Episode 190

In this episode of the Removing Barriers podcast, we continue our series titled “This World Has Gone Bonkers,” where we grab headlines from all over that highlight the madness in our world. We will discuss the power the American president apparently has to just declare an amendment ratified and the law of the land, even when it isn’t so. If you didn’t realize he had that power, you’re in good company, because we sure didn’t realize it, either! We also discuss the hottest (no pun intended) dance gone viral as Los Angeles burns to the ground: the Newsom Shimmy! The tone-deaf governor debuted the moves for local news outlets while gleefully announcing ongoing talks with speculators on how to divvy up the charred remains of LA. If that isn’t bonkers enough, we also discuss a Satanic temple opening a religious abortion clinic, as well as some doctors who withheld study findings on transgender mental health because the results did not support their activism. Join us on this new installment in the Bonkers series!

[MCG]

If you think, of course, this world is gone bonkers is because of what the unsaved and sinners are doing out there. This world is probably bonkers more so because Christians are not being salt and light as they should be.

[Jay]

Thank you for tuning into 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 190 of the Removing Barriers Podcast. And this is the 11th in the series of this world has gone bonkers. And in this episode, we have lined up a number of news articles that we think show 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: removingbarriers.net/donate. Removing Barriers, a clear view of the cross.

[MCG]

All right, Jay, what bonkers article do you have for us starting out here?

[Jay]

My first article is titled Gavin Newsom catches heat for bizarre, shimmy and Smile during live TV interview about LA fires. This is from msn.com, although it doesn’t matter because they all tend to share. Their sources. I’ll just begin reading ahead from the beginning. Says he’s fidgeting while laughing. Governor Gavin Newsom is getting raked over the coals online for his strange shimmy during a local TV interview addressing the ongoing fire crisis in Los Angeles County. He was being interviewed by local Fox News anchors and or news reporters, and they asked him about what the plans were for the devastating loss. Of both property and life. How that’s occurring in Los Angeles as a result of these fires that have been burning uncontrollably and he begins to do. To this very odd dance with his shoulders. While he’s saying, oh, I was talking to the governor of of, of and you could see that he couldn’t remember who the governor was. He just said the Governor of Hawaii. And we’re looking at options of talking to spectators and real estate developers and real estate agents. And all these tyes of things in order to. Obviously he didn’t say this, but the idea is to have them come in and buy U the property and all the while, he’s saying this, he’s doing this. Shoulder. And he has this awkward smile on his face, almost like he’s. Gleeful about. So there’s a disconnect between what he’s talking about and what his body is. Now I’m the body language expert, but if you were to watch him on mute, you would think he was talking about something that he’s excited to go do. He’s excited and he’s dancing left and right, bouncing his shoulders up and down. And there’s this, like, weird, awkward, plastered weird. His face. But the words that are coming out of. Mouth are talking. He’s talking about talking to sectators and people who can come in. To buy U all of this property and he was raked over the coals for it. I’ll continue reading so. While discussing the potential of property speculators. Swooping into the once coveted neighborhood afflicted by the fires, Newsom grins ear to ear and does an effective shoulder shimmy while trying to calm residents fears. I was just talking to Josh Green, the governor of. Down in Hawaii, Newsome says with an apparent chuckle. A toothy smile. Yeah, we’re smiling and chuckling while Lauren’s. Anyway, the well gelled governor. That’s funny that they put a little dig in there about his hair and I think that’s appropriate because he did the same thing during the COVID lockdowns, did he not while he locked California down, California had some of the most draconian lockdown measures during the pandemic and he. Out doing whatever he felt like. While the citizens were locked down and we see that he’s doing something similar here where people have been negatively affected by the fires, obviously. And he’s gleeful about it, and already talking to people about buying U the properties. I wonder if I’m not going to go consiratorial or anything but. If some people wonder, I should say if there was some deliberate element to this where as a sort of transfer of wealth in the sense that, OK, if we burn up the property, people who can afford to swoop in and buy the property, they will. And push people off of their land, out of their houses. What I’m saying, I’m not saying that I’m saying a lot of people are looking at Newsome’s interaction with the local news and saying, hey, this looks deliberate. You have thousands of acres on fire and you’re shimmying and smiling and talking about. Spectators coming in. I’m sorry my sectators seculators coming in. I don’t know what to say about that except a complete disregard or lack of care for your constituents, for your people, and I had to laugh at the well gelled governor because I think that’s an intentional dig on him that he cares so much about himself and about. Faithful cronies and not so much about the people of California. The article continues. He shimmied his shoulders up and down while saying that the Governor of Hawaii had some ideas about some land use concerns that he has around speculators coming in, buying up properties and the like. We’re ready. Who are already working with our legal team to move those things forward, he says. And we’ll be presenting those. Days, not weeks. Meanwhile, the reservoirs are emty. There are the local fire departments and everyone, all of the emergency response to the area are. They are at their limit and the fires at the time of his interview showed no signs of abating. Recently there was a bit of a reprieve with the cooler weather and a break in the winds, but LA still on fire. So.

[MCG]

Yeah, I personally don’t know what to make of this. I think there’s a lot of things going on here in terms of California being governed by folks who believe in climate change, to extent to which they would. Try to do drastic things to reverse it and to the extent where they have. Poor forest management, they have poor management of their water system. They have Fire Chief. That is question number, whether or not they’re qualified to do the job or not.

[Jay]

Mm.

[MCG]

And they have a governor who support all that, and Los Angeles has a mayor that supports all that as well. So I don’t know what to make of this. If there’s anyone to blame, I would say there’s a lot of people in line, including Governor Gavin Newsom. The LA city. I remember her name at this point. Be blunt. Lane, but he’s saying coming in and buying up land. Of course I don’t know much about LA. I’ve only been there once and that was like a overnight stay. After flying several hours from Fiji. So I don’t know much about LA, but wasn’t it mostly rich people property that was burnt anyway?

[Jay]

A lot of rich people did lose property, but mixed them with all of those rich people were regular Americans who were probably house poor. So they had a very nice house, but they didn’t have much else.

[MCG]

Or they have generational inheritance or something?

[Jay]

Right, right.

