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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Canada has just effectively criminalized biblical sexual morality and biological science.
They call it a ban on conversion therapy.
We have laws like this in the United States as well, but they're not what they first appear.
So we'll look at that today.
Also, we'll discuss the jihadist who took hostages at a synagogue in Texas, but the FBI, Biden, and the media are pretending to be puzzled about his motives.
I mean, why could he have possibly done this?
And if Glenn Youngkin's first day as governor is any indication, then he's going to have a brilliant tenure.
We'll talk about what he did on his first day, and what is an after-school Satan club exactly?
We'll find out today, unfortunately, and much more on the Matt Walsh Show.
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So last week, Canada finally enacted its nationwide ban on so-called conversion therapy.
Our neighbors to the north now join several other countries like Germany and Brazil and up to, I think, 20 U.S.
states now in banning the alleged practice.
Though the Canadian law ups the ante considerably.
Under the statute, as the New York Times reports, it is a crime to quote, provide or promote services intended to change or repress a person's sexual orientation or gender expression.
And violators who are found guilty of engaging in this illicit activity will be subject to five years in prison.
And those who merely don't even engage in it but promote it are looking at two years behind bars.
Now this immediately raises a question that most corporate media articles on the subject have not really bothered to answer.
A pretty obvious question, which is, what is it?
What are we talking about?
What specifically is conversion therapy?
We've all heard the phrase before.
But what is it?
Now, left-wing propaganda about the practice, which often uses words like barbaric and violent and brutal to describe it, brings to mind images of homosexuals, you know, committed against their will to insane asylums in straight jackets, maybe strapped to gurneys and given electric shocks until they change their mind about their sexual orientation.
But that sort of thing isn't happening in the modern Western world.
So what, then, do these conversion therapy prohibitions actually prohibit?
Well, for that answer, we should probably turn to the legislation itself.
I think it's probably the best place to go.
Bill C-4, which begins by telling us that, quote, conversion therapy causes harm to society because, among other things, it is based on and propagates myths and stereotypes about sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
Including the myth that heterosexuality, cisgender gender identity, and gender expression that conform to the sex assigned to a person at birth are to be preferred over other sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.
Now, in one fell swoop here, sexual morality, as it is understood by billions of people across the world and throughout history, and has been taught by every major world religion for thousands of years, has been legally consigned to the status of myth.
And the belief that it's better for a person to accept their biological identity than to try and reject it in favor of an identity that they can never truly obtain, a belief shared by nearly every human being who has ever walked the earth, joins biblical sexual morality under the fairy tale umbrella.
Because that's a myth too.
But we still don't know what exactly conversion therapy is, right?
Now, fortunately, there's a section of the bill which purports to offer a definition.
In fact, it says, definition of conversion therapy.
Okay, that's good.
Now, here's what it says.
Conversion therapy means a practice, treatment, or service designed to A. Change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual.
Change a person's gender identity to cisgender.
C. Change a person's gender expression so that it conforms to the sex assigned to the person at birth.
D. Repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behavior.
E. Repress a person's non-cisgender gender identity or F. Repress or reduce a person's gender expression that does not conform to the sex assigned to the person at birth.
And then it continues and says, For greater certainty, this definition does not include a practice, treatment or service that relates to the exploration or development of an integrated personal identity, such as a practice, treatment or service that relates to a person's gender transition, and that is not based on an assumption that a particular sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression is to be preferred over another.
Now, the wording here is still quite vague by design.
I mean, this is intentional.
But it's clear that conversion therapy certainly need not involve straitjackets or electric shocks.
So we're way beyond that.
Any practice, treatment, or service.
You think about the word practice.
What is a practice?
It's just a thing that you do.
So just anything at all which seeks to in any way Quote, change or repress a person's, quote, non-cisgender identity or non-heterosexual attraction is conversion therapy and could land you in prison for half a decade.
Now, under this definition, there is no conversion taking place when a young boy is, say, chemically castrated in order to make him look more like a girl, or when a young girl is given a double mastectomy in order to make her look more like a boy.
No, that's not conversion.
Rather, it is conversion if they are convinced not to be butchered in this way.
If you convince them not to do this, if you convince a girl not to go have her breasts chopped off, then you are guilty of conversion therapy, for convincing her to keep the body she was born with.
By encouraging a boy To accept the fact that he is a boy, or encouraging a girl to accept the fact that she's a girl, you are engaging in conversion therapy under this law.
It is conversion therapy to explain to a male that he is male, and to help him embrace his natural identity.
If you simply said to a boy, well, you're a biological male, that means you're a boy.
That's conversion therapy.
According to this.
Now, does that mean That any counselor, therapist, teacher, pastor, or even parent who refuses to encourage a child's gender delusion is guilty of violating this law and could end up behind bars for five years?
Yeah, that's explicitly what it means.
Does it mean that any priest or minister who stands at the pulpit on Sunday and preaches about sexual morality?
