Special: Election Updates & Abolishing Abortion in Arizona

I would say if the authorities didn't want us involved in the public square, they ought not to have crucified Jesus in the public square.

Use humanistic principles. Well, I would say the same idea. I would say that. I would say, what's the problem with stardust bumping into stardust? In the cosmic picture, no, there's no problem. In the cosmic picture, it won't matter.

No, Mr. President, you are not protecting reproductive freedom. You are authorizing the destruction of freedom for one million little human beings every year. I'm sorry, my friends, but I am tired of seeing Jesus presented as a weak beggar.

He is a powerful savior, and the gospel is not a suggestion, it is a command. Ola, don't you sympathize with that? I sympathize with every single human heart wishing to know the one true and living God, but I believe there's only one way that that can happen through Jesus Christ, and the gospel is about repenting of sin, not celebrating it.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes.

Isaiah’s Call to Justice Against Bloodguilt

Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Correct oppression. Bring justice to the fatherless. Plead the widow's cause. That's Isaiah chapter 1, y 'all. I'm Jeff, they call me the Ninja, that's Luke the Bear right there.

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All the good stuff, guys. All that to bless all of our partners in ministry. Thank you so, so much for joining us. As you can see right now, we are doing a very special election update broadcast. But we have a very, very special guest with us in the studio.

You've seen something from him before with us at Apologia Studios. You're going to be seeing a whole lot more with Arizona representative Walt Blackman. He is the hero of Arizona's children. I just read that passage, and there are so many we could have gone to, from Isaiah about seeking justice, correcting oppression.

This is all in the context of God speaking to his own people, telling them, don't bother with the worship. Don't bother with the many prayers and all the ritual. He says, your hands are full of blood.

Seek justice. Correct oppression. And he says this. This is powerful. Bring justice to the fatherless. Bring justice to the fatherless. All these fatherless children abandoned by their dads in the womb.

We have so many children who have been killed in our nation as a result of, well, many, many things. But, of course, the fiction of Roe v. Wade as though that were law. It is not law. And the state of Arizona has a law currently in the books right now that says abortion is a criminal act.

It's against the law in the state of Arizona. And Representative Walt Blackman is going to be putting in some legislation that will protect these children in the state of Arizona. Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Jeff, and I appreciate it. Luke, it's always good to see you. Yes, sir. And I like your rocking the beard. That's right.

Yes. Before you know it, you'll be dropping soon. You'll be doing that? Yeah. You'll hang out in the studio for a little bit. You'll leave, and you'll look in the mirror, and it'll be like just, it'll start to be crawling out of your face.

I just want to get it up here. That's all. If it can start up here, I'll be good. There you go. It'll work its way down. Yeah, I want everyone to get to know who you are. So let's just talk, make sure everyone gets an introduction to you, who you are.

You were working right now on establishing justice for the pre-born in the state of Arizona. Yes, absolutely. And doing what is right and what is by law the right thing to do. But you have a life before this where you were also trying to save lives and to protect American lives.

So tell us about that so everyone kind of gets a background of who you are.

Okay, well, thanks again for having me. I spent 21 years in the United States Army. The job I had was a tank commander. And with that, I was in charge of one tank and then four tanks and then 16 tanks as a first sergeant.

Twenty-one years, several deployments, several peacekeeping deployments, which I like better than the regular combat deployments because you actually get to help people. When I went to Kosovo the first time, we were helping those folks that were being annihilated from folks that didn't like them.

And we were just kind of getting in the middle of them, moving them apart, but just making sure that we secured life. And that was the best part of my deployments. Now, the other side, I deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and protecting their type of democracy, if you would.

When I was there in 2004, they just started the elections. And there was one time I was sitting on my tank and this older gentleman, Iraqi descent, comes walking in front of my tank. And I jumped down and asked him, hey, where are you going?

And in his broken English, he said he was going to vote for the first time in his life. And he had to be about 80 years old. And he was just so excited about it. And it's so basic, so basic, their elections, was that they put their thumb on an ink print.

And they would, yeah, that's how they would vote the first time they voted. But the difference between that country and this country is that I had to overwatch the polling site with a M1A2 tank because there were still people out there that believed that they needed a different type of life.

And some of the things that I see today, it's kind of similar, which some people want, but they really don't understand the other side of that unless you're on the ground there. So I did that. Another job I did in the military was I was the prevention of sexual assault and harassment program manager.