[MCG]

Well, yeah, I don’t know. I really can’t speak to this. What I do know, what I’ve heard is that State Farm, which is the largest insurer out there in California recently this was. Couple months ago, before the fire. They were prevented by California government to raise premiums or raise whatever so they can get more money. So therefore, a lot of homeowners didn’t have fire insurance anymore.

[Jay]

Mm.

[MCG]

So the way I’m understanding it now, now that this fire has taken place, well that leave a lot of people without fire insurance. So that means they won’t be able to get insurance to rebuild their house along that line because it was destroyed by fire. And that’s another thing as well. Insurance companies have really suffered a number of insurance. Companies have pulled out of California. Insurance companies have really suffered in California. Are talking about.

[Jay]

You mean as a result of the fire or before?

[MCG]

Before before, because of their policies, not because of the fact. Because of policies. I know many car insurance companies have pulled out and many other stuff.

[Jay]

Right.

[MCG]

Patrick Beck, David on his. Talk about this all the time. The stuff that’s going on in California and he has. Guess I was invested interest in California because he lived there most of his life, but I really can’t speak much towards this fire. Except it seems to me that there’s a lot of dominoes in place that are falling, and I don’t know should he be. 32 selling land. If it is true, would the. A lot of people didn’t have fire insurance because of their policies and they pulled the fire insurance. A lot of people might not be able to rebuild, but again, I don’t know the laws. But if your house burned down and you don’t have insurance to cover, whatever destroy. That mean the Bank’s not going to get the money, so that means either going to be foreclosed or something like that. I’m going to go to the limousine, mainly in California. At least in LA, the land is what probably what worked worked way more than the property on it. You know for most part that’s not true everywhere in the country.

[Jay]

The land? Yep.

[MCG]

Of course it’s a location, location, location, so the land probably might have a greater value than the structure that was on it.

[Jay]

Mm.

[MCG]

Again, I don’t know that much about LA real estate, except I know Hollywood is out there. Expensive 0. It depends on how much they own the property. They may walk away breaking even. They might walk. And a short sale or something of the. And maybe, hopefully the governor and maybe even the President, President Trump at this point would say, hey, we’re going to force the banks to accept whatever their investor pay for the property. You don’t end up with still owing on a mortgage that. Is burned.

[Jay]

Well, what is your first article of a bunker’s?

[MCG]

Alright, I have one here from the Christian Post and it’s entitled Satanic Temple open religious quote, UN quote Abortion clinic promotes abortion ritual. That’s where we’re going, folks.

[Jay]

Oh boy.

[MCG]

The Satanic Temple opened a second telehealth abortion facility to provide what it describes as religious abortion services and sees the killing of preborn babies as part of its destruction. Ritual. Name T is not affiliated with the Church of Satan, an organization founded by Antan Lavie. I guess his last name is. In the 1980s, TSD also has its headquarters in Salem, MA, with Holes 2 virtual Satanic Temple services each week. Tsd announced in a press release provided to the Kristian Post that this new 24/7 telehealth abortion facility right to life Satanic Abortion Clinic will open in Virginia.

[Jay]

Oh my.

[MCG]

Woman will be charged a fee to obtain abortion inducing drugs, but the group claims it will help pay for some travel related expenses. In the TSE document shared with the Kristen Post, the group claims that abortion is part of a destruction ritual that serve as a protective. The document adds that preparation for the ritual include reading or listening to stories of people who advocate for legal abortion to subdue any stigmas when Mar. Field Erin. Helion, the executive director of T, told Christian Post that the group has received funding from donors, which enable it to open the Virginia Dispensary. While TSC said it hasn’t partnered with any outside organization. To operate its telehealth clinics, the group does work with online pharmacy honeybee health. Our staff virtually meet with each patient over a series of online visits to ensure the safety of each patient, including follow up meetings Helian. Our staff thoroughly discussed the potential risks with each patient and for this reason. We urge the patient to know where their closest medical facility may be located. In the unlikely event that complication may arise. She continued. We do not agree with the notion that Tele health care put patients at risk. Instead, we argue that by expanding key and access, telehealth connects like ours can save lives. Save whose? Life I. Not the baby. Regarding the disposal of the baby remains following a chemical abortion which induced a miscarriage. Hellion did not specifically answer what the advised woman to do instead. She assert that most chemical abortions occur before 11 to 12 weeks. What she said results in heavy bleeding that she likened to period. She added that most women will take time to recover by rearing a pad. Miscarriages, however, even at three to five weeks, often last hours, and are accompanied by severe, painful cramping and excessive hemorrhage. Abortion is among TSD many advocacy campaigns and argues that it is a religious right following the overturning of Roe V Wade in June 2022, the 1973 Supreme Court decision and legalized abortion nationwide. Tsd opened a religious abortion clinic in New Mexico in February 2020. Three anyways, there’s more, but I hope now especially Christians that are listening and even advocating for abortion. Especially I know when. This first came out when the Supreme Court did that and everything during the midterms of the Biden presidency. Seemingly a lot of Christian, especially Christian woman, Christian grandmothers, wanted their granddaughters to have the right to this and all those. Things hoe they can see that now at least riorfully that they can see. No, this is a demonic thing. The facility, named Samuel Alito’s mom’s satanic abortion clinic. Named after the Supreme Court, Justice Samuel Alito, who delivered the ruling that overturned. Rule I have offered 100 abortions to New Mexico woman since its opening. The average cost is $91.00, according to TSD multiproife advocates and abortionists have expressed concern that ordering abortion drugs online. Puts a health and safety woman at risk. Among their concern is a lack of an in person consultant with a doctor to learn how far along they are all determined if the woman’s pregnancy is.

[MCG]

Women who want to go the abortion pill regiment might also experience several side effects, according to the Mayo Clinic. Side effects of the abortion pill regimen can include vaginal bleeding, sweating, vomiting and pain in various parts of the body. In a March interview with the Christian Post, Elizabeth Juliet told the outlet that she ended up on the bathroom floor in a pool of blood after taking abortion inducing drugs. The woman has sheared her abortion story outside of the US Supreme Court during oral arguments for case centered around abortion pill regulations. Anyways, I’m going to leave it there. Get some more, but I’m going to leave it there. They’re evil that this is an. The fact is now their claim is religious, right? And I have no shame saying, you know. Is there Satanic temple and abortion? Is one of our rituals.

