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You're listening to radio looks lucid. I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 50 the title of today's episode is

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Transmania well, I'm pretty pumped about this. This is episode 50 So I made it to the half -century mark and that's that's kind of exciting, you know

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I it's only taking me four years to do this. I first started the the whole podcasting thing back in in 2017 and well

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You know, it's kind of slow going and it was a little bit like my blog writing, you know I started writing a blog and in fact, that was almost 12 years ago.

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And I was kind of a Indifferent writer for a long time, you know, I'd write, you know a post now and then

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I might go months without writing another post And and it wasn't actually until I had done it for about five years or so five and a half years that I really kind of started to To take it a little bit more seriously and to start do it more regularly and and Lord willing

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I really hope that I can continue to do the the podcasting and the live streaming and all that more regularly

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So I wanted to say hi to everybody. That's Anybody who's watching out there on Twitter or D live or YouTube?

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Thanks for joining me. I appreciate that and love having you here and Well, let's get into Well, you know before I get into today's program.

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We did want to mention one thing, you know, I was really excited today About a second thing not just about getting having episode 50 here, but it was the first day

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It actually felt kind of like spring, you know I was able to to get my bike out and and go riding and in the park

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I went to to there's a bike trail here locally in a park and I went there and my goodness I mean, it was just mobbed.

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It was about as full as I think I've ever seen it You know, you couldn't hardly find a parking place Then when you got to get out to ride you had to spend all your time trying to dodge

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Yes Families out there with little kids and pets and all of this type of thing And yeah,

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I mean they were enjoying it as much as I was but it was a little bit crowded I was kind of glad when

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I got past the trailhead and kind of got out into some of the The longer portion of the trail and I was able to ride

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Without so much having to dodge so many obstacles yeah you really have to be careful when you get out there and in these these bike trails because there are pedestrians and Like I say a lot of times little kids or you know dogs and this kind of thing and you really do have to be

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Aware of what's going on around you so somebody doesn't get hurt But yeah, it was a great time getting out and and I really love being able to get that bike out again

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And I hope I can keep do that on a regular basis here. So so yeah, that's that's always something to look forward to this

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Time of year it's coming up on my birthday You know and always it kind of coincides with the very sort of beginnings of spring and so that's always a kind of a nice birthday present that I get every year

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Now I am running a little bit late here again today In fact, this is about as late as I think I've ever done this. It's about one o 'clock on a

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Sunday morning I'm sitting here doing this podcast. I'd actually started it had a couple of false starts here tonight

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I tried to to get this going and I ran into some technical difficulty.

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I Was sitting here and I was actually going along pretty well. I had about 20 minutes of the program in line I looked down on my digital recorder and and it was was shut off and what

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I found out is I didn't have my power supply plug plugged in and it was running off battery and the batteries were

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We're running low and the thing just shut off I'm sitting here talking. I'm not even recording anything.

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I thought boy. This is a great program. It's going along great I look down there's there's no Nothing happening on my recorder.

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I'm like, oh good grief. I can't believe that I did that So anyway, I've got it actually got a plugged in now So hopefully

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I'll be able to actually record a podcast and and get through this and make something good happen. So Let's take a look at the topic of today you know,

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I called this this trans mania and my inspiration for calling it that was Something that took place this past week in the

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Senate as you know Joe Biden is staffing in the process of staffing up his administration and With in the way that that works is there there are a number of positions

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These are sort of some of the top, you know Either cabinet level positions or positions just under the cabinet level that require a a

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Senate confirmation And there was a particularly noteworthy Senate confirmation hearing it took place this last week that involved the assistant secretary for health and the person who's

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Been picked by Joe Biden to fill this this role is someone by the name of Rachel Levine Now Rachel Levine and I'm gonna go ahead share the screen here.

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Let's do a little screen share Okay, so you you should be able to see this This is an article from revolver and and here's a picture and here's here's

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Rachel Levine here in the center Now when you when you look at at Rachel, it's pretty obvious that Rachel Was not originally named

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Rachel and and Rachel is is a dude in a blonde wig I mean that that's what it comes down to.