So in the military, there was an uptick of sexual assaults and sexual harassment. The Army came out with a program called SHARP. I was part of developing that program for the United States Army and for the units that I was assigned to.

And then also was program manager for that. And I did that for a very long time. And then when I got done with that, retired with my sweetheart, Christy, in Snowflake, Arizona. And she gave me about a month to go back to work.

And I ran for office. And here I am. And you gentlemen of God walked into my life. And we're able to do some good things. And I can't wait until we start running this legislation. Yeah.

We've become close and become friends. And we have a lot of respect for you. But when we told you, we've been praying for you for years. For years. Literally for years. We knew who you were. We were praying for you.

And at God's perfect timing, he allowed us to get together and to get to know you. And we're so encouraged. And we believe that flattery is a sin. So I want you to know that. It is amazing to us that in God's providence, he prepared you in such a way where you spent your life trying to defend people's rights and freedom.

And life. And that's specifically at life. Life. Protecting life. And you've had behind you a whole career where you've been trying to uphold justice and protect victims' rights. Yes. And then God put you in a position where you are now in the state of Arizona, House of Representatives.

You are working now for another term. So this is another... This is another term. Another term. This is years of your life now dedicated once again to serving the people of the state of Arizona. I want to make sure it's clear as people get to know who you are.

We're calling you the hero of Arizona's children because of what you are emphasizing and what you are working towards in the state of Arizona. You want to establish justice for Arizona's children. Yes.

But there's more to you than even this issue in terms of what you are trying to accomplish and to propagate in the state of Arizona. People think that Arizona is a blue state. I would have strong disagreements with that.

Yeah, me too. If you live here, you're like, yeah, I know where the blue areas are, but this is not a blue state. Yeah. You believe strongly in the Constitution. Absolutely. And that actually is a very significant detail when you talk about representatives of the citizens going into a place of public office.

They're supposed to represent the interests of the citizens, and they're supposed to do it based upon the law. Exactly. And so talk to us about your commitments to the Constitution and to the rule of law in this country.

Well, for people of color and black and brown, I look at the 14th and 15th Amendment. That guarantees us citizenship and the right to vote, basically. But the citizenship part is particularly important to me because it is the right to pursue your happiness.

So any American that is born in this country falls under the Constitution. The Constitution does not stop at if you are a child in the womb. It doesn't stop there. It says that the Constitution applies to you.

The Constitution applies to give folks the life, give folks the opportunity to live. That's the first thing. So if you're a Constitutionist, then you believe in life because that's what the Constitution says.

Now, if you are a Christian, you automatically should, and there are some people that don't, but you should believe in life. And the only person that can take away life is God himself, not man or not woman.

And as his servants on this earth, we have an opportunity to protect the life, and we don't do it. We have to answer for that, our own sense. But we have to do something, and this is part of doing that, running that law that exists in Arizona.

And I want to make it clear to the folks out there, I'm not looking to regulate abortion. I am looking to abolish it in Arizona. Because regulating, we are continuing the slaughter of innocent lives. So I know some people's heads are probably blowing up right now, but that's okay.

Not everyone listening to us. They're like, yes. Yeah, not everybody here. They're falling on their face right now. Thank God for your consistency. Oh, yeah. And it's real easy for me. I mean, it's really easy, and maybe that's the prayers you all gave my family and I, and it's the way I was raised, and to respect life and the many lives that I had to defend over 21 years.

Yeah, when you talk about not regulating, what we're talking about is the, we think the wrong methodology of the pro-life industry generally has been to approach this in terms of regulation, neglecting the fatherless children or the preborn who are being killed en masse.

We've approached this in a way that is, can I just say, not consistent, cowardly, with fear. For example, when we think back at the travesty and the horrendous situation that's happened in this country here, and the issue of the slave trade and kidnapping, the Bible would call it man stealing.

It was a death penalty issue. If you kidnap somebody and put them into enslavement, that was worthy of the death penalty in God's law. So it was the Christian worldview that did away with abolished slavery, but it took courageous people to finally say, we're not going to accept this anymore.

Exactly. We're not going to make any concessions about this anymore. The answer is this is an injustice before God, and we're going to end it. We look back on that time period in America, and you ask the average person in America, you say, would you tolerate this to even the smallest extent?

