1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,400 S1: Hi friends, this is Janet Parshall. Thanks so much for 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,160 S1: downloading this podcast, and I hope you hear something that 3 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:07,560 S1: will really encourage and edify you. But before you start 4 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,400 S1: to listen, let me take a moment of your time 5 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:11,399 S1: and tell you about this month's truth tool. It's called 6 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,640 S1: secure How to Have a Healthy Attachment to God. And 7 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,360 S1: it follows that very often, whatever our relationship is like 8 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,000 S1: with authority figures, predominantly our parents, we somehow transferred to 9 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,040 S1: how we see God. So if we have an angry parent, 10 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,319 S1: he's an angry God. If it's a distant parent, he's 11 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,520 S1: a God who's not there. 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So 33 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:27,360 S1: either way, thank you in advance for prayerfully considering the 34 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,679 S1: opportunity to financially support in the market with Janet partial 35 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,679 S1: and keeping it on the air now, I hope you 36 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:34,880 S1: hear something that will encourage you to get out and 37 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,839 S1: influence and occupy in the marketplace of ideas. 38 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,120 S2: Welcome to In the Market with Janet Parshall. Today's program 39 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,560 S2: is where Janet and her husband, Craig, take some of 40 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,720 S2: the stories making headlines this week and offer their insight 41 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,640 S2: and analysis. Before they get started, let's take a quick 42 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,800 S2: look back at some of the highlights from the week. 43 00:02:03,370 --> 00:02:07,490 S3: Mark my words. The exceptionalism of America is the exceptionalism 44 00:02:07,490 --> 00:02:10,730 S3: of the First Amendment, and you Europeans have it wrong. 45 00:02:10,770 --> 00:02:13,810 S3: He talked about a guy being convicted in Belgium for 46 00:02:13,810 --> 00:02:17,730 S3: holding a sign up saying, please don't turn Belgium into 47 00:02:17,770 --> 00:02:22,410 S3: an Islamic state. Ended up getting criminally convicted. Mentioned cases 48 00:02:22,410 --> 00:02:26,250 S3: in England. Mentioned cases like that in Canada. So the 49 00:02:26,250 --> 00:02:29,489 S3: threat is there and not just knocking on our door. 50 00:02:29,530 --> 00:02:32,690 S3: They're going to control the tech companies that many of 51 00:02:32,690 --> 00:02:34,050 S3: us use for communication. 52 00:02:34,570 --> 00:02:37,370 S4: Someone uses those four words and says, oh, they're just 53 00:02:37,370 --> 00:02:41,330 S4: synonyms for the same thing. Not true. You can parallel 54 00:02:41,370 --> 00:02:49,530 S4: abyss and pit. Yes. One thing, two words. Same thing. Aw, hell. Hades. 55 00:02:49,530 --> 00:02:53,370 S4: Something else. But it's a mistake to put them all together. 56 00:02:54,410 --> 00:03:01,050 S4: Stopping point temporarily for humans, stopping point temporarily. For supernatural 57 00:03:01,050 --> 00:03:04,570 S4: demonic beings. Their ultimate homes are going to be different 58 00:03:04,570 --> 00:03:07,410 S4: to a lake of fire or a new heaven and 59 00:03:07,410 --> 00:03:08,090 S4: a new earth. 60 00:03:08,650 --> 00:03:12,570 S5: You know, Janet, your your thoughts as they are meandering 61 00:03:12,570 --> 00:03:17,850 S5: with mine today. They bring me to a conclusion that 62 00:03:17,850 --> 00:03:21,130 S5: I have reached over the years of my life, and 63 00:03:21,130 --> 00:03:27,810 S5: that is that if there is one essential quality that 64 00:03:28,250 --> 00:03:31,489 S5: is more important than all others in this road we 65 00:03:31,490 --> 00:03:38,170 S5: call life, it is kindness. And Lincoln is on the 66 00:03:38,170 --> 00:03:41,530 S5: basis of all the years I've studied him. He is 67 00:03:41,530 --> 00:03:45,090 S5: the kindest president America has ever known. 68 00:03:46,010 --> 00:03:49,290 S6: Doctor Sylvester, who was a pillar of the underground church 69 00:03:49,290 --> 00:03:52,210 S6: in Czechoslovakia. He said that when he was put in 70 00:03:52,210 --> 00:03:55,210 S6: prison in the 50s, he had to resolve not to 71 00:03:55,210 --> 00:03:58,140 S6: feel sorry for himself. He said. I saw myself as 72 00:03:58,140 --> 00:04:01,339 S6: God's probe. I was here to learn what it meant 73 00:04:01,340 --> 00:04:04,540 S6: to suffer as Christ suffered, and to serve others and 74 00:04:04,540 --> 00:04:07,740 S6: to serve him. That man came out of prison after 75 00:04:07,740 --> 00:04:11,060 S6: ten years of being tortured and beaten, and he didn't 76 00:04:11,060 --> 00:04:13,460 S6: hate his captors, but he went out of that prison, 77 00:04:13,460 --> 00:04:16,860 S6: and he evangelized. And they built up the underground church. 78 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:21,140 S2: To hear the full interviews from any of those guests 79 00:04:21,180 --> 00:04:24,419 S2: go to In the Market with Janet Parshall and click 80 00:04:24,420 --> 00:04:27,980 S2: on past programs. Here's some other stories making headlines this week. 81 00:04:28,779 --> 00:04:32,660 S7: President Donald Trump on Thursday announced at the inaugural meeting 82 00:04:32,660 --> 00:04:36,020 S7: of his Board of Peace that $7 billion had been 83 00:04:36,020 --> 00:04:38,220 S7: raised for a Gaza reconstruction fund. 84 00:04:38,260 --> 00:04:41,940 S8: Peru saw in José Balcazar as its new interim president, 85 00:04:41,940 --> 00:04:44,980 S8: making him the country's eighth leader in as many years. 86 00:04:45,020 --> 00:04:51,020 S9: Warner Bros. Discovery has rejected Paramount Skydance's latest hostile takeover bid. 87 00:04:52,420 --> 00:04:54,540 S2: Janet and Craig have lots to share, and they'll put 88 00:04:54,540 --> 00:04:57,060 S2: the first story on the table when we return. To 89 00:04:57,100 --> 00:04:59,700 S2: get more information or to download the podcast of any 90 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:02,620 S2: of the interviews, go to In the Market with Janet Parshall. 91 00:05:20,980 --> 00:05:23,500 S1: The way we related to authority figures growing up often 92 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:25,340 S1: shapes how we relate to God. So if you grew 93 00:05:25,339 --> 00:05:28,020 S1: up with a critical or disengaged parent, you might think 94 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:30,339 S1: God is demanding or distant. And that's why I've chosen 95 00:05:30,339 --> 00:05:32,900 S1: secure how to have a healthy attachment to God. As 96 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:35,660 S1: this month's truth tool, learn to know the true character 97 00:05:35,660 --> 00:05:38,140 S1: of our Heavenly Father. As for your copy of secure, 98 00:05:38,140 --> 00:05:39,700 S1: when you give a gift of any amount to in 99 00:05:39,700 --> 00:05:44,260 S1: the market, call 877858. That's 877 Janet 58 or go 100 00:05:44,260 --> 00:05:48,900 S1: to in the market with Janet Parshall. Happy Friday to 101 00:05:48,940 --> 00:05:51,220 S1: you friends. Thank you so much for joining us this 102 00:05:51,220 --> 00:05:54,020 S1: hour on In the Market with Janet Parshall and per usual, 103 00:05:54,260 --> 00:05:56,339 S1: my precious husband has joined us and we're going to 104 00:05:56,339 --> 00:05:58,339 S1: take a look at some of the stories making headlines. 105 00:05:58,580 --> 00:06:01,099 S1: We do things a wee bit different on Friday. Here 106 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:02,940 S1: we take a look at the headlines and then we 107 00:06:02,940 --> 00:06:06,820 S1: practice applied Christianity. What does the Word of God say? Uh, 108 00:06:06,860 --> 00:06:09,580 S1: has God had it rendered an opinion on a particular 109 00:06:09,580 --> 00:06:11,820 S1: story that's out there making the news cycle? Is there 110 00:06:11,820 --> 00:06:15,260 S1: a biblical underpinning or a precept that surrounds some of 111 00:06:15,260 --> 00:06:17,140 S1: the stories we're seeing in the news? Listen, it's the 112 00:06:17,140 --> 00:06:19,299 S1: whole truth of the whole gospel to the whole world. 113 00:06:19,540 --> 00:06:22,660 S1: And that book illuminates our Pilgrim's Progress, which, by the way, 114 00:06:22,660 --> 00:06:25,300 S1: we celebrated the anniversary this week of the first time 115 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:28,779 S1: publishing Pilgrim's Progress. I posted that on my X account. 