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He's he's a dude in a blonde wig and This is the person who is is supposed to be the the assistant secretary for health

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So let's read a little bit here about what this article in revolver has to say Quote Rachel Levine is on the brink of becoming

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America's assistant secretary for health The notion is so facially absurd that it belongs in a cartoon or perhaps a

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Mike judge movie Levine is an obese man who has pumped himself with hormones and possibly even mutilated himself in the belief that he is a woman

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Now this is one of the things I appreciate about a lot of the articles on on revolver They they don't give in to this this fantasy that that Rachel is a woman

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I mean, they make it very clear that he's a man now That's a very controversial thing to do depending on where you are

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You can get a lot of get in a lot of trouble for misgendering somebody You know somebody identifies as a woman and you call him a man.

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Well, you know, you couldn't can get you know, maybe lose your job or certainly have

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You find yourself The the object of the Twitter mob or something like this that that's almost like hate speech to say this type of thing

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But let's continue here. So quote is Pennsylvania's health secretary He oversaw a covert regime that like neighboring

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New York was both oppressive and ineffective With one of the nation's highest coronavirus death rates

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Levine himself, of course pulled his mother out of the nursing home as the virus began to spread there and quote

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So apparently, you know, he he was responsible kind of like what? in Pennsylvania, he was responsible

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I guess for carrying out a similar program to what what Andrew Cuomo did of sending all these these people with Kovac back to nursing homes and then lots of people with in nursing homes got sick and died and Apparently this

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Rachel Levine was carrying out a program like that, but he made sure he got his own mother out

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You know, so it's good You know, we can give Kovac to your mother but my mother well, I'm gonna protect

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I'm gonna protect her, you know and of course, this is just typical of the kind of arrogance that Exists more and more in the the governing class in the

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United States where where they don't even try to hide their hypocrisy and In greed and arrogance.

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I mean, it's just on full display And the article continues quote disturbingly

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Levine's Levine's specific specialties are pediatrics and psychiatry In other words providing mental health assistance to vulnerable children during his confirmation hearing on Thursday in front of the

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Senate Health Committee Levine refused to condemn the practice of giving sex changes to children when pressed by Senator and Paul Levine wouldn't even answer providing a robotic

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Response that made his real sentiments obvious. I want to play a little bit here of This is a video of the the

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Senate confirmation hearings and if you're you're listening Without the video here.

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The first voice you're going to hear is Senator Rand Paul He's gonna ask some questions of Levine and then you hear

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Levine respond and they go back and forth a couple times here So I'm gonna play this and then we'll comment on it once after a couple of three minutes here

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Dr. Levine you have supported both allowing minors to be given hormone blockers to prevent them from going through puberty as well as surgical destruction of a minor's genitalia

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Like surgical mutilation hormonal interruption of puberty can permanently alter and prevent secondary sexual characteristics the

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American College of Pediatricians reports that 80 to 95 percent of prepubertal children with gender dysphoria will experience resolution by late adolescents if Not exposed to medical intervention and social affirmation

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Dr. Levine, do you believe that minors are capable of making such a life -changing decision as changing one's sex?

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Well senator, thank you for your interest in this question Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and Standards of care that have been developed and if I am fortunate enough to be confirmed as the assistant secretary of health

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I will look forward to working with you and your office and coming to your office and discussing the

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Particulars of the standards of care for transgender medicine. The specific question was about minors

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Let's be a little more specific since you evaded the question Do you support the government intervening to override the parents consent to give a child puberty blockers cross -sex?

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Hormones and or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia You have said that you're willing to accelerate the protocols for street kids

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I'm alarmed that poor kids with no parents who are homeless and distraught You would just go through this and allow that to happen to a minor

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I would hope that you would have compassion for Kyra Bell Who's a 23 year old girl who was confused with her identity at 14?

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She read on the internet about something about transsexuals. She thought well, maybe that's what I am She ended up getting these puberty blockers cross -sex hormones.

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She had her breasts amputated But here's what ultimately she says now and this is a very insightful from decision from someone who made a mistake

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But was led to believe this was a good thing by the medical community I made a brash decision as a teenager as a lot of teenagers do trying to find confidence and happiness

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Except now the rest of my life will be negatively affected. She said adding that the medicalized gender transitioning

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Was a very temporary superficial fix for a very complex identity issue

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What I'm alarmed at is that you're not willing to say absolutely Minors shouldn't be making decisions to amputate their breasts or to amputate their genitalia

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For most of our history. We believe that minors don't have full right Okay, seem to have a little bit of problem with the feed there.

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I don't know what's going on with the Feed but anyway the

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I think you need to be involved So I'm alarmed that you won't say with certainty that minors should not have the ability to make the decision to take

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Hormones that will affect them for the rest of their life Will you make a more firm decision on whether or not minors should be involved in these decisions?

