WEBVTT - City of Hate Part 2: Stedfast Baptist Church

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<v Speaker 1>Hello, Welcome to it could happen here. This is part

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<v Speaker 1>two of I guess two part series about Dallas, Texas.

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<v Speaker 1>Finally we're getting in a Dallas, Texas resident to refute

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<v Speaker 1>some of this this slander. Sure, my, my, my flawless hometown.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh briefly host to Bernie Sanders when he had to

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<v Speaker 1>take care of something. I've I've spent a few summers

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<v Speaker 1>in Dallas. I've I've been around it. Unfortunate, I've been

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<v Speaker 1>around the DFW area. I wouldn't recommend spending summers in Dallas.

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<v Speaker 1>Hold on, hold on, I wouldn't recommend spending winters in

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<v Speaker 1>Dallas either. There's a couple of weeks in spring that

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<v Speaker 1>it's tolerable to be in Dallas. Try to make it.

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<v Speaker 1>Then it occurs to me that we should ask Garsey,

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<v Speaker 1>where were you when they killed JFK. I was, I'm Garrison,

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<v Speaker 1>I was. I was born in the twenty first century.

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<v Speaker 1>What have you ever ordered? A man liquor Carcano rifle

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<v Speaker 1>in the back of American Rifleman magazine. Okay, let's let's

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<v Speaker 1>open by by first briefly talking about the thirty one

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<v Speaker 1>Dorky asked neo Nazis, who gotta rest in Idaho. We're

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<v Speaker 1>planning and you want to talk about it, That's right,

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<v Speaker 1>That is exactly why we've already done the episode. But

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<v Speaker 1>I'm always down to talk about this. I know we

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<v Speaker 1>just did an episode talking about it, but I wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>on that one. So I have a few paragraphs on

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<v Speaker 1>how it relates to today's topic of Christian fascist violence.

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<v Speaker 1>I just want to state that you and I were

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<v Speaker 1>both hanging out at a party when we got the

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<v Speaker 1>news about that, and it is the hardest I have

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<v Speaker 1>ever seen you laugh for like four hours. So and hey,

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<v Speaker 1>like Patriot Fronts based on a Texas so that that

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<v Speaker 1>also there is a degree of relevance here, yes to

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<v Speaker 1>the bulk of our of our topic today. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's pretty funny because the groups fashions all

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<v Speaker 1>dressed in the same outfit. It's almost incomprehensibly trade and sauna,

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<v Speaker 1>so they wouldn't pass out well crammed into a hot,

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<v Speaker 1>sweaty U haul truck driving from all around the country

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<v Speaker 1>to cord relate the Idaho so that they can march

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<v Speaker 1>around with flags and shields to yell at gay and transcits.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know what they did Instead, they got filled

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<v Speaker 1>over and setain a ditch while getting their little cladhood

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<v Speaker 1>masks taken off, and spent the rest of a day

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<v Speaker 1>to Idaho jail. And I'll go talxed. It's really funny,

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<v Speaker 1>especially since again their best case scenario was spending a

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<v Speaker 1>day free in quarterlin Ida. I know, and it's so yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll be like, you can be against cops in the

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<v Speaker 1>carstral system while still recognizing how innately and hilarious superious,

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<v Speaker 1>like it's it's fine when cops and groups like Patriot

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<v Speaker 1>Front beef that's generally a win win for me. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not cheering on police tactics. It's just it's just recognizing

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<v Speaker 1>that one of my enemies temporarily making another of my

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<v Speaker 1>enemies life's harder is pretty funny. It's really funny. It's

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<v Speaker 1>it's the same reason that we don't condemn police violence

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<v Speaker 1>when a cop shoots another cop like exactly like like's

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<v Speaker 1>and like, based on these charges, I doubt any of

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<v Speaker 1>these guys, in particular, we'll go to prison for long

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<v Speaker 1>enough to form like any like dangerous connections with other

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<v Speaker 1>incarcert and people. Well, I'm sure there's a couple of

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<v Speaker 1>dudes in there that if you know, they were to

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<v Speaker 1>go to a serious prison, could make meaningful inroads with

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<v Speaker 1>the Nazis there. But man, most of those dudes Area

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<v Speaker 1>Nations guys are just kind of like they're not going

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<v Speaker 1>to consider comrades like the the Yeah, it's yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>think I think the Patroon Front, Idaho situation seems like

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<v Speaker 1>it will mostly just be inconvenience and national embarrassment for them,

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<v Speaker 1>And I think time, I think we can we can

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<v Speaker 1>let this one just be as funny as it is,

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<v Speaker 1>considering there was thirty less Nazis there to intimidate and

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<v Speaker 1>attack people at pride Um and Patriot Front maybe now

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<v Speaker 1>less willing to pull stunts like this in the future. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I've thought about this a lot, and I just can't

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<v Speaker 1>see anyways in which what has happened could really be

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<v Speaker 1>a problem. Um, it seems to just purely be funny,

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<v Speaker 1>So just enjoy it. Yeah, look, look this this is

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<v Speaker 1>what happens when you appropriate lesbian culture. You get arrested. Actually,

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<v Speaker 1>not all that different from what Garrison was saying immediately

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<v Speaker 1>after the arrest, That is true. I made a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of jokes about how Patriot Front looks pretty pretty gay

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<v Speaker 1>while getting handcuffed. Get the shine the cancel radar, get

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<v Speaker 1>the cancelometer out. We're canceling Garrison. Um. Anyway, let's let's

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<v Speaker 1>continue with this episode. So here is some other fun

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<v Speaker 1>facts about about the whole Idaho thing. So to a

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<v Speaker 1>the Patriot Front members who were crammed into that U

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<v Speaker 1>haul last weekend. We're connected to a church helmed by

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<v Speaker 1>former Washington state Representative Matt Shay who's also associated with

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<v Speaker 1>the Bundees, the Oath Keepers and leads the church at

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<v Speaker 1>Planned Parenthood. Uh. He has advocated like civil war if

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<v Speaker 1>abortion and seem sex marriage aren't stopped, to kill all

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<v Speaker 1>the men in left wing cities, all that good stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>And he was also present at the protesting cort alane

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<v Speaker 1>at the Pride event this past weekend. And we can

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<v Speaker 1>we can draw like this direct line from the surge

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<v Speaker 1>of groomer and anti drag propaganda to neo Nazis deciding

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<v Speaker 1>to organize and travel across straight lines to threaten people

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<v Speaker 1>in a Pride event in the days leading up to

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<v Speaker 1>the event. Chaia right check the woman behind the Limbs

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<v Speaker 1>of TikTok account repeatedly highlighted it weaponizing pearl clutching Satanic panic.

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<v Speaker 1>In right Check's first post about the Pride event, it

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<v Speaker 1>was about how the Satanic Temple was promoting the event.

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<v Speaker 1>In an Adelite tweet by someone claiming to represent local Satanists.

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<v Speaker 1>On seventh, Lips of TikTok posted quote, family friendly drag

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<v Speaker 1>dance party being promoted by the Satanic Temple in Idaho.

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<v Speaker 1>We are living in hell, which is a nice and

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<v Speaker 1>I slip un there that I can't quite tell if

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<v Speaker 1>that was intentional or unintentional about Satanic Temple and living

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<v Speaker 1>in hell. Anyway, I thought that was funny. Um Dave Riley,

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<v Speaker 1>a white supremacist who attended the deadly Unite the Right

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<v Speaker 1>rally and Charlottesville who also organized with Identity Europa a

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<v Speaker 1>few years back. He he actively solicited lives of TikTok

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<v Speaker 1>to draw attention to the Pride event and sought her

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<v Speaker 1>help in trying to like get publicity for the protests

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<v Speaker 1>against it, quoting the SPLC hate Watch quote. The Idaho

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<v Speaker 1>Tribune also due attention to it. Idaho Tribune, far from

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<v Speaker 1>a real newspaper, is to obscure junkan news publication that

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<v Speaker 1>on multiple occasions has promoted Riley's political activism. Anti racist

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<v Speaker 1>activists also tipped hate Watch off to infrastructural overlap between

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<v Speaker 1>a website that promotes Riley by name and Idaho Tribune.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey Watch reviewed the source code for Dave Riley's website

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<v Speaker 1>and the Idaho Tribune site and confirmed that the two

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<v Speaker 1>sites share graphics from the same web hosting account, meaning

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<v Speaker 1>that they are likely controlled by the same person unquote.

