WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:11.279 Give now to support our ground breaking journalism, Give now to fight against liberalism. 2 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:16.640 These are the kinds of lines that are blared out by various kinds of 3 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:24.320 right wing licensed you know, for tax purposes, designated as five to one 4 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:33.479 C three type organizations who are trying desperately to get your money. And I 5 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:38.880 am here on this the John Girardi Show. I am here to give a 6 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:42.119 lot of you listening a warning. All right. I know kind of the 7 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:47.399 demo of who listens to this show, and I think a lot of people 8 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:53.320 here. Look, there's national polling to indicate that conservatives are more inclined to 9 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:59.840 give to charity on the whole. And I think a lot of times people 10 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:06.799 who who are very conservative can have their heartstrings tugged at by conservative sounding causes. 11 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:14.359 It's why various kinds of people make a lot of money running for Congress 12 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:19.319 in hopeless races where they know they're going to lose. Okay. For example, 13 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:25.280 the average successful race for a seat in the US House Representatives winds up 14 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:32.280 spending about three million dollars in campaign expenditures. There was a about four races 15 00:01:32.359 --> 00:01:36.239 in twenty twenty. In the twenty twenty election cycle, there were four different 16 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:44.400 people who were running against Democrats in heavily Democrat seats. It was the people 17 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:53.719 who were running against Kuaisiamfume in Baltimore, ilhan Omar in Minnesota, I think 18 00:01:53.799 --> 00:02:04.000 AOC and New York, and against Maxine Waters and Maxine Waters in California and 19 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:09.520 those four races. The Republicans who ran in those four races. Again, 20 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:15.759 the successful average successful congressional campaign spends about three million dollars. Those four races 21 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:24.159 raised forty million dollars and all four of them lost by over thirty points. 22 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:32.520 Why do they raise so much money Because Conservatives can be duped, Conservatives can 23 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:38.680 be had. Conservatives want to help, They're eager to give, and these 24 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:47.520 people will send out these missives. They'll send out these nationwide text based campaign 25 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:54.879 ads where some guy will be sitting on his couch in Dallas, Texas, 26 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.719 and he'll get some text. Do you hate Maxine Waters, Help me take 27 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:05.280 her out of Congress? Do you hate Nancy Pelosi? Help me take her 28 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:08.080 out of Congress? You hate AOC and ilhan Omar, help me as I 29 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:13.759 run for Congress to unseat ilhan Omar. And that guy in Texas goes, 30 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:17.759 oh yeah, brother, I hate ilholdomar, I hate aoc here's twenty dollars. 31 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:28.599 So all across the right, the political the American political right, there 32 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:36.560 are people who think of you, you the listener of power talk, as 33 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:42.039 an easy mark, who think that there's a way to convince you to separate 34 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:47.680 yourself from your money for some cause that is probably not actually all that valuable 35 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:57.840 to give to either some political campaign or some charity. It's not necessarily doing 36 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:02.960 a whole heck of a lot, but it does result in you being separated 37 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:12.120 from your money. And often the right wing nonprofit world is a real menagerie 38 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:23.360 of lunatics, oddballs, grifters, dishonest swindlers who are desperately trying to take 39 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:28.879 your money. And it's kind of a spectrum from the actually respectable, decent 40 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:35.480 people who do good work to total losers who are trying again just to separate 41 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:41.800 you from your money and promote a very lazy kind of right wing politics that's 42 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:46.439 designed to appeal chiefly to baby boomer donors. A guy who's made a big 43 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:55.439 living off of this is James O'Keeffe. Now, James O'Keefe has probably done 44 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.439 one or two interesting things, but for the most part. What he does 45 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:12.519 is he takes not consented to clandestine videos of various kinds of liberals talking about 46 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.839 what they actually believe. He is able somehow to go out to dinner with 47 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:24.240 these people and get them on a clandestine camera revealing what they actually think. 