Ep.1: Starting With Pride

# Satanists Nextdoor Podcast
# Episode 1: Starting With Pride


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00:01:02.160 hello listeners and welcome to the very
00:01:04.720 first episode of Satanist next door and
00:01:08.400 since we are kicking off our episode in
00:01:11.000 June um month of Pride we thought that
00:01:14.280 the first episode should focus on Pride
00:01:17.439 lgbtq plus community and um you know the
00:01:21.200 things that are actively going on we
00:01:24.079 have our pride flag up in front of our
00:01:26.640 house and I guarantee you that
00:01:29.079 thing is not coming down exactly it is
00:01:31.920 it is staying up and you know again I
00:01:34.680 say that because we live in a very
00:01:36.600 conservative neighborhood um you know
00:01:39.240 we've got Trump flags and like that
00:01:41.439 everywhere so not currently I mean they
00:01:44.000 are in people's backyards but they were
00:01:46.399 everywhere they moved them to the
00:01:48.360 backyard so you could still look at it
00:01:50.759 but you know not quite feel as
00:01:52.159 embarrassed when they're drinking with
00:01:53.200 their friends they can sit together and
00:01:54.920 lament over the times when Trump was
00:01:57.000 great yeah um you know but there's so so
00:02:00.960 because of that and and so far I I would
00:02:03.680 say on our nightly walks and this is
00:02:05.640 really kind of sad I see Sports Flags I
00:02:08.080 see Republican Flags I see a lot of
00:02:10.280 American flags which that's fine um you
00:02:12.840 know but I think we are the only house
00:02:15.280 with an lgbtq flag currently that we've
00:02:18.440 seen it's a pretty decent sized
00:02:19.879 neighborhood so I won't say I've looked
00:02:21.360 at everyone's house but unfortunately no
00:02:24.040 I don't think I've seen any other ones
00:02:25.519 yeah so I am kind of waiting on the note
00:02:27.599 from the homeowners association um and
00:02:30.920 I'm going to but we have a plan yes I'm
00:02:33.200 going to take walk around and take
00:02:35.200 pictures of the hundred other houses
00:02:37.120 with other flags on it and tell them
00:02:39.599 when those flags come down then we'll
00:02:41.440 talk about ours I hate to be preemptive
00:02:43.319 because we assume that it will happen
00:02:45.599 but my my hope is that it will not in
00:02:47.800 fact happen and we'll be very pleasantly
00:02:49.879 surprised so Suburban conservative
00:02:52.000 neighborhood outside of Houston
00:02:54.159 definitely concerned about it but we'll
00:02:57.040 we'll report back at the end of the
00:02:58.280 month and uh hopefully it's a big
00:03:00.560 nothing bger yep yep yep so but yeah
00:03:03.599 let's talk about let's talk about well
00:03:05.519 of course the Stonewall riots right you
00:03:07.159 can't start talking about Pride without
00:03:08.840 talking about how in June in uh you know
00:03:11.959 1969 we had the stone wall Stonewall
00:03:15.280 riots and that's what kicked this all
00:03:16.920 off and it's kind of disheartening in a
00:03:19.000 way to recognize why that all happened
00:03:21.879 and where we still are at this point in
00:03:24.599 time yeah know we I I always kind of say
00:03:27.760 this in in you know we made so much
00:03:31.360 progress forward and then these last few
00:03:33.959 years it it's been backward you know
00:03:37.280 especially since 2016 but even after
00:03:40.159 then it's just this Snowball Effect of
00:03:42.840 going backwards and attacking and fear
00:03:45.720 mongering and and you know once you know
00:03:49.000 like you you you had mentioned at one
00:03:50.959 time while we were talking is you know
00:03:52.560 once they got rid of roie way they knew
00:03:55.360 mhm they knew it was open see well they
00:03:57.959 felt I feel like they I hate doing the
00:04:00.560 they thing I feel like people that are
00:04:02.519 focused on going after individuals in in
00:04:05.840 marginalized communities felt more
00:04:07.680 confident once they had attacked women's
00:04:10.439 Liberation women's rights where they're
00:04:12.200 saying you know your bodily autonomy is
00:04:13.920 now uh fair game you know they're trying
00:04:16.199 to get into privacy all these things
00:04:18.478 they they feel a lot more confident now
00:04:20.120 that they've shown that they can affect
00:04:22.120 change in their Direction and I do feel
00:04:24.320 like now they've pushed the narrative
00:04:26.759 towards the the lgbtq plus community
00:04:29.880 especially the trans Community because
00:04:32.880 they they have a good uh like hook line
00:04:36.039 on it with oh they're they grooming kids
00:04:38.440 they're pedophiles they're mutilating
00:04:40.800 children's genitals all these horrible
00:04:43.520 things that they keep repeating over and
00:04:45.280 over again which is misinformation and
00:04:47.120 and absolutely outright lies yeah and I
00:04:49.840 feel like that whole conversation um
00:04:53.280 kind of started with the bathrooms you
00:04:55.120 know it was four or so years ago maybe
00:04:58.240 that it probably longer
00:05:00.520 getting older so you know years kind of
00:05:02.720 mush together but yeah I mean that was
00:05:04.759 like the big thing that started this big