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<v Speaker 1>And then on June nine, Lips of TikTok posted screenshots

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<v Speaker 1>taken from the Idaho Tribune about the Satanic temple and

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<v Speaker 1>the quarterly and Pride event, boosting content from that white

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<v Speaker 1>supremacist linked to website to her one point two million followers.

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<v Speaker 1>Every single one of these figures using fascist rhetoric at

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<v Speaker 1>utilizing stochastic methods, including Chia Wright check, her financial backer

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<v Speaker 1>Seth Dylan, and people like Tucker Carlson are all responsible

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<v Speaker 1>for inciting events like this. Tucker led his show last

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<v Speaker 1>week by using a Nazi reference when referring to a

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<v Speaker 1>Pride event in Dallas in terms of stuff that's like

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<v Speaker 1>outside of you know, conservative states like idahoor Texas. Late

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<v Speaker 1>last month, right Check as Lips of TikTok Target did

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<v Speaker 1>a Bay Area drag Queen storytime event, which is exactly

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<v Speaker 1>what it sounds like. It's drag queen's reading children's books

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<v Speaker 1>to kids in a public library. And then on June twelve,

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<v Speaker 1>it was stormed by a group of around ten men

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<v Speaker 1>dressed in proud boy attire and shirts that read kill

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<v Speaker 1>your local pedophile. They threatened attendees while shouting homophobic and

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<v Speaker 1>transphobic slurs, terrifying a bunch of kids who had come

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<v Speaker 1>to hear queens read stories. So how did this kind

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<v Speaker 1>of stuff and like, how did this rhetoric spread so quickly?

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<v Speaker 1>Like how did this grumar stuff get so volatile so quickly?

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<v Speaker 1>Just in these just in these past few months, in

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<v Speaker 1>our War on Transpeople episodes and my Operation Privateful episodes,

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<v Speaker 1>we discussed the history of this sort of like save

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<v Speaker 1>the children and like pedophile rhetoric. Uh. And in my

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<v Speaker 1>City of Hate episode earlier this week, we talked about

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<v Speaker 1>how this wave of homophobia was able to write off

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<v Speaker 1>the conspiracism of Pizza Gate and Q and on. And

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<v Speaker 1>then in this episode we're gonna talk about the types

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<v Speaker 1>of places that this extreme bigotry was able to fester

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<v Speaker 1>this past decade and how it relates to Evangelical Christianity

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<v Speaker 1>and Christian fascism. I'm gonna play an audio clip from

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<v Speaker 1>a city council meeting in Arlington, Texas that happened on

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<v Speaker 1>May twenty five. Take a listen. My name is Jonathan Joey.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm the pastor has been as Badness Church, and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>here today because I have church members that live in Arlington.

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<v Speaker 1>I live only a few miles away from here, and

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<v Speaker 1>I do business in Arlington on a weekly basis. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>horrified and ashamed that the city has assigned promote and

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<v Speaker 1>solicit pride in this city. Pride is nothing to be celebrated.

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<v Speaker 1>In fact, it's an abomination. The Bible says in Proverbs

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<v Speaker 1>chapter eight, the fear of the Lord is to hate pride,

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<v Speaker 1>hate evil, pride and arrogancy and the evil way and

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<v Speaker 1>the throw word mouth do I hate? According to God,

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<v Speaker 1>we should hate pride, not celebrate it. We should humble ourselves,

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<v Speaker 1>as virtually the whole room said that we were a

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<v Speaker 1>nation under God in the American flag, and we were

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<v Speaker 1>a state under God. If we're in the Texas flag,

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<v Speaker 1>we should humble ourselves. What the Bible says, and not

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<v Speaker 1>what the small minority here that doesn't bully would say.

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<v Speaker 1>In June of Mayor Jeff Williams officially announced the Steps

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<v Speaker 1>a Pride month in June for the city of Arleyton.

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<v Speaker 1>But I don't understand why we celebrate what used to

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<v Speaker 1>be a crime not long ago. The fact, recording to

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<v Speaker 1>the Texas penal coach and sex respectful homosexual conduct, that

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<v Speaker 1>person commiss an offense and he engaged in deviated sexual

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<v Speaker 1>intercourse with another individual of the same sex. In fact,

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<v Speaker 1>that is still on the books today, even though Lawrence

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<v Speaker 1>versus Texas overruled that in two thousand three. But God

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<v Speaker 1>has already ruled that murder adults, three witch graft rate,

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<v Speaker 1>beastiality of homosexualities are crimes worthy of capital punishment. Arlington,

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<v Speaker 1>just for context, is one of many towns in North

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<v Speaker 1>Dallas that if you happen to have wheed on you,

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna want to tape it to the bottom of

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<v Speaker 1>your balls before driving through Arlington. Thanks for that great,

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<v Speaker 1>great weed tip from You're welcome Garrison. So that is

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<v Speaker 1>Pastor Jonathan Shelley who lives in Grand Prairie, UM. He

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<v Speaker 1>was there at a at an Arlington, Texas City Council meeting,

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<v Speaker 1>casually advocating killing gay people while citing Texas is laws

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<v Speaker 1>against homosexuality. Their church and this connected branch of Baptists

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<v Speaker 1>that will learn more about later, have an intense record

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<v Speaker 1>of preaching genocide against gay and trans people and also

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<v Speaker 1>a fair amount of anti Semitism. Big big shocker there.

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<v Speaker 1>The previous pastor at this church, which was called Steadfast

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<v Speaker 1>Baptist Church. UM. But the previous pastor who resigned in

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<v Speaker 1>twenty nineteen due to allegations that he paid for sex workers,

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<v Speaker 1>was involved in gambling, and had smoked marijuana. I guess

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<v Speaker 1>he should have taped more of it to his balls.

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<v Speaker 1>Um to Nash, he carter national attention for celebrating the

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<v Speaker 1>Orlando Pulse gay nightclub massacre, which killed people. From the pulpit,

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<v Speaker 1>the pastor said that God should finish the job and

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<v Speaker 1>referred to the murdered patrons as sodomites, perverts, and pedophiles.

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<v Speaker 1>The new pastor, John Shelley, continues this same strain of

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<v Speaker 1>preaching violence against gay people. Uh. This next clip is

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<v Speaker 1>from June one, right after someone died after getting hit

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<v Speaker 1>by a truck. At a Pride parade in Florida, which

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<v Speaker 1>we later found out was a complete accident. But I

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<v Speaker 1>don't don't think the public knew that at the time. No,

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<v Speaker 1>and obviously people, I mean, I think all of our

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<v Speaker 1>assumptions was, oh god, you know this is the thing. Yeah, well,

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<v Speaker 1>here's the clip. If it's going beyond just saying you

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<v Speaker 1>do all this week and stuff, it's saying you enjoy it,

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<v Speaker 1>You enjoy murder, you enjoy malignity, you enjoy hating God. Look,

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<v Speaker 1>there's only one group that enjoys that is the Pride

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<v Speaker 1>parades going up now Street. And you know it's great

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<v Speaker 1>when trucks accidentally go through those, you know, parades. I

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<v Speaker 1>think only one person died, so hopefully we can hope

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<v Speaker 1>for more in the future. You say, well, that's mean. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but the Bible says that they're worthy of death. You say,

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<v Speaker 1>are you sad when fags die? No, I think it's great.

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<v Speaker 1>I hope they all die. I would love it if

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<v Speaker 1>every fag would die right now. And you say, well,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think that's what you really mean. That's exactly

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<v Speaker 1>what I mean. I really mean it. So yeah, it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's a poor drummer like that's June, even a year

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<v Speaker 1>before the big wave of groomer stuff got pushed this

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<v Speaker 1>past spring with the help of Lives of TikTok, and

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<v Speaker 1>that kind of shows how susceptible modern conservatism was to

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<v Speaker 1>this resurgence of in your face homophobia. There's been people

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<v Speaker 1>to working to like keep it here the whole time,

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<v Speaker 1>just bubbling beneath the surface, and now it's just completely

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<v Speaker 1>boiled over. Um. And I'm gonna say, like the rest

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<v Speaker 1>of the episode is going to get into some pretty

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<v Speaker 1>dark stuff. We're there's gonna be a few more clips

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<v Speaker 1>that are pretty are pretty gross if you want to,

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<v Speaker 1>if you want to check out, that's totally fine. After

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<v Speaker 1>this episode, I myself, I'm going to take a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit of a break from covering this sort of thing

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<v Speaker 1>that's taking a little bit too much of a mental

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<v Speaker 1>toll because it's a lot of genocide. It's it is,

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<v Speaker 1>it's it is. It's pretty intense. Uh. If you do

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<v Speaker 1>feel the need to leave before you go, just remember

0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.280
<v Speaker 1>this simple phrase for keeping safe in the DFW area.

