WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:05.240 Now we head to Arizona. We're in a recent state Supreme Court ruling. 2 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:10.119 The body decided to go back to a Civil War era law that bans all 3 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:14.480 abortioned with the exception of life of the mother. Even more crazy, members 4 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:19.359 of the state Senate had a prayer circle, speaking in tongue. Helen has 5 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:23.239 more on the stword Helen, Well, Jess. When you think the government 6 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:27.640 can't get any more bizarre, politicians just continue to bring on the crazy. 7 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:33.159 The Arizona State Senate success and overturning Roe v. Wade now has one of 8 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:38.799 the most restrictive bans on bodily autonomy in the United States. This happened by 9 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:45.640 means of a Civil War era law which was written into the books before Arizona 10 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:50.280 was even a state. Even more crazy, members of Arizona State Senate head 11 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:55.679 prayer circle and spoken tongues. Senator Anthony Kern left the prayer, though the 12 00:00:55.799 --> 00:01:00.280 specifics are lacking off for what they asked their invisible I Goetty four. This 13 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:06.840 is another example of religion invading not only our state government, but using sub 14 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:11.400 religion to inform policy. This story is from The Friendly Atheist by Him and 15 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.439 Meta on April eleven, twenty twenty four. Okay, okay, okay, 16 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:22.239 Now, those of you that have been that I have seen me on the 17 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:25.400 show, and those of you on my panel that are on my buds, 18 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:38.239 this makes me mad because I'm tired, so tired of religion taking people's ability 19 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:42.599 away to make decisions for their own bodies, their own families, their own 20 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:47.480 lives. I feel like a broken record. I'm getting sick of being this 21 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:51.519 broken record. And I know that the majority of people, even people that 22 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:57.079 are religious, agree with me. This is a fucked up law. And 23 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:05.159 the fact that we have state representatives praying and speaking in tongues on the Senate 24 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:13.680 floor in Arizona, it's fucking weird. It's disturbing, and I have questions 25 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:20.159 what has happened? What has happened? Because okay, like I okay, 26 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:24.120 okay, okay, take a moment. I'm gonna center myself to talk to 27 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:30.840 saying okay, we're out, yeah, okay, okay, let me take 28 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.439 a moment. Okay. Now, I understand there are plenty of people in 29 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:38.439 government that are religious. There are plenty and they and they're not all Christians, 30 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:42.560 you know. They There are plenty of people that have many different views, 31 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:45.639 and I think that's a good thing. I think that if we live 32 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:51.280 in a democracy, that means that every single type of person, regard depending 33 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.800 on their background, their sexuality, you know, what the color skin is, 34 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:59.520 their culture should be represented. You know, like this is a very 35 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:05.800 important me living in democracy. But but what happens is been through that the 36 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:08.840 religious people have said, oh you know what, we get to be number 37 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:15.280 one say and fuck you all. Basically that's the attitude that's happened. And 38 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:20.199 the fact that they had to go back to one the Civil War to bring 39 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:24.000 this law about says where their mindset is, where you can marry a ten 40 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:29.520 year old and everybody was dying from dysentery, you know like this, and 41 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:35.439 also you could there were laws against beating your wife, but the wick couldn't 42 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:39.080 be any bigger than your thumb. So that that's the type of stuff we're 43 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:46.319 looking at right now where they got these ideas from. And also that if 44 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:52.120 I would hope that everybody that the people that make our policy, why did 45 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:58.439 I have a prayer circle and start speaking gibberish? I find that questionable, 46 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:05.159 And I worry about your ability to make laws for your constituents and the and 47 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:11.599 your state is large, like I have questions and I wonder why so. 48 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:16.600 And also there's some Christian persecution, go perceived Christian personcution going on. We 49 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:20.480 can talk about that a little bit more, but this, this is very 50 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:28.519 problematic and unfortunately is a center of a wire problem that continues to keep happening. 