Frozen Road Trip DL: The Supreme Court as a Window into the Degradation of the US

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Well greetings and welcome to the dividing line, my name is James white and I'm coming to you from Really really cold st.

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Charles, Missouri Got down to 18 last night and I Put out my little weather.

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I've got a little weather station that I normally only put out when I'm up in Denver just for the fun of it during the monsoons and stuff, but I put it out and And yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting to see what it gets

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I Explained yesterday first time the units been in this kind of temperature.

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And so there's some issues I'm dealing with I Can't get any water into the freshwater tank, maybe it's the inlets frozen.

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I'm not sure But Other than that, we're doing okay, and it's gonna be another cool evening and I'm coming to the conclusion

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That I've been a short -circuiting the units abilities to stay warm by using space heaters

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It seems like it's designed to use its central furnace And I think that central furnace is what helps keep some of the plumbing and stuff like that where it needs to be

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So I'm making adjustments and things like that. But anyways, we're here It's it's a cloudless night.

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So I can't imagine it's not gonna Plummet, it's it's only 24 degrees right now.

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So who knows what it'll get down to here this evening I actually haven't looked at at the weather prognostication because anyway, and so this is one of my fate this is a

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This is a tundra or Coogee don't remember anyway, but it's cotton it's really it's really light so The thing

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I'm wearing underneath it. I didn't even remember I had this It is this like super duper wool stuff, it's super light, but it's like if it wasn't

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According to one of the thermometers I can see 52 degrees in here. I would be dying

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But I'm actually quite comfortable with this This on so hey, you know,

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I bunch you commented on Twitter. Yeah, we'll move up here to Alaska There's a reason

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I don't live in Alaska. I Live in Phoenix, Arizona. I've been there for 50 years.

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I am acclimated to the heat yes, I was born in Minnesota, but and in December and I was told it was very very cold, but I Only spent a few years there.

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So I have long since lost my cold weather acclimation I'm enjoying it, but in the back of my mind, there's there's always this thought man

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Would you really want to do this for you know, five months out of the year? Like no,

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I don't think so At least I'm not that the snow melted the day I got here

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There had been snow and it melted and so I'm not fighting with all that mush and slush and stuff like that, but Anyways, here we are and it's a second day in a row of doing the program.

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So what in the world? Could I come up with to to talk about the second day?

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Well Most It's that time of year we get so busy with things that If I sit here and say most of you are aware that's sort of silly

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So, oh I have someone saying that no link has been posted for today

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Well, I'm sorry I have no control over such things, um But if we could post a link somewhere

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Ken would like to watch and maybe you could even send it to Ken so he could watch Anyway Yesterday I believe it was yesterday oral arguments were presented before the

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Supreme Court on a Tennessee law that prohibits

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Cross -sex hormones and I believe also Puberty blockers

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I could be wrong about that but it's a It's fundamentally a law

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Intended to in some fashion Protect young people from bodily, you know, you know

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Malaysian that What's amazing? I don't think that term even was used at any point

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In the oral arguments They lasted Think right around two hours

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Well, it may have been longer than that. I had it at one point two five so I think

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I think in the program I was using it adjusts the time depending on that so anyway,

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I Listen to all the arguments. I could not help but think back on a dark day

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In June of 2015 I I spoke up in Flagstaff at a

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Conference that I'll never be invited to again sadly enjoyed it but things change over nine years, unfortunately and That's when a

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Burger fell came down. I think a burger fell came down the day after my wedding anniversary. So I think came down June 26th and Then I drove up.

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I Know it's in Utah. I don't I don't I'd assume yeah

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I had to have gone up to Colorado and then I guess I came back to Utah or something I remember exactly what

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I did, but I I do know that I was on the 15 southbound through Central and southern

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Utah as I listened to Yeah, yeah riches riches complain

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I only got 10 minutes morning, yeah, I know But as an old friend of ours used to say let it be said let it be done

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He's no longer with us, but anyway So, oh

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I see what you're doing you're posting it I hope hope you posted it in the AL road trip thing there and that way they can see it and Catch up with it their way.