48 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:31.120 And he has done this with various kinds of tech executives at Google and stuff 49 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:39.360 like that. And recently he just today or maybe yesterday, Yeah, yesterday, 50 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:46.720 he released this video of him. I think pretty much catfishing, which 51 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:53.360 is where you pretend to be romantically interested in someone. This guy named Jason 52 00:05:53.600 --> 00:06:03.120 Beck, who is the associate director with an associate director within the Office of 53 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:09.199 the Secretary of Defense, so he works within the Department of Defense. He's 54 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:17.720 not a member of the military. Looks like a thirty early thirties millennial Department 55 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:24.120 of Defense employee. His Twitter account shows that he's very openly gay, this 56 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:30.839 Jason beckfellow, and it seems as though James O'Keeffe was like pretending as far 57 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:34.480 as his mannerisms and stuff. Seemed likely he was taking this guy on a 58 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:44.720 date to allow this guy to say things that were shocking. So James o'keeff's 59 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:48.160 tweet about this, you know, blaring out this tweet. The associate director 60 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:53.040 in the Office of the Secretary of Defense says, why not just have an 61 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:57.040 open border. Tear down the wall. So he goes out to dinner with 62 00:06:57.079 --> 00:07:01.720 this guy. He takes the guy to an apartment to have, you know, 63 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:09.560 to chit chat on the couch and have a glass of wine. And 64 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:15.680 this openly gay guy who's a political appointee in the Department of Defense. Now, 65 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:24.720 if you tell me the basics of who this guy is, he's a 66 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:30.199 political appointee within the Department of Defense, he's a millennial, he's openly LGBT. 67 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:38.600 I would guess this guy is probably extremely left wing. This is not 68 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:43.360 surprising even if he weren't a political appointee. I would guess that he's probably 69 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:49.680 extremely left wing. And the big quote revelation that James O'Keeffe elicits from this 70 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:55.279 man, and which, by the way, some of you might have remembered, 71 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:59.879 James O'Keefe worked for an entity called Project Veritas. Their board of directors. 72 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:01.759 I think he had some big falling out with them. So now he's 73 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:05.079 got his own thing. Well, I mean, Project Veritas was kind of 74 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:09.279 his own thing. But now he's got another his own thing called James O'Keefe 75 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:16.000 Media that basically does the exact same thing that he always had done, which 76 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:22.560 is undercover clandestine video recordings of people getting them to say something embarrassing. So 77 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.800 here's O'Keefe's big tweet. This is the big revelation about what an obviously very 78 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:33.320 left wing person who works for the Department of Defense believes. This guy, 79 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:39.559 who's a mid level functionary within the Office of the Secretary of Defense says, 80 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.399 quote, why not just have an open border. We should tear down the 81 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.720 wall. I think we should just repeal the Second Amendment and take the guns 82 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:54.799 all away. He thinks we should mobilize the National Guard to confiscate guns from 83 00:08:54.840 --> 00:09:00.519 people's homes. He says he wants a monopoly on state violence, that the 84 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:11.360 government are the only ones with guns. So he also says that we should 85 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:16.879 pack the Supreme Court, that we should abolish the United States Senate, and 86 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:28.279 abolish the electoral the electoral College. So this is all and O'Keefe is trying 87 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:33.480 to present this as like, all it's a shocking revelation about, you know, 88 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:41.159 and this guy whom he's doing these clandestine recordings with He's a mid level 89 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:46.879 flunky in the Department of Defense, specifically in the Secretary of Defense's office. 90 00:09:48.039 --> 00:10:00.080 He helps Department of Defense officials with preparing for congressional testimony. His office over 91 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:03.759 According to O'Keefe's right up here, which is probably not quite accurate, this 92 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:07.120 office oversees the Department of Defense and acts as the principal defense policymaker and advisor 93 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:13.200 to the President of the United States. So O'Keefe's trying to, Oh, 94 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:20.399 this is such a hard, profound revelation. No, it's not, buddy. 