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You're listening to radio looks listen, I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me this evening for episode 86 the title of this episode is
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Roe vs. Wade will it be overturned? Yeah, there was a lot of talk. Of course. It's kind of hard to miss it this past week about the the
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Roe v. Wade decision or should say the leak of the Supreme Court draft to overturn the 1973
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Roe vs. Wade decision, which is of course is when the Supreme Court at that time acknowledged.
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There is a constitutional right to for a woman to have an abortion that Illegalized it if I had the effect of legalizing abortion in the
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United States And it has been that way for well very nearly 50 years 49 years
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At this point and so this is a really a momentous decision, and there's a there's a lot going on Of course, it's not a final decision yet, and we're gonna get and we're gonna talk some about that But this was this was the probably the single biggest story of this past week and certainly something that is
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Christians We would want to talk about have a real interest in getting into and we're definitely do that You know before I dig into that that main story this week.
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I just wanted to say hi to everybody Hope you've had a great week so far. This is Saturday, it's
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May 7th 2022 so we're a week almost a week into to May here
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It's kind of hard to believe we've we've gotten that far in and you know It's it's starting to look pretty much close to summer here in Cincinnati, even though we were kind of cool today you know the the trees are all the foliage is is all out or very close to being completely 100 % out and We're supposed to get back in the 80s this coming week, which is pretty typical for this time of year
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It seems like right around the first second week of May That's when at least in this area is when we really get into the full swing of of summer
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I think what's the the rule of thumb, you know, you're supposed to plant put your tomato plants out after Mother's Day So it's getting to the point where yeah
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You can go ahead and you can put your tomato plants out without having to worry about them being frosted Obviously depending what part of the country you may be
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May have been at that point a month ago or you may not be quite there yet but that's that's where we are here and in Southwest, Ohio at any rate and Spencer was talking about Southwest, Ohio You know,
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I mentioned last week that my Reds were in a Cincinnati Reds were in a an epic
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Having an epically bad start to their season and that's continued over the past week I think they actually did win a game here tonight.
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They're they last Friday's game last night's game was rained out So they played a doubleheader and they won the first end of the doubleheader, but they were losing the second game
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And so I think they're gonna I don't know if they're gonna start a new losing streak or not here but it I wouldn't be be terribly surprised and I have to admit this is this is kind of a
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Perverse thing about me as a somebody who follows sports sometimes when you get a team, it's really really bad
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You just you almost just want them just to stay bad because I mean if you're gonna be bad You may as well be historically bad.
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You may as well give somebody people something to remember now, you know, I really I don't think that's probably very healthy attitude to have but Sometimes it's easy to get into that very negative mindset about a
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About a baseball team or maybe some other team that that maybe happen to follow you it's like you're gonna be bad you may as well be really really bad and Well, it looks like the the
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Reds have definitely have the opportunity to to be really really bad this year I I don't think they're gonna probably set the record for for the number of most number of losses in the season
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I I think that's held by the 1962 Mets, which was the first year I believe that was their expansion year that was the first year that that team ever played and and they were managed by the the great
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Casey Stengel who managed all the great Yankees teams and in the 1950s and He had the misfortune of of going over the
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New York Mets For the for their first season, I think that things got so bad at one point
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He he famously asked can anybody around here play this game? That was that was Casey Stengel suffering through the 1962
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Mets Historically bad season, so I don't know. I think they lost 120 games that year if memory serves me correctly and That's that's a winning percentage.
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That's about a 25 % winning percentage, which is remarkably brutal
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That's I hope that that the Reds don't lose 75 % of the games this year. But yeah, who knows?
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I mean right now they're on a pace to exceed that. So I guess I guess we'll see anyway
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Is some people like to say I guess they call that first world problems and I don't know it it's it's actually kind of nice To complain about the the woeful local nine and then talk about some of the garbage that's going on in the news it was interesting
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I was at a men's Bible study was a Friday morning Bible study that I go to and the one of the
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Gentleman there he was was mentioning that that his wife gets really upset when she watches TV And she's always talking to the
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TV because she sees all this stuff out there that that's always all this really bad news And even the doctor told her to watch less news apparently and you know,
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I completely get that I mean my my inclination is to want to rant and rave and yell and scream and all that type of thing when
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I see some of the stuff that's going on and It's it's important to to take a step back and you know, especially as as Christians, you know as as reformed believers we know that all of this is
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From the hand of the Lord. We know that and it's that's not something that we have to To guess at that's that's something that the
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Scriptures teach. Yeah, I remember when I first came to reform theology years ago I kept reading about some of these
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These people would talk about this this strange concept they would talk about the decrees of God and I kept thinking what
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What are the decrees of God? Yeah, I had never never heard of these things before I was it was about 30 years old
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Nobody ever taught me about that decrees of God. What's this supposed to mean? And Yeah, I remember coming across that then in in the the
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Westminster Shorter Catechism and it talks about this and you know, it says the decrees of God are his eternal purpose according to the
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His eternal purpose according to the the counsel of his where well will whereby for his own purpose.
