Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 515 | The Lincoln Project’s Massive Fail in Virginia

Episode Date: November 1, 2021

Today we're covering a variety of topics, starting with the Protestant Reformation. We discuss some of the differences between Protestantism and Catholicism and the history of Reformation Day. Then, we briefly note the irony of the location of the MLB World Series. We also talk about the hilarious hoax that was staged in Virginia by the Lincoln Project over the weekend. In an effort to support Democrat Terry McAuliffe, the Lincoln Project hired people to pretend to be white nationalists who supported McAuliffe's Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin. --- Timecodes: (0:00) Intro (2:50) What is Reformation Day? (31:45) The irony of Houston vs. Atlanta in the World Series (35:26) The Virginia governor's race: Terry McAuliffe vs. Glenn Youngkin; plus the Lincoln Project's embarrassing stunt (49:00) SCOTUS hearing arguments on Texas' S.B. 8 "Heartbeat Bill" (53:37) Outro & goodbye --- Today's Sponsors: Good Ranchers exists to support local American farms that help you make great American meals for your family. They're here to put America FIRST at the dinner table! Go to GoodRanchers.com/ALLIE right now & you'll get 10 FREE bistro filet medallions with your order. Or, better yet, subscribe & save $25 on each box of mouth-watering American meats for life! ExpressVPN is super secure, easy to use, and works on ALL your devices! Secure your online data today by visiting ExpressVPN.com/ALLIE to get an extra 3 months free! Dwell is a Bible app, inspired by the Psalmist's command that we must hide the Word of God in our hearts. Dwell has built a beautiful listening & reading experience featuring multiple versions of the Bible too. To get started go to DwellApp.io/RELATABLE to get 10% off a yearly subscription, or 33% off Dwell for life! --- Past Episodes Mentioned: Ep 513: Parents: It's Time to Double Down | Guest: Lysa Kosins https://apple.co/3GGgyqw Ep 481: Thank the Lord: Texas Heartbeat Bill Is Law https://apple.co/3BvO6DH --- Show Links: VICE News: "Lincoln Project Posed as Charlottesville White Supremacists at GOP Event" https://bit.ly/3pX9zn1 Wall Street Journal: "Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Texas Abortion Law" https://on.wsj.com/3pUrivp --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us.

Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a great weekend, whether you were doing some form of Halloween celebration, whether you celebrated Reformation Day, whether you just, you know, celebrated pumpkin season or. harvest or whatever it is. We Christians say that we're celebrating to avoid celebrating Halloween. I hope that you had a great weekend. We had a good weekend. We did a little bit of all of that.

We had a fall festival. We went to my parents' house, dressed up a little bit, and it was a good weekend. So I hope that you guys had a great one as well. Today we're going to talk about a smorgasbord of things. We are going to talk a little bit about the Reformation. So I touched on this on Thursday, but I didn't get as into it as I wanted to. So I'm going to get a little bit more in depth today. I'm just going to reiterate what I said on my Instagram stories.

If you saw those, then this will be a little bit of repetition for you. If you didn't, then you are in for a little bit of a historical treat. If you don't know exactly what the Reformation is, then I'm going to talk a little bit about the irony of the World Series being in Texas and Georgia and why I find that so hilarious. We're also going to talk about the Lincoln Project and the Virginia gubernatorial race and how this hoax by the Lincoln Project ended up backfiring. And it was just so silly and ridiculous. What is even the Lincoln Project trying to accomplish?

And then I also want to mention that the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on. on the Texas abortion law SB 8 that was so controversial when it was put in place when it was enforced at the beginning of September. And so we're going to talk about all that good stuff today. This week we were going to get back into the swing of the news. We talked a lot about non-news items last week and even the week before. We talked a lot of theology. We talked some evergreen subjects and we haven't talked about COVID in a long time. We haven't talked really about politics and the news. And it was a nice, it was a nice break from the numbers.

It seems like you guys really liked that break. And I like to kind of give us a balance, paying attention to the things that are going on. But remembering what's most important and talking about some stories that you guys are asking about that is not necessarily being covered by the other podcasters that you listen to or in the news shows that you're watching. So first, let me talk about the Reformation a little bit.

You guys know I am a reformed Protestant. There are a lot of you guys out there who are also reformed Protestants like I am. And there are a lot of you who are Catholics. And as I have said before, whenever I post a question box on Instagram, one of the questions that I get from my many Catholic followers is, why are you Protestant? Why aren't you Catholic? As if it's like this surprising thing that I am not Catholic, which I just find so funny.

