Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1023 | Pride Pullback: Are Companies Backing Down?

Episode Date: June 20, 2024

Today, we discuss some good news: less "Pride" merchandise in stores this year. We examine some of the reasons for this development, including the impact of conservative boycotts. Is Christianity really more "intolerant" than progressivism? Are Christians actually imposing their beliefs on others? Or do they just want neutral spaces? Also, the Buffalo Bills sponsored an "inclusive" football league called the NGFFL. And a new proposal in Congress could make women eligible for the draft. We explain why this is a bad idea. Get your tickets for Share the Arrows: https://www.sharethearrows.com/ --- Timecodes: (0:30) Announcements (9:06) Businesses ditch "Pride" merch (30:44) Conservatism in EU (33:36) Brigitte Macron (35:46) Conservative boycotts (50:36) Buffalo Bills sponsor gay football league (55:53) Women added to military draft? --- Today's Sponsors: Patriot Mobile — go to PatriotMobile.com/ALLIE or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code 'ALLIE' for free activation! EveryLife — the only premium baby brand that is unapologetically pro-life. EveryLife offers high-performing, supremely soft diapers and wipes that protect and celebrate every precious life. Head to EveryLife.com and use promo code ALLIE10 to get 10% of your first order today! America’s Christian Credit Union – nationwide personal and business banking for people who still love God and country. ACCU is federally insured by the National Credit Union Administration. Learn more and get started at AmericasChristianCU.com/SWITCH BlazeTV- Subscribe to BlazeTV to get uncensored news and exclusive content. Use code ALLIE at https://BlazeTV.com for $20 off. --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 1013 | Ms. Rachel Uses Jesus to Push Pride https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1013-ms-rachel-uses-jesus-to-push-pride/id1359249098?i=1000657841626 Ep 1016 | Time to Ditch Ergobaby https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1016-time-to-ditch-ergobaby/id1359249098?i=1000658502983 Ep 913 | Target Gayifies Christmas https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-913-target-gayifies-christmas/id1359249098?i=1000636829359 Ep 805 | One Year of My Target Boycott (And They're Queerer Than Ever) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-805-one-year-of-no-target-theyre-worse-than-ever/id1359249098?i=1000613121337 Ep 1020 | Botched: The Brutality of Trans Mastectomies | Guest: Soren Aldaco https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1020-botched-the-brutality-of-trans/id1359249098?i=1000659311855 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

Companies are pushing less pride propaganda this year. Why is that? And how should we respond? Also, a new proposal in Congress says that women will be drafted. Oh my goodness, Bree and I are discussing all of this responding to this craziness on today's episode of Relatable. Hey, guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Thursday. Hope everyone has had a wonderful week. All right, before we get into it, I've just got a few announcements. I haven't made, I don't think, any announcements. announcements this week. I've saved it for the last episode of the week. Just some reminders. We've got some merch to alleymerch.com. We've got our Relatable bro hats that we release before Father's Day. But of course, they're evergreen. You can get them any time of the year. We've got the trucker hats that we partnered with range leather to make so that's genuine leather. The patch on the front, it's got a salmon because we are swimming upstream as courageous, Christians against the current of the culture and the chaos and the craziness that it brings.

And then we've also got the do the next right thing stitched hats with the acronym on there. We've got lots of fun stuff coming for the fall too. We're taking a little bit of a break on a little bit of a break on merchandise until we have things for the fall, which we're excited about. And speaking of the fall, y'all, we've got our Share the Arrow's event that is coming up on September 28th. This is specifically for the women. If this goes well, then maybe in the future,

we'll also have an event for the Related Bros. But this one is for the women. Sharetheeros.com. That's where you can learn all about it. It is sponsored by Carly Jean, Los Angeles. We will also be partnering with them for some fun stuff that you'll be able to get while you're there. We've got Rosaria Butterfield.

She is the incredible theologian author, former queer theory professor, whose testimony has just, I think, rocked to the Christian world and her boldness is incredible. Lisa Childers, the incredible apologist, Abby Halberstadt, the author, the mother, a homeschooler of 10 kids who was going to bring so much wisdom. We've got music by Francesca Bada Sally. I'm sure that she needs no introduction or explanation. She is the Grammy Award winning Christian artist.