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He hath foreordained Whatsoever comes to pass so, you know God has foreordained it and not only did he foreordain
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Things he foreordained whatsoever comes to pass that means all things
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God is sovereign is there's nothing that happens not there's not not one molecule not one atom is out of place from where it should be from what
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God decreed from all eternity and And God decreed from all eternity that I'd be sitting here doing this podcast
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Tonight and that you would be listening to this podcast whether you're on the live stream or whether maybe you're you're listening to the recording
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He decreed that and that's that's a truly amazing thing to think about but that that is a very reformed doctrine as a very
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God -centered doctrine. It's a very biblical doctrine and you can you can show this from the scriptures And that's something that as Christians no matter how how bad things get and and let's face it
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You know, there's a lot of bad stuff going on right now And I don't mean to minimize that. I don't mean to to whitewash it and say oh, well, it's not so bad no, it's really bad and You know depending on where in the world you might happen to live
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I can just think here in in the United States where I am Some of the real evil that has seized control of the institutions of our country where they talk about the government
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I mean we have a fake president Somebody who was installed by I think the deep state speaking very broadly
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You know, we have corrupt businesses, you know, you look at some of the perversions that are being put out
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Walt Disney's maybe the poster child for that sort of thing right now Walt Disney Company We talked about that some last week you see this in the schools in universities there was a
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I hadn't even meant to really mention this here to this evening, but there was actually a story
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That came out and this was a I don't know is a week or two back and it was talking about these
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What they what do they call them like transgender closets or something like this in in schools and Apparently what these things are these these places where we're kids who claim to be transgender.
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They can go to these these When when they go to school there's this closet they can go to and there's this locker and and they can change out their clothes so I guess if you're a boy you can go there and you can change out from your boys clothes and to girls clothes and You can pretend to be a girl all day at school
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And then before you go home, you can go back to your locker change back in your boys Clothes and go back home and you know, so your parents are none the wiser
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Apparently this is a real thing that that's going on. And in fact, let me yeah,
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I said I wasn't even gonna talk about this tonight But I just thought about it and it's such an outrageous thing that I thought it would be at least something to share here with you
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Okay. Yeah, here we go. So so this is this is the epic times and You can see here.
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It says more secret gender transition clauses discovered in public schools groups Fear parents are being kept in the dark.
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Well, yeah, duh. They certainly are so here we go They started in colleges but trans closets room stock with transgender clothes and accessories for students to change into after arriving at school and back out of before going
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Home are being discovered in public schools with some indication that they're being kept secret from parents in a recent tik -tok video a
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California teacher Implies that the trans closet he started at the high school where he works is meant to be kept from parents this is a quote from the teacher quote the goal of the transition closet is for our students to wear the clothes that their parents approve
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Of come to school and then swap in to swap out in the clothes that that fit who they truly are end quote the teacher said the
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California Family Council and others eventually Confirmed the identity of the teacher as Oakland Unified School District Spanish teacher
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Thomas Martin Edwards Who's also the founder of queer teacher fellowship? Martin Edwards the teacher who runs the trans closet is also transgender
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He's posted videos himself in the classroom showing off the stilettos. He wears to school Neither Martin Edwards a former assistant principal in another school district nor the school
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Responded to inquiries by the Epoch Times about the trans closet This is an example of the deceit schools are deliberately using to carry out a growing transgender movement in public schools behind the backs of parents
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California Family Family Council a Christian conservative group wrote on its website in addition to gender ideology madness
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The school is teaching children that is the is acceptable to defy their parents So, yeah,
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I mean there's there's a couple of at least a couple of things going on here you have on the one hand you have schools promoting gender confusion sexual perversion and then of course, there's the line aspect, you know, they're the
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Students are being taught to conceal us from the parents and the schools themselves are also concealing it from the parents
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So there's there's a lot of line going on here as well And and this is this is going on apparently in public schools
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And I mean, I I would never I was absolutely astounded when I I first read about this and and probably had this been
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Maybe at some time in the past, maybe I would have been a little bit skeptical of that But you know It just it seems like there's just more and more of this stuff out there just the stuff that we do know that goes on I mean certainly makes this believable.
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I mean you've got so you've got schools pushing this thing. You've got universities Pushing this sort of thing.
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You've got businesses and not just Disney but but lots of different businesses pushing it Of course, it's being pushed in entertainment.
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It's being pushed in movies. This stuff's being pushed in comic books You know, it's amazing how yeah,
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I I was kind of a comic book nerd growing up as a kid, you know I'd I'd read spider -man or Captain America or these kinds of things and now these these things have all gone awoke and it's it's
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It's quite remarkable how how the the woke agenda has filtered into even things like comic books that maybe you wouldn't necessarily think
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Would be be vehicles for that sort of thing, but they have become that so anyway
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Let's move on wanted to talk about a little bit about the abortion story here so this whole thing is you
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I'm sure you heard this past week, you know, there was this this supposed leak of a Of the of a draft decision
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By the Supreme Court. It was written by Samuel Alito Samuel Alito is one of the the conservative justices on the
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Supreme Court and it was a majority a draft of majority opinion he was writing that overturns
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Roe vs. Wade that again Roe v. Wade. That was the landmark 1973
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Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in in all 50 states
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And of course the reaction was was fast to that. In fact, it's kind of interesting here Here's this is a an article from Politico.