Because growing up, I grew up in Dallas, Texas, and there were very few Catholic. people that I knew. Of course, they were Catholic people who live in Texas. There were Catholic, you know, Catholic private schools. And I might have known, I went to a Christian school, maybe one Catholic person that I can think of that went to my Christian school. But I really didn't know anything much about Catholicism growing up. It wasn't until I went to college, which was in South Carolina, which is still very like Southern Baptist evangelical territory. But I went to the small liberal arts college, firm and universities. University in Greenville, South Carolina, and lots of people would come from different parts of

the country, the northeast, where there's a lot of Catholicism. And so I had quite a few friends that were Catholics, and I didn't realize how much we really disagreed on, how much theology that we really did not see the same way. Like, I'll never forget. I'm not saying that this is indicative of Catholics in general, but, you know, evangelicals are characterized by a lot of different things that we do growing up, like Awana's, like vacation, Bible, school, all different kinds of things like that. Youth group, but I know that some Catholic churches have the same kind of things, but this is

really a more evangelical, historically evangelical tradition. And everyone knows John 316. That's just like the verse that you know. And at the bottom of like Forever 21 bags, I don't know if you guys remember this. I have no idea if they still have this. They used to have John 316, which is so rare. And I remember saying that to one of the girls on my hall when I was a freshman in college who was Catholic. She and her roommate were both Catholic. And I said, oh, like, John 316. And she had no idea what I was

talking about. Like, not even what does John 316 say, but did not know what John 316, like, was, what I was even talking about. And I realized that there, that is not, that's not me trying to say that no Catholics know what John 316 is, obviously, or that they don't read their Bibles, but she still considered herself a pretty devout Catholic always went to Mass and things like that, and yet didn't know what John 316 was. For me, in my Bible Belt upbringing, my Awana's vacation Bible school youth group upbringing, that was very surprising to me. There are different emphases that Catholics place on church tradition and mass and the Eucharist than what Protestants, the emphasis that Protestants mostly place on Bible study. Again, that doesn't

mean that Protestants don't place any importance on church traditions and teachings and going to church or that Catholics don't care about the Bible at all. But I would say they emphasize those two things prioritize those two things differently. I remember the first time I saw people walk around with ash on their head for Ash Wednesday, and I had no idea what was going on. I am sure that I probably went up to several people being like, what? Was this like for science class or something that all you guys were a part of? And you had to put like this black smudge on your head? I had no idea. So when people ask me, why aren't you Catholic? I'm like, I didn't even know any Catholics growing up. I didn't even know any Catholics. But then, you know, I had the pleasure of meeting a lot of different Catholics.

I had a roommate that was Catholic in college and have learned a lot about Catholicism since then. And really, it's necessary to learn about Catholicism to know about why you're a Protestant. It is impossible to talk about the Reformation and the Protestant Reformation without talking about Catholicism. And when I talk about the Protestant Reformation, people think that I am attacking all Catholics. And I hate that language because that's not what I'm doing. It's not ad hominem attacks. There's a lot that I appreciate about my Catholic friends as far as, as, for example, their activism goes in the defense of unborn life.

The Catholic Church has been much more unanimous, much more uniform, and much more out front on the issue of abortion, I would say, than in general, Protestants have. Now, if you look at evangelical Protestants versus Catholics, evangelical Protestants are much more conservative politically ideologically. This is according to Pew Research than Catholics are. but Catholics in general are very strong on the issue of life, whereas Protestants, I feel like there's not as much of a uniform theology surrounding that. So there's a lot that I appreciate about my Catholic friends, but there are some very

significant differences that go all the way back, not just to the beginning of the Protestant Reformation around 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses, it goes even farther back than that all the way to Wycliffe, which we'll talk about in a second. but there are some very key differences between Catholics and Protestants. And when I start talking about this, it's interesting. While there are a lot of Catholics who will reach out to me and say, you know, I appreciate your perspective. Here's where we disagree.

There are a lot of people who get very upset and very angry. And like I got sent this page of someone who is a Catholic talking about Protestants and really like hateful, hateful, hateful, mean, spirited, just like ignorant stuff. about Protestants. And so I realize that there's like there's still that age, old centuries old, embittered battle between Protestantism and Catholicism when you get down to the nitty gritty in some ways. Even though I don't feel any kind of animosity, those disagreements are there and they are important disagreement. So let me back up a little bit. Let me tell you about Reformation Day, why Protestants celebrated. I see a lot of Catholics saying, I have no idea.

I don't know why Protestants would celebrate this. Like, I understand you have your faith, but why would you celebrate the divorce of the church and splintering off into 40,000 denominations? This is such a tragic day. He was not, Martin Luther wasn't a reformer. He divided the church. You're supposed to reform the church from within. Well, that's a little misleading. Now, let me tell you why and I'm going to just basically read the stories that I put on Instagram so if you're watching on YouTube but I'm looking down it's because I'm actually looking at the stories that I wrote I took a had to take a long time to do this my husband was like this is taking you forever I put a lot of thought into my stories whenever I'm explaining

something and so it would be easier for me to just read what I already wrote than trying to do this extemporaneously so on this day yesterday 5004 years ago Martin Luther he was a German priest, he was a theology professor, he published his 95 contentions with the Catholic Church. Now, whether or not he actually nailed the 95 Theses to the door is, we don't know if that's factor or fable, but he published it. He put it out somewhere and people saw it. And this was the start of the Protestant Reformation. Now, Martin Luther did not intend to start a revolution. This guy was a Catholic. He was a good Catholic. He had been a monk. He actually promised God and promised St. Anne several years earlier in a lightning bolt incident that he was going to become a monk.