Not a lot of them doing that in Canada or in the United States, but if they do it, Or even read a passage from the Bible like, you know, Romans 126-27.
One of the many biblical passages which condemns the homosexual act.
Does that mean that anyone who does that is now a conversion therapist and liable to a lengthy prison sentence?
Yeah, again, that's very clearly what it means.
Once again, the prohibition includes any practice, treatment, or service.
Wording that encompasses literally anything that anyone in any position might do or say to contradict the radical left's harebrained theories about sex and gender.
Now there is ambiguity here.
Tyrants love legal ambiguity because it gives them free reign to do essentially whatever they want, you know.
But there's no subtlety.
So notice how the bill specifically forbids the repression of non-cisgender and non-heterosexual identities, but does not forbid repression the other way.
So it is expressly not a crime to impose transgenderism on a child or homosexuality on a child.
It's only a crime in the reverse.
And the law is written that way.
That's the way the law is written.
You cannot, as it says, Change a person's gender identity to cisgender.
But there's nothing forbidding you from changing it to trans.
It would have been easier, clearer, and less wordy to prohibit all attempts to change or repress a person's sexuality or gender.
But the bill, very conspicuously, does not do that.
I mean, why doesn't it just say it's a crime to change a person's gender identity?
Period.
No, they specified which direction you're not allowed to change it in.
That's because the demented leftist despots and child predators who are behind these anti-conversion therapy laws, they don't actually have a problem with sexual coercion or manipulation.
They have a problem with heterosexuality and biological science.
And that's what this is really about.
And they also, of course, have a problem with religion.
And this is an effort to criminalize religion.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that this is a criminalization of all the Abrahamic religions.
Because one of the most crucial aspects of their moral teachings are verboten now.
Legally so.
In fact, if the term conversion therapy means anything at all, the only sort of conversion therapy that happens in the Western world is the sort that converts people away from heterosexuality and biological sex, not into it.
I mean, only an idiot or a partisan could look at surveys showing that 40% of Generation Z identify as LGBT and conclude that this is some sort of natural evolution. 40%?
We're talking 300, 400, 500% increase in a couple of years?
Now we can be sure that if there was a pronounced drop in LGBT identities, if the ranks of the LGBT community were to shrink over the course of a few years, rather than have this astronomic rise, the left would conclude without hesitation that there must be a conspiracy of repression and eradication at work here.
And that is exactly what's happening, but going the other way.
There has been a many-fold increase in non-straight, non-biological identities, a jump unlike anything the world has ever seen, period.
And there's nothing accidental about it.
The LGBT lobby is, as I've been saying for years, running the most successful recruitment drive in American history, and it's pretty easy for it to be successful because they have the media, the school system, corporate America, and the government on their side.
You know, it's easy to win converts when you have all of the most powerful institutions in the world working with you.
And especially when your target audience are children who don't know any better.
Good example of this, a video went viral over the weekend showing one conversion therapy victim kind of go off script unexpectedly.
The child's mother put him in front of a camera for a TikTok video, for a TikTok live, you know, answering questions.
And the idea was he was supposed to deliver LGBT talking points.
The ones he'd been assigned, because that's all that this child is to this mother.
He's just a vessel for LGBT propaganda.
But you know, kids say the darndest things sometimes, so here's how that went.
White people that aren't serial killers like Ted Bundy.
Does your mom say you have to be LGBT?
No!
I can choose what I want to be, but... Hold on.
Go ahead, keep talking.
Say what you were saying.
My mom doesn't matter if I am gay or lesbian or any of that.
She doesn't care.
All she cares about is that I'm a part of it.
And if I'm not a part of it, she'll try to convince me to join it.
Because I... What?
Are you a cyborg though?
Facts.
That I would convince you to join what?
The LGBTQIA+.
Now, if the child in that video had said that his mother was trying to convince him to be straight, You know, the police would have barreled through her door and carted her away in handcuffs by now.
Instead, he reveals that he's being psychologically conditioned to be some version of gay and his abuser will pay no price for it.
There'll be no penalty, no punishment.
This is the approved form of conversion therapy in America and in the Western world.
Millions of children fall victim to it.
It's the only kind of conversion therapy that's allowed.
And the only kind that exists.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Well, as you can see, I'm not in the studio again due to global warming.
We had yet another snowstorm here in Tennessee.
Multiple snowstorms in Tennessee in a span of a month.
And that does prove global warming, you know?
That's proof of global warming.
Actually, no, I'm sorry.
It proves climate change.
Right, it proves that climate change exists because it proves that climates change.
The climate changes.
Which, if you had any doubt about whether the climate changes, then exhibit A is right outside my window.
The great thing about the climate change idea is that literally anything that happens is evidence for it.
So it's the most unfalsifiable theory of all time.
Climate change.
Is it hot outside?
Climate change.
Rain?
Climate change.
Wind?