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Senator transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field And if confirmed to the position of assistant secretary of health

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I would certainly be pleased to come to your office and talk with you and your staff About the standards of care and the complexity of this field

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Let it go into the record that the witness refused to answer the question the question Okay, so there we go

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Yeah, and Senator Paul asked a couple of pretty pointed questions, especially the second question he asked

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Rachel Levine, he asked him, you know Do you support the government intervening to override the parents consent to give a child puberty blockers?

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cross -sex hormones and or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia and What did

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Rachel Levine answer with? Well, it didn't he didn't even really address the question he evaded the question gave some boilerplate pre -prepared statement and And that was it

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I mean and that tells you about everything you really need to know I mean apparently he really does believe that the government has the right to to override the parents wishes and it and allow

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Children and move, you know allow children to make some very destructive choices at a very young age

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And he's fine with this. I Mean, so, you know these you know, love Levine and other folks like him.

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They're coming for your kids You know, they want big brother to get involved in the family in a way that big brother has no business whatsoever being involved with it

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But but they're they're pushing this and they're pushing this in in a very I mean, this is this is just destructive

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It's astonishing. It's shocking. I guess maybe it shouldn't be shocking, but but I still find it shocking

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You know that somebody like this is able to be considered for a high government position in in any sane society

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This man would not be anywhere near holding a government office of any sort and yet here we go, you know, and he's about to be

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Be installed as a pretty high -ranking official in in the in Joe Biden's government

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Now one other thing I wanted to note here is the article continues here. Let's read a little bit more of it here

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It says 50 years ago. The cult of transgenderism didn't even exist I'm here 10 years ago is so obscure.

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Most Americans knew nothing about it. Well, yeah, you know That's that's true. That's true. I mean I you know growing up.

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I mean, I never I mean I graduated high school in 1984 I never heard the term transgender and it's really only been within the last few years that I've become aware of that at all

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I wasn't even really sure what it was and You know, it's it's amazing how prevalent it's become.

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I know I heard someone at at work one time She was talking about she had

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I don't know. I think a daughter maybe middle school age, you know, 12 13 something like that and Made the comment that there were

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I think six or seven kids at at her child's school Who are in the process of transitioning either male or female or female to male and I was just in one school

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I mean this stuff didn't even exist until just the last few years and You know and in fact it says here, you know

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But over the past decade transgenderism has been accepted and mass by the centers of power in America Which are now imposed in them on the whole country the core parts of its doctrine are easy to list

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It talks about the bullet points out some of these physical sex and gender gender identity are completely unrelated to one another

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Gender is fluid and there are far more genders than merely male male and female. In fact, there may be infinite genders

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Gender roles are socially constructed. There is no biological basis for behavior to behavioral differences between males and females

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Well, I mean there's so much of this. It's wrong. I mean just just take this last one. The gender roles are socially constructed

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No, they're hardwired into us It was it was the Lord himself that created he created man male and female male and female.

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He created them and There are men and women are not the same

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They have roles that are specific to them, you know, and I know that that saying that is extremely unpopular in 2021

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America. I mean, that's the whole feminist Thing, isn't it? I mean the men and women they're pretty much they're the same, you know

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And if there's any difference in in the way they behave and in the things that they do in life Well, I mean that that's chalked up to the patriarchy, which everybody knows much be smashed

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Well, you know, I hate to break it to the feminists, but you know Patriarchy is

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God's design for the human race Patriarchy is a good thing. It's not a bad thing.

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It's not an evil. It's a good thing It's a blessed thing And and i'm glad that we have that but you know, these people are bound and determined If they're able to to uh to do away with all of that And and there are there are some other bullet points.

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I won't read all read through all of that But uh, you know continues the america of 2021 the catechism above is accepted completely by every power center in american life

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And that is true. I mean, this is one of the things that's so shocking I mean, you know, it gives an example here of uh, some uh, children's children's coloring books and You know, you you see this kind of thing, uh all over the place i'm going to cite in fact, here's another example

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Uh, this is a headline you're talking about the way that that the whole transgender ideology is is attempting to to pull in your kids

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Mr. Potato head now, you know, mr. Potato head's been around for years. In fact, I think they said

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In this particular article that mr. Potato has been around about 70 years And I think he was even in the in toy story, right?

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Uh, you know, he was that was one of the characters in those, uh, those cartoons uh by pixar uh toy story toy story and You know, here we go.