00:05:07.960 oh you know we we've got an in here and
00:05:10.600 they they went after the whole bathroom
00:05:12.840 sort of thing which is just stupid as
00:05:15.240 hell because honestly if you look at a
00:05:18.039 trans man do you do you really want a
00:05:21.199 trans man going into the women's
00:05:23.360 bathroom if you know think about Sunday
00:05:26.199 morning church you're there you're with
00:05:28.400 your family your wife everybody goes
00:05:31.160 into the bathroom and then all of a
00:05:32.800 sudden this dude walks into the bathroom
00:05:35.039 you're going to lose your but
00:05:36.520 that's exactly what you asked the
00:05:38.840 community not even asked told told well
00:05:41.919 it's weird to me because no offense like
00:05:44.000 the trans man thing definitely they they
00:05:46.280 don't harp on it the same as trans women
00:05:48.960 and they're so ardently focused on well
00:05:51.759 these these aren't women and they don't
00:05:53.360 belong and blah blah blah okay so what
00:05:55.600 are you saying where would you prefer
00:05:56.880 them to go you want to put them in the
00:05:58.639 men's room so so that you can what abuse
00:06:01.919 them I don't I don't understand what it
00:06:04.039 is that they're asking for because I
00:06:05.680 don't know about you but when you look
00:06:07.520 at some of these trans women they
00:06:08.960 they're gorgeous right they don't want
00:06:10.599 to be in the men don't even want to be
00:06:12.280 in the men's restroom and then you and
00:06:14.440 then you've got these really incredibly
00:06:16.240 handsome trans men and are you saying
00:06:18.639 you'd rather have them with your
00:06:19.800 girlfriend in the bathroom because maybe
00:06:21.800 you want to double think that because
00:06:23.120 these are relatively attractive guys
00:06:25.479 that we got walking around and you know
00:06:27.479 maybe they'll have a second thought
00:06:28.759 about you know what they're involved
00:06:30.400 with but well and and again I kind of go
00:06:32.680 back to what the hell are all of these
00:06:35.639 conservative Christians doing in the
00:06:37.599 bathroom I mean because to me the
00:06:39.720 bathroom is you go into the bathroom you
00:06:42.160 use the bathroom and you leave and and
00:06:45.639 you know and every trans person I've
00:06:48.240 ever known and some have come into the
00:06:50.919 bathroom with me they went into a stall
00:06:55.120 the bathroom I went to the you know it
00:06:57.319 it's it's weird it's like what do you
00:06:59.479 all think happen is it like I just
00:07:01.879 wonder what's going on in their mind is
00:07:03.520 it like they think like the door opens
00:07:05.440 and it's
00:07:06.479 like I mean I would be okay with that if
00:07:09.520 that was the reality you know there a
00:07:12.520  party in the bathroom you know
00:07:14.720 everybody's in there doing blow and
00:07:16.919  whoa we were not talking about
00:07:19.400 that time period
00:07:21.520 sir no but I mean that happens in
00:07:23.720 regular bathrooms anyway but but I don't
00:07:25.960 know what it is exactly you've got the
00:07:27.560 narrative that there's these bearded men
00:07:29.960 looking over this doll at your children
00:07:31.960 what the hell are you talking about
00:07:33.440 number one most trans women I know
00:07:35.720 aren't out there with beards most I mean
00:07:37.960 if you do you rock it that's your thing
00:07:40.280 but most trans women are women they look
00:07:42.879 like women if you're not looking for
00:07:45.479 weird details you're not normal I mean
00:07:47.800 even if you are looking for weird
00:07:49.199 details they don't really look different
00:07:50.919 and I think that's what trips them up is
00:07:52.800 because you have people that are maybe a
00:07:54.400 bit more on the gender fluid side of
00:07:56.240 things and they can't quite tell and
00:07:58.879 that's when they freak out because oh I
00:08:00.440 think I finally found one of those trans
00:08:02.599 folks in the bathroom and they lose
00:08:04.479 their only to find out it is
00:08:06.240 actually a a female trying to use the
00:08:08.639 restroom um and then they they end up
00:08:11.199 there was a whole situation I think it
00:08:12.599 was a movie theater or a restaurant
00:08:14.720 don't quote me on that it was one of the
00:08:16.039 other and a very gender fluid woman very
00:08:19.560 gender fluid though biological female in
00:08:22.000 the restroom with their friends and Anna
00:08:25.360 Karen I'm not trying to Trope but Anna
00:08:27.599 Karen just immediately loses their mind
00:08:29.919 you don't belong in here you don't
00:08:31.479 belong in this restroom and the person's
00:08:33.200 like but I I am a female like this is
00:08:35.599 the correct you're not you don't belong
00:08:37.399 here blah blah blah and this is like
00:08:39.320 where they wanted this to go right the
00:08:41.279 uncomfortable encounter they're going to
00:08:43.000 force people to I don't know pee outs I
00:08:45.360 don't know what it is they want from
00:08:46.920 folks honestly do they not go to the
00:08:49.120 fair do they not go out to Parks do they
00:08:51.640 not use like the unisex restrooms that
00:08:53.839 everyone's been using for I don't know a
00:08:55.680 portapotty doesn't have a man or woman