[Jay]

What I find terrible about this as well is how they are lying to the women about what a miscarriage actually is like. I’ve experienced several miscarriages and none of them, whether they were early on or later on, were like heavy periods. That is a serious understatement of what happens when you have a miscarriage. I would imagine if you induce or cause. The baby to die and you have a miscarriage, which is typically what happens when you take the abortion pill. You are not going to have a heavy period. Is very much a lie. In fact, I’m reading here and it says that when they give the woman. The pill, now first of all, as the article said, they don’t try to find out how far along the woman is. They don’t try to find out if the pregnancy is ectopic. They don’t. They simply want you to have access to these poisons that would terminate the life of the baby. And if you are looking women in the face and telling them, oh, it’s like having a heavy period. That’s egregious because, number one, it’s not true and #2. People have died. Because they’ve taken the pill under the understanding that this is just going to be like any heavy period and complications arise and they can’t get medical care before it becomes a sepsis sort of situation where the illness and the infection and everything else that happens becomes systemic because. They thought it was just. And so when it’s over, there is no checking to see if all of the tissue has been delivered. No follow up care. And if all the tissue hasn’t been delivered, it’s certainly going to necrotize and develop all sorts of. Issues that can ultimately kill the woman, and it has so to lie to people about. This issue all in the name of your choice. Is, I mean their right to call it satanic. No other name to describe that. Kill the child and don’t care about the mother. And I find that absolutely repulsive.

[MCG]

Well, even more. Sad about this is that they’re probably going to win in court because they’re claiming religious rights and they say, hey, we had to say some example. It’s part of our ritual, unfortunately, but most young.

[Jay]

I guess I have to bounce back from that one a little bit. That is terrible. OK. My next article has to do with the former American President, President Joe Biden, and his declaration that the 28 amendment is the law of the land now. He took to the official whitehouse.gov website, and I’m sure all of the attached social media outlets to declare. Just a two days or so before the inauguration of President Donald J Trump, that the equal Rights Amendment, which is a 28th amendment, was the law of the land, and for him to say that he’s saying that it has been ratified and is actually a part of. Constitution. And that wasn’t the case at all. And I have to wonder what was happening in the White House in the last few days of his presidency, where they just kind of letting the new interns run around and push buttons and stuff because you can’t just declare something to be the law of the land when. It hasn’t gone through the ratification process necessary for it to become. An amendment, but I’ll go ahead and read the article. I’m going to be reading from Wikipedia about what the equal Rights Amendment is and what the process has been so far in order to at least try to get it to be a part of the Constitution. It says the era is a proposed amendment to the US. Const. That would explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. And even Wikipedia, which is not a reliable source, had to had to say, had to put in there as a second sentence. It is not currently a part of the Constitution. Though its ratification status has long been debated, so this was written in 1923. By Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. It was introduced to Congress in December of 1920. It gained some steam in the 1960s with women’s rights, the women’s movement in the US. But it really didn’t get all of this steam that it really needed to go through the entire process to become an actual amendment of the Constitution. And I can only imagine the reason that they would want that amendment to be the case. Is for. I could be wrong, but I allege I don’t know. I think it would have to do something with the gender issues we’ve been having in this country in the last eight years or so. Transgender rights and all of. Sort of thing. If you could codify it in the Constitution somehow, then maybe you could give it more legitimate legal footing. Or standing when it comes to arguing these different LGBTQIA. Transgender whatever arguments in court, but I found this to be bunkers because. It seems odd to me that the President of the United States didn’t understand that amendments aren’t ratified in part of the Constitution as a result of personal decree. Via social media, I would imagine that as President of the United States, he would understand that there was a procedure and that, you know, the legislature has to, there has to be 2/3 of the majority to agree. The states have to ratify it. This isn’t something that he could just declare. That’s why I wonder if, toward the end of his presidency, if he simply had interns pushing buttons and sending out stuff, and he just kind of checked. I don’t see where or how he thought this was a good idea unless all he was doing was creating a sort of legal hullabaloo. If you would get people talking, get lawyers posturing and doing what they can to see if they could move this forward in order for. To be a hindrance for Trump coming in. But I don’t think that he was thinking that deeply about. I think he literally just thought, oh, I am King Biden and I could just say something and it becomes a part of the law of the land.

[MCG]

Well, with all the pardons the granted, I guess you can say he’s indeed King Biden. You know what the former president? Is 82 years old.

[Jay]

Yes, he. He is a very nice way to say what I know you’re about to say.

[MCG]

And he has been going through what we all knew. 20 Sometimes he’s Lucifer, sometimes he’s not. So give him a pass on this one. What?

[Jay]

Right.

[MCG]

Give him a pass on this. It’s like, come on, it was the last couple of days of his presidency. He shouldn’t Shure up his legacy. So he gave a bunch of pardons to everybody and their dog, including his brother and whosoever else, doctor Anthony Anthony Fauci, and.

[Jay]

So she general Milly.

[MCG]

Yeah, so Cheney give him a. You know, one day somebody’s gonna look back and say, you know what? Even if it’s only on the Biden or somebody gonna look back and say no, what? Thank you, president. You gave me a second chance. That freedom or whatever, and he tried. You know what? I’m gonna give him a pass on this one. He’s gone. Maybe we should say thank you for your service. Not but. He’s 82, you know, he probably forget. The Constitution amendment have to go through all these lengthy procedures.

[Jay]

You’re being very magnanimous. Next thing you’re going to tell me is that when he said that he was there back in 1923 when they were trying.

[MCG]

What?