51 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:33.040 So anyway, I said that I'm going to go have tea with Satan 52 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:41.040 and I'll be back while Helen has tea with Satan. Let's go back to 53 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:47.279 this whole thing about how the Senate, specifically Senator State Senator Anthony Kern, 54 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:53.120 decided to have this whole prayer circle. And I wanted to ask you, 55 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:58.000 in Fidel, if you can just give us a little bit more sordid detail 56 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:04.079 about the glossily Gatherine that happened in Arizona. I have to say that being 57 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:11.800 raised around that it was definitely a triggering event just to sit and listen to 58 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:17.439 this Yabba daba doing and it was just, you know, they preresent this 59 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:23.160 veneer of holiness or whatever they want to call it. But the truth is 60 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:28.360 they're doing exactly what Jesus said not to do. They shouldn't be praying in 61 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:32.000 public and beating the floors and pounding their chest and doling all of this. 62 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:41.680 It just is another example of how they want to put their religiosity front and 63 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:45.560 center because it's what they want to be judged by. It's what people want 64 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:48.920 people to judge them as is. They're the good Christians who want to bring 65 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:54.519 godly things to you. So how can you be against that? I can't 66 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.879 remember exactly how he worded it, but it was some kind of oh, 67 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:04.000 the god haters are out against it now when somebody complained about their whole speaking 68 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:09.519 in tongues nonsense, and no, this isn't about God haters. This is 69 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:15.279 about people who will just want fundamental rights that anybody should be able to have 70 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:19.360 and going back and anytime your group is going back to the Civil War era 71 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:24.360 to defend a law, and as Helen mentioned, where ten year olds were 72 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:28.879 allowed to marry, maybe you want to reconsider what your goals are. So 73 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:32.040 I think that they have made this front and center though, So that is 74 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:36.720 the one good thing is because all eyes are on Arizona now. Whether the 75 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:41.600 Yaba Dabad had anything to do with it, I have my doubts, but 76 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.480 okay, be careful what you wish for as I've said before, I don't 77 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.279 think the Republicans ever wanted to win this now and that they've got it, 78 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:54.560 it's sitting firmly in their laps. I've mentioned the dog catching the car before 79 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:58.800 and saying it again. I think we're seeing the car go back up and 80 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:02.319 reverse and roll over a few times here because now they own it. They 81 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.839 asked far it, they got it, and this is what happens when you 82 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:10.439 leave it to the states. That's exact. Well, I guess not really 83 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:14.959 because it was a territory then, but same premises apply. You bring up 84 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.959 a really good point, especially about you know, the Republican lawmakers, because 85 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:23.240 they're the ones who kind of like perpetuated this whole thing, you know, 86 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:30.120 And the article actually highlight the complicity of Republican lawmakers and advancing regressive policies that 87 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:34.160 harm women's reproductive right. And I know that, Jason, you have some 88 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:39.839 pinions about this particular totori, and I would love to hear your opinions, 89 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.399 if you will, please Expand you know, Helen and Infidel said smart things. 90 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:46.319 I just just what the fuck, man, I just I don't even 91 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:50.399 know what's going on. This is they're literally doing fucking magic spells, saying 92 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:56.959 weird fake words, making berserk sounds while bowing in a circle and beating on 93 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:00.279 the ground. I mean, seriously, what the fuck man the And these 94 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.120 are the same people who are worried about any of you who use science, 95 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:11.399 scientific methodology to confirm reality that we literally have fucking wizards speaking magic enchantments in 96 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:16.759 the middle of a fucking government facility where they make decisions about people's lives. 97 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.079 Something has to fucking change. I agree with Helen, So something has to 98 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:26.800 fucking change. This is terrifying. This is the type of fucking extremist religious 99 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:33.080 formative fucking nonsense that we see allowed. I mean, on the world stage 100 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:37.200 at this point, we see we see people speaking in tons. It just 101 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:41.159 it bowls my fucking mind. This is supposed to be home for secular reasoning. 