Episode 144

Did you know that according to our bonkers world, the Bible is no different from Mein Kampf and is filled with bad and hateful speech like the word “sin?” Or that over three years after the domestic terrorism Black Lives Matter unleashed on the country, some people are only NOW realizing how much of a scam the movement is? What about a 22 year old woman who hated the idea of showering so much that she stabbed her grandfather in the face when he encouraged her to go take a shower? You don’t need us to tell you, but this world has gone bonkers and we’re here to talk about it on this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast.

[Jay]

You were only fooled by Black Lives Matter if you weren’t paying attention, and the majority of the world was not paying attention.

Thank you for tuning in to the Removing Barriers podcast. I’m Jay and I’m MCG. And we’re attempting to remove barriers so we can all have a clear view of the cross.

[MCG]

This is episode 144 of the Removing Barriers Podcast. And this is the 4th in this series of this world have gone bonkers, and in this episode, we have lined up a number of articles that we think shows that this world is bonkers.

[Jay]

Hi, this is Jay. MCG and I would like for you to help us remove barriers by going to removingbarriers.net and subscribing to receive all things, removing barriers. If you’d like to take your efforts a bit further and help us keep the mics on, consider donating at removing barriers.net/donate, removing barriers. A clear view of the cross.

[MCG]

All right. I will start with an article from the Telegraph. Across the pond in the UK. And I believe this article is bonkers because. I don’t know where this guy got this idea from, but the title of the article is it’s time to admit it. Black Lives Matter hysteria made fools of us all. Well, I think he made fool of a lot of folks, but not all of us. The article was written by Michael Deacon. As a British protest organizer admits fraud, it’s hard to help wondering what exactly came over us in summer 2020, the article reads. Remember, the Black Lives Matter protests in Bristol, the one where the mob tipped the statue in the harbour in court this week, one of its organizers admitted fraud. After £30,000 in donations from Black Lives Matter supporters went missing. Those donors will be shaking their heads, but I suspect they won’t be the only ones because three years on, it feels like an appropriate time to reflect on what happened during that mad summer of 2020 and act what exactly came over us. Now I think this article is bonkers for many reason. From the title, I don’t think it made a fool of. All of us. We have like 6 episodes on Black Lives Matter. I’m just going to go to dummy. So if you want to go. Into them way back in September, August of 2020 when we started this podcast, we did Episode 3 Black Lives Matter, an introduction to the movement, episode 4 Black Lives Matter, the destruction of the nuclear Family, episode 8 Black Life Matter, the LGBTQIA Plus movement, episode 27, black life. The the Maxis movement, episode 30 Black Lives Matter and the police and episode 56 Black Lives Matter, the hypocritical movement. So we have been on the tails of black life matter. Long time and this guy is coming out three of these, you know. Say all of us were fools. Uh, no.

[Jay]

Just based on the way that he worded that article, I don’t think he’s talking to anyone outside of his bubble. Everyone inside of his bubble was fooled by Black Lives Matter, but most conservative. Lives most fundamental Christians, I think, were not fooled by Black Lives Matter. But of course he’s not talking. To us so.

[MCG]

The Attica continues. We all recall what happened for almost a month. Mass protests raged all over Britain. Outside Downing St. a policeman took the knee while on duty. The Labour leader and his deputy polls for photograph, in which they solemnly took the knee in Sal Parliament, then the England football team started taking the knee too. In fact, they continued to perform this American gesture long after American sportsmen had stopped. And when they say football, they mean the real football. Just want to put that in there. Hence the peculiar spectacle before the England versus USA match at last year, World Cup, the England team took the knee, but the US team didn’t. All of the above heparin in response to a single. Event the murder of an African American man by a White American policeman in the American state of Minnesota, 4000 miles away. The murder was of course appalling. But how come such huge protests against US cops erupt in Britain too? He asked a question.