[Jay]

Even the Atlantic, which is a publication on the left, just flat. It’s funny how the gloves are off when it comes to the media and the Democrat party. Now they are not even pretending to put up a defense for him. They’re the Atlantic. I’ll just read parts of this article here. Presidents typically spend their final days in the White House taking care of odds and ends, issuing pardons, signing some last executive orders, thanking staff. Joe Biden is doing all of those things and also trying to change the Constitution on his way out the door this morning, at the time when he had initially posted that which was about two days before the inauguration, Biden declared on X formerly Twitter. That the equal rights Amendment is now the law of the land. Well, there you have it. I love the snarkiness. The Constitution has a 28th amendment, and women’s rights have been enshrined across the country. Or not. Biden can’t change the constitution because the constitution doesn’t allow him to the fight for the era is older than the 82 year old president, and I love how they just putting those jobs in there, and it did not end with Biden’s social media proclamation. So the lady that introduced it, Alice Paul, she’s actually a part of the suffragist movement. And she first proposed it as an amendment in 1923. And in 1972, Congress approved and sent to the states a constitution. Change summed up in 24. Words. But when Congress does that, there’s a time limit. I think there’s like a 10 or 15 year time. So from the time Congress does that to 10 or 15 years, whatever it is, maybe here, let me look at it. Years. If the states have not ratified it, then it doesn’t pass. And the states never ratified it. 1982 was when the clock ran out. Was never ratified. It was never a part of the Constitution. I have no idea where he thought that he could just declare.

[MCG]

So yeah, otherwise he’s 82 years old. I give him a bath.

[Jay]

He’s, you know. We’ll give him a. He’s on his way out the. He left peacefully and now we are unburdened by what has been and we can move forward. I don’t think anyone took him seriously. Do think though that this might have been some sort of. Attempt to complicate things. There was a scene in the Incredibles 2 where. One of the bad guys is trying to evade the hero, and while he’s trying to run out of the building, he’s knocking on doors, pushing the fire alarm. All these different things because each of those things is a hindrance to the hero catching him, and I think maybe that’s what Biden is. He’s just throwing out all of these things left and right. All these pardons and all of these declarations and all of these statements left and right that might try to be some sort of effort to slow Trump down. But I don’t think it’s going to work. It looks like that Trump is very much. And this is just a small blip on the radar and everyone just looks at. Like, oh, that’s demented ramblings of an old man that we’re not going to take seriously. I find that incredibly sad, but still.

[MCG]

Yeah, his last hurrah.

[Jay]

I guess his last hurrah indeed.

[MCG]

Alright, I haven’t.

[Jay]

What’s your article?

[MCG]

Have another one here. Woke Doctor refused to publish $10 million Trans Kid study that showed puberty blockers didn’t help mental health. And this is from the New York. Oste Aerobelent Dr. and Chancellor, right, advocate, admitted she deliberately would help publication of $10 million taxpayer funded study on the effect of puberty blockers on American children after finding no evidence that they improved. Patient’s mental health doctor Joanna Olsen Kennedy told the New York Times that she believes the study would be weaponized by critics of transgender care for kids. Kids and that the research could one day be used in court to argue we shouldn’t use blockers. Critics include one of Olsen, Kennedy, fellow researchers on the study. So the decision flies in the face of research standards and deprives the public of really important science in the field where Americans remain firmly divided. For the National Institute of Health funded study, researchers chose 95 kids who had an average age of 11 and gave them puberty blockers drugs starting in 2015.

[Jay]

Oh goodness.

[MCG]

The treatment and met to delay the onset of bodily change like development of breast. And deepening of the voice after following up with the youth for two years. The treatment did not improve the state of the mental health which Alison Kennedy chalk up to kids being. In really good shape. But when they started and concluded the two year treatment. However, the time oints out that her rosy assessment contradicts early data recorded by the researchers, which found around 1/4 of the study participants were depressed or suicidal before receiving the treatment. So. About 25% of them were depressed or suicidal, with 45 of the treatment and two years after they were on privileged blockers. They were absolutely no change, and because people blocked didn’t improve their state. And of course it didn’t. Change. Neither she. Hey, this is going to be. We don’t want to put this out to the public. So you’re doing a scientific study, but you were willing to dispel your biases. However, they’re the same ones that look at us and tell us that we need to believe in science.

[Jay]

Mm.

[MCG]

They’re the same one that tell us. Hey, you know, they can be 100 different genders. But now when you do a study that affirm common sense. I don’t know what we needed to spend $10 million on this of our taxpayer money, but we spend $10 million. To reaffirm common sense. And yet they withheld the results. Wow.

[Jay]

This is so triggering for me because. First of all, they’ll tell us that they are the. How many times did Anthony Fauci tell us that? Right. And before anyone says, well, Anthony Fauci, he’s a different type of doctor than this one, and he’s not transgender and all that. But the attitude is still there that I’m a doctor. You’re. I know. And you don’t sit. Be quiet and we will determine what the science is, what we show you, what we don’t, and what you should do. You don’t need to see the truth. You don’t need to see what we found. Just trust us bro. We’ll tell you how to live your life and how to stay healthy and how to blah blah. Blah blah and. We saw how that simply wasn’t true in 20/20/2020. The pandemic was awful. Many people. I’m not being glib about the toll financially, emotionally. Civically, all of these different ways that it hurt us as a. So what I’m about to say, I’m not saying with Glee, and I’m not saying it lightly either. I’m grateful for that entire thing that we went through, because even though it was difficult and even though we lost people and even. O it was awful. We saw an unvarnished, raw picture of how these people think the extent of the rot in our institutions, in our churches, in our communities, in our government. And now it’s woken a lot of people up where before we probably would have looked at a nut case doctor like this and say, oh, well, you know, doctors know what they’re saying. They know what they’re talking about. We can trust them. Have our best interests at heart. But what we need to realize is that literally all of the professions have been infiltrated with people who are activists first. So much so that they’re willing to manipulate the data or hide data, or not give you the full picture. For the sake of whatever it is that they’re worshipping at the altar of Indiana, her case. This was a transgender doctor, right in his case.

[MCG]

No it. No, he wasn’t transgender. He’s a legitimate woman, not legible woman.

[Jay]

Ultimate. OK, biological woman.

[Jay]

But she.

[MCG]

She’s also expert in.