116 00:06:28,820 --> 00:06:31,339 S1: Really fabulous. This whole program, by the way, is a 117 00:06:31,339 --> 00:06:34,100 S1: hat tip to John Bunyan in Pilgrim's Progress. He called 118 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:37,580 S1: the marketplace of ideas Vanity Fair in the late 1600s. 119 00:06:37,580 --> 00:06:40,020 S1: And it's still that Vanity Fair is still the marketplace 120 00:06:40,020 --> 00:06:42,020 S1: of ideas. And that's where we go to visit on 121 00:06:42,020 --> 00:06:45,060 S1: this program on a regular basis. So on Fridays, we're 122 00:06:45,060 --> 00:06:48,900 S1: practicing applied Christianity. His word applied to the world around us, 123 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:51,780 S1: so that you begin to understand how important it is 124 00:06:51,779 --> 00:06:55,070 S1: to have a plumb line. I often quote Dwight L Moody, 125 00:06:55,110 --> 00:06:58,270 S1: and he said beautifully that the Bible is the straight 126 00:06:58,270 --> 00:07:00,350 S1: stick of truth. But the Book of Amos also talks 127 00:07:00,350 --> 00:07:02,990 S1: about a plumb line as well. You have to have 128 00:07:02,990 --> 00:07:05,670 S1: something to measure, right? How would you know if a 129 00:07:05,670 --> 00:07:08,429 S1: wall is crooked if you didn't have a plumb line? 130 00:07:08,430 --> 00:07:10,830 S1: The plumb line was a string, and at the bottom 131 00:07:10,830 --> 00:07:12,590 S1: was a weight. No matter what you did, it was 132 00:07:12,590 --> 00:07:15,030 S1: always stick straight because gravity would pull it down and 133 00:07:15,030 --> 00:07:17,710 S1: you'd have this clean plumb line. Well, the Word of 134 00:07:17,710 --> 00:07:20,070 S1: God is our plumb line. To take a look at 135 00:07:20,070 --> 00:07:23,750 S1: the issues that are happening today. It's protective, it's instructive, 136 00:07:23,750 --> 00:07:28,990 S1: it's edifying, it's encouraging, it's remarkable. It's transcendent. It's inerrant. 137 00:07:28,990 --> 00:07:31,230 S1: It's immutable. Did you spend time in it today? Just 138 00:07:31,270 --> 00:07:32,950 S1: asking for a friend. I hope you did. Did you 139 00:07:32,990 --> 00:07:36,030 S1: wake up this morning with an attitude of gratitude by 140 00:07:36,030 --> 00:07:38,350 S1: reading God's Word and understanding that when you woke up 141 00:07:38,350 --> 00:07:41,790 S1: this morning, you were crowned? The Bible said with his 142 00:07:41,790 --> 00:07:44,950 S1: loving kindness and his tender mercies. That says something about 143 00:07:44,950 --> 00:07:47,230 S1: the God who loves us. We were told, when you 144 00:07:47,230 --> 00:07:49,390 S1: got up this morning before your feet touched the ground, 145 00:07:49,390 --> 00:07:52,510 S1: that his grace was sufficient for the day. You were 146 00:07:52,510 --> 00:07:55,510 S1: told that when you are weak, you are strong because 147 00:07:55,510 --> 00:07:58,070 S1: you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. 148 00:07:58,390 --> 00:08:00,630 S1: We were told that we can hide under the shelter 149 00:08:00,630 --> 00:08:03,110 S1: of his wing. We were told that he will illuminate 150 00:08:03,110 --> 00:08:05,470 S1: our path through the power of His Word. The list 151 00:08:05,470 --> 00:08:07,630 S1: goes on and on and on. Which I don't know 152 00:08:07,630 --> 00:08:09,870 S1: about you, but it makes me grateful before I even 153 00:08:09,870 --> 00:08:12,950 S1: start the day. I'm already thanking him for everything that 154 00:08:12,950 --> 00:08:17,030 S1: he supplied me for the the strength, the courage, the wisdom, 155 00:08:17,230 --> 00:08:19,670 S1: the peace, the comfort, all of those things that we 156 00:08:19,670 --> 00:08:22,510 S1: need in our Pilgrim's Progress. And so we're going to 157 00:08:22,510 --> 00:08:24,270 S1: talk about some of the stuff out there that's making 158 00:08:24,270 --> 00:08:27,670 S1: headlines and honestly, without Christ. Well, it's the kind of 159 00:08:27,670 --> 00:08:29,190 S1: stuff that's going to make a lot of people nervous. 160 00:08:29,190 --> 00:08:32,429 S1: For example, let's start with the topic of Iran. I 161 00:08:32,429 --> 00:08:34,429 S1: don't know when the Lord will call me home. I 162 00:08:34,429 --> 00:08:36,470 S1: don't know when the Lord will take us up in 163 00:08:36,470 --> 00:08:40,350 S1: the air. Harpazo first Thessalonians. Um, and by the way, 164 00:08:40,350 --> 00:08:43,070 S1: I hope that happens before supper just between you and me. 165 00:08:43,350 --> 00:08:45,070 S1: But I will tell you, I'm not taking my eyes 166 00:08:45,070 --> 00:08:47,589 S1: off of Iran right now because things are percolating there. 167 00:08:47,590 --> 00:08:50,080 S1: My heart breaks. Thank you, Jesus, for the relationship we 168 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,600 S1: have with Doctor Hammond. I love his ministry, Iran Alive Ministries. 169 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,240 S1: Please check it out, see what they're doing. Hormones is precious. 170 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:02,840 S1: He left in 79 when the revolution took place. Came 171 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,280 S1: to America as a devout Muslim, was going to get 172 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,600 S1: his PhD in computer engineering. He was going to specialize 173 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,679 S1: in artificial intelligence. God had other plans for him. He 174 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:13,920 S1: comes to faith in Jesus Christ. He starts a series 175 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,400 S1: of churches from converts from Islam. Still today, that church 176 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,199 S1: is up and running. It's one of the most unique 177 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,199 S1: and vibrant in the country. God then calls him to Texas. 178 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,240 S1: He founds Iran Alive Ministries, and now he's often referred 179 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,160 S1: to as the Billy Graham of Iran because 24 over 180 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,440 S1: seven he beams the gospel into Iran, which, thanks be 181 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,840 S1: to God, doesn't get stopped by the government. The gospel 182 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,440 S1: cannot be stopped by the way it penetrates every life, 183 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:40,199 S1: every person, every continent. And he is getting reports constantly 184 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:42,400 S1: of people who are coming to faith in Christ, particularly 185 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,120 S1: now when they're under this kind of a threat. So 186 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,640 S1: we're praying that there will be a regime change. We 187 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:49,880 S1: are praying that the people of Iran will come out 188 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,600 S1: from under the heavy boot of the ayatollahs and the mullahs. 189 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:54,680 S1: But we have to understand, and this is what makes 190 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:56,679 S1: us different from the world, is that what's happening in 191 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,040 S1: Iran is a spiritual battle. Oh, oh, should this come 192 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,800 S1: to a conflagration? It's going to be material, believe me. 193 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,679 S1: But it's also spiritual, because remember, the ayatollahs believe in 194 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,240 S1: their eschatology that there has to be this fight for 195 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,960 S1: the total global Islamization of the world. And when that comes, 196 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,880 S1: when that does happen, then their Mahdi, that's their Messiah 197 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,480 S1: will come and make his appearance. Ain't going to happen, 198 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,600 S1: by the way. But I'm telling you what they believe. 199 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,040 S1: So they have every reason in the world to say 200 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,800 S1: we want nuclear capabilities because it's going to move us 201 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,280 S1: to our desired eschatological end. Follow the dots on that. 202 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,360 S1: You and I see that differently. The world doesn't understand that. 203 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,000 S1: And remember, paradoxically, they're constantly referring to Israel as the 204 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,120 S1: little Satan and the United States as the Great Satan. Now, 205 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,520 S1: to our credit, we've been trying to get some diplomatic resolution, 206 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:43,959 S1: but I want to give you the update on this, 207 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,440 S1: and I want to get Craig's opinion, because I think 208 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,320 S1: the next few days could be very, very interesting. And 209 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,480 S1: I want us to have thought and prayed about this. 210 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:55,160 S1: And more importantly, we're praying for those in authority because, well, 211 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,560 S1: as Shakespeare said, heavy is the head that wears the crown. 