[Jay]

I have to laugh at this because if you’re carried away by every whim and every fancy. It’s no surprise that you’ll be carried away by something like Black Lives Matter, because it’s all emotive and there’s very little thought process behind it. You can tell when you read there what we believe statement, what black guys matter was all about and it’s funny, you know, this MCG, the overwhelming majority of people that we spoke to about. Black lives matter. Particularly black people that claimed that they supported the movement had no clue what Black Lives Matter was actually about. None of them had read the what we believe statement, none of them knew that at the center of their organization was the destruction of the nuclear family and the promotion of every other aberrant type family structure. So it’s not surprising that when you just don’t know things and you just go on surface level on emotion. That you’re going to be fooled by black lives. This matter? So they have since removed a few of the bullets and sections of this. What we believe statement.

[MCG]

Well, they removed the page all together.

[Jay]

Uh, they removed the page all together. There we go.

[MCG]

But we preserved it though.

[Jay]

We preserved it so that everyone actually knows what this organization is and the fact that they removed it. It isn’t because they stopped believing this stuff. It’s only because they were under fire, for they were getting backlashed. So here’s what they wrote. I’ve truncated it for brevity’s sake, but even with the truncation, it’s still going to be fairly long here we.

[MCG]

They getting back last year.

[Jay]

Black Lives Matter, what we believe so, just as a refresher to anyone listening that doesn’t know Black Lives Matter was established in response to the death of Trayvon Martin, as well as Michael Brown in Ferguson. I should say Trayvon Martin was killed in Florida. Michael Brown was killed in. Ferguson. And so in the years since, they’ve committed to struggling together and imagining and creating a world free of anti blackness, where every black person has the social, economic and political power to thrive. Black Lives Matter began as a call to action and response to state. Sanctioned violence and anti black racism. That’s important to remember because they repeat that throughout the entire declaration. Our intention from the very beginning was to connect black people from. All over the world. Who have a shared desire for justice to act together in their communities. The impetus for that commitment was, and still is, the rampant and deliberate violence inflicted on us by the state. They claim that the reason they got together was because the state was out. Killing black people and they were tired of it and they wanted to establish Black Lives Matter, the statement continues. Enraged by the death of Trayvon. Martin and the subsequent acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman, we took to the streets a year later. We set out together on the Black Lives Matter freedom ride to Ferguson in search of justice for Mike Brown and all of those who have been torn apart by here it is again, state sanctioned violence and anti black racism. To some forever change, we returned home and began the infrastructure for the Black Lives Matter Global network. So the reason I reiterate the fact that they’re after state sanctioned violence is because when you read through there what we believe statement, very little of it has to do with state sanctioned violence against black people, the majority of it is about uplifting. Black trans people and all other type of sexually aberrant behavior. It has actually very little to do with uplifting or helping people who have been afflicted by. The state. Here’s another important statement they make through movement and relationship building. We have also helped to catalyze other movements, and this is the important part and shifted culture with an eye toward the dangerous impacts of anti blackness. Their claim to shifting culture is actually very true. Black lives matter. Took the I don’t know if I should say the world, but it definitely took the US and the. UK by storm. All of a sudden this no name organization was plastered where protests everywhere you had. Professional sports teams taking knees and raising fists in defiance, and they definitely made a mark on the culture so that people felt like they could not stand against what Black Lives Matter stood for without also standing against black people. They very cleverly called themselves Black Lives Matter. So that if you say that you are against the organization, you are also saying that you are against black people. And so that way they definitely shifted culture.

[MCG]

All over lie though.

[Jay]

All over a lie absolutely, because the issue between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, as far as we can tell, was an altercation between two people. That had nothing to do with the fact that one was black. The killing of Mike Brown, this whole hands up don’t shoot nonsense that they were talking about that somehow Mike Brown was. We had a podcast about it that he was gunned down by a policeman and that he was unarmed and he was not a threat. All of the evidence after the fact proved that to be a lie. And yet, in spite of that. The flame had already been lit. The bonfire had already been lit and people were outraged, and you couldn’t tell them anything about Trayvon Martin or. Mike Brown. And so they were definitely right that they shifted culture in the sense it continues, we acknowledge, respect and celebrate differences and commonalities, differences and commonalities, of course, as long as you agree with them, yeah, if you’re black and you don’t agree with them, you are, quote the black face of white supremacy is what they say.

