RLL 116: The Unconstitutional Antisemitism Awareness Act

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I wanted to I'll probably be a fairly short podcast here tonight, but That being the case.

I still think that there are there's some good things we have a chance to go over here and I I Titled the podcast that I did about the unconstitutional

Anti -semitism Awareness Act because I think this is something It actually builds on a couple of the podcasts that I've done here recently

And that is there are some things that are going on in our government that are very dangerous for freedom and these are things that are being done by the the

Israel lobby Then again, I think that there's a real problem among evangelicals in the

United States and there's this Widespread opinion. I'm not saying that everybody holds this opinion, but there's a widespread opinion among people that Israel can do no wrong that Jews can do no wrong and in that there's no

Any criticism of them is somehow Off the table and you're simply not allowed to criticize them.

Well You know Israel is a nation like any other nation and Jews are people like other people you know, we're all sinners and We are all subject to being criticized

And they they don't get a free pass on this Although there are a lot of people in the the a lot of the

Israel supporters out there And in some very powerful organizations think that they should not that they're above criticism

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Well, we just won't do a screen share, but I'm gonna read an article here I'm not gonna read all of it, but just a part of it by German named

Philip Giraldi The title of the article is protecting Israel as Washington's number -one job the White House and Congress rally around the

Star of David flag Now one of the things that I think can make researching

Israel issues related to Israel a bit of a challenge is trying to find people who

I think are responsible level -headed Critics analysts, you know, sometimes you you got to develop your sources, right?

and I've I've read Philip Giraldi over a number of years and I think he's a he's actually a former he's a retired

CIA officer and in my opinion, I think he's done some of the very best work that I've seen of any of Israel's critics he has a website.

It's called counsel for the national interest. That's one place you can read them They also appear on a website called the

UN's review where he has his His columns appear and I think he does some of the most thoughtful intelligent work on the subject of Israel and he's been very concerned about the the degree of Israeli foreign foreign

Israeli influence on on the United States But I just wanted to read just a brief.

This is like about 2800 word essay or so. I'm not gonna obviously read the whole thing I wanted to read a little bit about the opening paragraph here

And it says when is expected President Joe Biden signs off in the anti -semitism Awareness Act The Department of Education will be empowered to send so -called anti -semitism monitors to enforce civil rights laws at public schools as well as at colleges to observe and report on levels of hostility toward Jews Okay, so this was something that the

House of Representatives passed. I think it's been a couple weeks now It's called the anti -semitism

Awareness Act and it was rushed through Congress Substantially as a response to all of the the campus protests against the

Israeli attacks on Gaza and and listen to what he says here, so this is a a bill that was actually passed by Congress and If this thing goes into effect and it probably will you're gonna end up with regime commissars

Israeli, you know Israel commissars at American college campuses

You know, they're observing port on levels of hostility toward Jews. Now. Someone might say well, you know, we shouldn't have hostility toward Jews Well, you have to understand the way they define these things

Hostility could you toward Jews could simply just be criticizing Israel pop Israeli policies You know that could be considered anti -semitism and you could be shut down you get

Potentially I suppose you could get Get kicked out of school, maybe you could have criminal charges filed against you.

I don't know There are places in Europe where that can be done where you can actually go

Go to jail for criticizing Israel for raising questions about the

Holocaust and And these things are entirely foreign to our Constitution To the

First Amendment Congress shall pass. No law make no law Attacking free speech or limiting free speech

The First Amendment covers criticisms of Israel. You are allowed to criticize Israel. You have a

God -given constitutionally guaranteed right to criticize Israel, but the partisans of Israel think that you do not and they don't want you to have that and This is something that I say this especially to my fellow

Christians my fellow evangelicals We need to We seriously need to reevaluate our

What we think about Israel there there are are Lots and lots of evangelicals not saying everybody but there are a lot of them

I think Israel is just the cat's meow. You know, I think the Israel is the bomb and It's the fulfillment, you know the the nation -state and talking about the top of the nation -state of Israel people think that that is is somehow blessed by God and Anything that the

BB Netanyahu or some other Israeli represents it says well We just have to fall at our feet and do it as if it's a pronouncement from the

Lord himself or the Prophet Isaiah Well, that's just nonsense In fact a lot of the things that the