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Here's the headline This is from the bbc but you can find this in any similar articles in any number of of publications

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Mr. Potato had to lose mr. Title and gender neutral rebrand So, you know, what's what's this all about?

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Well, this is the the manufacturer is is uh, hasbro makes the mr Potato head and let's read this here a gender neutral makeover.

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We'll see. Mr Potato head become the toy formerly known as mr. Potato head. Well, he's kind of like prince, you know

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There's the artist formerly known as prince. I guess this is the toy formerly known as mr. Potato head So, let's see what it has to say here.

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The classic toys branding is being reimagined for the modern consumer It's us maker hasbro announced on thursday from later this year the toy

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Launched almost 70 years ago. We've been named potato head on packaging Other toy companies have taken similar decisions in recent years breaking with traditional gender norms

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Hasbro is making sure all feel welcome in the potato head world by officially dropping the mr

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From the mr. Potato head brand name and logo to promote gender equality and inclusion The rebranded toy which can be assembled with a selection of different body parts and clothes will be released in autumn this year hasbro said

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The company said the toy will allow children to reimagine and create their own potato head family. So I guess you can have you know, two

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Kind of guy potato heads, even though they're not called. Mr There's they're still kind of like dude potato heads and and I guess maybe you could have two, uh,

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Two, uh, mrs potato heads, although I guess they wouldn't be called mrs They'd just be called called called potato head and but they they'd kind of have kind of had female features.

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So and and I mean, it's just the rot in in our our

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Civilization is is is very deep And that's one of the things you get from this I mean, there's there's a way in which you read through some of this and you you do

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I mean I I find myself in some ways getting kind of a little bit of a laugh out of it But if you really think about it, this isn't a funny thing,

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I mean it's an incredibly dangerous thing It is a tragic and sad thing It is a sinful thing

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More to the point it is an evil thing that's going on here. I mean this is represents massive confusion

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This is putting darkness for light and light for darkness. It's calling good evil and evil good

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And it's being done not by obscure people but really by the the leading

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Power centers. I think the the article here the in in revolver. It makes the point it says, you know that Transgenderism the transgender catechism is accepted completely by every power center of american life and that's true

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I mean whether you're talking about Corporations whether you're talking about academia whether you're talking about entertainment um the media

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Now even a lot of churches, um, sadly, I mean those those are churches that have abandoned the the word of god

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But even many organizations that hold themselves out as churches I mean, they're they're not true churches of jesus christ who accept this type of thing

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But many churches do also teach Transgenderism and then homosexuality and these things are okay and and and they're they're not okay in the eyes of god

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Now I wanted to turn a little bit to some of the critics of uh Transmania, this was actually kind of my my inspiration

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For for the the title for this this episode. There was an article several years ago. That was it was uh

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This is actually dates from 2015. It's got the the title, uh paglia Transgender mania is a symptom of the west cultural collapse and the article details

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Some comments made by a person by the name of camille paglia It starts off best -selling feminist author social critic and self -described transgender being camille

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Paglia said in an interview last month that the rise of transgenderism in the west is a symptom of decadence and cultural collapse

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Now that she's right about that. Now. One of the things that's really interesting is is the

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The article says here, you know, she is a a feminist and and a self -described transgender being

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And so she's not somebody that You know that as christians that you or I would say well

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We wouldn't think we'd probably have a lot that that we would agree on I think we probably have some very substantial disagreements and probably disagree more than we would agree

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And yet some of the views that she has that she puts forward are actually pretty interesting

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She's a feminist author who you know If if I was going to sit down and read a feminist author She would be probably one of the very few that I would be willing to read

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Again, not because I agree with feminism not because I agree with her, you know, some of her other stances but she she does manage to be pretty interesting and sometimes she'll be uh surprise you and she'll actually say some things that Uh that are actually quite sound

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Um, and and I I think you're you'll see what i'm talking about as we go through this article So these are some quotes from camille paglia

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Nothing better defines the decadence of the west to the jihadists than our toleration of open homosexuality and is transgender mania now

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Pegley said during an october 22nd interview on the brazilian television program roda viva Pegley also said during the interview that transgender propagandists are overstating the case

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I think that the transgender propagandists make wildly inflated claims about the multiplicity of gender.

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She said Sex reassignment surgery even today with all its advances cannot in fact change anyone's sex.