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Okay good. So hopefully Ken and Viv and Kelly get to watch Anyway, I was driving down the 15 and I had figured out how to convert text files to audio files by that point in time, that's quite a while ago and I remember listening to Aka read while driving

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The majority opinion in the a burger fall case and When I got done listening to that even what while I was listening to it

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I Just felt I felt like our nation was done if if the

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Supreme Court of the United States Could put out

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This kind of Childish Emotion filled

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Irrational illogical Mess and In so doing completely redefine marriage completely changed the very foundations of Western society then

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What what was coming in the future? And I've also commented a number of times over the nine years plus since then have that it was like a

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Switch was flipped Starting the end of June of 2015

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Everything changed and what do I mean? the Emphasis of the culture of death the emphasis of the

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LGBTQIA++ Revolution Immediately pivoted it was like the preceding ten years hadn't happened the emphasis upon Homosexual mirage

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All of that stuff it's like, okay, we've got it Keep the pressure going keep the money coming in and there is an immediate pivot

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To an attack upon creation itself We don't know what a man is.

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We don't know what a woman is Transgenderism and it happens so fast

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That it's like yeah, yeah, you can't do that that quickly if it wasn't already planned

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And I really believe that it was and so The the pivot takes place

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They had to profane marriage because marriage and the family

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God's first ordained institution Stood in the way of their rebellion stood in the way of their revolution

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And so once they got that now they needed to go even lower

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And what I mean lower to the more basic reality, so you've you've now profaned marriage

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So now go even lower and deeper into the very nature of man created as male and female and That's what we've been focused on upon now for the past nine years and I'll be honest with you

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I'm You can pretty much read most of the justices.

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I was Look listening to the three female ideologues on The court

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It's just so hard to even listen to them Jackson Sotomayor They weren't quote -unquote asking questions they were working with the

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Biden regime and the solicitor general and a transgender attorney the first one to To testify before the

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Supreme Court, well that individual I didn't say pictures, but I assume it's a

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Guy pretending to be female or I don't know which one it is. But anyway, they're working with them

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They are advocating In the oral arguments, they're not asking questions, they're not even pretending to be neutral They are advocating plainly clearly aggressively when the representative from the state of Tennessee I Got to speak at the end

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And he didn't get nearly as much time but He was getting interrupted by these women and They're they're just arguing with him.

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I mean it was Just it was just so obvious what they're gonna do the question is what will

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Gorsuch and Barrett do because Gorsuch surprised everybody in voting in showing himself to be supportive of transgender rights and As dr.

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Moeller pointed out on the briefing that's Well, well,

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I think he was pointing out the same thing that immediately crossed my mind Gorsuch did graduate studies in natural law at Oxford.

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And so you would think that a natural law expert and advocate would be able to see

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What's right in front of all of us a society that cannot identify male and female a society that gives in to this

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Absurd notion that Gender dysphoria and Look 99 % of transgenderism is rebellion and revolution not gender dysphoria, and I'm not even including truly intersexed people in other words people have a

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Specific genetic abnormality in regards their sex chromosomes there are

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Dozens of various Syndromes Genetic abnormalities and those individuals need to be

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Cared for and encouraged and All that stuff. No question about it

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But that's not what transgenderism is that's not what the transgender revolution is I Saw a graphic.

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I wish I had. Oh, it was on it was on Fox. So I guess I couldn't have grabbed it But I I saw a graphic With a breakdown by generations, which again,

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I'm not totally Happy about that kind of stuff these days But a breakdown by generations

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About who identifies As you know, non -gender binary transgender, you know, the terminology is off the charts and It's a tiny percentage in my generation

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And then a little bit more in the next a little bit more a little bit more and then you get to Gen Z or whatever the current young people generation is and it's like 22 .7

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% and you're like Excuse me Isn't isn't this obvious Isn't it clear that this is social media tick -tock

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YouTube Produced Hysteria Insanity It is obviously there's no question about it and so Ever since a burger fell the focus has been turned to Making it impossible for us to even identify male and female let alone have any kind of meaningful conversation concerning Male and female roles or anything like that and all that everything we used to talk about, you know, like Women should not be in combat.