Israeli government does are quite evil the Israeli government is not a Republic or a democracy

In the sense that you and I think of it They don't these real people do not have a lot of the rights that you and I have

And the reason for that is very simple and that is that the Judaism lacks The necessary ideas to create and to sustain a free society

You know The reason that we have a First Amendment in this country The reason that we have the kinds of civil rights that we have that flows out of the process of Reformation Now and of course

Judaism is all about rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ So I mean is not a

Christian religion and I think that you know, there are a lot of people. I think I have a hard time Distinguishing Judaism from Christianity Judaism is not

Christianity and Jews are not Christians. Now. That doesn't mean that we hate them.

That doesn't mean that we wish the deal. It doesn't mean We don't pray for them to come to Christ it doesn't mean that we can't

You know love them as our neighbors, you know, we're told to love our neighbors as ourselves that includes people who are

Jewish You want to abuse people? But it doesn't mean that we have to agree with them

And it doesn't mean that we can't criticize Jews or Jewish organizations when they advocate evil policies and This anti -semitism

Awareness Act is an incredibly evil bill It is an attack on our First Amendment's attack on our

Constitution and the people that promote this type of thing need to be sharply rebuked and It's the type of pieces.

We cannot listen to these people. These people cannot be allowed to dictate How our country

Operates because if they're allowed to do that, then we're not the United States of America anymore.

We're some other country So let's continue reading

Philip Duralde here a bit It talks about the monitors These are the monitors that are going to be put in college campuses

If this this amendment this this bill passes the monitors reports will eventually wind up in Congress Which can propose remedies as required including cutting funding and recommending civil rights charges in extreme cases one of the more regrettable features of the act is that it accepts the

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of Antisemitism as it applies to the state of Israel making criticism of the

Jewish state ipso facto antisemitism. That's exactly right So you've got this law that says well you you know, you you can't be anti -semitic, but you say but I object to Some Policy or another, you know,

I object to the Israeli attacks on Gaza or I object to this or that That's anti -semitism.

Yeah, and you well, I don't know what could happen to you as a student I mean, we don't really know right now the bill hasn't been passed, but it's not gonna be anything good

So you essentially cannot criticize Israel according to this bill That is profoundly un -american is profoundly un -christian

You know as a Christian, yeah, I don't like receiving criticism But I mean there are people who can criticize

Christians all day long and they have a right to do that now They're also going to have to answer for that You know, we must all appear at the judgment seat of Christ and and in people to do that.

They don't repent Things are not going to go well for them. I certainly don't believe that someone should be be barred from Questioning Christians or criticizing

Christians or attacking verbally Intellectually attacking Christianity. I don't believe that I think that they have a right to speak freely

Again, but they're you know, they're their words will be judged at some point But the supporters of Israel don't think that that should be the case they they think that they should be above criticism

And this is really good, you know again this gets into sort of this medieval What's the word

I'm looking for it's medievalism it's It's dogmatism. It's like you must believe these things you have to believe everything that we say about the

Holocaust you have to believe accept our definitions of antisemitism

And by the way, the Constitution doesn't bar Antisemitism, I mean again, you can say things that you don't that The people don't like you can even say mean things.

I'm not saying you should But from a legal standpoint you do have a right to do that And again, all of our words all of our thoughts all of our actions

Now we all have to give account for those things someday But this is not something that the government should be involved with in other words what

I'm saying is there should not be thought crimes and this is essentially establishing a a

Framework for for creating thought crimes in the United States and this is again, it's profoundly on Christian is profoundly unconstitutional

So, let's see Philip draw to continues he's talking about its text we talk about its text He's talking about the antisemitism awareness act its text includes the tar quote targeting the state of Israel conceived as a

Jewish Collectivity in quote as an anti -semitic act in the reality

However, actually anti -semitism is not as prevalent as Israel that Israel partisans claim most of what they call

Antisemitism is simply criticism of the legally self -proclaimed apartheid Jewish state and most of the animosity

Israel experiences as opposition to its brutal treatment of the Palestinians And I agree with that I mean

I think you know you hear people screaming about this rise in anti -semitism and really you know It's it it it gets that to that question.

Okay. What do you mean by anti -semitism? It's just like you've got lots of people like to scream racism.