Guys, there are going to be thousands of like-minded Christian women there. do not be afraid to fly in by yourself. I know that that's intimidating to walk into a room where you don't know anyone. You're afraid maybe that there's going to be clicks that everyone's going to be from the Dallas area and that you're not going to know what to do. Do not worry about that. I'm telling, first I'm telling you, if you are not coming by yourself, if you're coming with your sisters, your mom, your friends, look around when you're there. Look for the person that's by herself. Take her in. say, hey, come sit with us. Where are you from? What's your name? And I'm telling you, if you are coming by yourself, that there are going to be so many women there, ready to link arms with you, ready to become your

friend, at the very least, enjoy the day with you and just debrief after every talk, get lunch with you, worship with you. But also, this could be the start of lifelong friendships. And that's what we need. That's why it's called Share the Arrows, because every day we are talking about the depravity, the degeneracy contrasted by God's faithfulness, his goodness, his order, and the mandate that he has given us to be agents of his gospel, agents of order in all of these spaces. And what we can draw from that distinction, that juxtaposition, is that we can't do this alone, that darkness is real, but so is like, that Satan is powerful, but God is more powerful. And so often we're asking ourselves, like, what is God going to do about all this injustice, about all this corruption

and all of this chaos? Why isn't he doing more? Why isn't he delivering people from true oppression and true injustice and the scariness and the violence and just the absolute craziness going on in the world? Why isn't he doing more for that? But what he does, is he sends his Christians into those dark spaces, into those depraved spaces. And he allows us to be salt and light, to be ministers of goodness and righteousness and justice. And so what we're doing at the Share the Arrow's event, we're not just bringing like-minded people together to listen to awesome speakers. I'm also going to be speaking, by the way. my name isn't listed among the speakers, but I am going to be speaking, of course, in meeting so many

of you there. But we are also making sure that, okay, we're coming together is like-minded Christian women saying, are we all, we're all on the same page, right? Like, we all believe in God's inerent, infallible word as our standard. We all believe that God has called us to a spirit of courage, and we've got each other's backs, right? Like, we're not going to allow any of us to stand alone. We're not going to allow any one of us to stand up by ourselves and to take all the arrows from the enemy wherever that is in your life, wherever you are swimming upstream and standing against the opposition. We're all going to stand up for each other, right? And yes, of course, we are. That's what share the arrows means that when you see someone derided in any way

for their belief, whether they're getting fired, whether they're just getting bullied, whether they're getting sued, rather than saying, oh, I am so glad that that's not me. I can't believe they said that controversial thing that aligns with the Bible. Now I know to hold my tongue. No, no, no. That is the attitude of a coward. And that is not the attitude of love, by the way, because you are not then treating someone how you would want to be treated. How would we want to be treated if we decided to stand up in courage?

We would want fellow Christians to stand up and say, you know what? You're sending arrows her way? Send it my way, too. She's not going to take all the arrows by herself. Nope, you're going to have to send them my way too. Whatever sacrifices you are demanding that she make, I'm going to make them too, if I have to. And so that's what Share the Arrows is. That's what this event is about.

This is going to be encouraging. It's going to be empowering. It's going to be educational. These women that we are bringing to you, I mean, they are the best of the best. And I'm just so excited for, I'm so excited for that event. I'm so excited to meet so many of you. I'm so thankful to the Lord for this opportunity. It really is going to be so unique,

just the right time before the election when it's going to feel like we are like just wanting to tear our hair out with the propaganda that we are seen. This is going to be a truth-filled conference. So again, September 28th, Dallas, Texas, at a big church in the Dallas area, go to share the arrows.com,

bring everyone that you think would be interested in it. All right. I think that's it as far as announcements go. of course, subscribe to YouTube. If you haven't already, I'll leave us a five-star review. If you love this podcast on Apple Podcasts, it means so much to us. All right, we're actually going to get into some good news before we get into the typical crazy news that we talk about. And I'm going to bring producer Brian to weigh in and to let us know her observations of this good news. Okay, so I posed this question on X earlier this week. I think it was earlier this week.

and I first stated my observation that there seems to be a lot less pride stuff in the businesses that I frequent this year. Even the brands that I follow, they're not posting as much about pride. I said none of the businesses I frequent have pride stuff out this year. Most of them did last year. One in particular had a whole rainbow apparel display this year. Nothing. Anyone else see the same thing. And I posted this on X.

I posted it also. on Instagram and the vast majority of the comments and replies I received affirmed what I said, agreed, and said, oh yeah, it's been a lot more understated this year. One of you actually sent me a picture of your local target. I still have not been in a target and I think it's three years, two or three years. If you can't tell, I have a hard time remembering when things happen, whether it was like a week ago or two years ago. That's what motherhood does to you. But you posted a picture of your local target that had no pride stuff, at least up front, which is where it was prominently last year. And it actually had a sign instead that was a patriotic red, white,

and blue sign that said, you know, thank you for your service. It was a message to veterans, which I think is incredible. And I know that there are different targets across the country, depending on the region that you're in, that has, has, has, pride stuff and then others don't. Some it's still prominent in the front of the store and others. It's not. Like I said, one of the businesses that I frequent, I remember last year just rolling my eyes because while they didn't have anything that was explicitly LGBTQ, they had different kinds of apparel and accessories in their store that were just rainbow. It was very obvious how they arranged everything to pay homage to Pride Month last June. And this year it is nothing,

absolutely nothing, not implied, not subtle, not even like an understated tiny pride display. It's nothing. And I think that that is really interesting. I think it's really interesting. Now, some people are saying, well, it's an election year. And so they're trying to not scare people away because it is just so in your face to the point to where even centrist are like, okay, can we not? Does everything have to be gay in June? Can't something just like be neutral? And so some people are saying, oh, you know, it's a conspiracy or it's an organized effort to try to tone it down this year so people don't freak out before the election. That may be true. That may be true. But I doubt that all of these local businesses and some of the businesses that