So he was a very good monk. He was very learned. He was an expert in God's law. He was not against the formation of the Catholic Church, the structure of the Catholic Church. In fact, there were a lot of things that Martin Luther affirmed his belief in as far. far as Catholicism goes that I, the Protestant today, do not agree with. He was not against the papacy in general. He was against the powers that the Pope had come to take on. So he stood firm in the gospel of Christ, knowing the sacrifices that would likely have to be made because of his stand. And one of the things in his 95 contingents that he talks about in several and several of his thesis was this practice of indulgences. So at the time, Catholic clergy were

exploiting poor laypeople by promising their monetary donations, the poor people's monetary donations, would move their dead loved ones from purgatory to heaven. Pergatory is something that Protestants don't believe in because we see no biblical basis for this in between heaven and hell. The Catholic idea, generally, there are people that could explain this in a way much more eloquent, much more eloquently than I can, but it's basically where you go, if you're not damned to hell and you're not yet fit for heaven, purgatory purge the sin from you so that you are eventually able to hopefully go to heaven. And one of the ways the Catholic Church was teaching that this could be expedited for people's dead loved ones was if these people, poor people, lay people,

would pay money, would make donations to the Catholic Church, and then their loved ones would be able to spring from purgatory to heaven. And so Catholic clergy would go into these poor villages and say, remember your dead parents who did so much for you, they cared for you, and now they're in purgatory. Don't you hear their cries? Won't you do something for them? Pay this money, and they will go to heaven. And so this was exploitation. I mean, this is the kind of oppression that that Jesus lashes out against the Pharisees for. This is the kind of oppression of the poor that God condemns from the beginning of the beginning of the establishment of Israel when he establishes Hebrew law.

So Luther, as a man of God, is someone who loved God's law, is someone who loved the gospel, who was one of the very few people at the time to be able to read the Bible. The Bible was often in the Latin Vulgate. And so you had to know Latin. Sometimes you had to know Hebrew and Greek to even be able to read the Bible. So he read the Bible. He actually knew the gospel and he hated this exploitation of the poor that he saw in the name of the Catholic Church. So he says this in his 95 Theses.

They preach vanity who say that the soul flies out of purgatory as soon as the money thrown into the chest rattles. On the way to eternal damnation are they and their teachers who believe they are sure of their salvation through indulgences. And this and in other ways, the Catholic Church was teaching that salvation could be earned and that the person who offers enough indulgences need not repent of their sins. So their sins could be remitted through their donations to the Catholic Church. He also contended, like I mentioned, a few seconds ago, with the power the Pope had gained. He said, beware well of those who say the Pope's pardons are that inestimable. gift of God by which man is reconciled to God. So he argued, he didn't argue again against the

papacy, but he argued that the Pope can only affirm God's forgiveness to the repentant man, that the Pope himself has no actual power to forgive on God's behalf. The Pope had become very powerful, not just over the entirety of the church, had almost come to be seen as infallible and inerrant. But also, he had control. He had control. he had much influence over secular rulers, over non-church rulers as well. He goes on to say, Luther goes on to say in his thesis that the power, the unbiblical power of the papacy was inextricably intertwined with this corrupt power of indulgences. He said, what is this new holiness of God and the Pope that, for money's sake, they permit

the wicked and the enemy of God to save a pious soul, faithful to God, and faithful to God, and yet will not save that pious and beloved soul without payment out of love and on account of its distress. So you're granting salvation to this person who is not repented of their sins, who doesn't follow God, just because they're donated a bunch of money. But this repentant soul who wants to follow God but doesn't have enough money, doesn't get salvation, that's part of the corruption that was going on in the Catholic Church at the time. Well, when he issued these 95 feces, you can imagine that the people in charge of the Catholic Church, who really had a monopoly on power, had a monopoly on.

doctrine had a monopoly on theology at the time and liked the money that was coming in from this practice of indulgences. They didn't like what Martin Luther, who had been known as a faithful, learned Catholic up until now, they didn't like what he had to say. So in 15, 20, three years after he posted his 95 theses, Pope Leo the 10th issued a papal bull against Martin Luther, accusing him of heresy. So Emperor Charles V called a court of inquisition called the Diet of Worms. Luther was ordered to appear and renounce his teachings, and he was asked before the court if he would deny what he had begun to teach, and he said this, quote, Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the scriptures or by clear reason, for I do not trust either in the Pope or in counsels alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves, I am bound by the scriptures I have quoted in my conscience is captive to the word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience.