[MCG]

Larry elder.

[Jay]

Larry Elder exactly. We work vigorously for Freedom and Justice for black people and by extension, all people. That sounds good. But again, a surface level placation, and it hides the more nefarious issues underneath. We intentionally build and nurture A beloved community that is bonded together through a beautiful struggle. That is restorative, not. Pleading. I’m sorry. Does anyone remember the 2020 riots, the summer of love, as they call it?

[MCG]

It was a peaceful protest.

[Jay]

Ohh, mostly peaceful with the fire station and the police station on fire behind the news reporter. Mostly peaceful, OK, restorative and not depleting. Did anyone remember that the leader, Patrice Cullers, was enriching herself and buying multimillion dollar properties properties with hangers? On them hangers, not hangers that you hang in the closet. We’re talking hangers for airplanes for private airplanes, for her own personal benefit. How?

[MCG]

Isn’t that what? Black Lives Matter stand for, buy large mansions.

[Jay]

Oh yeah.

The enriching and the empowerment of black people, of course. How could I forget? Ohh yeah, she did that too. Hiring her brother for security, paying him. What was it like? Some crazy? Some like 800,000 or however much it. What? No, something like that for security. OK, but of course. Black Lives Matter, right? Here you go. Continuing on there, what we believe statement, we are guided by the fact that all Black Lives Matter. Unless you disagree with them, then your life. Matter at all, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs, or disbelieves immigration status or location. Hold up. I thought that we were talking about black people that were oppressed by the state. What does gender have to do with all of this? What does immigration status have to do with all of this? What does all of these ability disabilities, so we have all of the DEI requirements, all locked up in here, and all of that nefariously is associated with blackness. All of these. What they say is marginalized minority groups intersectionalities are now associated with blackness now, so that subtle shift that they did in there is how they ended up saying some of the crazier things we make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead. Isn’t that kind of.

[MCG]

And the securities?

[Jay]

Oxymoronic. Doesn’t that defeat itself? If you’re transgender, that includes binary, non binary and all of the other unidentifiable genders that we all talk about on the podcast all the time. But then you say brothers and sisters, isn’t that kind of maybe just me Black lives matter. We are self reflective and we do the work to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift black trans folk, especially black. Friends, women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans antagonistic violence. Wait a minute. Was it the whole premise? The whole purpose of this organization against state sanctioned?

[MCG]

So they.

[Jay]

So they say, OK, let’s continue. They hook you and lead you on to something else. Let’s continue. We build a space that affirms black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and quote environments in which men are centered.

[MCG]

Ohh they and I meant you.

[Jay]

They’re anti men, particularly anti black men. Unless, of course, you’re black transgender woman. But then.

[MCG]

Or unless you were killed by the police. Rightfully so. Even if that they can make money.

[Jay]

Off of, you know, as a side note, we say all the time that a lot of the issues that we see in the black communities stem from the destruction of the Black family. There are no black father. There’s in the home and black men have, by and large, been emasculated by the feminist agenda. And of course, now all of this intersectionality, the only black men that are uplifted in this statement are black men who have been emasculated. So people in the trans community, there’s nothing in here uplifting the black man.

[MCG]

Except if he had been killed by the police. George Floyd. Michael Brown.

[Jay]

Ohh, right, right, right, right, right.

So if you’re a criminal killed by the police in an interaction with them because you’re resisting arrest, then you matter. But until then, nobody cares. No, here’s the next statement in there, what we believe declaration. We disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and villages that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable, mothers, parents. And children. Are comfortable. Ah, there’s a demographic that’s interestingly missing there. I’ll take black men for 200.

[MCG]

Please no. I’ll take black fathers.

[Jay]

Black fathers, even more specifically for 200 and for 800. And you know when they say parents what they mean by that is not men and women. What they mean by parents. They’re meaning people who fall under the transgender umbrella. And you can’t call a she a he and he or she. In other words, you can’t misgender them. And so you have to say.

[MCG]

For 8.