I've been in, that they're all part of some, like, grand organized effort to tone down pride in an election year. Like, I really think it's because of the pushback and the backlash. I really do. And I think that's a great thing. Of course, I always advocate for raising a respectful ruckus for the things that matter. And this matters. We don't need companies. We don't need libraries. We don't need public schools pushing a movement that is about someone's sexual. preferences. We just don't. Like, of course, from a Christian perspective, marriage is between one man and one woman that is the only context for holy sexuality. But even outside of that, there is no reason to push gender deception and people's sexual preferences in spaces where, well, really where the general public is, but especially where children are going to go. And I think it's extremely subversive and intentional for the symbol of, of this sexual revolution to be a rainbow because those kinds of colors are very attractive to a child. So again, that to me just seems intentional and evil, actually.

But all Christians have asked for, all really a lot of people have asked for is like, can we just have a neutral space? Like, I'm not asking you to sell ESV study Bibles everywhere. Like, I'm not asking Target to put Genesis 1.206. seven like at the front of their store. That would be awesome, by the way. I might actually go back to Target if that were the case. I'm not asking that. Christians are not asking to Christianize every space. Maybe they should be. But that's not what Christians are asking. Christians are asking, okay, if I go to a gym, can it just be a gym? If I take my child into a classroom, can it just be a classroom

where they're learning how to read and write? They're learning phonics. They're learning math. They're learning history? Can it just be that? Like, do we have to talk about sex in the classroom? Do they have to talk about the possibility of being born in the wrong body, which is an evil, false idea? Can they not just learn the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic? Is that not possible? Like, can I just go to a restaurant to, like, order a hamburger? Does it have to also be rainbow themed? That's all people are saying. Can you watch a football game? Can you watch a baseball game without seeing a freaking drag queen and fishnets on the TV screen? Is that possible? It's all people are asking for. And the funny thing is Christians are always accused of shoving Christianity in your face, of being fascist and Christian nationalist and trying to force people to be Christians, to be theocrats. No, it is your sexually depraved progressive religion that is constantly, being pushed in our faces. And if we don't do not bow down at the altar that you demand us to bow down before, you call us names. You sue us. You fire us. You attempt to cancel us in a variety

of ways. And so as always, it is actually the left that is extremely imperialistic, extremely theocratic, extremely totalitarian and tyrannical, extremely fascist. And I'm a very fascist. And I'm all of the accusations that they lodge at our side, they're really just projections. They're really just projections. You see that they're freaking out. I don't know if you guys saw this, that Louisiana now is requiring that the Ten Commandments be in every public school. And the ACLU is suing the state of Louisiana because, oh my gosh, this is so awful. But look, even that, Even that is neutral compared to, compared to what we are seeing with LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter propaganda in public schools.

I'm not saying that it is actually neutral. I actually don't believe that there is any such thing as neutrality. Really, it is either light or darkness, good or evil in all beauty and all truth, is on the side of God and all ugliness and chaos and deceit and depravity. is on the side of evil. So there's not really any true neutrality, but really what people are wanting when they say, oh, we just want basic decency. We just want a social contract. We just want politeness. We just want neutrality. What they're really saying is that we do want the underlying Christian ethic of treating people with dignity and kindness without having to celebrate

all of the religious dogmas of the left. That's what people really want. And I would say the Ten Commandments are a part of that. When Louisiana says, okay, we're putting the Ten Commandments in all of our schools, they're not saying you have to worship God. They're not saying you have to read the Bible. They're not saying that you teacher have to preach the Bible or that you can't talk about other belief systems or whatever.

It's not the state for saying. a particular religion on public school students or on public school teachers. And really the defenders of this law, I think, are right that you cannot, you can't understand American history. You can't understand the history of human rights. You can't understand the history of the abolition of slavery. You can't understand the constitution. You really can't understand Western civilization without knowing the Ten Commandments, without understanding the Ten Commandments, without realizing that the founders believed in a transcendent lawgiver. And then he delegated the law giving to Moses.

And that is just a historical fact, at least the existence of Moses, giving this law to the Israelites. And that laying the basis for Western civilization. The left is freaking out about this, absolutely freaking out. All of a sudden, they think any hint of religion in public schools is, evil indoctrination and brainwashing. But a teacher reading I Am Jazz to a seven-year-old that says you can be a boy in your body, but you're a girl on the inside and you should go down this very destructive path of mutilating your body to try to do the impossible to change sexes. That's totally fine.