95 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:28.879 Let me tell you something. I don't need to make a donation to 96 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:37.600 James O'Keefe to figure out that political appointees who work for the Secretary of Defense 97 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:46.639 who display themselves as being openly gay, I don't need to learn that they're 98 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:52.600 gay. I mean, I don't need James O'Keefe to do an undercover interview 99 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:56.120 to figure out that this guy one is gay, two that this guy holds 100 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:03.919 a variety of While yes, they're very far left, but it's not like 101 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:07.919 nobody believes these things. A lot of very hardcore left wing people believe this 102 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:13.080 stuff. Go to law school, you'll meet a bunch of people like this 103 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:16.720 who believe these things, who think we should abolish a second Amendment, who 104 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.639 think that the Senate is fundamentally an unjust institution, who think that the electoral 105 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:26.519 College should be abolished. These are all pretty mainstream liberal views. I'm not 106 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:31.639 saying they're good or they're right. I think most of them are terribly wrong. 107 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:39.519 But this is nothing surprising at all. But what's happening here, really, 108 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:45.919 this segment is not really about the revelations that someone This segment of this 109 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.879 radio show that you're listening to right now is not about the revelation. Oh 110 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:52.000 my gosh, liberal people work in the Department of Defense, no kidding. 111 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:58.200 The Secretary of Defense, who's a political appointee of the president, who's supposed 112 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:01.320 to be liberal because the president's liberal and he wants liberal people to advance all 113 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:05.320 of his liberal policy, believes hired other liberals to work for him. Yeah, 114 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:13.879 duh. I didn't need to pretend to be a homosexual in order to 115 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:18.519 go on a date with a mid level functionary of the federal government to figure 116 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:24.879 out that mid level functionaries of the federal government are pretty liberal. You know, 117 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:31.519 it's it. You could probably just ask the guy. I mean, 118 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:37.159 a lot of what he's saying is like the official policy positions of the Democrat 119 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:43.600 Party, or if not, it's like very obvious to find out. Yeah, 120 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.960 of course, these mid level political appointees of a Democrat administration, these 121 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:54.360 younger appointees of a Democrat administration, of course they're a bunch of left wingers. 122 00:12:54.759 --> 00:13:03.080 Duh. But you should donate to James O'Keeffe media, to O'Keefe Media 123 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:11.679 group in order to support groundbreaking journalism like this. That young homosexual staffers of 124 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:22.759 a Democrat administration are super liberal who who could possibly have predicted this? Donate 125 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:28.840 now to support our invaluable journalism. That's what I'm saying, Folks, stop 126 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:39.000 giving to these right wing nonprofits who are flashy and just trying to play to 127 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.720 your emotions. Yeah, a right wing person who watches Fox News all the 128 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:48.679 time will see this and think that's outrageous. He's uncovered the bombshell. Let 129 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:56.159 me give you money, And that's what O'Keefe relies on. This is the 130 00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:05.600 clearly, this is the this is his bread and butter, recording these things, 131 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:11.000 posting things that seem shocking and inflammatory and horrible. Oh, my gosh, 132 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.799 unbelievable to uh, you know, sheltered right wingers who don't come out 133 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:20.919 of the Fox News bubble ever, when it's like, yeah, like obviously 134 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:26.159 liberal political appointees of the federal government believe a bunch of really liberal stuff. 