Like if you said, well, it's basically over, but we do have a few pockets here in South Phoenix where they've got some black people as slaves in their yards. We would all be gathering around those houses saying, we're not putting up with this.

Well, it's only a few black people. We'd say, absolutely not. That's an injustice. Why? Because the basis of all of it is that is a human being. A human being has God-given rights, and you are to protect human life.

Exactly. The unjust taking of human life is murder. It is unlawful. The unjustified killing of a human being is in all states considered a crime. Now, what do we have today? What do we know today? Of course, on a biblical basis, that's the image of God.

God commands against the murder of an image bearer of God in an unjustified way. You cannot take human life in an unjustified manner. However, what do we know biologically speaking today that Roe didn't even, wouldn't even come in close to?

And that is that from the moment of conception, it is human life. The only difference is the difference of degree, size, level of development, environment, and degree of dependence. We can't kill people because we say, well, they're small people.

Yeah, because then they'll start killing people because they're old. Yeah, exactly. Exactly the point.

So you also have level of development. So it's not fully developed yet. Well, neither is my 10-month-old, and five-year-olds, and six-year-olds, and eight-year-olds, and nobody. Everybody's in a constant stage of development as a human being.

So the question is, is it arbitrary? Do we get to kill human beings and we determine, I don't think you're fully developed? By the way, that sounds a heck of a lot like what they said to black people.

They said, well, we can enslave these people because they're not fully developed. Or they just said, they're not human like us, or not fully developed humans. Or they're cursed. Or they're cursed. This is the same argumentation that led to the injustice of slavery when we say they're not fully developed.

It's not fully human like me. Or if we say environment, well, the baby's inside the mother. Well, so were all of us at one time. And when we're talking about a mother with a baby growing in her womb, we need to remember that over 98 of abortions are done at will.

Not because of rape, incest, or life of the mother. Those are less than 2 of all abortions. The rest are at will. And when a woman says it's my body, my choice, we need to make sure that we speak the truth.

We talk about facts. Yes, that is your body. But that body growing inside of you is biologically distinct. It's a biologically distinct human being that deserves protection. And so when we talk about what's going on here, you're arguing from a consistent basis as a legislator.

You're saying we need to protect human life. Yeah. Period. Period. No matter the color. No matter the age. The size. No matter the size. No matter the environment. And what I think is, Walt, so crazy about this, too.

And you got in a lot of trouble recently. I sure did. I love getting in trouble, though. That's why we like you. We like being godly troublemakers ourselves. But you got in a lot of trouble lately because you're a black man.

And all the stuff about BLM, Black Lives Matter, and everything else, we're talking about a professedly Marxist organization from the top. As an organization, you were speaking against them. You got in a lot of trouble.

And a lot of people were calling you nasty, racist names and titles and everything else because you were. But what's amazing to me is that you're a representative who's saying, we need to value and protect every human life, no matter the size, the color.

All humans deserve equal protection. And yet the Black Lives Matter folks were after you. They were after me. But you're the one that's being consistent across the board.

And if you look in the black community, these 3 ,000 black babies are slaughtered every single day. So a basic question to Black Lives Matter or those folks that came after me, so if black lives really do matter and we're only looking at life, then what about the 3 ,000 babies that are slaughtered every day?

That sounds a lot like genocide to me. Yeah. That sounds a lot like a systematic slaughter of a population. And that's something bigger than we are looking at other than just carrying signs on the road talking about Black Lives Matter or this or that because they are systematically killing off black Americans in this country.

There are more Planned Parenthoods and black communities anywhere else in the country. Why is that? And on the same corner, there are more liquor stores and there are more gun stores because they are trying to kill off the black community.

The problem is that a lot of the black community was brainwashed. They were brainwashed by the Johnson administration with not the New Deal but the Great Society. Brainwashed with that. They were brainwashed with the black codes.

They were brainwashed with a lot of these issues that supposedly were supposed to help the black community. And all it's done, it's hurt the black community. And I know you've heard that they say the Republican Party and the Democrat Party has switched.

That's not true. That's not true at all. All that's happened is they changed their tactics. They changed their tactics from slavery to abortion. How can we continue to bond a generation of people with it being legal?

Margaret Singer is introduced to the stage. Oh yes. And she sells it to black ministers. Oh sure.