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I believe that wholeheartedly are there exceptional women who can participate in that yes, but Here's the problem

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Let's say you have a great woman soldier The other guys around her will protect her

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Because they're men That's what men do. That's how men were created

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They will protect her at the risk of their own life that massively reduces the efficiency of any fighting unit

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On the police force You've seen the videos you've seen, you know, two women police officers trying to arrest a single adult male and they can't do it

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He's able to just throw them around and of course how many of them have been killed as A result of being put out there even when there's more than one of them

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It's just you know God created male and female and gave them certain capacities and abilities and roles as a result and Our society has decided we are wiser than all who came before us and So we are going to change all of this

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And we're gonna make the older ones amongst us feel guilty that they ever believed these things if you notice that I mean

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If you look back to what we were saying, you know ten years ago before a burger fell If you say those same things now in almost any major corporation

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You're gonna be in deep trouble you're certainly not gonna get advanced in your position and You are made to feel guilty

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Forever having believed what we believed only ten years ago and none of this none of this zero of this is because of some kind of Major advancement in Ethical and moral dialogue and discussion.

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Nope, not because of that Why is it why is it happen? Um we literally are

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Becoming a culture Where the depth of moral and ethical dialogue has to be able to fit into tweets maybe a semi -long

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Facebook post at most There are great advantages to the ability to communicate quickly and broadly but man there are a lot of negatives as well and Just as we have not done a really good job adjusting to the information revolution that the

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Internet and especially social media has introduced I don't think we're anywhere near ready to deal with the

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AI revolution that's already already upon us and The fact that AI is going to be used to censor us and to fundamentally alter the cultural narrative by whoever is controlling the

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AI and You know, those are very shadowy shadowy persons so anyway

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Back to my experience today And by the way, you you can

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You can go to the Supreme Court web page and all this stuff is available for download download mp3 boom -boom

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And you also could There are a number of programs

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I was put on notice about one that's specifically sort of for my

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Mac That will produce transcripts

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Now, you know YouTube can do that too. I guess I'm like, I've never really been able to do this consistently but Having a transcript of something you've listened to can be extremely useful and helpful as well.

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I had one called the Brutto But honestly, I think it was slower than just listening to the audio file

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It really really took a long time this new one that I have. I think it's called Ico or a co

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Anyway, it's much faster in producing a transcript

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But they have they have written transcripts on the Supreme Court page. They have the audio mp3 download.

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I'm glad hey Let's be thankful You know Thanksgiving's barely over.

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Let's be thankful for the things we have. There are a lot of countries Where you don't get to listen to?

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You know the oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court That's a good thing

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Don't know how long that will remain but Yeah, it's a good thing so anyway

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The one thing about being this cold it is dry. Oh dry dry dry dry dry possibility of rain over the weekend

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So this this Midwestern stuff people what can't you just have like the same weather for more than 12 hours

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Changes all the time so anyway so I'm listening to The ideologues on the left.

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I'm listening to the good guys Clarence Thomas asks some questions. He sounds old I Suppose that's one of the advantages of Trump winning

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III would imagine he will he will retire and I don't know if the if like Sotomayor will you know do what the other lady did and Stick it out.

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So, you know try to stick it out till the next election or whatever Ruth Bader Ginsburg But the good guys it was it was highly technical a

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Lot of legal jargon, but there is almost no

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Common -sense worldview discussion at all. It's like it's forbidden You could never use the term mutilation

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You have to use The new words the new terminology gender affirming care, what does that even mean?

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You're talking about Fundamentally changing the body and you're talking about Risking this and this person's entire future life.