135 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:35.240 Duh, Like you didn't have to pretend to be gay and clandestinely video this 136 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:41.879 guy and catfishing and take him on a date to find out. Jeez, 137 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:50.559 Louise. Anyway, when we return the John Girardi standard for assessing when you 138 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:56.279 should give to a right wing cause next on the John Girardi Show, I've 139 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:01.600 been laughing all day at this James oak thing. James o'keef, who used 140 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:07.320 to run Project Very Toss and then clearly had some conflict with his board of 141 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:09.720 directors, got kicked out of that. Now he's got his own thing, 142 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.879 this O'Keefe media group deal where he's doing the same thing he always does, 143 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:20.120 where he takes like clandestine, non consensual, which can be a problem to 144 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.600 do that in various states, like I don't think you can legally do this 145 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:28.840 in California, These non consensual video recordings of various liberals getting them to say 146 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:35.799 liberal stuff, and his most recent one is him clearly pretending to be gay 147 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:46.440 in order to go out on a date with a mid level flunky functionary of 148 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.000 the Department of Defense, a political appointee of the Department of Defense, so 149 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:56.080 someone who's there because the Biden administration's in power, and he gets this guy 150 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:58.399 to say a bunch of left wing things that, oh, we should tear 151 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:00.000 down the wall, and I think the Second Amendments to be abolished, and 152 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:04.720 you know, I think the Senate is should be abolished, and we should 153 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:08.320 pack the Supreme Court. This is all very conventional left wing stuff, and 154 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:14.320 he's presenting it as all this invaluable journalism that I, James O'Keeffe, that 155 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:18.000 I, alone, James O'Keeffe can get for you because I pretended to be 156 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:25.000 gay and went on a date with this unsuspecting person and recorded him without his 157 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:30.200 consent, And then let you know that obviously liberal people believe very liberal things. 158 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:34.799 Obviously very liberal people who work for the Biden administration believe very liberal things 159 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.440 like duh. The guy probably would have told you what he believed without you 160 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:48.559 non consensually recording him like jeezu little. And so it highlights to me how 161 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:57.360 many of these right wing nonprofit or political causes are just absolute trash, and 162 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:02.519 they present themsel. What they do is they try to position themselves to get 163 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:07.880 baby boomer dollars. Fox News watching baby boomer dollars, that's what they want. 164 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:11.720 So he'll have this splashy head like, oh, this this official in 165 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:15.400 the Department of Defense says that we should we shouldn't, we should let all 166 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:21.559 the illegals in, and then that the Second Amendment should be abolished, and 167 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:26.440 it's presented as if it's this huge news story and it's not. This guy's 168 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:34.640 a mid level flunky at best who's obviously very liberal. Like you don't need 169 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:44.279 an undercover investigation to figure out that liberal appointees Democrat appointees to the Department of 170 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:49.880 Defense are liberal, no kidding. The military has been paying for transgender surgeries 171 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.039 for a year, Like, you don't need you don't need someone to tell 172 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:59.440 me that, Oh did you know that Biden appointed liberals to the Department of 173 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:03.480 Defense? Yeah, no kidding. His views aren't even like that outside of 174 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:07.799 the norm of what hard left people believe. Like a lot of hard left 175 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:11.519 people think the electoral college should be abolished. A lot of hard left people 176 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.880 think the Senate is a fundamentally unjust institution. A lot of hard left people 177 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:18.039 think we should pack the Supreme Court. A lot of hard left people think 178 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:19.839 we should tear down the wall. We shouldn't have any wall on the southern 179 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:22.920 border. A lot of far left people think we should have open board like 180 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:30.319 open borders. This nothing that he said was surprising at all unless you live 181 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:37.400 in this Fox News. I guess bubble that you don't know that a good 182 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:45.200 chunk of political left leaning people believe all those things. So here's what I'm 183 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:49.839 saying. Don't give to these kinds of organizations. When you give, whether 184 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:59.599 it's to a campaign, to a nonprofit, think about the ROI what is 185 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:10.559 mind Nation actually getting when you give, for example, to Write to Life. 186 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:15.119 We're educating thousands of kids about the pro life cause. We're directly assisting 187 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:19.559 moms to not have abortions. I was helping out a mom just this past 188 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:26.359 week. This last weekend, I was helping out a mom who had decided 189 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.319 not to have an abortion, had twins. We were getting her hooked up 190 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:33.000 with Catholic charities for clothes, with social services, for adoption assistants, like 191 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:36.200 all this stuff. Give to write to life. You're getting that. 