Climate change.
Tornadoes?
Climate change.
Hurricane?
Climate change.
Is it mild and calm?
Well, climate change.
Volcanic eruption?
Climate change.
Stubbed your toe?
Climate change.
Racism?
Climate change.
Climate change, I think, at this point could be defined as, you know, because I'm a fan of definitions, and I think that you need to know what they are in order to have any kind of coherent conversation about anything.
So, what's the definition of climate change?
Well, climate change could be defined as That which occurs, that's climate change.
All things that occur are climate change.
And it's brilliant.
Because see, if you're going to have a doomsday cult, which is what environmentalism is, the lesson that other doomsday cults have learned is that you have to be very vague about your predictions and your claims.
Because environmentalists for decades made the same mistakes that other cults made around the same time frame, where they would make these specific predictions about the stuff that would happen in the future, And then the future came and none of that stuff was happening.
So, you know, as we know, we're all supposed to be frozen to death by now, boiled alive, drowned, melted by acid rain.
All the trees are supposed to be gone.
There's supposed to be no ozone layer left anymore.
But none of that happened.
It's like that guy, who was that guy several years ago?
Harold Camping, right?
He was the doomsday prophet, and he said the rapture was going to happen, and somehow he convinced a large number of people, and he gave a specific date.
He said, on this day it's going to happen, and people gave away their stuff and their homes and everything, and they were waiting for it, and then the rapture came, and it was just another day.
It was like another Tuesday.
It was not what anyone expected the rapture to be.
So then Camping said, I think what he should have said, actually, is, well, you know what?
The rapture came, but we're all a bunch of scumbags, and so no one was chosen, it turns out.
A little bit anticlimactic, but instead he said, oh, it was a spiritual rapture.
You see, it happened invisibly.
You would need to have special glasses, you know, that you can buy.
You could buy for ten payments of $99.99, and that's the only way you can see the spiritual rapture.
That's it.
And maybe the climate change proponents should do something similar.
They should say, well, you know, we never got acid rain, but there's a spiritual acid rain.
The acid rain in our hearts.
They could do that, but instead they've gone another direction and they've decided that, well, we predict that in the future, climate events will occur.
And then the future comes, and events are happening in the climate, and they're saying, See?
We told ya!
Brilliant strategy.
I mean, it's a brilliant strategy if you're trying to fool a bunch of morons, which, unfortunately, there are a lot of them out there, and, uh, so, that's how it worked out.
Okay.
Let's see here.
This is from the AP.
It says, a man held hostages for more than 10 hours Saturday at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting in a live stream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S.
Army officers in Afghanistan.
One of the four hostages held at Congregation Beth Israel in Collierville was released during the standoff.
Three others were rescued when authorities entered the building around 9 p.m.
The hostage taker was killed, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said a team would investigate the shooting incident.
Law enforcement officials who were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity, said that the hostage taker demanded the release of Afiya Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist suspected of having ties to Al-Qaeda.
Now, the name of the terrorist in this case is Malik Faizal Akram.
And usually we don't like to show you, you know, these terrorists and everything and what they look like, and we don't want to put their names and faces all over the place.
But I do want to show you in this case what he looks like, because it's important context.
Here's what he looks like.
And you have to see that.
Because, funny enough, all of the corporate media outlets have been describing him for days now as simply a British man.
That's the description they decided to go with.
A British man?
That's all we need to know about it.
He's from Britain.
In fact, early on, I forget which outlet it was, but one of them actually described him as a man with a British accent.
And that's how they decided to describe him.
Now, if he had a Middle Eastern accent, an accent to reflect his ethnic background, do you think anyone, any headline would describe him that way?
Man with a Middle Eastern accent takes hostages.
Not gonna happen.
Now, we were also told, even though he actually said what his motives were, so we know that this is an Islamic radical, he's taking hostages on behalf of another terrorist, And there are times when motives are unclear, right?
The Las Vegas shooting.
Hundreds of people shot.
We still haven't been told his motive.
Because as far as we know, he never said anything to anybody about it.
So the motive is very unclear.
Now, many of us have been asking for years now, hey, what was that all about?
Remember that guy that shot all those people in Las Vegas?
Why did that happen?
But the FBI and law enforcement officials, they claim that, oh, you know, who knows?
It just happened.
So there are times when the motive is unclear.
There are times when it seems like the powers that be don't want us to know the motive.
But this is a case where he actually said what his motive was.
Which is pretty common for hostage takers.
They have a reason why they're doing it.
They're trying to accomplish something.
That's why they're taking hostages.
And usually they'll tell you what they want.
And he did.
And yet, in the hours after that, an FBI spokesman got in front of cameras and said, well, you know, we still don't know what this was about.
But he was not targeting the Jewish community, is what we were told.
Listen.
We do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community.
But we're continuing to work to find motive, and we will continue on that path.