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It's got the headline says Democrats hope draft abortion will jolt midterm elections You know, there's a a lot of Speculation, you know, of course, you know who leaked this
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This draft. Well, nobody knows exactly but the number of people who Would have had access to something like that is very small
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There's a lot of speculation is probably a one of the the judges clerks Very well may have done this and and we don't know and we think and of course a lot of people think that it was
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Probably one of the the liberal justices clerks that had released this and with the idea that You know, it would would make this a public issue that it would would help fire up the
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Democrats. And of course, that's what this headline Suggests here says Democrats hope draft abortion opinion will jolt midterm elections
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The Supreme Court's potential move to overturn Roe v. Wade sparked frustration and vows to protect abortion rights from governors senators and house members so yeah, it it seems like it's a perhaps
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Possibly one of the motives here is to to fire up the Democratic base to give them something to rally around because right now they really
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Don't have a lot to rally around. I mean Joe Biden is certainly not very inspiring I think even if you're a progressive you're a liberal you're a
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Democrat. I mean Joe Biden. He looks pretty shaky you know, I mean he he makes a lot of gaffes and he's very obviously not someone who's has the mental acuity the sharpness that that he once did and And it's a big problem.
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Yeah, Kamala Harris is pretty much an embarrassment Biden's poll numbers as approval numbers have just been been terrible
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So, yeah, I mean the Democrats are definitely struggling. They've got huge problems that they've created themselves with immigration
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For example that that's a major issue. That's totally 100 % a Democrat issue. You know, they brought that on themselves there's a lot of people very upset and a lot of Democrats very upset and it's interesting the
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Democrats are having such a hard time with even retaining their base apparently that More Democrats and this was something that was released.
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It was in a Some I don't know some publication that the tracks this sort of thing
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It came out that that more Democrats watched Tucker Carlson than than any other
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Talk show host on on television at least on cable TV So, I mean he's that he's out drawing even the people on CNN and MSNBC, for example
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Among Democrats, which is is really surprising in some ways But I guess in a way it really isn't because that the
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Democratic Party has become so unhinged that I think anybody I mean
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I think they're just regular rank -and -file Democrats are looking at some of this stuff and saying, you know We just don't support this.
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We can't support this. I mean, this is this is a disaster And it really is it really is a disaster for the
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Democrats. I mean they they seem to be completely melting down they seem to have really not much in the way of Of contact with reality these days and and that's one of the things that that's really hurting them
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And I think they know that I think they're political strategists know that so they got to do something to try to To galvanize the base to to keep people voting
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Democrat In fact, there was a big hit piece It was done on Tucker Carlson this past week and some people have speculated that maybe one of the reasons the
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New York Times ran this hit piece on Tucker Carlson is to try to shame Democrats back into Into watching
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CNN and MSNBC and and then not watch Tucker Carlson. That could be you know again, that's speculative but I mean that that seems to be
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I think a pretty good explanation of Why the that hit piece was timed for this past week because they want to you know
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They don't want people hearing some of that stuff. So anyway, it's kind of an interesting thought but yeah
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Here's here's this piece and it's talking about Democrats Hope draft abortion opinion will jolt midterm elections and you can read this here and let's see just reading through a little bit of it
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Disclosure of a draft majority opinion It says here the disclosure of a draft majority opinion that indicates the
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Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade Instantly jolted Democrats from a bout of political malaise
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Monday night and many hope it could change the tide of the midterm elections So again, you know some people are
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Speculating including this this particular podcaster, you know that this is just another typical dirty trick from the
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Democrats To to try to rig the election. I think that that is a real possibility
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I mean that that is my read on this, you know again, that's an opinion But I think that type of thing is consistent with with the the type of behavior
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We've seen out of the Democrats in the past. They will do whatever it takes to win. They're very Machiavellian You know the ends justify the means and it means you have to cheat you've means you have to to do things like this
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Well, there's there are people are certainly willing to do that type of thing So let's take a look at a few other things here.
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Oh, yeah. This is one of the things I wanted to share with you here, this is Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts having a quite the meltdown and let's let's listen to To Elizabeth Warren here.
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This is the person she wanted to be president a couple years ago so, let's see what she has to say and it looks like my
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Cursor locked up here and it's going on here. Come on you. All right. Let's go ahead and play a little bit of that video clip
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This will fall on those who have been raped This will fall on mothers who are already
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Struggling to work three jobs to be able to support the children.
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They have Well, I am here because I am angry and I am here
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Because the United States Congress can change all of this
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Okay, well that's that's enough from Elizabeth Warren there So she's she's angry as you can you can tell that she's quite angry.
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There's a few things. That's interesting here in her argument Of course, she she plays up the class issue.
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I mean what she says is well, you know, there's there's this issue where Okay, you know wealthy middle -class women or whatever.
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They can can take care of this and the burden of it's not gonna fall on it but it's it's it's the it's the poor that this is gonna hit and And that this is a bad thing be because of that in in her in her reasoning here
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Well, you know the here's the thing When when it comes to government and we've talked some about this on the program before but it's worth bears mentioning this again you know, what's the purpose of civil government, you know, the
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Apostle Paul and Peter also gave gave two basic reasons punish those who practice evil and Praise of the good
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Punish those who who practice evil, you know to just stop those who who are committing crimes
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To put an end to the to prevent people to you know If somebody is going out there and committing crimes to stop that person from doing it on the other hand when it talks about praising
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The good that's understood to mean, you know passing laws that are consistent with with what the scriptures teach
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Those are the two purposes of government and and so one of the things that we have here one of the the roles of the civil magistrate is to Is to restrain evil.