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<v Speaker 1>Tape it to your balls, and your happiness won't be smalls.

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<v Speaker 1>So here's another clip from June of Shelley reiterating his

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<v Speaker 1>call for the government to execute gay people after he

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<v Speaker 1>received some public backlash for his the previous clip that

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<v Speaker 1>we that we used. And I personally believe that all

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<v Speaker 1>of these sodomites, you know, people that are men with men,

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<v Speaker 1>are pedophile because that means that they just simply are

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<v Speaker 1>attracted to children. They're attracted to these people that are

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<v Speaker 1>the ages of seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, even though they're grown adult.

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<v Speaker 1>They're going after children and very young children often cases,

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<v Speaker 1>and lessing them and hurting them. And you know, anybody

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<v Speaker 1>that loves children, loves their family, would want this person

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<v Speaker 1>to be executed through the proper channels. That's what I believe,

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I teach. I'm not a violent person. So my, my, my,

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<v Speaker 1>my kind of fear is that Shelley or someone like

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<v Speaker 1>you know, John Doyle that we talked about in our

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<v Speaker 1>last City of Hit episode, is not that they themselves

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<v Speaker 1>will bring a weapon to some future pride parade or

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<v Speaker 1>go on a rampage and assault or kill gay people, right.

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<v Speaker 1>It's that one of their followers or one of their

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<v Speaker 1>fans will And these types of pastors and far right

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<v Speaker 1>media figures are intentionally leading people onto that outcome. Uh

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<v Speaker 1>to quote Hey, Matt Meta, who's been tracking Steadfast for years, quote,

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<v Speaker 1>Because while Shelley is celebrating murder, he's also handing his

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<v Speaker 1>congregation a metaphorical loaded gun. And if somebody eventually uses

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<v Speaker 1>a literal one to follow through on what they believe

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<v Speaker 1>to be God's orders, they know that Shelley will be

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<v Speaker 1>proud of them, even as he tells the world he

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<v Speaker 1>has absolutely nothing to do with it. Unquote. So, under

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<v Speaker 1>the pressure of activists, Steadfast actually got evicted from their

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<v Speaker 1>old building in Hearst, Texas this past March for spreading

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<v Speaker 1>their extreme anti LGBT hate and calls for violence, which

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<v Speaker 1>was in violation of the terms of its least, which

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<v Speaker 1>prohibited violence and threats. The church has an active gab page,

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<v Speaker 1>which kind of tells you a little bit about the

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<v Speaker 1>people running this sort of operation. Uh. Insteadfast publicly organized

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<v Speaker 1>and live streamed their sermons on a very active Facebook page,

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<v Speaker 1>which is no longer active for reasons that we will

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<v Speaker 1>later discuss. And then during these past few months, they've

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<v Speaker 1>relocated their church from her to a building that's part

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<v Speaker 1>of a strip mall in Wattaga, Texas. Is that how

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying That's That's the thing about any town in

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<v Speaker 1>Texas is he doesn't have It doesn't matter how you

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<v Speaker 1>pronounce it, because they're Texans, Watauga, wat whatever, do whatever

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<v Speaker 1>you want anyway, they're now a strip mall church. What

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<v Speaker 1>I think is good to look for them. I mean

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<v Speaker 1>that you're okay, I will correct you here. You're saying

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<v Speaker 1>that like it's it's funny as opposed to just the

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<v Speaker 1>way everything is in Texas because Texas is a giant

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<v Speaker 1>strip mall. Yeah. I guess though. And well, John Shelley

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<v Speaker 1>is pretty bad, right, We've we've heard a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>bad clips of him talking about how gay people are

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<v Speaker 1>pedophiles and how they should all be killed by the government.

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<v Speaker 1>He's not the only guy who's Teadfast preaching violent in

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<v Speaker 1>genocidal rhetoric. Enter Dylan Oz, formerly based out of Boise, Idaho,

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<v Speaker 1>now preaching at Stedfast Baptist Church in Wattuga, Texas. On Sunday,

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<v Speaker 1>June four, a Dylan us Well preaching from the pulpit,

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<v Speaker 1>said that the quote solution for the homosexual is for

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<v Speaker 1>the government to execute every single gay person. Here's here

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<v Speaker 1>is here the c of him that what does God

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<v Speaker 1>say is the answer is the solution for the homosexual

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<v Speaker 1>in two thousand twenty two, here in the New Testament,

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<v Speaker 1>here in the Book of Romans, that they are worthy

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<v Speaker 1>of death. These people should be put to death. Every

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<v Speaker 1>single homosexual in our country should be charged with the

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<v Speaker 1>crime the abomination of homosexuality that they have. They should

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<v Speaker 1>be convicted in a lawful trial. They should be sentenced

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<v Speaker 1>with death. They should be lined up against the wall

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<v Speaker 1>and shot in the back of the head. That's what

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<v Speaker 1>God teaches. That's what the Bible says. You don't like it,

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<v Speaker 1>you don't like God's work, because that is what God says.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think that the Bible says anything about guns. Actually, Um,

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's it's been a while since I read the

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<v Speaker 1>King James version that sad Fast exclusively uses. So maybe

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<v Speaker 1>it's like a translation thing, but I don't I don't

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<v Speaker 1>remember anything about shooting or bullets r guns and inside

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<v Speaker 1>my Bible. Um. But speaking of translation things, I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>go on a little theology right here about quote unquote

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<v Speaker 1>lying with man or lying with men um and how

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<v Speaker 1>scholars actually believe if you look at the original Biblical

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<v Speaker 1>texts not the crap like the King James version and

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<v Speaker 1>the nonsense based off that horrible translation, but the chapters

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<v Speaker 1>where people pull stuff supposedly condemning men for laying with

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<v Speaker 1>men and quote unquote homosexuality, which is obviously like a

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<v Speaker 1>very modern word, does not belong in a text as

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<v Speaker 1>old at the Bible, like they just worre didn't that

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<v Speaker 1>wor didn't exist yet. Um, but those passages would probably

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<v Speaker 1>more accurately translate to condemning adult men who rape young boys. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>And even if they didn't, even if it was about

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<v Speaker 1>adult men with other adult men. I don't fucking care,

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<v Speaker 1>and neither should most Christians, because Christians are not following

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<v Speaker 1>all of the laws of Leviticus, nor should they. Like

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<v Speaker 1>that ship was for Israelites thousands of years ago to

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<v Speaker 1>make their culture distinct from other surrounding nations, like Christians

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<v Speaker 1>aren't railing against the use of mixed fabric for Christ's sake.

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<v Speaker 1>I am. There's there's a lot of there's a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of stuff. Believe in eating shrimp, But I think if

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<v Speaker 1>you use mixed fabrics, you should be executed. You should

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<v Speaker 1>be well shot in the back of the head. That's

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<v Speaker 1>the mainly thing that anyone using mixed fabrics death penalty instantly. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so like, obviously there's not these churches preaching against mixed fabric.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's here's Christian preacher Dylanas again justifying his calls for

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<v Speaker 1>the execution of gay people by falsely claiming, obviously that

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<v Speaker 1>all homosexuals are pedophiles. Here's the thing, here's why reprobates.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's why homosexuals are so dangerous to society. They're not

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<v Speaker 1>like other sinners in the sense that every single day

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<v Speaker 1>that they are alive, they're being filled with more and

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<v Speaker 1>more and more unrighteousness. That is a scary thing. You

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<v Speaker 1>want to know why we say that all homosexuals are pedophiles,

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<v Speaker 1>And let me make that very clear. All homosexuals are pedophiles.

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<v Speaker 1>And people say, well, what about all the straight people

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<v Speaker 1>that molest children? There faces, I don't care what you

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<v Speaker 1>call them. If if a person is with a child,

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<v Speaker 1>you're fact, you're reprobated, your sodomite. I don't care what

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<v Speaker 1>kind of classifications our government wants to give them. All

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<v Speaker 1>homosexuals are pedophiles. Now here's the thing. Here's here's what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying. I'm not saying that every single homosexual

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<v Speaker 1>that's alive right now has committed that act with a

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<v Speaker 1>child already, because there it could be that they haven't

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<v Speaker 1>had the opportunity yet and they will at some point

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<v Speaker 1>later in their life. This is why we need to

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<v Speaker 1>put these people to death through the proper channels of

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<v Speaker 1>the government, because the Bible says that they are being filled.