So the FBI is confused, and Joe Biden the next day was asked about this, and he was also just confounded.
I mean, he had no idea why this happened.
Listen to Biden.
Well, no, I don't.
I don't think there is sufficient information to know about why he targeted that synagogue, why he insisted on the release of someone who's been in prison for over 10 years, why he was engaged, why he was using anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments.
We just don't have enough facts.
So let's see, so we got a Muslim guy, sister's a convicted terrorist, takes hostage at a synagogue, takes hostages at a synagogue in Texas on a Saturday, the Sabbath, and, but no, it wasn't targeting Jews, had nothing, that's just coincidence.
Could have been anywhere, right?
He could have chosen any location.
Just happens to choose a synagogue in Texas.
Because, you know, those are a dime a dozen in Texas.
So if you're just walking down a street randomly looking for a place to take hostages in, chances are you're going to stumble across a synagogue.
That's what we're supposed to believe.
Of course, it's totally absurd.
And a day after this, the FBI put another statement out, and now they're saying this is a terrorism-related matter in which the Jewish community was targeted and is being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
So the FBI tried to say, ah, this was not anti-Jewish.
This was not, you know, let's not, let's not jump to any conclusions.
Very quickly they changed their, they completely reversed course without any explanation.
And the reason is they were just being roundly mocked and ridiculed and criticized for it.
And so that's why they decided to change.
That's what we get from the FBI.
Meanwhile, of course, whenever something like this happens and you have a member of an approved victim group, Who does something terrible.
We're told immediately that the number one concern, the number one priority, is to make sure that other members of that group are not blamed for it or not made to feel uncomfortable.
That's the number one priority after all this happens.
If people are killed, before we even put the bodies in the ground, the number one priority is to protect the feelings of the other members of that approved Viking group.
So, the Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali Hours later, here's what he tweeted about.
This is what he was thinking immediately after.
He said, You're about to hear some ugly and vicious Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bigotry this weekend from elected officials, commentators, and even mainstream media.
Hope I'm wrong.
People will use it to divide Jewish and Muslim communities for their political agenda.
Don't fall for it.
Many of them, yeah, because... Right, because it's the fault of conservative commentators that there's division in the Muslim and Jewish community.
I mean, historically, it's really all the fault of conservative bloggers and radio hosts.
If it wasn't for us, there'd be nothing but peace and harmony among the Jewish and Muslim population globally.
He continues, many of them will claim to care about Jewish lives as they openly support and parrot vile anti-Semitic conspiracies.
They don't care about our lives or our communities.
Muslim is easy synonym for terrorist, and those who downplay January 6th will now talk a lot about national security.
So take a drink.
If you're playing the January 6th drinking game, maybe that'll be your first drink of the day.
Probably not.
You're probably already stupefied drunk, but of course we had to get the mention of January 6th in there.
So, what we know with the left is that the only thing that matters is the victim narrative, of course.
And they have their victim hierarchy and this kind of equation, complicated equation.
Well, oftentimes it's pretty simple.
You know, the victim narrative and the equation is simple.
But there are times when it becomes a little bit more complicated for them.
And that's when they start kind of stepping on their own feet and tripping and stumbling a lot.
And that's what we have here.
Now, I think in general for the left, For the left's victim narrative, they have a lot of trouble with the Jewish community.
They're not quite sure what to do there.
Because, obviously, with the Jews we're talking about a minority, and a historically oppressed minority, clearly.
But, if we're going based on skin pigmentation, especially in the United States, You know, they're white.
They look just like any other white person walking down the street.
And so that means that they can't really be included in the victim narrative.
You know, they don't fall into the victim equation.
And then when you look at conflicts overseas in the Middle East, well, that's where it becomes more simple for them.
Whoever has darker skin is the victim.
And...
And the victim is right.
You know, the victim group is always right in any conflict.
And that's why they just can't, they cannot admit, they can't go outside of the victim narrative, and when anything happens, this is always the first concern.
So, if there's a Muslim terrorist attack, first concern is making sure that nobody says any mean things to Muslims because of it.
When China unleashes a deadly virus on the world and kills 5 million people, what's the first concern there?
It's not to hold China accountable, that's for sure.
It's just to make sure there's no anti-Asian sentiment.
That's the biggest problem.
Totally twisted and demented.
All right, let's go to The Daily Wire.
This is from, well, it's from The Daily Wire, as I said.
New Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin signed 11 executive orders and directives on his first day in office after being sworn in over the weekend.
He says, quote, no matter who you voted for, I pledge to be your advocate, your voice, your governor.
We stand here on January 15, 2022, filled with hope and optimism for the years ahead.
This hope and optimism springs from a shared vision for the future, and also from knowing what we have been through.
And then, that's not the most important part.
Of course, we've got to get the political speech and all that about a shared vision, but in reality, We don't have any shared vision in this country for where we're going or where we've been or what kind of country we want to be.
There's no shared vision at all.