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I think that was in fact, that was John Calvin's his second use of the law
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It was the idea that one of the uses of the law is to restrain evil
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You know, there were three uses of the law that John Calvin gave Let's see the first one was to convict of sin the second one was to restrain evil and the third one was to be used as a guide as as a way of teaching
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Believers teaching the faithful how to live lives that are pleasing to God because of course, you know, what's the definition of sin?
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you know sin is the the Anyone of conformity unto or transgression of the law of God.
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That's the that's the way the the Westminster shorter catechism puts it And I think that's a very good biblical definition what we know is as believers
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Of course, we want to to live our lives according to the law of God now. We don't do that to Gain salvation, but as those who are already saved
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We're motivated to live godly lives and we know how to live godly lives because of what the law of God teaches us
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But of course when we're talking about the second use of the law, we're really talking about how that pertains to Say public morality
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Okay, we're talking about Basically how how the the law of God relates to civil government and civil government has an obligation
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I mean civil government is not some independent institution just came into existence out of its own civil government is a creature of God Civil government is is given by God Paul even talks about that.
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He says he calls the the civil magistrate God's minister You know the powers that be are ordained by God Paul says, you know, he describes the civil magistrate again as as God's minister.
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So the civil magistrate is not some Independent creation. It's not something that was created by by human means.
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It's a it's a actually a creation of God it's a partial punishment for as well as a partial cure of sin and The job of civil magistrate is to restrain
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Sinful men from doing even worse things One of the ways you do that is by punishing those who practice evil
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That's how you you restrain evil because there's consequences and when people see that they say, okay
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Maybe I wanted to go do something. It was illegal, but I don't want to suffer the fines or or possibly execution
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Because of because I committed a crime. I don't want to get I don't want to do the punishment
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I don't want to receive that kind of punishment. So I'm not going to do that crime And now as Christians, of course, we as I said, you know, we we want to live our lives in a way
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That's pleasing to God That's the difference between someone who's a Christian and someone who's not a
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Christian as Christians were motivated We want to keep the law of God. We don't do it perfectly, but we want to do it whereas the mind that that's that's not regenerate is enmity with God and is going to Tend to want to break the law
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That's that's what happens when you you're dealing with with unregenerate people and that's why you have to have
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Civil government to restrain it. So that's one of the jobs of civil government is by passing laws that that restrain
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Sinful behavior, you know, some people like to say you can't legislate morality. Well, actually you can legislate morality
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You you really can in fact, that's the job of the civil magistrate is to legislate morality
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You know now some people say well, you know if you pass laws against abortion women are still gonna have abortions.
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Yeah Yeah, they they will I mean, it's just like you can pass laws against theft But there are still thieves or you can pass laws against murder, but there are still murderers people still kill other people
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But I mean how much more theft how much more murder? How many other crimes would you have go on if there were no laws against these things if there was no?
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Criminal justice system if there's no punishment if nobody was ever punished for murder You'd have a lot more murder than what you have right now
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If nobody was punished for theft, you'd have way more theft than what you have now In fact, you can see this going on in certain liberal jurisdictions like,
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California We see these smash -and -grab robberies have become very common or you see these videos maybe if you go online and you can see people going into You know like a
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Walgreens store or something like that and just big with like a big garbage bags And they're just literally grabbing handfuls armloads of stuff off shelves
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Toss them in in these sacks and walking out the door and nobody does anything to stop them because of some of the local
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Ordinances and some of these cities out there in California where they say well, you know They're not the police aren't even going to get involved as long as the dollar value is under is under a thousand dollars
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Of the property stolen. I don't know if these thieves go in there and say well I've got $999 worth of stuff in this bag, and I'm gonna walk stop and walk out the door.
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I'm sure nobody is That careful about keeping track of this stuff,
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I think they probably look at it say, okay Yeah, he's stolen about the right amount of stuff and you know Well, we'll just let him go then you see this stuff and you've even seen
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I know that there are people I've seen Stories to this effect in San Francisco who are actually when they park their cars in the street and go
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Do whatever it is they're going to do they will leave their trunk open and in their cars open
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They might even put a sign in the window or something like that. You know, please don't destroy my car because because they don't want to have their
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You know their windows smashed in or I guess their trunk pride open and these kinds of things So they're just sort of preemptively just leaving this stuff out in the open.
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So thieves won't Won't smash their car up. It's madness But that's the kind of thing that you get when the civil government does not do its job of punishing those who practice evil now they've got laws in the books against theft, but either they're not enforced or they have have changed them such that You know as I said, they've raised the dollar limit to like a thousand dollars or something like this before the police will even try
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To do something so, you know effectively there is no law against theft if it's under a certain dollar amount
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They just let it happen. That's insanity So, yeah, I mean the the civil government the job the civil government is to pass laws and I know that you know
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You've got people like Liz Elizabeth Warren out there saying oh well We can't do this because it's gonna the the effects of this are gonna fall on on poor women
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I mean there and there are many people who make this kind of argument and well The fact of the matter is whether you're poor whether you're rich, you're not allowed to murder whether you're poor
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You're rich. You're not allowed to steal Whether you're poor you're rich you're not allowed to do a lot of other things out there all kinds of different crimes, you know, ideally that law should apply equally to everyone and the important thing for the civil government to do is to stop the
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The abortion murders that go on that's the job of the civil magistrate That is the job and that job has been preempted by the
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Supreme Court ruling in the United States for these last 49 years Now what's interesting too when you listen to Elizabeth Warren that that clip that we played, you know, she talks about You know the the poor women who are gonna be affected by this in her.