102 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:43.960 This is a place where we should be able to exchange ideas without the 103 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:48.080 poisonous fangs of religion there to drain the life out of any exploit aimed at 104 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:54.480 increasing the well being of the majority. This, this is fucking just lunacy 105 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.679 to me that that this is even allowed, and that anybody takes a shit 106 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.559 serious. And I agree with Infidel. This is this is the type of 107 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:05.200 shit I grew up around. Was this type of shit, was people fucking 108 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:13.679 just blurting out fucking nonsense and then people pretending like it was poignant. And 109 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:18.200 then you're being raised around this shit and you start getting emotional reactions to this 110 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:24.320 shit. Your identity gets fucking foreclosed and you're actually like caring about this. 111 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:31.600 This is fucking just nonsense. And we have people literally making decisions that affect 112 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:41.360 lives, literal lives and health, medical fucking decisions while they do some fucking 113 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:46.279 magic cult shit. I and that's what it is. This is some fucking 114 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:52.440 cult shit, and it's disgusting and I'm appalled, and I think Infidel's wat 115 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.200 we brought it up. This is what happens when you do states rights, 116 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:01.240 and that term states rights comes from people trying to keep their territory, their 117 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.440 state a fucking racist hell hole. That is what it has progressed from is 118 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:11.080 racism. It has been propagated by the same fucking breed of people, these 119 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:15.080 motherfuckers, man, And it's disgusting that they have so much that what they 120 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:20.919 say and what they do bears so much gravitas on our existence. I just 121 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:26.159 I don't. It's it's crazy making. It's the fact that this actually makes 122 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:33.120 an impact and these people are even allowed to make these decisions. Is it 123 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:37.000 just? It just sucks all optimism out of me. And now I'm just 124 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.720 trying to see how the fuck do I get out of this country once my 125 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.679 kid's old enough. I don't want to be here anymore. I'm in fucking 126 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:48.879 Texas. And if y'all read the shit that the Texas GOP issued, I 127 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:52.559 think it's twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen their mission statement. It's the same shit, 128 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:56.679 and these are the motherfuckers that are making decisions, and especially in places 129 00:10:56.679 --> 00:11:00.279 like Arizona and places like Texas, I believe Arizona is the same. It's 130 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.919 a minority majority state. That means that people in power are not representative of 131 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.720 the majority of the people and their needs within their own fucking state. And 132 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:13.120 I don't know anything out of this. One's gonna be rambling and saying more 133 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.879 hate. I'm gonna get back to you, Cynthia, because I'm just I'm 134 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:18.759 disgusted, and I don't. I don't see any other way other than barring 135 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:24.519 these fucking people, because this isn't banning religious expression. You can do whatever 136 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:26.679 fucking weird shit you want to do. I do weird shit. Everyone here 137 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:28.720 does weird ship. But I don't do it unless somebody can sense, and 138 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:33.960 I do it in the fucking place that is meant to be right. I'm 139 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.879 not. I'm not doing a cage fight while I'm on the job site, 140 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.840 right. That's that's that's that's ridiculous. I wouldn't just start fucking shadow boxing 141 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:43.159 and punching people. You know. So you want to fucking say you're weird 142 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:46.360 gibberous ship and you want to act, get all fucking hyped up, do 143 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:50.000 it in your bedroom, you do it in your place of worship. Keep 144 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.360 it out of my fucking shit, because at that point you are you are 145 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:58.279 hindering religious freedom for all the other religious people who don't practice the fucking cult 146 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.519 ship that these fucking people practice. Yeah, I think it's very I think 147 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:05.960 it's very appropriate to bring that up, especially like when people are imbuing their 148 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:15.759 belief systems into how they are conducting law, they are basically utilizing their own 149 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:22.000 personal beliefs and and come to mention that the Bible never addressed abortion. Matter 150 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:24.759 of fact, if you really want to get into it, especially if we 151 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:33.159 look at the Old Testament, if a woman was suspected of having relations outside 152 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:37.519 of the marriage, that the husband was perfectly in his right to go to 153 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:43.360 the pre where the priests would mix up some type of magical concoction called bitter 154 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.519 water, and she drank it and she lost