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Okay You can define yourself as a trans man or a trans woman It's one of these new gradations along the scale

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But ultimately every single cell in the human body the dna in that cell remains coded for your biological birth

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Now let's stop there because I think that's a just a fascinating point that she makes and it's right on target

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Now one of the things that's interesting, you know when you you talk to some of these Uh, these you know liberal types is is they like to at least pretend to be very committed to science, you know and and and they like to accuse christians of being you know, sort of a bunch of luddites and science deniers and And and conspiracy theorists and whack jobs and all of this type of thing

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Um, you may recall I don't know if you've ever seen this but there was a debate between ken ham

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And bill nye the science guy I think this was back in in 2014 or so. So it's about seven years ago

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And uh bill nye's I'm going to just summarize his argument And and he might

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I don't I don't think he would disagree with this I mean, basically this is what bill nye said. He said if you're a christian, he didn't literally say this but if you you take all of all of his words and you kind of uh, kind of Get the meaning behind them

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Uh kind of read into what he was saying. Um kind of uh, I guess maybe the the implied ideas

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Uh behind his his overall stance was essentially this if you're a christian you're stupid

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And if you teach your kids to be christians, well, you're guilty of making them stupid too

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And that's that's bill nye's basic view of christians and in christianity and in christian families

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And you know, so here we go. We we have these these liberals again You know these people that like to say, you know, I love science, you know

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And you know and you christians are science deniers because you don't believe in darwinism or blah blah blah well, we don't believe in darwinism, but The thing that's fascinating is you got guys like, uh, you know this rachel levine who wants to claim that he's he's a woman

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But as camille paglia points out and what science tells us is that you know You you've got if you're a guy you've got x and y chromosomes and if you're a female you've got two x chromosomes

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And every one of your cells your dna you're you're you're at the at the cellular level at the dna level

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Is coded male or female, you know that there's not you know, there aren't 50 different, uh, you know potential, uh

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Genders or sexes is more accurate to call it now. There are two there's male and female god created man male and female

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That's why you we have uh, those those two, uh Those two possible arrangements either x x y or x x

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And every cell in your body Reflects this and you know, you can don a blonde wig and you know

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Maybe mutilate yourself or you know get some kind of surgery or something to make yourself look like a woman You're still a guy all of your cells in your body are still coded as a male

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You know a woman can can have her her breast amputated and maybe take some hormone therapy and things like this

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But every cell in her body is still coded as a woman. It doesn't change that So, I mean all these people who want to say follow the science, you know, you hear this kind of stuff

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You know with respect to covid but but you hear in a lot of areas, too You know, we follow the science, you know this kind of thing

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And you know all these people who at the same time want to say they follow the science When it comes to the the whole transgender thing, they don't follow the science

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You know that that that that kind of an argument by the way that that's called an ad hominem argument You know, you you can kind of uh, it's sort of intellectual judo, you know

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You can point out some of the contradictions in in your opponent's Uh thinking, you know and and what you can say is well if you really do love science so much.

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Why don't you accept? What the uh what the biology says about men and women, you know that that all of this

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Stuff that you can do to your body to make yourself appear to you know To to be the opposite sex is really just superficial because at at at at root

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You're still a man and you're still a woman, you know, your your cells your dna has not changed your chromosomes

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Uh have not changed So let's continue here. Uh, this is a morph pagley

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She says so there are a lot of lies being propagated at the present moment Which I think is not in anyone's best interest now

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What i'm concerned about is the popularity and availability of sex reassignment surgery So that someone who doesn't feel that he or she belongs to the biology biological birth gender

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People are being encouraged to intervene in the process Parents are now being encouraged to subject the childhood procedures that I think are a form of child abuse

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The hormones to slow puberty actual surgical manipulations, etc I think this is wrong that people should wait until they are of an informed age of consent

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Well again, camille pagley has a lot more sense than uh, rachel levine or levine

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Um, she has a lot more sense than he does because she she sits here and says this does child abuse

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And if camille pegley is right and she is that that kind of thing is child abuse what?