212 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,319 S1: These are big, heavy decisions. So President Trump said in 213 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,240 S1: June that he would decide, quote, within the next two 214 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,280 S1: weeks whether to strike a ram. And he made that 215 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,960 S1: decision two days later. And we remember what happened on 216 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,600 S1: Thursday of this week. He gave Tehran another clock, saying 217 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,480 S1: that the Islamic Republic has 10 to 15 days. Now 218 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:17,920 S1: that means the clock is running to come to the 219 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:22,600 S1: negotiating table or face consequences. So this now compressed timeline 220 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:24,560 S1: sits at the center of a new round of high 221 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,720 S1: stakes nuclear diplomacy. The president would love to be able 222 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,880 S1: to resolve this through diplomacy. Iran pushes back and says, sure, 223 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,240 S1: we'd love to talk with you. Anything but the question 224 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,000 S1: of nuclear power. Uh, that would sort of be the rub. 225 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,960 S1: That would be the central issue in all of this, 226 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,920 S1: would it not? So this warning is both a it's 227 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,800 S1: a warning and it's also a weapon. Uh, there's a 228 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,290 S1: gentleman who is the head of United. Let me get 229 00:11:48,290 --> 00:11:52,929 S1: his title right. United. United against nuclear Iran. And he 230 00:11:52,929 --> 00:11:55,810 S1: says that the Iranian regime is operating under the grand 231 00:11:55,809 --> 00:11:59,970 S1: illusion that they can turn President Trump into a previous administration. 232 00:11:59,970 --> 00:12:03,130 S1: And he wanted to let Iran know this is not 233 00:12:03,130 --> 00:12:05,090 S1: the same kind of president that you've dealt with in 234 00:12:05,090 --> 00:12:07,929 S1: the past. He keeps his word. I'm looking at a 235 00:12:07,929 --> 00:12:11,210 S1: map right now of U.S. naval assets in the Middle East, 236 00:12:11,210 --> 00:12:14,690 S1: and as of today, we now have ten naval ships 237 00:12:14,690 --> 00:12:16,850 S1: in that area, two in the Mediterranean, one in the 238 00:12:16,850 --> 00:12:23,610 S1: Red sea, uh, one in the, uh, Asian. We have 239 00:12:23,610 --> 00:12:24,810 S1: one in the Red sea. I want to make sure 240 00:12:24,809 --> 00:12:25,890 S1: I get this right. So I give it to you, 241 00:12:25,929 --> 00:12:29,250 S1: factually correct. Uh, one in the Persian Gulf. And then 242 00:12:29,250 --> 00:12:30,970 S1: we have one off the coast of Oman, and we 243 00:12:30,970 --> 00:12:34,170 S1: have five off the coast of India. That's a heavy 244 00:12:34,170 --> 00:12:37,250 S1: military presence. If you've seen where the planes are, and 245 00:12:37,250 --> 00:12:40,010 S1: I've seen maps where we've got assets all around that 246 00:12:40,010 --> 00:12:43,010 S1: part of the world, it's not just conversation. It's look 247 00:12:43,050 --> 00:12:46,130 S1: out your front door, Mr. Ayatollah. Look, it's waiting for you. 248 00:12:46,130 --> 00:12:48,329 S1: So one way or another, as the president said this week, 249 00:12:48,330 --> 00:12:51,209 S1: there is going to be some kind of a resolution. Uh, 250 00:12:51,290 --> 00:12:55,210 S1: there's some skepticism again, that Iran will go through these 251 00:12:55,210 --> 00:12:59,250 S1: rounds of diplomatic talks because, as Herman has talked, taught 252 00:12:59,250 --> 00:13:02,329 S1: us on several occasions, they're weak on the inside, but 253 00:13:02,330 --> 00:13:04,969 S1: they need to appear strong on the outside. So they 254 00:13:04,970 --> 00:13:07,410 S1: look like they're affable. They're agreeable. Yes. We'll come to 255 00:13:07,410 --> 00:13:10,450 S1: the table, except we won't talk about nuclear capability. It's 256 00:13:10,450 --> 00:13:13,810 S1: the nuclear capability that makes Iran the threat to that 257 00:13:13,809 --> 00:13:16,170 S1: part of the world. So, Craig, let me ask to 258 00:13:16,210 --> 00:13:18,569 S1: you and as we turn to this, this is important 259 00:13:18,570 --> 00:13:21,730 S1: because if something happens and, you know, thanks be to 260 00:13:21,770 --> 00:13:24,130 S1: God that our security forces are smart and they're never 261 00:13:24,130 --> 00:13:26,370 S1: going to tell some media outlet we're going to strike 262 00:13:26,370 --> 00:13:29,690 S1: on Saturday. It's almost like trying to predict when Jesus comes. 263 00:13:29,690 --> 00:13:32,330 S1: You can pretty much say that strike will definitely now 264 00:13:32,370 --> 00:13:35,210 S1: not happen on Saturday, because you would never give your 265 00:13:35,210 --> 00:13:37,650 S1: enemy advance warning and when you were going to make 266 00:13:37,650 --> 00:13:40,290 S1: a strike. But the reality is, we know that Iran 267 00:13:40,290 --> 00:13:42,730 S1: has said that they're not interested in talking about their 268 00:13:42,730 --> 00:13:47,449 S1: nuclear capabilities. We've gone the sanctions route before. Um, it 269 00:13:47,450 --> 00:13:49,290 S1: just doesn't look like they're going to cooperate by any 270 00:13:49,290 --> 00:13:52,650 S1: stretch of the imagination. It's interesting because, um, some of 271 00:13:52,650 --> 00:13:54,730 S1: the Middle Eastern states have said we're going to give 272 00:13:54,730 --> 00:13:57,290 S1: the U.S. airspace. Why are they doing that? Because they 273 00:13:57,290 --> 00:14:01,650 S1: don't like Iran either. That country, that regime creates instability 274 00:14:01,690 --> 00:14:03,650 S1: for that part of the world. So I think it's 275 00:14:03,650 --> 00:14:05,650 S1: important that we start thinking and praying about it now, 276 00:14:05,650 --> 00:14:08,449 S1: because this will happen fast. We won't know when it happened. 277 00:14:08,450 --> 00:14:11,010 S1: If it happens at all, it will happen fast. You 278 00:14:11,010 --> 00:14:13,650 S1: and I will not get advance notice. The idea would 279 00:14:13,650 --> 00:14:16,930 S1: be able to go in quickly and swiftly and minimize damage, 280 00:14:16,929 --> 00:14:21,090 S1: but to be able to, uh, negate, I guess, is 281 00:14:21,090 --> 00:14:23,810 S1: the most gracious word I could use their nuclear capabilities. 282 00:14:24,090 --> 00:14:26,970 S1: And should that bring about a change in the regime? Well, 283 00:14:26,970 --> 00:14:29,010 S1: I have to tell you, they are literally dancing in 284 00:14:29,010 --> 00:14:32,010 S1: the streets of Iran. I posted on X today the 285 00:14:32,010 --> 00:14:36,530 S1: fact that the regime has killed over 32,000 people since 286 00:14:36,530 --> 00:14:40,610 S1: this last episode in some barbaric, horrific ways, shooting them 287 00:14:40,610 --> 00:14:43,540 S1: in the eye, shooting patients in the beds of hospitals. 288 00:14:43,540 --> 00:14:45,740 S1: I don't know how you can even say that they're protesters, 289 00:14:46,020 --> 00:14:48,140 S1: unless they say you were put in a hospital bed 290 00:14:48,140 --> 00:14:49,940 S1: in the first place because you were protesting. So now 291 00:14:49,940 --> 00:14:52,180 S1: that you're vulnerable, boom, we're going to kill you. But 292 00:14:52,220 --> 00:14:56,900 S1: instead of mourning in very strong Persian tradition, they are 293 00:14:56,900 --> 00:14:59,140 S1: dancing in the streets. And it's their way of saying 294 00:14:59,180 --> 00:15:02,900 S1: to the regime, you will not crush our spirit. So 295 00:15:03,100 --> 00:15:05,180 S1: I can tell you, based particularly on what hormones has 296 00:15:05,220 --> 00:15:07,300 S1: been telling me. The Iranian people are hoping that this 297 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:09,300 S1: time there is action. Your thoughts? 298 00:15:09,340 --> 00:15:12,660 S3: I think we start with the facts, and the facts 299 00:15:12,660 --> 00:15:15,540 S3: are this as I see them, and most of us 300 00:15:15,940 --> 00:15:18,900 S3: are getting the same news about the same issue. I'm 301 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:24,500 S3: looking at a map of Iran, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, the 302 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:29,980 S3: entire area, Libya, and I'm seeing about 30, 25 to 303 00:15:29,980 --> 00:15:39,100 S3: 30 positions of American fighter jets, warships and missile installations 304 00:15:39,100 --> 00:15:45,180 S3: that have now entered the area surrounding at least one 305 00:15:45,180 --> 00:15:49,060 S3: side of Iran. Uh, they're not exactly on the border, 306 00:15:49,060 --> 00:15:53,060 S3: but in proximity enough to be able to have meaningful strikes. 307 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:59,540 S3: That's fact number one. Fact number two is the negotiations. 308 00:16:00,180 --> 00:16:05,260 S3: And the negotiations, um, have been really started by the 309 00:16:05,260 --> 00:16:09,180 S3: Trump administration, and Israel has been part of it, but 310 00:16:09,220 --> 00:16:14,580 S3: it has been led by the United States, what Iran 311 00:16:14,620 --> 00:16:19,300 S3: has supposedly promised, and they haven't made many promises in 312 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:23,660 S3: the negotiations, is that they would work toward not that 313 00:16:23,660 --> 00:16:27,700 S3: it hasn't been accomplished yet, but they would work toward a, quote, 314 00:16:27,740 --> 00:16:32,820 S3: confidence building measures so that we can be confident we, 315 00:16:33,060 --> 00:16:35,900 S3: the United States and Israel and all the other nations 316 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:42,430 S3: in that area because the entire Arab um. consort of nations. 