the baby. That means that 155 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:52.679 she did in fact commit adultery, you know. So basically they were saying, 156 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:58.440 if she actually stepped outside the marriage and actually had a or got pregnant 157 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:03.320 from another person that was not her husband, then abortion was perfectly within the 158 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:07.639 right, you know. You know, so like and so like this whole 159 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.440 thing about, Okay, we're going to do glossiala on the floor of the 160 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:16.240 State Senate. We're going to completely ignore the establishment clause that makes no law 161 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:22.799 to establish a religion and also practice and says that people who are constituents of 162 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:28.480 the United States can be whatever religion they decide. But that and even Thomas 163 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:35.279 Jefferson saying that the establishment clause was all about erecting a wall between state and 164 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:43.120 church, that this is supposed to be a secular nation. And also how 165 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:48.919 we conduct business and government even in our states should also be secular. So 166 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:54.519 I find this whole thing, especially with State Senator Anthony Kern, very disturbing. 167 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:58.159 Especially Infidel you brought it up, and I know that, and in 168 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.200 actuality, hell in your nose, you brought it up too, about his 169 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:05.799 whole thing, about this whole god haters thing, you know, just because 170 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:11.840 you're calling out something that they did that was considered religious in a government institution 171 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:18.200 building where you're talking about policy, and according to the Federal Constitution, that 172 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:24.320 is wrong. It's wrong. So you know, I want, I'm curious 173 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:26.519 to know from Helen and then from you, Infidel, you know, what 174 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:31.799 are the implications of this, Senator Anthony Kern, even though I understand that 175 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:35.639 it was the State Senate that I'm not to say Senate, but the State 176 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:39.080 of Supreme Court that ruled that we're supposed to go back to an eighteen sixty 177 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:41.279 four law, which you know, I have to also mentioned. I know 178 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:45.799 that we talked about all types of other things that was legal at that time, 179 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:48.720 but I have to mention that this was also a time where it was 180 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.639 legal to own a person. Okay, that we need to keep that in 181 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:58.799 mind as well. And how but going back to Anthony Kern. How is 182 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:03.039 this whole implication about God haters, you know, and and basically you know, 183 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.559 calling out this particular behavior on the Senate floor so problematic, Helen, 184 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.320 you speak on that and then infidels. You know, I say this a 185 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:16.200 lot, but I'm gonna say it again. I have a problem with religious 186 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:22.799 persecution and God hating. For a reason is because if your sky Daddy that 187 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:28.440 you played to love so much is the creator of the universe. And if 188 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:33.000 someone saying, like, hey, the law that you propose that's harms half 189 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:37.440 the population of your stage and says like, hey, this is not cool 190 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:43.200 man, stop that, and you and your and your response is that you're 191 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:48.399 hating God. And God doesn't show up and defend himself. That's a you 192 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.159 problem. That's a you problem. He's creator of the universe. He doesn't 193 00:15:52.200 --> 00:16:00.440 need you address the fucking issue that you actually cost. It is just is 194 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.679 a straw man, you know, moving the goal post. You know. 195 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:10.279 I'm terrible fallacy because what it's doing is instead of addressing what they're actually doing. 196 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.559 And they know what they're doing. They've been present, they have been 197 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:18.720 presented with the facts. They're not immune to these ideas. But what they're 198 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:22.320 doing is that I'm but since I believe in the sky Daddy and I want 199 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:29.399 political cloud and the things I want to happen that need to happen, I'm 200 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:33.080 going to align myself with terrible ideas and like Infidel said, like now they 201 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:38.399 got the car, you know, and even people within their own party are 202 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:41.720 saying, oh, you know what, maybe this isn't such a great idea, 203 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:45.200 but you know what, too bad. You passed the fucking law and 204 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:47.399 now it's like, you know, you made bed and I got a life 205 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.320 fucking line in a man like you don't get to play this game. And 206 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:56.440 I also want to point out I