Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1078 | Will Ferrell Transitions Into Irrelevance

Starting point is 00:00:00 Two gay male flamingos are apparently raising a chick at the San Diego Zoo. This strange story surprisingly tells us a lot about where we are in the human world and what we actually think about children and the family. Also, Will Ferrell's got a documentary on Netflix about his so-called transgender friend and Gavin Newsome is coming. out with a horrifying new piece of legislation regarding IVF and same-sex couples. We've got all of that on today's episode of Relatable. It's brought to you by crowdhealth. Go to join crowdhealth.com slash alley. That's join crowdhelp.com slash alley. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Thursday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far before we get into our stories today, hopefully a little more lighthearted than what we have needed to discuss over the past couple days. It'll be a

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Starting point is 00:03:45 Okay. This is being reported by Fox 5. This is actually an important story just because of what we're going to draw from it, even if it sounds a little bit silly, but this is where we are as a world. Okay. According to Fox 5, last month, Fox 5, last month, Foxx 4, 5 San Diego reported on a pair of male flamingos at the San Diego Zoo. Of course it's San Diego. Of course it's California. Like you're not seeing this. It's not like, oh, two gay flamingos

Starting point is 00:04:12 outside of Birmingham. Of course not. No one's, no one's like, oh, the gay flamingos in, you know, West Virginia. No, of course this is happening in California. San Diego Zoo Safari Park, who they claim are a same-sex couple. having successfully welcomed a baby chick together. Now let's just think about this, boys and girls. Now, these are the same people who claim that we need to have comprehensive sex ed and who claimed that we should follow the science. They're saying a same-sex flamingo couple,

Starting point is 00:04:47 we can just stop right, we can just stop right there, right? And Darwin, who, you know, is, I'm guessing languishing in Hades right now. But if he could roll over in his grave, he would be rolling over in his grave because even Darwin and all of his ignorance and all of the nonsense that he pushed understood the impossibility of something like this. The newly minted dads, Fox V said, hatched their chick on August 25th. Now again, if your mind is just like, try to read this to anyone outside of the United States. Please go to Africa, go to China, go to India, go to South Korea and read this to them.

Starting point is 00:05:36 The members of our dear silent generation, read this to your grandmother and see if she can understand what is being said. After sometime bonding behind the scenes, the family is now out for public viewing at the Escondido Park. So how in the world did this happen? First of all, how do we have homo flamingos? How? That's the first question. And then how did they well, how did they defy biology to welcome a baby flamingo together? That's the big question of the day, right?

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Starting point is 00:08:26 Okay, so we're hearing that flamingos, that these two male flamingos defied everything we know about reality to create an egg. That's what the headline was, that they raised a child together. In reality, they stole an egg from this flamingo's actual mother and gave it to these two male flamingos. What does that sound like? Huh. That almost sounds like the egg selling and surrogacy industry that we have in the human world, because that's basically what happens. You have two men who buy the DNA, the eggs from one woman, rent the womb of another woman to purposely create a motherless child. And that is one of the most wicked things in our world today that we not only allow, but actually celebrate and call inclusion and love.

Starting point is 00:09:22 and now we are seeing it in the animal kingdom. This is what the story goes on to say. Now that it's hatched, the two dads have been caring for the baby chick, who is like, that baby chick is like, where the heck is my mom? Where is my mom? But of course, this poor baby chick can't talk, just like human babies, who are wondering the same thing, by the way. Because not only are they missing their genetic mother

Starting point is 00:09:49 when they are born via egg selling and surrogacy, but they're also missing the only woman, the only home that they've ever known, that they have physiologically bonded with for nine to ten months inside the womb, knowing her smell, her feeling, her heartbeat. Biologically, babies long for that after they are born. That's why we do skin to skin when babies are born. Because it regulates their body temperature, it regulates their heartbeat, it regulates their breathing. I know this firsthand. I've watched this happen three times now as a mom of three. It's one thing when a mom puts her baby up for adoption and has to give that baby away.

Starting point is 00:10:31 It is another thing to intentionally create that broken motherless situation through surrogacy and through egg selling. Remember, I know I'm kind of going back and forth between the parallels here, but remember, adopt. adoption redeems an already broken situation that baby has already been created. And egg selling, sperm selling surrogacy creates a broken situation. Because even if you've got a heterosexual couple that's using a surrogate, you are still severing that bond that is meant to be there at birth. And we may never know the full effects of that primal wound.

