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

The Supreme Court, Tennessee SB1, and the Collapse of Objective Truth

Well greetings and welcome to the dividing line, my name is James white and I'm coming to you from Really really cold st. Charles, Missouri. Got down to 18 last night and.

I.

Put out my little weather. 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.

I.

Explained yesterday first time the units been in this kind of temperature. 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. 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 That I've been a short-circuiting the units abilities to stay warm by using space heaters. 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. So I'm making adjustments and things like that. But anyways, we're here. It's it's a cloudless night.

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

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

So.

The thing 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. According to one of the thermometers I can see 52 degrees in here.

I would be dying. But I'm actually quite comfortable with this. This on so hey, you know, I bunch you commented on Twitter. Yeah, we'll move up here to Alaska. There's a reason I don't live in Alaska.

I Live in Phoenix, Arizona. I've been there for 50 years. 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. 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. Would you really want to do this for you know, five months out of the year?

Like no, I don't think so. At least I'm not. The snow melted the day I got here. 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.

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

So, oh I have someone saying that no link has been posted for today. Well, I'm sorry, I have no control over such things. Um. But if we could post a link somewhere 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 Supreme Court on a Tennessee law that prohibits Cross-sex hormones and I believe also Puberty blockers. I could be wrong about that but it's a.

It's fundamentally a law Intended to in some fashion Protect young people.

From.

Bodily, you know, you know. Malaysian that. What's amazing? I don't think that term even was used at any point In the oral arguments. They lasted. Think right around two hours.

Well.

It may have been longer than that. I had it at one point two five. So I think I think in the program I was using it adjusts the time depending on that. So anyway, I. Listen to all the arguments. I could not help but think back.

On a.

Dark day.

In.

June of 2015. I I spoke up in Flagstaff at a Conference that I'll never be invited to again. Sadly enjoyed it.

But.

Things change over nine years, unfortunately, and That's when a 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.

I know it's in Utah. I don't I don't I'd assume. Yeah, I had to have gone up to Colorado and then I guess I came back to Utah. I don't remember exactly what I did, but I I do know that I was on the 15 southbound through Central and Southern Utah as I listened to.

Yeah, yeah riches riches complain. 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. He's no longer with us, but anyway. So, oh I see what you're doing you're posting it I hope hope you posted it in the a a road trip thing there and that way they can see it and Catch up with it their way.

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.

The.

Majority opinion in the a burger fall case and. When I got done listening to that even while I was listening to it I Just felt I Felt like our nation was done if if the Supreme Court of the United States Could put out This kind of Childish Emotion filled Irrational illogical.

Um.

Mess and.

In so doing completely redefine marriage completely changed the very foundations of Western society then. What what was coming in the future and I've also? Commented a number of times over the nine years.

Well since then have that it was like a Switch was flipped. Starting the end of June of 2015 Everything changed. And what do I mean?

The.

Emphasis of the culture of death the emphasis of the LGBTQIA plus plus plus. Revolution. Immediately pivoted. It was like the preceding ten years hadn't happened. The emphasis upon Homosexual mirage. 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. To an attack upon creation itself. We don't know what a man is. We don't know what a woman is. Transgenderism and it happens so fast That it's like yeah, you can't do that that quickly if it wasn't already planned.

And I really believe that it was and so The the pivot takes place. They had to profane marriage because marriage and the family God's first ordained institution stood in the way of their rebellion stood in the way of their revolution and So once they got that now they needed to go even Lower and what I mean lower to the more basic reality.

So you've you've now profaned marriage. 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.

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

Look.

Listening to the three female ideologues on The court. It's just so hard to even listen to them. Jackson Sotomayor They weren't quote-unquote asking questions. They were working with the Biden regime and the Solicitor General and A transgender attorney the first one do to testify before the Supreme Court.

Well that individual I didn't say pictures, but I assume it's a Guy pretending to be female or I don't know Which one it is, but anyway They're working with them. 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 a Got to speak at the end. And he didn't get nearly as much time.

But.

Uh, he was getting interrupted by these women and They're they're just arguing with him. I mean it was Just it was just so obvious what they're gonna do. The question is what will Gorsuch and Barrett do.

Because Gorsuch surprised everybody in voting In showing himself to be supportive of transgender rights and. As dr. Moeller pointed out on the briefing that's. Well, well, I think he was pointing out the same thing that immediately crossed my mind.

Gorsuch did graduate studies in natural law at Oxford. And so you would think that a natural law expert and advocate would be able to see What's right in front of all of us. A Society that cannot identify male and female.

A society that gives in to this 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 who have a specific genetic abnormality in regards to their sex chromosomes.

There are Dozens of various.

Syndromes.

Genetic abnormalities and those individuals need to be Cared for and encouraged and All that stuff no question about it, but that's not what transgenderism is. That's not what the transgender revolution is.

I Saw a graphic. 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, I'm not overly Happy about that kind of stuff these days, but a breakdown by generations.

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. 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 and you're like.

Excuse me.

Isn't.

Isn't this obvious?