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That's her claim She claims that you know there's people that are victims of rape and incest and in various other reasons why people get abortion in in the
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Weight of this law is gonna be falling these people and these Republican congressmen.
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You've been working for decades to overturn this They have no compassion on any of these people. Well, here is a very interesting
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Statistics that I came across here this past week talking about abortions. Now this particular
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Set of statistics here comes from the state of Florida. Not just read this here It says the state of Florida records a reason for every abortion that occurs within its borders each year
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Now these statistics are for 20 from 2015 and in 2015. There were seventy one thousand seven hundred forty abortions in Florida and this table lists each reason in the percentage of abortions that occurred because of it and There's a number of things that really jump out to you about this stats the stats here
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This is again for the state of Florida, but I suspect you probably have similar stats for for the nation as a whole but according to this the
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Overwhelming most common reason for a woman having abortion is it was ninety two point three three zero percent
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No reason was given as or elective in other words, there wasn't any compelling health reason
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There wasn't a compelling financial reason. There wasn't really any reason at all given that woman just wanted an abortion
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That's 92 % So that's sixty some thousand kids that were killed unborn children who were killed by abortion in the state of Florida in 2015
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For no reason at all. No reason was given it was it was an elective Abortion that was done
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Ninety two point three three percent. So I mean, you know when you listen to Elizabeth Warren, it's interesting
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She doesn't list. Yeah, she lists all these hardship cases, but she doesn't talk about the fact that the overwhelming over 90 % of abortions
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Again, this is from the state of Florida 2015 But again, I'm operating an assumption that you probably have roughly similar percentages
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If you look on the nation as a whole that the the overwhelmingly the most common reason for getting an abortion is is just an elective
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Abortion, that's all that is now in six point two six eight percent It says the woman aborted for social or economic reasons.
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All of the other reasons listed here are less than one percent Point six six six percent.
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There was a fetal serious fetal abnormality point two nine four percent
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The woman's psychological health was threatened by the pregnancy point two eight eight the woman's physical health was threatened by the pregnancy so about a quarter of a percent
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About one quarter or one percent of the abortions were because the physical health of the mother was threatened.
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Very very rare a Point zero eight five percent. The woman was raped again. That's that's a very common thing.
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You listen to Elizabeth Warren I don't know if she mentioned specifically rape in that that clip we looked at but this is one of the objectives
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You know people want to say well, what if a woman's raped? Well, this is a Extraordinarily rare thing.
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I'm not saying that it's not a difficult situation I'm just trying to point out to you that when we we break this down.
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We look at the statistics Abortion is overwhelmingly an elective decision made because you know, it's inconvenient the woman doesn't want the pregnant the child for whatever reason whether it's embarrassment or Who knows where it's just inconvenient, you know
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Doesn't want to doesn't want to have to raise a child at that time and just get rid of it
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You know, like maybe you'd like you, you know Maybe you buy an item and you bring it home and you realize oh, I don't really want this
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Maybe the shoes don't fit or whatever and then you take them back to the store. Well, you just just get rid of it You know, this isn't something this is something
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I don't want That's the overwhelming over 92 again I emphasize ninety two point three three percent of abortions done in the state of Florida in 2015 were elective abortions
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Get down to the last two reasons here for an abortion point zero six five. The woman's life was endangered by the pregnancy
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So again, you know you hear about that a lot That's incredibly rare and then point zero zero one percent the pregnancy resulted from an incestuous relationship
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So so there you have it that's the breakdown for the state of Florida and again, you know all of these these really sort of tough cases that Elizabeth Warren likes to put out there and Try to intimidate people from saying, you know abortion is wrong
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They really don't amount to to very much in terms of how frequently those those issues come up And I think that's something to keep in mind when we we talk about abortion.
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So Let's continue here talking some about abortion. Here's a another story and this is from Fox News It says liberal groups calls liberal group calls for protest at conservative
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Supreme Court justices homes See, this is one of the things that You know that we have have noted here
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I mean if you've been paying attention to the news at all What you what you realize is that if if you have the
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I'm gonna use air quotes here So air quotes right supposedly if you have the quote right political opinions
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You can get away pretty much with anything now you think about all of those riots, you know, whether you're talking about the the
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Black Lives Matter or the Antifa riots back in 2020 and all the ridiculous things that went on and there was very little done legally
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You know, you had the Antifa up there in Portland burning down I mean they burned down the city pretty much every night for months on end and nobody did anything about it and I think you have to assume that That means that there were some very powerful very wealthy people that wanted that to happen
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A lot of people think that that George Soros is is behind Antifa.
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I don't have any hard proof of that I know some people that I whose opinion I respect do have are of that view and And that I think that makes a lot of sense.
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I think George Soros and you might say he's one of the usual suspects I mean, we know he funds very left -wing very
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Really very destructive groups, you know, we think about the Soros prosecutors You know, we talked a little bit about some of the the outrageous stuff that's going on in California say in Los Angeles or San Francisco Well, those are both made cities that have
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Soros funded prosecutors as do a number of other large cities, for instance, Chicago That's another one
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Philadelphia is another one and I'm sure there are others But those are are some of the major cities that have
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Soros prosecutors. I think st Louis does as well and and it has destroyed criminal justice in those areas where Those prosecutors are in place because they do not probably they don't do the job.
