969 S10: And there was real wisdom in that. And one of 662 00:35:42,969 --> 00:35:45,330 S10: the things that they were advised to do is to 663 00:35:45,370 --> 00:35:50,570 S10: continue raising their families. Also tied in with that Jeremiah, 664 00:35:50,810 --> 00:35:54,129 S10: via God's inspiration to him and to the people in 665 00:35:54,130 --> 00:36:00,490 S10: occupation was also. Beware of false teachings. Beware of the deceivers. 666 00:36:00,730 --> 00:36:05,290 S10: Understand the truth. Don't leave the Word of God behind. 667 00:36:05,489 --> 00:36:08,569 S10: Apply it as you live and raise your families, because 668 00:36:08,570 --> 00:36:11,450 S10: that's where truth telling should take place. It should start 669 00:36:11,450 --> 00:36:14,489 S10: in the home and then the truth telling with your 670 00:36:14,489 --> 00:36:18,969 S10: children who understand the truth. And the truth comes from 671 00:36:18,969 --> 00:36:23,190 S10: divine revelation, not human speculation or theory. Then they can 672 00:36:23,190 --> 00:36:25,830 S10: share it with the world, and then the world can slowly, 673 00:36:25,830 --> 00:36:29,430 S10: one person at a time, be transformed. That was the plan. 674 00:36:29,469 --> 00:36:34,470 S10: Even if you're being occupied by a hostile pagan culture. Mm. 675 00:36:34,750 --> 00:36:36,270 S1: Well, when we come back, I want to give you 676 00:36:36,270 --> 00:36:38,110 S1: an update on a story that Craig and I discussed 677 00:36:38,110 --> 00:36:40,270 S1: last week, because I love to close the loop on 678 00:36:40,270 --> 00:36:42,950 S1: stories we've discussed, particularly when they have a good ending 679 00:36:42,950 --> 00:36:45,069 S1: and this one does as well. Plus, I want to 680 00:36:45,070 --> 00:36:49,750 S1: tell you about not a trans student, but a trans teacher. 681 00:36:50,910 --> 00:36:52,750 S1: You have to laugh about some of these things. And 682 00:36:52,750 --> 00:36:54,830 S1: this one I think, just might make you laugh a 683 00:36:54,830 --> 00:37:18,549 S1: little bit back after this. So you may remember that 684 00:37:18,550 --> 00:37:21,600 S1: last week Craig and I talked about a teacher in Nashville, Tennessee. 685 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:25,080 S1: God bless Eric Rivera if he's listening. You go. Thanks 686 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,759 S1: for being courageous and for standing up for what you 687 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,279 S1: knew to be right. This was the story of a 688 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:36,479 S1: Nashville elementary school teacher, KIPP Antioch College Prep Elementary. See, 689 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,319 S1: Eric said, I'm not going to read this LGBTQ book 690 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,960 S1: in my class. Okay. It's my religious liberties as well. 691 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,360 S1: My sincerely held religious beliefs. And quite frankly, it is 692 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,400 S1: coerced speech. You are forcing me to read this to 693 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,240 S1: the kids. And then there was a follow up lesson 694 00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:55,440 S1: on this gay stuff as well. And Eric said, no. 695 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,919 S1: Can you let somebody else do it? And the school 696 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,400 S1: pushed back because they were ideologues, right? Meanwhile, in the 697 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,480 S1: schools and not just Nashville, but straight across the United States, 698 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,319 S1: we are at abysmal levels. We don't do math, and 699 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,879 S1: we can't read and we can't write. But be sure 700 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,680 S1: and read stories about LGBTQ, because that's a life skill 701 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,320 S1: they're going to need when they graduate into the real world. 702 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,560 S1: So Eric said, I'm not going to do it. And 703 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,660 S1: he said he couldn't in good conscience read the book 704 00:38:20,660 --> 00:38:22,980 S1: to the class. He got help from our friends at 705 00:38:22,980 --> 00:38:26,260 S1: First Liberty Go, Kelly Shackelford and team. And he asked 706 00:38:26,260 --> 00:38:29,020 S1: a colleague to read the book instead. And the next day, 707 00:38:29,260 --> 00:38:32,540 S1: Eric got summoned to the principal's office and threatened with termination, 708 00:38:32,780 --> 00:38:36,660 S1: and he was told he must maintain fidelity to the curriculum. 709 00:38:36,980 --> 00:38:39,580 S1: Now that gives me chills. That's a harkening back to 710 00:38:39,620 --> 00:38:43,980 S1: 1930s in Germany. You will maintain fidelity to the curriculum. 711 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:47,980 S1: What if the curriculum is 1,000% wrong? It's anathema. I 712 00:38:48,020 --> 00:38:51,860 S1: disagree with it. It's questionable, it's argumentative and it's inappropriate. 713 00:38:51,860 --> 00:38:54,540 S1: I'm not going to I'm not going to demand fidelity. 714 00:38:54,540 --> 00:38:57,420 S1: And you can't demand fidelity from me. So the school 715 00:38:57,420 --> 00:38:59,820 S1: said nope. And we're going to put a disciplinary letter 716 00:38:59,820 --> 00:39:03,419 S1: in your personal file. Well, I have to tell you 717 00:39:03,420 --> 00:39:06,900 S1: that first. Liberty said that Eric didn't get any prior warnings. 