That's just neutral. That's not indoctrination at all. A dragon. A dragon. Queen reading kids books to kids in a library, that's not evil indoctrination. That's just totally neutral. That's great. No, it's evil. And by the way, all education is indoctrination. This goes back to the fact that there's no such thing as neutrality. All education is indoctrination. It's just a matter of what doctrines you are placing in someone. Are you placing in the doctrines of secular humanism, which has led to all the depravity and the chaos we see today? Or are you laying the foundation of the truth about natural law, the truth that we at the very least have a creator

who made our bodies and made ourselves with purpose? That is, by the way, what you are choosing between when you choose between a secular education and an explicitly Christian education. So all education is indoctrination. There really is no neutrality. The question that we have before us is like, what kind of foundational religion do we want? And I would say that Christianity is actually the

much more tolerant one. And the one that most people, if they had to choose and they really understood the principles of progressivism versus Christianity would choose Christianity. Progressivism doesn't have a history of true human rights because they don't believe people are made in the image of God and have innate dignity just because they are human. Christianity is led by truth and love. And so we care about the body. We care about what is good for a person. We don't just affirm sin and lies because it feels good. Whereas progressivism values as its highest virtue empathy, which just affirms people's feelings even to the point of affirming their addictions, affirming their fake identities, and affirming their depravity and sin, much to their detriment. And so I know that might seem like a much bigger, conversation than just like pride displays, but we are in this kind of ideological battle right now. And I am encouraged. I am encouraged to see people say, I'm fed up with that.

I don't want to see that at my local store. And I'm going to say something about it. I don't care if you call me a Karen. What did I say about Karen's yesterday? Some Karen are the sentinels of civilization. They're necessary to keep things in order. So you go, Karen. You called your target last year and said, you know what?

I'm canceling my red card. if you keep selling compression tops for young girls to mash down their boobs because they want to be boys or tucking bathing suits that seem to be targeting adolescent boys who want to pretend like their girls. That's what Target was selling last year. Okay. It's evil. And I will not, by the way, forgive them and go back to that store without a complete about face and a public confession. and repentance. They're doing their darnness to get this ribbon mom back by paying all of these influencers

to talk about Target. But I shall not be going back because they are undoubtedly still on the side of evil, even if they're toning things down, which I'm happy about. Okay, Bree, have you noticed in your own day-to-day life less pride stuff out there? Yeah. Yeah. I have. I think it's most prominent, like on TikTok, in commercials, when I'm,

watching Hulu or something, commercials come up. I feel like last year there were so many that were specifically targeted toward like Pride Month. I haven't seen any commercials like specifically about that. And on TikTok and Instagram Reels, I'm seeing a lot of people who are, I think, more typically progressive, they're fed up with this as well. They're fed up? They're fed up with it.

I'm not on TikTok. So I don't know. I think there are a lot of actually one of the. these people we've reacted to before. A lot of like trans influencers, for example, um, who people have now turned against because they're doing things like talking about genitalia in public or like at Disneyland. We've reacted to that guy a couple of times. Um, and a lot of these people who are left leaning are now making videos about how fed up they are with people like that and how they wish that companies would stop promoting people like that, um,

which is kind of refreshing. Obviously, they still support all that stuff to begin with. But, but yeah, I'm seeing a lot of people. I think people are exhausted. Yeah. I think it's been shoved down their throat so much. And I don't think the messaging does it for people anymore. Yeah. And companies realize that. Yeah. I think a lot of people are realizing that it is not just about like empathy and authenticity, but that there is a sexual, a very sexual component to all of this, which of course we have always known that it's really about sexual immorality. But I think a lot of people on the left or a lot of people who have at least been sympathetic toward it are like, oh, this is really sexual. And I just don't think that it's necessary for kids to be a part of.

Yeah. And I will say, I think the international companies understand a little bit less still. Like they haven't caught up, I think. Are you familiar with Tony's company? Yes, yes. So it's a German toy company. Yes. Okay, Tony's is a lot of you have like a Tony box. And it's a cool concept. But I think there actually is a Christian version. I just can't remember the name now. So you all should look it up. But it's like, it's a audio box. And you buy these little magnetic toys to go on top of them. So

if I had a Tony box and I stuck like Ariel from the Little Mermaid on top of it, it would tell the story of the Little Mermaid and like sing sing the songs and it's a great non-screen way to like entertain your kids so just they're very popular just for context go ahead yeah yeah um so i was talking to a friend about that she was trying to get one and she noticed that there was a pride one but these toys are for ages three and up by the way um so they have a little a little tony that i guess explains pronouns and gender stuff and all that kinds of stuff so she was telling me this. And I went on their Instagram. There's a Tony's U.S. There's a Tony's France. There's a Tony's UK. The only one that was Rainbow was Tony's U.S. And so I messaged them and I asked, why are you

only rainbow in America and not the other ones, not even Europe? And they said, great question, Brie. We have pages that are moderated by different international teams. So this page shares different marketing elements. So clearly someone there thought America is the market where this is going to work still. So crazy. Tony's Saudi Arabia. Yeah, isn't that weird? Tony's China? Wow. I know. Maybe one day. That's always been a joke every year that a lot of these companies like, you know, the car companies, BMW, Toyota, that they would change their profile picture in the month of June to, to like the rainbow. Like I'm looking right now, BMW, they've got like a rainbow around their logo.

on X. But if you look at BMW India, nope, BMW Turkey, nope. BMW South Africa, yes. Okay, that's interesting. Let's see if they have BMW like Saudi Arabia. No. Surprising. I know.