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<v Speaker 1>So here's the thing. Yes, maybe not every single homosexual

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<v Speaker 1>has been with a child yet, but what about tomorrow

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<v Speaker 1>when they're filled with a more righteousness. What about in

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<v Speaker 1>a week from now when they're a little filled with

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<v Speaker 1>a little more righteousness. What about twenty years from now?

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<v Speaker 1>What are they going to be like? You look up

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<v Speaker 1>the statistics on the Sodomites that abused children there with

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<v Speaker 1>so many children and will make you throw up disgusting.

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<v Speaker 1>These people are not normal. They're not your average every

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<v Speaker 1>day centers. They're what the Bible calls reverbates. They're rejected

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<v Speaker 1>by God. They have no hope of salvation. So in

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<v Speaker 1>one John Shelley with Steadfast Baptist Church and with the

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<v Speaker 1>help of a network of aggressively homopoblic churches, made a

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<v Speaker 1>two hour quote unquote documentary about how to quote protect

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<v Speaker 1>your children called and it's the title is called the

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<v Speaker 1>Sodomite Deception. See all right, look's going to look if

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<v Speaker 1>we're going to do this thing where there's licenses for

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<v Speaker 1>people to buy guns, can we have there be a

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<v Speaker 1>license to make a documentary? Can we marry too? So

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<v Speaker 1>the quote unquote Sodomite Deception claims to expose how the

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<v Speaker 1>l g b t Q community is contributing to the

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<v Speaker 1>collapse of modern society, which I mean based Um. The

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<v Speaker 1>trailer opens with a real banger. Most Americans are repelled

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<v Speaker 1>by the mere notion of homosexuality. The CBS News survey

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<v Speaker 1>shows that two out of three Americans look upon homosexuals

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<v Speaker 1>we've discussed discomfort or fear. One out of ten says hatred.

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<v Speaker 1>The documentary celebrates historical laws that criminalized homosexuality and criticizes

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<v Speaker 1>more recent laws that expand lgbt Q rights. In the film,

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<v Speaker 1>shall He advocates for the death penalty to be used

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<v Speaker 1>on the LGBTQ community and uses, you know, many many

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<v Speaker 1>slurs across this whole thing, all of all of them

0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:49.000
<v Speaker 1>use all kinds of sluries, as I'm sure we've heard

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<v Speaker 1>this past episode. Uh, the pastors of other churches part

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<v Speaker 1>of the New Independent Fundamental Baptist movement, also featured in

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<v Speaker 1>the documentary. Here's a collection of said pastors screaming in

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<v Speaker 1>the trailer for the Sun of My Deception. Oh, thank you, Garrison,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you for playing us a trailer of people screaming.

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<v Speaker 1>That's gonna be fun. Starting off with Shelley saying, quote,

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<v Speaker 1>why aren't all these Baptists standing up and saying, these

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<v Speaker 1>freaks should go back to Hell, should go back in

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<v Speaker 1>the closet, put a bullet in your head? Why are

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<v Speaker 1>they saying it? Because some of the some of what

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<v Speaker 1>he says his heart to hear. So I'm just saying

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<v Speaker 1>that for you guys, so you know what he's saying. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>here's some here's some of the trailer. It's pretty funny.

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<v Speaker 1>Why all these Baptists standing up and saying, these freaks

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<v Speaker 1>and go back to Hell, go back to the closet,

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<v Speaker 1>put a bull in your head. Why aren't they saying it?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm bagging a bagging a trans best. I'm disgusting dog.

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<v Speaker 1>No homos will ever be allowed on this turk as

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<v Speaker 1>long as I'm the back or here. Never the law

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<v Speaker 1>of the Lord perfect or is it not? It's perfect?

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<v Speaker 1>And what did he say? Put them to death? You know,

0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:02.919
<v Speaker 1>people say like, well, aren't you sad that fifty saw him? Excide,

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<v Speaker 1>here's the problem with that. It's like the equivalent of

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<v Speaker 1>asking me, you know what have you asked me? Hey?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you sad that fifty pedophiles were killed today? Um? No,

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's great. I think that helps society. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I think Orlando, Florida is a little safer tonight now

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<v Speaker 1>that fifthy. You know, the tragedy is that more of

0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:24.080
<v Speaker 1>them than die. I mean, the tragedy is I'm I'm

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<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm kind of upset that hen finished the job

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<v Speaker 1>because these people are predators. So yeah, that sucks. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>But man, there is just a lot of a lot

0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:38.920
<v Speaker 1>of like men in their forties screaming about gay people.

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<v Speaker 1>They they they seem really concerned. Yes. Yeah. Um. Someone

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<v Speaker 1>in that clip is noted homophobe and the Holocaust denier

0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:53.440
<v Speaker 1>Steven Anderson, who of of of Faithful Word Baptist Church.

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<v Speaker 1>He's he's the guy shrieking never never anyway. Uh. Steadfast

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<v Speaker 1>Church members and pastors have continued to show up at

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<v Speaker 1>city council meetings in multiple cities throughout the Dallas Fort

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<v Speaker 1>Worth area. This past Monday, people associated with the church,

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<v Speaker 1>as well as residents opposing Steadfasts bigotry, spoke at a

0:26:16.240 --> 0:26:19.879
<v Speaker 1>city council meeting in Watouga, Texas. I'm here today to

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<v Speaker 1>let the council know of the hay gurt that has

0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:25.080
<v Speaker 1>entered their city. This hay group was called Steadfast Baptist Church.

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<v Speaker 1>It was in June one that I first came across

0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:32.399
<v Speaker 1>the offensive defamation against women and the LGBTQ community. The

0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:35.960
<v Speaker 1>hate statements, videos and social media posts prompted me to

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<v Speaker 1>join the protests that started in hers and now has

0:26:38.720 --> 0:26:41.320
<v Speaker 1>moved to your city. And I apologize for this, but

0:26:41.400 --> 0:26:44.960
<v Speaker 1>this is quoting him. They are all dirty, discased, disgusting

0:26:45.080 --> 0:26:48.120
<v Speaker 1>skank cores. In another video, he also states that women

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<v Speaker 1>in positions of leadership and authority are actually a curse

0:26:50.800 --> 0:26:53.520
<v Speaker 1>upon our nation. Council members, at the very least, you

0:26:53.560 --> 0:26:57.359
<v Speaker 1>should encourage the strip law owner Cider Property of Dallas

0:26:57.440 --> 0:27:01.399
<v Speaker 1>to revoke this church's lease. So yeah, there was there

0:27:01.480 --> 0:27:03.119
<v Speaker 1>was kind of like this back and forth at this

0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:07.760
<v Speaker 1>city council meeting. Multiple multiple people from Steadfast responded by

0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:11.280
<v Speaker 1>screaming into the mic and continuing to advocate the execution

0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:13.960
<v Speaker 1>of gay people. One guy that I'll that'll quickly play

0:27:13.960 --> 0:27:18.159
<v Speaker 1>a clip of as Philip millstread of of Steadfast, he

0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:22.639
<v Speaker 1>went further and made a veiled threat of violence the

0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:27.200
<v Speaker 1>city of Otaga and if police officers are allowing this community,

0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:30.560
<v Speaker 1>the son of my community, to intimidate church members from

0:27:30.600 --> 0:27:33.639
<v Speaker 1>worshiping God the way he should be worshiped and truth

0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:36.720
<v Speaker 1>and if you don't do something, something will happen bad.

0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:42.200
<v Speaker 1>So that's fun. Um. It's also a strong, strong definition

0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:44.720
<v Speaker 1>of the word veiled. Well, I mean like in terms

0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:47.679
<v Speaker 1>like obviously they're they're they're talking about execution and genocide.

0:27:47.960 --> 0:27:52.480
<v Speaker 1>He's talking about like actually doing physical like like actually

0:27:52.600 --> 0:27:55.639
<v Speaker 1>like as vigilante is doing physical violence, which is different

0:27:55.680 --> 0:27:59.000
<v Speaker 1>because Steadfast usually tries to frame their violence within like

0:27:59.400 --> 0:28:02.080
<v Speaker 1>it's okay because it's a part of the government, right.