00:08:57.480 out front you know you just go in and
00:08:59.000 use the damn bathroom and I I don't know
00:09:01.680 what is it that they think is happening
00:09:03.920 I'm going on the bathroom thing way too
00:09:05.440 long but yeah I I did challenge you know
00:09:08.360 I kind of challenged this on on Twitter
00:09:10.640 at at one point I was like the and
00:09:13.079 I actually asked what what is it you
00:09:16.360 want them to do I I I mean you know
00:09:19.959 what's your solution and their answer
00:09:22.519 was you know the what what you would
00:09:24.760 expect it's a shitty answer it's like
00:09:26.760 well nature can take I don't really care
00:09:29.640 what they do well obviously you do care
00:09:32.160 what they do or we wouldn't be here you
00:09:34.839 know and it's like so yeah I mean yeah I
00:09:38.480 guess we kind of went off on the
00:09:39.480 bathroom tangent for a little but but
00:09:41.240 the reason why is it seems like that's
00:09:43.839 where this this new attack narrative
00:09:47.160 sort of started that's one of yeah and
00:09:49.360 then the whole groomer thing which I
00:09:51.279 mean I could go off on some stuff there
00:09:54.440 but grooming isn't happening at drag
00:09:56.560 shows or drag Story Hour or you know
00:09:59.480 these are not the areas that we have to
00:10:01.880 worry about I can count like I have not
00:10:04.360 enough fingers and toes to discuss all
00:10:06.399 the sexual impropriety happening at
00:10:08.920 churches and police officers and youth
00:10:12.760 groups and I mean but when you look at
00:10:14.959 it there's it seems like there's another
00:10:16.800 bunch of them every day and it's coming
00:10:19.120 out of unfortunately churches and I'm
00:10:21.160 not going to say it's every church I'm
00:10:22.440 not going to say all religious people
00:10:24.079 are are pedophiles but there's a
00:10:25.839 flipping freck ton of pedophiles
00:10:28.320 apparently hanging out in the churches
00:10:30.680 well there's enough of them that the the
00:10:33.600 hash not a drag queen is is almost
00:10:36.800 always either trending or it's really
00:10:39.279 easy it pulls right up for me when I go
00:10:41.160 to type it because every day like you
00:10:43.160 said I see multiple reports of a
00:10:46.560 Christian Youth Minister a Christian
00:10:48.200 Pastor a priest Boy Scout men and women
00:10:51.680 yep men and women a Boy Scout leader a
00:10:53.760 police officer a teacher so it boils
00:10:56.600 down to a person in the position of
00:10:59.279 power manipulating is manipulating and
00:11:03.240 is actually taking advantage of children
00:11:05.800 and none of them as I've seen are drag
00:11:08.959 queens you know or part of part of the
00:11:12.160 LGBT yeah I I I got an argument with
00:11:15.000 somebody who who tried to say because
00:11:17.279 the police officer molested a a um young
00:11:20.920 man that it was gay and I said okay so
00:11:24.639 what you're saying then is every time a
00:11:27.279 man sexually assaults a or rapes is the
00:11:32.079 better word because it is a child cannot
00:11:34.959 consent and it's rape every time a man
00:11:38.360 rapes a CH a female child then that's
00:11:41.920 heterosexual problem right and they they
00:11:44.800 they would wouldn't no no that's no you
00:11:47.519 can't you can't have one it doesn't
00:11:49.720 matter what the it pedophilia is wrong
00:11:53.200 no matter what I don't care what you try
00:11:54.920 to blanket it as there's this group of
00:11:57.240 nasty people that try to pretend it was
00:11:59.000 part of the lgbtq community I'm sure
00:12:01.040 you've heard about it they're called
00:12:02.160 Maps you are not part of the LGBT Comm
00:12:05.000 uh Community you're not part of any
00:12:07.600 Community you shouldn't be part of a
00:12:08.800 community I'm sorry that you chose to to
00:12:10.920 to have this maybe you didn't choose
00:12:12.760 that's a shitty way to put it I'm sorry
00:12:14.600 that you're a pedophile I don't know why
00:12:16.360 the hell you're a pedophile you could
00:12:17.839 probably get some help and maybe deal
00:12:19.760 with that before you hurt people but the
00:12:21.399 minute you've crossed that line you are
00:12:23.399 a danger to society and you don't have a
00:12:25.440 place the end yeah period and again not
00:12:28.959 part of the lgbtq community and they're
00:12:31.760 trying to demonize the lgbtq community
00:12:35.040 with things that are mostly happening in
00:12:38.560 the Christian conservative Community
00:12:41.040 well and to be fair just like pedophiles
00:12:43.160 are in every single Community I have no
00:12:45.360 doubt that there's plenty of great
00:12:47.040 people that want to do good things and
00:12:48.480 healthy things for children in the
00:12:50.000 Christian Community but there is way way
00:12:52.240 way too many weird sexual abuse issues
00:12:54.560 to the point where they have their own
00:12:55.839 insurance for it and that should have
00:12:57.320 been the warning sign right there maybe
00:12:59.000 you're not doing enough careful scrutiny
00:13:01.120 before you allow people to be in
00:13:02.440 positions where they're working with
00:13:03.480 children but perhaps you should start to