[Jay]

Parents, because that’s gender neutral, just like you have to say chest feeding now. And women are birthing persons. That’s the language there. When they’re saying parents, they’re not talking about black fathers. They’re talking about people who fall under the transgender umbrella who also want to raise children that are not their own, because the left don’t have children, they have to take yours. And that’s what they mean by parents. But here we continue. We foster a queer affirming network when we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that everyone in the world is heterosexual. Rule. What does that have to do with police sanctioned violence? Again? I’m sorry I missed it. Did I miss something, MCG?

[MCG]

That’s Black Lives Matter for you. As I said, we have done a number of episode on it, so.

[Jay]

That’s the reason why. It’s probably not nice to do, but we have to do it. You were only fooled by Black Lives Matter if you weren’t paying attention and the majority of the world was not paying attention.

[MCG]

I don’t know if majority of the world was not. I think majority of the world was scared to say. Well, I don’t think much of the world was not paying attention. I think a lot of people, that doesn’t mean majority, but there’s a lot of people worse kid to say anything against Black Lives Matter.

[Jay]

Because if you did, you were anti black.

[MCG]

Right, especially because I’ve seen videos back in 2020, I remember seeing videos where black folks would be on the street, you know, recording for YouTube and stuff like that. And they would go up to white folks and ask them to repent of their whiteness.

[Jay]

Mm-hmm. Remember that.

[MCG]

And they will go on their knees and basically repent of being white. I’m like you didn’t have a choice in being white, just like I didn’t have a choice in being black. That’s the way God created you, and I’m sure there’s no one in life today who, at least in America, who owns slaves and no slavery, still around the world. But I don’t think there’s anyone in America today that truly legally owned slaves. So to go up to a random white person and acts the person to take in the and repent of the whiteness. I don’t know. I think that’s crazy, but again, the only people that were fools. I guess there were some people that were fooled, but definitely.

[Jay]

The people in the authors bubble were fooled.

[MCG]

Yeah, definitely. Well, he asked the question, you know, how is it that there could be 4000 miles away, and yet they seem to embrace black life matter even more than the American culture? Well, I’m not quite sure if they did more than American culture, but I will say this, it’s because of a shared history and a shared history is slavery and their. Shipment of slaves from Africa to England to the US to the Caribbean. Stuff like that. I think that’s why you see this. But also we have a saying whenever we were growing up in the islands, we would say that when America snow. Is the Caribbean catched the cold? But it seemed like that’s the same for England and the West of the West. When Americans sneeze, it seems like all of them catch the cold too, because let’s call George Floyd death a murder. I don’t see why the murder of George Floyd and I’m putting that in court because I’m not quite sure what George Floyd was murdered. But let’s give them that. Because Derek Chauvin was convicted in court to be the murderer, even though I don’t quite agree with that. But why is it that the murder of a black man in a? America’s triggered massive protests for months in the UK. It doesn’t make any sense because the British police is just really different from the American.

[Jay]

Police. They’re not even armed. Are they over there?

[MCG]

For most part, some of them are, but for most part they’re not armed, and for most part the British population is not armed, neither compared to the US, you know.

[Jay]

That’s the only way an unarmed police force would ever work. The people would have.

[MCG]

To be disarmed as well. Right. So unarmed, I should say. The dynamics is not even the same, even though we there’s some aspect of the culture that are shared from folks that I spoken to that either live in England or. Or maybe missionaries to England and I have an aunt and several cousins who are British citizens, you know? So I have somewhat of an idea of what they have at least went through in the UK because most of the Caribbean, they were penalized by Britain just like the US was colonized once by Britain, right? And my aunt left the Caribbean and went to England before. Poor. We gain independence from British, so technically she was a British citizen, born in the British colony and her kids were born in England and I’ve had some interaction with them and stuff like that. So I have a little bit of idea of what black folks may go through or not go through in England by listening to them on what the case may be. From what I understand, is not even close to what may be in the US because in England you wouldn’t hear the term African, British or British African or whatever the term would be like. We have African American, right, right. You would hear the term, you would hear something like British, Nigerian. Or British Ghanian or whatever. They distinguished themselves based on the country they’re from in the US, everybody is lumped together. Mm-hmm. So I’m from their Caribbean, someone from Africa. Someone from everybody’s lumped together. You know, the one umbrella as being African American, or at least not African American truly. But black when truly, we don’t even. To your culture. Mm-hmm. So this is just bonkers because the two cultures are so different that why is that people are protested over there. I remember listening to a podcast where this black British Lady was talking about the fact that after George Floyd, that her white coworkers were basically walking on egg shells around her, and she had just said to them, hey. Joyful wasn’t my dad or my uncle or something like that so fully. Some stranger and something that happened in the US. It doesn’t affect me because I’m black. I’m not wishing that he died or anything. I wish that the whole thing didn’t happen, but I didn’t look at George Floyd as if it was my uncle or something died. And all of a sudden can’t sleep. Again, I’m not trying to be callous here saying that someone died and I don’t care what I’m simply saying he wasn’t a family member. He wasn’t someone I knew.