BMW Iran. Do they have BMWs? I don't think they have BMWs there. I think they have a lot going on. Let's see. BMW France. Nope. No. They don't have the rainbow either, which is interesting because we think of Europe as really progressive,

especially places like France in Germany. Germany is like ground zero for this stuff for a lot of things. So why do you think, I mean, why do you think that is? I don't, I think it probably is the past couple years. I mean, obviously news in America makes its way all around the world. And I think a lot of this LGBTQ stuff, I think people in other countries, it and they're like, oh, that's what's going on in America then. And I think in their eyes, it's like, well, that's what they, that's what they do. Yeah. So that's what it is there.

And it is worse here in a lot of ways. I think because you see in the UK, you see in places like Sweden, that they are really taking a second look, especially when it comes to kids and cross-sex hormones and the procedures that are allowed because there have been lawsuits. And I'm hoping, you know, like based on the conversation we have with Soren earlier this week, that those lawsuits will really start making a difference here because money talks. Money talks in the sense that that's why I think a lot of doctors are going along with this. It makes money. But money talks also in the sense that if they feel like they're going to lose money because of these lawsuits,

so they're going to stop. So I hope that that plays a part in all of it. America is so interesting. Like I think people in Europe think that America is like all just a bunch of like conservative cowboys. And really, like, we're so much more in a terrible way, more progressive on abortion. We're more progressive when it comes to LGBTQ stuff in some ways. Germany is awful, too, in some ways. And surrogacy and IVF.

And so is Canada. Yes, surrogacy and IVF, the Wild Wild West when it comes with that. I would say immigration. I don't know if many other countries have the absolutely poorest border that we do with just foreign nationals pouring in from all over the world without, like, any mitigation. Yeah. Well, I will say I think like France in the UK, that's probably one of their top issues. Yes. Because people from North Africa are coming in. Now, do you think that that, I know that's kind of off topic, but you lived in France for a while? Do you think that that is

turning around? Because I do see over there, that seems to be left-right center. If you live in the UK, if you live in even like Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, you see a lot of people really fed up with the mass migration and the consequences on crime and the dignity of women and girls. Do you see people like doing an about face on that? Now I have because of the recent elections in the EU. And it showed we don't have to get all the way into it. But in France, for example, there was a large majority that voted for the right party. Le Pen, right?

Yes. Okay. So what happened with that? I can't give you specifics because I don't know the insombed. announce of the French government, you parliament. But basically they voted in support of her. Le Pen is, people have compared her as like the Trump of France. Yeah, yeah. And so she is running for president in the next cycle, which I think isn't until 2027. But because because people voted for the right in such large numbers, Macron, the current president had to call a snap election because people

weren't supporting his party enough. So again, I don't know all the details. So is it possible that Le Pen will take power if you want to say it like that? I don't know. I don't know. We don't know. In the next election, I think she will for sure. Yeah.

I think now the population there is showing that they're done with this. Yeah. And she's going to shut the borders down, I think. Yeah. Well, you know, we've hoped that too. And this, we did not plan to talk about any of this. So if it's like, why don't you know the answers? That's because we just, this is just me just curious talking about this.

You know, Georgia Maloney, I think Georgia in Italy. Like I remember a couple of years ago, I posted that video of the speech that she gave when she won the election. Just awesome. Like talking about the natural family. And they have done some good anti-surrogacy things in Italy. But she has turned out, at least from what I see from a lot of people, to be kind of a disappointment when it comes to. immigration. And when it comes to retaining Italy's culture, she just has been working, it seems, with the W.EF and with the progressive wing. And so I don't know if Lepin would be the

same way. I don't know either. But I know even when I lived, she ran in the last election cycle too when I lived there. And I think she's been relatively consistent. And the people who voted against her hate her. Yeah. Which sometimes is a sign that she's doing something, right? So. Okay, can we talk about McCrone for a second? This kind of has to go back to the LGBTQ stuff. You don't like McCrone. I mean, he's on the left. And Brigitte, his wife. Okay, tell us how they met because Brigitte is a lot older than McCrone, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's gross. So Brigitte Macron is 71 years old. And Emmanuel Macron is the president of France, is 46. And how long have they been married? Do we know? They've been married. Let's see. He married her in 2007. Okay. So, but they met when she was his teacher. And he was a teenage boy. How old was he? So he was like 16. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think he was 15. I think he was 15. I think.

So that would have put her in her 40s, right? Yes. And she was married. She had kids that were older than him at the time. And she didn't, I mean, she didn't date him. That's what they say, until he was an adult. But she did leave her family for him. When he was, how old do we know?