317 00:16:42,430 --> 00:16:45,910 S3: The entire Middle East would be affected by a major war. 318 00:16:45,950 --> 00:16:49,950 S3: There's no question about that. So, uh, they've said confidence 319 00:16:49,950 --> 00:16:54,390 S3: building measures. We haven't heard them. And to our knowledge, 320 00:16:54,390 --> 00:16:57,030 S3: they haven't presented them yet to the white House. But 321 00:16:57,030 --> 00:17:01,310 S3: here's the deal. History tells us something about the Trump 322 00:17:01,310 --> 00:17:04,949 S3: administration approach to negotiation in the Middle East. Remember the 323 00:17:04,950 --> 00:17:10,470 S3: Hamas negotiations? We extended deadlines. We gave second and third 324 00:17:10,470 --> 00:17:14,670 S3: chances until finally all of the living and the dead 325 00:17:15,070 --> 00:17:18,510 S3: were brought back to Israel after that terrible assault from 326 00:17:18,510 --> 00:17:23,430 S3: Hamas and the beginnings of negotiation were started. So that's 327 00:17:23,430 --> 00:17:25,990 S3: the temper that has been used previously. I think that's 328 00:17:25,990 --> 00:17:27,750 S3: the measure that's going to be used here. 329 00:17:27,790 --> 00:17:30,150 S1: All right. Now this is Friday. We move fast. We 330 00:17:30,150 --> 00:17:32,790 S1: change topics quickly. We'll turn the page, take up another 331 00:17:32,790 --> 00:17:51,790 S1: topic right after this. Okay, we changed the page. We 332 00:17:51,790 --> 00:17:54,190 S1: could spend two hours talking about Iran right now. Let 333 00:17:54,190 --> 00:17:55,870 S1: me just put a capstone on this. Can you please 334 00:17:55,910 --> 00:17:58,550 S1: be praying for those in authority? This is big stuff, okay? 335 00:17:59,150 --> 00:18:02,230 S1: There are people to be considered here. And we don't 336 00:18:02,230 --> 00:18:05,270 S1: want innocent lives to be lost. And yet, this is 337 00:18:05,270 --> 00:18:08,030 S1: such a reminder that our mailing address is east of Eden. 338 00:18:08,030 --> 00:18:10,590 S1: We live in a sin sick fallen world wars and 339 00:18:10,590 --> 00:18:13,149 S1: rumors of wars are all part of what's going to 340 00:18:13,150 --> 00:18:16,190 S1: happen in these latter days before Jesus returns again. So 341 00:18:16,190 --> 00:18:18,870 S1: we shouldn't be caught off guard or be surprised. But 342 00:18:18,869 --> 00:18:20,230 S1: there is a role that you and I can play, 343 00:18:20,230 --> 00:18:22,590 S1: and that is we can pray for our leaders and 344 00:18:22,590 --> 00:18:25,830 S1: ask that God give them wisdom. And remember what the 345 00:18:25,830 --> 00:18:29,750 S1: Bible says about the King, your leader, his hand. Right. 346 00:18:29,790 --> 00:18:32,030 S1: God's hand is wrapped around the heart of that king, 347 00:18:32,030 --> 00:18:34,109 S1: and he can turn it any way he wants to. 348 00:18:34,270 --> 00:18:36,350 S1: And the prayers of a righteous man availeth much so 349 00:18:36,350 --> 00:18:38,110 S1: you and I need to be praying for those in 350 00:18:38,109 --> 00:18:41,630 S1: authority right now. And what is a building situation in 351 00:18:41,630 --> 00:18:43,790 S1: the Middle East? I don't know where to go. God does. 352 00:18:43,790 --> 00:18:45,950 S1: He's still on the throne. We woke up this morning 353 00:18:45,950 --> 00:18:48,630 S1: with God still being sovereign, and he's got the entire 354 00:18:48,630 --> 00:18:51,389 S1: world in the palm of his hands. So changing the page. 355 00:18:51,390 --> 00:18:53,750 S1: Big trial this week. Mark Zuckerberg in and out of 356 00:18:53,750 --> 00:18:55,550 S1: the courtroom. It's a mess. Let me give you a 357 00:18:55,550 --> 00:18:58,870 S1: quick summation of a report that got filed on the 358 00:18:58,910 --> 00:19:02,830 S1: evening of this, uh, jury trial that's going on, a 359 00:19:02,830 --> 00:19:08,150 S1: top meta read, Facebook researcher warned the company's executives that 360 00:19:08,150 --> 00:19:12,270 S1: there could be as many as 500,000. That's a half 361 00:19:12,270 --> 00:19:16,910 S1: a million, 500,000 cases of online sexual exploitation per day 362 00:19:16,910 --> 00:19:20,470 S1: on Facebook and Instagram, according to these explosive documents, they 363 00:19:20,470 --> 00:19:23,790 S1: were unsealed on the eve of this landmark jury trial. 364 00:19:23,790 --> 00:19:26,869 S1: Opening arguments started Monday in New Mexico with the attorney 365 00:19:26,869 --> 00:19:30,390 S1: general's case, uh, being fought in the state court. It 366 00:19:30,390 --> 00:19:33,990 S1: accuses Mark Zuckerberg's social media giant of exposing kids to the, quote, 367 00:19:34,030 --> 00:19:38,640 S1: twin dangers of sexual exploitation and mental health, harm through 368 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:45,160 S1: creepy messages, sextortion, new word schemes and human trafficking. The result, 369 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,439 S1: the state claims, is a teen social media crisis that 370 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,239 S1: has led to anxiety, depression, self-harm and increasing suicides. And 371 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,680 S1: I got to tell you, powerful testimony from parents who 372 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,720 S1: both have spoken in the courtroom where there are no cameras. 373 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,640 S1: But you're getting reports from reporters who came out and 374 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,639 S1: then parents who spoke at a press gaggle outside the 375 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,840 S1: courtroom as the trial was continuing. So ahead of the trial, 376 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,240 S1: the state's lawyers cited an internal email in which, um, 377 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,800 S1: Malia Andrus, who held a child safety related role at 378 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,240 S1: meta from August 2017 to October 2024. That's a long 379 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:24,320 S1: time wrote that quote, creeps targeted 500 thou kids, 500,000 kids, uh, 380 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:28,959 S1: victims per day in English markets only. Let that sink 381 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,240 S1: in with sexually inappropriate messages. Uh, Andrew said we expect 382 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,280 S1: the true situation is worse. According to court records. And apparently, 383 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,040 S1: Andrus also noted that massive users user bases of Facebook 384 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:45,199 S1: and Instagram have effectively handed predators a tool to target 385 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,280 S1: kids on a scale that is previously unimaginable. Boy, do 386 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,960 S1: we talk about the dangers of this stuff all the time. Mr.. Partial. 387 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,360 S1: This is your forte. You got here before a lot 388 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,080 S1: of people even understood that this was going to be 389 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:57,480 S1: a big danger. Talk to me about this. 390 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:02,440 S3: Yeah, there are actually two, um, Mark Zuckerberg. Um, he's 391 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,040 S3: got two cases pending all at the same time. One's 392 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:08,720 S3: in New Mexico and the other one's in Los Angeles. 393 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:14,360 S3: And he is a co-defendant, uh, I should say, um, meta. Uh, 394 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,760 S3: but of course, he's the face of meta, which owns 395 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:23,000 S3: and operates Facebook and Instagram. Um, it's not just meta 396 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,440 S3: and Facebook and Instagram, but also Google, uh, a number 397 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:32,000 S3: of smaller Silicon Valley, um, social media companies had been 398 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,570 S3: sued as well, in the same case out in California. 399 00:21:34,609 --> 00:21:38,889 S3: They had settled. And side note often when the little 400 00:21:38,890 --> 00:21:42,290 S3: guys settle, it's for a number of reasons. Number one, 401 00:21:42,290 --> 00:21:45,690 S3: to help fund the continued lawsuit against the big guys. 402 00:21:46,050 --> 00:21:51,690 S3: And number two, in exchange for inside information they have 403 00:21:51,690 --> 00:21:54,450 S3: about the big guys that you might not be able 404 00:21:54,450 --> 00:22:00,130 S3: to readily get in ordinary discovery depositions, interrogatories, things like that. Now, 405 00:22:00,130 --> 00:22:03,369 S3: what's what's very interesting is in his first day of 406 00:22:03,369 --> 00:22:08,369 S3: testimony in this case, Mark Zuckerberg obviously had as his 407 00:22:08,410 --> 00:22:11,330 S3: aim and that of his attorney to put a good 408 00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:16,010 S3: face on the attempts by Facebook and Instagram not to 409 00:22:16,050 --> 00:22:23,209 S3: harm kids with addiction and with, um, emotional traps and 410 00:22:23,369 --> 00:22:29,010 S3: other harms, uh, to these adolescent users. Um, so obviously 411 00:22:29,010 --> 00:22:31,490 S3: he's going to talk about the efforts they made to 412 00:22:31,650 --> 00:22:34,090 S3: avoid those harms. And that's exactly what he did. But 413 00:22:34,090 --> 00:22:38,649 S3: one of the interesting things that he mentioned was he said, 414 00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:43,369 S3: you know, back in 2018, he testified, um, we actually 415 00:22:43,770 --> 00:22:48,129 S3: reached out to a competitor, Apple. Uh, the head of Apple, 416 00:22:48,170 --> 00:22:52,609 S3: the CEO is Tim Cook. And we actually he said, uh, 417 00:22:52,609 --> 00:22:56,530 S3: Mark Zuckerberg did. I had a personal conversation with Tim Cook, 418 00:22:56,810 --> 00:23:01,689 S3: our big competitor, but we both wanted to discuss, you know, 419 00:23:01,730 --> 00:23:06,650 S3: our