May God help me, amen. Consequently, the Deid of Worms issued the edict of worms officially labeling Luther a heretic and banning the reading of his writing. So book banning has been going on for a very long time. Luther firmly believed he couldn't recount what he had said. And he firmly believed that the average person had the capacity had the capacity. to understand the gospel and the scriptures. Most people, most Catholics at the time, had not read the Bible because it wasn't made available to them. They didn't know how to read Latin. It could only be read by those who understood Latin and Hebrew and Greek. The normal layperson had never read

the Bible, which is exactly why they didn't know that it was unbiblical, that it was anti-gospital, this idea of being able to earn your way to heaven through indulgences. So by 1534, he had translated the entire Bible into German. And by God's Providence, this was almost 100 years after the invention of the printing press. And so Luther's Bible, which was translated into German for the first time, this took him over 10 years. This took him a very long time to translate. And again, he was a master translator because he was so learned in the Word of God. The Bible sold out quickly. And that is the fire of Europe that could never be put out. So whether you are Protestant or whether you are Catholic, you have Martin Luther and other reformers that I'll talk about in just a second. You have

them to think for a Bible that is in your language. But as I said, it's not only him that we have to think for that. John Wickliff or Wycliffe, depending on how you want to pronounce it, he lived 200 years before Luther. He was actually known as the morning star of the Reformation. He also publicly railed against the Catholic Church. He was educated at Oxford. He was also an extremely brilliant academic. He criticized the massive power of the Pope, the unbiblical idea of transubstantiation. That communion becomes the literal body and blood of Christ. And I know I said this on Instagram and I got a lot of people, a lot of Catholics have said about that, but that's a difference between Protestants and Catholics. We don't actually believe in transubstantiation.

Now, maybe there are some Protestant denominations who do, but for the most part, Protestants believe that it is symbolic. And I know I am going to get direct mass. about that. But this is something that John Wickliff said, hey, that's not actually biblical. And to claim that you, that you are partaking actually in Christ, body, and blood, he actually called that blasphemy. So he affirmed that all doctrines and church authorities, not that they're not significant, not that they don't matter, but they have to be subject to scripture. That was a big difference between the Catholic Church and someone like John Wickliff and the rest of the reformers and Protestants today. He affirmed that, well, his affirmation, so his affirmation

of the inerrancy of Scripture, the authority of Scripture over all teachers and teachings of the church led him to translate the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English. You know, you'll even get some contentions today about this, Catholic saying, you know, Latin Mass is the Mass that really Catholic should be attended in things like that and whatever, that's fine. But that really goes back to Catholics hundreds of years ago who did not want the Bible translated into the common language. They thought it really should only be in Latin. There was even a belief that if you didn't understand it, you weren't meant to understand it. But John Wickliff made this brilliant point in the 1300s when he said Englishmen learn Christ law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue. So did Christ.

apostle. So his point is, like, why shouldn't the average Englishman hear God's law in his language if the point is that we are supposed to be making disciples and have people understand the gospel themselves? So the Catholic Church's monopoly on scripture and theology was over. And once the gospel got into the hands, got into the heart and the head of the average man, the world, was never the same after that. So John Wycliffe, like most, Martin Luther 200 years later did not mean to start some kind of revolution. He didn't even mean to start this worldwide reformation, but ideas have consequences. And then there was Catholic priest, John Huss. He lived 1369 to 1415, so he was also before Martin Luther. He was also

influenced by Wycliffe. He openly condemned the corrupt power of the Pope, as well as the sale of indulgences. His study of scripture revealed to him that the Bible and the doctrines of the Catholic church greatly diverged at the time. Huss was excommunicated and he was actually burned at the stake for his teachings. A huss actually means goose in his native Czech language and he said this. They will roast a goose now, but after a hundred years they will hear a swan sing and him they will endure. So him they are going to listen to that they're not going to be able to kill the goose that or kill the swan that rises 100 years after they burned this goose, this man, John Huss, at the stake, a hundred years later was Martin Luther, and they weren't able to kill him as much

as they wanted to. God providentially protected him. So after Luther came other reformers. That was that fire in Europe that he didn't mean to set a flame, but that couldn't be put out. And then there was the Genevaan reformer of the reformers, and that was John Calvin. He wrote one of the most influential Christian, Christian works in history, institutes of the Christian religion. It sought to draw distinctions between the teachings of the Catholic Church at the time and the teachings of Scripture. And then from the teachings of Calvin and then other reformers, Reformed Protestants get the five solas or the five alones.

So the first one is Sola Scriptura, scripture alone. And so that doesn't mean that we don't believe in the importance of teachers and teachings and traditions and things like that, but that we believe that only scripture is inerrant and inspired by God. It is ultimately authoritative. And we get that from many places in scripture, but one of them is 2nd Peter 1.20 through 21. And then we've got Sola Fide, faith alone. Salvation is a gift that cannot be earned. It is a gift of faith. So works are a product of salvation.

When we hear faith without works is dead in the book of James, we are reading that faith is a product of our salvation, not a prerequisite for salvation. Ephesians 2 8 through 10 is one of the passages that we go to for that. And then we've got Sola Gratia, grace alone. Saving faith is a gift of God's grace. Again, Ephesians 2 8 through 10. And then we've got Solo Christo or Solis Christus Christus, Christo.