[Jay]

Right. And in her case, this ideology, this altar that she was worshipping at was the Ultra transgender ideology. And so parents who Don. Better were taking their children to their pediatricians and their general practitioners and saying, hey, this is an issue that I think my kids have. What should I do and trusting them to give them the best way forward. And to be taken advantage of like that, I think in many ways, it’s unforgivable. Not unforgivable. Mean I should probably take that. Not unforgivable in the sense that the doctor can’t redeem themselves and do the right thing, but to take advantage of people who are trusting you. And who are at a disadvantage because they don’t know the literature like you do. Don’t have the scientific background. You do is a really terrible thing and I don’t think we should take that very. And now I think America as a whole is beginning to wake up and beginning to ask questions and beginning to push back and beginning to call these things out because people’s lives are at stake. Permanently altering children. Before, they don’t even know the difference between, I don’t know a dinosaur and a squirrel. Who knows? Are completely. They can’t make these kinds of decisions for themselves. I’m a grown woman having to make decisions about my health as a result of childbirth and everything, and I sometimes I feel like I can’t make heads or tails of anything. Want an 11 year old child to understand what they are, how they feel, what their bodies are supposed to be, what kind of sense does that make? And so that really bothers me. Really gets under my. These are people that we’re supposed to trust, and they clearly don’t have our best interest at heart.

[MCG]

Well, there. Irony here is that she said she didn’t want the study to be weaponized against, you know, the transgender movement. But by withholding it, she weaponized it against people that would oppose.

[Jay]

Right. Exactly. Rules for thee and not for me.

[MCG]

Just released a study and let it be what it be you know. You know, a mark of maturity is you being able to give new facts and you can change your mind.

[Jay]

It’s really.

[MCG]

Yeah.

[Jay]

Yeah.

[MCG]

Know if the study didn’t agree with. Also, the study didn’t agree with me, but anyways.

[Jay]

Right.

[MCG]

You listen to the review by podcast. We are talking about some bonkers articles. After all, this world has gone bonkers. Be right back.

[Jay]

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[MCG]

All right, Jay, do you have a third article for us?

[Jay]

Yes. My third article is from Yahoo News, which means it’s from everywhere else because it’s robably an aggregate Virginia house passes resolutions protecting abortion, voting rights, and marriage equality. And of course, by marriage equality, they’re referring to same sex marriage. This is coming from the AP in Richmond, the Virginia House of Delegates passed resolutions on Tuesday, which is probably a week before the inauguration. Enshrining rights to abortion, voting and marriage equality in a critical step for Democrats hoping to amend the state’s constitution next year, the chamber where Democrats hold a razor thin 5149 majority advance the three proposed constitutional amendments Tuesday. While sister resolutions work their way through the Senate. Unlike other bills, proposed constitutional amendments are not subject to vetoes by the governor, but they must be twice passed in at least two years with a legislative election sandwiched between each legislative session. After that, the public can vote by referendum on the issues. If the abortion ballot Meas. Is ultimately successful. Virginia would become. Where Southern states to join a growing trend of states putting a reproductive rights related ballot questions. To the voters. Quote I trust our Virginia voters, said Democrat Majority Leader Charney L Herring, patron of the amendment protecting abortion. It seems like the other side of the aisle does not. In a lively debate, Republicans blasted the proposed amendment to protect abortion, which passed along party lines. Republican delegate mark early described the resolution as a failure to recognize the image of God and fetuses. This resolution is not only extreme and it is, he said on the House floor. But the real problem with it is that it’s fundamentally misguided because it refuses to open its eyes to the lives and futures of children. Democratic delegate Candy Mundum king. Called for lawmakers to recognize the lives of women caught in life threatening pregnancies, in a scathing rebuke of Republicans arguments. Let’s pause there for a second. There is no argument on the left that is viable. Say that an abortion is necessary for life threatening pregnancies. They want women to think that an abortion is an actual procedure done to treat an illness or some type of. You know the Physiology gone wrong, but that’s not the case. Abortion is never medically necessary. If you’re treating a woman with a reproductive issue. And entreating her. It results in the death of the fetus. That’s not an abortion. That’s an unfortunate I can’t think of the word, but let’s just use the term side effect of you trying to go in to fix this reproductive issue. There’s no reason to actually go in there and kill the child and scrape the child out, and that would solve any sort of reproductive issue that the woman might be having, but they would have women believe that abortion is care, which is why they always using the word. And I think women are confused by that and they are thinking that this is necessary when it. Not recently, women have come to realize how birth control has had a net negative effect on the Physiology, particularly hormonally, the Physiology of women. But the pill? Is enshrined as the most important technology in the last century for women. It’s enshrined in our history. It’s enshrined in our academic institutions of how important this thing. Is it allowed women to be free and women to, you know, be free from the shackles of patriarchy or whatever they’re telling us? But only now we’re beginning to realize the negative effect of taking a drug that could suppress and manipulate the hormonal Dr. and cycle in women. And how it’s actually done women harm. But we’re only finding this out decades later, decades after it’s been championed as some sort of women’s liberation, liberating technology. O we’ve been lied to all of this time. Those of us that didn’t believe it, we’re all looking at it like, oh, yeah, we could have told you that. But for the overwhelming majority of American women, they’ve been lied to. Believed it. Why should we believe them when they tell us that an abortion? Is a medically necessary for any reproductive issue? Should we believe? They’ve been lying to us this whole time. Anyway, I’ll continue as from the article that you read before that you brought up before they don’t tell women the truth. Say miscarriage. And when you take. Pill is just like a heavy period and I say again, having experienced risk, it’s nothing like a heavy period, nothing like that. Why do? I’ll. Here it says quote let’s *** this resolution. The Democratic delegate Candy Munden’s King still speaking. Let’s pass this resolution so that the people who probably couldn’t find a uterus with a map are not making decisions about Women’s Health care. Pause there for a second. She’s obviously talking about men and one of the recurring themes that we hear is. Men can’t make decisions about women’s bodies, and it’s not the man’s issue, and it’s not his business. What I do with my body. But it takes a man and a woman to create a child. That child is every bit as much his as he is yours. And that child is not you. That child has his or her own DNA. You can’t do what you want with that child. I don’t care what the left or the government or your textbooks or your feminist sociology teacher told you. That child is not yours to dispose of as you see fit.

[MCG]

So.