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There was some discussion of Loss of fertility and And You know irreversible actions being taken

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That that cannot be undone. And of course the Biden solicitor general was trying to say that Detransitioners are extremely rare and and that gender affirming care is extremely helpful in reducing a

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Tendency toward suicide. I've actually heard just the opposite of that But that that's the problem you you can especially when it comes to this stuff there's so much money involved

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There's so much money that can be made That you can rent an expert, you know, they're they're all over the place but Listening to the good guys

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Trying to ask good questions and even listening to the guy from Tennessee defending their law you could tell

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There were certain things you cannot say there were certain things you cannot say and I Forgive me.

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I Apologize. I had actually taken the time to Yeah, let's see here, uh put down a

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Morning in case 20 times there were seven seven United States So I Prescribed this first clip as I recall,

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I think is Sotomayor might have been Kagan Medications can't be prescribed and they're going back and forth

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I with or live as a gender advocating for one particular side clearly. It doesn't matter what parents and let me see if I can

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It doesn't matter what you it up here. It would have been easier to Have this all set up.

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Oh my goodness. That's a small spot Assuming a similarly, all right, this will be that they're still with in the general area a sexually transgender -based

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And I'm gonna have to do the So if I forgot to turn my microphone back on it's

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Let's listen in to Hopefully this will because you're saying to me be at the right rational basis because I was listening at a higher speed

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So you for that kind of law? Find out what this court has not hesitated to hold laws unconstitutional under rational basis review when they are rooted in Unsubstantiated fears and prejudices.

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That's exactly what this Your we think that if we're assuming a similarly worded statute that there still would not be

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Okay, so obviously when I was moving the thing it started doing it. I couldn't hear it. I apologize for that Well, we

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Thought we had that fixed but it didn't work out right and rich wants to maybe on the way home

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We'll get it fixed. Anyways, try this again Be a sex or a transgender based classification

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So you're you're licensing states to deprive grown adults of the choice of Which sex to adopt?

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Now did you catch that? You're licensing states to remove from people the choice of which sex to adopt

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Okay, does anybody else see The mountain of Rebellious insanity

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Behind what that Supreme Court justice I think it was Sotomayor. I could be wrong, but I think it is

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Does anybody else see that mountain of Absurdity in this woman's thinking

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Here's what I wanted to try to communicate there is no way out of this

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Abyss of Cultural insanity without Coming to recognition and understanding that you must have an objective

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Foundation in reality you must know objective truth About the purpose of this creation our purpose as human beings you cannot have consistent law

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That will have any relationship whatsoever To the world in which we live if You do not have a clear word from God This will be a never -ending abyss all you're gonna have with these

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Supreme Court decisions and everything else is man's Compromising a man going with the current, you know cultural climate

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Going with the you know, whatever the new theory is and there will never be any consistency

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You can't have consistency when you're when you're

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Operating on the foundation that God hasn't spoken We don't know what a man

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We don't know what a woman is. We don't know what a boy is. I don't know what a girl is We don't know what the purpose of mankind is

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Can't anybody else see that there's no way out of this

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That it's a labyrinth of our own creation that that basically what we've done is we've just blindfolded everybody

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And Now we're running into each other and wondering why everybody keeps getting bloody noses and everything else the cultural degradation

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You know, I don't I don't know what this I don't know what the court's gonna decide I'm concerned that It could be five four or even six three against Tennessee and You know, where does that lead

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Who knows? but It would certainly be viewed as a tremendous victory for Transgenderism and would be interpreted that way and So when

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I look at this and I look at I Listen to this as a as a as a

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Christian pastor theologian apologist, whatever you want to call me Coogee wearing moron as most of you're calling me these days on the internet

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As I listen to these intelligent people

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Trying to function in God's world with their eyes firmly shut

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I'm My heart breaks for them first of all, but my heart breaks for the society

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Can you imagine what the founding fathers would have thought if they had listened to what

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I listened to today What would George Washington be be saying? What would

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John Adams be saying? What would even Thomas Jefferson be saying? They they could not even begin

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To Contemplate to conceive of The blindness of modern

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American jurisprudence and I think even the

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Franklins and the Jeffersons Would stand back and go. Whoa that That's pretty radical stuff.