00:13:05.800 address that in a different way instead
00:13:07.800 of getting insurance for the inevitable
00:13:10.120 sexual abuse yeah I mean and people
00:13:12.240 bring up Satanist all the time they're
00:13:13.839 like oh Satanist child will be well
00:13:15.399 here's the difference let let me lay it
00:13:17.560 out real real simple for you every
00:13:20.639 single branch of modern Satanism there
00:13:23.959 is a definitive no when it comes to any
00:13:28.240 sort of harm or sexual inappropriate
00:13:31.800 anything with a child is or anything at
00:13:34.120 all consent is the biggest you break
00:13:37.040 consent it's one of the biggest things
00:13:38.480 if you want to call it a sin whatever
00:13:39.800 you want to call it it's one of the
00:13:41.120 biggest breaches that you can have
00:13:42.800 within the satanic Community consent is
00:13:45.600 what we're built on bodily autonomy you
00:13:47.560 cannot have bodily autonomy or personal
00:13:50.199 uh you know uh personal accountability
00:13:52.440 or any of the things that we believe in
00:13:54.320 without that consent and so anything
00:13:57.399 that takes away the consent from any
00:13:58.800 anybody or anything but even animals
00:14:01.320 yeah you cannot beat harm you're
00:14:03.720 supposed to do the best you can to never
00:14:06.240 be an abusive dick bag period and a
00:14:09.040 child cannot consent so no anything
00:14:12.959 consent child children drunk people yeah
00:14:16.880 and so here's the difference between the
00:14:18.560 Christian Community and and the satanic
00:14:20.800 Community the Christian Community has an
00:14:23.000 insurance plan for this they generally
00:14:25.440 take the person and they move them to a
00:14:27.240 new church or something like that or
00:14:28.920 they do whatever because God forgives
00:14:31.000 the satanic Community if if you're
00:14:33.639 caught you are kicked out the
00:14:36.079 authorities are called on you and you
00:14:38.759 are never getting your ass back in it's
00:14:41.680 just you are that's you are done we we
00:14:44.800 do not put up with that period the
00:14:47.600 end there is there's no room for it and
00:14:49.600 that's where I get really messed up on
00:14:51.279 the Forgiveness concept if you feel as
00:14:53.600 an individual that it's the only way
00:14:55.160 that you can move forward for you and
00:14:56.600 you need to forgive people that's fine
00:14:58.720 but to demand forgiveness when it comes
00:15:00.759 to being assaulted or that you know as a
00:15:02.880 kid that you know somehow maybe you were
00:15:04.720 wrong or was a test or God this or God
00:15:06.720 that I'm sorry no you do not just
00:15:09.120 mandatorily have to forgive someone that
00:15:11.040 harmed you and in that case ever ever
00:15:14.000 you never have to if you need to move on
00:15:16.040 fine but you never have to forgive them
00:15:18.240 and I I hate that there's people that
00:15:20.040 are put in a position where they have to
00:15:21.440 feel like that's necessary yeah and so
00:15:24.040 we go from bathrooms we go then we go to
00:15:27.040 book Banning oh you know I mean now
00:15:29.519 we're Banning books left and right
00:15:31.600 anything with with anything having to do
00:15:34.639 with oh two guys kissed in this book and
00:15:37.399 all of a sudden it's pornographic but
00:15:39.399 yet okay we've got millions of other
00:15:41.519 books where a guy kisses a girl and
00:15:43.519 that's okay why is it okay that a guy
00:15:46.240 kisses a girl in a book and and that's
00:15:48.199 fine and that's a very good nighttime
00:15:50.000 story but if a guy kisses a guy all of a
00:15:52.199 sudden it's porn you know again I kind
00:15:54.160 of wonder what happens in these people's
00:15:56.000 heads but you know no it's the same
00:15:59.120  thing it is two people love each
00:16:02.000 other and you have you know a lot of
00:16:04.880 times some of these books are are
00:16:06.880 parents and and you know it's a it's a
00:16:09.920 family of two gay men and you know like
00:16:12.839 my two daddies or something like that
00:16:15.240 and all of a sudden they th this book is
00:16:18.079 pornographic why is it pornographic
00:16:20.240 because it has two men in it instead of
00:16:22.040 a man and a woman that's not
00:16:23.360 pornographic well and sometimes they try
00:16:25.720 to get you on like books like this book
00:16:27.680 is gay which they're saying oh this is
00:16:29.839 in elementary schools and it's teaching
00:16:31.399 you about oral sex and blah blah it is
00:16:33.720 not rated in the elementary library
00:16:36.519 range it is not available in you say
00:16:38.800 show me which which Library well it's
00:16:40.759 you know this Library over here that is
00:16:42.440 um that is a high school library or on
00:16:45.199 in some instances that is a middle
00:16:46.720 school library and those are places that
00:16:49.199 they belong um are they for all children
00:16:51.639 or all children mature enough to handle
00:16:53.440 certain content maybe not but that's
00:16:55.560 where you as a parent are supposed to be
00:16:57.560 involved in the things that your kids
00:16:59.319 are discussing or questions that they
00:17:00.880 may have because let me tell you 13 14
00:17:03.519 15 year olds are thinking about talking