[Jay]

To say. Oh, these people probably couldn’t find a uterus with a. That doesn’t matter. These people are so dumb as you’re seeking to have us believe. Are you sleeping with them? Why are you creating children with them? Why are you creating this problem? And then you have an issue when someone holds you to account. Because you’re not holding yourself to. You’d rather kill the babies than to face the consequences that comes with the sexual freedom that you’ve been seeking. And we’re supposed to, as a society, just be OK with this and we’re the ones that are crazy. We’re the deplorables. We’re the weird ones. I don’t understand that line of. The only universe in which that line of thinking makes sense is in the universe where you have this victim mentality and the oppression of the women, the patriarchy and all this nonsense that they would have us to believe, which the country has repudiated. And. Kicked back against indefinite fashion, it just boggles my mind that these aren’t people speaking in 20/16/2008. They’re still talking like this today. They’re still in our government halls, in our Senate, in our legislatures, in our justice system, and in all of our institutions. Still talk and believe this. So I’ll say one more thing and then I’ll get off my soapbox. We shouldn’t think that because many people got the political outcome that they wanted in 2024-2025 with the inauguration and the installation of Donald Trump as president, we shouldn’t think that somehow this thing is over. The enemy will strike back. The enemy will come back even harder and we mustn’t let our guard. Because they still want to kill babies, they still want to destroy the image of God and our young children, giving them puberty blockers and confusing them and prying them away from the truth of the gospel and the truth of general revelation. The devil wants nothing more than to destroy our children, and we shouldn’t let our guard down. I shall step off of my box now. Continuing in the article, don’t swear since 20/22/18, questions have gone before voters across the United States and they have sided with abortion rights advocates 14 times. The voters have approved constitutional amendments ensuring the right to abortion until fetal viability in nine states. Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Ohio and Vermont. Voters also passed a right to abortion measure in Nevada in 2024, but it must be passed again in 2026 to be added to the state constitution. Democratic lawmakers in both Chambers said on Tuesday that the constitutional amendments were central to their legislative agenda. This year, in a news conference with Virginia Black legislator.

[MCG]

Here’s.

[Jay]

Senator Jennifer Carroll Foy said the amendments were critical for the state to shatter inequality. I’d like to pause there for a second. What in the world does inequality have to do with anything?

[MCG]

Hello.

[Jay]

That has to do with abortion. Let’s. What does it have to do with anything? Virginia has been going backward for far too long, she said. We understand that we were the home. Here we go. We were the homeless segregation of slavery of Jim Crow, and now we are forward facing and forward moving along. So we need to ensure that our Virginia Constitution reflects our values here in Virginia. Yeah, we had slavery in this state. Had Jim Crow. Were. But now we’re so forward we’re OK with murdering our base. Babies.

[MCG]

Well, I guess that’s what they mean by equality.

[Jay]

That’s what they mean by progress, too. Progressives, right?

[MCG]

Because you know, as a per capita, I think Black woman. Have more abortions than any other group. If you go out by raw numbers, they don’t. If you go by the percentage of the population, they have more abortions. So I. If more black women are able to abort their babies, that will freed them up to continue their career, whatever. Don’t know. Their logic is what?

[Jay]

Completely warped and and.

[MCG]

So.

[Jay]

And our job isn’t done. Work isn’t done. We still need to be talking to our neighbors.

[MCG]

Yeah, the.

[Jay]

Still need to be engaging the young women. We still need to be reaching out to them with the gospel to let them know what the truth is, because these people are not telling them the truth and I’m concerned that decades will go by. And will come to realize, oh, no, we’ve been killing all of our babies. And now we’re in the pickle that we’re in now. I don’t think America has hit that point yet.

[MCG]

Well, it starts with the gospel seeing these people save and. You know marriage and doing the software, 85% of abortions happen to girls that are not married. So that tells you everything you need to do right there, and a lot of them actually use abortion as birth control.

[Jay]

So many of them think that that’s anonymous actually.

[MCG]

So, you know, I don’t like, not that I’m promoting these things, but I don’t like to use things to prevent it. O if it happened, I can just get an abortion. So anyways, my other. Article as we go into the homestretch here is majority and this is from their Christian post. Majority of practicing Christians admit to viewing ****, many comfortable with the habit.

[Jay]

Oh my.

[MCG]

The study shows, and it reads, a majority of practicing Christians, including pastors, admit to viewing *********** and a large share say they are comfortable with. A new study has found O if you think of course, this world has gone bankers, it’s because of what the unsaved and sinners are doing out there. This world is probably. More so because Christians are not being salt and light as they should be.

[Jay]

Yeah.

[MCG]

In banners, recent release research report beyond the pawn phenomenon produced in partnership with Pure Design ministries. Researchers found that *********** use is so prevalent among all demographics and the gap in use among Christians and non-Christians, as well as men and women, has grown narrower over the last eight years. Even the practicing Christians. Were still found to view *********** less frequently than non-Christians. Gap between the two groups was only 14 percentage points. Some 54% of Christians reported viewing ***********, compared to 68% of non-Christians. Notice says here 54 of Christians report viewing ***********. In general, 75% of Christian men in general, 75% of Christian men and 40% of Christian women reported consuming ****.

[Jay]

Wow.

[MCG]

On some level, despite the church stands against loss generally, it seems little progress has been made to deter many of these who feel the pews from *********** consumption specifically. Researchers. Set the gap between professed belief and actual behavior. Raise a question about the efficacy of current approaches within fate communities. The study noted that in the last eight years since the report was first published, the rapid shift in the cultural and digital landscape has compound issues in the church, with *********** and unwanted sexual behavior. Beyond the pawn phenomenon represents a sobering call to realize our collective struggle has not improved in spite of some initial steps to bring health to the church. The average Christian is not experiencing freedom in this area. 75% of Christian men and 40% of Christian women report that they are viewing *********** at least occasionally. Next Tumble, executive director of Pure Design Ministry, said nothing that the statistics for *********** use among. Youngest adult Gen. Z are even worse. What made me more troubling is that well over half of Christians who youth **** said they are comfortable with their **** use. The reality for those who struggle in the church is that they too often feel like they are alone. When I ask who’s helping you with your. With ***********, a staggering 82% of Christians say no one isolation is the en. On Stumber, set the Pure Design ministries leader said the church needs to be the place where people can get free from the troubling habit to many Christians have now accepted. I’m 62 of individuals surveyed in the study in General Express Comfort with their love of **** consumption and a 16% say they had some reservation about it, but said they found moderate levels of youth acceptable. This group still wish. They did not use *********** as frequently. The study further highlighted how comfortable people have become with ***********, as only 14% expressed a desire to kick the habit entirely.