[Jay]

OK, let’s play devil’s advocate. What if he represented something that all African Americans can be touched by? So, for example, a public figure like when Martin Luther King was assassinated. People felt that because he meant something to everyone. Perhaps George Floyd is on that same level.

[MCG]

I don’t think so, because I don’t think so, because again, if he was truly killed.

[Jay]

I don’t either.

[MCG]

If I believe in my heart of heart that he was truly killed because he was black, the sentiment would have been different. You can argue to some extent that maybe Martin Luther King Junior was killed because he was black. Sure, that’s a fear, right? Right. That’s a fair argument. If you want to say that.

[Jay]

And he was actually murdered. He was actually assassinated. Killed.

[MCG]

Right.

Somebody argued he was killed because. Of his position and what he was trying to accomplish for the black movement, right and at the end of day, you can say he was killed because he was black. I can say OK, fine. But George Floyd, I don’t think he was killed because he was black. I’m not even sure he was killed because the officer had his knee on his upper back or aching neck probably, you know, in the coat.

[Jay]

Or that the government did it? Yeah.

[MCG]

He was kind of he was not really on the neck. He was more on the back. Who knows? But let’s give them all that. Let’s say the knee was on the neck and all that, that I’m not even sure that he was killed because the knee was on his neck. Because I can’t get across the fact that he was. High and fentanyl and some other drug.

[Jay]

Eat ball. Actually, from what I understand.

[MCG]

Right. It was high, well above the legal limit. Well, there’s no legal limit, but well, he was very right.

[Jay]

Well beyond what normal people would actually have in their system? Sure.

[MCG]

That’s one and two, he had cardiovascular disease. So when you combine high end fentanyl high and some other kind of drug, cardiovascular disease and he was probably at that point what they call it excited delirium.

[Jay]

Right.

[MCG]

He was going through that he could have died just because he had a bad heart. But anyways, I digress. The whole thing is here. Is that? I didn’t look at George Floyd as a representation of me as a black man living in the US. That because George Floyd was pulled over by the police and they put the knees in that that if I get pulled over by the police, they’re gonna put their knee on my neck. I think there’s some bad police officers out there, but for most part, if you, what’s the word comply and not be on drugs? And all these other things, your interaction with the police will probably go a lot smoother. Or anyway, the article continues, he said. I think it was at some conscious reaction to lockdown. Young people had been confined to their homes for too long. Months they gone stir crazy. They were desperate to get out, to be just part of a crowd, to feel a sense of community again. And as they burst furiously out of the streets together. These protests gave them exactly that. Oh, I guess I agree with him on that. The protests in the US and all that stuff they did nothing about it, but yet they wanted to prevent us from going to church and all that stuff. Yet hundreds of people matching this street without masks just because they were protesting George Floyd. So I guess you could say, yeah, it did show the hypocrisy of the. Government. But when they didn’t want no one to gather for church and other guys, they want to say right wing conservative gatherings. But the left wing ones could still gather.