00:17:05.760 about what their friends they're curious
00:17:07.480 about sex and if you're going to pretend
00:17:09.160 they're not then you know there's bigger
00:17:11.199 issues but the funny thing about book
00:17:13.000 bands is just the stupid stupid things
00:17:15.480 Charlotte's Web Believe It or Not Bann
00:17:17.640 book yep why was Charlotte's Web a
00:17:19.480 Banned Book it was unnatural and
00:17:21.480 blasphemous as humans are the highest
00:17:23.439 level of God's creation and so animals
00:17:26.119 talking required it to be banned
00:17:29.280 uh and then more egregious if you look
00:17:31.679 at the way these laws are dub tailed it
00:17:33.640 goes after communities of people of
00:17:35.440 color black people you know when you
00:17:37.360 talk about books like The Bluest Eye
00:17:39.280 where you're you're dealing with very
00:17:40.960 deep situations where where you have
00:17:43.280 black people that talk about how they
00:17:45.000 didn't feel like they were beautiful
00:17:46.360 because the beauty standards were so
00:17:47.919 wrapped around you know Caucasian looks
00:17:50.600 and and you're taking these books away
00:17:52.160 so you're you're taking away kids
00:17:54.320 ability to see themselves in literature
00:17:56.840 to make sense of the world to find
00:17:59.799 commonalities with people that are
00:18:01.400 struggling with the same things that
00:18:02.480 they've struggled and in the gay you
00:18:04.320 know lgbtq Community it's so detrimental
00:18:07.360 because they can't necessarily talk
00:18:08.720 about it at home they can't necessarily
00:18:10.559 share it with their friends maybe
00:18:11.760 they're not ready they're not
00:18:12.559 comfortable and so this literature this
00:18:14.760 world that they can safely explore who
00:18:17.320 they are as a person is maybe the only
00:18:20.120 place that they can safely see
00:18:22.360 themselves and and realize that they are
00:18:24.440 normal that it is okay that it's safe to
00:18:27.280 be who you are and they find strength
00:18:29.679 and it it allows them to begin that
00:18:31.320 journey to hopefully be able to share
00:18:33.640 that with people and to live a life
00:18:35.720 where they feel they can be their
00:18:36.880 genuine self and you take these things
00:18:39.080 away and these these kids have nowhere
00:18:41.400 to go yeah you remove their safe space
00:18:44.120 because like you said a lot of times
00:18:45.799 home is not a safe place for them I mean
00:18:48.640 it's sad that still in 2023 yeah there
00:18:52.559 are so many lgbtq children who do not
00:18:57.400 feel safe at expressing their feeling at
00:19:00.960 home because their parents are going to
00:19:03.120 shame them or or something like that and
00:19:06.360 you should be supporting your children
00:19:08.840 you should be you know you should be
00:19:11.200 there as a parent to support them not
00:19:13.080 shame them and you know if that is the
00:19:16.360 direction that they are are are honestly
00:19:19.840 feeling you know that's who they are
00:19:22.280 you're you're not going to change that
00:19:24.919 by shaming them you're going to make
00:19:27.039 them feel depressed you're going to make
00:19:28.919 them suicidal and then you take away
00:19:31.080 their books and so there's the other
00:19:33.000 safe thing that's gone and what we're
00:19:35.400 going to have is an increase in suicides
00:19:39.360 for lgbtq youth well exactly you look at
00:19:43.120 groups out there and I was so happy to
00:19:45.240 see that moms for Liberty was listed as
00:19:46.880 a hate group because it is um they're
00:19:48.960 out there saying we're here to you know
00:19:51.240 protect kids well you're definitely not
00:19:52.720 out there to protect those kids you're
00:19:54.760 definitely not out there trying to
00:19:55.919 protect their lives because what you're
00:19:57.520 doing is direct harming them and by
00:20:00.080 taking away the ability for kids that
00:20:02.600 aren't part of the lgbtq community to
00:20:05.720 understand and empathize with people of
00:20:08.720 the community you're also taking away
00:20:10.520 that that portion where kids can see hey
00:20:12.919 they're they're just people like us
00:20:14.120 they're just trying to live lives they
00:20:15.320 have the same Curiosities as we you're
00:20:17.120 you're destroying so much more than just
00:20:19.840 taking away a book you're not protecting
00:20:21.960 anyone and then they yell you know the
00:20:23.880 Bible still belongs in school my ass do
00:20:26.480 you know what's in that book I mean did
00:20:28.240 you actually read it you got adulteries
00:20:30.280 in there you got uh pedophilia rape you
00:20:33.880 you have incest murder yeah there's all
00:20:36.559 manner of messed up stuff babies being
00:20:38.880 killed by angels and you know people
00:20:41.159 offering up their daughters to protect
00:20:42.760 angels from being there's so much crazy
00:20:45.400 it's crazy and I'm not going to harp on
00:20:47.559 the Bible entirely because I know you
00:20:49.799 know it's important book to a lot of
00:20:51.080 people and and you can have that that's
00:20:52.880 your thing it's not my business but when
00:20:54.640 you start to put it out there and