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Rachel levine our incoming assistant secretary for health is saying is is that he wants to practice child abuse

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You know, you know and he advocates for that and apparently he probably wants to to push this idea out into society more broadly

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And paglia continues parents should not be doing this to their children I think that even in the teenage years is too soon to be making this leap people change people grow and people adapt

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Paglia went on to talk about her book sexual persona and how the emergence of transgenderism signifies the end of western culture

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Now i'm concerned about this. In fact my study of history in sexual persona I'm always talking about the late phases of culture

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I was always drawn to the late or decadent phases of culture Oscar wilde is one of the great exponents of that in the late 19th century

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He's one of my strongest influences from my earliest years And I found in my study that his that history is cyclic and everywhere in the world

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You find this pattern in ancient times that as a culture begins to decline you have an efflorescence of transgender phenomenon

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That is a symptom of cultural collapse So rather than people singing the praises of humanitarian liberalism that allows all these transgender possibilities to appear and to be encouraged

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I would be concerned about how western culture is defining itself to the world Because in fact these phenomenon phenomena are inflaming the irrational indeed borderline psychotic opponents of western culture

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In the form of isis and other jihadists, etc Paglia said nothing better defines the decadence of the west the jihadists then our toleration of open homosexuality

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In this transgender mania now Now those are some stunning comments and that's some really good stuff

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I mean, basically what she's saying here is that the uh that That uh

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Transgenderism is really a sign of of civilizational cultural collapse Or you know as I think john robbins would say it is the collapse of uh of the culture

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And specifically we're talking about here. It is the collapse of the west You know, and I I mean and again,

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I I think when you read through this I mean again, you're dealing with somebody camille paglia. She is not a christian. She's a feminist author

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And she's certainly a I think she would probably call herself a liberal But I mean, this is an excellent analysis

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Of and she she's absolutely right in everything that she says here Now what I would say though And maybe we need to ask ourselves this question is

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Is is what's missing from the analysis? Because it is as good as it is on the surface.

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I think that there are some things Uh, certainly one big thing here here that is missing now

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You know what's missing here is is is really the reason for the collapse of the west

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It's really the the reason here and of course gordon clark and john robbins both knew very well

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Why the west was in collapse and they correctly argue that the reason western civilization is disappearing is because Christianity on which western civilization was built has virtually disappeared from the west

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So if if christianity disappears while the civilization is built is logically also going to disappear

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And and that's what we're seeing you and I are are living through this I mean basically the west exists where we're kind of going on our our reputation.

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We're kind of going on our uh Existing on our our past, uh past successes the past faith, you know of our forefathers

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But you know that same faith that does not exist today. You know, there are very few christians in the west at least as defined by the way, uh, the uh,

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The uh, the reformation would define a christian an evangelical, you know Evangelical back in the time in the in the 16th century was somebody who believed

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Specifically in two things and that is justification by faith alone and in scripture alone

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And and that almost that that's almost non -existent today even among putatively bible -believing churches so Let's do this.

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You know what I thought I'd do here is uh, do a little uh, clarkian analysis of uh

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Of the whole transgender issue and I think it's important to to bring the bible to bear here on this

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You know if if you ever read, uh, you've ever read, uh, john robbins, he he would talk a lot about something

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Uh from martin luther that was called the schrift prinzip Uh, that's a good german word.

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I like to say german words They're fun to fun to say but the schrift prinzip which simply means writing principle

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It was the idea that that all statements by all men, you know need to be brought back to the bible and uh approved by them so so we know a statement of uh of a philosopher or a writer or a poet or a

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Politician or somebody or economist or somebody like this? We we can judge whether they're right or not by by taking their words bringing them back to scripture and comparing them

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To what the scriptures say, you know, and we ask ourselves, you know, does this person who's teaching or you know

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Arguing for a particular position does this position can we find it in scripture? And if if if we can well we say okay that the person's ideas are approved by scripture

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If it contradicts what the bible says if it contradicts the infallible inerrant word of god

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Well, then we know that that those ideas are wrong, you know, and we reject them Now You know, so what does the bible have to say about transgenderism?

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Well, you you won't find the term transgenderism in scripture uh, but I do think that the the bible certainly implies

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That transgenderism is sinful and you may even be able to argue that it explicitly states that in some places as well

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But I don't think there's any question that overall the teaching of the scripture is that transgenderism like other types of uh, say related things such as homosexuality

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Is a sin And it's not just any old sin. It's not just a generic sin It's a actually particularly egregious sin, you know, the bible calls it in multiple places an abomination

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So let's take a look at a few passages and I don't mean this to be an exhaustive study here But I think we can look at a few passages here and I think we can get a pretty good idea

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Uh just from these what what the bible has to say About transgenderism and I want to read here to you first.