concerns over youth welfare and supposedly how we could 420 00:23:06,650 --> 00:23:11,209 S3: fix it. Well, I don't want to be a cynic, Janet, 421 00:23:11,210 --> 00:23:13,929 S3: but I am a realist. Uh, a decade and a 422 00:23:13,970 --> 00:23:17,050 S3: half ago, uh, Tim Cook was on the verge of 423 00:23:17,050 --> 00:23:21,530 S3: becoming the new CEO because Steve Jobs was fighting cancer, 424 00:23:21,530 --> 00:23:24,130 S3: and he was in the process of giving up his 425 00:23:24,130 --> 00:23:26,490 S3: mantle and giving it over to Tim Cook, who had 426 00:23:26,490 --> 00:23:30,970 S3: been a long time exec high executive in Apple. Apple 427 00:23:30,970 --> 00:23:35,690 S3: was the very first big tech company to specifically censor 428 00:23:35,730 --> 00:23:39,090 S3: citizens because they didn't like their beliefs in that case. 429 00:23:39,130 --> 00:23:41,530 S3: A decade and a half ago, it was to to 430 00:23:41,890 --> 00:23:47,690 S3: block from their app store the Manhattan Declaration. Chuck Colson 431 00:23:47,690 --> 00:23:51,490 S3: and others had written this, uh, put together this app 432 00:23:51,490 --> 00:23:53,649 S3: that was going to go worldwide and was shortly before 433 00:23:53,650 --> 00:23:58,450 S3: its ban, um, just listing the basics of Christian faith 434 00:23:58,450 --> 00:24:02,730 S3: and belief on certain issues. So, uh, here we have 435 00:24:03,130 --> 00:24:06,129 S3: Mark Zuckerberg, who has admitted that they bowed to the 436 00:24:06,130 --> 00:24:10,690 S3: whims of the Biden White House to censor American citizens. Uh, 437 00:24:10,690 --> 00:24:16,210 S3: and here's Apple, um, who also censored free expression. And 438 00:24:16,210 --> 00:24:20,290 S3: they're supposedly looking for the health and welfare of children 439 00:24:20,290 --> 00:24:25,530 S3: and families. So it makes one somewhat suspicious about what 440 00:24:25,570 --> 00:24:26,970 S3: really happened in that phone call. 441 00:24:27,010 --> 00:24:29,820 S1: Mm. This is in the market with Janet Parshall. That's 442 00:24:29,820 --> 00:24:31,860 S1: Craig partial. We're at the 50 yard line. We're going 443 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:33,340 S1: to take a break. Come back a lot more to 444 00:24:33,380 --> 00:24:35,659 S1: talk with you about. Thanks for joining us, by the way, 445 00:24:35,660 --> 00:24:38,220 S1: on this hour's edition of In the Market with Janet Partial. 446 00:24:38,220 --> 00:24:40,260 S1: We'll take this quick break and be back after this. 447 00:25:05,660 --> 00:25:08,100 S1: Christians are called to go into the marketplace of ideas. 448 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:10,780 S1: Throughout history, men and women of God have been thought leaders, 449 00:25:10,780 --> 00:25:13,540 S1: innovators and forces for good. We want this program to 450 00:25:13,580 --> 00:25:16,340 S1: continue in that bold tradition. Join me by becoming a 451 00:25:16,340 --> 00:25:18,740 S1: partial partner. 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Everything should be based on evidence based medicine. 457 00:25:38,619 --> 00:25:41,380 S10: And once the 12 and 14 year data came out 458 00:25:41,380 --> 00:25:44,459 S10: of Europe showing that there was no evidence that the 459 00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:48,580 S10: benefits outweigh the harm, European countries, no matter how liberal 460 00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:53,420 S10: politically they were, stopped performing these procedures and giving these medications. 461 00:25:53,780 --> 00:25:59,460 S10: And finally, the tide has come over here to the US. Unfortunately, later, 462 00:25:59,460 --> 00:26:03,700 S10: rather than sooner, showing that, you know, these kids have 463 00:26:03,980 --> 00:26:07,580 S10: really not had a decrease in suicidality, they have not 464 00:26:07,580 --> 00:26:11,380 S10: had any long term benefit. And it's about time we 465 00:26:11,380 --> 00:26:14,540 S10: stop doing these procedures. These are kids and they deserve 466 00:26:14,540 --> 00:26:17,020 S10: evidence based medicine just like everyone else does. 467 00:26:17,780 --> 00:26:19,739 S1: Praise God the pendulum is turning the other way. So 468 00:26:19,740 --> 00:26:22,540 S1: let me just encapsulate what that physician who went on 469 00:26:22,540 --> 00:26:25,820 S1: national television was saying. She's now part of the brave 470 00:26:25,820 --> 00:26:29,390 S1: crowd that's stepping forward out of the shadow of the 471 00:26:29,390 --> 00:26:33,990 S1: ideology of transgenderism and into the world of good medicine 472 00:26:33,990 --> 00:26:37,470 S1: and common sense. So the American Association of Plastic Surgeons 473 00:26:37,470 --> 00:26:40,310 S1: is the first bona fide medical organization that stepped forward 474 00:26:40,310 --> 00:26:42,909 S1: and said, no, absolutely wrong for minors. And by the way, 475 00:26:42,910 --> 00:26:46,190 S1: this conversation is relegated to people who are under the 476 00:26:46,190 --> 00:26:49,510 S1: age of 19. And this is where we're saying, listen, 477 00:26:49,510 --> 00:26:52,750 S1: these kids are suffering harm. And so the idea was, 478 00:26:52,790 --> 00:26:55,070 S1: and this was the cudgel that's been used all along. 479 00:26:55,070 --> 00:26:56,750 S1: And I'm sorry, but I know there are people in 480 00:26:56,750 --> 00:26:59,470 S1: my audience right now who had someone say this to them. 481 00:26:59,470 --> 00:27:01,229 S1: What would you rather have, a dead son or a 482 00:27:01,230 --> 00:27:05,710 S1: live daughter? Pushing the the fabrication. Because the facts now 483 00:27:05,750 --> 00:27:07,950 S1: do not bear it out, that if you did not 484 00:27:07,950 --> 00:27:11,270 S1: help this child in their delusion and their mental illness, 485 00:27:11,270 --> 00:27:14,629 S1: that somehow that child would either have suicidal ideations or 486 00:27:14,630 --> 00:27:16,350 S1: would in fact take their own life. That's a parent's 487 00:27:16,390 --> 00:27:18,990 S1: worst nightmare. It's an it's an effective tool, but it's 488 00:27:18,990 --> 00:27:20,870 S1: a lie from the pit of hell. So now we've 489 00:27:20,869 --> 00:27:24,310 S1: got studies oversee. Of particular note is the case report 490 00:27:24,310 --> 00:27:27,790 S1: that came out of the UK longitudinal peer reviewed, studied 491 00:27:27,830 --> 00:27:30,430 S1: hundreds and hundreds of patients, they found. Not only does 492 00:27:30,430 --> 00:27:34,310 S1: it eradicate suicidal ideation to have the butchering and all 493 00:27:34,350 --> 00:27:37,510 S1: of the hormones infused into a child's body, but in fact, 494 00:27:37,510 --> 00:27:40,149 S1: after the procedure, because the hole was in the heart 495 00:27:40,150 --> 00:27:42,909 S1: and there's a broken mind, and that didn't get fixed 496 00:27:42,910 --> 00:27:45,550 S1: with all the mutilation in the pills, then we see 497 00:27:45,590 --> 00:27:49,190 S1: actually an uptick in suicidal ideation. So it's exactly the opposite. 498 00:27:49,230 --> 00:27:52,390 S1: That's what Satan does, right? Hath God said so he 499 00:27:52,390 --> 00:27:54,270 S1: takes the truth and he tramples it under foot. So 500 00:27:54,270 --> 00:27:57,669 S1: this is a manipulation again of truth. For whatever reason, 501 00:27:57,670 --> 00:27:59,670 S1: man looks on the outward appearance. God looks on the heart. 502 00:27:59,670 --> 00:28:02,550 S1: I can't understand why people push this when they know 503 00:28:02,550 --> 00:28:06,030 S1: that there's nothing good, right and true about mutilating a 504 00:28:06,030 --> 00:28:09,150 S1: child whose frontal lobe doesn't even develop until they're 25 505 00:28:09,190 --> 00:28:13,230 S1: years of age. And so all the experts that are 506 00:28:13,230 --> 00:28:15,670 S1: out there now having the courage to step forward are saying, 507 00:28:15,670 --> 00:28:19,350 S1: wait a minute, kids are people in transition. Whatever they're 508 00:28:19,350 --> 00:28:23,910 S1: dealing with. There's probably an underlying yet undiagnosed mental health issue. 509 00:28:24,030 --> 00:28:27,190 S1: autism abuse in the home, early onset bipolar that hasn't 510 00:28:27,190 --> 00:28:30,270 S1: been defined. And it's causing all of these thoughts of 511 00:28:30,750 --> 00:28:33,550 S1: illness that say that you're trapped in the wrong body. 512 00:28:33,590 --> 00:28:37,990 S1: Add to that a heavy layer of indoctrination, of propaganda, 513 00:28:38,150 --> 00:28:41,230 S1: of the social contagion of this ideology. And now we 514 00:28:41,230 --> 00:28:43,230 S1: have all of these people who say, help, help, help! 515 00:28:43,230 --> 00:28:45,470 S1: I'm trapped in the wrong body. Well, thanks be to God. 516 00:28:45,470 --> 00:28:47,790 S1: This administration has stepped forward. Now we've got a great 517 00:28:47,830 --> 00:28:49,990 S1: report out of Health and Human Services that says pretty 518 00:28:49,990 --> 00:28:52,510 S1: much what the Cass report said. That's great. You've got 519 00:28:52,510 --> 00:28:55,950 S1: the American Association of Plastic Surgeons who stepped forward and said, no, 520 00:28:55,950 --> 00:28:58,590 S1: that's not a good idea. And you've got the president 521 00:28:58,590 --> 00:29:01,830 S1: putting out an executive order talking about how important it 522 00:29:01,830 --> 00:29:05,950 S1: is not to be funding these kinds of manipulations and mutilations. 523 00:29:05,950 --> 00:29:08,670 S1: And now we've got an ever increasing list of hospitals 524 00:29:08,670 --> 00:29:11,150 S1: that have said, no, used to do it, not going 525 00:29:11,190 --> 00:29:13,910 S1: to do it anymore. My $0.02. Part of that is 526 00:29:13,910 --> 00:29:17,110 S1: because of people like Fox Varian, that was a young 527 00:29:17,110 --> 00:29:19,790 S1: lady who said that she wanted to be transitioned when 528 00:29:19,790 --> 00:29:23,360 S1: she was 16, after talking to somebody for 30 minutes 529 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,880 S1: in a nurse practitioner's office. She was put on hormones. 