00:20:56.360 legislate based off of it and push that
00:20:58.760 on other people who do not believe in it
00:21:00.720 there's a problem yeah and and a lot of
00:21:03.240 these laws are based on religious
00:21:05.720 Doctrine interpretation yeah
00:21:08.240 interpretation of religious Doctrine
00:21:11.080 right and I mean I went after Greg
00:21:13.520 Abbott on it because he's I'm signing
00:21:15.559 all these laws to protect parents and
00:21:17.799 parents should make the choices no no
00:21:19.799 you're signing laws for one group of
00:21:23.400 parents a Christian extremist or or
00:21:27.159 Evangelical Christian parents and that
00:21:30.679 is who you're focused on and everybody
00:21:32.520 else can basically go themselves
00:21:34.720 pretty much I mean here we are I I I'm
00:21:37.679 constantly outspoken and the Texas GOP
00:21:40.200 was putting out all the stuff about how
00:21:41.559 we're protecting trans youth by stopping
00:21:43.919 them from being able to get the care
00:21:45.440 they need and they ended up blocking me
00:21:48.400 on on um because I just kept
00:21:51.440 harping on it I'm not going to back down
00:21:53.200 when it comes to the trans youth have
00:21:55.320 very few voices and and even parents
00:21:57.760 that protect and and do support their
00:22:00.720 kids are being told you know parent
00:22:02.679 choice parent choice unless your kid's
00:22:04.360 trans and then we're going to tell you
00:22:06.320 exactly how you should care for your kid
00:22:08.039 not the doctors who you know maybe have
00:22:10.320 a little knowledge about biology and
00:22:12.559 chemistry and the way things are
00:22:14.000 supposed to work and and it pisses me
00:22:16.480 the freck off because you want parents
00:22:18.720 to be in charge unless they disagree
00:22:20.720 with you and that's that's your stance
00:22:22.799 no you're being a freaking bully and
00:22:25.000 you're abusing kids yeah and then you're
00:22:26.840 going to go after the hormon law I mean
00:22:29.320 the hospital in in Austin you were
00:22:31.400 telling me about Dell CH yeah Dell
00:22:33.360 Children's in Austin it was a department
00:22:35.480 that they ended up losing a bunch of
00:22:37.480 doctors and the doctors treated uh trans
00:22:39.679 youth to help them and it wasn't just
00:22:41.559 hormone therapy and they definitely
00:22:43.360 weren't gender mutilating whatever the
00:22:45.320  that means cuz you can't mutilate a
00:22:46.960 gender um but they weren't out there
00:22:50.080 giving sex changes there is such a
00:22:53.200 strong strict criteria for the way that
00:22:55.679 care is carried out for Trans Youth and
00:22:58.559 it involves counseling it involves uh
00:23:02.120 lengthly periods of exploration to help
00:23:04.840 understand each individual child's need
00:23:06.600 because each trans child has a very
00:23:09.159 specific need that will not replicate
00:23:12.159 between kids and and there's a lot that
00:23:14.440 goes into that and to sit there and
00:23:16.200 pretend that they're just doing uh you
00:23:18.000 know surgeries on kids it's just bull
00:23:20.480 crap yeah I mean I've always I've always
00:23:22.880 been of the mindset of if you can't win
00:23:25.640 your political or religious
00:23:28.559 um debate or or your stance without
00:23:31.559 lying you're on the wrong side yeah you
00:23:33.960 know and that's what we see time and
00:23:37.000 time again is lies lies and
00:23:40.000 fear-mongering about the lgbtq community
00:23:43.440 um just you know like you said gender
00:23:45.840 mutilation and I mean they paint this
00:23:48.279 horrible picture and it's lies it's it's
00:23:50.960 just not happening and and and you know
00:23:54.720 but there's horrible things that happen
00:23:57.039 in churches and that's okay we're going
00:23:59.039 to paint over and gloss over that but
00:24:01.600 we're going to tell a bunch of lies
00:24:02.919 about this community in order to
00:24:04.880 demonize it and you kind of brought it
00:24:07.080 back um in one conversation to you know
00:24:10.039 Germany the way that they the pink
00:24:12.279 triangles that they started giving out
00:24:14.039 when and you know that was not everyone
00:24:16.400 knows about it a lot of people do I
00:24:17.919 think at this point but during um during
00:24:20.760 that whole period of time one of the
00:24:22.279 groups they went after were uh gay
00:24:24.840 individuals and they would give them
00:24:26.360 these pink triangles to identify them
00:24:28.640 and separate them and they made it I
00:24:30.799 think it was one of the Avenues that
00:24:32.320 they made as palatable to start going
00:24:34.200 after people and you see it
00:24:35.399 unfortunately replicated in Florida with
00:24:37.679 some of the ways that they've done their
00:24:38.799 laws where you have individuals that
00:24:40.559 they're easier to demonize you know they
00:24:42.799 start talking about their pedophiles
00:24:44.399 they're grooming kids they're assaulting
00:24:46.600 kids they're they're this that and the
00:24:48.240 other and then I was I tried I wanted to
00:24:50.840 be happy because they had this um
00:24:53.159 pedophile law where they wanted to you
00:24:55.640 know essentially be able to give the
00:24:56.799 death penalty to what they were deeming