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This is a passage from genesis chapter one This is verses 26 to 28 Then god said let us make man in our image according to our likeness

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Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air and over the cattle Over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth

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So god created man his own image in the image of god. He created him male and female

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He created them then god blessed them and god said to them be fruitful and multiply fill the earth and subdue it

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Have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth so one of the things that we can get out of Of this particular passage is that there are only two sexes

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You know or two genders. I know that they call them genders is sort of the popular thing today, but but really properly

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It's two sexes, but even if we we use the term gender, there's only two genders, you know

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There's not this great multiplicity of genders I mean even camille paglia has enough sense to know that you know, there aren't these these infinite genders out there

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There's no such thing as a trans man, there's no such thing as a trans woman God created men. He created women and And they're separate they're they they have uh, they're certainly both bear the image of god, but they are not the same

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They don't have the same The same roles to fill Uh, they are different physically, uh, they're different, uh mentally and and and uh spiritually, uh, they have different roles

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They're designed to do different things. They're designed to complement one another um, they are not the same and You know, and there's no possibility anywhere in scripture of of a of a male actually becoming a woman or a female becoming a man

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You know, that's that's simply unknown. There's nothing in the scriptures, uh that support that at all

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You know in in very clearly. I mean, there's a there's a a demarcation, you know, they're god created men

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He you know, he created them male and female and it doesn't say, you know That that they can just just go back and and mix together and one can become the other they're separate

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There are two sexes not a multiplicity of imagined genders as the transgender folks want us to believe, you know, they're very confused people um, and also there's no separation between one's biological sex and one's so -called gender identity, uh as the uh

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As the transgender folks want us to believe and that whole idea is refuted Even in just in one passage and it's deuteronomy 22 5

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And deuteronomy 22 5 reads thus a woman should not wear anything that pertains to a man

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Nor shall a man put on a woman's garment for all who do sorrow are an abomination to the lord your god now the

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The new king james version that's that quotes the new king james the new king james bible

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Uh in the margin notes, it gives a note that that word abomination can also be translated detestable

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So, you know all who you know men who wear women's anything that pertains to a woman or women who wears anything

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It pertains to a man all who do so are detestable to the lord So you're an abomination or you're detestable to the lord now

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Neither one of those is a good thing to be that's a very bad place to be so again, you know this this idea that um that someone can you know the a woman, you know that a man is

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Uh can can don women's garments or women can don men's garments and and and pretend to be something they're not

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Is is an abomination in the eyes of the lord and and if simply just wearing

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Garments is bad. How much worse are people who actually try to change their bodies into something that they're not designed to be

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You know when somebody mutilates their body, you know amputates a part of their body

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That that distinguishes them as a man or distinguishes them as a woman That's sinful in the eyes of god.

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Not only is it destructive of the person a person's body. It's destructive of their own soul And it's an abomination to to the lord to do this type of thing now then that's one of the the uh, the implications that we get out of this passage,

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I mean if if if The simply wearing of a a woman's garment by a man is is is evil if it's an abomination how much worse?

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when um Again, when they when when a man tries to physically alter himself to to become a woman which is something that he isn't now

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I want to say something here about a little bit something for a little bit about rachel levine Um, that's that that doctor now

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This is kind of interesting a little bit of research on on his background and here's a few things about him

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He was born in 1957. His original his birth name was richard levine. He was born in wakefield, massachusetts uh, he's uh has a jewish background he attended harvard took a

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Bachelor's of science from harvard and then he went to medical school at tulane Now here's the other thing and this is one of the things that really was was fascinating about this.

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He was married And he actually has two children And it wasn't until 2012.

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So he was 55 years old at the time um in 2012, it was only at that time that he and he was still married he

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Came out and claimed that he was uh was a woman and uh, he and his wife were divorced the very next year

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And you know now he goes around and wears a blonde wig And tries to pretend that his name is is rachel.

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Well, his name is richard. It's richard levine You know, that's that's who was testifying in in front of the senate and in dodging rand paul's questions this past week

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It wasn't rachel. It was richard now. I mean I realize that to call him. Richard is you know, there's a term among the transgender

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People and the advocates that they call that dead naming and you can get in a lot of trouble for doing that I mean that that is a in their eyes a very very serious offense, but You know as christians,

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I mean we're told to proclaim each man the truth to To his neighbor And and this is simply a lie.

