Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 188 | Did Chick-fil-A Cave?

Episode Date: November 20, 2019

Today I discuss my thoughts on Chick-fil-A caving to the Left by no longer donating to the Salvation Army, FCA, or Paul Anderson Youth Home amid LGBT backlash. I also give a quick recap about Kanye West visiting Joel Osteen's megachurch.

Hello, relatable listeners. Happy Wednesday. I hope everyone has had a great week so far. Next week is Thanksgiving, which I am very excited about. I think I've said before that I'm more excited about this year's holidays than I ever have been. I don't know if it's something about having a kid. She's not going to remember this Thanksgiving and Christmas at all. She's not even going to appreciate it.

But something, I don't know, about it being her first holiday season, makes me really excited. So I'm pumped. I hope you guys are. I hope that you guys have fun plans to just relax and view with your family. Let me know what you guys are doing. I'm really curious. Send me a message or an email. Okay, today we are going to talk about two big stories.

We'll see if we have time to cover anything else. But I have a lot to say about especially this first story. And that is about Chick-fil-A. No longer donating to certain organizations, including the Salvation Army, fellowship of Christian athletes or FCA and Paul Anderson youth home amid LGBT backlash. So we're going to go into all of that. I've shared some of my opinions on social media already. You may have seen, but I am going to go all in, as they say, and tell you exactly what I think

about that. Then we're going to talk about Kanye West at Lakewood Church, which is a megachurch led by Joel Osteen in Houston and tell you what I think about that. I'll play a little clip from it. The episode that we did on Kanye West, Kanye knows that Jesus is King from a couple weeks ago, three weeks ago maybe. That's actually the most listened to episode of Relatable ever, which is kind of crazy. So I did an episode called Three Myths Christian Women Believe. I think that's what it's called from in January of this year. And that held the time. as the most listened to episode for a really long time. And that's the episode still that I see

shared the most by Christian women. But Kanye knows Jesus is King is the title of the episode. And it is now, it's now taken first place, which is kind of crazy. It's probably because this is such an unbelievable. It seems like turn of events that Kanye West really did release a gospel album. If you haven't listened to that yet, then you can go back and listen to that episode. but first let's go into this first or oh also we're going to be talking about international men's day i'm just going to touch on it i'm going to play you a little video to honor the wonderful men in our lives well as i'm recording this it's international men's day so as you're listening to this yesterday it was international men's day but we're going to do a little belated celebration so okay tick fillet no longer donating to

these three organization salvation army fca paul anderson youth home the reason why this is a story is because as these three organizations are the last three organizations Chick-fil-A donated to that stand for biblical marriage. You might recall a story that we actually didn't talk about on this podcast for whatever reason. I don't know. Maybe it fell on a weekend and I just didn't end up talking about it. But the singer Ellie Golding, she declared ever so courageously that she was not going to be performing at the Cowboys Thanksgiving halftime show this year. if the Salvation Army, who is a sponsor of the game, doesn't provide a statement pledging themselves to the LGBTQ community or a donation or pledging a donation to one of their organizations. I'm going to go off on a tangent on this particular story for just a second since we didn't cover it. And it's all pertinent to the greater conversation about the Chick-fil-A thing.

This is the privilege of being oppressed in the United States of America. It is amazing the power that the LGBT. lobby has to get people to bully one of the world's largest charitable organizations with membership of over 1.7 million people throughout the world. It's present in more than 131 countries since 1865. The Salvation Army has been running charity shops, homeless shelters, helping with disaster relief, humanitarian aid for a century and a half over a century and a half. This organization has probably helped more people around the world than any other single charitable humanitarian organization ever has. And the LGBT coalition is canceling them because the Salvation Army is