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The proceeds are going to 200 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:17.200 help support our work at our clinic, where we've delivered one hundred babies over 201 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:21.000 the last year and we're helping women who are very seriously considering abortion. We're 202 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:26.359 helping women. We've had referrals from Breaking the Chains, which helps victims of 203 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:32.519 sex trafficking. Our clinic is doing incredible work helping lower income women with prenatal 204 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:37.359 care. Okay, that's good, ROI. You give to an organization like 205 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:44.559 that, you're helping people, You're like doing something concrete to help people to 206 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:48.920 move the ball down the field. You give to James O'Keefe, what do 207 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:56.599 you get? You get the grand revelation that obviously very liberal people believe very 208 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:03.559 liberal things, no kidding. When we return a kind of random Christian theology 209 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:08.079 thing that I keep seeing everywhere, and it's interesting to me, so I 210 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:11.359 hope it'll be interesting to you too. That's next on the John Girardi Show. 211 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:21.960 There's this thing I keep seeing in Christian circles, and I think it's 212 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:29.400 a lot of it's in Protestant circles. It's sort of starting to infect Catholic 213 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:33.519 circles, and it's sort of infecting Catholic circles, maybe in different ways. 214 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:42.319 And it has to do fundamentally with Christian teaching on homosexuality and historic Christian teaching 215 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:53.279 among Catholics Protestants. Orthodox has been pretty consistent that same sex sexual activity is 216 00:21:53.599 --> 00:22:02.640 immoral, that it violates the purposes of conjugal relations, that it is wrong, 217 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:08.039 and it's very clearly expressed to be wrong in the Bible, that sexual 218 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:15.039 acts are reserved for marriage, and that marriage is oriented towards family, towards 219 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:26.400 children, towards procreation, towards life. So this is fairly universal. I 220 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:33.079 think if you're intellectually honest, even if you do think the same sex relations 221 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:38.119 should be viewed as not something immoral, I don't know that you can really 222 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:45.440 honestly say that that is something that's consistent with Christianity. I just don't know 223 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:52.039 how you can. I don't know. Maybe there's a certain Protestant lens of 224 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:56.160 looking at it, that individual interpretation of scripture should be done, and that 225 00:22:56.839 --> 00:23:00.119 my interpretation of scripture I discern that certain value are more important than other values, 226 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:04.000 blah blah blah blah blah. But I don't know how you I think 227 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:14.400 it is very hard to try to argue that Christianity is consistent with a modern 228 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:19.400 day, conventionally liberal ethic with regards to same sex sexual activity. In fact, 229 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:30.079 with regards to modern ethics regarding cohabitation prior to marriage, sexual activity before 230 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:33.839 marriage. I think these are just things that we do conventionally now, and 231 00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:40.599 people try to shoehorn our way of doing things into Christianity, and I don't 232 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:48.559 think it works now. One of the interesting that I've seen two interesting ways 233 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:51.519 in which this is done. So I'm going to talk about the Protestant way 234 00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:53.000 that I keep seeing this being done, and then the Catholic way I keep 235 00:23:53.039 --> 00:24:00.680 seeing this being done. One has to do with how we percee the Apostle 236 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:03.920 Paul. The other has to do with how we perceive the story of Sodom 237 00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:07.880 and Gomorrah. So let me start with the Protestant way of trying to quote 238 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:23.279 contextualize Saint Paul. The problem that liberal Protestants have in trying to somehow reconcile 239 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:30.119 same sex sexual activity with the Bible. The chief problem they have is Saint 240 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:37.880 Paul. Because Saint Paul is very