[Jay]

I will take a step back, have some empathy, and commiserate with the author of that. It is jarring and shocking to see, or to have something that you believe. To be true. Be proven as not true or false or corrupt, or fill in the blank he believed, or at least it sounds like he believed, and everyone in his bubble believed that Black Lives Matter was an honorable and noble organization fighting for an honorable and noble cause. And now, three years later, in retrospect. We see Black Lives Matter or he sees Black Lives Matter for what it was, for what it is, a sham, A. Scam. I feel the same way I I can relate. I can empathize. I can commiserate, because as a result of the pandemic and the government’s response to the pandemic, there are many things that I had confidence in. And when I say confidence, I don’t mean more than God. I just mean that I respected that. I held in high regard many institutions in our country. That I held in high regard that now as a result of the pandemic and the subsequent things that we’ve seen since, I no longer hold in high regard. Now I see them for the corrupt hollow shells that they are that. It is and. It shakes you a. Bit so I can empathize. I can commiserate with the author. I’ll give him that. At least. I have an article here that is going to show how the world is bonkers in the sense that more and more blatantly openly.

[MCG]

Good and you?

[Jay]

And unashamedly the world is bearing its teeth and snarling and gnashing its teeth at anything the Bible says and the people that hold to the Bible this from Fox. Whose Christian official faces second hate speech trial over Twitter post quoting the Bible. A member of Finland’s parliament will appear in court in either late August or late September of 2023 after citing the Bible in a social media post. Let’s read the article here, says a respected member of Finland’s parliament is set to appear or reappear in court for a second time, facing quote, hate speech charges for a social media post citing Bible verses more than a year after a District Court dismissed the charges. Minister, in a press release, Parliament member Paivi Rasanen, a 62 year old medical doctor and grandmother of seven, said that she is, quote, ready to defend her freedom of expression in all necessary quotes. Her second court hearing took place in late August and in early September. And the Helsinki Court of Appeals in the Northern European countries. Capital. So in February of 2022, the Helsinki District Court unanimously dismissed the first hate speech charge against her, and Bishop Juhana Pajala regarding their Christian beliefs about marriage. So I would imagine that she posted that marriage is between a man and a woman, instituted by God. That’s hate speech now. Is that what it’s saying? In a 2019 tweet, Rasanen questioned her churches sponsorship of an LGBTQ Pride event and linked to an Instagram post with a picture of Romans chapter one verses 24 through 23. I’d like to go ahead and read Romans 1 verses 24 to 27. And I’d like to see what is it that is so hateful that she’s having to go to court for, it says. Romans 124 wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed forever. Men for this cause God gave them up unto vile affections for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature, and likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust, one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving. In themselves, that recompense of their error, which was meat, that, ladies and gentlemen, according to Finland, is hate speech.

[MCG]

It is hate speech because they disagree with it, so it’s not necessary. Hate speech is disagreeing speech. And today, if you disagree with the. Their leaders of the Free World quote, UN quote. And when I say the leaders of the free world, I’m talking about the 2 S LGBTQIA plus community. It is now considered hate.

[Jay]

Hate speech? Let me put a pause on this and point out something that’s bonkers. She’s not even going out of her way to condemn people of the LGBTQ community. She’s calling out her church.

It’s easy.

For supporting their events at their building and within their congregation, she’s doing the whole judgment. First in the House of God thing, iron sharpening iron, calling out your brothers. When they send that whole thing that we’re called to do in scripture. And it’s bonkers that the church would have any type of reasoning for supporting. Anything LGBTQIA at all, you would know MCG that I was floored when I saw members in the conservative Christian. Realm that includes independent Fundamental Baptists and includes all conservative Christians of any ilk that hold to the truth and the authority of Scripture as the sole standard, the sole means by which we believe in practice. Our faith. There were people even in that group that were calling themselves allies to the LGBTQ or to the Black Lives Matter. Agenda. So what’s bonkers is that the church on any level has bought into this nonsense? It’s not bonkers that she’s calling it out. It’s not even bonkers that Finland is dragging her through the courts for this because the Bible makes it clear that those who will live for Christ will be persecuted, just like the Lord was. But what’s bonkers? Is the church buying into this nonsense? That’s bonkers.