Well, you know, well, what is what is racism? Well Racism a lot of cases is just dealing with say disagreeing with a black person

That that can be racism and it's the same way with with Israel. I mean essentially the way they want to use this language

Disagreeing with a Jew or disagreeing with Israel is anti -semitic you're just not allowed to do it your job is just to shut up and accept everything that they say and Fork over massive amounts of money.

No questions asked, you know, I mean that's you're not allowed to ask questions Yeah, Nikki Haley. She's one of these uber

Israel nuts and she was campaigning last year for president she thought she was going to be president and One of the things that she talked about I remember she puts us out in a tweet, you know,

I don't know maybe But but what she said is, you know We have to just rush all this money over to Israel to fight

Hamas and give them everything they need no questions asked So if you're an

American citizen, you're not even allowed to ask a question in her mind No, you shouldn't

About how our money is being used by Israel and and that is an absolute outrage

I mean, first of all, we shouldn't be sending money over there. Anyway, now order any other foreign foreign country to fight these these

Ridiculous wars or for other things. I mean this this Ukraine thing is is just a a disaster in so many on so many levels

And Our Congress just can't stop sending our money elsewhere. I mean we're over 34 trillion dollars in debt

We've got massive inflation all these economic problems, but you know, yeah, we can fund wars in Ukraine and we can fund wars in Israel And you're not supposed to ask any questions, especially about Israel my goodness.

You cannot ask those questions. Just shut up and fork it over This is what

I mean by dogmatism and in just the the arrogance That you see coming out of the

Israel lobby These are not good people In fact, I would go so far as to say they they act a lot more like the mafia than than anything else

I'll talk a little bit about that in a few minutes here But Let's see

Give me legal sanction to that presumption Israel must be protected from bigots means that the United States is well on the way to Forbidding any criticism of Israel at all.

Yes, that's exactly right That's that is the intention the the the Israel lobby is not going to stop with this act either

I mean, that's the one thing you have to remember they get this thing through they're gonna push and push and push until any and all

Criticism of Israel is made illegal in any at all spaces I mean this bill just deals with colleges, but you don't think that they're just going to stop at that They're not going to stop at that They will not stop themselves now they have to be stopped

But they're not going to stop on their own They're just gonna keep pushing this thing to its logical conclusion, which is to make any criticism of Israel illegal

I have no doubt that that's what they're trying to do here Americans can criticize their own country or nations in Europe or at least are able to do so currently but bad -mouthing

Israel could soon Constitute a criminal offense. Yeah, and if Philip Toronto's exactly right and again

I would encourage you to read the rest of that article It's say the title of its protecting

Israel's Washington's number one job It was actually written back on May 8th, so it's a couple weeks old

But I would really again, you know, Philip Giraldi PH IL IP and his last name is

G IRA LDI. I'd strongly recommend him to to anyone listening this

He writes very well He's a balanced writer. He's not somebody he's not some

Nutty person or something like that. He's got a PhD and he he writes like somebody who's a scholar

But I think he's very approachable And I think that he does some

Some very good work. I think he's one of the best writers on the Among the is critics of Israel that I have seen and I don't

Hesitate to recommend him to you at all So Anyway, you know,

I mentioned one thing too. I was talking about sort of the thug tactics of the Israel lobby this past week, of course

One of my my favorite congressman is Thomas Massey He's a can as a congressman from Kentucky actually just right across the river from from here where I live in Hamilton County So he's kind of a

I guess you might say a local politician to some extent he really is, you know local here in the Cincinnati area, even though he's from Kentucky and I think he may you could make a good case.

He may be the best the finest representative in Congress in terms of just being

Very constitutional in this thinking, you know in some ways. He's kind of like the Ron Paul 2 .0

and He he's been very very good on putting

America first, you know and When he said, you know, some people say that they they they say it but they don't really follow through he actually follows through and And you know, he will vote and he's voted consistently against sending money to Israel.

And of course the Israel lobby just goes ballistic and they have

A pack, you know, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has they have a super PAC I can't think of the name of it.

It's kind of like some generic name. It's like the mock protecting democracy or something like this

I don't know you wouldn't get a sense. It's part of the Israel lobby, but it is but they've taken out like $300 ,000 worth of attack ads and they're trying to get rid of him because he is

Massey's being primary. He's a Republican. He's being primaried and I think the primary is next week.