718 00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:11,339 S1: He has zero discipline history. Afterwards, this all happened. He 719 00:39:11,340 --> 00:39:14,259 S1: asked for a religious accommodation. Instead, he was reassigned to 720 00:39:14,300 --> 00:39:18,520 S1: a lab and technology position and then to a kindergarten position. 721 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,680 S1: So he was punished. After facing a warning letter from 722 00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,560 S1: First Liberty, Kipp Antioch agreed to clear the incident from 723 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,239 S1: Rivera's record. And that's the good news. I want to 724 00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:32,560 S1: share with you that now Eric has been cleared, his 725 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,040 S1: record has been cleared. That discipline business that's in his 726 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,239 S1: file that's going to be stripped. And Eric one the day. Craig. 727 00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:40,240 S1: That's a good news story. 728 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:45,440 S10: Yes. Particularly because according to the state law that mark 729 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:52,319 S10: against him, which was entirely inappropriate and biased and unbased 730 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:56,200 S10: would have been public knowledge, it would have been listed 731 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:59,520 S10: on their website and the whole world would see it. 732 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,520 S10: It would affect this teacher's ability if he decided, look, 733 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,040 S10: I've had it with this particular public school district, I 734 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,680 S10: want to move to another one that that would have 735 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:12,799 S10: followed him. So I think this is a significant victory 736 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,779 S10: to be able to clear that blemish. Now, frankly, there 737 00:40:16,820 --> 00:40:19,700 S10: are still some who are going to disagree with the decision, 738 00:40:20,820 --> 00:40:23,500 S10: but at some point. 739 00:40:23,739 --> 00:40:24,580 S1: Happen to talk to him. 740 00:40:24,620 --> 00:40:28,220 S10: Right? Yeah, they'd be glad to file another lawsuit, another 741 00:40:28,219 --> 00:40:32,780 S10: school that does the same wrong thing wrongly. Uh, now 742 00:40:33,140 --> 00:40:36,500 S10: it does raise a question, and it's not for us 743 00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:40,180 S10: to decide now because it's complicated. But at what point 744 00:40:40,219 --> 00:40:46,700 S10: does a teacher have academic freedom within a curriculum course 745 00:40:47,140 --> 00:40:50,300 S10: to teach in a way that they're not punished because 746 00:40:50,300 --> 00:40:55,819 S10: they violated the secret, invisible, quote, orthodoxy of social values 747 00:40:55,820 --> 00:40:59,100 S10: of that particular school district? That's a good point. And 748 00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:02,660 S10: that has yet to be. Now, I frankly had a case, um, 749 00:41:03,180 --> 00:41:05,660 S10: that went the wrong way in front of a federal 750 00:41:05,660 --> 00:41:07,859 S10: judge that's now sitting on the US Supreme Court. I 751 00:41:07,860 --> 00:41:10,859 S10: have tremendous respect for that judge. But the law at 752 00:41:10,860 --> 00:41:14,220 S10: the time and has to be clarified is that the district, 753 00:41:14,260 --> 00:41:18,469 S10: the school district owns the academic freedom, right? Not the 754 00:41:18,469 --> 00:41:21,230 S10: individual professor or teacher. I think we still have to 755 00:41:21,230 --> 00:41:24,110 S10: develop that area of law for these kinds of cases. 756 00:41:24,150 --> 00:41:26,830 S1: That's a great point because the teachers still have rights 757 00:41:26,830 --> 00:41:28,989 S1: to as well, and they need to be protected. So 758 00:41:28,989 --> 00:41:31,270 S1: in the you're not going to believe this category, there 759 00:41:31,270 --> 00:41:34,110 S1: was a transgender substitute teacher. Now we're going to go 760 00:41:34,110 --> 00:41:37,029 S1: from talking about students to a teacher who apparently drew 761 00:41:37,030 --> 00:41:40,509 S1: some complaints from mom and dad after reportedly wearing provocative 762 00:41:40,510 --> 00:41:45,149 S1: clothing and presenting as a wolf persona. Now, when Craig 763 00:41:45,150 --> 00:41:47,190 S1: and I talk about wolves on Friday, we're usually talking 764 00:41:47,190 --> 00:41:49,670 S1: about those ravenous wolves referred to by Jesus in the 765 00:41:49,670 --> 00:41:52,750 S1: book of Matthew that outwardly they look like they're wearing 766 00:41:52,750 --> 00:41:55,790 S1: sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. Well, this 767 00:41:55,790 --> 00:41:57,510 S1: is a wolf of a different kind. This is apparently 768 00:41:57,510 --> 00:41:59,509 S1: a person who presented as a wolf. And he did 769 00:41:59,510 --> 00:42:04,390 S1: this around young kids. The employee who identified as female 770 00:42:04,390 --> 00:42:07,589 S1: and non-binary, which means this was a man taught at 771 00:42:07,590 --> 00:42:10,190 S1: the Millard B Pool Elementary School at Fort Bragg in 772 00:42:10,190 --> 00:42:14,050 S1: North Carolina. Been there since 2023. Uh, this was according 773 00:42:14,090 --> 00:42:16,930 S1: to a letter sent by the legal group Liberty Counsel 774 00:42:16,930 --> 00:42:20,969 S1: to the Department of Defense Education Activity. I won't get 775 00:42:20,969 --> 00:42:23,890 S1: into all the initials, but it's called Dodea. And it 776 00:42:23,890 --> 00:42:26,969 S1: happened earlier in February. The parents apparently reported the employee 777 00:42:27,250 --> 00:42:33,330 S1: because the employee went by female names and wore BDM clothing. 