Christian. And because they're Christian, they believe in biblical marriage. They have been accused of refusing to serve gay people and trans people. But of course, these are myths, as the Salvation Army has said time and again. They provided a statement recently that said an individual sexual or gender identity, religion, or lifestyle has no bearing on our willingness to provide service. We stand firmly behind our mission to meet human needs in his name. So that's Jesus's name without discrimination. According to CNN in 2013, the organization maintained that the Bible forbade sexual intimacy between members of the same sex maintained. So they didn't just acknowledge that the Bible actually does forbid this, but they just maintained that the Bible forbade sexual intimacy between

members of the same sex, saying that gay Christians should embrace celibacy and that scripture did not support same-sex marriages, but that its services were available to all people. So this is true. The Salvation Army does in its ideological, religious, mission beliefs. They do believe in biblical marriage, but as they have said time and again, and I'm sure, as they have proven by practice, they don't discriminate in their services. So my question is, who cares if they're not discriminating against feeding and housing and helping people? Who cares?

What they believe? They're a Christian organization, which means that, yes, they believe in the Bible. And because they believe in the Bible, they believe in a biblical definition of marriage, as all adherence to the Bible do. If you want to know the why behind this biblically behind why Christians believe in marriage being between a man and a woman, it's not just some arbitrary archaic belief. It's not just some extracting and decontextualizing a few verses in the Old Testament. That's not what it's about. It's about something much bigger, much more eternal than that than you can listen to my episode, which is titled biblical marriage, which explains this thoroughly.

And you know what? If you're not a Christian, though, if you're not a Christian, I don't expect you to believe that. I don't think any Christian expects you to believe the same things we do if you're not a Christian. And if you don't care what the Bible says, I don't expect you to adhere to a biblical definition of marriage if you don't believe in the Bible. And we are not forcing that upon you. And the law already recognizes legally what's described as marriage, even though biblically it's not described as marriage. The law recognizes now your right to be married to whoever you want to. And yet, LGBT activists, not all LGBT people, but these activists are not content with allowing us to

believe what we believe and to live out those beliefs authentically. Even when those beliefs actually don't affect you, actually don't affect them at all. The same people who constantly preach about self-love and living authentically are also telling us that we cannot believe what we believe, we cannot be authentic to our faith, that rather than obey God, we have to obey them or else they will bully us into submission. It's like Nebuchadnezzar saying, bow down to my image. Shadrach, Mishak and Abindigo, we're like, no, we are not going to do that. And I'm not saying that we are, I'm not trying to insert ourselves into the story,

but I think there's a lesson that we can draw from that, that Christians is the first commandment says, you shall have no other gods before me. We're not supposed to acquiesce to an ideology, an idea, a group that contradicts what the Bible says. These activists do not care that an organization like the Salvation Army has helped more people in its existence than probably any other group ever has. They don't care what they do for the homeless or the abused or the vulnerable or the hungry. They care about ideological purity. They are ideological tyrants.

They are like 1984 thought police. They're patrolling your mind and your beliefs to make sure that everything that you think aligns with the things that they think or else what? or else they are going to make your life miserable and they are going to make your business as submissive to their ideas and their worldview as possible, which is what they've done with Chick-fil-A for years or what they've tried to do with Chick-fil-A for years. Ever since the CEO said his belief in biblical, said or articulated his belief in biblical marriage, because again, Dan Kathy is a Christian. So we would expect him to have a Christian definition of what marriage is because Christians

by nature believe in the Bible and the Bible, as I've said, is clear on this subject. It really shouldn't be that controversial, even if you disagree with it. And by the way, by the way, I always think it's important to remind us of this. Until like two seconds ago, this is what the majority of Americans believed about marriage. That's just a fact. It's only been since 2015 when a Bergerfeld was decided that people who believe in what's called traditional marriage have been called bigots. It's called traditional marriage because it has been the definition of marriage for all of time.

And by the way, this definition of marriage and sexuality is the sole reason why any of us are currently here. It's been like this for millennia. But in the past four years, all of a sudden it's scandalous to believe in what literally has been the definition of human reproductive relationships in marriage forever. But we are called the religious fundamentalists. But the reality is, the reality is they are the religious fundamentalists. Leftists are the religious fundamentalists. We take our faith seriously. Yes, we take the word of God seriously.