clear and very explicit that same sex sexual 241 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:44.240 activity is bad. The clearest example of this is in the first chapter of 242 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:52.000 Saint Paul's Epistle to the Romans. But Paul has various other points where he's 243 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:56.960 making where he lists homosexuality among various lists of bad things. Paul likes doing 244 00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:00.920 lists of bad things and lists of good things. He's very clear about it 245 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:07.640 that sex between persons of the same sex is wrong. So what is now, 246 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:14.599 I think is becoming more and more popular among liberal leaning Protestant denominations, 247 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:18.960 is this idea that, well, how divinely inspired is Saint Paul really, 248 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:27.200 how divinely inspired are the epistles of Saint Paul. Really, And I've seen 249 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:37.559 pastors, I've seen all kinds of Christian sort of influencer types trying to portray 250 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:45.079 Paul and Jesus, Saint Paul as being something very separate from Jesus, that 251 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:51.839 Paul's theology being different from the actual teachings of Jesus. I saw, actually, 252 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:59.240 like some Christian liberal Christian cartoonist who literally drew a cartoon of a boxing 253 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:07.079 ring. On one side was Jesus wearing like royal robes and floating on a 254 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:11.000 cloud, and the other was Jesus sort of dressed in rags with the crown 255 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:15.480 of thorns on his head. These very simplistic cartoons and like a boxing like 256 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:22.599 a what is that guy? The let's get ready to rumble that guy? 257 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:25.960 I can't remember his name anyway, the announcer in the middle of the boxing 258 00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:30.200 ring saying, in this corner Jesus of the Gospels and in this corner Saint 259 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:38.799 Paul's Jesus. The idea being that Saint Paul's theology is something different from the 260 00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:44.279 theology that's found in the Gospels, that Saint Paul's presentation of Christ is different 261 00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:49.160 from the presentation of Christ found in the Gospels, which I think is laughably 262 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:57.039 false. Jesus was, I think. I think the presentation of Jesus in 263 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:03.640 both are pretty similar. Jesus is presented as human and divine in both Saint 264 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:08.799 Paul's theology and in the Gospels. Jesus is presented as, by our modern 265 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:14.920 standards, more than a bit of a prude when it comes to sexual ethics 266 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:21.000 in both the Gospels and in the theology of Saint Paul, which, by 267 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:25.680 the way, Jesus being apprude about sex ethics, it's because in the Roman 268 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:30.839 it's because I think this is a correct sexual ethic. But it's also because 269 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:40.359 in the Roman Empire in which Jesus was born and lived and died, sexual 270 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:48.160 violence was a very commonplace thing against people. Sexual violence, particularly against people 271 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:53.960 who were lower in the pecking order, and the violence that originated from sex. 272 00:27:55.440 --> 00:28:00.759 The mistreatment of newborn children who were left to die because they were an 273 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:08.440 inconvenient child, possibly because a Roman citizen had relations with a slave or with 274 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:18.880 a prostitute, prostitution, the raping of slaves. This stuff was pretty commonplace 275 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:23.200 in the Roman Empire and pretty much institutionalized if you were if you were a 276 00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:34.480 slave of a free Roman citizen master, that free Roman citizen master of yours 277 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:42.519 could basically do whatever he wanted with you, man or woman. This kind 278 00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:48.640 of violence was pretty common in the ancient world in which Christ lived, and 279 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:59.880 so for Christ to insist upon lifelong marriage, lifelong exclusive marriage, for him 280 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:07.240 and Saint Paul to present this idea of women and slaves and children as being 281 00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:12.519 persons who are valuable and beloved children of God who should be treated well and 282 00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:19.119 respected and cherished, which was also by the way, promoting ideas and beliefs 283 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:29.160 that were found in the Jewish scriptures as well, was a critically important moral 284 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:38.599 breakthrough in the history of the world. Now because Saint Paul, I think, 285 00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:45.400 so basically what's happening in liberal Protestantism is this idea that trying to draw 286 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:49.480 this big contrast between Saint Paul's theology and the theology of the Gospels. And 287 00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:56.000 I think the reason why they're sort of pretending that it's for other reasons that 288 00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:03.599 Paul is so harsh. Paul is so this view of Christ as this exalted 289 00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:07.880 and foreign, stand offish Jesus, when really the Jesus of the Gospels is 290 00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:11.000 something else, ignoring the fact that the Jesus of the Gospel does some pretty 291 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:17.400 harsh things to hypocrites and sinners, throwing over the tables of the money changers. 