But, you know, obviously politicians speak this way.
I'm more concerned about what he's actually doing.
So here's what he actually did.
The governor's office released the following list of executive actions that he signed on the very first day.
So let's go through them.
Executive Order No.
1 delivers on his Day 1 promise to restore excellence in education by ending the use of divisive concepts, including critical race theory and public education.
We've got a critical race theory ban on the first day.
Executive Order No.
2, and that's his first executive order on the first day.
Executive Order No.
2 delivers on his Day 1 promise to empower Virginia parents in their children's education and upbringing by allowing parents to make decisions on whether their child wears a mask in school.
So, next thing he's doing is abolishing the mask mandates in school.
Executive order number three delivers on his day one promise to restore integrity and confidence in the parole board of the Commonwealth of Virginia, addressing law and order.
Executive number four delivers on his day one promise to investigate wrongdoing in Loudoun County.
The cover-up of the horrific rape of multiple girls around Loudoun County.
Executive Order No.
5 delivers on his Day 1 promise to make government work for Virginians by creating the Commonwealth Chief Transformation Officer.
I'm not exactly sure what that means.
Executive Order No.
6 delivers on his Day 1 promise to declare Virginia open for business.
Then No.
7 delivers a promise to combat and prevent human trafficking.
No.
8 establishes a commission to combat anti-Semitism.
Number nine delivers on his day one promise to withdraw from the regional greenhouse gas initiative.
And let's see what else we have.
Promise to jumpstart our economy by cutting job killing regulations by 25%.
And then day one promise, his number, his last one was to restore individual freedoms and personal privacy by rescinding the vaccine mandate for all state employees.
Okay.
And apparently this is, I guess this is included in one of the executive orders.
But I saw some leftists on Twitter complaining that he also got rid of, on the state's official website, there's no page now for diversity and inclusion office.
So he got rid of the page, he got rid of the office, hopefully both, and they're very upset about that, and that's great too.
This is, it's only one day, but this is a, shall we say, a very good start.
And this is exactly what Republicans should be doing.
You don't try to ease your way into it.
You're not going to be gradual about it.
No, you come in right away, on offense, using all the power you have at your disposal to put this agenda into action.
An agenda which is focused on basic sanity, parental rights, You know, that sort of thing.
You use all the power that you have to do it right away, without waiting, going on offense.
Hopefully a lesson to other Republicans.
And I'll tell you this, and I would not have said this even prior to his first day.
I mean, I was happy that he was elected, obviously, but what I'll say now is if he continues And can string together a bunch of days like this one, then I think he's a potentially formidable candidate, 2024.
We'll see.
Ralph Northam, he's the guy on the way out in Virginia, and he did an interview over the weekend reflecting on his time in office, and especially on the most interesting event from that time.
Listen to this.
Well, that was a very, very difficult time for Virginia.
There was a lot of hurt because of that.
And for that, I regret putting Virginia through that.
I also, Jonathan, saw it as an opportunity for me to listen to people.
I committed myself and our cabinet secretaries to really deal with the inequities that exist
and to listen, to learn.
And as I've said, the more I know, the more I can do.
And we've really been able to turn a lot of what we learned into action in a lot of different areas.
And so, at the end of the day, it was a hurtful time.
I am glad that Virginians stuck with me.
I can tell you that I'm a better person.
I certainly understand racial issues much better than I did prior to that episode.
And I really think Virginia, more importantly, is a better Commonwealth.
A commonwealth that is more open, more inclusive.
Oh, you see, it was really, it was a good thing for everybody.
Virginia is a better commonwealth now because their governor wore blackface.
And he learned an important lesson about not wearing blackface.
And this has been, this has really been, he said, it's not just about me.
This is a learning, it's been a learning curve for everybody.
You know, nobody knew that you weren't supposed to wear a black face.
We all learned it together.
No, Ralph.
Really, it was just you.
Could not be happier.
I mean, it's hard to deserve this fate more than he does, to leave finally in disgrace.
And this is somebody with no political future at all, and that's a very good thing.
All right, this is from KY3 in Missouri.
It says, an Illinois school district released a statement defending a controversial after-school club after flyers sponsored by the Satanic Temple surfaced at an elementary school within the district.
The Afterschool Satan Club is set to have its first meeting Thursday.
The flyer found within the Moline-Cole Valley School District is advertised for 1st through 5th graders, regardless of religious background.
It asks for permission from parents or guardians or students to attend.
The flyer says the club is set to meet from 2.45 to 3.45 once a month.
Dates are provided up until May.
So this is an elementary school with an afterschool Satan club.
And maybe like you, when I first saw this story, I really thought it was a joke.
It was one of those moments where my first initial reaction was, oh, that's a Babylon Bee thing.
A little bit too on-the-nose, not one of their funnier headlines.
Then you read it, and no, it's real.
This is a very real thing.
And the district has put out this statement defending it.
Here's what they say.