Isn't it clear that this is social media tick-tock. 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. I believe that wholeheartedly are there Exceptional women who can participate in that? Yes, but. Here's the problem. Let's say you have a great woman soldier. The other guys around her will protect her.

Because they're men. That's what men do. That's how men were created. They will protect her at the risk of their own life that massively reduces the efficiency of any fighting unit. 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. 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. 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. And we're gonna make the older ones amongst us feel guilty that they ever believed these things.

Have you noticed that I.

Mean.

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 You're gonna be in deep trouble. You're certainly not going to get advanced in your position and You are made to feel guilty 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 A major advancement in Ethical and moral dialogue and discussion.

Nope. Not because of that. Why is it? Why is it happen? We literally are Becoming a culture Where the depth of moral and ethical dialogue has to be able to fit into tweets Maybe a semi long 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 Internet and especially social media has introduced I don't think we're anywhere near ready to deal with the 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 AI and You know, those are very shadowy shadowy persons, so anyway Back to my experience today and by the way you you can You can go to the Supreme Court web page and all this stuff is available for download download mp3 Boom boom.

And you also could There are a number of programs I was put on notice about one that's specifically sort of for my Mac That will produce.

Transcripts.

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. I had one called libretto. But honestly, I think it was slower than just listening to the audio file. It really really took a long time this new one that I have.

I think it's called Ico or a co. Anyway, it's much faster in producing a.

Transcript.

But they have they have written transcripts on the Supreme Court page. They have the audio mp3 download. Glad hey. Let's be thankful. You know Thanksgiving's barely over. Let's be thankful for the things we have.

There are a lot of countries Where you don't get to listen to? You know the oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court. That's a good thing. I don't know how long that will remain.

But.

Yeah, it's a good thing. So anyway. The one thing about being this cold it is dry. Oh dry dry dry dry dry. Possibility of rain over the weekend. So this this Midwestern stuff. People what can't you just have like the same weather for more than 12 hours.

Changes all the time. So anyway, so I'm listening to The ideologues on the left. I'm listening to the good guys. Clarence Thomas asked some questions. He sounds old.

I.

Suppose that's one of the advantages of Trump winning. I 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. 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 Lot of legal jargon, but there is almost no Common-sense worldview discussion at all. It's like it's forbidden. You could never use the term mutilation.

You have to use The new words the new terminology gender-affirming care.

What does that even mean? You're talking about.

Fundamentally changing the body and you're talking about Risking this and this person's entire future life. There was some discussion of Loss of fertility and You know irreversible actions being taken 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 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 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 Trying to ask good questions and even listening to the guy from Tennessee defending their law you could tell there were certain things you cannot say.

There were certain things you cannot say and I Forgive me. I Apologize. I had actually Taken the time to Yeah, let's see here, uh put down.

A.

Timestamp. Apologize. This case is about access to medications that have been safely prescribed. This first clip as I recall I think is Sotomayor might have been Kagan. In Tennessee medications can't be prescribed and they're going back and forth.

Advocating for one particular side clearly it doesn't matter what. Parents. And let me see if I can. It doesn't matter what you it up here. It would have been easier to Have this all set up. Oh my goodness.

That's the smallest font on the.

Assuming a similarly, all right, this will be to that. There still would not in the general area a sexually transgender based.

Do the. So if I forgot to turn my microphone back on the 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. 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. That's exactly what this You are. We think that if we're assuming a similarly worded statute that there still would not be.

Okay, so obviously when I was moving the thing it started doing it. I couldn't hear it. I apologize for that. Well, we Thought we had that fixed but it didn't work out right and rich wants to maybe on the way home.

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

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

Now did you catch that? You're licensing states to remove from people the choice of which sex to adopt. Okay, does anybody else see The mountain of Rebellious insanity Behind what that Supreme Court justice I think it was Sotomayor.

I could be wrong. But I think it is. Does anybody else see that mountain of? Absurdity in this woman's thinking. Here's what I wanted to try to communicate. There is no way out of this.

Abyss of.

Cultural insanity without. Coming to recognition and understanding that you must have an objective Foundation in reality, you must know objective truth About the purpose of this creation.

Our.

Purpose. As human beings you cannot have consistent law 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 Supreme Court decisions and everything else is.

Man's.

Compromising a man going with the current, you know cultural climate going with the you know, whatever the new theory is and There'll never be any consistency. You you can't have consistency when you're when you're Operating on the foundation that God hasn't spoken.

We don't know what a man. 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.

Can't.

Anybody else see. That there's no way out of this. That it's a labyrinth of our own creation that that basically what we've done is we've just blindfolded everybody. And now we're just running into each other and wondering why everybody keeps getting bloody noses and everything else.

The cultural degradation. You know, I don't I don't know what this I don't know what the courts gonna decide.

I'm concerned that.

It could be 5 -4 or even 6 -3 against, Tennessee and. You know, where does that lead.

Who knows.

But.