[Jay]

Of all the people. That participated in this survey. Only 14% want to stop.

[MCG]

Yeah. Wow.

[Jay]

And 40% of women.

[MCG]

Ye this side you know the Bible tells us that our body is the Temple of God. You know, back in the day when you had to go to. The stop and Rob Store, which is the convenience stores. And pay for those kind of things over the counter or whatever the case may be. All go to the video store and try to sneakily rent those things. It was a little bit hotter, but no, the advancement of technology.

[Jay]

It’s in the palm of your hand.

[MCG]

Yep, your cell phones. And whatever. Personal device you have it make it quite easy and not only that, soft *********** is in our news articles. And all this stuff, they put it before your eyes. You know, you might be reading an innocent article that have some scantily suggest ladies in front of you or something like that. But it’s really sad. And I’m lost for words of what the church can do about this. I know parents. I can say it look. Wait very long before you give your kids these devices 11 year old and eight-year old and 10 year olds or whatever case may be. Don’t think they need an iPad and an iPhone and smartphone and this like that at least. Not without some strict strict, strict monitoring and stuff like that, but it’s sad when you think about it. It’s not Even so much so that they’re struggling with this thing is that they’re comfortable with it, right? That means that the country has been snared. Yeah, the Holy Ghost no longer prick their hearts against this thing because it’s hardened in that area. That means they have been doing it for. But you know.

[Jay]

That’s a dangerous place to.

[MCG]

Not only that, the isolation that they talk about because recently I’m sure you saw this on the Internet. I know I’m the neighbor of company, but they came up with this robot that basically look real like a real human being.

[Jay]

No.

[MCG]

And the robot is equipped with AI, and they say, hey. This robot is for companionship, so it’s someone you can talk to, someone who can understand your feeling. The AI is so advanced that they will be able to understand your feelings and all that stuff. And someone you can talk to. And someone asks. You know, you know, does this robot provide any other services beyond, you know, talking to them or whatever the case may be? And I can guarantee you, even though that robot don’t know, doesn’t provide those kind of favors, it’s not going to be long before it leads to.

[Jay]

Sure. that.

[MCG]

Because you know, there’s a lot of. There’s a lot of lack of interaction because we have these devices again that force us to communicate not in person but anyways. It’s really sad article. We can hop on it in many different directions, but it’s just really sad. I’m going to continue. Z Those individuals born between 1999 and 2015, were the least likely to say they were comfortable using ***********. Nearly half, 49%, of practicing Christians who are also **** users said they were comfortable with their level of use, compared to 73% of non Christians. Another 21% expressed a desire to completely abstain. Still, a majority viewed adults believe that regular **** use, which most used for arousal, has no impact on the overall sexual health. And claim they can regularly viewpoint and sexually. Life.

[Jay]

Well, we know that’s not true.

[MCG]

Yeah, the devil. Have them fooled. This view is held more strongly by men. 75% agree that women 59 racticing Christians are less likely to agree compared to the general population.

[Jay]

Yeah.

[MCG]

Still, more than half of practicing Christianity, 55% agree a person can regularly view ***********. And live a sexually healthy life. Researchers noted. Traditionally, a majority of youth adults, 60%, agree that watching *********** can improve a person’s sex. This element is cheered by almost half of racticing Christians for the 8%. Besides using **** for personal arousal. Question report engaging in the habit. To set a mood with a rheumatic partner. Non practicing Christians and non Christians are more likely than practicing Christians to use **** because they are bored or because they find it entertaining. Perhaps more interesting. However, our other motivation that don’t differ significantly across the. Groups Christina Non Christians are just as likely to chalk up their poor news to being curious looking for sex, STIs or relieving stress and anxiety, researchers note. To help churches adjust the *********** problem among the pews, researchers encourage leaders to, among other things, partner with expert rioritize education and awareness and create safe spaces. For people to get real. Ultimately, the church is meant to be a source of hope for people facing all sorts of challenges in life, including struggles with ***********. By adjusting this issue head on with care, understanding and practical support, churches can fulfill their roles as places of healing and restoration, they said. Even small step towards openness and support can make a significant impact in the lives of those struggling. And that’s the end of the article. But at the end of the day, I just say one word is really sad. That what’s going on, and of course, I think the church can do more. And again, it’s also upon the Christians to be in the word. Surrendered, casting all imaginations and every high thing that exalt themselves on the cross under the blood of Christ. But I guess it’s just their whole light, their alter it. If they were broken by the fact that they use it, I guess you can say man, I can see I can really help this person, but they use it and they’re not broken. You have to get them to the point of being broken. But at the same time, you have to wonder. Say they’re Christian, but are they truly saved? Guess it’s not for me to judge at that point, but anyways. Do you have any dishonourable mentions?

[Jay]

I have one that is a dishonorable mention that I think perhaps we should probably keep an eye out for the title of this article is Azmin Gold versus Elon Musk takes a new, unexpected turn now, as when gold. Is the screen name. If you would of a Twitch streamer. Twitch, for those of us that don’t know, is just an online gaming platform. But yes, you heard right. Elon Musk is in AB4. Online with a Twitch streamer. Now I won’t go into reading the article because it goes in talking about all of these different video games and Comic Con and things that perhaps regular people don’t know or care about, but I found it to be incredibly odd that the richest man in the world and. The most brilliant man in the world. CEO of like 5 different companies that are making real life significant changes in our society and in our world today on a mission to go to Mars is wasting his time. Participating in online beef with a video gamer. Online video gamer.

[MCG]

Ah.