keep mentioning that again that Anthony ker is 207 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:02.799 associated with a hate group, which is the Alliance Defending Freedom. And again 208 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:08.240 this is another hate group. It was founded by etherial leaders at the Christian 209 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:17.480 right that want to restrict rites for lgbt Q people and want to criminalize them 210 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:22.839 and believe that there's a homosexual agenda and preature rhetoric that all queer people are 211 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:27.799 sexual, are child sexual abusers and there and it's just a whole lot of 212 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:33.160 that. This is who Anthony Kerr is associated with and meaning finded by good 213 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:37.559 for him. They fuck this guy. Fuck this guy, and then he 214 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:44.839 goes and cried's victim because he decides to have a prayer on the centate floor 215 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:48.039 and then cries, oh you you hate me because I love God. It's 216 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:52.000 like, no, we hate you because when you're a bigot and you're a 217 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:56.839 sexist, and you're using your religious liberty to restrict the rights of other people, 218 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:03.559 that's why we're mad. That's why you're being called out and you and 219 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:11.039 you can't hide behind persecution when that your supposed to persecution is taking away the 220 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:15.240 rights and power of people living in your state. Man, you don't get 221 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:19.480 to cry that. I am so sorry for you. And that's the thing 222 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:27.559 that makes me so angry. I'm angry because these motherfuckers again and again and 223 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:33.920 again say freedom for me, not for thee, and it causes harm, 224 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:38.079 and it causes people's lives. And I'm and I and I'm and I'm just 225 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:41.960 tired of it. I'm tired. I'm tired of people using religion as a 226 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:48.400 reason why they get to be persecuted, to be persecutory, big words, 227 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:53.680 persecuratory, and hateful to other people, just be so they make their Skydaddy 228 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:56.480 happy. I live in a democracy. I want to live there. I 229 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:00.720 don't want to live in or Jesus Land, thank you very much. Well, 230 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:04.480 we live in a representative government, but the representation should be of the 231 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:11.440 people in that exactly. Well. One thing that my concern is, and 232 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:17.920 it's definitely adjacent to this, is the reality that when you start saying God 233 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:22.799 haters and understanding what that means from a biblical sense, it makes me wonder 234 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.440 what do they plan to do with those people that they consider God haters? 235 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:30.519 You know, the Bible says thou should not suffer a witch to live. 236 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:34.200 So when you start taking that type of mentality and applying that to those anti 237 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:40.039 God God haters, you know what happens to the people who have abortions, 238 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:45.079 what happens to LGBTQ, what happens to people of whatever ilk. They may 239 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:48.759 not just be Christian enough. It may just be that, you know, 240 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:52.039 they're the wrong flavor of Christianity. But if you're not the right flavor, 241 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:55.759 if you're not the flavor I am, then you could very easily be a 242 00:19:55.799 --> 00:20:00.079 God hater too. So if you don't have the magic decoder ring that I 243 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:03.720 have, then you're not Christian enough, And so that is really what concerns 244 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:08.319 me because this type of rhetoric along with groups that really are hate groups, 245 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:12.759 groups that want to what is their end goal for people that they think shouldn't 246 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:18.759 exist, And with this type of mentality, I do think that we should 247 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:22.519 be fearful of this type of rhetoric because while yes it's a straw man, 248 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.359 it's effective with their base, and if they get the right people in power, 249 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:30.160 then we don't get to make that decision. That decision is taken away 250 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:34.640 from everyone except a small group of people. And that's what I think we're 251 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:41.480 seeing attempted here now. As someone may have mentioned earlier about Republicans trying to 252 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:45.839 flop flip flop on the issue Lake, she's bounced all over it. She 253 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:48.839 was all farthest bill last year or two years ago, and now she's going, 254 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:52.759 ah, let know we that's not in line with what people in Arizona 255 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:56.640 think. Yeah, and it wasn't in outligned with what people in Arizona thought 256 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:00.759 two years ago, and it wasn't aligned with what the people of this country 257 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:06.359 thought when the United States Supreme Court decided to overturn Row. But yes, 258 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:10.279 it's sitting in your lap. Eat it, and I hope they keep eating 259 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:14.200 it, because if anything good can come out of this, it's people being 260 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:17.880 reminded that you have a very vivid choice in life. Do you want to 261 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:22.720 continue the way things were in they in pre Civil War United States? Are 262 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:26.440 we hoping for something better? Personally? I'm really hoping for something better? 