It would certainly be viewed as a tremendous victory for Transgenderism and would be interpreted that way. And. So when I look at this and I look at I listen to this as a as a as a Christian pastor theologian apologist, whatever you want to call me Coogee wearing moron as most of you are calling me these days on the internet.

As I listen to these intelligent people Trying to function in God's world with their eyes firmly shut.

I'm.

My heart breaks for them first of all, but my heart breaks for the society. Can you imagine what the Founding Fathers? Would have thought if they had listened to what I listened to today. What would George Washington be be saying?

What would John Adams be saying? What would even Thomas Jefferson be saying? They they could not even begin To Contemplate to conceive of The blindness of modern American jurisprudence. And I think even the Franklins and the Jeffersons Would stand back and go.

Whoa that. That's pretty radical stuff. You're doing there. Are we really going to be able to hold a nation together without?

The.

Cohesion That the Christian faith Provided at the start 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. There aren't any little bushes hanging out there.

You can grab all two on the way down that are gonna hold your weight. 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 going to.

You sit back and you just go. Did do you hear yourself?

Did 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? I.

Hear the.

You know, I think about.

Brave new world and.

You've never read brave new world. 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 A's and the B's and the C's and the D's and the E's and the F's and and That's the sliding scale of intellect. 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 you.

How do you? But with this Supreme Court justice not find it Really really super strange That someone would Self-identify as a horse. Are you taking away their choice as to what species they can choose to be?

What has happened? I?

Mean.

Darwin kicked the gate open for all this. Let's just be honest about that. None of it. None of this could happen. None of this could have ever happened without Darwin.

You go.

Well, where'd that come from? If if that seems strange to you, like I just changed subjects. I didn't. I Didn't change subjects at all. You just haven't thought it through. That's not some different subject.

Darwin opened the door for a godless cosmology. 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. Darwin did all of it.

I'm not saying that that was the only thing that happened. 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. No question about it. But what an astonishing thing. At the end of 2024 to hear a Supreme Court justice seemed to going Well, if Tennessee's law is upheld then you're uh, you're telling people That they can't choose to be a different sex than they are.

Well, yeah, 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. Then a few minutes later.

And.

And I don't think I started that so good, all right. Two minutes later we have This. 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.

We'll hear argument this morning in case 23 -4. Oh.

Well, I don't 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.

Differentiates between treatments for males and females. Can I ask you about one of the purposes of this law? 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 in gender encourage gender conformity and to discourage anything other than Gender conformity.

And I'm wondering how you think that plays into the analysis.

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.

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

I'm less interested in sort of like the legal box to put this in and more interested in you know. You're you're spending a lot of time talking about what exactly the classification is here. 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, and I would love to address. And what seems to have produced this classification is that We want to ban children treatments that might encourage minors to become disdainful of their sex.

So we think that there's something fundamentally wrong fundamentally bad about youth who are Are trying to transition and that's the way this purpose seems to me. If I could try. There you go. There you go.

And you know, the sad thing is this guy's trying his best. To run from that. Because You have to run from that. But I sure hope that's what they were trying to do. I Sure. Hope that they were in fact.

I.

Mean.

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.

You can't do that with girls either. I mean feminism already taught us that right here's. Here's what we Especially here's what we as parents grandparents great-grandparents this is what we have to recognize and that is that this is the default 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. 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 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. 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 How do you it's one thing to teach our kids?

God's you God created you he made you that that's good that you Gotta have a creator if you're going to get anywhere else. But the challenge for the next generations is Is going to be How do you prophetically honor Christ by speaking his truth to a society That has been steeped in this kind of Defective and Destructive World view that changes language.

So that if you try to say what God says is good and true and right the only way you can do that is By using offensive language. 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 art. It's clear that in her mind You know, she says we understand that sentiment. 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 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.

They can they can nurture life. They can impact people like.

Like.

Nobody else can you know how to say that. And there is a Presuppositional Rejection of the goodness of the created order in Our society today. And it it didn't start yesterday. It started. Hey, guess what it started before the boomers.

Sorry guys, you don't get to blame the boomers for everything. I'm sorry. You're gonna do it 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? 22 .7 Identify as some type of transgender. Whereas amongst my generation it was like one point seven percent.

How does that happen?

Well, you've gone over the tipping point and We're now looking at a generation.

That.

Has pretty much been raised by secularists. You know even when I was in public school, I Was public educated. Homeschool movement hadn't started. Yeah, I think there were some Christian schools and stuff, but my parents couldn't afford that.

We were poor as church mice and.

So.

Even in the public schools 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. It's not there so we're looking at a thoroughly secular.

Generation coming up and.

So Isaiah 5 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-grandchildren having a Christian worldview.

Understanding where your thought process must start is 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 it has to be how you live and So I wanted to close.

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, but it is important to remind people this in first Peter 315.

You're.

All your modern translations will read something along the lines of but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts Always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account The hope that is in you yet with gentleness and reverence or fear Having a good conscience so on so forth.

You know the text. In regards to apologetics. This is where the term comes from all the rest. That's up, but The key issue is this this is a quotation And I'm very thankful that.