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You're doing there Are we really going to be able to hold a nation together without? the

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Cohesion That the Christian faith provided at the start

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And the answer is rather obvious. No, no, we won't We will destroy it there's once you jump off that cliff there's

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There aren't any little bushes hanging out there. You can grab all two on the way down that are gonna hold your weight.

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You're just hurtling toward destruction and so I listen to You know, you are taking away someone's choice as To which sex they're cooked you you sit back and you just go do do you hear yourself?

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Do you hear the absurdity you're never gonna change your genetics and even if you could it's not gonna change the reality of Who you were made?

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I Mean, yeah. Okay. Yeah, there's all the dystopian stuff out there the

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You know, I think about Brave new world and You've never read brave new world.

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It's not a Christian book. Obviously just a warning ahead of time but in brave new world we're all produced in test tubes and We're you know, there's the

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A's and the B's and the C's and the D's and E's and the F's and and that's the sliding scale of intellect and And the ones down here are the trash collectors menial people and then as you go up you you are genetically engineered to have a greater intellect yet as Comes out in the book and then comes out in the movie as well and intellect is only as Good as its real connection to this world that God made and You start engineering man like that you start saying well you can just put you can just choose what you want to be good

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How do you? But with this Supreme Court justice not find it

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Really really super strange That someone would

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Self -identify as a horse Are you taking away their choice as to what species they can choose to be what has happened?

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I mean Darwin kicked the gate open for all this. Let's just be honest about that None of it.

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None of this could happen. None of this could have ever happened without Darwin You go

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Well, where'd that come from? If that seems strange to you, like I just changed subjects.

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I didn't I Didn't change subjects at all. You just haven't thought it through.

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That's not some different subject Darwin opened the door for a godless cosmology

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Where there is no objective truth. There is no transcendent meaning there is no Male and female there is no purpose and marriage family culture

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Darwin did all of it I'm not saying that that was the only thing that happened.

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Obviously, there's a bunch of other stuff that happened along the way That had to come alongside but the biggest thing that kicked the door open and and opened the way for all the rest that stuff and Then other things that have been developing before Darwin now, you know exploded and That's why we are where we are now

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No question about it. But what an astonishing thing At the end of 2024 to hear a

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Supreme Court justice seemed to going Well, if Tennessee's law is upheld then you're uh, you're telling people

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That they can't choose to be a different sex than they are Well, yeah,

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I guess so Sure, hope that hasn't been played I assume if it had been playing the background rich would have told me something about that would have gotten a little a little notification here, um

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Then a few minutes later He And I don't think

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I started that so good, all right few minutes later we have this

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No, I'm still here. Why isn't that playing? doo -doo -doo -doo -doo Okay, I'll hit stop and we'll try it all over again

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We'll hear argument this morning in case 23 -4. Oh Well, I don't

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I don't like this I will use a different one next time You take out and recognize medical reality then there is no argument that our law

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Differentiates between treatments for males and females. Can I ask you about one of the purposes of this law?

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And I note that your brief does not talk a lot about this But one of the articulated purposes of this law is essentially to engender encourage gender conformity and to discourage anything other than Gender conformity and I'm wondering how you think that plays into the analysis

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We I disagree with that characterization Encourage minors to appreciate their sex and ban treatments that might encourage minors to become disdainful of their sex sounds to me like We want boys to be boys and we want girls to be girls if I could and that's an important purpose behind the law and I understand that sentiment, but It's it's a it's a fundamentally different Sentiment and it's a fundamentally different understanding of what produced this law than the one that you are talking about now

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You are if I could make a few points. First of all, it sounds like the question is rooted in a potential improper purpose -based

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Argument under Arlington Heights argument, which as Chief Judge Sutton pointed out below this that argument was never raised until it got to this court

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I'm less interested in sort of like the legal box to put this in and more interested in you know

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You're you're you're you're spending a lot of time talking about what exactly the classification is here

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And I think we've talked a good deal about that But what produced this classification might be relevant to understanding what the classification is about absolutely

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And what seems to have produced this classification is that We want to ban children

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Treatments that might encourage minors to become disdainful of their sex.