[MCG]

Yeah, definitely agree. But at the same time, when your government is. Persecuting you because he quote the Bible. That’s all she did. Quote the Bible. There’s a cause for pause because, you know, in America, we tend to feel because we have the 1st Amendment, that all these things are not going to. This way, but trust me.

[Jay]

They’re already here.

[MCG]

The conservative members of the court, I will go to the limit, say probably all of them are at this point over 50 or at least most of them are probably already in the 60s. It all depends on the next president. The next couple of presidents appointing liberal justices to the Supreme Court. It all takes for one term of the House that the President, the House, the. And it being of one party, especially the Democratic Party, that’s all it takes to appoint couple of justices and powers, couple of laws that if you say anything against the LGBTQIA plus, that you will consider hate speech. It would consider not being protected by the 1st amendment and you could appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court. You’re not going to get it. It’s not gonna pass because we have already seen the appointing judges and justices that. Don’t rule it on the law, but based on their politics.

[Jay]

Based on their politics, right, the lawmaker continues the content of my writings and my speeches represents the classical Christian view of marriage and sexuality, the same as churches have generally taught for two millennia. I do not condone insulting, threatening or slandering anyone, and my statements have not included content of such a nature. She also continues and says. That the 34 page 34 page English version of the complaint openly attacks the core teachings of the Christian. Faith after prosecutors previously compared the Bible to Mein Kampf, Hitler’s Mein Kampf, in case we somehow forgot what that is. The Bible is like the writings of a mass murderer, sociopathic mass murderer, psychopathic. Mass murder.

[MCG]

Another verb, then ye and all that will live godly in Christ. Jesus might suffer persecution.

[Jay]

Wrong translation there.

[MCG]

Will Shao yeah suffer persecution? I guess it’s coming, friends.

[Jay]

It’s coming. Christians, prepare yourselves during the first trial, prosecutors read unrelated Bible verses as quote, bad speech allegedly, or that the use of the word quote sin could be harmful. The Bible is bad speech because it talks about sin. And if you call LGBTQIA plus, anything sin that could be harmful. If writings based on biblical teachings were to be condemned, that would mean a serious restriction on the freedom of religion. This is rosette and speaking here. It is natural that this would raise concerns among Christians both in Finland and internationally. And she is right. We’re not surprised. But we are a bit perturbed. That the state would consider the Bible bad hate speech. That’s the article there.

[MCG]

Well, I guess I could say this. Even so come, Lord Jesus, but also. Christians in the US is not impossible for the US is not impossible. I know we have a strong Constitution and God is sovereign, but I’m not convinced that, again, like I said before, with a couple of suffering quotes, justices retiring and some new liberal ones being appointed, quite honestly. And liberals, let me say this, I don’t think that we should even be classifying judges based on liberal or conservative. I think that’s a flaw in the system where? But hey, that’s what it is today. So two or three more liberal justices, and they have the majority, the Constitution is just going to be a fluid article fluid document that can be interpreted. In modern light and it means whatever they want it to mean. So freedom of speech you might not have that when you’re talking about the LGBTQI. But anyways, you’re listening to removing barriers podcast. We are talking about some articles that we think are bonkers. We’ll be right back.

[Jay]

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[MCG]

Alright, Jay, we had two heavy articles. So I think we can end on a little bit of a lighter. One that’s good. Still bunkers, but a little bit on the lighter side. I guess if you want to look at it that way, I think it’s bonkers for maybe a different reason than you, but the title of the article is Louisiana woman. Stabbed Grandfather in the face after grandparents asked her to shower. What? No. If this was a guy, I wouldn’t have a problem with it because we know guys that we are smelly and stinky and everything. But I, lady, OK, that might be a little bit sexist, but anyways the article says a Louisiana woman was arrested after allegedly. Attacking her grandfather and stabbing him in the face after her grandparents confronted her about her lack of showering and hygiene schedule. Man, the Carter Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a press release that they arrested Carrington Ellis Harris after the investigation revealed the 22 year old through a violent tantrum after her grandfather confronted her over her hygiene patterns. No, if your grandfather have to confront you about your hygiene. Pattern. That mean it’s really bad. He has to be something that they notice, that police said that they arrived at the home in Keithville, LA on a domestic disturbance call. The elderly couple told law enforcement that they argued with their grandchild after they asked her to shower. Harris allegedly became irate and started to damage property. Outside the house, she then allegedly went outside and caught the power to the residence. Police said that the grandparents tried to restrain Harris, but she escaped. She allegedly went to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and stabbed her grandfather in the face. After her violent tirade, Harris allegedly dotted into the woods by the home and hid from responding officers. Several hours later, police said that authorities found the woman still hiding in the woods and immediately took her into custody. Harris was booked in the Caddo County Correctional Center, where she was being held without bond. Her grandfather, who was not identified, was taken to the Willis Knight stands out and the Center for Women held in Shreveport, LA, for medical treatment. The Sheriff’s Office did not provide any information about his condition after the knife. All right, I know we did some heavy articles, but wow.