It's on the 21st They're trying to get him out They're trying to get rid of him, but a lot of people have come to his aid

I know there are a lot of small donors and contributed to his campaign I was one of them and I know

Ron Paul has has backed him and and I really I Pray that that he is

Is put back in the Congress? Because he's one of the very few

Men in Congress who actually seriously does put America first. He puts the interest of ordinary

Americans first United States of America first. He takes his oath when he puts his hand on the

Bible and takes that oath to the Constitution He's actually serious about it. Unlike the the vast majority of other people

These are even people who are Republicans call themselves conservatives. What have you? who do not and I've always

I think very highly of Thomas Massey and Anyway, I just you know, if you want to pray for somebody in politics, you know pray that he does successfully

You know defeat his challenger in the primary and in returns to Congress and it's voted back into Congress here this fall

I think as long as he wins the primary. I think he sees a shoe in for For for re -election and the the election is fall.

He's got to get through that primary first. I Don't know what the polls are, but I really do

Want to see him re -elected, you know, and if you read through his Twitter feed It's if you're on Twitter X, excuse me,

I still call it Twitter I I I hate that they change that X I I mean, I I know

Twitter was awful in terms of some of its policies But I just I have never liked the rebrand of calling it

X and I don't think I'm ever gonna get used to calling it X but anyway

That's that's the way it is. But yeah Thomas Massey has a really good Twitter feed.

I think he might have one of the best Twitter feeds of Anybody in Congress, maybe the best for all

I know. I I don't know Let's see if he's got anything on here tonight Anything further

Let's see He wants to end the Fed Couldn't agree more with that.

In fact, he's got a bill in the house right now to end the Fed and That would be a great benefit to all

Americans Well 99 .9 % of us now there would be some some bankers and some people on Wall Street there would be upset

But you know, I have to say that That doesn't really terribly bother me a whole lot

Now, let's see here. I was just going through here to see if there's anything on Well, there's a he's got a

Video up from Ron Paul Thomas Massey isn't hostile to Israel his loyalty to Americans.

He's loyal to Americans They voted against all foreign aid and that's exactly right. I mean, he's very consistent about this.

But of course the Israel lobby They don't care about that. They don't care about the Constitution anything they care about is

Israel and you know Sometimes I was thinking about it this week, you know, I think that if the the

IDF the Israeli Defense Force I think they dropped an H bomb on a major American city and just vaporized

The vaporized the city you'd have a lot of people in Congress who would defend them I Really think maybe

I'm being a little bit sarcastic when I say that but I don't know that that's too far off the mark I think there's certainly a lot of evangelical

Christians would come to to Israel's defense Now is as remarkable as that sounds

You know, he talks here he says approximately 1 % of Gaza's civilian population are wiped out by Israel in seven months

We should not fund this war. I This war now,

I mean, I know you got people like John Hagee and others out there who cannot wait

To do this. I mean some people Have even talked about well, they should drop nuclear bombs, you know glass it they're saying, you know, whatever.

Well Yeah, I I just I I don't know it's it's

The bottom line is this is not we don't have if you're a Christian. You don't have a dog in this fight If you're a

Christian you do not have a dog in this fight the United States of America should not be involved in this

So anyway, that's that's really about all I have on that. There's a whole lot of other things

I guess we could talk about with respect to that. But you know, I think that's that's enough there for one day

So, let's see. What else do we have going here? Oh, you know, I don't know Have any of you seen any of this?

There's kind of a dust -up over this past week about this guy he's the Kicker for the

Kansas City Chiefs of these names Harrison, but Kerr and he had given a speech college graduation speech

And yeah, and he was espousing some, you know anti -feminist Talking points and the like, you know that the that they the the women in the graduation they should look to be, you know

Being housewives and not so much pursuing careers and and you know, he'd attacked some

Oh Well, I know one of the things he talked about was this this law you this anti -semitism

Awareness Act I don't know if he used the term Anti -semitism Awareness Act, but he was talking about it and he highlighted the fact that this bill could actually outlaw the teaching of the

New Testament because in in the The way the language of this bill is written if you

If you say that the Jews killed Christ That's considered to be anti -semitic

Even though the New Testament repeatedly talks and makes this point very clearly that the Jews did kill

Christ So that that's one point. That's another point that he made.