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So we think that there's something fundamentally wrong fundamentally bad about youth who are

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Are trying to transition and that's the way this purpose seems to me if I could try there you go.

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There you go And you know, the sad thing is this guy's trying his best

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To run from that Because You have to run from that But I sure hope that's what they were trying to do.

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I Sure. Hope that they were in fact I mean

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What's being said here is we can't call it good To help little boys become men and To recognize that they have been called they've been made by God as Males and that it's good and that there are roles to be fulfilled and duties to perform and privileges to have

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You can't do that with girls either I mean feminism already taught us that right here's

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Here's what we especially here's what we as parents grandparents great -grandparents

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This is what we have to recognize and that is that this is the default

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View now of our society This is what our kids grandkids great -grandkids are going to be hit with Even when it's not being explicitly stated.

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It's the default view and a lot of people really struggle to Respond to default views and to to Express themselves in a way that's understandable

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To everybody else around them that's our it's embraced the default view and they they they don't want to get rid of it

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They they like it. They're happy to live with it. They don't see that it's damaging their life. And and so how do you?

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How do you it's one thing to teach our kids? God's you

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God created you he made you that that's good that you Gotta have a creator if you're going to get anywhere else

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But that the challenge for the next generations is

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Going to be How do you prophetically honor

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Christ by speaking his truth to a society that has been steeped in this kind of Defective and Destructive Worldview that changes language so that if you try

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To say what God says is good and true and right The only way you can do that is by using offensive language.

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I mean, it's very clear that again I think this is sort of my are I Think Kagan only spoke once so I'm assuming it was sort of my own

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It's clear that in her mind You know, she says we understand that sentiment.

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What's the sentiment? that you want boys to be happy that they're boys and to embrace their role and to embrace their capacities and abilities and And Encourage them to be the best man they can be and That girls are to be nurtured and Told that they've been created by God to have special abilities.

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They can they can nurture life They can impact people like like Nobody else can you know,

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I'd say that and there is a Presuppositional rejection of the goodness of the created order

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In our society today, and it it didn't start yesterday It started hey, guess what it started before the boomers

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Sorry guys, you don't get to blame the boomers for everything I'm sorry, you're gonna do it.

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Anyway, so don't make any difference. But anyway This has been going on for a long time But we've gone over the tipping point so that You look at the next generation the young generation now 20 what was it?

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22 .7 % Identify as some type of transgender

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Whereas amongst my generation it was like 1 .7 percent How does that happen well, you've got over the tipping point and We're now looking at a generation

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That Has pretty much been raised by secularists

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You know even when I was in public school, I Was public educated

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Homeschool movement hadn't started. Yeah, I think there were some Christian schools and stuff, but my parents couldn't afford that we were poorest church mice and so even in the public schools

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There was still a lot of Christian concepts that were just given they were they were still accepted and They've been pushed out more and more and more and more until Now functionally for the vast majority of young people they don't exist anymore

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It's not there. So we're looking at a thoroughly secular generation coming up and so Isaiah 5

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White is black good is evil. I suppose you could say 1984 same thing that's where we are and That's Another reason why we have to teach our children our grandchildren great -great -grandchildren having a

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Christian worldview Understanding where your thought process must start is

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Not just something you do during a lesson in homeschool It has to be your default way of operating every single day encountering everything in our society

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It has to be how you live and so I wanted to close

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With a Reminder of a particular text and I've already gone 49 minutes here, but everybody knows and If you're like algo, you've heard me talk about this many times

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But it is important to remind people of this in first Peter 315

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You're All your modern translations will read something along the lines of but sanctify

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Christ as Lord in your hearts Always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account