Well, New York City, you probably know this, but they murder more black children than are born in New York City. Yeah, I mean, how do you do that?

Well, and that's what we're talking about when we talk about not regulating and just establishing justice is we're talking about consistency. Now the challenge, of course, we're going to have, anybody in this country that tries to establish justice and to be consistent is they're going to have to have the paradigm shift begin with everybody around us that has used the title pro-life.

We are consistently pro-life because we're saying pro-life, it's human being from conception, protect all human life, no matter the color, no matter the size, no matter the level of development, none of those things.

But the pro-life industry has largely said, well, let's assume Roe is a law. Which it is not. It is not. Exactly. It's a court opinion and it's a fallacious court opinion from the 1970s that says what's in the womb is potential human life.

Yeah. That is absurd on its face today with all the biological science just overwhelming that opinion saying it's not potential human life. It is human life from the moment of conception. All the DNA is there.

All that makes you you is there from the moment of conception. It's just a difference from that point of degree and growth and change. But the pro-life industry has had the assumption that has been foisted upon the American people by those who are what they call pro-choice or pro-abortion.

And that is that, well, Roe is the decision, and so now it's legal in the states. And this is what I wanted to bring up, the fact that you're a constitutionalist. You believe in the Constitution as the rule of law in this country.

The Constitution says that Congress creates law. Exactly. Not the Supreme Court. Not the courts. No federal law has been created around the issue of abortion, which is why, by the way, and I'll see if I can pull this up here, and I'm sure you've seen this.

Biden was recently asked when the campaign stuff was going on, when he was out of his basement, he was asked about the issue of Roe, and oh my gosh, what if Barrett and all of this is going to undo Roe?

What he says is so, so clear. He says, what I will do is create a federal law about abortion, which is a tacit admission that there is no law regarding the issue of abortion, because if we undo Roe, they say, well, we've got to create a law, which means there isn't one.

Which means that the states, when Roe came down, well, here's what should have happened. If the federal Congress believed that Roe was correct, they had a duty as Congress to create legislation around that, and the states, if they agreed that it was a constitutional decision, they had to create or transform legislation in their own states.

They didn't do it. Because the assumption and the zeitgeist, the spirit of the age is, well, Roe has decreed. And it's like, well, that's not how our country works. We all know that. And the interesting thing, and I was just talking to I think Christy about this yesterday.

The interesting thing is, and this is just, it's such a great moment. And you now have, well, you have one of the strongest arguments right now in this moment. We just had on the ballot in Arizona the legalization of recreational marijuana.

Yep. And it won. Big time. It won. It wasn't even close. So now in Arizona, like many other states, of course, Colorado, Washington, California, like many other states, recreational marijuana is legal.

Okay. So now put that aside for a moment now, in terms of how you feel about marijuana. We're not having a debate. The fact is marijuana is legal in the state of Arizona as of this election. Recreational.

Now, here's what's interesting about that, is that there is federal law regarding the issue of marijuana. There is actual federal law prohibiting it. There are court cases prohibiting it. And yet these states somehow think they have the right to flex the sovereignty of the state to say, we're going to do what's right for our citizens.

And we reject that federal law. We're talking law. Only when it benefits them. Only when you can smoke up, apparently.

Well, you see in Colorado, speaking of them, they passed some bill to save the gray wolves. Saw that. But then they also completely shut down There was a bill against late-term abortions, and it lost horribly.

Yeah. Saw that. So, again, just talking about preserving life, it's like, which life are we going to preserve here?

In terms of a consistent we want all of our representatives and senators and everybody who's elected to public office to represent the citizens. We want them all to be consistent. We respect you and honor you because you are a legislator ordained by God in this position.

God put you in this position. You're trying to be consistent. And this is an area now where we have such a strong ability that we didn't even have two years ago in the state of Arizona to say, we understand as a state of Arizona that we have this is a republic.

We have a state sovereignty here. Yes, we do. And we can reject what we think is not constitutional, which comes from above, and we say that does not benefit our citizens. We disagree with it. We're flexing that strength to smoke marijuana while we allow image bearers of God and little human beings to be slaughtered, dissected, poisoned, burned in the womb on a daily basis in this state.

And you are the representative in Arizona who is starting this cause of justice. It's the first time it's done in the state of Arizona to say we're not going to regulate this. We are ending the murder of children in the womb.