But we're not trying to coerce you into believing what we believe. We're not trying to cancel you for disagreeing with us. Maybe there was a certain point in history in which that was true. But that's not the case anymore. that hasn't been the case for a long time. You are free to believe what you want to believe. You are free to do what you want to do as long as it's legal. We're not going to agree with it.

But we would simply like the same courtesy. The freedom to disagree and to operate out of our own beliefs. Just leave us alone. Religious people have a constitutional right to religious liberty. You do not have a constitutional right not to be offended. That's just the truth. And yet, and yet you would think with how companies bow down, with how they cowtow to these woke activists of all different kinds that they do have a constitutional right not to be offended case in point chick-fil-a now some of you have said ali these headlines are misleading they're not true chick-fil-a is just restructuring their charitable giving which is partly true this is partly true they had a multi-year deal with these three organizations paul anderson youth home fca salvation army they fulfilled their obligation and now they say that they're focusing

on three things. That's education, hunger, and homelessness. So that's true. But here's why that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. These three organizations focus on education, hunger, and homelessness. Paul Anderson Youth Home is a Christian program for so-called troubled young men. That's what they say on their website. Men who have gotten in trouble with the law but aren't in jail who have struggled with things like substance abuse or other addictions. It's an amazing program. I actually used to work for the PR company that did PR. for them for a little bit. Fellowship of Christian athletes aims to make disciples through athletes and coaches,

and we know what Salvation Army does. We've already talked about that. But the characteristic that all of these organizations share, besides that they all do unequivocally good work for their communities, is that they all believe in biblical marriage. So I just don't think this is a coincidence. Biznow reports, and this is the report that really started the whole thing. It was an exclusive article when it first came out. And, of course, other organizations, other outlets have picked it up since then.

So this is what they report. The move comes after several U.S. airports rejected the company from concessions deals earlier this year. More recently, the landlord of the first Chick-fil-A in the UK announced eight days into the lease. The pop-up venue would not be welcome to extend, all because of the company's perceived anti-LGB stance. The San Antonio City Council was voting on an airport concessions contract, in March when Think Progress reported the Chick-Filley was still donating to anti-LGBT groups. And so let's see, the San Antonio City Councilor brought up the article at the council meeting and counselors voted in favor of the concessions contract as long as a plan Chick-fil-A was dropped

from the deal. The story had ripple effect because Delaware North, the concessions handler for Buffalo Niagara International Airport also decided in March not to move ahead with plans for Chick-fil-A at that airport. in San Jose, California, announced they would not renew the chain's lease at the airport when it runs out in 2026. More than 100 LGBT and animal rights protesters showed up to opening day at Chick-fil-A's first Toronto store in September. After protests in a boycott by a local LGBT group, the landlord behind a Chick-fil-A pop-up store at a mall in Reading, England, announced eight days into the lease that it would not renew with the chain because the mall is meant to offer an inclusive space where everyone is welcome. Here's what I don't understand about that.

So number one, the Chick-fil-A in Manhattan, probably the most liberal city in the country, maybe, maybe next to L.A. and San Francisco, but right up there is doing pretty well. I would guess every time I've been there, the line has been out the door, literally out the door. So unless I'm just not seeing something, I've never seen a protester. I mean, I've been there pretty often. I've never seen a protester in front of there. I've never seen or heard people talk about, wow, I can't believe Chick-fil-A is in New York. I'm not visiting New York or I'm not going to Times Square.