[Jay]

I was expecting you to say ohh you know some 3 year old kid lashed out and accidentally cut her. You know grandpa’s face. This is a 20. 2 year old.

[MCG]

Because they acted to take. A shower. Wow. No, you’re a woman. So is this normal for ladies? They look, I can say for men, you know. I know. Growing up, it was. My sisters would have to make sure we take a shower, you know? I know dudes are like that. But I didn’t know. Ladies have a problem taking showers.

[Jay]

Ah, well, you know, equal opportunity, equal rights, I guess. No, this is not normal. I wonder if there’s a sort of a history of abuse there, perhaps like where are her parents in this? Why is it her grandparents confronting her? Maybe.

[MCG]

Her parents, she’s living with them.

[Jay]

Yeah, but why? Like, where her parents? You know, so maybe there’s, like, an abuse situation there. Not to make this heavy, but.

[MCG]

Uh, I don’t think so, because it it was bought the grandfather and a grandmother that she stabbed the grandfather. But the grandmother was there as well.

[Jay]

Oh wow.

[MCG]

The thing is that let’s say she didn’t show her a day or even 2. I don’t know if they would notice, you know, of course, we don’t know anything about the living arrangement. How many bathrooms are in the house, or whatever the case may be, but I’m assuming that since the fact that. They knew. They probably smell her and all that stuff. She’s so this is like maybe a 22 year old that’s living in their room, being a slab and not taking showers. But I’m honestly shocked I didn’t know that. Ladies go through this too. I don’t know, man. This is, I don’t know.

[Jay]

You know what this reminds me of? A of an article where a woman. Became a part of the couch. Literally. She would not leave the house. She would not get up for anything, not even to shower. And when she died, she, like, decomposed into the couch. And I believe it was her grandparents that were charged with some type of abuse or something or another IP. Can’t remember what the situation was, but it was the same situation of a woman. Will absolutely refuse to do anything, much less hygiene, so it might be a thing among some women.

[MCG]

I don’t know. I grew up with brothers.

[Jay]

Wow, this just got dark quick.

[MCG]

I don’t know. I grew up with brothers. And I know even my younger brother, you know, he will wash the front and leave the back and stuff like that. But once you kind of get out of that teenage phrase, you know, you want to take a shower, this one blows my mind.

[Jay]

That is crazy.

[MCG]

And then stabbing your grandfather because they’re telling you. Hey, I’m sure they probably didn’t just say you need to take a shower. I’m sure they probably use some sudden language on her as well. Maybe they tell her she stinks or something. I don’t know, but who knows?

[Jay]

But and then you said the officers found her.

[MCG]

In the woods? Yes, she went to the woods to hide. And several hours later, they said they found her.

[Jay]

Well, I wonder if they use dogs to.

[MCG]

I don’t know. Well, she should have been easier to find if they use dogs, I guess.

[Jay]

Yeah, yeah.

[MCG]

Anyways, if you do agree with us that this world has gone bonkers, maybe not so much because people are not taking showers, but more because of their rise of black lives matter and maybe the fall at this point and also people being persecuted for quoting the Bible. The question I have for you as usual is what? How are you doing about it? And my encouragement to you is. Go and share the Gospel Mac 1615. And he said unto them, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

[Jay]

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[MCG]

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