Jesus is our lone savior and our lone mediator between God and man, 1 Timothy 2,5, and then solely deo Gloria to the glory of God alone, 1st Corinthians 1031. There's a lot more that can be said about the reformation. There are so many questions that I would answer. There are so many misconceptions that I would like to address. And there's so much that I want to learn about the Reformation and the Reformers that I don't know. one of the reformers, John Knox, he was a Scottish reformer. We've got his quote over here on the side.

It says, resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. There is the history between the Reformation and the pilgrims coming to Plymouth Rock and the foundation of the United States. We would not have the United States if it wasn't for the Protestant Reformation, not just because the pilgrims who brought their faith here, but also the revolution, the American Revolution itself, was also known at the time as a Presbyterian rebellion. It was known as a theological fight against the tyranny, religious tyranny of England. There was a huge theological aspect to the American Revolution, plus this idea of individual liberty, as you can probably see from what I just explained, and self-governance is rooted in the Reformation, in reformed theology. We would not have the United States.

We would not have the founding documents that we have, likely, likely. at least in the form that they, at least in the form that they took on, without the Protestant Reformation. And so whether you're a Catholic or a Protestant, some of these historical facts are things to be thankful for. And so why do Protestants celebrate the Reformation? I know people say there are so many denominations. They're, you know, the one true church. The Catholic Church is what I hear my Catholic friends say, you know, has been divided or whatever because of this. Well, Protestants see this as a recovery of the gospel. And when I hear people say, when I hear Catholics say, well, you reform the church from within, not from without. And these people that

you're talking about, John Wycliffe, John Huss, and Martin Luther, they shouldn't have left the church. They should have reformed it from within. I'm not really sure what you mean by that. They were excommunicated. They were excommunicated from the church. They didn't say, leaving the church and starting my own thing. None of them said that. They were excommunicated from the church. That excommunication and the Catholic Church saying, you know, this is where we stand. We diverge from the corrections of Martin Luther. Yeah, I mean, that radicalized some people. That pushed some people away and said, okay, if the Catholic Church believes this and the Protestants or Martin Luther and the Lutherans and and the Hussites, if they believe what they have said about faith alone, about the gospel,

about scripture in the hands of the average person, then we're going to be on that side. And if that puts us against the Catholic Church, then so be it. So the Catholic Church, they pushed these people out. These people did not start their own sex on purpose. And so that's just one point that I want to bring up. And yes, we see it as the recovery of the gospel. I'm so thankful. Like, I'm so thankful for this. Do I agree with everything that Martin Luther ever said? No, but God obviously providentially used him to show corruption that existed in a Catholic church, to show where the Catholic Church is teaching,

and scripture diverged. And again, for the third time, he lit a match and set a fire in Europe that could not be put out and think the Lord for that. Think the Lord that we have the Bible in our hands, in our own language, and that millions of people would do around the world. That wasn't happening before these reformers. Thank the Lord that the gospel has gone out. And I'm just, I'm so thankful for the Reformation. I'm so thankful for God's providence. And as much as I love you, my Catholic friends, like you're never going, you're never

going to get me to not celebrate the Reformation. I love the Reformation. I love the Reformers. I love the Word of God. I love reform theology. And I'm thankful for it. So if you want to know why I'm not a Catholic, it's because I'm a Protestant and I'm very thankful for Protestantism.

Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort.

We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Okay, just let me get a quick note about Texas and Georgia. So they're in the World Series right now.

We've got the Houston Astros. We've got the Atlanta Braves. And if you're like me and you don't really follow sports, the World Series is happening. That's something that's going on right now. And since I am originally from Dallas, I'm obviously supporting the Braves. That's just how it is. There's just Houston Dallas rivalry. So I've got to support the Braves.

Also, more importantly, my husband's family is all from Georgia. They live outside of a couple hours away from Atlanta. But he grew up in Middle Georgia, and he was an Atlanta Braves fan, still is an Atlanta Braves fan. And so I'm a Braves fan for right now, even though the Texas Rangers will always be my team. I actually went to the World Series when I think they were playing the Cardinals when I was in college. My dad and I went to St. Louis. And so that was fun. So the World Series right now, I think we thought that the Braves could win it all last night.

But now they're moving on to the next game. And the irony about all of this, the funny thing is you'll remember the MLB All-Star game that was happening. you know, a few months ago, I think towards the beginning of the year, I don't remember these kind of sports things. But remember when the MLB was like, no, we're not going to have the MLB game in Atlanta like we thought because this racist Jim Crow-esque voting law. This is voting suppression. And so they took the MLB All-Star game away from Atlanta, costing Atlanta, which is mostly blue, by the way, and has a very large number of black Americans living there. They took that money away from Atlanta.