Starting point is 00:11:12 But even more so, even more so is the evil of creation. purposely motherless children. I mean, how we, how babies long for their moms, the comfort, the touch, the feel, the stability, the softness of the mother that is so necessary for development, especially in those early years, to purposely rob a child of that is just so selfish. And now this is what humans do because humans, we seek in our sinful flesh, we seek validation in affirmation of our choices. And so, I mean, that's part of what happens in this excelling surrogacy process. These men are seeking validation for their choices and affirmation of their choices, which is why a lot of times these kids are gaslit into not verbalizing their want for a mother,

Starting point is 00:12:07 their desire to know who their mom is. But the creation of these motherless children and even fatherless children, it's a form of, yes, maybe you really do want to raise these children, but it's also a form of just affirming and validating your choices. And so not only are adults putting that on children, but they're also putting that on animals. They're using what is probably just like normal flamingo behavior to dude flamingos hanging out. Like they're probably talking about super like dude flamingo stuff.

Starting point is 00:12:38 They're probably like, see that chick over there? Like she's so hot. Did you see what happened with fantasy football last night? They have no idea. that the weirdo zookeepers are calling them a bunch of homos, a bunch of fancy flamingos. They would be so offended if they knew that. And now they're left with this baby chick and they're like, what do we do? And everyone's like, oh, these are gay birds and they're really not.

Starting point is 00:13:07 But it's just, it's looking for affirmation for your own degenerate choices. And it actually, like, it reminds me of the idolatry, the pagan idolatry. that you see throughout history, the worshiping of animals replacing the worship of the real God, replacing the worship of the creator for worship of the creation in order to justify your most base desires. That's very Romans 1, if you ask me. The article claims that same-sex parenting among flamingos is a well-documented phenomenon experts say, although it is still relatively rare, I'd say we wouldn't really have any more animals. However, it is at least the second instance of it in the United States this year.

Starting point is 00:13:56 Back in August, a pair of male Chilean flamingos at a Colorado Zoo successfully hatch and raise a chick together. They didn't. They didn't hatch and raise a chick together. They didn't. A poor mama flamingo was like, where is my baby? And literally, just to affirm human sexual degeneracy, they've seen. steal this baby from this mom. Crazy. The zoo claims they don't know how this happened, but that the most likely scenario

Starting point is 00:14:21 is that the egg was abandoned by another couple, so the male flamingos adopted it. Romans 1. 24. Therefore, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever, amen. For this reason, God gave them up the dishonorable passions for their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Starting point is 00:15:09 the conspiracy theorists who say that homosexuality, the prohibition against it was just added to the Bible in 1948, always leave out Romans 1. And all of the other references to sexual morality, the positive definitions of what holy sexuality and marriage actually look like. It's really just a form of blue anon that kind of blows my mind. Romans 1 could not be more abundantly clear. So it really shouldn't be difficult for us to stand up for what is true. Remember, Christians have always been a refuge for children. Everywhere, Christian feet have been on the ground throughout the history of civilization. We have said, the child sacrifice stops now.

Starting point is 00:15:54 The human sacrifice stops now. The sexual degeneracy stops now. And we should have the same boldness. It's not about political power. It's about infusing righteousness and goodness into every single. fear we occupy because if we believe that God's that God is the creator that his ways are better that God is love then the most loving thing we can do is agree with God in all circumstances you cannot compartmentalize the belief that God is the creator and authority over all things

Starting point is 00:16:24 and how you interact in the rest of your life so just remember that well we've got some more silliness happening in the advocacy of the LGBTQ life lifestyle this time on Netflix. We've got Will Farrell saying that his longtime friend has become a woman and he just totally doesn't understand what the big deal is. So we'll get into that in just a second. Let me pause and tell you about our second sponsor, another amazing pro-life company that I love so much. And that is Every Life. Every Life is a pro-life diaper company. Unfortunately, a lot of those big diaper companies that you'd hope just naturally would be pro-baby and pro-life are actually pro-abortion. They pay their employees. When they want to go

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Starting point is 00:18:52 I think that's just a completely faulty way to go. Gender and sex are interchangeable. They are. I remember I had a professor in college who tried to separate those two things and this person looking back, she was very androgynous herself, but of course, this was probably 2012. I had no concept of what transgender was. At least I don't think so. I think the only term I knew was transvestite at that point. And she said something about the difference between sex and gender, how they're two different things. And I wasn't trying to be political or contentious.