0:28:02.680 --> 0:28:05.600
<v Speaker 1>Uh So when they're like talking about just doing with

0:28:05.880 --> 0:28:08.840
<v Speaker 1>like vigilantism or listening like we're going to take this

0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:11.040
<v Speaker 1>into our own hands, right, it's it's it's it's a

0:28:11.080 --> 0:28:15.440
<v Speaker 1>little bit different. Wattuga Mayor Arthur Minor this past Tuesday,

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<v Speaker 1>so that he is discussing the status of Steadfast Baptist

0:28:18.640 --> 0:28:21.560
<v Speaker 1>Church with the city attorney, while also stating that the

0:28:21.640 --> 0:28:24.520
<v Speaker 1>attorney has told him that it's a First Amendment issue,

0:28:24.760 --> 0:28:26.920
<v Speaker 1>so that there's quote nothing that the city can do

0:28:27.040 --> 0:28:30.720
<v Speaker 1>at this time, but we are looking at other avenues unquote,

0:28:30.920 --> 0:28:34.000
<v Speaker 1>and I mean that's to be that's probably probably fair.

0:28:35.160 --> 0:28:39.600
<v Speaker 1>It's hard to make a church leave a place. Yeah,

0:28:39.720 --> 0:28:42.120
<v Speaker 1>So she did not he did not elaborate further than that,

0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:44.680
<v Speaker 1>but he did encourage people to bring up the issue

0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:49.760
<v Speaker 1>with the person holding Steadfast's lease at this strip mall

0:28:50.120 --> 0:28:54.840
<v Speaker 1>in Watuga. Uh, let us let us go on another

0:28:55.400 --> 0:28:59.280
<v Speaker 1>ad break. Do you know who won't shriek at gay

0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:03.240
<v Speaker 1>people and call on the government to kill them? Hope

0:29:03.400 --> 0:29:06.400
<v Speaker 1>hopefully these these these ads hopefully, I mean not for

0:29:06.440 --> 0:29:20.680
<v Speaker 1>another couple of years. Yeah, well that's why I said hopefully. Okay,

0:29:21.040 --> 0:29:23.920
<v Speaker 1>So let's let's talk a bit more about this, this

0:29:24.080 --> 0:29:28.120
<v Speaker 1>church's ideology, and this network that it's associated with, because

0:29:28.160 --> 0:29:31.640
<v Speaker 1>it is actually kind of interesting. So Steadfast Baptist Church

0:29:31.920 --> 0:29:35.160
<v Speaker 1>is part of Steven Anderson's church network called the New

0:29:35.280 --> 0:29:39.680
<v Speaker 1>Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement, uh, which I'm just gonna call

0:29:39.880 --> 0:29:44.480
<v Speaker 1>the New i FB because those are way too many words. Um.

0:29:44.960 --> 0:29:48.160
<v Speaker 1>And they claim it's not like a denomination, but rather

0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:54.440
<v Speaker 1>a revival of what the old Independent Fundamentalist Baptist movement

0:29:54.560 --> 0:29:58.120
<v Speaker 1>once represented. Unquote. The new I f B churches just

0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:02.080
<v Speaker 1>like the old IF churches use the King James Bible exclusively.

0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:05.080
<v Speaker 1>And the Old Life b movement was founded in the

0:30:05.200 --> 0:30:08.040
<v Speaker 1>forties and was trying to reclaim the fundamentalism of the

0:30:08.120 --> 0:30:13.120
<v Speaker 1>nineteen twenties. And so we're just we're going back from

0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:17.880
<v Speaker 1>the two thousand twenties to the twenties. Uh, in terms

0:30:17.920 --> 0:30:23.480
<v Speaker 1>of their social views times of flat circle. Uh, I'm

0:30:23.520 --> 0:30:25.320
<v Speaker 1>gonna I'm gonna quote a little bit from the A

0:30:25.400 --> 0:30:27.120
<v Speaker 1>d L, which of course is very hit and miss

0:30:27.160 --> 0:30:31.120
<v Speaker 1>as an organization. But they didn't. But they did, they did.

0:30:31.160 --> 0:30:32.840
<v Speaker 1>They do have an they do have a decent article

0:30:33.080 --> 0:30:36.160
<v Speaker 1>on the new U I f B churches because this

0:30:36.360 --> 0:30:38.680
<v Speaker 1>is like specifically, the thing they focused on is this

0:30:38.880 --> 0:30:43.080
<v Speaker 1>sort of anti Semitism. So anyway, quote, the New I

0:30:43.480 --> 0:30:46.400
<v Speaker 1>f B ideology promotes the anti Semitic notion that Jews

0:30:46.480 --> 0:30:50.040
<v Speaker 1>today are impostors who are not the true Jews described

0:30:50.080 --> 0:30:53.360
<v Speaker 1>in the Bible, which by the way, is awfully close

0:30:53.440 --> 0:30:58.160
<v Speaker 1>to Christian identity. I mean that is essentially Christian identity.

0:30:58.280 --> 0:31:01.720
<v Speaker 1>It's very very sim alert. I think the new I. F. B.

0:31:01.880 --> 0:31:04.160
<v Speaker 1>Stuff is slightly different. It comes out from a slightly

0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:10.960
<v Speaker 1>different directions, but they reach a very similar conclusion. Like

0:31:11.480 --> 0:31:14.320
<v Speaker 1>I don't think they believe that Christians are like the

0:31:14.440 --> 0:31:17.040
<v Speaker 1>true Jews, and they don't talk about like Arians and stuff,

0:31:17.400 --> 0:31:21.000
<v Speaker 1>and they're not doing British Israelism, but they exact Judaism

0:31:21.120 --> 0:31:23.840
<v Speaker 1>is the Synagogue of say, but it's like, well, some

0:31:24.040 --> 0:31:26.240
<v Speaker 1>of them do use the term the Synagogue of Satan,

0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:33.000
<v Speaker 1>but like you know, they hate Judaism because as a religion,

0:31:33.160 --> 0:31:35.640
<v Speaker 1>it's made up of Jews who do not recognize Jesus

0:31:35.720 --> 0:31:38.960
<v Speaker 1>as the Messiah, so therefore they are not truly descendants

0:31:39.120 --> 0:31:41.400
<v Speaker 1>of Israel, right. It's it's it's they come at it

0:31:41.440 --> 0:31:44.800
<v Speaker 1>from more of that direction, but it is still extremely

0:31:45.000 --> 0:31:47.920
<v Speaker 1>close to Christian identity like it is it is. It

0:31:48.080 --> 0:31:52.360
<v Speaker 1>is just a tiny hop of a pond likes for sure, No,

0:31:52.520 --> 0:31:55.560
<v Speaker 1>they like they are. So they are absolutely in the

0:31:55.680 --> 0:31:59.560
<v Speaker 1>same networks because they are preaching very similar ideology. Um

0:32:00.480 --> 0:32:02.080
<v Speaker 1>back to the back, back to the d L quote.

0:32:02.480 --> 0:32:05.120
<v Speaker 1>They often claim that Jews today worship Satan and that

0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:08.240
<v Speaker 1>the Star of David represents the devil uh. The new

0:32:08.560 --> 0:32:11.760
<v Speaker 1>i FB doctrine promotes the notion of an Antichrist whom

0:32:11.840 --> 0:32:15.400
<v Speaker 1>they claim will be Jewish. In their sermons, various new

0:32:16.040 --> 0:32:19.160
<v Speaker 1>various New i FB pastors often openly state that they

0:32:19.280 --> 0:32:23.720
<v Speaker 1>hate Judaism as a religion, and in addition to criticizing Judaism,

0:32:24.040 --> 0:32:27.600
<v Speaker 1>many New i FB pastors also promote anti Semitic tropes

0:32:27.840 --> 0:32:32.200
<v Speaker 1>about Jewish power and control over sectors like finance, news, media,

0:32:32.360 --> 0:32:36.600
<v Speaker 1>and journalism. New i FB pastors have also promoted Holocaust denial.