And they went to Denver, Colorado, where they already have things like voter ID in place and very strict voter restrictions. But Colorado is a blue state. And this was just a big virtue signal. It had nothing to do with, it had nothing to do with helping black Americans. that actually probably hurt Black Americans by taking money away from the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia. And the bill, of course, as we talked about, we talked about it with Governor Camp. We've talked about it several times.

The bill in Georgia and the bill in Texas, or the laws, I should say, don't have anything to do with voter suppression. In fact, they expand access in some ways and they just make it harder to cheat. And so it has nothing to do with voter suppression to say that it's anything like Jim Crow is, of course, just this crazy. hyperbolic and I think offensive talking point that has no basis. In reality, in the MLB, like other major corporations and other sports leagues just wanted to virtue signal, well, well, well, now they are playing in both Texas and Georgia and it's absolutely unavoidable. And of course, they're not saying anything about anything.

If they really cared, if they really felt the way that they said that they felt about the racist states and the laws in Texas and Georgia, then I don't know. I guess they would change who won, who's in the World Series, or they would change where they played. But of course, they're not doing that. And so now my husband feels a little bit better about watching these baseball games. You know, he was a little jaded for a little bit understandably about the MLB because, I mean, you just got a bunch of red-blooded Americans watching baseball and really you're going to make a stand like that. And so he didn't want to support the MLB, but now he feels a little bit better about watching these games because at least he's supporting.

Texas and Georgia, Georgia in particular. All right, speaking of ridiculousness, I want to talk about this funny story that happened over the weekend. I was totally, I was like so unplugged from, really I've been unplugged from social media since like last Wednesday. I just haven't known what has been going on. So my husband told me about this and I had to investigate because it's just hilarious. So you guys know tomorrow is the, is the Virginia election for the governor. between Republican Glenn Yonkin and Democrat Terry McColliffe. Terry McCallif has been, he has been governor before. He has some supporters in Joe Biden and Barack Obama, Dave Matthews randomly. And he is pretty far left. Like he is extremely beholden to the

teachers unions. And he got in hot water when he said recently, and I think I have an article for World Magazine that is coming out about this today or tomorrow. But he got in hot water a few weeks ago when he said that he doesn't believe that parents should be in charge of their kids' education shouldn't have a say and what their kids are reading. And of course, Glenn Yonkin very smartly has run with that by saying he absolutely believes that parents should be in charge of their kids' education, as we've talked about many times before. And I think as we focused on last Wednesday specifically parents are the only ones or the ones who have the most vested interest in their kids and actually care for their kids holistic well-being more than any teacher or any

bureaucrat, any teacher's union member, any administrator school board member does. And Glenn Yonkin has emphasized that to his credit. And that is why it is neck and neck. Terry McCalliff should have been running away with this because Virginia is now pretty reliably blue. But Terry McCalliff just hasn't just hasn't been running that great of a campaign. Glenn Yonkin is not, and, you know, the left is trying to paint Glenn Yonkin as some far right extremist, is some, you know, like January 6th inter-insurrectionist or even just this like Trump sycophant. And he's just not.

Like, he's been more wishy-washy than I would have liked when it comes to things like, you know, women's locker, you know, gender stuff, men not being able to enter a boys, not being able to enter a girl's spaces. Like, he is not even probably as socially conservative as I would like, but obviously he's far more conservative than Terry McColliffe. And he is on the side of the parents when it comes to kids' education in Virginia, especially Loudoun County, Virginia and even Fairfax County, they have been hotbeds of the controversies that we've been talking about, about the sexually explicit material that some kids

are being presented with in school, the racially divisive topics that kids are being presented with, and just to the lack of solid, well-rounded education that a lot of public school students in Virginia are receiving. And so Glenn Yonkin has been out front on this issue, and that is why he is leading he is leading in the polls against Terry McAuliffe when it comes to parents of kindergartners through 12th graders by, I believe, it's 20 percentage points. And so parents of students are highly favoring Glenn Yonkin. And that is because Terry McAuliffe, is just a, he is just a creature of the corrupt teachers unions. He doesn't, he does not care. He does not care about the education of Virginia public schoolers. His kids didn't go to public school

in Virginia. He likes to, you'll see him say, oh, you know, we want the best schools in Virginia. My wife, Dorothy and I have raised our five kids in Virginia. That's his political, politiciany way of saying, yeah, we raised our five kids in Virginia. We also sent them to one of the most expensive schools in Virginia, a private school, where they were on the board of trustees. And so they absolutely believed that they had the right to be involved in their kids' education. I mean, they were spending $30,000 to $50,000 per year on each of their five kids' tuition at this expensive private school.

So they want choice for themselves. They want involvement for themselves, but they don't want that choice. and involvement for working class and poor families in Virginia. That's so typical of Democrats who are beholden to the teachers, to the teachers' unions. And so I think a lot of people see that hypocrisy. However, that has not stopped, that has not stopped the supposedly virtuous conservatives. And I'm using huge scare quotes if you are not watching on YouTube at the Lincoln Project, these people who build themselves as at first as anti-Trump conservatives.

