1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: On this episode of News World. I love talking about 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: the Equality Act. It is needed because there is discrimination 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: against people in the LGBTQ community. It took a level 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:17,799 Speaker 1: of courage and shall we say, fortitude to go forward. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: But all of them very important. As we do our 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: inside maneuvering to get as many votes as possible, hopefully 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: as bipartisan as possible, the outside mobilization. So it's essential 8 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: to bring a drum, to have a drum beat across 9 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:37,599 Speaker 1: America for freedom, for liberty and justice for all. It 10 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: is necessary because I wish it weren't. It breaks my 11 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: heart that it is necessary. But the fact is for 12 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: us to have respect, not even disrespect, but take pride, 13 00:00:49,320 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: take pride in our LGBTQ community. I want to talk 14 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:05,479 Speaker 1: about the House action in passing the so called Equality Act, 15 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: which in fact is not an equality Act, is another 16 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,479 Speaker 1: example of the Left trying to seize the moral high 17 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: ground by the language they use. The objective fact is 18 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: that this bill, which was passed this week by overwhelming 19 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: support from the Democrats, two hundred and twenty four of 20 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: them actually co sponsored the bill, and yet people who 21 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: are very concerned about religious liberty believe that this bill 22 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: in its current form will in fact decisively cripple Christianity, Judaism, 23 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: and Islam because it basically sets a set of principles 24 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: the federal government will intervene and punish you unless you 25 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: follow them. Now, this is actually part of a long 26 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: cycle that has been building for almost a half century 27 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: and which really violates the entire recept to the First 28 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: Amendment and the concept that we should have no laws 29 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: of bridging freedom of religion. Instead, well, we have more 30 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: and more of our direct, deliberate laws that are aimed 31 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: at punishing, isolating, if necessary, imprisoning people of religious faith. 32 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: And so we're really having a very radical shift from 33 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: the whole concept of why America was founded by people 34 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: who came here seeking religious liberty, and to a new 35 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: system in which you have to obey the government. Beyond 36 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: the Equality Act, the fact is now we see a 37 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: continual effort to have the government imposed in an anti 38 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: religious way. The largest church in America has three thousand 39 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: seats and is allowed to have two hundred and fifty 40 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: people come in, and large parts of the country liberal 41 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: Democrat governors have taken clearly early anti religious positions during COVID, 42 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: including for example, in Nevada, saying that casinos could remain 43 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: open but churches had to close. In California, the California 44 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: government was threatening to lock up a minister who insisted 45 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: that on Sundays he could meet with his congregation. And 46 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: you find this again and again. President Biden has nominated 47 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: Vas Sarah, the Attorney General California, to be the new 48 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: Secretary of Health and Human Services. Vs. Sarah consistently filed 49 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: lawsuits against the Little Sisters of the Poor, which is 50 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: a group of nuns who are dedicated to taking care 51 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: of people and particularly think there are people who are 52 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: sick and people who are poor. Now, with the Equality Act, 53 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: they are adding an entire range of sexual behaviors to 54 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: be protected by the federal government. And what they do 55 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: is they'd strike the concept of biological sex, which was 56 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixty four Civil Rights Act and said 57 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: you couldn't discriminate it, replaced it with sexual orientation and 58 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: gender identity. And so they're creating a cause for lawsuits 59 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: and a cause for government persecution based in the widest 60 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: range of self identified behaviors and which you get to 61 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 1: decide who you are, and by the way, you can 62 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: change who you are so one year you could be 63 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: one kind of person. A year later you're another kind 64 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 1: of person. And it is the duty of churches, synagogues, 65 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: mosques to respect whoever you want to be this week, 66 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: and in fact to such a degree that they can't 67 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: advocate what's in their religious documents. Whether you're looking at 68 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 1: the Quran, or you're looking at the Christian Bible, or 69 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: you're looking at the Tumud. The fact is that there 70 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: are increasing sections, which has has happened in Europe. If 71 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: you even read certain passages in the Bible, the Swedish 72 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,919 Speaker 1: government will put you in jail. You have an increasing 73 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: anti religious left. This concept of an anti religious left 74 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: needs to be taken much more seriously and looked at 75 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: as a key part of the evolution of Western civilization. 