0:32:36.680 --> 0:32:40.320
<v Speaker 1>In pastor Steven Anderson presented a number of false claims

0:32:40.360 --> 0:32:44.360
<v Speaker 1>in a video specifically addressing the so called quote Holocaust

0:32:44.520 --> 0:32:48.680
<v Speaker 1>hoax unquote, saying the numbers don't add up, the facts

0:32:48.720 --> 0:32:53.360
<v Speaker 1>don't add up. Um. Anderson alleged that quote some Jews

0:32:53.760 --> 0:32:59.360
<v Speaker 1>were among the many quote casualties on both sides uh

0:33:00.920 --> 0:33:04.120
<v Speaker 1>did matter, but he blamed those deaths on starvation and

0:33:04.200 --> 0:33:07.400
<v Speaker 1>poor conditions, claiming that quote just because people were rounded

0:33:07.480 --> 0:33:09.840
<v Speaker 1>up and putting for slabor camps does not mean that

0:33:09.920 --> 0:33:12.960
<v Speaker 1>they were systematically exterminated or cremated to the tune of

0:33:13.080 --> 0:33:17.480
<v Speaker 1>six million unquote. Unlike many in the evangelical movement. New

0:33:17.600 --> 0:33:20.520
<v Speaker 1>I f B churches are staunchly anti Zionist and anti

0:33:20.720 --> 0:33:24.840
<v Speaker 1>Israel dated christ Zionism as quote jew worship unquote, and

0:33:25.080 --> 0:33:28.120
<v Speaker 1>view the traditional support for Israel among Evangelical Christians as

0:33:28.160 --> 0:33:32.160
<v Speaker 1>a result of Jewish deception in support of the anti christ.

0:33:32.760 --> 0:33:35.360
<v Speaker 1>But they have a ton of opinions about the sinking

0:33:35.400 --> 0:33:38.239
<v Speaker 1>of the U. S. S. Liberty in line with their

0:33:38.240 --> 0:33:40.720
<v Speaker 1>broader anti Simmitic use of Judaism as a false and

0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:44.640
<v Speaker 1>evil religion. The modern nation of Israel is regularly characterized

0:33:44.720 --> 0:33:48.560
<v Speaker 1>as wicked and a fraud unquote. And they do not

0:33:48.920 --> 0:33:53.680
<v Speaker 1>dislike Israel because Israel commits genocide against Palestinian people. Because

0:33:53.960 --> 0:33:57.000
<v Speaker 1>as you say that, they're very pro genocide as a concept. Yeah,

0:33:57.040 --> 0:34:00.280
<v Speaker 1>and to be honest, probably pretty pro genice side of

0:34:00.320 --> 0:34:04.440
<v Speaker 1>the Palestinian people. Yeah, they just not that way. Yeah.

0:34:05.160 --> 0:34:08.440
<v Speaker 1>So that's a little a little right up on what

0:34:08.560 --> 0:34:11.759
<v Speaker 1>this network of churches believes. Like everyone you heard talk

0:34:12.000 --> 0:34:14.840
<v Speaker 1>talk inside the Sodomite Deception trailer is part of this

0:34:14.920 --> 0:34:17.920
<v Speaker 1>network of churches. Um, they're all across the South, some

0:34:18.040 --> 0:34:24.680
<v Speaker 1>of their and some of summer in like California, Arizona, Idaho, oh, Oklahoma, Texas,

0:34:25.080 --> 0:34:28.040
<v Speaker 1>you know, lots of other Southern states, and if you

0:34:28.120 --> 0:34:31.400
<v Speaker 1>want to carry out a sodomite deception, tape your drugs

0:34:31.920 --> 0:34:38.040
<v Speaker 1>to your junk when you drive through Texas. So thankfully,

0:34:38.239 --> 0:34:41.960
<v Speaker 1>churches like these are not standing unopposed. Specifically in the

0:34:42.040 --> 0:34:44.680
<v Speaker 1>Dallas Fort Worth area, there has been a number of

0:34:44.760 --> 0:34:47.759
<v Speaker 1>protests at the church's old location, which resulted in them

0:34:47.760 --> 0:34:51.439
<v Speaker 1>getting evicted, and protests at their new location. I'm gonna

0:34:51.560 --> 0:34:54.960
<v Speaker 1>place some audio from from protests that have taken taken

0:34:55.000 --> 0:35:00.359
<v Speaker 1>place over the course of the past few weeks. We're

0:35:00.440 --> 0:35:04.000
<v Speaker 1>here to protest that has Baptist charges to the registered

0:35:04.040 --> 0:35:06.640
<v Speaker 1>hate group here in Texas on spl center dot org.

0:35:07.120 --> 0:35:11.440
<v Speaker 1>We protested them and hearst for nine months. We found

0:35:11.520 --> 0:35:14.239
<v Speaker 1>them here and so we are back every Wednesday and

0:35:14.320 --> 0:35:17.480
<v Speaker 1>every Sunday. I am a mom of a kid from

0:35:17.560 --> 0:35:21.040
<v Speaker 1>the LGBTQ community, and I am not going to stand

0:35:21.120 --> 0:35:24.000
<v Speaker 1>for you wishing death upon my kid just because of

0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:28.680
<v Speaker 1>who he is and who knows. It's extremely exhausting, um,

0:35:29.000 --> 0:35:32.680
<v Speaker 1>but at the same time, it's very reassuring because we

0:35:32.800 --> 0:35:35.240
<v Speaker 1>get nothing but support from the people on the street

0:35:35.239 --> 0:35:38.120
<v Speaker 1>to drive by and give us plenty of homs and waves,

0:35:38.239 --> 0:35:40.680
<v Speaker 1>and it's just so much love and support from the

0:35:40.719 --> 0:35:43.200
<v Speaker 1>people that live in the community here as well as first,

0:35:43.360 --> 0:35:46.200
<v Speaker 1>that's my city, so it's very personal. And I've noticed

0:35:46.239 --> 0:35:48.359
<v Speaker 1>that we've gotten a lot of new people come out

0:35:48.440 --> 0:35:51.200
<v Speaker 1>here because this is their city and it's personal for them.

0:35:51.760 --> 0:35:54.680
<v Speaker 1>So that's that's pretty good to hear that there's actually

0:35:54.719 --> 0:35:58.080
<v Speaker 1>people standing up to to say, hey, these guys suck

0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:01.600
<v Speaker 1>in person. UH, They're all they should be more people

0:36:01.760 --> 0:36:05.120
<v Speaker 1>going in person because once you like, the church is

0:36:05.120 --> 0:36:08.200
<v Speaker 1>obviously facing a lot of a lot of conversations like

0:36:08.280 --> 0:36:10.760
<v Speaker 1>online and stuff, right, they're facing a lot of online pushback,

0:36:11.160 --> 0:36:12.800
<v Speaker 1>but once you bring it into the real world, it

0:36:12.920 --> 0:36:16.759
<v Speaker 1>definitely it's a totally different thing in terms of how

0:36:17.360 --> 0:36:19.400
<v Speaker 1>how they're being viewed. I mean, in some ways, you know,

0:36:19.520 --> 0:36:22.960
<v Speaker 1>they enjoy being persecuted, right, they enjoy the notion of

0:36:23.040 --> 0:36:26.080
<v Speaker 1>Christian persecution. But also it's great to have, you know,

0:36:26.160 --> 0:36:30.000
<v Speaker 1>people we having pride flags outside their little church every Sunday. UM.

0:36:31.440 --> 0:36:35.239
<v Speaker 1>The church still has an active Instagram page UM and

0:36:35.360 --> 0:36:37.880
<v Speaker 1>still has a Twitter account, but their actual tweets do

0:36:38.080 --> 0:36:41.680
<v Speaker 1>keep getting taken down for hate speech. UM. A week ago,

0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:47.000
<v Speaker 1>YouTube striked UH Steadfast's main channel where they post videos

0:36:47.160 --> 0:36:50.120
<v Speaker 1>and sermons as they weren't able to use their main

0:36:50.239 --> 0:36:53.439
<v Speaker 1>channel on Facebook, then began promoting their second YouTube channel

0:36:53.480 --> 0:36:56.279
<v Speaker 1>as a platform to stream their murderous anti gay hate

0:36:56.280 --> 0:36:59.239
<v Speaker 1>sermons during Pride Month, and a few days after I

0:36:59.320 --> 0:37:03.120
<v Speaker 1>posted about that on Twitter, their secondary YouTube got completely banned,

0:37:03.600 --> 0:37:06.200
<v Speaker 1>and then after a few days their Facebook page was

0:37:06.320 --> 0:37:09.680
<v Speaker 1>also taken down. So they are they do have, they

0:37:09.719 --> 0:37:13.520
<v Speaker 1>do have a shrinking online presence. There's this other clip