263 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.880 Indeed I am as well. And Jason, I'm going to give the final 264 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:34.000 world word to you. I want you to expand what would your mess be 265 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:40.279 to this generation that is pushing back on laws that take us back to a 266 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:45.000 time period where slavery was the law of the land and girls could marry at 267 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:48.599 ten. I've probably got some opinions that I can't share on this channel, 268 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:53.519 but what I can share, you have to look at it for what it 269 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:57.079 is. These people are abusers, and this is a typical rhetoric of an 270 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:02.480 abuser, and abuser tends to pose themselves as the victim. They tend to 271 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:07.319 as act persecuted over emotional. They do everything they can to make you feel 272 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:11.400 like you're doing something to them. These people are abusers. These are people 273 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:18.400 in positions of power with privilege, economic privilege, privilege they have access to 274 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.559 resources that we don't have. People, connections, jobs, the ears of 275 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:26.000 people who are important can make decisions because ultimately all this shit is just run 276 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:30.039 by people. I guess the message I would give would be the same thing 277 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:34.200 I'm giving to my kid. Don't fucking believe them, be skeptical. Employe 278 00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:41.440 skepticism. Employee reason Sadly, in my kids public school and middle school. 279 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:45.559 In her science class, out of twenty five students last week, twenty two 280 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:49.640 of them said they didn't believe in evolution. She was later told that she 281 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:55.359 worships the devil because she's an atheist, among other things that people will tell 282 00:22:55.359 --> 00:23:00.279 her. These kids at this age are just now starting to differentiate, meaning 283 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.400 the prefrontal cortex is going through a thing called synaptic pruning blah blah blah neuroscience. 284 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:07.640 So what I'm saying is they're still modeling the shit that they're hearing at 285 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:14.920 home. They're still modeling their primary socialization agents. They're mimicking what they've been 286 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:18.839 hearing for the past twelve years, through the developmental years, and now testing 287 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:26.960 it out in the public sphere. Sadly, we're seeing ninety two percent rejection 288 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:32.240 of evolution in the middle school in twenty twenty four. As a person who's 289 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:40.200 developed vaccines and performed neurosurgery on primates, I can say with some degree of 290 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:45.319 confidence that all the knowledge we have now is based on understanding of evolution. 291 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:51.400 All of our advances are based on our understanding of evolution and the mechanisms and 292 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:56.279 pressures and blah blah blah. So I don't know. I guess the message 293 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:00.680 I could say is, you know, don't fucking trust anybody and figure it 294 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:03.599 out for yourself. You know, the resources are there. Google scholar is 295 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:06.039 a real thing, right. You know, you can even go to chat 296 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:11.000 GBT and ask for information on a thing in fifteen sources in APA style. 297 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:15.440 You know, it's really not difficult to find information. It's just that people 298 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:19.759 make you terrified of finding information and there's punishments for it. So I don't 299 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:23.680 know. That's just don't fucking listen to anybody and find it out for yourself. 300 00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:27.559 That's about all I can tell anybody in revolt. Indeed, well, 301 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:33.480 the prospect of archaic laws being resurrected, as evidenced by the Arizona Supreme Court 302 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:40.559 decision is deeply concerning. It underscores the importance of vigilance in safeguarding secular principles 303 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:44.839 and upholding law. The article serves as a call to action to resist the 304 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.319 encroachment of religious extreme and in government and to defend fundamental rights freedom. The 305 00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:56.440 upcoming referendum on abortion rights in Arizonta presents also an opportunity for citizens to reject 306 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:04.240 the regression that these policies championed, and lawmakers to reaffirm their commitment to a 307 00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:07.000 secular and inclusive science.