292 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:21.519 And also, by the way, it's not like Jesus. Jesus flat 293 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:26.920 out says he's the son of God. He flat out affirms his divinity multiple 294 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:36.079 multiple times. He affirms his divinity and yet submits himself to being crucified. 295 00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:41.680 That's the unbelievable power of the Christian message. Nothing that Saint Paul says detracts 296 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:49.319 from that, or lessens that, or or differs from that account that's in 297 00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:55.640 the Gospels, and all these spurious arguments about well, Saint Paul never actually 298 00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:59.720 met Jesus. So we're gonna go with the Gospels over Saint Paul if they're 299 00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:04.680 in conflict, I don't I have a strong sense that this whole thing that 300 00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:11.279 we're seeing more and more in liberal Protestantism is purely because why Saint Paul is 301 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:18.640 much more explicit on this specific topic of same sexu relations than the Gospels are. 302 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.480 Now this is sort of starting to infect by the way, Catholicism, 303 00:31:25.480 --> 00:31:30.640 and there there's this different line of argument that I'm hearing in Catholicism. There's 304 00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:36.200 this Catholic biblical theologian, this big piece he's got published in some lefty Catholic 305 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:41.960 rag probably I think it's in America Magazine. I'll go double check on that. 306 00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:47.039 And this guy's making the argument, no, no, no, no, 307 00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:49.400 no, we've misinterpreted the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. What was happening 308 00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:53.920 in Sodom and Gomorrah. Why God judged Sodom and Gomorrah so harshly is because 309 00:31:55.480 --> 00:32:00.440 of a lack of hospitality, that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were being 310 00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:07.519 threatening to Lot and his household, and that's why God destroyed them with fire. 311 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:10.559 So we because if you read the story of Sodom and Aemora in Genesis 312 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:16.599 really closely, it never says anything about it never actually says it specifically, 313 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.960 so that they try to carry this argument, but it ignores the fact that 314 00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:32.799 in the Epistle of Saint Jude in the New Testament, Jude very clearly states 315 00:32:34.839 --> 00:32:38.400 what was going on in Sodom and Amora, which was same sex relations. 316 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:45.920 So you're seeing, Look, if you want to uphold the notion that same 317 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:50.799 sex sexual relations are unproblematic morally, okay, but I don't think you can 318 00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:54.279 contort all of historic Christianity to do that. All right, When we return, 319 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:58.599 I want to talk about I had to take a couple of days off. 320 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:01.519 I want to talk about my father, doctor Joseph Girardi. That's next 321 00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:07.720 on the John Girardi Show. I want to spend the rest of the show 322 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:15.000 talking about my dad, doctor Joseph Girardi. My dad passed away on Tuesday 323 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:22.079 afternoon. He was sixty seven years old, and I'm going to miss him 324 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:30.039 terribly. He died from complications due to cancer, and he had been having 325 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:35.759 a very difficult The last year or two of his life had been very very 326 00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:40.000 difficult, with lots of complications, lots of pain, lots of suffering from 327 00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:45.039 not so much the cancer itself, but the attempts to treat it and the 328 00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:50.400 ways in which that had harmed his digestive system. And he was in a 329 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:54.640 lot of pain, particularly in the last few months of his life. So 330 00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:59.279 there's a part of me that is, you know, it's sad but happy. 