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They will not do their job They refuse to do their job and it has caused death
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Property destruction it has caused and and I'm sure that it's it's resulting in a lot of poverty and a lot of other
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Very negative sort of knock -on effects that come when you have just rank lawlessness when the government refuses to do
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It's got a point a job to punish those who practice evil You know, that's why you have prosecutors.
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That's why they're there and they refuse to do their God appointed job And not only are they they failing to carry out their duties as civil magistrates
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They are sinning by doing that and they're going to have to answer to God for their sins for what they're doing
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That is sinful for them to to shirk their duty And they will have to answer at the judgment seat of Christ for that sort of thing
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So anyway getting off on that tangent here Let's go back to where I was talking about liberal group calls for protests at conservative
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Supreme Court justices homes So I guess what I was really saying there is that if you have these very quote progressive
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There's nothing progressive about it. They're really regressive They're really very lawless groups
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If you happen to hold an opinion that that is is supported by the establishment
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Well, you can pretty much get away with anything. And so you've got this group. In fact, it was a group It says the activists are organizing under the moniker
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Ruth sent us and of course That's a reference Ruth in this case is a reference to Ruth Bader Ginsburg The Supreme the longtime
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Supreme Court justice who died I guess that was in the the fall of 2020
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It's not quite not quite two years ago Maybe a year and a half ago or or so maybe a little bit longer than a year and a half
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But that's a reference to to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and they claim that they're gonna be going out there and doing this in in her name
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You know and they they think that this is somehow a good thing in fact I think there was I did see a
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I did see some some news here tonight where I guess there was a Protest in one of the Supreme Court justices house, and I believe it was broken up by the police
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That the police did not allow that to to get too out of hand But you know who knows what might happen here over the next few months.
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You know, I think the idea is that these These groups are going to try to intimidate some of these justices out of their decisions
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So there were five Supreme Court justices nine justices on the Supreme Court and five of these justices apparently have voted to To overturn
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Roe v. Wade and the the goal of these protesters is to To get them to to reverse at least one of them if they can just get one of them to flip
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And you've only got four justices four out of nine. Well, then that that whole majority opinion becomes a minority opinion and Roe v.
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Wade stands That's appears to be what their goal is and we can can pray that that that does not take place
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But kind of reading through this is interesting He says, you know The move comes after a draft copy of Sam justice
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Samuel Lito's opinion upholding in Mississippi abortion law leaked to Politico The decision would overturn
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Roe v. Wade if adopted by four other justices Chief Justice John Roberts described the leak as a betrayal of the court on Tuesday and ordered an investigation of the incident
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So yeah, there's still claim that they're trying to find out who who leaked this This draft we don't know at this point.
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I don't know if we're ever going to know I'm not gonna hold my breath on that. So There's that.
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Let's see. What else do we have here? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we've got our esteemed President as well.
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He he decided to weigh in on this and This past week. He made this comment and he was commenting on the
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Supreme Court decision and he said this he said this mega Crowd is really the most extreme political organization has existed in American history
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Now this is the typical kind of rhetoric that we have heard from Biden Since he took office over a year ago now
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I mean there, you know, it's remarkable that he can sit here even if you believe the election results
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Which I don't but if you even if you let's just go with what the the official tally is just for argument's sake here for a moment
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Donald Trump received the second most votes of any presidential candidate in history So I think it was around 70 some million votes so apparently,
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I guess Joe Biden wants to say that there's 70 million Americans that are part of the most extreme political organization
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That's existed in the history of the United States. Now, that's you know, I have never heard a president consistently attack large swaths of the
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American people the way this man does The way
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Biden does I mean the the rhetoric that comes out of his mouth is is shrill and it is dangerous
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Is he is trying to demonize? Rhetorically Conservative Republicans he's taking aim at these people and he calls them insurrectionists.
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He calls them white supremacists He calls them You know,
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I say radicals or you know extremists in this particular case you know, he'll stand up there and you know, we might recall last fall when he came out with his
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His kovat vaccine mandates and he was lecturing people. He says our patience is wearing thin Yeah, I've never in my life heard anybody any president or at least someone who is in the office
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I I don't think he was duly elected. I think he was was cheated in But I've never heard anybody in that office ever talk about again large swaths of the
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American population The way this man does it's very dangerous and it's very chilling to hear this type of thing
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Because when you hear that kind of rhetoric, I mean that's almost setting people up for being being imprisoned
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Being considered enemies of the state simply because of their political opinions So if you don't agree with abortion, you're an extremist if you don't want to get vaccinated while their patience is wearing thin with you you know if if you don't happen to think that Critical race theory is the most awesome idea you've ever heard.
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Well, you're probably a white supremacist You know in that mean you're an all -around very bad person and you deserve to be punished and you deserve to be censored from From social media, you know, you deserve to be shamed publicly
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And in maybe you deserve to have something else done to you as well I mean, that's that that's kind of the imply that's kind of the message behind us.
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It's kind of like the Mafia You know, there's that I don't know if the Mafia actually literally says this to people Maybe they do
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I I don't know but you know, they they say well, you know, hey, you know, that's a that's a nice family You have there mister be ashamed of something happened to it.