Starting point is 00:19:27 I just said, they're not two different things. They're the same thing. And she didn't say anything. She just kind of moved on and furrowed her brow. and I don't remember anyone else speaking up or looking at me or being like what that was brave because I wasn't trying to be brave. I just knew at the time that that was nonsense and I'm not even sure I understood the ideology behind it. Maybe I did and I'm just not remembering correctly, but I at least knew something in me knew that I needed to correct that. But it's so funny because at that time, like the consensus would have been on my side completely and she could have actually gotten punished even though this was a

Starting point is 00:20:06 secular school for spouting something so radical. Oh, how the turntables, as Michael Scott would say, because now we've got a Netflix series saying that a man who has lived as a man, his entire life is now a woman and should be accepted as a woman and should be able to go into women's spaces, to be regarded as a woman. And Will Ferrell is just like, this has, it's no big deal. Who cares? Like, he's just happy. Well, remember, Will Ferrell is a multi, multi-million who has already, you know, he's made his career in Hollywood. He's a man himself and he has sons. And so these people who always claim they're on the side of empathy, I guess,

Starting point is 00:20:47 has a hard time understanding why we as women, as moms and parents who have daughters, why we would not want these men entering our spaces, sharing our bathrooms, sharing our locker rooms competing in sports against our children. But of course, he probably does have those doubts in his mind, but he knows it's unpopular to verbalize those and he got paid big bucks from Netflix for this silly documentary. So his now transgender identifying friend Andrew Steele, who currently goes by the name Harper, it's always a little bit like put the lotion in the basket for me when I hear them come up with their names.

Starting point is 00:21:32 you know like it's just kind of it freaks me out a little bit I'm like how'd you come up with this name it's nothing at least you know Dylan Mulvaney remember that guy um at least he goes by the same name you know like I wouldn't I never thought that I would be saying maybe Dylan Mulvaney is more on the same side of the spectrum when it comes to gender deception but at least he goes by the same name I want to know because so often I see these stories especially on like the transgender Reddit posts that are shared on X of these men saying that they now identify as women and taking on the name of someone that they had a crush on because these men aren't gay, by the way, most of the time. They're still attracted to women. So they take a name of someone

Starting point is 00:22:15 that they had a crush on when they were growing up or someone that they wanted to be like, someone that they had like secret fantasies about, someone that they've seen in pornography. I just want to know, like, how did you pick this name that is nothing like Andrew? So this guy now goes by the name Harper, and this documentary, Will and Harper, aims to evoke empathy, one might say toxic empathy, for the trans-identifying friend and to normalize so-called transgenderism in the mainstream while ignoring any real concerns over science, safety, and fairness. Some also are pointing out that the movie itself disproves the narrative of so-called transgender or hate because steel is treated warmly by people all over the country, which I think is good.

Starting point is 00:23:03 Like I do think just in like a personal interaction, you can treat anyone no matter who they are warmly. But that is not mean we have to be open to accepting a man who thinks that he's a woman or says that he's a woman into our private spaces, nor should we be bullied or pressured in any way to affirm their delusions and to say that two plus two. equals five. So most of the film focuses on the personal relationship between the two friends, but in one scene, Farrell takes a picture with Indiana governor.

Starting point is 00:23:35 Eric Holcombini laments his regret over not confronting him about the state's ban on so-called gender-affirming care. According to the New York Post, the movie itself proves that generally people are kind. In the film, the pair visit in Oklahoma Dive Bar adorned with pro-Trump flags and Steele arrives solo striking up friendly chats with some locals. Then Farrell enters and they are serenaded by Native Americans as a toothless man. Nursing a bottled beer preaches acceptance. The stranger is welcoming and sweet.

Starting point is 00:24:07 This other person at a racetrack. Both encounters prompts Steele to admit, I'm not afraid of these people. Well, Republicans in general, in general are way, way, way, way nicer to people that they disagree with. or people that they don't align with, then liberals are. I mean, I guarantee you, if you made a documentary of someone with a MAGA hat, that's not even something that is like intrusive, like a man trying to enter into women's spaces. And he went to a bar in New York, I guarantee you, he would probably be physically assaulted. Because remember, politics is the religion of the left.