I think he was in his 20s. Okay. Yeah. So she waited. I don't know. I don't know if I believe that. Yeah. Yeah.

So weird. So she left her family for him. Can we talk about the rumors that have circulated? I mean, I first saw Candice Owens talk about this. Is this a thing people thinking that she's a man? I had never heard of that actually before Candice was talking about it. I mean, she's really petite. That would be surprising to me.

I mean, yeah. She just is like a 70 year old woman to me. I just, I didn't know that was a thing. People in France are talking about that. They are? They aren't. They are not talking about that.

As far as I know. Okay. So I don't know. Interesting. Do they have kids together? What? Do they have kids together? I don't think so.

I think she was probably too old. Or? Yeah. Oh my goodness. So weird. Okay. Well, I just wanted to see what was going on. with our friends in Europe over there.

It's just interesting that the LGBTQ lobby that they don't push things over there. But here's what I think it tells us. Because, you know, whenever we have Justin Haskins on, whom I absolutely love, I love getting his perspective so much on everything that's going on with the W.E.F. Whatever we talk about, BlackRock and Klaus Schwab

and all of these super, super internationally powerful people. who are very powerful. I feel very hopeless. I'm like, I mean, we're just going to get steamrolled. There's no reason for us to even push back or speak up or anything because these people are so powerful. They have all the money in the world. But then I see things like this.

And while it's not some giant huge victory, like maybe we have more power than we think. Maybe they want us to think we don't have power. Maybe they are a little afraid. Yeah. I don't know. What do you think? I think that's true. I think that's true. And I think, I mean, obviously, this is such a cliche, but obviously people need to keep speaking about it because it's the only way that they're going to hear it. So I'm, I think before they thought they had a lot more power than they did. And even the bud light thing, which, you know, is like a meme at this point. But like that said something to people. And they're still feeling the effects of that. I think that matters. You know, I think Target felt the effects of it. Yeah. I mean, I think that if they

hadn't, all of these entities would have just doubled down. And they would have said, you know, we're going to do it bigger and better this year. Yeah. I don't care what you say. We're going to have a Dylan Mulvaney, like, blow up doll at the front of every store. Yeah. But obviously, they cared. And as I've been saying for the past few years, like for Target, the Christian conservative suburban mom is their, Target demo. That is their main customer base. It used to be a thing to like go pick up your coffee and then go to Target and spend $150 that you don't need to spend. Like that was the thing. And then at least enough of those people said, I can't support that anymore and they felt it. And I have a message about that. I have a message about that in just a second. All right. So here's what I will

say to that. I will say, keep going, keep pushing. Because even if it didn't change anything, even if all these companies did decide to double down and that they were going to do more rainbows and trans flags than ever, just did not care at all about you raising a respectful ruckus, I would say it still matters because you are doing the right thing. You are obeying God. You are being courageous. You are simply being a Christian. You are advocating for what God calls good and right and true and because we love our neighbor and because God created our neighbors and because he embodies and defines love. It is in love. It is for our neighbors that we represent truth. That doesn't mean that we're rude. We're not arrogant about it. We're not mean-spirited

about it. We are kind. We are gentle, but we are relentless. So whether or not these companies back off, we keep pushing. We keep unapologetically standing for truth because we believe, believe that God's ways are better. Yes, every single one of our neighbors. It's better for everyone. It's better for every single person of every single background to live in a country that is ordered by God's ways because God is good and loving and righteous. And he created all of us and knows what is best. Remember, Christians have both the right and the responsibility to represent our worldview in every single space that we occupy. The same thing. secular world would have you believe that you are the only kind of person with the only kind of

world view that needs to be hidden under a bushel, that it is okay to be a Christian as long as you do one of two things. You either are a Christian in name only. You don't really believe in the Bible. You don't really act it out. You don't vote in alignment with Christian values. You don't speak in alignment with Christian values. You don't believe that God and his word really have any kind of authority. You just believe that Jesus is this cheerleader that affirms all of our wants and dreams and would never ever tell anyone that they need him or need salvation or need forgiveness or should repent or live a holy life at all. That's one kind of Christian that you can be. The main commandment is just to be nice and just to be tolerant of people's sin. The other kind of Christian

that secular progressive say that you can be is the kind that maybe secretly, maybe secretly believes what the Bible says, all of it, including Genesis 1, including Romans 1, including 1, 1st Corinthians 6, including John 14, 6. You can believe all of that, but you have to be really quiet about it. And as soon as you leave your house, you check all of that stuff. You leave it behind. As soon as you go to work, as soon as you go to the voting booth, as soon as you go to the public sphere and the public square, whether that's on your phone or whether that's at school or whether that's in your job, whatever it is, you have to leave that stuff behind. And you have to adopt the new religion, which is secular progressivism, which secular progressives would like you

to think that that's just a neutral worldview completely without any religious dogmas. But as we've already covered, that is not true. It has its own religious doctrines, its own assumptions about human nature and sin and right and wrong and our purpose and who created us and why we're here. And Christianity does not go along with in any way secular progressive progressivism. It is opposed to it in every single way. It is contradicted to it in every single way. And so they have been able to be so pervasive and so dominant in every sector of society by convincing people that liberalism, that secular progressivism is just neutral. It's just neutral niceness or nice neutrality and it's not.