331 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:05.640 He was a truly great man. My dad was a surgeon at Valley 332 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:12.440 Children's Hospital for over thirty years. We moved to Fresno in nineteen ninety one 333 00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:17.239 after he had finished medical school and then his residency served the duration of his 334 00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:21.239 residency as an officer in the United States Navy as a doctor in the Navy, 335 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:25.199 where he served at Naval Hospital San Diego and Naval Hospital on the Island 336 00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:29.639 of Guam, and did a couple of tours in the South Pacific aboard the 337 00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:35.920 Mighty USS Peoria, which was like a boat for transporting marines around. And 338 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:42.079 he did a one year fellowship at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas, and 339 00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:45.280 he came to Valley Children's in nineteen ninety one and he stayed there for his 340 00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:50.320 whole career, and he was a pillar and an institution at Valley Children's. 341 00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:54.280 He helped build the orthopedic surgery department at Valley Children's into genuinely one of the 342 00:34:54.280 --> 00:35:00.880 finest orthopedic surgery pediatric orthopedic surgery departments in the United States of America, as 343 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:06.039 has been recognized by a number of entities, including US News and World Report. 344 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:12.440 He served in all kinds of different leadership positions at Children's and was genuinely 345 00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:17.039 beloved. I'm afraid there's going to be a billion people at his funeral. 346 00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:31.360 He was just incredibly funny, infectiously optimistic, cheerful, good humored, kind 347 00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:37.400 loving. I joke that about over the last thirty years, there's if you 348 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:40.559 broke a bone, there's a one as a kid, there's one five chance 349 00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:44.840 that my dad took care of you. And I think that's about right. 350 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:51.159 I mean, he touched tens of thousands of children and families. We actually 351 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:53.480 I was talking with the head of the Orthow department at Children's and he was 352 00:35:53.519 --> 00:36:00.880 saying that the number might be actually in the sixth figure mark. He was 353 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:05.119 a truly remarkable man, and he got so much done in his sixty seven 354 00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:10.159 years. He had four wonderful children. He has eight grandchildren. My mom, 355 00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.480 doctor Sharon Girardi, whom he met in medical school and who served as 356 00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:21.000 an officer in the Navy with him. They got married in medical school, 357 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:28.079 has been an absolute superhero over her entire life, I would say, but 358 00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:32.000 particularly over the duration of my dad's illness and his struggle with cancer. Just 359 00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:38.159 the greatest caretaker you could possibly have ever imagined. They were married for over 360 00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:44.079 forty years, and they sort of modeled for me and my siblings what a 361 00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.679 marriage is supposed to be what it means to be a husband, what it 362 00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:54.519 means to be a dad. And you know the great consolation that I had, 363 00:36:55.880 --> 00:37:00.000 you know, as a Roman Catholic. One of the our sacs, 364 00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:04.880 one of our sacraments, is called the anointing of the sick, and it's 365 00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:08.800 sort of when someone is very seriously ill or perhaps in danger of death, 366 00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.800 priests will come and anoint the person to sort of prepare their soul for the 367 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:21.000 life to come. And literally the day that my dad died, and he 368 00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:25.320 had been very very ill, his actual death came sort of suddenly, but 369 00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:30.079 earlier in the day before he died, while he was still lucid, my 370 00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:34.719 dear friend and my pastor, father Michael Androtti, from our later perpetual Help, 371 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:39.239 came to the house, prayed with us, heard my dad's confession, 372 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:44.679 absolved him, gave him the anointing of the sick, and gave him Holy 373 00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:47.960 communion, and my dad got to receive Our Lord the day that he died. 374 00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:53.840 This is the great virtue of hope that God is faithful to his promises 375 00:37:53.840 --> 00:38:00.039 to those who love him. And I'll just read from John eleven onward. 376 00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:04.519 Jesus said to her. I am the Resurrection in the life. He who 377 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.320 believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live. And whoever 378 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:12.800 lives and believes in Me shall never die. So rest in peace, Doctor 379 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:15.480 Joe Girardi, my dad. I love him so much. See you next 380 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:16.639 time on The John Girardi Show.