Starting point is 00:24:44 It is their theology. It is their driving force. It's actually what drives their theology. Everything that they think about the Bible is actually first, it goes through the prism of politics and they're vying for power, which is ironic because they're always projecting on Christian conservative saying that we are the ones vying for power simply because we don't want babies to be killed inside the womb. But remember, that is projection, it is manipulation, it is a silencing tactic. They are the ones constantly vying for bigger

Starting point is 00:25:17 government, suppression of speech, forcing you to agree with and celebrate their ideology, leftist worship politics, which is why when you're considered a blasphemer and you're outside of their religious dogma, they treat you with such antipathy. So it doesn't surprise me at all that this person was treated nicely. He said there's hatred out there. It's very real and it's very unsafe for trans people in certain situations, but I don't know why trans people are meant to be threatening to me as a cis male. This is what Will Ferrell said. I don't know why Harper is threatening to me. Well, he's not because you're bigger than him and you're a man. You don't have daughters. And I guess you just don't care about reality. You don't care about biology. I'm sure you really

Starting point is 00:26:08 care about the science of climate change and the science of COVID vaccines, but you don't care about the basic existential science of male and female without which none of us would be here. But you can't see how a denial of reality, the insistence that two plus two equals five is a threat to absolutely everyone, even if you were to put to the side, the rights and the safety and the protection of women, you can't see that. I bet you could. I bet you could. But there's consequences for seeing and expressing reality. And he doesn't want to bear those consequences because it's much comfier not to. He said, it's so strange to me because Harper is finally her. If the trans community is a threat to you,

Starting point is 00:26:47 I think it stems from not being confident or safe with yourself. Oh my gosh, that was funnier than anything you ever said in Talladega nights. That was hilarious. Yeah, you're right. You're right. If like if a little girl doesn't want to walk into, say, a bathroom with her mother at a gym and see a great. grown man with long hair and lipstick standing there sexually aroused. I mean, by the way, this has happened at a planet fitness as well as we spa in L.A. If she doesn't want to see that, if she doesn't want to participate in that, it's because that little girl isn't confident in herself.

Starting point is 00:27:32 If women don't want to compete against men who are bigger and stronger and faster than them biologically, inherently, and have been from the time of puberty onward, it's just because they're insecure, not because they care about fairness. See, this is why the right beats the left in debates, because the left never has to see our perspective. They're never forced to see our side. They never contend with our arguments, but we are always forced to see their side and formulate an argument against it. And that's why whenever I enter into like some kind of adversarial or debate context. I always over-prepared. I'm never over-confident in those situations because you just never know whether I'm in front of Congress or whether I am debating someone one-on-one, but I am always

Starting point is 00:28:19 struck by the utter ignorance of progressives when it comes to what we actually believe in why, or even what we're debating. I encourage you to go watch the debate. I'll link it in the description here between me and between a so-called non-binary teacher for the Ellen Fisher podcast. We've recorded it several months ago. And, you know, he was respectful, but you will see how vapid their side is and how just absolutely rock solid our side is. I'm very proud of, if I can say that without it sounding like, you know, self-grandizing at all. But I'm very proud of how that debate went. I'm very grateful for how it went. And I'm so

Starting point is 00:29:06 thankful to God for the clarity that he gives us in his word, but also just the common grace of science and logic, all of these things God created and that we get to employ. And it's so much better than this toxic empathy that just says, feel how this proposed victim feels and blind yourself to morality or reality. That's not the Christian way. The Christian way is I just tried very hard to exemplify in that debate is the truth and love approach. It's more persuasive. It's more effective. It actually leads us to make righteous decisions rather than just emotional, dumb ones. Also, encourage you, if you haven't yet, please pre-order my book, Toxic Empathy. We go through this subject of gender, sexuality. We go through social justice, immigration,

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Starting point is 00:32:12 knowledge about the trans community before Harper came out to him. He said, I had met trans people, but I didn't have anyone personally in my life. So this was all new territory for me, which is why I think this film is so exciting for us to kind of put out there in the world. There's a chance all of us in the cis community to be able to ask questions and also just to listen and be there as a friend to discuss this journey. But see, the questions that are being asked by Will Ferrell aren't like, okay, so like, do you are really like you're going to share a bathroom with these women? The questions are just like, how do you feel? Does this make you happy? Are you your authentic self?