00:24:58.880 as you know child Predators which good I
00:25:01.440 mean I'm not going to say I think the
00:25:03.440 death penalty is a great thing I think
00:25:05.200 there's probably other ways to address
00:25:07.000 violent crimes and such like that but
00:25:08.880 with pedophiles it gets tricky because I
00:25:10.480 don't know there's a lot of positive you
00:25:11.799 can do with them but um then they
00:25:14.000 started saying well these are groomers
00:25:15.440 and they're pedophiles not even feel put
00:25:16.880 the two together they're setting up a
00:25:18.679 very ugly situation where they could
00:25:20.480 technically go after people in the lgbtq
00:25:23.640 community and say well look they're
00:25:25.760 predators and they've already set that
00:25:27.799 up in people's minds to be true yeah um
00:25:30.399 and so that's a slippery freaking slope
00:25:32.279 that people really need to pay attention
00:25:33.720 to because that's that's not okay and we
00:25:35.799 can't ever set that up these are these
00:25:37.559 are people living their lives they're
00:25:39.360 they're in their mind you know when
00:25:41.080 you're a transwoman you are a woman you
00:25:43.399 know you're living a life of a woman
00:25:45.000 when you're when you're a man you know a
00:25:46.600 trans man you're a man and they've had
00:25:48.960 to live this alternate life up to the
00:25:50.720 point where they were able to finally
00:25:52.559 transition and now they can finally it's
00:25:55.120 not you know a psychological only life
00:25:57.200 that they're hidden away they get to
00:25:58.520 finally be themselves and sometimes I
00:26:00.480 think you know you're excited to finally
00:26:02.240 be that gender you've always seen
00:26:03.919 yourself as to actually have that
00:26:05.720 physique you've always seen and you live
00:26:07.520 a little bit more daring like Dylan they
00:26:09.120 get mad oh she's so childlike and she
00:26:11.120 acts like a kid no she's a woman that's
00:26:13.640 excited to have you know the experience
00:26:15.559 to try on dresses to have her figure to
00:26:18.760 be excited about all the girly things
00:26:20.679 that she's always wanted to be able to
00:26:21.880 do and now she can look at herself and
00:26:23.320 say oh my gosh it's me it's me it's the
00:26:25.440 me I've always seen and so of course
00:26:27.240 she's Rel she's finally able to live her
00:26:30.120 life you know of course she's excited
00:26:32.279 she should be yeah yeah I mean the lot
00:26:35.240 it's like Florida and Texas I I I swear
00:26:37.919 they're in a competition to see who who
00:26:40.360 can be the the most bigoted and and you
00:26:43.640 know the the worst state and pass just
00:26:46.840 the ugliest laws there are and it's a
00:26:49.480 constant competition between these two
00:26:51.200 states they're they're states that are
00:26:52.840 pretty scary to to live in yeah I mean
00:26:55.880 our oldest daughter we've talked about
00:26:57.640 before she's a bit more gender fluid I
00:26:59.799 think she leans a little towards Mayo
00:27:01.440 often and I get scared because she goes
00:27:04.240 out and she's very outspoken she should
00:27:06.080 be comfortable confident outspoken about
00:27:08.679 things but you know you see these people
00:27:10.360 that are pissing their pants over the
00:27:12.159 fact that you know are you a man or you
00:27:14.399 a woman why are you in my bathroom and I
00:27:16.000 get scared that she end up in one of
00:27:17.559 these confrontations or there was that
00:27:18.960 issue that recently happened where two
00:27:20.720 people were at a golf those putt putt
00:27:22.760 places and they're you know two two
00:27:25.159 women and they're in a relationship and
00:27:27.200 they're old hands and doing the things
00:27:28.760 that young people do when they're in
00:27:30.279 love and this lady this little freaking
00:27:32.919 wiench of a woman decided that she was
00:27:35.240 going to um call her Buddies the cops
00:27:39.000 because they were doing this in front of
00:27:40.480 her kid and and they ended up getting
00:27:42.559 arrested yeah they kissed yeah oh my oh
00:27:45.200 my God a couple kissed yeah a couple
00:27:47.640 kissed well holy and and she called
00:27:50.279 her cop buddies um and it was outside of
00:27:53.360 Houston and um she called her cop
00:27:56.000 buddies and they came and and they
00:27:58.080 actually went to arrest these these two
00:28:01.519 women um and I think tizzy did a video
00:28:05.480 on it you know and so um if if if you
00:28:08.360 haven't checked that video out you
00:28:09.720 should go you know search through tizzy
00:28:12.360 thing it was always a good time yeah it
00:28:14.480 it it's it's been in the month of June
00:28:16.320 that he did it um and and he was
00:28:18.600 actually looking for the two women
00:28:20.760 because he wanted to be able to help
00:28:22.159 support them legally make sure that all
00:28:24.519 charges were dropped against them and
00:28:26.279 things like that but you know that was
00:28:27.760 just what did they do they kissed they
00:28:29.440 kissed that are are we are we back in
00:28:32.080 the 1960s where kissing um you know if
00:28:35.480 you're gay and you kiss in public it's