The Moline-Cole Valley School District understands that there is a concern and confusion over an upcoming after-school club at Jane Addams Elementary.
The district would like to provide information on the situation.
The Moline-Coal Valley School District and Board of Education have policies and administrative procedures in place which allow for community use of its publicly funded facilities outside the school day.
The district does not discriminate against any groups who wish to rent our facilities, including religious-affiliated groups.
Religiously-affiliated groups are among those allowed to rent our facilities for free.
The district has in the past approved these types of groups, one example being the Good News Club, which is an after-school child evangelism fellowship group.
Flyers and promotional materials for these types of groups are approved for lobby postings or display only, and not for mass distribution.
And then he talks and says this is about equal access and all of that.
So they're drawing a direct comparison between a Christian evangelism group, you know, an after-school Bible study type of thing, and a Satan club.
I think what we... there are a few things we... lessons we learned from this.
A few takeaways, we should say.
One is... should be the most obvious.
Get your kids the hell out of the public school system.
Every day there's another story which should emphasize that fact to you.
But the other is this, even on the right, you know, you often hear this clamoring for, we need open dialogue in the school system, freedom of thought, you know, that's what this is all about.
And so when quote-unquote conservative ideas are excluded, or punished or ostracized or marginalized, then even people on the right will say that the real problem is that this is an attack on open dialogue and free speech and freedom of expression and freedom of thought.
That's not really it, right?
The focus of education, the point of education, the foundation of it is truth.
That's what matters.
That's what you need in the school system.
That's what the education should be centered around, is teaching children truth, bringing them up in the truth, fortifying them in the truth.
That's why the public school education and the university system are both basically useless, because not only do they not care about the truth, but they're openly hostile to it.
But that's the point.
And when, for example, it's verboten in the school system to talk about biological science as it pertains to sex, the problem there is not that conservatives are being picked on or that, again, this is an attack on open dialogue or whatever.
No, it's that the truth... This is not a conservative idea.
This isn't a political idea.
The truth is being banished from the school system.
That's what matters.
Because when you focus only, say, ah, we just want open, everything is free and open and open-mindedness, well, then the Satan club can come along and say, hey, what about us?
You said we're open, right?
So why can't we have our Satan club in the middle of the elementary school?
Why can't we try to indoctrinate children into literal Satanism on school grounds?
Because you guys are talking about open dialogue, and this is part of the open dialogue.
No, Satanism is an assault on truth, which is why it does not belong in the school system.
Anything that is true, does.
To me, it's as simple as that.
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Marianne says, I appreciate Matt's show.
He's a good, strong, ethical man.
I thought we had lost this quality of manhood.
Good, strong, ethical women like men like Matt who exude ethics, morals, and common sense.
Well, I totally agree with your assessment of me, but the one thing you forgot to mention, of course, is my humility.
College was oversold to me with the same heavenly promises it was to you.
Yeah, it's sold to everybody that way.
And then on the flip side of it, you're also promised or rather threatened, warned, that if you don't go to college, that your life is going to be a failure.
And at least in my experience, going to public school for 12 years, 13 years, if you count kindergarten, they're not subtle.
I mean, they're quite aggressive in sending that message.
Mean Bean Comedy says, I like hearing how sweet Matt's wife is and how she helps to balance him out.
Like I said, it's a cliche.
I think, at least in my case, it's really the case that opposites attract, and we could not be more diametrically opposed.
Well, I guess I should clarify.
There's actually an important clarification there, or qualification anyway, which is that I think that personality-wise, that's where that's the case.
I think probably to try... I can't imagine being married to someone who has the same personality as me.
The last thing I would want to do is be around... I have to live in my own body.
I don't wanna be around another version of myself.
That would be horrible.
So, that's where the opposites come in.
But it's important to be similar, if not the same, when it comes to your fundamental foundational values and principles.
That's where it matters.
If you're an opposite, if you're opposites as far as that goes, that's where you could really be in trouble in your relationship.
DH says, Matt, you can do an at-home sleep study, which is very accurate at diagnosing sleep apnea and other sleep-related issues, and it's infinitely more comfortable and convenient than the lab test that you described.
I would highly recommend it.
So how does that work?
Does my wife have to stay awake at night and just watch me sleep and take notes?
If that's the case, maybe I'll do it, because forcing her to do that would be very funny.
Let's see.
Amused Me says, wow Matt, I'm so disappointed, but I guess it's to be expected.
I'm an RN fired for not getting vaccinated.
I signed your petition and was all in with this fight.
You could have at least mentioned that the mandate is still in place for healthcare workers, thanks to Kavanaugh and Roberts, but I guess you got your victory, so to hell with the rest of us.
Well, you know, I gotta say, I never understand an attitude like this.
I'm sorry you were fired from your job.
That's horrible and wrong and tyrannical and an infringement on your rights.
But you're mad that I talked about one thing and not another thing.