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I mean the idea that that this man is is is a woman is a lie He's lying to himself and he's lying to everybody else

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You know, and it's a charade and as christians, you know, we cannot Go along with this kind of stuff

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You know, we got to call it out we're commanded by god himself to call this stuff out

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And and to refute it and to reprove it rebuke the the people not only who who push this uh who who claim like richard levine to be something that he isn't but also those people who

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Who support and encourage them as well? And you know like think about romans, uh, this is romans chapter one, you know romans chapter one is very clear that that homosexual homosexual homosexuality is sinful and in fact paul goes through a number of uh,

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Talks very specifically about some of the kinds of sins That uh that people get involved in and including homosexuality and he says this of them.

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He says That you know that these people that practice these things They know the righteous judgment of god and that those who practice such things are deserving of death

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But that doesn't stop them from doing this it doesn't stop them from practicing their homosexuality And in other types of sins and in fact paul tells us that not only do they do these things

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But they prove of those who practice them so they they encourage others You know,

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I mean it's bad enough when when we when we sin and and the sin is is principally affecting ourselves

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You know, maybe you know, somebody's an alcoholic And and he destroys his health and and the like through alcohol

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But very rarely does somebody who's an alcoholic just affect himself I mean if you know

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We all have families whether we're married or not whether we have children or not and and somebody who goes through You know alcoholism or drug addiction not only affects him

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Himself, but he also affects his family as well um, but you know, there are some types of behaviors that may be more destructive to the individual than to others, but But this you know, the the thing that paul points out here is that these people aren't satisfied simply with Engaging in destructive behaviors themselves, but they try to bring other people along with them

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Now, I think I think the lawyers call that sort of thing. I think they call that an aggravating circumstance Okay, so it's bad enough that you yourself

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Try to pretend that you're a woman, but then you try to bring other people along with you And and that makes it even worse

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And and this is the type of thing that I mean if If richard levine stays on the course that he's on right now

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He's going to end up in a very bad end You know, he's not going to inherit the kingdom of god.

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And not only is he not going to inherit the kingdom of god I mean he is going to be uh tormented in hell forever

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And that's a serious thing, you know as christians, you know, we can look at somebody like richard levine He's very obviously somebody who's involved in deep sin

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Now I say this as someone who's a fellow sinner, you know, I i'm a sinner so, I mean I I can't sit up here and get on my

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My moral high horse and talk about how great I am and what a horrible person he is because i'm a sinner

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I'm saved by god's grace. I mean if I got what I deserved, you know, I'd I'd You know be headed straight to hell myself because i'm a sinner but it's by god's grace that i'm saved

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And you know when we we point out the sin of somebody like richard levine You know, we're not doing that because you know, we think somehow as christians, you know, we're we're better than other people

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We're doing it because we're commanded to you know, jesus said that in the great commission, you know He talked about you know, send people out, you know go out and teach, uh, teach the doctrines, you know

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The things that i've taught to you Well, I mean we teach the doctrines of christ and part of the doctrines of christ are teaching against Are teaching about the sin of homosexuality we have an obligation

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To point out the lies of people like richard levine and and rebuke him

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You know you think about what uh what it says in ephesians for instance, uh in in ephesians I guess

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I think it's in ephesians chapter six where paul tells us he says, you know Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them or or reprove them

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You know, that's our job Um, you know writing to timothy he said that the scripture Scriptures, you know are breathed out by god and they're profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction and righteousness

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Again, this is our job as christians. We're to reprove To to correct to instruct in righteousness

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This is our call And you know and and these commands apply to all areas of life

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Now sometimes we think that these commands apply, you know, maybe to the the four walls, you know They're only effective within the four walls of a church building

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Or maybe within the the the walls of our our family houses but out in the bigger world while we know we have to to to get our moral instruction and things like this from You know from the experts from the psychiatrists and you know, secular thinkers and this type of thing.

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Well, no No, we we have an obligation to uh To apply these these ideas in scripture to all of life you know the scriptures have a

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Systematic monopoly on truth as a very uh, uh as john robbins likes to put it And and this is the kind of thing, you know

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We need to be able to take the doctrines of scripture and apply them to these these kinds of cases such as A a man named richard levine who's who's trying to to pass himself off as a woman

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And not only that but he's trying to sit in a very high position in the government and not only that But he's also trying to co -opt

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The nation's children into his sinful lifestyle And and he needs to uh, you know, and he needs to be rebuked for that So that's about all

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I had for this week. So I wanted to say, uh, thanks so much for uh for listening. I do appreciate that And until next time we talk, um, may the spirit of truth guide you in all truth