530 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,200 S1: She regrets it deeply. She's now a grown woman, and 531 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,640 S1: she went back and sued her doctor and her psychologist 532 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:37,280 S1: and got a multimillion dollar judgment awarded to her against 533 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,840 S1: the doctors who were a part of her transition team. 534 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,520 S1: That is going to create more than a chilling effect. 535 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,840 S1: As I understood Craig doing my homework this week. I 536 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,160 S1: think there's about 16 pending litigations on this right now 537 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,240 S1: that's going to cause a doctor to think whether or 538 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,360 S1: not they want their profit margin or whether they want 539 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,600 S1: their malpractice insurance rates to go up. So I think 540 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,120 S1: that's a blessing. But then you got states like Washington, 541 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,440 S1: and I want to talk about this because in Washington state, 542 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:03,000 S1: if you're a runaway miner and you want puberty blockers 543 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,080 S1: or cross-sex hormones or surgical intervention, not only does Washington 544 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,280 S1: state refer them for potential irreversible treatment, but it also 545 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,280 S1: does not require parental notification and consent. It hides their 546 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:20,200 S1: location and condition and unilaterally decides reunification conditions. This is 547 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,440 S1: all under a lawsuit now that's been filed. So in 548 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,600 S1: other words, in Washington state, the schools become a wedge 549 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,240 S1: between the parent and the child. So according to the 550 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,880 S1: historically overturned Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision, parents can't 551 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,760 S1: challenge Washington State's laws in court because they weren't the 552 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,440 S1: ones that were harmed. Well, I would beg to differ. 553 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,920 S1: When my baby hurts, I hurt. And every parent out 554 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,920 S1: there can echo with that. You do irreparable damage to 555 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,640 S1: my child. And you say I wasn't harmed. You threaten me. 556 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,560 S1: State of California that you're going to call social services 557 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,080 S1: if I won't feed into the delusion. Oh, parents are 558 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,280 S1: very greatly harmed in the midst of all of this. 559 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,000 S1: So there's a wide coalition now of parents of would 560 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,280 S1: be and actual runaway kids with gender confusion, parental rights, 561 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,760 S1: religious liberty, and gay rights groups gotten together. That's part 562 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:08,120 S1: of this coalition. 16 states and even a transgender child 563 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,320 S1: psychologist are now backing America's first legal petition to the 564 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,840 S1: Supreme Court. In a friend of the court brief that 565 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:18,320 S1: was filed Tuesday of this week to reinstate America First 566 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,010 S1: legal legal challenge, Washington first drew alarm three years ago 567 00:31:22,250 --> 00:31:25,970 S1: as legislation moved forward to create a gender affirming care 568 00:31:25,970 --> 00:31:30,570 S1: exception to parental notification for runaway kids. AFL American First 569 00:31:30,610 --> 00:31:34,610 S1: Legal unsuccessfully sued to block the state sanctioned kidnapping after 570 00:31:34,610 --> 00:31:38,170 S1: it became law. And so the group, by the way, 571 00:31:38,570 --> 00:31:41,170 S1: asked the High Court to heed some of the warnings 572 00:31:41,170 --> 00:31:44,650 S1: by Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch that 573 00:31:44,650 --> 00:31:49,690 S1: lower courts were avoiding, quote, contentious constitutional questions on parental 574 00:31:49,690 --> 00:31:54,850 S1: rights in state facilitated gender transitions by denying legal standard. 575 00:31:54,970 --> 00:31:56,570 S1: So I don't want your eyes to glaze over on 576 00:31:56,570 --> 00:31:59,490 S1: the legal stuff. The bottom line here is you've got 577 00:31:59,490 --> 00:32:02,810 S1: a state working at cross purposes. The Doe has already said. 578 00:32:02,810 --> 00:32:04,970 S1: Department of Editors said, we're going to hold back funds. 579 00:32:04,970 --> 00:32:07,850 S1: You got a report out of the HHS. America is 580 00:32:07,850 --> 00:32:11,090 S1: now starting to see doctors that are moving forward. Detransitioners 581 00:32:11,090 --> 00:32:14,450 S1: are stepping forward. Lawsuits are being filed. But oh, no, no, no. 582 00:32:14,610 --> 00:32:17,890 S1: In Washington state we're going to help those, quote runaway kids. 583 00:32:17,890 --> 00:32:19,890 S1: And I think it's right for the opposition who has 584 00:32:19,890 --> 00:32:23,170 S1: filed this lawsuit to say you are kidnapping children. Your thoughts? 585 00:32:23,610 --> 00:32:28,530 S3: Um, 2000. In the year 2000, the US Supreme Court 586 00:32:28,930 --> 00:32:34,130 S3: said in a case called, uh, Troxel versus Granville, that 587 00:32:34,130 --> 00:32:38,970 S3: the idea of the right and authority of parents over 588 00:32:38,970 --> 00:32:43,250 S3: the care, custody and control of their children is perhaps 589 00:32:43,250 --> 00:32:48,010 S3: one of the most long standing fundamental liberty rights recognized 590 00:32:48,010 --> 00:32:51,650 S3: by the US Supreme Court. Throughout the history of this nation. 591 00:32:52,090 --> 00:32:55,969 S3: I find it impossible to believe that if the Supreme 592 00:32:55,970 --> 00:32:59,770 S3: Court takes this case up, they will not. They will 593 00:33:00,010 --> 00:33:04,290 S3: that that they will not fail to reverse what the 594 00:33:04,290 --> 00:33:08,330 S3: Ninth Circuit said about this state of Washington, this terrible 595 00:33:08,330 --> 00:33:11,570 S3: approach in the state of Washington, where they totally ignore 596 00:33:11,730 --> 00:33:15,370 S3: the right of parents that I've just described, according to 597 00:33:15,410 --> 00:33:18,010 S3: the US Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, 598 00:33:18,010 --> 00:33:20,810 S3: so somebody got it wrong. And I think it's the 599 00:33:20,810 --> 00:33:23,530 S3: state of Washington, and I think it's the Ninth Circuit 600 00:33:23,530 --> 00:33:24,530 S3: Court of Appeals. 601 00:33:24,770 --> 00:33:28,810 S1: Yeah. Exactly. Right. So again, this is going the Supreme 602 00:33:28,810 --> 00:33:30,530 S1: Court cannot avoid this. They're going to have to take 603 00:33:30,530 --> 00:33:33,770 S1: this case up. But what's particularly sickening is that there 604 00:33:33,770 --> 00:33:38,410 S1: was a LGB courage coalition founded by a pediatric gender 605 00:33:38,410 --> 00:33:41,370 S1: clinic whistleblower person by the name of Jamie Reed, who 606 00:33:41,370 --> 00:33:45,290 S1: filed a brief with parents Jody and David Holman, who 607 00:33:45,290 --> 00:33:48,850 S1: blame Washington laws for their mentally ill 15 year old 608 00:33:48,850 --> 00:33:53,050 S1: having gone missing since November. What a heartbreak. And Ashley Wallace, 609 00:33:53,050 --> 00:33:56,730 S1: whose daughter feigned homelessness and used welfare, quote, to escape 610 00:33:56,730 --> 00:33:59,570 S1: a family who refused to treat her as a male. 611 00:33:59,570 --> 00:34:02,410 S1: So the briefs went on to say child welfare systems 612 00:34:02,410 --> 00:34:05,210 S1: were designed to protect abused and homeless children, not to 613 00:34:05,250 --> 00:34:08,850 S1: remove troubled children from their own parents who seek to 614 00:34:08,890 --> 00:34:12,089 S1: address their minor child's underlying mental health issues, rather than 615 00:34:12,130 --> 00:34:15,890 S1: default to encouraging that child to undergo life altering measures 616 00:34:15,890 --> 00:34:19,900 S1: to change their appearances. You know, the school was always 617 00:34:19,900 --> 00:34:23,140 S1: meant to work in coordination and cooperation with parents. Now 618 00:34:23,140 --> 00:34:26,700 S1: it's a standoff. And now the parents. This whole idea 619 00:34:26,700 --> 00:34:29,500 S1: that the children belong not to the state, that's a 620 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:32,540 S1: communist socialist idea, but they belong to the parents who 621 00:34:32,540 --> 00:34:34,460 S1: are and will ever be the best Department of health, 622 00:34:34,460 --> 00:34:37,980 S1: education and welfare is stunning. It's a palpable divide right 623 00:34:37,980 --> 00:34:41,820 S1: now in classrooms all across America. And I'm just talking 624 00:34:41,820 --> 00:34:44,540 S1: about Washington state as being emblematic. Certainly, they're not the 625 00:34:44,540 --> 00:34:47,460 S1: only one who have these egregious laws in place that 626 00:34:47,460 --> 00:34:49,900 S1: basically say, we know better than you do, parent. You're 627 00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:52,700 S1: an ignorant person. You don't know enough. You need to 628 00:34:52,700 --> 00:34:54,819 S1: understand what the best interests of the child are. And 629 00:34:54,820 --> 00:34:56,739 S1: they've taken a standard that was long held within the 630 00:34:56,739 --> 00:34:58,940 S1: parameters of the law, to always make sure you did 631 00:34:58,940 --> 00:35:01,339 S1: what was best for the child. And they've stood that 632 00:35:01,340 --> 00:35:03,900 S1: idea on its head saying, no, we want you to 633 00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:06,100 S1: do what we think is best for the child, not 634 00:35:06,140 --> 00:35:08,100 S1: what is in reality best for that child. 