0:37:13.600 --> 0:37:16.000
<v Speaker 1>from the Sodamite Deception trailer that I think really gives

0:37:16.040 --> 0:37:18.640
<v Speaker 1>you a peek into the minds of these folks who

0:37:18.640 --> 0:37:21.160
<v Speaker 1>are pushing this sort of stuff. Um. And you can

0:37:21.239 --> 0:37:24.319
<v Speaker 1>even see this the same sentiment uh in the rise

0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:28.360
<v Speaker 1>of white nationalism and supremacy this past a decade. And

0:37:28.440 --> 0:37:31.160
<v Speaker 1>my question is why are we embracing all this change

0:37:31.200 --> 0:37:34.640
<v Speaker 1>as Christians to the Bible change. The Bible radically changed

0:37:34.719 --> 0:37:38.759
<v Speaker 1>ten years ago, Mike King, James, Bible hasn't changed. The

0:37:38.880 --> 0:37:43.520
<v Speaker 1>word lincey was translated in sixteen eleven, period, So where

0:37:43.600 --> 0:37:47.719
<v Speaker 1>in the world is everything changing. It's not from gol,

0:37:48.239 --> 0:37:50.920
<v Speaker 1>that's for sure. You know what's coming from the working

0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:54.799
<v Speaker 1>of Satan. The deceiving people thinking all it's normal now.

0:37:56.000 --> 0:37:58.960
<v Speaker 1>So our our challenge, as people who are you know,

0:37:59.040 --> 0:38:03.360
<v Speaker 1>anti fascists, people who stand against you know or anti racist,

0:38:03.520 --> 0:38:07.960
<v Speaker 1>push back against this type of anti queer um organizing

0:38:08.280 --> 0:38:10.600
<v Speaker 1>our Our our challenge is to keep the change coming

0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:13.640
<v Speaker 1>and to push back against these freaks trying to hold

0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:17.480
<v Speaker 1>onto the twentieth century right. The fear of change and

0:38:17.560 --> 0:38:20.640
<v Speaker 1>the fear of the future is driving their you know,

0:38:21.000 --> 0:38:23.960
<v Speaker 1>desire to return to the past. The train of like

0:38:24.040 --> 0:38:26.880
<v Speaker 1>social progress was moving forward over the course of the

0:38:26.920 --> 0:38:29.279
<v Speaker 1>past twenty years, and they're scared and they're trying to

0:38:30.200 --> 0:38:34.719
<v Speaker 1>stop it and move it backwards. And it's up to

0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:38.839
<v Speaker 1>us to make that as hard as possible. Um. But yeah,

0:38:38.920 --> 0:38:41.200
<v Speaker 1>that is that is my that is my stuff on

0:38:42.160 --> 0:38:45.479
<v Speaker 1>on Steadfast Church. I'm now going to open up, open

0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:49.480
<v Speaker 1>up the floor to anyone. Robert Chris, What do you

0:38:49.520 --> 0:38:51.719
<v Speaker 1>guys think of all of the stuff we just heard

0:38:51.760 --> 0:38:56.320
<v Speaker 1>about the past thirty minutes. One of the keys is

0:38:57.040 --> 0:38:59.560
<v Speaker 1>you want to use tape that has a good level

0:38:59.600 --> 0:39:01.320
<v Speaker 1>of it he Asian, but it isn't going to actually

0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:05.680
<v Speaker 1>damage your skin really, Yeah, like tape, what are we

0:39:05.719 --> 0:39:08.239
<v Speaker 1>doing here? Scotch tape will do. Okay, you really want

0:39:08.280 --> 0:39:10.840
<v Speaker 1>to avoid duct tape, but something like painters tape generally

0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:13.200
<v Speaker 1>isn't going to have the adhesion that you need. Um,

0:39:13.320 --> 0:39:15.880
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna be a little bit unpleasant anytime you're taking

0:39:15.960 --> 0:39:18.440
<v Speaker 1>tape off of And I do recommend actually putting it

0:39:18.520 --> 0:39:20.479
<v Speaker 1>like more in the taint area or the inner thigh.

0:39:21.080 --> 0:39:23.719
<v Speaker 1>You're gonna have a better better experience. You might want

0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:25.839
<v Speaker 1>to shave that inner thigh if you're not somebody who

0:39:25.880 --> 0:39:27.640
<v Speaker 1>does normally, just so that you have a better time

0:39:27.719 --> 0:39:31.279
<v Speaker 1>getting your drugs free. But you know, crotch it. That's

0:39:31.320 --> 0:39:36.839
<v Speaker 1>always been my motto. Just crotch it again. Great, great, great,

0:39:37.040 --> 0:39:40.880
<v Speaker 1>great Texas insight coming coming out of Robert Evans here. No,

0:39:41.040 --> 0:39:43.919
<v Speaker 1>I mean, like, okay, so seriously, the fact that there's

0:39:43.960 --> 0:39:46.880
<v Speaker 1>been resistance to these folks in the street, um, and

0:39:46.960 --> 0:39:50.600
<v Speaker 1>that it's been significant that they've like not just people

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<v Speaker 1>showing up to yell at them, approach them in the moment,

0:39:53.120 --> 0:39:55.879
<v Speaker 1>but people you know, working to get them kicked out

0:39:55.960 --> 0:40:00.279
<v Speaker 1>of their locations and stuff. Um, that's really good. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's that's honestly more the Texas that I have

0:40:04.200 --> 0:40:06.239
<v Speaker 1>known than or at least it's as much of the

0:40:06.320 --> 0:40:08.800
<v Speaker 1>Texas that I've known as like the shitty things that

0:40:09.000 --> 0:40:12.120
<v Speaker 1>this says about Texas. Um. First protest I ever went

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<v Speaker 1>to was against a church like this who you've probably

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<v Speaker 1>heard of, the Westboro Baptist Church, when they showed up

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<v Speaker 1>to protest at the Holocaust Museum. Uh um. And it

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<v Speaker 1>was like like a whole hundreds of people showed up

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<v Speaker 1>to like and there were like six of those fuckers. Um. So,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, the problem with Texas has never been that, Um,

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<v Speaker 1>there aren't a lot of awesome people in Texas. It's

0:40:39.560 --> 0:40:43.600
<v Speaker 1>that folks like this, these who really want to use

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<v Speaker 1>the mechanisms of the state to carry out a genocide,

0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:50.960
<v Speaker 1>have a lot of friends in high places, and many

0:40:51.040 --> 0:40:54.960
<v Speaker 1>of those folks spent decades ensharing that it's basically impossible

0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:59.160
<v Speaker 1>for anybody else to win election outside of like you know,

0:40:59.440 --> 0:41:03.080
<v Speaker 1>localctions and cities and stuff, which often city governments in Texas. Again,

0:41:03.120 --> 0:41:05.320
<v Speaker 1>if you look at a lot of the the reaction

0:41:05.400 --> 0:41:08.360
<v Speaker 1>to Abbot's anti trans bills and and where will be

0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:12.120
<v Speaker 1>sort of the the actual resistance is Texas is anti

0:41:12.200 --> 0:41:16.560
<v Speaker 1>gay legislation gets more extreme, um. Is in cities like Dallaston,

0:41:16.640 --> 0:41:19.840
<v Speaker 1>Austin and Houston, and it is like local laws and

0:41:19.960 --> 0:41:23.759
<v Speaker 1>local local elected leaders as well as local activists who

0:41:25.200 --> 0:41:28.200
<v Speaker 1>represent an awful lot of Texas. But and you know,

0:41:28.960 --> 0:41:31.480
<v Speaker 1>don't have any real power in the levers of the state.

0:41:31.640 --> 0:41:34.120
<v Speaker 1>But do you tend to stand up and in a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of cases like people did for some of these

0:41:37.640 --> 0:41:41.880
<v Speaker 1>these events in Dallas recently put their bodies, you know,

0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:45.200
<v Speaker 1>in between fascists and the people are threatening. And I

0:41:45.239 --> 0:41:48.800
<v Speaker 1>mean the new I F. B churches are definitely probably

0:41:48.920 --> 0:41:52.440
<v Speaker 1>more extreme, more explicit than most of your average Christian churches.