You know, we tend to focus on one thing at a time.
So this is, it's a real common criticism of people.
You know, if you have a platform and you do a show, every day you'll get this.
Why'd you talk about this and not that over there?
This subject over here is way more important than that subject.
It might be, but I can't talk about every subject on every show.
You see how that works?
The fact that we got this win with private employers is very, very important.
And it's worth focusing on.
And you know what?
Sometimes I think it's good to just focus on the victory and even to revel in it a little bit when you have those moments instead of always having to couch everything and saying, yeah, but you know what?
It's also a failure for this reason.
All right.
Elizabeth says, Matt has so many closing lines.
Why not add a few more?
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening.
Love you.
Have a great day.
Enjoy your meal.
Godspeed.
May the road rise up to meet you.
Remember, the only thing worth fearing is fear itself.
Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.
Don't let the bedbugs bite.
I guess I do have a lot.
I kind of take a Peter Jackson approach to endings.
I can't have any qualms with you there.
And finally, Walter says, Dear Matt, I love your YouTube episodes, except when you attack Trump-heavy people and people that may not look like perfect tens for any reason.
You're excellent at what you do, and please stay on point.
Okay, first of all, attacking fat people and ugly people is way more offensive than attacking Trump, so I wouldn't put those all together.
Trump is a politician, so he's always open to be attacked.
And we should always be eager to criticize politicians of all stripes as Americans.
That should be one of our fundamental values as Americans, is a permanent skepticism towards politicians and an eagerness to hold them accountable and criticize them when they deserve it.
And even sometimes when they don't, because it's fun.
But as far as overweight people, I don't attack fat people, overweight people.
You know, pointing out that obesity is harmful and will kill you and is nothing to be celebrated, that's not an attack.
And like so many other things on the show, I wouldn't be talking about it.
I wouldn't spend time talking about the fact that obesity is bad unless you had a powerful voice on the other side saying, no, actually it's good.
So I have to respond to that.
In an ideal world, in a sane world, I wouldn't spend any time saying obesity is bad because everybody wouldn't know it, there'd be no reason to say it.
But when there's a concerted effort and a campaign to get people to embrace obesity, thereby embracing their own physical destruction, then it's necessary to say, no, it's bad.
As far as ugly people, you know, whatever I say about ugly people is fine because I'm a member of the community and those are the rules.
You know, we're allowed to defame each other if we're all in the community together.
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Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
Today, we cancel TikTok influencer Kay Notbey, who has several hundred thousand followers on this site and recently posted a video which has since gone viral across multiple platforms.
In the video, Miss Kay Notbey responds to a commentator, or a commenter rather, who was lamenting the state of modern womanhood.
And the commenter said, I honestly don't know what modern women bring to a relationship.
They don't want to work, clean, cook, or raise children, yet complain about everything.
Now, the comment, of course, does not apply to all modern women.
It doesn't apply to my wife, for example, but as a general statement, it's quite astute.
Kay felt otherwise, though, and she responded, and her response echoed, I think, echoes a very common sentiment in our culture today, which is why it's worth listening to and engaging with.
Let's listen.
We're not bringing nothing to relationships.
For centuries, decades, we've seen our grandmothers, our mothers, our great-aunts get Everything and get nothing.
So, for the first time in history, we're saying no.
You don't get a free incubator.
You don't get a free maid.
You don't get a free chef.
We're saying no, and y'all losing y'all f***ing minds.
No, ma'am.
And then y'all calling me a feminist?
If you know me, you know, like, I still want Susan B. Anthony hair, so that's not even a thing.
Y'all just need a label to put on somebody who's telling y'all no.
We said step y'all p***y up and y'all made a podcast.
That don't seem weird to you?
All right, a few points here.
First of all, what is this we stuff?
Even if I agreed with the proposition that women in history were universally oppressed, and as you say, they gave everything and got nothing, which I don't agree with that, but if I did, what the hell does that have to do with you?
If that was the case in the past, it wasn't, but if it was, it certainly isn't true today.
So you have like 300,000 followers on TikTok, despite the fact that you've never said anything interesting in your life, so you give nothing and get everything.
Those are your circumstances, and the circumstances of so many others in modern culture.
When it comes to the conversation about alleged historical oppression, sometimes those of us on the rational side of the debate, we get so caught up in trying to debunk the historical claim, or frame it correctly, or lend it context, or whatever, that we forget to mention just how absolutely ridiculous it is for a privileged, whiny brat, luxuriating in the comforts of 21st century Western culture, to try to exploit historical suffering that she didn't experience.
So she approaches this with a sort of, uh, we're tired of being treated this way and, uh, and we're not going to take it anymore.
But what the hell are you tired of?
Nothing happened to you.
You were born into a country where women have all the same legal rights as men, in fact, have more legal rights than men.
So please stop acting exhausted by traumas that you never suffered as if you inherited them in your bloodstream or something.