635 00:35:08,140 --> 00:35:12,140 S3: Yeah, in fact, there are so many authorities. In fact, 636 00:35:12,380 --> 00:35:18,060 S3: the Supreme Court recently in this case, I recognized that 637 00:35:18,660 --> 00:35:23,820 S3: there is no professional medical consensus, that it's all right, 638 00:35:23,820 --> 00:35:26,819 S3: that it's safe, and it's appropriate for these procedures to 639 00:35:26,860 --> 00:35:31,100 S3: take place, particularly for minors. There's no consensus, and there's 640 00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:35,500 S3: much data to indicate that the the medical profession, psychiatric 641 00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:38,899 S3: professions are all going in the opposite direction, saying, no, 642 00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:42,500 S3: there's a real problem here. Um, but when a new 643 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:48,900 S3: service like Reuters. Totally. Um, certainly not in against some 644 00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:53,740 S3: of the social program, uh, ideas of the gender transition 645 00:35:53,739 --> 00:35:56,939 S3: ideology decided to do a study a couple of years 646 00:35:56,940 --> 00:36:01,460 S3: ago about these practices, the medical practices and what they 647 00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:06,460 S3: found was stunning. And they admitted the Reuters reporting admitted 648 00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:11,700 S3: that very often there was almost no counseling, no, um, 649 00:36:11,739 --> 00:36:16,300 S3: attempt to find out how concerned the parents were, whether 650 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:19,660 S3: the parents were involved at all, whether the child understood 651 00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:23,100 S3: the dangers, whether the adult parents were even advised of 652 00:36:23,100 --> 00:36:26,859 S3: the dangers before these procedures took place. So with all 653 00:36:26,860 --> 00:36:30,700 S3: those facts at hand, and the law being what it is, Janet, 654 00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:33,460 S3: why are we having to battle these in court? Because 655 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:38,060 S3: it is. It is, um, almost a delusional idea that 656 00:36:38,060 --> 00:36:41,180 S3: it's good and right and proper for these kids to 657 00:36:41,219 --> 00:36:42,300 S3: participate in this. 658 00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:44,940 S1: Well, there we go. Unbelievable. We're watching this one carefully, 659 00:36:44,940 --> 00:36:46,980 S1: by the way, the ball is always in play with 660 00:36:46,980 --> 00:36:48,620 S1: these issues. And so we're just going to keep you 661 00:36:48,620 --> 00:36:51,700 S1: apprised as the ball moves forward. And it should mom 662 00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:54,940 S1: and dad, what's the admonition. Look well to the ways 663 00:36:54,940 --> 00:36:57,980 S1: of your household. We're on the watch right now. Protect 664 00:36:57,980 --> 00:37:08,339 S1: our families back after this. You know, it's interesting when 665 00:37:08,340 --> 00:37:10,700 S1: Craig and I are calling together all the facts we're 666 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:14,030 S1: going to talk to you about on Friday. We have 667 00:37:14,030 --> 00:37:16,990 S1: no shortage. In fact, we don't even get through maybe 668 00:37:17,030 --> 00:37:18,750 S1: a quarter of the list. There are so many things 669 00:37:18,750 --> 00:37:20,950 S1: out here and we're doing a topic, a segment here, 670 00:37:21,110 --> 00:37:22,950 S1: but there is a vein. There is a theme I'm 671 00:37:22,950 --> 00:37:24,790 S1: seeing over and over again, and that is the assault 672 00:37:24,790 --> 00:37:26,310 S1: on the family. And let me just before I go 673 00:37:26,310 --> 00:37:28,670 S1: to this next story, just quickly contextualize this because I 674 00:37:28,670 --> 00:37:31,750 S1: think it's important. So God makes three institutions in this order. 675 00:37:31,750 --> 00:37:33,830 S1: He makes the family. It's the only one of these 676 00:37:33,830 --> 00:37:36,990 S1: three institutions he creates in a place of perfection. That'll 677 00:37:36,989 --> 00:37:38,910 S1: tell you something about how important the family is to 678 00:37:38,950 --> 00:37:41,910 S1: the heart of God. So in perfection, he's got a 679 00:37:41,910 --> 00:37:44,430 S1: marriage defined as one man and one woman. He tells 680 00:37:44,430 --> 00:37:47,030 S1: him to be fruitful and multiply. So there's that place 681 00:37:47,030 --> 00:37:49,470 S1: of perfection. Then he makes government, and then he makes 682 00:37:49,469 --> 00:37:53,230 S1: the church in that particular order. So the other two 683 00:37:53,270 --> 00:37:56,509 S1: are constructed in a fallen world, but the family is 684 00:37:56,510 --> 00:37:58,710 S1: created in a place of perfection, again, letting us know 685 00:37:58,710 --> 00:38:00,750 S1: how precious and important it is to the heart of God. 686 00:38:00,750 --> 00:38:03,630 S1: Why the crash course in Sunday school? Because it helps 687 00:38:03,630 --> 00:38:08,109 S1: us understand the enemy who's prowling, seeking whom he may devour. 688 00:38:08,310 --> 00:38:11,069 S1: If he can destroy the family unit, he can prohibit 689 00:38:11,110 --> 00:38:15,270 S1: perhaps the transmission of the gospel to further generations. He 690 00:38:15,270 --> 00:38:17,750 S1: can make sure that our marriages, instead of being a 691 00:38:17,750 --> 00:38:20,430 S1: strong witness to a hurting world, fall apart and crumble 692 00:38:20,430 --> 00:38:22,670 S1: and look no different than the marriages in the world. 693 00:38:22,910 --> 00:38:26,270 S1: And that, Ben Besmirches this sacred covenant made between a 694 00:38:26,270 --> 00:38:29,630 S1: man and a woman before God in the presence of witnesses. 695 00:38:29,830 --> 00:38:32,190 S1: So I think it's important for us to understand again, 696 00:38:32,230 --> 00:38:34,830 S1: I love the fact that you and I have different vision. 697 00:38:34,830 --> 00:38:38,030 S1: We see the world in Technicolor without Jesus. I'm sorry, 698 00:38:38,030 --> 00:38:39,950 S1: but you see, the world in black and white. Things 699 00:38:39,950 --> 00:38:43,350 S1: don't make sense. We understand because the word explains it 700 00:38:43,350 --> 00:38:44,670 S1: to us. And the more you're in the word, the 701 00:38:44,670 --> 00:38:46,430 S1: more you know this to be true, that God is 702 00:38:46,430 --> 00:38:49,189 S1: not the author of confusion. So when you see this 703 00:38:49,190 --> 00:38:52,910 S1: confusion about sexuality and family and you're in the wrong body, 704 00:38:52,910 --> 00:38:54,750 S1: that is nothing but a lie from the pit of hell. 705 00:38:54,790 --> 00:38:57,830 S1: He made two sexes. I don't use the word gender. 706 00:38:57,830 --> 00:39:01,270 S1: That's a social construct. Two sexes, male and female. You 707 00:39:01,270 --> 00:39:03,550 S1: can feel any way you want to. Thank you. Jesus. 708 00:39:03,550 --> 00:39:06,310 S1: Truth isn't predicated on feelings. It is fact. It is faith. 709 00:39:06,310 --> 00:39:08,589 S1: It is feeling in that order. Feeling is that the 710 00:39:08,590 --> 00:39:10,759 S1: tail and the dog? It is not the nose of 711 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,799 S1: the dog by any stretch of the imagination. So we 712 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,680 S1: understand that this twisting around about sexuality and how you 713 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,839 S1: define yourself is basically a spiritual attack. And so you 714 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,920 S1: and I suit up, we get up and we stand 715 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,440 S1: up for what we know to be biblical truth. So 716 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,000 S1: in the eight months since the Supreme Court ruled that 717 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,160 S1: parents could be notified about LGBTQ themed curricula and let 718 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,840 S1: their kids opt out, this was the case called Mahmoud 719 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,640 S1: versus Taylor. Fascinating. Just up the road, a piece in 720 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:42,320 S1: Montgomery County, Maryland, a coalition of parents, um, Orthodox Eastern 721 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,000 S1: Christians and Muslims, among others, got together and said, for 722 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,319 S1: religious beliefs, we don't want our child taught this. We 723 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,279 S1: want the right to be able to opt out. It 724 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,120 S1: went to the Supreme Court. Thanks be to God. They 725 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,040 S1: came down on the side of common sense and said, 726 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,040 S1: you betcha you can opt out. But ever since that time, 727 00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,759 S1: you got all kinds of school districts now convinced that 728 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,520 S1: it is their job to indoctrinate, are looking for ways 729 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,839 S1: to find loopholes and to skirt around the truth that 730 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,440 S1: was handed down from the United States Supreme Court. I 731 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:11,239 S1: give you suburban Boston's Lexington Public Schools, who refused to 732 00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:15,520 S1: show parents curricula in advance while demanding that they identify 733 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,640 S1: specific lessons for opting out, and claimed books that simply 734 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,920 S1: promote tolerance are exempt, according to a catch 22 lawsuit. 