76 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 1: In many ways, you can carry it back to the 77 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:19,159 Speaker 1: French Revolution and the period of the Enlightenment just before that, 78 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: when you began to get a really anti clerical, anti 79 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: historic West intellectual tradition, particularly in France, which is why 80 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: in the French Revolution they replaced the entire calendar with 81 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: unique dates and unique concepts, because they wanted to repudiate 82 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:41,239 Speaker 1: the Christian calendar that had evolved for in a period 83 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: of almost eighteen hundred years. It's why you have nuns, 84 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 1: for example, who are guillotine because they refused to give 85 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: up their religious beliefs and swear loyalty to the new 86 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: revolutionary French system. In fact, there's a very famous opera 87 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: about a group of nuns who literally go to the 88 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:03,239 Speaker 1: guillotine singing because they're going to join God and close. 89 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: And I had the opportunity a couple of years ago 90 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: to visit the cemetery in central Paris where they're varied. 91 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,679 Speaker 1: So you had this initial surge which in some ways 92 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: resembled the parallel intellectual framework that the Democrats began to 93 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: develop in the House with the passage of their rules 94 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: at the beginning of this year. The new House rules 95 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:29,559 Speaker 1: provide that in House official documents all gender definition terms 96 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: will be eliminated, so you won't have mother, father, brother, 97 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 1: sister and uncle. They're twenty nine words that are eliminated 98 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: by the House Democratic Party under Nancy Pelosi's leadership, and 99 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: which I think the average citizen if they saw it, 100 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: would think it was crazy. Well, this new Act, which 101 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 1: again makes perfect sense, and you think ge an equality Act, 102 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: how can that be wrong. But this new Act isn't 103 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: an equality act. This new Act is a government and 104 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: position act. This new Act is an effort to say 105 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: to the entire country, you will do what we tell 106 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: you to do about sexual identity, and you will do 107 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: it on our terms, and if you don't do it, 108 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: we reserve the right to put you in prison, to 109 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: close your business, let's say a church based adoption service. 110 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: You are not willing to adopt our terms and our 111 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: basis crazy rules. So, for example, the bill says, an 112 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: individual shall not be denied access to a shared facility, 113 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room 114 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: it is in accordance with the individual's gender identity. So 115 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: a fifteen year old male who decides this week that 116 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: they actually decided to identify as a woman without any 117 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: change physically, now we'll have access to the girl's locker room, 118 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: the girl's bathroom, to participate in sports as though they 119 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: were a female, even though we know scientifically that may 120 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: else who go through puberty are in fact physically stronger 121 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: than females, and that it makes it very hard for 122 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: females to have genuinely female sports. In essence, this bill 123 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: in passing as a minor role is eliminating Title nine, 124 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: which people fought for for years to give women an 125 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: equal opportunity to participate in sports. And now they're going 126 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: to have so called women's teams. But if in fact 127 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: it becomes a widespread practice for formerly males who are 128 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: transgendered can now participate as females, then if you are 129 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: a female biologically, you're going to find it extraordinarily difficult 130 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: to compete because you're simply automatically out of classed. And 131 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: I think there's actually a lawsuit now in Connecticut on 132 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 1: this very issue because a young woman came in second 133 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: to a man who claimed to no longer be a man, 134 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 1: but who in fact had not gone through the processes 135 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: that would have in any way made him competitive as 136 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: a woman. And the fact is, once you've gone through 137 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: a certain amount of hormonal change, the muscle build up 138 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 1: and the strength and particularly the upper body, who just 139 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: makes you incapable of competing fairly with somebody who was 140 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: born female and grew up female because of the difference biologically. 141 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: And it's interesting Democrats love to talk about science and 142 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: how much they follow science, unless, of course the science 143 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: doesn't fit them. At which point they invent things and 144 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: in an almost religious act, decide this is their new science. 145 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: I was involved in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 146 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three, which was the first real fight over 147 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: whether or not the left could, by force of government, 148 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: change religion in America and eliminate the opportunity for people 149 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: to worship freely as they care. The Religious Freedom of 150 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: Restoration Act is very important, and the Little Sisters of 151 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: the Poor use that as part of their defense against 152 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: a mandate that they had to provide contraception and the 153 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: Affordable Care Act. Remember that if you're the Little Sisters 154 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: of the Poor and you are a devout Catholic, then 155 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: you can't provide contraception because it violates your religious beliefs. 