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The hope that is in you yet with gentleness and reverence or fear Having a good conscience so on so forth

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You know the text In regards to apologetics, this is where the term comes from all the rest is up but The key issue is this this is a quotation

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And I'm very thankful that The NAS the

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Nessie Allen text continues the citation from Isaiah chapter 8

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Beginning of verse 12 it shows you that that continues in diverse 15 most modern translations

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Don't show you that so even in the LSB You'll notice it'll say and do not fear their fear and do not be troubled

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But sanctify Christ's Lord in your hearts always being ready to make a defense Do not fear their fear and don't be troubled is all in caps

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So that's the LSB and the NASB is way of saying this is a Old Testament citation in The Greek text that is in italics which is its way of doing that, but so is the term

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Lord in verse 15 and Sanctify or treat as holy

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Because those are continued. That's a continued quotation from Isaiah chapter 8

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One other thing real quickly, like I said, not a lot of time, but one thing real quickly There's textual variant here and So the

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Texas Receptus and New Kingdom, so the King James New King James Majority text

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I believe say sanctify the Lord God in your hearts

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But the term sanctify Christ tan -kristan tan -kristan and then you've got korean

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I suppose I Yeah, I can

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Well a second here You gotta get it large enough so even

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I can see it the screen let me see here Yeah, there we go

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Little teeny box again Still got to fix it. Um, so see here you you have

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Korean and hagiocite are Still in italics in the nestle all in 28th edition here

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Which shows that they're they the editors recognize this is the same continued citation from Isaiah 8 that you see up here in verse 14 and Then the variant here and I doubt you can see that's super well

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Hey, wait a minute Yeah, that's a little bit bigger yeah that that makes it somewhat better, um

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You can see the variant that's marked there in the Greek text and The text read is read by p72 which is the

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Earliest manuscript we have a 1st 2nd Peter and Jude When we did the thing at g3 in Washington, we went to the

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Bible Museum They had a nice facsimile of p72 there and I showed people that unofficially

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Didn't let me do a tour, but we did it unofficially p72 Sinaiticus Alexandrus Vaticanus see psi 33 11 75 12 43 16 11 17 39 is a pretty important Minuscule manuscript that clearly had like a 2nd century exemplar

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So it's it's from like the 10th century, but it had a very very early. It's a very early text 1739 is

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Many Latin Syriac Coptic Manuscripts as well say

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Christ sanctified Christ What did I do wrong now?

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Okay connections okay, and Rich says it's it's gone. So Well, we're getting close in here anyways, we'll finish up so the earlier manuscripts all have

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Christ As the reading here rather than Lord God, so let me make a quick application and we'll wrap up So if you set

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Christ Lord Treat him as holy as Lord in your hearts

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This is a recognition of who Christ is because this is talking about Yahweh He's entered into human flesh when you place him in the proper place as the central

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Focus of your thinking because that's what the hearts about it. We're not talking about, you know, Valentine's Day.

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We're talking about What defines you as you When you treat as holy the incarnate one who has entered into flesh to redeem you

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When that is and this is a command for all people all Christians are to do this Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts that will

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Fundamentally orient your entire worldview When you look at the subject of the

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Tennessee law the first thing in your mind is Genesis 1 first thing in your mind is

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Genesis 2 Jesus interpretation of it in Matthew chapter 19 from the beginning the Creator made the male and female and you will act on the basis of that and you will say to society a society that will not

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Follow its own Creators laws is a society that will collapse.

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It's a society that will be destroyed That's what's gonna happen without that kind of objective revelation from God All you're left with is chaos

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Chaos of Uncertainty chaos of human opinion chaos of human rebellion revolution human desire to fulfill every lust its chaos absolute

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Chaos, and that's where we're headed. That's where we're headed so Hopefully that will be of some assistance and encouragement to you as we are seeking to Teach Our young people and Ground them.

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This is what we need to ground them in so that they can interact with this world around us so with that Another dividing line on the road taken care of speaking on this subject this weekend here in st.