735 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:27,640 S1: So the California attorney general convinced a federal appeals court 736 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,520 S1: that forcing school districts to actively mislead parents about their 737 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,720 S1: children's gender identity wasn't covered by Mahmood at all, because 738 00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,040 S1: it doesn't involve curricular decisions. Now, this is how many 739 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:40,600 S1: angels dance on the head of a pin. Craig will 740 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,919 S1: go on to that more in a minute. So Colorado's 741 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,000 S1: Cherry Creek School District is the latest to draw scrutiny 742 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,880 S1: for using an old standby lunch with a teacher to 743 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,600 S1: discuss LGBTQ themes without parental notification. See how they're trying 744 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,319 S1: to do this. You know, we live in the lights. 745 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,120 S1: The people who live in darkness have seen a great light. 746 00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,360 S1: This is all done in the shadows, which is just 747 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,920 S1: further evidence that this is spiritual warfare. They have to 748 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,040 S1: do it in the dark. They can't do it in 749 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,120 S1: the disinfectant of sunlight. And I prefer to spell that's 750 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,960 S1: o n, but I digress. So apparently, uh, the Colorado 751 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:16,120 S1: Parent Advocacy Network got a recording January 28th of a 752 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,520 S1: school issued invitation to students to join the LGBTQ club 753 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:23,640 S1: Spectrum and Doctor Fallon's room to discuss LGBTQ, plus books 754 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,839 S1: and movies, and watch some short films together. Mercy spectrum 755 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,160 S1: members and those interested in being an ally are welcomed, 756 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,640 S1: the announcer said, and allegedly made during these morning announcements 757 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,960 S1: at a suburban Denver campus middle school. The invitation asked 758 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,280 S1: 11 to 13 year olds to attend a lunchtime meeting 759 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:45,359 S1: with a male teacher's classroom. And, uh, apparently this is 760 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,480 S1: something that took place. And so spectrum met during lunch 761 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,920 S1: and recess, and it was sponsored by five educators, uh, 762 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:57,960 S1: including a man by the name of Whelan, uh, who is, um, 763 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,680 S1: I guess, a teacher at the school. Uh, and the 764 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:04,399 S1: club supports a, quote, safe environment for our LGBTQ plus 765 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,370 S1: students and their allies and promotes events including the Day 766 00:42:07,370 --> 00:42:11,210 S1: of Silence, organized nationally by glisten that's a gay activist 767 00:42:11,210 --> 00:42:14,850 S1: rights group which rebranded just this month to obscure its 768 00:42:14,890 --> 00:42:18,490 S1: gay and lesbian origins. So I don't know about you. 769 00:42:18,530 --> 00:42:20,770 S1: My neck of the woods, Greg. We call that recruiting. 770 00:42:20,850 --> 00:42:23,210 S1: And to not tell the parents because we're just going 771 00:42:23,210 --> 00:42:25,529 S1: to have lunch with the teacher. So somehow you think 772 00:42:25,570 --> 00:42:28,450 S1: you've you've missed the spirit, both the spirit and the 773 00:42:28,450 --> 00:42:30,850 S1: letter of the law as it was handed down by Mahmud. 774 00:42:30,850 --> 00:42:31,370 S1: Your thoughts? 775 00:42:31,610 --> 00:42:35,170 S3: Uh, well, whenever a Supreme Court decision comes down. And 776 00:42:35,170 --> 00:42:39,170 S3: by the way, this Mahmud case, uh, was a long 777 00:42:39,210 --> 00:42:43,450 S3: time in coming because it has been decades since the 778 00:42:43,450 --> 00:42:46,290 S3: Supreme Court really weighed in on the rights of parents 779 00:42:46,290 --> 00:42:51,049 S3: to guide the religious training of their children when it 780 00:42:51,090 --> 00:42:55,970 S3: collides with what is being espoused in a public school. Um, 781 00:42:55,969 --> 00:42:57,690 S3: so it was a long time coming. I think it 782 00:42:57,690 --> 00:43:02,969 S3: was a very rational and, uh, historically accurate decision because 783 00:43:03,010 --> 00:43:06,610 S3: it just followed along with prior decisions of the Supreme 784 00:43:06,610 --> 00:43:10,490 S3: Court for a century on these kinds of issues about 785 00:43:10,530 --> 00:43:12,890 S3: in terms of parents rights and so forth. But here's 786 00:43:12,890 --> 00:43:18,090 S3: what happens. A recent case comes down. Mahmood comes down solidly, 787 00:43:18,090 --> 00:43:21,210 S3: decided then the lawyers for the school districts that don't 788 00:43:21,210 --> 00:43:25,570 S3: like the result. They really want to teach children that 789 00:43:25,570 --> 00:43:31,770 S3: they can transition, that being that the LGBTQ community is 790 00:43:31,770 --> 00:43:35,250 S3: really the face of the future rather than these, you know, 791 00:43:35,250 --> 00:43:39,129 S3: ancient Christian ideas. So how do you do it? You 792 00:43:39,130 --> 00:43:41,169 S3: look you look at the fine points of the court 793 00:43:41,170 --> 00:43:43,890 S3: decision of the Supreme Court, and you pick something out. 794 00:43:44,090 --> 00:43:46,690 S3: I think what they've done is they've picked out the 795 00:43:46,730 --> 00:43:50,010 S3: word in the Supreme Court decision that says, well, these 796 00:43:50,290 --> 00:43:54,330 S3: materials were all normative, meaning they were teaching that this 797 00:43:54,330 --> 00:43:57,930 S3: is as a norm. Hence we're just having lunch. We're 798 00:43:57,930 --> 00:44:00,689 S3: just having we're just teaching tolerance. We're not teaching the 799 00:44:00,690 --> 00:44:07,300 S3: norms of homosexuality or transition. Um, well, we'll find out. 800 00:44:07,340 --> 00:44:09,380 S3: By the way, the organization I work with, the American 801 00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:11,980 S3: Center for Law and Justice, put out, uh, one of 802 00:44:11,980 --> 00:44:16,100 S3: the primers for school boards to interpret Mahmood properly. But, 803 00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:18,380 S3: of course, the other side is also saying, oh, no, no, 804 00:44:18,420 --> 00:44:21,020 S3: here's how you interpret it so you can get around it. 805 00:44:21,180 --> 00:44:23,779 S3: So we'll find out where this goes next, but it 806 00:44:23,780 --> 00:44:27,419 S3: isn't going to be resolved anytime soon. And more lawsuits, 807 00:44:27,420 --> 00:44:30,060 S3: more court cases, hopefully with the right results. 808 00:44:30,060 --> 00:44:32,739 S1: So what happens when Nehemiah is called to repair the 809 00:44:32,739 --> 00:44:35,939 S1: walls after the assault on Jerusalem? He's called to repair them, right? 810 00:44:35,940 --> 00:44:38,739 S1: But he understood exactly what was at stake. So he 811 00:44:38,739 --> 00:44:41,580 S1: reminds us, as he stands there with a trowel in 812 00:44:41,580 --> 00:44:43,660 S1: one hand and a trumpet in the other, and says, 813 00:44:43,660 --> 00:44:46,620 S1: when you hear the sound of the trumpet, fight for 814 00:44:46,620 --> 00:44:48,540 S1: your families. In other words, they had been assaulted once 815 00:44:48,540 --> 00:44:50,540 S1: he knew they were going to be attacked again, and 816 00:44:50,540 --> 00:44:53,140 S1: he wanted people to be on the ready. But he said, 817 00:44:53,140 --> 00:44:56,100 S1: most importantly, when you hear that trumpet fight for your families, 818 00:44:56,100 --> 00:44:58,739 S1: folks that trumpets blaring, fight for your family. Have a 819 00:44:58,739 --> 00:45:00,260 S1: great weekend. We'll see you next time.