156 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: And in essence, what the Democrats are saying is your 157 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: religious beliefs are not as important as our beliefs, and 158 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: so we are going to legally impose on you, including 159 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: charging you with the fine, if necessary, putting you in jail. 160 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: And this kind of pattern the transition from a call 161 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,959 Speaker 1: for tolerance, which was the case in the seventies and eighties, 162 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: to the new intolerance, which is all on the left, 163 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,439 Speaker 1: all wants to use government to create what is in 164 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: effected to solitary and state. If you don't do what 165 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: they want, then you are by definition subject to persecution 166 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: by the government. I was amazed. I mean, when this 167 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: was introduced, having already watched them decide to eliminate mother 168 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 1: and father in twenty seven other gender words in their rules, 169 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: I knew that they had gone off the deep end, 170 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: but I was amazed that this particular bill would get 171 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty four Democrats to co sponsor it, 172 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: because it is so clearly not just anti Christian, it's 173 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: anti Jewish, it's anti Muscle. And it's important to remember 174 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: that if you're concerned about gay rights and you're concerned 175 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: about persecution of people who are gay, that Islam has 176 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: a much deeper tradition of persecution to this day and 177 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: an substantial number of Islamic fees, and which it is 178 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: illegal to be gay, and you can, in fact suffer 179 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: various severe consequences. Now that doesn't show up in the 180 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: US because in a sense, the left seas the Muslims 181 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:20,199 Speaker 1: as their ally against conservative Christians of Jews, and so 182 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: they sort of give them a pass on behaviors which 183 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: if they were held by Christians of Jews would be 184 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: immediately a firestorm of anger. But it does mean that 185 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: as these kind of laws get passed, you're going to 186 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: see the mosque come under severe constraint fully as much 187 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: as the synagogue or the church. I think this is 188 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: so fundamental and goes to the very core of our 189 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: identity as a people. Close to now a couple of 190 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,439 Speaker 1: years ago, they did both a movie and a book 191 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: on Rediscovering God in America in which we took people 192 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: on a tour of the major statues and other sites, 193 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, and we link together 194 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: the role of religion in American life with our great 195 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: leadership over the last two hundred and fifty years. When 196 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: you do that, you realize how much the radical left, 197 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: which apparently includes two hundred and twenty four House Democrats, 198 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: is prepared to profoundly repudiate everything about the historic United States, 199 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: the historic freedom of religion. It's interesting to me because 200 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: I've been fascinated watching the rise of the left and 201 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: their core belief, which is they get to be anybody 202 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: they want to be, and that it is your obligation 203 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: to support them and to be in favor of them, 204 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: and then they also, by the way, you get to 205 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: redefine what that means on a regular basis, and you're 206 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: still supposed to support them. And it reminds me of 207 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,079 Speaker 1: the core point and the ten Commandments that thou shalt 208 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: have no other God before THEE. And the reason I 209 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 1: think that's so important is you have a really Western 210 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: civilization wide move an effect become God. I will decide 211 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 1: who I am, I will decide what I want to do. 212 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: I will decide what I believe. It's all I and 213 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: the hub of all the rest of you is to 214 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: support me, applaud me, indicate how wonderful I am. And 215 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: if you don't do that, then I will use the 216 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: government to impose on you respecting who I am. It 217 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: reminds me a little bit of the terrific scene in 218 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: Hamilton where King George says that I love you so much, 219 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: I'm sending several of my best battalions to remind you 220 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: of my love. And so what you get out of 221 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: the Left today is a really aggressive effort by the 222 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: Left to show us how much they love us by 223 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: putting us in jail if we don't do exactly what 224 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: they tell us to do. This is a pattern in schools, 225 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: it's a pattern increasingly in corporations, it's a pattern in 226 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: the bureaucracy, and they want to now, through this Act, 227 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: make it a pattern for the entire country. I think 228 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: that it's very important that every religiously active person in 229 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: the United States look at this bill, realize how dangerous 230 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: it is, and insist that their senators block it. In 231 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: some ways, this is the most radical bill ever offered, 232 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: because it would open up every form of personal activity, 233 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: every form of religious activity, to the federal government, imposing 234 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: a set of values which are