I'm not visiting Manhattan. I'm not going to the store. I guarantee you the vast majority of people that go into that Chick-fil-A are liberal. And they might not like it that they donate to these liberal groups, but it seems like that store is doing pretty well. So I'm wondering why Chick-fil-A can't look at that and say, okay, yes, there's going to be some outrage in the beginning. But once we get over that hump, people are still going to buy our chicken sandwiches

because we have good service and our chicken sandwiches are good. And there's a huge group of people, and I'll touch on this in a minute, a huge group of people that go to Chick-fil-A specifically, exclusively, pretty much, because of their ideological beliefs, because they have stood up against the rage mob for so long and said, you know what, we're giving money to these organizations

that believe in biblical marriage because they do good work. And hey, it's okay that our CEO also has the same beliefs, that he also adheres to the Bible. Like, that is, a huge reason why so many Christian conservatives, who, by the way, are the core customers for Chick-fil-A, go to Chick-fil-A. I think that they underestimate that. But my other thing that I think is weird is that obviously there's been backlash. There's been a lot of at least annoyance and resentment against Chick-fil-A for not being open on Sundays. And so if we are acquiescing in

this arena, stopping our donations to organizations that are so-called problematic, according to the woke because it is hindering the growth, then why not just open on Sundays for the same reason? If that's what you're worried about, then why don't you just stay open seven days a week? If you're more concerned about growth than you are your values, then there's no reason. I don't think to be closed on Sunday, let the people get their chicken biscuits after they're hungover on Saturday night. Why not? So that's what I don't really understand understand about all this. And again, it doesn't matter to the activists who have tried so hard for so long to get Chick-fil-A to push over on this. It doesn't matter to them that the Salvation

Army does incredible work. It didn't matter that Chick-fil-A has impeccable service and doesn't actually have any policies whatsoever that discriminate against gay or trans people. What matters to them is that Chick-fil-A wasn't allowed according to them to be associated with Christian organizations that operate on Christian principles. That's what matter to these activists. And I guess that's now what matters to Chick-fil-A. In regards to this change, Chief Operating Officer Tim Tassapalus, Tessa-Palas, I don't know how to say his last name, said in an interview with Biz Now. There's no question we know that. As we go into new markets, we need to be clear about who we are. Chick-fil-A president, oh, he's also the Chick-fil-A

president, sorry. I said that incorrectly. But Chick-Flea president and C-O-O-Tem-Tas-Palas said that. And then he said, there are lots of articles and newscasts about Chick-fil-A, and we thought we needed to be clear about our message. So this is intentional. This is intentional what they're doing. There are some people that are saying, oh, this is not intentional. Conservatives are blowing out of this out of proportion. No, this is an intentional political move. Another executive said that after years of, quote, taking it on the chin, changes had to be made. Relevant magazine had an article saying, oh, you guys are just making too big a deal of this and only quoted conservative this article did freaking out about this and said, no, this is just a restructuring, blah, blah, blah,

no, it's not. No, it's not. This is clearly in response to the pushback they've gotten. And the article in Relevant Magazine failed to cite the multiple sources that reported that this is in response to LGBTQ pushback. And I think we can take the statement of its COO and another executive to confirm that. So the question is, is all of this going to work? Is acquiescing to the LGBT rage mob going to to work? Is this going to bring Chick-Fleigh back into the good graces of the woke? Well, here's a statement by Glad, the Gay and Lesbian and Trans, Et cetera, Alliance. They said, in addition to refraining from financially supporting anti-LGBQ-QAilene, still lacks policies to ensure safe workplaces for LGBTQ employees and should unequivocally speak out against the anti-LGBQ reputation that their

brand represents. Listen, you guys. listen chick-fil-a the woke can never be satiated they will never be satisfied there is nothing you chick-fil-a will ever do to get back in their good graces you can look at this hashtag or the story on twitter and all of the people who have been on the left side of this issue are saying too little too late i'm sorry you've done too much damage i'm never going to eat a chick-fil-a-chicken sandwich blah blah blah you will never appease them. You will never appease them. This is not going to help your business. Like I said, there are thousands of people. Yes, there are a lot of people who eat at Chick-Fleigh. They don't care about the politics. They don't care about the ideology. They just like their nuggets, their chicken