I think there were some other things there. He had talked about Some of the problems with the the transgender people and anyway

I know that a lot of a lot of conservatives a lot of Christians have glommed on to his remarks and you don't think that he's this this champion of Christianity but I would caution you about that because his speech he was he was very clear.

He's very Catholic He's very Roman Catholic and the speech that he gave is actually given at some

Benedictine College, I believe in Kansas So, I mean he's a he's a very this whole thing was was set within a context of his his his

Roman Catholicism Now Roman Catholicism is not Christianity. We were talking here about About Judaism, you know and how so many evangelicals have been drawn into support of this almost

I would call it almost a superstitious support of of Israel and in Jews and Judaism You know and they they they they latch on to this thing somehow this is a savior they're gonna save the

West and The same thing is true with with Roman Catholic, you know, Roman Catholicism is another medieval false violent religion

And and sometimes there are people who can get up and they can say some things they because I'm Catholic, you know I disagree with transgenderism.

I disagree with abortion I disagree with these sorts of things and I think a lot of times, you know, there's a lot of Christians And believing

Christians, you know, they're here this stuff and they're saying oh this guy's a great Christian hero and he's somebody we need to follow

Well, no Harrison Butker somebody who needs to be evangelized as a

Roman Catholic. He does not believe the doctrine of justification by faith alone He's not trusting in the

Lord. Jesus Christ alone for his salvation That's the hallmark of a Christian That that that's what that's what defines a

Christian. Do you have faith in Jesus Christ? Yeah Alone, you know is your faith that you are saved that you have a righteous standing before God through faith in Christ alone

Not as a result of anything you do, you know, not as a result of your works I do all your your law keeping or anything of that sort not as a result of even giving statements or speeches that that They uphold

Christian certain Christian ideas no, I mean the righteousness the

The salvation that God's people I have comes through faith in Christ alone. It's not through anything that we do mm -hmm, and that's something that You know in Harrison Butker.

I mean, he seems like he's like I say he's You know got a certain civic righteousness and you know,

I appreciate the fact that Some of the things that he said, I mean, I think we're we're good but you have to understand he's is coming within a system of Conservative Roman Catholicism and that has a false system

So don't get drawn into that. I mean if you're a an evangelical if you're if you're a believer if you are a a saved

Christian with you puts his faith in Christ alone, you know, don't get drawn into this stuff

Yeah, you don't have to go out and you know join the Harrison Butker fan club

Even though he said some things that you know, I mean we could agree with His he's coming at it from a system of Roman Catholicism he's very clear about that and it's not somebody that that we need to be looking to as Christians to To defend the

West That's one of the things the I talked a little bit about that in John Robbins essay the religious wars of the 21st century, you know that you know, we as as Protestants have just we've really given away the store

And we keep looking to all these other non -christian faiths To to save us from our mess and I mean look,

I mean the West is a mess That's something Gordon Clark talked about that in his book that's written what 72 years ago

I think it first was published in 1952 It was the Christian view of men and things he talks in there about the the collapse of the

West and and I thought John Robbins really summarized Clark's Position in that book very very nicely, you know in the in a forward that he wrote you know, he talked about that that Clark's thesis is that the

West is disappearing because Christianity and by Christianity he's talking about the the

Christianity Of the Reformation The you know, the the

Western civilization is built on Biblical Protestantism That's where that comes from.

You know, there's a whole book that John Robbins put us called. It was a booklet really It's called Christ and civilization.

He makes that case and this is something that I think this is a major failing of Of The 20th and 21st century

Protestant Church and that is there's almost no awareness and I'm talking here be even among people who are

You know genuine believers, I'm not talking about liberals not talking about people, you know Go to the

PC USA churches or things like this that you know, they teach a false gospel I'm talking about people, you know, you know

Genuine believers people who are saved And just because we're saying that doesn't mean we can't be letters for you it can't be confused on some things and and unfortunately even in the the believing

Protestant Church, I don't think that churches really talk about the close connection between biblical faith in Christ and The liberties that we enjoy these things are intimately connected, but we don't make that connection

Unfortunately churches don't help people make that connection. I think this is really something that that we need to do better at as Protestants, we need to be doing much better at making explicit the connections between the

Bible and and our God -given rights the kinds of rights that we have

And they're talked about in the Constitution, you know, it's talking there about free speech. Well, well, why is free speech important?