And we're putting it right up in everyone's face, not just those folks that are for this atrocious act of slaughtering babies. This is a question that everybody's going to have to answer and stand for.

It doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on. You're either for abolishing this or you're for regulating it or you're just on the far left. You just want to go ahead and kill a bunch of babies. So everyone who has taken a gauntlet to serve in whatever capacity to make laws in this state, they are going to have to stand before, first of all, God, the people that they represent, the people that they say that they are pro-life for, and say, you know what?

I am against killing this. And all I am doing is pointing to existing law that's already on the books of Arizona. We're not writing new law because somewhere down the line, someone in Arizona, a session or a legislative session, said, you know what?

We need to abolish this. That's why it's on the books. And God doesn't do things just to do them. He doesn't roll the dice. That was put there to test us in this time.

Powerful, powerful. And it's, I'll let you go here. The fundamental issue right now moving forward is, is it human life? Yes. Is the unjustified taking of human life against the law in the state of Arizona, yes or no?

Yes. And that's the cause. We're not making personhood arguments saying, well, is it a human that can feel pain? Well, we shouldn't kill them. Is it a human that has a heartbeat? I mean, that's an amazing thing.

We wouldn't do it, Representative Blackmun, we wouldn't do it in any other area, for example, if the sex trafficking trade was happening in the state of Arizona, and it is, but if it was out in the open, legislators wouldn't be saying, well, let's regulate this situation.

We know it's really bad, but let's just say that we're not going to allow sex trafficking for 13 and under. Everybody would say, you're fired, you're fired, you're fired, you don't regulate sex trafficking.

And how deplorable is it as a mindset to say, well, we won't allow sex trafficking for 13 and under. And yet on the issue of abortion, we have people who have been elected to their seats by people who assume they're trying to end abortion, they call themselves pro-life, and they're saying, well, we'll allow abortion in the state, but not after 25 weeks, because that's really icky.

You know what I mean? It's the same problem, and we have bought this line for long enough, and I am just so grateful to God that we have a moment now where we can establish justice for human beings.

That's why I don't believe in the heartbeat bill. You're going to kill somebody once you determine a heartbeat? Right. I mean, come on. What does Joe say? Come on, man.

Yeah, come on, man. And also, you know, when you give that responsibility, Representative Blackmun, to the abortion facility, and you go in, do we think that really the paid assassins and abortion facilities are looking for a heartbeat?

They're going to be like, no, can't find one. Let's go ahead and kill this human being. You know, I say, you know, someone says, well, we can kill a human being if it can't breathe on its own yet. Well, that's another example of stages we're going to go through in life.

We have elderly people. COVID proves this. We have people in COVID where we had ventilators because they couldn't breathe on their own. We had to help them, and we had to purge their lungs, and we had to put them on ventilators because they couldn't breathe on their own.

So if the basis is they can't breathe on their own, well, then do we wipe out the people in the hospital because of COVID? Do we wipe out the elderly people?

And you make a great point there. A person goes into the hospital, they can't breathe. The doctor's just not going to sit around and say, well, you can't breathe. That doctor, just by putting that patient on a ventilator, that doctor is practicing his or her hypocritical oath.

Exactly. They are performing their duty to save life. So if a baby cannot breathe when the baby comes out, the doctor cannot say, well, we're just going to let you die because that goes against their hypocritical oath.

They have to perform life-saving methods to keep that baby alive. What's the difference? Unless somebody goes into the hospital who is a breathing, thinking, reasonable person and says, you know what?

If I get to the point where I can't breathe, I want you to kill the machine. That's completely different. They're ending their own life, but as a person standing by, we don't have a right to do that.

To speak up for those who can't speak up for themselves, and just quickly on the issue of rape and incest, life of the mother, which is the emotional arguments used by those on the left and those who are for choice.

Rape, it seems simple enough to me. I just don't know why we can't see this. Rape is a heinous act that I actually believe deserves the strongest arm of the law of punishment, but I don't think we need to give that strong arm of the law and punishment to the child.

We should not punish the children of criminals. We wouldn't do that in any other circumstance, but we do with the issue of rape. Also, if you think rape is wrong, I would say, on what basis? If somebody says, well, you can't violate a person's body against their will, I'd say, welcome to the pro-life movement, to the abolitionist movement, because that's the argument against abortion, is you can't violate another person's body against their will.