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It's kind of one of these very very Thinly sort of veiled kinds of threats and in this press this is individual this
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Biden fellow. He consistently does this to the American people and And he wants to make those people who disagree with him politically and into his his enemies not just his enemies
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But really declare them enemies of the state. This is a serious problem Now if you don't agree with me, you're going to be punished
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And of course, he's a Roman Catholic and he goes to a Jesuit goes to a Jesuit Parish in Washington DC and this of course is the kind of rhetoric this this is very similar kind of rhetoric you get out of A Pope, you know you agree with me or something bad's gonna happen to you.
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You know, you're gonna get whacked and and so yeah, I think that this is a part of function of the the
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Philosophical ideas he has about government I mean, he's in my opinion. He's a servant of Antichrist.
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He's a servant of the Pope and This is the kind of way you would expect someone who's a a servant of Antichrist to talk
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We haven't seen this sort of thing before out of a president, but you're getting this out of him It's very disturbing to listen to so let's go on here.
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Okay, you know just continue with our theme here of abortion here's a
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Something interesting I came across on Twitter today and it's got this headline here Women on tik -tok say hookup culture will be absolutely decimated if Roe v.
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Wade is overturned. So what's hookup culture? Well, it's basically when you know people go out they you know
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Maybe go to a club or something and they decide to go home and and to commit an act of fornication
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Now, I mean the the scriptures tell us, you know fornicators and adulterers God will judge that that's out of Hebrews It's very interesting.
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I read a biography one time of One of my favorite his favorite figures in the
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English Reformation Really in a Reformation period was a gentleman by the name of Hugh Latimer and he was a real genuine
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Christian hero. He was burned at the stake when he was in his 80s under under Bloody Mary He served for many years as the as the court chaplain to Henry the eighth
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Now, of course being a when you're you're in a position of serving Henry the eighth That's kind of a dangerous place to be you know, you might end up having something something bad happen to you
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You kind of get a a dead fish on your your porch or something like that If you you ran afoul of Henry the eighth, you know, he wasn't was was the kind of guy he wasn't afraid to to execute people if they
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Displeased him and a lot of people ended up having some very very bad ends under Henry the eighth
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But Hugh Latimer was very was very bold. And of course Henry the eighth. He was someone who Did not engage and he did not conduct himself in a sexually moral manner and There was a an account
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I read where he had given a copy of the Bible to Henry the eighth is Hugh Latimer He was a
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Protestant and he gave this to him and and I guess he when he gave it There was like an embroidered kind of a napkin or something like this
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That was part of the the Bible or placed over to something like that and it had that verse in Hebrews on it
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Fornicators and adulterers God will judge Hugh Latimer actually gave this Bible with this this embroidered cloth to Henry the eighth
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That took a lot of courage. He could have been killed for that but Henry the eighth Accepted it from him kind of a an interesting story.
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So so yeah, you know this this whole idea of this hookup culture I mean is a very sexually immoral culture and it's very interesting that You know the
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I that if you have that abortion has act, you know The widespread availability of abortion has helped to fuel this immoral lifestyle
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So you read here again women on tic -tac say hookup culture be absolutely decimated if Roe v. Wade is overturned
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Well, that would be a good thing. Again. We talked about you know, the idea that the civil magistrate is to punish those who practice evil and to praise the good to promote what is good and so you if you make it harder to To kill an unborn child.
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You're also going to cut down on the bad behavior that is producing so many so many
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Abortions and that is the the hookup culture that's going on young people are sinning
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Frequently and very gravely Against their own bodies. It says that you know that talks about those who commit sexual immorality sin against their own bodies
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And of course they sin against the Lord and It's interesting here. It even has a sub headline here
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It says some tick -tock users say they would enter the celibacy area celibacy era if Roe v.
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Wade is overturned. Well good. I Mean these would be good things. It would stop people from sinning as much it would cut down on that It's not gonna eliminate it, of course, you know any more than passing laws against theft eliminate theft, but it's definitely going to going to Change some things and it's going to change them for the better so this is another good reason to To be thankful for the potential overturn.
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It hasn't happened yet But for the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade, it would improve sexual morality in the
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United States Now one thing I wanted to talk a little bit about too is not only what?
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The overturn of Roe v. Wade will do but also what it won't do Overturning Roe vs.
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Wade will not ban abortion in America But what it does do is it removes it as a federal issue.
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So prior to 1973 Roe v. Wade decision individual states had laws against abortion now
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Some of them were more liberal some of them were more restrictive, but it was a state -level issue
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It was done state by state Well Roe v. Wade comes along in 1973 and it overrides all those state laws and it you know and it imposes a requirement a constitutional
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Right the judge the justice is found There's a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion
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And so it becomes a right in all 50 states regardless of what the voters in those 50 states Think or thought our
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Constitution is set up to grant the federal government Certain enumerated powers and if a power is not granted to the federal government
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It's not granted now you can go out and I would challenge you You know If you want to get out a copy of the Constitution you can read through the whole
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Constitution read through the Bill of Rights And you won't find any language in there at all About abortion the
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Constitution simply does not address it. It just it doesn't address it. It doesn't address it at all.