Well, you know, you can find a lot of reasons for that. You know, the most important reason is to preach the gospel

And we have that command of Christ, you know the the great commandment, right? You know go and teach all nations, you know teaching to believe all things that I have, you know said, you know

Well, I'm butchering the quote. I apologize for that. But but you know, he he commanded The the disciples and Also us as well, you know that we are to take the gospel we are to teach we're to teach other people where to to go into the ends of the earth and in in teach the truth of what

Christ Teaches doctrine And if we can't do that, you know, if it's if it's we we don't have free speech

Well, we can't do that, you know, and and of course that was one of the big problems in the Middle Ages In Europe is

You you were not allowed to preach the gospel You couldn't do it, I mean if you try to do it you'd end up on the receiving end of some very nasty business

From the Roman Church state from Antichrist You know and and it's it's not an accident that The First Amendment is something that came in the context of the

United States of America This is a is isn't it always has been a Protestant Republic and I know that upsets some people probably to hear that But that's what

America is. This is a Protestant Republic. We are built our operating system is

Ultimately the rest on the scriptures the Protestant Reformation It's where that stuff comes from.

I know John Robbins talked about that and I think I was in his book Christ and civilization they had this quote from some historian who said that John Calvin was the virtual founder of America and that's absolutely right and You know again, this is my challenge that that to myself but also to You know anyone listening to this show if you if you love the

Lord if you are Washed in the blood of Jesus Christ if you are saved by my grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone

We need to you you and I we need to be making that case The political that political liberty really follows on spiritual liberty, you know spiritual it's that spiritual freedom that comes first and then you get the political and the economic liberty that that follows upon that and It works the reverse to you know, when you become enslaved spiritually to sort of false ideas you're also going to become enslaved politically and and Economically, which is of course is what's what's happening to us here in the

West And and we need to repent We need to be looking to Christ.

I mean as the only way that we're going to Be able to stand against the enemies of Liberty I'm not gonna be able to do it on our own strength in our own wisdom because they got all the guns

You know, they got all the power, you know, you and I don't have much power at all But you know by trusting in the

Lord, you know, that is the only way we're gonna be able to stand up against the enemy of Liberty anyway didn't mean to get off on that long tangent, but I Think it was worth talking about at least

I hope it was anyway Let's see. What else do we have here this week? Oh, oh there was a

Very interesting article I came across this someone by accident The title of it is feminism in the

SBC the the SBC That's the Southern Baptist Convention is what that means and it was written by a gentleman named

Doug ponder Who was not familiar with but he apparently he's a Southern Baptist Minister and He subtitles his his piece here.

It's called how an unbiblical ideology is infected America's largest Protestant denomination And I thought it was really quite a good

Quite a good article. It's it's it's it's a little bit on the long side But I think it's well worth taking a few minutes to to read through this

And here's something he says here I'm skipping down a little bit, but he talks about feminism problems in the

SBC So as I thought about that episode of self -sabotage recently, but considering the current state of the

Southern Baptist Convention Clearly something is off very few debate this but the diagnosis differs from a person to person or can't camp

And it was he paradoxical yet obvious to to others My contention this essay is that one of the

SBC's deepest problems is a growing case of feminism Which if left untreated or if treated with the wrong course of action will continue to worsen in ways that could seal the

SBC's against Southern Baptist Convention's Trajectory on its president an undesirable path back to pre -conservative resurgence conditions

So he's concerned about the feminists taking over the SBC as well. He should be

And he gives some very and one of the things I liked about this article is he gives some very good It's a very good explanation about the the origin of feminism

I wanted to actually write on this topic more But sometimes it can be difficult to find

You know somebody that just talks about some of the major ideas of feminism gives some definitions and things of this sort

But in history and he does some very does a very good job here I'll just read a little bit of this and this is back to What ponder says here?

quote The proto -feminist ideas were published as early as Mary Wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of women since 1792 the feminist movement began in earnest at the

Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 the two -day convention of various leaders who met to consider the social condition and civil rights of women in America Now called the first wave of feminism

This aspect of the movement is primarily remembered for the efforts to pass would become the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote in the

United States That's a very key point that he brought up there that Seneca Falls at Seneca Falls, New York at Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and And what was it?