And then the issue of incest, I've had friends who are the products of incestuous relationships, and I don't think we should kill them. And when it comes to life of the mother, when we talk about life of the mother, in the few instances, in the rare instances, where the life of the mother is at stake, you tend to go to the hospital, because that's a rescue operation.

We're not talking about what we're talking about in reality, in terms of what really happens in abortion, is 98 plus is at will, I don't want this baby, and if you're with us at the abortion facilities, we're out saving lives throughout the week.

Friends, those mothers and fathers go in there, and they say, I know it's my baby, and I have a right to kill my baby, I don't want this thing growing inside of me. And that's the problem of the world that we live in today.

It's not people who are truly the victims of rape, incest, and health issues that are going in there en masse, they're women who are going in there to kill their children, because they want to have sexual freedom, they want to have a better job, they don't want to put up with this.

Adoption. Adoption. Walt, even when we have, we've stood out there for many years, Walt, many, many years, we've seen thousands and thousands of children saved through this work, and this effort, but, you know, Walt, we've asked to adopt these babies at the abortion mill every single day we're out there, and the response we get, most common, is, I could never give my baby up for adoption, and then they walk inside, and they kill their child.

So, go ahead. No, I was just going to say that, I mean, Walt, you're a real-life Avenger. Right? I don't know if anybody's ever told you that, but that's what Romans 13 describes you. You're God's Avenger of wrath.

You are God's sword-bearer to protect the innocent and to punish evildoers, right? And so, like, as we're moving forward, as you're going to drop this bill, this is God's standard, right? This is the Davidian line.

Yeah. So, you're either a protector of the innocent and, you know, Avenger of wrath against the evildoer, or you're on the other side. Oh, you're not. Exactly. It's black and white. There's no gray area here, and so, that's why we love you so much, because you're like, nope, this is the standard, this is God's standard, and you're going to answer for this one day.

Exactly.

And we're all going to have to answer where we stand. And, you know, just to go back a little bit, when you were talking about those victims of rape and incest, why are we giving the child the death penalty?

Exactly. And letting the person who committed the crime walk away. Right. And I like to explain it in terms like that. Right. Absolutely. Straight, in your face, and that's exactly what it is, because I think for too many years, we've been dancing around the subject.

We really don't want to call it murder, because it's going to hurt someone's feelings. We don't want to call it this or that. Well, let's talk about the feelings of that baby. Right. Okay, and it's funny.

All the folks that are for abortion and slaughtering these kids are already born. Yeah. Yeah. So, they're making choices on life and death decisions on someone else, but they are here because God put them here.

No one said, let's kill you. I bet if we go back and say, okay, so if we say we can kill you, you, you, you, because of your stance, is that going to be okay with you? Can somebody just come up and kill you now?

And that is what they are doing, systematically ending these babies' lives based on a personal dislike of that baby, or what have you, or the circumstances. Right.

And it's wrong. Yeah, and the strength here of this position, and everyone needs to hear this, is coming from a position of somebody who believes that there is a God, that there is meaning and value and purpose in the world, that this is the image of God, we know the marching orders, you know what you're standing on, but even if you take people who reject, say, Scripture, God's word as the norm, and say, no, I'm approaching this from a purely humanistic perspective, I'd say, well, welcome to the party, because what's in the womb from the moment of conception is a human being.

Period. Can't be denied. So the question is, are we allowed to take the lives of human beings at will, just in an unjustified manner? And the answer, I think the state of Arizona would say no. No, not according to statute.

Not according to statute. We cannot do that. So the basis here is human life must be protected from conception, no regulation of this issue, and the state of Arizona already has a law on the books. Yep.

Exactly. And we're going to work to uphold justice for human beings in the womb, and I want everyone to please, please, please pray for Representative Blackmon, pray for the work ahead of us the next few months.

As Christians, we try to speak to this in the culture to encourage, to establish justice, but also pray for the man who has been placed in this position by God. We believe all legislators ultimately have, and that could be a good thing or a bad thing, judgment or blessing, but Walt has been placed in this position to establish justice for the pre-born, and we're grateful.

I mean, you have encouraged us so greatly. It was amazing. Walt got the official, it's good to go, and it was like, let's get started. Let's get started.