We've seen that. I love that phrase from Abigail Schreier's book, full of empathy and mean as hell. Yes, that's what progressives have become. It's so many ways, so domineering. As we see with Jack Phillips, by the way, Jack Phillips, the cake baker of masterpiece cake shop, who refused to make a cake for a gay wedding. him for gender affirming trans parties and things like that. He has been in litigation. He has been trying to defend himself for over a decade now. He is in court yet again because these LGBTQ activists

have been absolutely hounding him with lawfare for over 10 years because he will not make cakes that celebrate their depravity. And they want to say that we're the ones trying to shove things at people's faces. Look, I mean, in more ways than one, LGBTQ activists like to do that. And so don't believe that lie. Don't believe that lie that we have to check our worldview at the door. No, this is still in many ways a free country. You still in many ways have free speech. You still, in many ways, have freedom of religion. You have every right, every responsibility to bring your full worldview into the public sphere. If they do, then you do. Then you do. do too. Then you do too. Do not compartmentalize your faith. Don't compartmentalize God.

Jesus is king. God created the heavens in the earth are not neutral statements. They are not compartmentalized statements. They are total statements. It is not possible for you to separate your faith from your politics because your politics are downstream from your faith and what you believe about God. That is not me that we advocate for a living in a theocracy where everyone is forced to go to church, forced to be a Christian. It just means that our worldview informs what we think about politics, culture, social issues, how we define marriage, how we define love, how we define right and wrong, just like everyone else's worldview, helps them define those things. May the best ideas win. May the best ideas win. And by the way, this was founded as,

even if we don't agree with all the theology of the founding fathers, this was founded as a country based on Christian doctrines, explicitly Christian doctrines. If you look at all the founding documents, if you looked at what the founders believed, and not just the founders of the country, but if you look at the original charters from the original colonies, some of the first states, the necessity of the leaders in those states at the very beginning to be confessing Christians, like that is baked into the Christian foundation, the Constitution was meant for a moral and religious, aka Christian people. That doesn't mean that people can't believe what they want to believe in this country or even

worship how they want to worship in this country as long as you understand that the premise that we should be working with, the assumptions, the presuppositions, the foundation that we should be working with in the United States is basic Christian teachings. That is the uniqueness of America. That is why we ever have accomplished anything objectively good in the United States is because of those foundations. So you should not be ashamed to bring that worldview into the public world and to push back in the name of that, by the way. And again, we're not asking companies to be Christian, but we're asking them to remove that kind of religious dogma and depravity, that of secular progress. and the sexual revolution. And so keep pushing. Yes, you're going to be called a Christian

nationalist. Most people that call you that have no idea what that means. I have never called myself that. I have never advocated for a theocracy. And yet I am included in some kind of documentary that David French is in accusing me of being that. I just heard the other day that I am one of the most outspoken Christian nationalist, which is absolutely absurd. That is something. kind of designation for the feds to use. And their example, their proof of that was that I criticize IVF. Oh, so basic Christian teaching, especially basic, specifically Catholic teaching, is now that what constitutes being a Christian nationalist, I'm not going to apologize for believing that Christians have the right and responsibility to speak our worldview, to represent

our worldview. And yes, to bring our worldview into every single sphere that we occupy. progressives do it every day and our ideas are better because we're right and they're wrong. No apologies there. So keep pushing. Don't let up at all. If I know a lot of you are not boycotting Target, I never say that everyone has to do all the same boycotts that I do. I don't boycott everything. This is a choice that I have made. I am happy that I have done it. I will keep doing it. But if you are with me and that, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. Don't let up because that's what they want, by the way. They're like, oh, we can just give in just a little bit without changing what we really believe and they'll just

be back next year if we reward them for that. So I'd say keep pushing, keep pushing, keep speaking up, keep going to the school board meetings, keep refusing to play the pronoun politeness game at the school that you work out at the hospital that you work out at the company that you work with. Stay strong, stand strong and all of that. Okay, so we have a lot of things left in our research document to talk about. So I have to, I have to decide what we were going to discuss because we had some extemporaneous discussion about Brigitte McCrone that took up some of our time. I think I'm going to talk about the gay football league, Bree, that football is gay. If they wanted a gay football league, they could have just called it soccer. Oh, sorry for all of you.

Soccer fans out there. Just kidding, just kidding. But apparently we decided that, in America. We won it a gay football league. And the Buffalo Bills became the latest NFL franchise, according to Fox News, to support new LGBTQ plus flag football team. We are excited. This is according to NGFFL. This is a chapter national gay flag football league. I cannot believe that we are doing this. This is the tweet, the post. We are thrilled to bring inclusive flag football to Buffalo with the support of the Buffalo Bills. This exciting addition joins 27 other cities and over 4,000 players, including straight allies and the National Gay Flag Football League.