0:41:52.880 --> 0:41:57.000
<v Speaker 1>But it is not uncommon to preach this general strain

0:41:57.080 --> 0:41:59.400
<v Speaker 1>of homophobia. Maybe it turned down like one not of

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<v Speaker 1>the dial from the pulpit in the majority of of

0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:11.400
<v Speaker 1>of churches, specifically in the South. Um, yeah, we should

0:42:11.440 --> 0:42:13.560
<v Speaker 1>be lighting these people against wall and killing them. But

0:42:13.640 --> 0:42:16.200
<v Speaker 1>you say that, you know, this is not biblical. You

0:42:16.280 --> 0:42:19.000
<v Speaker 1>know we're supposed to live in a biblical society. And

0:42:19.440 --> 0:42:23.359
<v Speaker 1>you say everything, but that last like ten or yeah,

0:42:24.000 --> 0:42:27.840
<v Speaker 1>it's that it is. It is not like this strain

0:42:27.880 --> 0:42:34.160
<v Speaker 1>of homophobia is has been there this this entire time. Um,

0:42:35.120 --> 0:42:38.440
<v Speaker 1>and people of I feel like they have permission to

0:42:38.520 --> 0:42:41.480
<v Speaker 1>say things now that they honestly wouldn't probably wouldn't have

0:42:41.520 --> 0:42:45.960
<v Speaker 1>said as explicitly like five years ago. Um, but there

0:42:46.080 --> 0:42:48.239
<v Speaker 1>was there's always been people working to keep this thing

0:42:48.320 --> 0:42:51.839
<v Speaker 1>within the culture. As as stuff was progressing socially, there

0:42:51.960 --> 0:42:55.359
<v Speaker 1>was people working to keep this type of bigotry still

0:42:55.360 --> 0:42:58.520
<v Speaker 1>alive in large sectors of the American public. And a

0:42:58.640 --> 0:43:01.279
<v Speaker 1>lot of those sectors are related to Evangelical Christianity, and

0:43:01.320 --> 0:43:03.800
<v Speaker 1>a lot of those sectors are really related to the

0:43:03.880 --> 0:43:08.839
<v Speaker 1>communities around church building. So that's like a big part

0:43:08.960 --> 0:43:11.840
<v Speaker 1>and how Christian fascism has been so effective the past

0:43:12.640 --> 0:43:14.720
<v Speaker 1>that you know, like the basically the past decades, starting

0:43:14.960 --> 0:43:19.160
<v Speaker 1>starting with the Tea Party, is that they've had people

0:43:19.200 --> 0:43:23.000
<v Speaker 1>with vested interests like keeping this stuff afloat. I mean, uh,

0:43:23.280 --> 0:43:27.080
<v Speaker 1>Lips of TikTok receives her funding from Seth Dillon, the

0:43:27.120 --> 0:43:29.520
<v Speaker 1>guy who runs The Babylon b which started as a

0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:33.919
<v Speaker 1>Christian satire site. Um like now Elon Musk's favorite place

0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:37.000
<v Speaker 1>on the Internet, which is wild, I mean, but but yeah,

0:43:37.080 --> 0:43:39.120
<v Speaker 1>like like you know, like I I remember reading The

0:43:39.160 --> 0:43:42.080
<v Speaker 1>Babylon B when I was like fucking twelve years old,

0:43:42.120 --> 0:43:44.279
<v Speaker 1>when I was like a Christian kid, like I it

0:43:44.400 --> 0:43:46.960
<v Speaker 1>was just like like It used to be just a small,

0:43:47.120 --> 0:43:50.360
<v Speaker 1>niche Christian site, and now it grew into this you know,

0:43:50.600 --> 0:43:54.320
<v Speaker 1>big powerful force in a modern conservatism. It is directly

0:43:54.440 --> 0:43:56.719
<v Speaker 1>funding lips of TikTok, which is basically now just a

0:43:56.840 --> 0:44:00.040
<v Speaker 1>gun that gets pointed at whatever, you know, target the

0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:03.520
<v Speaker 1>event that that they want. So it's now it's like

0:44:03.920 --> 0:44:06.640
<v Speaker 1>this completely like AstroTurf thing with all of this funding

0:44:07.120 --> 0:44:09.759
<v Speaker 1>and people choosing what events to target. So like it

0:44:09.880 --> 0:44:12.759
<v Speaker 1>all goes back to this, It all goes back to

0:44:12.840 --> 0:44:14.919
<v Speaker 1>these types of churches and this type of this type

0:44:14.960 --> 0:44:18.839
<v Speaker 1>of rhetoric coming out of you know, these few misinterpreted

0:44:18.880 --> 0:44:23.920
<v Speaker 1>biblical passages. It is weird, how Like I mean, when

0:44:23.960 --> 0:44:28.120
<v Speaker 1>I was, you know, a teenager, when you talked about

0:44:28.160 --> 0:44:33.120
<v Speaker 1>like Christian entertainment, Christian comedy, Christian music, Christian media, you

0:44:33.239 --> 0:44:37.040
<v Speaker 1>meant like the most boring milktoast ship and the planet.

0:44:37.320 --> 0:44:40.200
<v Speaker 1>Like not that there wasn't toxic and hateful ship within

0:44:40.600 --> 0:44:43.960
<v Speaker 1>being preached to churches, but like Christian media was like

0:44:44.440 --> 0:44:47.600
<v Speaker 1>it was pretty hard to be offended and most of it.

0:44:48.120 --> 0:44:50.120
<v Speaker 1>And now when you say that, like you immediately go

0:44:50.200 --> 0:44:54.399
<v Speaker 1>to like, oh, yeah, somebody's trying to get gay people murdered. Um. Yeah,

0:44:54.760 --> 0:44:58.160
<v Speaker 1>it's something else. Yeah, there's been a large increase in

0:44:58.239 --> 0:45:02.520
<v Speaker 1>the militancy of Christian propaganda and posing. You know, stuff

0:45:02.560 --> 0:45:04.520
<v Speaker 1>that used to be just very like very boring milk

0:45:04.760 --> 0:45:09.200
<v Speaker 1>like milk toast and like still very like you know, patriarchal, heteronormative,

0:45:09.719 --> 0:45:15.359
<v Speaker 1>you know, probably low key white supremacist um. Is now Yeah,

0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:18.440
<v Speaker 1>now lots of the propaganda is way more focused in

0:45:18.880 --> 0:45:22.279
<v Speaker 1>this type of like militant Christianity um and focused on

0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:24.760
<v Speaker 1>you know all all of like the end times stuff

0:45:24.760 --> 0:45:27.600
<v Speaker 1>has gotten so much more more of a thing um

0:45:28.360 --> 0:45:31.480
<v Speaker 1>and just how it relates to like physical violence against

0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:39.120
<v Speaker 1>currently living people anyway. Yeah, that's the that's the Steadfast

0:45:39.160 --> 0:45:43.440
<v Speaker 1>Baptist Church and the Sadamite deception um. Brought to you

0:45:43.840 --> 0:45:46.560
<v Speaker 1>by people out of Dallas. So yeah, those are my

0:45:46.840 --> 0:45:49.520
<v Speaker 1>those are my two episodes. I mean we started first

0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:52.279
<v Speaker 1>episode this week was part one. Last episode this week

0:45:52.360 --> 0:45:56.359
<v Speaker 1>is part two, so they're spread out, but those are

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<v Speaker 1>those are my two two episodes on the City of

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<v Speaker 1>the Homophobia and Christian Fascism inside the City of Hate. Look,

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<v Speaker 1>if you want to help out, find the addresses of

0:46:08.360 --> 0:46:11.399
<v Speaker 1>one of these churches. Now, the next thing you're gonna

0:46:11.440 --> 0:46:13.680
<v Speaker 1>do is you're going to find a good Torrent client

0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:16.880
<v Speaker 1>and you're going to download a DVD rip of Morbius.

0:46:16.960 --> 0:46:19.200
<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of them out there. Then you're gonna

0:46:19.320 --> 0:46:21.520
<v Speaker 1>burn that. You may need to buy a burner. It's

0:46:21.600 --> 0:46:23.360
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people aren't gonna have this equipment. But

0:46:23.400 --> 0:46:26.200
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna burn that onto a DVD. You can also

0:46:26.239 --> 0:46:27.959
<v Speaker 1>put it on a flash drive if you really wanted.

0:46:28.280 --> 0:46:30.600
<v Speaker 1>And then you're just gonna start mailing those in mass

0:46:30.840 --> 0:46:34.200
<v Speaker 1>to the church. If we get them enough copies of Morbius,

0:46:34.360 --> 0:46:36.200
<v Speaker 1>I think we might be able to turn them around.

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