explicitly hostile to the 235 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: American people's core beliefs over the last two hundred and 236 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: fifty years. To be honest, I was astonished that it 237 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: passed that quickly. I was astonished that they could get 238 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty four Democrats to co sponsor. I 239 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: am convinced that if every pastor and every rabbi understood 240 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: exactly how big a threat this was, that probably half 241 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: the Democratic Caucus would be defeated, just because it's so 242 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: radically different to mind this vote on the Equality Act, 243 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: which is really the anti Christian, anti Jew Religious War Act, 244 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: because it basically declares war on traditional religion. If you 245 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: combine that with the vote on the first day to 246 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: adopt a set of rules which abolish a mother and 247 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: father and sister and brother and gender specific words, I 248 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: think people would think these folks were crazy. And maybe 249 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: it's a signed that I just don't kind of get 250 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 1: how the world's evolving. But I think in America, in 251 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: which a major role of government is to punish religious 252 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: institutions for whatever the government decides this month is the 253 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: new standard. I think that's in America that rapidly loses 254 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: its freedom, becomes truly to tolitary and frankly reminds me 255 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: of the Chinese Communist Party and of Maoism. If you 256 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: go back and you look, one of the great fights 257 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: in China today is that they're terrified of people who 258 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 1: have religious beliefs. And they're terrified because in a tetotitarian system, 259 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: I need total control. I need for you to do 260 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: exactly what I say. I can't have a rival, and 261 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: by definition, if you are religious, you have a rival. 262 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: You have a loyalty to God, which challenges the loyalty 263 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: to the state. And so the Chinese Communist Party has 264 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 1: engaged in what both the former Secretary of State and 265 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: the current Secretary of State have called genocide against the 266 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,239 Speaker 1: Weakers in Western China. They've been involved in trying to 267 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: destroy Tibetan Buddhist culture. They have been involved in an 268 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 1: ongoing war with the Christian missionaries in Christian churches in 269 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,880 Speaker 1: China itself. And all this is going on because as 270 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: a tetolitarian system, the very possibility that you're allowed to 271 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: think on your own and you're allowed to be involved 272 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 1: in worshiping somebody other than the state, that very possibility 273 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 1: is an enormous threat to the stability of the state. 274 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: And what you're seeing increasingly is that kind of attitude 275 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 1: transferring over the US, as the American left is increasingly 276 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 1: hostile to any descent. And that's why you saw, for example, 277 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: Amazon take two books off that you can't even buy 278 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: anymore because they raised questions about whether or not six, eight, ten, 279 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: twelve year olds ought to have sex change operations, and 280 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: that was considered sufficiently threatening that Amazon has just decided 281 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: to sense it and it's the largest bookstore in the world. 282 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: Is one more example that they don't want an argument, 283 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: they want domination. They don't want to have a dialogue. 284 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 1: They want control, and they don't want you to assert 285 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: that you believe something. They want you to believe what 286 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: they tell you to and this Equality Act is exactly 287 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 1: that pattern. And I would urge all of you to 288 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: call your senators tell them you're aware of how terrible 289 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: this is. And also if you go to a church 290 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: or synagogue or mosque, I hope you'll talk to your 291 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: leaders and get them to understand this is a direct 292 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 1: threat so their freedom and their ability to worship, and 293 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: it should be dealt with as a very, very high priority. 294 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: I was so astonished that they could ram this through 295 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: this quickly, and I think it is such an amazingly 296 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 1: radical bill to have brought to the floor and pass 297 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: the way they did that. I think it illustrates both 298 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party's war on Christianity and Judaism in this law, 299 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: and also illustrates the degree to which the machine thinks 300 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: that that hashly if things done quickly, because the closer 301 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: they get to the election, the greater the problem will 302 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 1: be in getting these things done. So they're trying to 303 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: literally ram through everything they can while they still have 304 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: momentum before it all breaks apart, and as people see 305 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: this bill and look at it and think about it. 306 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 1: I think it's going to become a major stumbling block 307 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: for them continuing to do these things. So I will 308 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 1: be reporting to you again in the future on this 309 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: entire war against organized religion in the Democratic Party's very 310 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: broad based hostility. So you can oppose this bill by 311 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,719 Speaker 1: contacting your senator. 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