I think it was in 1919 That they passed the 19th amendment that gave the vote to women so I guess that was 71 what 71 years later

And I think you know, I probably have people throw rotten fruit at me and call me a horrible person

I think that the 19th amendment was a big mistake And one of the ways you can tell it was a big mistake.

Is that What happened just a few years after? Women were given the right to vote.

Well, you had this massive welfare state erected in the United States And you see this throughout

European countries as well You know whether it's in Britain or other countries They all at the same time gave women the right to vote and he had this massive erection of these massive welfare states

Because women tend to vote for socialism you know, they view the government as the sort of as their husband almost and You know the provider of all good things so instead of having a husband provide for them, you know

They'd rather have the government provide for them. And I'm not saying in all women vote for socialism, but there's a very strong tendency

And you can see this politically today There's this has been noted by a lot of commentators and especially among Younger people

I'm thinking here like Gen Z People that the the college a high school college age

Women are Much much more liberal than you know, when

I say liberal I'm talking about supporting things like socialism than the men are and you know,

I would say, you know, if you did not have Female suffrage in the United States right now.

I think we would have a fraction The kind of social problems that we have

Mrs. Created a huge problem. There was this big cat fight that they had in Congress just the other day.

It was I don't know. I think it was Marjorie Taylor Greene and I Don't know a couple of other

People Excuse me has an urge to sneeze come on there

And it was really pretty embarrassing if you want to see it. I'm sure you can look it up and find it on X or find it

Just I'd say just do a web search you can find it But it was essentially this big cat fight that they had in Congress was really embarrassing and I I thought you know, this is

It was all these women going at it. You know, they were just you it was a catfight I mean is what it was and it just really underscored

For me, you know one of the reasons why you should not have women in office. I Mean it has been a disaster for this country.

It's been a disaster for the West Now those are my words.

Those aren't ponders words ponders didn't talk about that But he does

Note a few he does note some very important things and I think one of the really key

Points that he made here. Let's see if I can find this. Okay, he talks about the anti -feminist solution and one of the things that one of the the items that he raises he talks about the feminist myth of interchangeability and And that's simply the idea there that you know that men and women well, they're they're they're all the same you know that we're the same and you know, we should

You know the idea that there are men's roles or women's roles is is just nonsense

We interchangeably, you know, we you know Anything a man could do a woman can do and probably do better. I mean, that's that's that's what we're told

And and of course that's that's not what what the scriptures teach You know the model that the scriptural model and I know this is very difficult for some people to hear

Is patriarchy and patriarchy is not a bad thing It's it's

God's design for the human race and You know, of course Patriarchy and in feminism, you know those those don't mix

It's either one or the other and at least right now in in the West Feminism reigns supreme, you know, it's

It's amazing. It reigns supreme in all of our institutions. It reigns supreme in businesses in the government in schools and universities in in the media the entertainment and And anyone who doesn't bow before that that false

God Gets in a lot of trouble and I did appreciate you know, the remarks that That ponder made here at his piece

Anyway, he talks about some of the ongoing battles that are taking place within the within the the

Southern Baptist Convention and This is how he closed

He says the only way to stop the waves of feminism from destroying the particular Peculiar glory of the sexes and the sanctity of the pulpit is to stand firm on the limits placed by the

Lord himself He once said to the seas that he formed thus far. You shall come and no further And here you should hear your proud waves shall be stayed.

So, you know, he he is is talking about, you know using the the scriptures as the the touchstone

For how the the church to be governed, you know, there's a lot of people in the SPC that think they should have have female pastors or elders or deacons and things of this sort well

That is a huge mistake And he's right to point that out. So anyway, I thought it was

It was actually a pretty good piece and I wasn't even looking for I just have to Stumble across it as I was as reading some other things.

So anyway, I think that's probably a good good enough here for this even I hope that some of this has been a bit helpful at least interesting for you and Until the next time

I would like to I should say this this is a Saturday night here So I wish everybody a blessed

Lord's Day tomorrow and until we talk next time May the spirit of truth guide you and all truth in your reading study