sandwich, and they're eliminated. Yes, that is absolutely true. But there are a lot of people who love Chick-fil-A, not just for their chicken, not just for their awesome service, which is amazing, by the way, but also, at least in part, they love Chick-fil-A because of who they are, because they have stayed true to their mission and true to their values for a long time. So a deliberate choice to say we are no longer going to donate money to organizations. These are not organizations that exclusively or primarily stand or centrally stand against gay marriage. These are organizations that do a lot of humanitarian good who just happen to be Christian organizations who just happen to believe in biblical marriage because of those things. And so they're saying, you know what,

it's more important for us to take our money away from organizations that we know we're doing good, especially the Salvation Army, the number one organization that fights against homelessness and hunger. We're going to take our money away from them because they have a controversial stance that makes it a little bit difficult for us to go into certain markets that believe that we are anti-LGBQ. You are kidding yourself if you think this is going to help that problem. I see this all the time. I see this within the church. I see this with Pets. I see this with Pets. pastors, I see this with Christians, I see this with organizations. They think that they are going to be woke enough to cover up the things that they believe.

So the Christian things that they believe. That if they're woke in a certain area, then maybe the left will be okay with them and they won't bully them and they'll accept them and they'll link arms with them. They'll be allies with them and hold hands with them in kumbaya. That never happens. unless you are able to, unless you are willing to bow down on the altar of leftism, on the altar of so-called progressivism, you will never be accepted by the left. You will always be told you're a bigot. You will always be excluded.

And this is why I say the left, they are the religious fundamentalists. They are the ones who say, you have to take up your cross, deny yourself, and follow leftism in order to be a part of it, which is why I say that it is so hard, if not impossible, to be a leftist and a Christian. And it's not because Jesus is asking us at the pearly gates, hey, what's your religious association affiliation or what's your political affiliation before we allow you in? It's because leftism does not tolerate any view that aligns with the Bible. You will be kicked out. You will be bullied. until you finally and fully submit until chick-fil-a is waving pride flags outside of each store

until they come out with some kind of advertisement saying boys are girls and girls are boys they are never even going to be considered by the woke by the left to be even a little bit acceptable I hope they understand that that this just is not in my opinion a smart business decision now It may be true that people who love Chick-fil-A, maybe this won't change their sales at all. I don't think it's going to help because I've always heard them say that if we ever opened on Sunday, that would be basically the beginning of the end for Chick-fil-A. And so they know enough, obviously, they know enough to realize that their values are what sets them apart. It's why they are so wildly successful as a fast food chain.

And yet, and yet they don't see this, I guess, as a part of that, or they just underestimate the love that people have for chick-fil-ate based on their values and based on the strength, based on their ability to, quote, take it on the chin for so long. And I just can't imagine that this is going to be helpful. Again, I don't know that it's going to hurt their sales that much, but I can't imagine that it's going to be helpful. And I think a lot of people do see it as a betrayal. Again, we're not asking Chick-fil-A to discriminate.

Of course, we don't want that. We don't want them to change their policies to, you know, be mean or discriminate against one group of people. Of course not. But yes, we want them to stand strong and donate into charities that do good work that just happen to believe in biblical marriage. And them saying, no, we're not going to do that. It's weak. It's so weak. And quite frankly, I think it's embarrassing.

So that's my take on all of that. You guys know how much I love Chick-fil-A. Like, how often did I talk about Chick-fil-A in my pregnancy even? number one thing that I craved all nine months. I love Chick-fil-A. I do. And I'm not calling for a boycott here, but I'm a little bitter. I'm bitter. I'm better against this decision. I think it is stupid. I think it's completely idiotic. And I hope that they've enjoyed the backlash over the past couple of days. Because you had a line of defense, Chick-fil-A, against the woke, against the people that were talking about how terrible chick-fil-A was and how bigoted they were.