778 00:42:33,370 --> 00:42:36,890 S1: I'm not for little ears, just deviant that. Let's leave 779 00:42:36,890 --> 00:42:41,290 S1: it at that deviant style feminine clothing, including a dog 780 00:42:41,290 --> 00:42:44,930 S1: collar and an animal tail to school. This is the 781 00:42:44,930 --> 00:42:49,930 S1: teacher friends, an animal collar and a animal tail to 782 00:42:49,969 --> 00:42:52,810 S1: the classroom. The teacher in the classroom told students to 783 00:42:52,850 --> 00:42:58,450 S1: address the individual by some other online personas, including Roxanne, Roxy, Captain, 784 00:42:58,450 --> 00:43:03,730 S1: Roxy or Coda. Uh, well, apparently this individual now has 785 00:43:03,730 --> 00:43:07,410 S1: been fired. The wolf was fired two weeks ago. The 786 00:43:07,410 --> 00:43:10,770 S1: Secretary of War put out on X. Parents first raised 787 00:43:10,770 --> 00:43:13,790 S1: concern about the teacher's inappropriate attire to administrators all the 788 00:43:13,790 --> 00:43:16,910 S1: way back in early 2025. This, according to our friends 789 00:43:16,910 --> 00:43:21,070 S1: at Liberty Counsel and the mothers of pre-K and kindergarten students, 790 00:43:21,070 --> 00:43:23,910 S1: remember this person and his deviant dressing is doing this 791 00:43:23,910 --> 00:43:29,109 S1: for babies kindergarten. Okay, oh, I'm maddening. And pre-K reportedly 792 00:43:29,110 --> 00:43:31,870 S1: that the teacher was allowing to was allowed to identify 793 00:43:31,870 --> 00:43:33,910 S1: as a male as students to address him by female 794 00:43:33,910 --> 00:43:37,910 S1: pronouns in the classroom, dressed in tight skirts and tank 795 00:43:37,950 --> 00:43:41,430 S1: tops above the knee skirts and combat boots while wearing 796 00:43:41,430 --> 00:43:45,710 S1: this deviant stuff, including a dog collar with dog tags 797 00:43:46,670 --> 00:43:49,670 S1: going down. A very deviant kind of line. So, according 798 00:43:49,710 --> 00:43:52,669 S1: to Liberty Counsel, parents reported seeing the teacher wearing this 799 00:43:52,670 --> 00:43:55,790 S1: attire with an animal tail on more than one occasion. Well, 800 00:43:55,790 --> 00:43:59,310 S1: the long story short is Craig. Finally, people with common 801 00:43:59,350 --> 00:44:02,030 S1: sense and clarity of thought went, you're out of here. 802 00:44:02,070 --> 00:44:05,350 S10: You know what? I'm hearing this and I'm thinking I 803 00:44:05,710 --> 00:44:10,029 S10: does this person understand little Red Riding Hood and the 804 00:44:10,030 --> 00:44:13,280 S10: big bad wolf? because if kids knew that story, they'd 805 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,239 S10: run to that point. 806 00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,120 S1: Your excellent observation. Apparently, one child went home and said 807 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,239 S1: to his mom, mommy, I'm scared he's going to come 808 00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:19,960 S1: and eat me. 809 00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:21,200 S10: Yeah, there you go. 810 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:27,200 S1: Unbelievable. So anyway, apparently the teacher said that also across 811 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:32,880 S1: the windshield, he had the words we're beast, Huntress and Roxy. Six. Six, six. Okay, well, 812 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:33,560 S1: Roxy is now. 813 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:34,880 S10: Well, the numbers are appropriate. 814 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,759 S1: Absolutely. And Roxy got shown the door. So take your 815 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,359 S1: dog collar and your tail with you. Unbelievable. You got 816 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,040 S1: to laugh about these things. But again, like I said, 817 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,200 S1: you really get the right perspective when you realize that 818 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:49,800 S1: this is Satan, the author of confusion. The liar, the deceiver. Okay, 819 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,560 S1: so suit up. Get up and get out. Fight for 820 00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,799 S1: your families. Don't be afraid. Greater is he that is 821 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,600 S1: in us than he that is in the world. We 822 00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:58,719 S1: tell you this story just so you know how to 823 00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,200 S1: prepare for going out there and influencing and occupying until 824 00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,840 S1: Jesus takes you home. Thank you friends. Turn those clocks 825 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,120 S1: back and have a forward and have a great weekend. 826 00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,080 S1: We'll see you next time.