[Jay]

All started when this gamer accused Elon of not being truthful about his online gaming claims. I think Elon Musk claimed that he was the best player in a game called I think Diablo or Diablo 2. And this gamer, Aspen Gould, went in, looked at whatever metrics that he needs to look at to make this determination and said, Oh no, there’s no way that he’s actually playing. Bought a profile and it’s just beefing it up through automated means. He’s not really playing and so there’s back and forth. Ultimately, Aspen Gold’s check Mark on Twitter. I think it was like the blue check was removed and many people saw that it was in retaliation to. His detective work on Elon Musk, and there’s just back and forth and Elon Musk is saying, Oh no, that was a result of something else completely. And it was quickly reinstituted and all this back and forth there are two things I’m pulling from this number one that Elon has time to partake in this with an online gamer, but also the fact that we should be on our toes and still be vigilant and aware. Even though Elon Musk was instrumental in stemming the tide against the ideology of the left. First of all, that he was outspoken against censorship and against the fight, you could say against freedom of speech. Was being waged on the entire country by the left. Stood up against. He bought X at a price and at a time that was completely disadvantageous for him. Participating in the opposition party against the. So he was very much instrumental in bringing about. The change that we’ve seen politically in our country in the last year or two, so I’m not taking any of that away. He is still very much a very, very rich man. The richest man in the world, maybe one of the second richest. In the world, he’s still someone that wields incredible power and influence, and he owns the platform which houses the transfer and the marketplace of ideas, which is Twitter or XI should say. We should be wary because he is susceptible to the corruption of power like anyone else, and even in this little spat between him. Twitter or I’m sorry, a Twitch streamer. He has shown that he is capable of suppressing the person just because he doesn’t like him or he’s in the spot with him and so we shouldn’t think that our freedom of speech is somehow secure because Elon Musk bought X. We should be on our toes. Should be. We shouldn’t deify anyone and think that they’re trustworthy and on our side forever. Everyone is corruptable by the ring of. For those of you that know the Lord of the Rings reference, but. Everyone is corruptible, easily corrupted by power, and we should keep us on our toes. I think it was petty that he would invol. With that, but I think it also serves to warn us to be vigilant.

[MCG]

As they put all that aside, how old is this guy?

[Jay]

Who? The twitch. Maybe he can’t be more than 40.

[MCG]

Body.

[Jay]

He can’t be older than 4030, so he’s a game 20-30, something year old, still gaming.

[MCG]

The bigger problem I have with. No, not not so much. Not so much that he’s a gamer is that you have a 40 year old man or. Whatever and A50 something year old man arguing over gaming. On give me a break. Yeah, nothing else mattered besides the fact that these are grown men arguing over this thing. You’re like, there’s so much more things I can find to do rather than arguing over video games.

[Jay]

Yeah.

[MCG]

Are your game or? Sure, you probably would agree. But.

[Jay]

Well, I mean. We’re in a crisis of manhood, right? Know.

[MCG]

And they don’t seem to be epitome of what he should be anyway. I leave that there.

[Jay]

Dishonorable mention of yours.

[MCG]

Yes, all right. This is from the. Both after a long wait for an egg keeper’s discovered, Maggie the Penguin is male.

[Jay]

What?

[MCG]

O these are some keeer’s. I guess zookeepers, they have been waiting for this Penguin to produce an egg for a long time and they finally discovered the reason why the Penguin is not producing any egg because it’s male.

[Jay]

Mm. OK. Hello.

[MCG]

I think I can say I grew up on a farm. And you usually know very quickly which animal is a male or female. No, agreed within birds a little bit harder to tell.

[Jay]

No. In most cases with.

[MCG]

Some of.

[Jay]

Or.

[MCG]

Some of them, some of them.

[Jay]

OK. How to say among all God’s creatures, birds have some of the most significant sexual dimorphism.

[MCG]

So.

[Jay]

The males look very different from the females.

[MCG]

I said some of them. I said some of them so I can give them a pass, I guess, but.

[Jay]

OK.

[MCG]

If it in this series should at least know, but anyway.

[Jay]

You should at least know if you’re in that. For sure.

[MCG]

Anyways another. This is from the New York Post. SeaWorld bank robber begs federal judge to keep him locked up after a string of Florida deaths, he said. Love the life I have in prison. Keep me in jail because I love the life I have there.

[Jay]

Oh boy.

[MCG]

Maybe we need to make our prison a little bit less like hotels and more like prisons.

Maybe.

[Jay]

A little less like the jails in Mayberry, where you have doilies and it’s all set up to where people actually feel like home in the jail. That’s crazy.

[MCG]

Yeah. And the last one I have, Bill Gates. Plays God. This is from the Gateway Pundit and he funds project that is turning mosquitoes into flying vaccinators so.

[Jay]

There we go.

[MCG]

You people living in Florida where it doesn’t get cold and stuff like that, are you think you’re going to refuse the vaccine? Well, Bill Gates is going to let go some mosquitoes down there that will give it a vaccine anyway.

[Jay]

So they’re going to. Inoculate the mosquitoes and then they fly around and bite people.

[MCG]

I think they’re going to maybe do some kind of genetic modification and whatever the case may be, you can read the article.

[Jay]

Amen.

[MCG]

Anyways, the question begs as we always ask, do you agree with us? Do you agree with us that this world is bonkers? Well, what are you doing about it? President Trump is now the president of the United States, and this world is still bonkers. What are you going to do about it? Well. My encouragement for you is to saturate yourself with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

[Jay]

Yes.

[MCG]

Go out there and preach the word in season out of season and let folks know hey, Jesus Christ came and died for your sin. That they are sinners in need of a savior, that they not here by chance, but they here by a creator God who create heaven and earth and love them. So much so that he sent his son to die in the cross for the assembled because the Sinner. Anyways, we leave it there.

[Jay]

Thank you so much for listening to the Removing Barriers podcast. Make sure to rate us everywhere you listen to podcasts, including Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, or Stitcher, or moving Barriers, a clear view of the cross.

[MCG]

Thank you for listening. To get ahold of us, to support this podcast, or to learn more about Removing Barriers, go to: removingbarriers.net. This has been the Removing Barriers podcast. We attempted to remove barriers so that we all can have a clear view of the cross.