What is this? What is it? Can you explain it to us? This is just a flag football league that is meant to be inclusive. It's professional. We can watch it on TV. Technically, yeah. Okay.

And I don't know how one qualifies for flag football professionally, but yeah and it's just meant to be it's meant to break down barriers and challenge stereotypes and I guess the NFL can't do that enough so okay so it can't be tackle because we've got women identifying as men and that wouldn't be fair yep what do you want to bet the quote unquote trans women teams are going to dominate the trans the trans men and then will finally have a female sports league that people will watch. You think they'll separate them by how they identify? I think they'll say, oh, it's just a matter of skill.

Yeah, it's just a matter of skill. No, we don't know. No, see, this person's not binary. Over here. Some of the commentary is funny. Real question, are the rules different? I just played in a flag football game with gay players on my team. So we can't just play together.

I'm trying to figure out this one because I'm totally lost. Sage Steele said, so, does this mean straight guys are allowed to play in the NGFL? Kind of like how gay guys are allowed to play in the NFL and have been for years. The marketing strategy for this league will be fascinating. Can't wait to watch the commercials. So, okay, they responded to Sage Steele. Valid question, here's the answer. Yes, indeed.

All 27 of our city leagues include straight players. Our league is a place where everyone belongs. Ladies, if your husband or fiancé is one of the straight players, players and the NGFFL. That's a red flag. I'm calling a flag on the play there. Okay? Like, I don't know. Our league is a place where everyone belongs. It's an accepting environment where everyone is free to be themselves, which may not always be the case on all football teams. Matthew Peterson. He's the editor-in-chief of the blaze. My lifelong Buffalo Bills plus Giants, Patriots, Jets, Dolphins, Cardinals, Bears, commanders, and Seahawks are funding a not

just metaphorically gay flag football league. Behold the not so free market, bake the cake, bigot. The Babylon B, and my apology to Cowboys fans for this joke, they posted this, Nation Unshur why Buffalo Bills starting gay football team when Dallas Cowboys already exist. What is that supposed to mean? I don't understand. As someone who was born and raised in Dallas myself, Are the Dallas stars gay? My dad does call them the cowgirls. Oh, is it just because they're bad now? I don't know.

I guess I don't know enough about the hatred of the cowboys. The last I read, the Texas Rangers were the only team that did not have a Pride Night. Yep. That's true. Why do MLB teams need a Pride Night? Again, let's think about what we are talking about here. We are talking about how certain people prefer to do it. But that just doesn't need to be a part of sports.

No one needs to talk about that. No, and it's also, it's weird because it's in their best interest to not talk about it based on who their main audience is. So I've never understood that why the sports leagues cater to that at all. Yeah. It's not like Target where they feed on empathy. It's like these are men, typically straight men watching this content. Why? It's colonialism.

It's left-wing colonialism. Like I always say that like left-wing activists, like they are woken up in the middle of the night by the terrifying realization that some random person in Kansas disagrees with them. Like, and they're like, how do I change that? Yeah. I got it. More rainbows. More rainbows. More rainbows.

More drag queens. Let's go. Okay. quickly, really quickly, speaking of something that is super, super just gay in the sense that it is just wrong, that women are apparently being added to the military draft. Or this is a proposal, right, in the House of Representatives right now. Yeah, it was a proposal. Yeah, it probably will not pass, but people are freaking out about it. So this is in the Senate. Meanwhile, the Senate Armed Forces Committee has introduced its own version of the NDAA, which would make women eligible for

the draft. It's also something that the Senate has repeatedly proposed over the past few years without ever managing to get it past both chambers of Congress. Um, no, as a girl mom, no, no. And I'm sure boy moms would say the same thing. Like at this point, people are not excited to have a lot of people are not excited to have their kids serve in the military. I'm not saying that the people who do serve in the military don't deserve so much honor because they are so courageous and I'm thankful for them. But with the ideology that seems to be so pervasive in the military right now and in our federal government, a lot of parents are understandably like what, especially when it comes to the draft, because that's compulsory. And you're going to tell me that women and girls are going to be

drafted? No, I know that Israel does it. I know that Sweden or whoever does it. There are other countries that do it. They're all wrong. They're all wrong. Women should not be drafted. I I mean, I kind of have an issue with the draft, I think, anyway. But women, no, our bodies are different. We're not meant to do that. I personally think women shouldn't be in combat, period. But to be drafted, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no.

So that's my answer to that. I don't think it's going to pass right now. Basically, the, I think theme of today's episode is the denial of and the subversion of God designated, biologically true, genders and gender roles, and my God's ways are just better. And so don't stop being an agent of God's order and goodness and sharing the arrows with other people who do the same. All right. That's all we've got time for today.

And this week, we will be back here on Monday.