Later came out that one of the founders was like praying upon, I'm not trying to laugh about this. It's just so ridiculous that they're still even in business. But one of the founders is actually praying upon young men and sexually harassing text messages. And somehow people on the left just love them because they hated Donald Trump so much. And they pushed back against Donald Trump. They campaigned against Donald Trump.

But now we found that. they're not just anti-Trump, but they go against every single Republican. Still somehow claiming that they are going to bring the Republican Party back to the days of Lincoln when they oppose every single Republican, including Glenn Yonkin, who again is more of a moderate than anything. Like he is not some far-right guy. He is not Trumpian. If you don't like Trump, you don't have to worry about that with Glenn Yonkin. Although I will say he's conservative and you should definitely vote for him if you are in Virginia. But so Lincoln Project hates him. They're super weird.

They just know where their bread is butter. Their bread is buttered at MSNBC. And you'll have someone like Eric Swalwell calling them, you know, conservatives with actual integrity, your honorable conservatives, they're not conservative in any sense of the word at all. I mean, they are grifters, grifters. There's one thing that I really agree with, agree with AOC on. And she said that the Lincoln Project are grifters and she doesn't trust in. That's discernment right there.

I don't see discernment coming from AOC very often. them, but she realizes that she's not going to partner with someone like the Lincoln Project because they're just trying to make money. They don't actually have any principles. They haven't shown that at all. They go after whoever MSNBC wants them to go after. And so that's what they're doing with Glenn Yonkin. So over the weekend, they thought that it would be funny to put some people dressed in, I guess what they thought, we'll put the picture up on YouTube, dressed in what they thought looked like white supremacists. And so there are these five people, four guys, one girl wearing like khaki pants with white buttoned down shirts with tiki torches. And they're standing in front of it.

And reportedly someone said that they were saying, all in for Glenn. And so people thought at first there was this reporter on Twitter that ran with this saying, oh my gosh, these white supremacists with these teaky torches. They're standing in front of Glenn Yonkin. See Glenn Yonkin is this white supremacist. Well, as it turned out, Vice actually reported this of all outlets. Vice is pretty solidly on the left side of the ideological aisle. They reported that these were not just random, you know, white supremacists. These were not people that were out there supporting Glenn Yonkin.

It was in front of Glenn Yonkin's campaign bus, by the way. It was actually the Lincoln Project. It was actually volunteers in the Lincoln Project. And so this is what Vice reported. Five people dressed like white supremacists who caused a violent unite the right riots in Charlottesville four years ago. They showed up outside of Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Yonkin's event in the town on Friday. It was a half-baked stunt from the Lincoln Project, a group of Republicans who opposed

President Trump and Yonken. A group of Republicans, again, no. The Lincoln Project acknowledged they were behind the stunt after Vice News identified one of the people dressed in the photo in front of Yonkin's campaign bus as a low-level Democratic operative who has recently been working for Democratic sting operator Lauren Windsor's the undercurrent. Lauren Windsor, she is this she pretends to be like this undercover reporter that tries to trap Republicans and, you know, insane different things. And she works with the Lincoln Project, I guess, is some kind of communications coordinator or something like that. And she apparently

organized this. And when the news first came out on Twitter that these so-called white supremacists were standing in front of Glenn Yonkin's campaign bus, when it wasn't known who they were, she was tweeting about it and saying, oh my gosh, I can't believe this. Well, as it turns out, she is behind this along with the Lincoln Project. It's so embarrassing for them. So it says her group has repeatedly gone undercover as conservative activists to go to politicians to saying what's really on their mind. It has also held events alongside the Lincoln Project in recent days. The Lincoln Projects, the Lincoln Project released this statement saying, Today's demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians that what happened in Charlottesville

four years ago. The Republican Party's embrace up those values and Glenn Younger's failure to condemn it. We will continue to hold Glenn Youngton accountable. Now remember, this is the state with the governor, Ralph Northam, who was, it was discovered a few years ago that in a yearbook, he is either wearing black face or a. Ku Klux Klan Rope. Okay? So, and that was from several decades ago and he didn't resign and there wasn't a big push

from Democrats for him to resign. He is the current Democratic governor of Virginia. Now, this is the, also the guy who said a couple years ago that if a baby survives an abortion, the baby should just be put off to the side and made comfortable until the parents decide what to do. He said that in public on a radio station. So this is a grotesque guy and the Lincoln project, the so-called principled conservatives think that they have the upper grounds here, that they have, or they have the,

they're on higher ground and they have the upper hand here in criticizing Glenn Yonkin as a racist. I mean, come on. The article goes on to say, or the statement goes on to say, if he will denounce Trump's assertion that the Charlottesville writers possessed very fine qualities, will withdraw the teaky torches until then will be back. And so it was really embarrassing. If you go on Twitter, there were a ton of Democrats who were condemning them for this. It just makes them look really stupid.