You had people like me, Christian conservatives, and even just people, even Pete Buttigieg. It was like, you know what, I needed a chick-fil-a chicken sandwich, who cares? That's the logical stance to take care on his end. But you had all of us saying, you know what? They're free to believe what they want to believe. And now you don't have that line of defense anymore. And I'm not saying that Chick-Filley can't do what they want to do with their own money. Of course they can.

And if that's how they want to realign themselves value-wise, then they're totally free to do that. And I'm not out here calling for a boycott. It's the acquiescence to the rage mom that shows me that there is some moral weakness there. And it just bothers me. It bothers me. And again, I think it's a stupid business decision. I think it's a stupid moral decision. but if that's the direction that they want to go, good luck.

Good luck. Like I said, you will never satiate the left, but best of luck to you in that endeavor. Okay, now we're going to move on to Kanye West, who has been doing a lot of stuff in the past couple of weeks. He visited a prison and he performed there. The video of that is pretty moving. And he went to Lakewood Church, which is the church of Joel Osteen, a huge megachurch in Houston. in. And you guys know, most of you know how I feel about Joel Osteen. If you don't know, I would go back

and listen to an episode that I did. Also, one of the most listened to episodes of this podcast called Plans to Prosper Question Mark. It's called Plans to Prosper Question Mark. If you have Apple Podcast, you just type it in, Plans to Prosper, question mark, relatable, and it will pop up. You can Google it, it'll come up too, and it's on YouTube and all of that good stuff. So I talk about why the prosperity gospel isn't biblical in how Joel Osteen specifically represents this prosperity gospel. Now, my hope is that Joel repents from this. And I know every time I talk about this, there are at least a few angry people, especially on Facebook, saying that I'm being judgmental. Well, the Bible calls us to discern false teachers. So if you want to read 2 Timothy 4 or 2 Peter 2,

and you can listen to Joel Osteen sermons, you can tell me what you come back with. And we can have a conversation in a debate about this. But according to God's word, And listening to his sermons, he preaches a false doctrine. He just does. He does. And Kanye West, there was a lot of controversy within the Christian community about whether it was okay for Kanye West to go to Lakewood. Of course, the Bible also instructs us not to associate with false teachers.

And there were people saying, is this Kanye stuff real? Blah, blah, blah. On my episode, I choose to believe that it is real. And I choose to celebrate the fact that people are hearing the gospel for the first time from a very unlikely source. But yes, when I heard that he was going to be at Lakewood, I wasn't super excited about that because I think Joel Osteen leads people astray that he doesn't preach the true gospel. He admittedly doesn't preach about sin, which is pretty necessary if you're going to teach

people about salvation and sanctification, the three Ss is that all pastors should be talking about every single Sunday. But it seems like that's just not his priority. In fact, he has said his goal is to just help people. people sleep at night. Well, you can help people sleep at night right in the hell. So I wasn't really excited about this whole collaboration. But as I've said, Kanye is a new Christian. We all had not good doctrinal theological beliefs when we first became Christians. I know that I did. So I'm not saying there's not grace for the situation. I will say, yes, God can use anything. And apparently the

gospel was preached when Kanye West was there, which is awesome. And I watched a clip of it. And I mean, it's an amazing performance. It just is. So I'm going to play you a little bit of a highlight from that service. Even for someone who's professing God and saying, this is going to be a gospel album, the devil's going to come and do everything he can to distract people from knowing how to fully be in service to the Lord. And all of that arrogance and confidence and cockiness that y'all seen me use before God is now using for him. King of King, Lord of bloods, all the things he has its store, from the rich to the poor,

all I welcome through the door, you will never be the same when you call on Jesus' name. So look, like I said, that's obviously an incredible, it's an incredible performance. I mean, I would love to attend one of the Sunday services and see what it's like. I won't go into all the analysis about Kanye because, like I said, I did that a few weeks ago. Go back and listen to the episode if you're interested in what I think. No, this is not necessarily an alliance that I'm excited about because I just don't think it's a, I don't, I'm not sure how beneficial it is, but, but who knows? Maybe people heard the gospel for the first time and that's amazing.