Starting point is 00:32:50 Like we are sold this lie about authenticity, even Christians, that authenticity is our highest virtue. that if you're not living quote unquote authentically, then you're going to be unhappy, that you're living a lie, that it's the most awful thing to do. But look, authenticity, it can be good. We want to be honest. We don't want to be fake. We don't want to put up a facade. But it has to be in submission to truth, not just objective truth, scientific,

Starting point is 00:33:18 observable reality, but most importantly, it has to be submissive to biblical truth. So it is not the most important thing. We as Christians know to do whatever you feel like doing, to follow your flesh, to follow all of your desires to ultimate fulfillment because not all of our thoughts and desires or feelings are good. Now, we live in a world that says all of your feelings are valid. All of your feelings are not valid. They may all be real, but valid means that they are rooted in truth.

Starting point is 00:33:50 Some of our feelings are just downright lies. And so we have to submit all of our feelings, all of our thoughts, our very identity, the core of who we are to Christ. And within that paradigm, yes, we can live authentically, authentically in submission to Christ and the standards that he has set for us. When authenticity becomes your highest value without submitting to absolute truth, it becomes an excuse for sin. The same thing with autonomy has the same prefix there. Authenticity autonomy, that A-U, it has to do with the self, like automatic. And whenever you create authenticity and autonomy as your highest values, they become excuses for sin. Both of these things can be good in submission to absolute truth, in submission to Christ.

Starting point is 00:34:49 And that's what happens when we exchange the God of self, which we all once followed with the God of Scripture. All of our desires, our control even over our own body. No longer is just about us and what we want to do, but about Christ. And his ways are better. And if you're thinking, well, that's fine for you because you're a Christian. I can't force everyone to believe that. No, I can't force everyone to believe that. But look, every single law, every single policy restriction or regulation or even definition in our public sphere is the product of a worldview. The only question is ever which one.

Starting point is 00:35:32 We also have bought this lie that believing that men can become women, transgenderism, LGBTQ ideology, that that's all neutral. And it's fine if progressives, are able to define these things in law for us or in curriculum, but it's wrong for Christians to define gender or marriage in the public sphere. One, we're told as Christian nationalism and theocracy, the other one is just, you know, neutral. But the progressive worldview is not neutral. Again, it's its own religion with its own ideas of human worth, human existence, right and wrong, sin, holiness, repentance, even its own eschatology. It's thought of like what the future world should look like.

Starting point is 00:36:18 And so it's not neutral. So why should progressives have more of a right to inform the public sphere about these very important identity related issues? But Christians have no right to do so. Again, that's a silencing and manipulation tactic. Someone pointed out, and this is. is very true. Even if you were to just kind of put the worldview stuff to the side, which actually now that I say that, this still isn't really putting the worldview stuff to the side, but most people, without even thinking of their worldview, could see the harm in this.

Starting point is 00:36:58 Someone pointed out on X, Will Ferrell is not an incarcerated woman who has to bunk with a rapist. He's not a 14-year-old girl who has to share her school bathroom with boys. He's not a female athlete. He's a rich out-of-touched man. Remember, in several prisons across the country and around the world. There are men who just have to say that they're women who are sharing a cell with vulnerable women. And these are men who are in prison because of child rape, because of the rape of women. Some of them are murders.

Starting point is 00:37:30 And in states like Washington, California, Oregon, Illinois, New York, these men who just say that they're women are incarcerated with these very vulnerable women. There are reports out of California that women in prison have been impregnated by these men. That's insane. This is evil. This is wrong. If you cannot speak up against this, I'm sorry, I just don't trust that you're going to be able to stand up for the gospel. If you cannot speak up for Genesis 1.27, I do not believe you when you say that you will stand up for John 14.6.

Starting point is 00:38:07 This is basic observable stuff. The gospel actually has to be discerned with. the spirit. If you can't stand up for scientific reality, I just have a hard time believing you're going to stand up for the spiritual reality, the far more controversial truth that without Christ someone is going to hell. So like use this as a warm up for you. Use this as a test for your courage. The Christian church is built on courage. Christian history, church history is built on courage, not the cowardice and compromise of Christians, but courage. And this is about doing what Christians have always done, which is not only stand up for the gospel and to do good works,

Starting point is 00:38:47 but also to speak out against the evil ideologies of the day. That is why, in part, Christians were burned at the stake, fed to lions, because by nature of their biblical beliefs, they spoke out against the ruling ideologies and philosophies of the day that were held by people in power to solidify their power. And that's what Christians are doing today when they speak up for life inside the womb when they speak out against gender deception and gender confusion. So let's stand on the shoulders of the brave Christians that have gone before us and be completely unapologetic about this. Doesn't mean we have to be harsh.