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So Because the Constitution doesn't speak to it there is no legitimate basis for the
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Supreme Court to to come up with a ruling that the that there's a Unconstitutional right to an abortion it was it was a terrible decision
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It should never have been made you think of it the the Constitution the logic of the Constitution it's some it's it's really the same as the the doctrine of the
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Regulative principle of worship. So if you're familiar with reformed reform thought say the
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Westminster Confession of Faith there is The the Westminster Confession talks about the regulative principle of worship and let me just read to you from the
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The Westminster Confession here. It says quote. This is Westminster Confession chapter 21 section 1 the acceptable way of worshiping the true
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God is instituted by himself and so limited to his own revealed will that he May not be worshipped according to the imaginations and devices of men or the suggestions of Satan under any visible
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Representation or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scripture so the scripture tells us how we are to worship and if it does if the if the scriptures do not prescribe a particular practice churches are not permitted to do it if a a
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Worship practice is not granted in scripture. Then it's not granted. It's some people the way they like to interpret scripture
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They say well, you know, if if the scripture doesn't say you can't do it. Well, we can go ahead and do it
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Well, no You know, that's that that destroys the whole idea behind Revelation You know
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God has revealed in the scriptures how he is to be worshipped and We are not free to just do
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Whatever just because it doesn't tell us specifically in the scriptures that you can't do these things
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And the Constitution is the same way it's a it's a constitution of enumerated powers So it says, you know, the federal government can do a
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B C and D. We might say, okay Well, what about E F G H I and J? Well is are those in the
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Constitution? Well, no, the Constitution says nothing about E I E F G I H J K L M N O P Doesn't say anything about those things.
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Okay. Well, then the federal government can't do those things it can do a B C and D But I can't do
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E F G H I J K you can't do these other other things Because they're not listed out in the
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Constitution. They're not enumerated in the Constitution It's the same concept if it's not granted.
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It's not granted. So there's nothing in the Constitution about abortion So therefore the
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Supreme Court had no place even making a ruling about that, you know, they just again this is something that they just invented in much the same way that they invented the the
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Constitutional right to same -sex marriage. They really use the same kind of bad logic There's nothing in the
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Constitution about about marriage. It says nothing you you can go all the way through the Constitution. There's nothing in there
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That gives the federal government the power to regulate marriage says nothing about it, but the
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Supreme Court in 2015 passed the The they came down with a ruling
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In the case was Obergefell versus Hodges and in fact that case started here in Cincinnati when all the way the
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Supreme Court and the Supreme Court found in favor of the the plaintiffs and said yes, you have a right to same -sex marriage and they overturned all of the state level laws prohibiting same -sex marriage
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Ohio had such a law Indiana had such a law Kentucky had such a law.
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So there's Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and many other states had these kinds of laws and they were all voided by this constitutional ruling by the
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Supreme Court Again just making up something out of whole cloth
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The Constitution says nothing about same -sex marriage. Therefore. It is a state's issue
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You know, that's that's what the Tenth Amendment says A Tenth Amendment to the Bill of Rights and the
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Tenth Amendment reads the power is not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states
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Are reserved to the states respectively or to the people? It's put separately unless the
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Constitution Specifically grants a power to the federal government or specifically prohibits the states from engaging in something then those those
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Those powers and say the regulation of marriage for example the regulation of abortion for example
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Those are two examples those powers Are to be handled by the states or the people?
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so, I mean this becomes a state level issue and You know is you know,
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I would love to see abortion illegal in all 50 states But here's something else that I know that that's not going to be the case in all 50 states
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Now there are some states that will be very strict in regulating abortion There are other states will be wide open
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I mean, I guarantee you places like New York or New Jersey or Rhode Island or Massachusetts some of these, you know
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So -called blue states, California, you know, Oregon, you know,
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Illinois They're going to have very liberal abortion laws there are other other states are going to be more restrictive
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Think of places like say Texas or some of the southern states or even, Ohio I mean, I I suspect you know,
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Ohio is actually made things Fairly restrictive Even as it is and I suspect would probably even be more so if if you have
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If this if Roe v. Wade is actually overturned. I Mean this would be a good thing for the
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United States would be a good thing for the people of the United States It would save lives It would cut down on our massive amounts of sin that goes on and And I think that this is something that that would be be good for the nation
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You know, I think one of the reasons that we are suffering so badly as a nation, you know economically politically
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Geopolitically is Because we've turned our back on God You know we have
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Many things that we do that are displeasing to him and this is certainly chief among them is is the abortion that we have
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If that were to be cut down if it would be much more strictly regulated That would be good for many things and we talked about it would it would probably cut down on the hookup culture
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It would probably have other healthy effects. Maybe things that we haven't even thought of yet, but I'm sure that they would be good things
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But of course, you know, you've got the people like Elizabeth Warren and others out there They're gonna fight tooth and nail to make sure that mothers have a right to kill their unborn kids
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And and they just they have to be defeated politically. Well, you know,
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I had a bunch of other material here tonight. I Was gonna talk some about immigration. I was gonna come talk some about kovat
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But I look at this and I realize man. Wow. I'm already over an hour. I don't know That went pretty fast,
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I guess I've been pretty windy here tonight So maybe I'll just go ahead and wrap things up here.
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I just want to say thanks for for listening in I it's always enjoyable to do these things and I hope
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I pray that that you got something Useful out of some of this here this evening until next week next time