And it makes them look actually like they're trivializing white supremacy by basically making a joke about this. If even Vice is calling them out, you know that it wasn't a good move. And the fact that the communications director or advisor Lauren Windsor told them to do this, I mean, it just shows that she has no talent or wisdom whatsoever. I mean, come on. Now, I hope that this pushes the race even more in the direction of Yonkin. I still think that McAuliffe probably has a good chance to win, but if you are in Virginia and you haven't decided who you're going to vote for, definitely vote for Yonkin. I mean, come on. It's not even, if you're even remotely non-liberal or in the middle at all, then you absolutely

should be voting for Yonken. You can go to their campaign websites. You can read the different things about them and you can look at the different issues. We don't have time to do that. today, and you can, of course, make your decision. But McColliffe will be a disaster, as he has been a disaster before. If you want the public schools to get worse in Virginia, if you want Virginia to get less safe, if you want Virginia to deteriorate the way that other states and other cities that have been, that are run by Democrats have deteriorated over the past few years, then vote for McColliffe. But if you want Virginia to go a better direction than vote Glenn Yonkin.

And don't be apathetic or lazy about this. politics matter because policies matter because people matter. Politics affects policy. Policy affects people. You have a responsibility to exercise your right to vote tomorrow in Virginia. Make sure that you go do that. All right. So I just wanted to mention that today, the Supreme Court is taking up the Texas ban on most abortions. They are hearing oral arguments on this law. As you guys know, Biden's DOJ is suing the state of Texas over this because is Biden, who the Pope recently affirmed as a good Catholic, the rapidly pro-abortion president. He's very mad that more babies may live in Texas.

And so they are ensuring that more babies can be murdered or trying to ensure that by suing the state of Texas and the Supreme Court is hearing those arguments. So let me read a little bit from the Wall Street Journal. The anomaly of SB 8 is that state officials aren't allowed to enforce it, a feature designed to thwart legal challenges. In the normal case, abortion rights plaintiffs would sue such officials and ask a judge to block them from enforcing the law. Texas instead said enforcement would come from private parties. So if you want to know the ins and outs of SB 8 and what all that means, we'll link our past episode where we explained that and why it actually probably is going to be effective.

I actually saw a recent study that showed that abortions have been cut in half over the past few weeks in Texas. praise God. And so the novel characteristics of this particular law helped expedite the process to the Supreme Court over the past couple of months for this law. So abortion providers weren't able to successfully sue to stop the law from going into effect. The Fifth U.S. Circuit of Appeal said the lawsuit faced procedural problems in suing state officials. Then a divided Supreme Court declined to intervene, and the law went into effect on September 1. And then, like I said, the DOJ has filed its own lawsuit against Texas. And so that's what led up to this.

The central question, according to the Wall Street Journal, is can Texas legally insulate its law from federal court review? And can the DOJ validly obtain a ruling that blocks the state's legal apparatus and private parties from enforcing SB8? So that's the issue that we are. looking at we will keep a finger, our finger on the pulse of that, and we will keep you updated on that. Of course, I am praying that the Texas law stays in effect. There's another law that's coming down the pipeline from Mississippi on December 1st that also seeks to restrict most abortions in that state. And of course, you'll hear a lot of people on the left, very afraid of KCV Planned Parenthood being overturned, Roe v. Wade being overturned. Of course, it doesn't mean that

abortion would be abolished. It means that it would go back to the states. That is a huge misconception that people have. So if you live in a liberal or a moderate state, you are going to be able to have an abortion, not that I am celebrating that option, but it's not going to ban abortion. It's just going to allow states to do what their voters. want them to do in regards to abortion. And the fewer babies that are aborted, the better in my book. Okay, so there's a ton going on this week. Let me know, gosh, I'm kind of tongue-tied today. It's Monday. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe that's it. There's a lot that you guys probably want to talk about this week. Let me know what you would like me to talk about what subjects you want to cover. We'll probably do another COVID episode. because there's been a lot that's gone on there that's been published in the past couple of weeks that we haven't been able to talk about. Some of you might be tired of COVID, but there are some of my most popular episodes. You guys like to hear everything that's going on there. And of course, it's still affecting your life, especially if you live in a state that has these Vax passports or mandates or things like that. I mean, it's ruined people's lives and livelihoods. And so we absolutely need to keep talking about the discoveries that.

that are coming out about the origins of it, about the efficacy of the vaccines, about the legality of these passports and mandates. And we're also, so I went to a Southwest protest a couple weeks ago. And I interviewed some people. And just because we have changed plans so much over the past couple of weeks, I haven't even been able to play that for you. But I'm going to play that this week. It's still super relevant to the things that are going on.

There are still a lot of people at these companies that are pushing back against these mandates, whether or not they like the vaccine or have taken the vaccine themselves. People are very concerned about this encroachment upon liberty, as I think we all should be. All right, so just let me know what you guys want to hear about this week. If you want another theology episode, let me know that, too. If you love this podcast, please leave a five-star review on Apple podcast. That would mean so much to me. Thank you guys for being here. We will be back here tomorrow. Hey, this is Steve Deist. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest using our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe

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