I'm still very thankful for what Kanye West is doing for the gospel album that he put out for how many young people apparently are going to church for the first time or hearing the gospel for the first time or picking up a Bible for the first time. I mean, that's pretty amazing. Praise God for that. And it sounds like whenever I hear Kanye talk, it sounds like he is. humbly accepting simply being a vessel for the Lord to work. And I pray that the Lord continues to do that. I pray that the Lord continues to humble him, humble all of us, sanctify him, sanctify all of us,

and to use him to preach the gospel. I pray that God would keep him close, that God would align his heart and his mind to his word and his law, and that the Holy Spirit would work in him in and through him. I mean, praise God for what he can do, especially through those that we deem unlikely. So I'm still very, very thankful for that. And I pray that Joel, maybe Joel heard the gospel from Kanye West. And he's like, wow, we've been preaching too much of this health and wealth stuff. That would be amazing. Who knows? So I just wanted to make sure that we cover that. Okay, last and final thing. Like I said yesterday was International Men's Day. And I want to play you this video. This is a video of a group of officers. I was about to say a squad, but a group of

officers in Fort Worth, Texas, saving an eight-year-old that was kidnapped, literally snatched out of her mother's arms in an affluent neighborhood in Fort Worth. An eight-year-old just walking with her mom and a guy drives up. This was caught on a ring doorbell, by the way, a ring doorbell camera, was a guy drove up, grabbed her child, pulled the child into the car and the mom starts screaming, calls the police. And a few hours later, this was back in May. body cam footage just came out, the Fort Worth police found the guy and found the eight-year-old in a hotel room. I'm going to play you a clip of that. Then they rushed to room 33 and barge in.

The suspect is placed in handcuffs. Cops desperately searched the room. Hey, here she is. Got her. We got her. We got her. We got her. The little girl popped her head out of this laundry basket where she had been hidden under a pile of clothes. She was a afraid to make any noises because the suspect had threatened to hurt her and her family. We have her. We need an EMT. Come on, sweetheart. You're going to be okay.

So thank God for men. Thank God for men. I'm not saying that there aren't some strong women out there, but this is the beauty and the necessity of masculinity. Now, as I've talked about, not all men are like this and that's okay. that men are allowed to like things that aren't four-wheeling and busting down doors and hunting and football. Of course, there is a range of things. What it means to be a strong man, the kind of men that we need doesn't necessarily fit some superficial definition. It means being responsible. It means taking care of your family, taking care of your community, protecting them, providing for them,

helping the vulnerable, helping women and children who, by the way, are weaker than men are in a variety of ways, actually. So thank God for men. Communities, families, nations, the world, we need strong men. That is when societies stumble and fall, when we don't have the leadership of strong men. And so these stupid Antifa protesters who talk about abolishing the police. I mean, you've got socialist talking about abolishing the police. You know what? I'm just going to play you this video over and over again. Without the police, this guy, as you saw, he came out of the room naked with a little eight-year-old girl in there.

So what was he doing? Raping her, molesting her. without the police, she would probably be dead, raped and molested multiple times. So you're telling me that's a better reality. That's a better world. I don't think so. And for everyone that talks about toxic masculinity, what you really mean by that is actual masculinity. And what you actually mean by that is that you would rather men be passive and take a back seat and not do anything, not speak up, not defend women. Well, I don't want to live in that world. You can go live in that world. I don't want to live in that world. I want to live in a world where brave men like this are defending us and doing

their jobs well, whether you are a father, whether you are a CPA, whether you're a police officer, firefighter, whether you are any kind of employee person, whatever you do. You can be a strong, responsible man that you're a community, that your workplace, that your family needs. Thank you. Thank you. And God bless International Men's Day. Okay, that's all we have. We'll be back here on Friday with once again another awesome interview. If there's ever anyone that you guys really want me to interview, please reach out to me and let me know. I would love to hear your suggestions and I will see you then.