Starting point is 00:39:26 Doesn't mean we have to be mean. Does it mean we have to be hateful? But we also cannot listen to the world when they call us mean and hateful for saying what is true. Stephen was full of grace and truth. He was kind and yet he shared unapologetic. the gospel to the audience before him. And yet he was stoned to death.

Starting point is 00:39:50 We cannot measure our obedience by the world's reaction to us. You just continue to obey and say what is true. All right. Speaking of speaking up against wicked policies of wicked rulers, let's talk about Gavin Newsom and what he's got going on in the state of California. But first let me pause and tell you about our next sponsor. that's America's Christian Credit Union. Unfortunately, we have to worry about something called the banking,

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Starting point is 00:41:26 controversial subjects that I talk about, but I do encourage you to go back and watch those because I've got so many perspectives from so many people. I've got the perspective of doctors who used to practice IVF. I've got the perspective of a mom who struggled with infertility who almost used IVF. I've got the perspective of a husband and dad who regrets him and his wife using IVF. I've got so many perspectives on this subject. It's not just my opinion. I've got a child safety expert giving her opinion. The fact of the matter is these embryos that are created through IVF are so often discarded and definitely frozen. And that is the unknowingly the gamutely the gamutely the gamutely, The gamble, many cases unknowingly, the gamble that every couple takes when they do IVF.

Starting point is 00:42:19 I would say no Christian couple goes into IVF thinking that they want to destroy their embryos or leave their embryos frozen. IVF was not their first desire. They, of course, wanted to get pregnant naturally. So it's a very hard, very sensitive thing. And I really understand that. And yet so many are convinced to create four or five embryos. They only end up being able to transfer to.

Starting point is 00:42:42 then they're left with those three image bearers of God, insold image bearers of God. And what's apparent to do at that case, in that case. So that's the difficulty. That's why we have over one million insold image bear embryos on ice right now. It's a travesty. And so saying that we are going to subsidize those, that we are going to pay taxes to subsidize that process, which almost always includes a eugenics process and the distrax. and the destruction of embryos is so wrong.

Starting point is 00:43:14 Donald Trump himself has said that we're going to do that when he becomes president. I do not think that will actually happen under Donald Trump, but Gavin Newsom, he's already beat him to the punch. So the law is SB 729 by Senator Caroline Mingevar, which requires large group health care health care service plan contract. So employers that cover at least 100 people and disability insurance policies to provide coverage. for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and fertility service, including in vitro fertilization. So this includes, by the way, the two men that are buying the eggs from one woman and renting the womb of another woman. The new law broadens the definition of infertility so that same-sex couples can be treated. So you will be forced in the state of California to pay with your dollars

Starting point is 00:44:04 the creation of motherless children. Making intrauterine insemination and IVF, more accessible and affordable, they say, is key to achieving reproductive equity for LGBTQ plus people. See, it's not about the babies. It's not about making families. It's about adults want. It's about adults validating and justifying their sexual immorality. What do we always say? Children are always the unconsenting subjects of progressive social experiments. Whether it's COVID policies like mask mandates, whether it's child sacrifice like abortion, whether it's the redefinition of marriage and family, whether it is reproductive technology. What do we also say that when technology takes us from what is natural to what is possible, Christians have the obligation to ask,

Starting point is 00:44:51 but is this moral, is this biblical? Not all technology is bad. Not all reproductive methods carry with it the same ethical problems that we see in IVF. But here, because we are making image bearers of God, because we are raising these babies, we should. be looking to science, which says you need a man and a woman to create a child to also tell us how you need to raise a child in an ideal situation. We should be looking to creation to tell us what the definition of marriage and family is. Again, every law comes from a particular worldview. Christians have been manipulated into thinking that we are the only ones that have to check our worldview at the door before we vote, before we talk about,

Starting point is 00:45:39 policy and children are dying because of that wicked compartmentalization. Stand on the side of life. Stand on the side of children. Stand on the side of the most vulnerable. Think about these issues from a truth and love perspective rather than the perspective of toxic empathy because lives are on the line because of that. All right. That's all we've got time for.

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1078 | Will Ferrell Transitions Into Irrelevance

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