That's not how suffering works.
But what about the claim that, um, that women of the past gave everything and got nothing?
Well, that would be true if a roof over your head and food on the table and clothes on your back and everything else you need to survive and thrive and be comfortable.
If all of that amounts to nothing, then sure.
I mean, if everything is nothing, then it's true that women got nothing.
But then again, it's also true that they gave nothing because everything is nothing and nothing is anything.
Now I'm kind of confused.
But if words mean something, however, it would be more true to say that women in the past gave one thing, you know, they had something that they gave, and men gave something else, and that's how they structured their societies.
They each gave, they each contributed in different ways.
Right?
Of course, we're just pretending here that women started working outside of the house 30 years ago or something, which isn't true.
That's obviously not the case.
Even back in the Middle Ages, many guilds had women members, for example.
But that aside, the traditional gender roles she talks about were not at all one-sided, as they're so often caricatured today.
They could not have been one-sided, right?
Prior to the Industrial Age, unless you were nobility, Or royalty, or in the ruling class, you had to actually survive on a daily basis.
And survival required effort, required work, every day.
If anyone in your house gave nothing, everything would fall apart, and everybody would probably die.
That's why no one in the house gives nothing, unless we're talking about infants.
But even older children had to contribute.
They didn't have the luxury to experiment with sending women out into the forest to hunt while the men stayed home to nurse the babies.
Never occurred to them to do it.
They didn't have the luxury to do it.
The person best fit for the job had to do it.
And that's largely why the gender roles historically worked out the way they did.
Because men were simply best fit to do these kinds of things, and you needed the person best fit to do it, to go out and do it, so that you could survive.
Nobody was concerned with equity back then, because equity is the kind of thing that people can only concern themselves with when they have nothing else to worry about.
Men and women contributed differently, but they both contributed, because there was no other option.
Now today, survival does not necessitate the same sort of constant and conscious effort.
The welfare state has, in fact, made it possible for people to survive without any effort at all, in some cases, aside from whatever minimal exertions are necessary to walk from the couch to the refrigerator and then back to the couch again, to grab another armful of food that, you know, you didn't pay for.
And even those of us who work are still not fighting to survive the way that people in the past did.
It's only in the midst of this obscene affluence that almost all of us are experiencing that we can start tinkering with gender roles, right?
Instead of men doing one thing and women doing another, now we say that men and women should all do the same things, and sex should not factor into how the work is delegated at all.
But it's hard to argue that this arrangement has been a smashing success as marriages are falling apart at a rapid rate, the family unit itself is disintegrating, There's also hostility and resentment between the sexes, as evidenced by this woman's response and the comment she's responding to.
Somehow this idea of, you know, we'll both do the same thing and contribute in exactly the same way, and neither of us will have any pronounced roles at all, this strategy has not brought about the results that we were promised.
Shocking.
And there are many reasons for that, but let me focus on just one.
This is not the whole case that I could make, but it's just one element here.
The fuel that keeps human relationships in general, and marriages in particular, running smoothly is gratitude.
Okay, that's the fuel.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that probably nearly every failed marriage, or most of them, or failed romantic relationships of any kind, fail because of a terminal lack of gratitude by one or both partners.
Usually both.
Now, if you listen to two divorcees talk about each other, this is one of the first things that will jump out at you, is that they are not grateful for the other's contributions to the marriage.
They don't recognize the contributions at all.
And they both feel that the other was not grateful for their contributions.
This is like almost every divorced couple or former couple that you come across.
Even in cases where the primary cause of the divorce seems to be something like infidelity, even then, a lack of gratitude lies at the root of it because only a person who lacks gratitude for their spouse would cheat on them in the first place.
So what does this have to do with the gender role question?
Well, it's easier to be grateful for your spouse's contributions if you know what those contributions are.
If you know what their role is, then it's easier to be grateful for it.
Instead of, these days, both partners looking at each other like, what exactly do you do here?
Why do I need you?
And crucially, if you recognize that they are bringing something unique and essential to the table, that they're providing something to your household that you could not provide yourself, if you have the attitude that there is no important difference between you and your spouse, and that you can do everything that they can do and probably do it better, then naturally you're not going to be grateful for them.
They are a redundancy at best, unnecessary baggage at worst.
And pretty soon you start seeing it the way our friend Kay sees it.
You give everything, they give nothing, and whatever little bit maybe they do give, you could give the same, and do a better job of it than they do.
That's why people like Kay will never have a successful relationship, or marriage, or even friendship for that matter.
Because a woman like her declares that she is perfect.
You know, that she don't need no man, that men ought to be grateful for her no matter how little she brings to the table, and that she won't be grateful for men no matter how much they bring to the table.
And then women like this sit back in astonishment and wonder why they're alone.
Well, there's no mystery there.
There's also no mystery to the fact that today she is cancelled.
And we'll leave it there.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for listening.
Have a great day.
Godspeed.
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