00:28:37.200 it's illegal I I I thought we moved way
00:28:39.880 past that we we have thankfully and the
00:28:42.399 younger generation is so good about
00:28:44.080 being outspoken and putting up with a
00:28:45.600 whale as crap um but unfortunately we
00:28:47.880 have a lot of very loud people in
00:28:49.880 positions where they get to make a lot
00:28:51.200 of annoying things for everyone's life
00:28:53.760 yeah and you you said something right
00:28:55.720 there which was the younger generation
00:28:57.720 and I want to give this younger
00:28:59.279 generation huge props I mean gen z um
00:29:03.360 and I don't know if 14-year-olds are
00:29:05.559 still considered gen Z or not but the
00:29:07.440 younger generation you all are kicking
00:29:10.039 ass because because the the younger
00:29:12.519 generation has become so inclusive and
00:29:15.799 so accepted and they just look at it as
00:29:18.159 so what if this person's gay so what if
00:29:20.000 this person's TR they are who they are
00:29:22.240 and in their parents' childhood that
00:29:25.760 wasn't the way things were you know and
00:29:27.840 it was it was a very scary time and you
00:29:31.840 know like you mentioned before our our
00:29:34.600 oldest daughter she's gay and even as a
00:29:37.200 dad now I'm still scared at times
00:29:39.760 because again we live in a very scary
00:29:42.159 state for if if you're you know in the
00:29:45.120 LGBT community um there are a lot of
00:29:48.200 very mean vindictive violent people
00:29:51.159 right in this state and I get worried
00:29:53.200 for my daughter but I don't get as
00:29:55.360 worried as I would have been worried in
00:29:57.679 the 1980s or the 1970s or or even the
00:30:01.600 1990s so things have gotten better and
00:30:04.480 the part of that is the youth and that's
00:30:06.880 why the the Republican party is so
00:30:09.399 afraid of gen Z oh yeah trying to put in
00:30:12.159 voting laws and all voting because they
00:30:14.880 they know that the things that they're
00:30:17.519 doing um and the things that they are
00:30:19.919 doing when I say they I'm not talking
00:30:21.760 gen Z I'm talking about Republicans and
00:30:24.200 the Christian nationalists and all that
00:30:26.000 they know that they are wrong they're on
00:30:28.919 the wrong side of history and this is
00:30:31.919 going to come back and bite them right
00:30:34.200 and it should it should absolutely and
00:30:36.320 and I hope that as the upcoming
00:30:38.640 Generations begin to get into politics
00:30:40.559 that they they don't fall for these
00:30:42.279 traps and that they do continue to
00:30:44.519 actually be these people and stand up
00:30:46.519 for marginalized communities and to
00:30:49.240 support one another I mean granted
00:30:50.840 there's always going to be crappy
00:30:52.159 elements in every generation and every
00:30:53.919 group of people but I have seen a lot of
00:30:56.320 things that I incred hopeful about and
00:30:58.480 and proud of um especially when it comes
00:31:00.720 to our youth yeah yeah and it it is it
00:31:03.840 is good to see um the youth being so
00:31:06.639 strong even though I know there's still
00:31:09.279 families that reject their children and
00:31:12.200 and as a father I absolutely cannot
00:31:15.679 fathom no rejecting my child um our our
00:31:19.440 our daughter came out to us at what 14
00:31:21.679 somewhere in there and it wasn't any
00:31:23.760 sort of fear you know she she didn't it
00:31:26.080 was she was literally still kind of
00:31:28.240 discovering herself no it was it's kind
00:31:30.440 of funny honestly it was one of those
00:31:32.120 situations where her and her very good
00:31:34.559 friend who's now her fiance they were
00:31:36.840 very much spending a lot of time
00:31:38.120 together and at some point I believe I
00:31:39.440 said something along the lines of oh so
00:31:41.120 when are you guys going to just come out
00:31:42.440 with it and let me know that you're
00:31:43.559 you're dating and she hadn't really said
00:31:45.360 anything and you know we we have a
00:31:47.159 relationship where that was not like an
00:31:48.639 an ugly conversation we were both kind
00:31:50.320 of laughing and but it was just so
00:31:52.159 obvious they were really cute together
00:31:53.960 they've been together almost 10 freaking
00:31:55.799 years at this point but it was just one
00:31:57.919 of those things we're like okay so we
00:31:59.679 kind of see what's happening here so you
00:32:02.360 know when are you gonna just come out
00:32:04.240 and tell us but we were always the safe
00:32:06.240 house you know when she was in high
00:32:07.840 school um you know she was part of GSA
00:32:10.600 the gay stra Alliance great organization
00:32:12.720 I wish all schools had them I wish all
00:32:14.840 schools would have those and and if
00:32:16.960 you're in school age appropriately let
00:32:18.559 me refrain before someone says something
00:32:20.600 like oh they they they're grooming yeah
00:32:23.159 um yeah age appropriately this was in
00:32:25.159 high school yep um and the GSA kids
00:32:29.039 would actually wind up seeing our house
00:32:31.519 as a safe place because they could come
00:32:33.720 over to our house and just be themselves
00:32:36.039 right they didn't have any judgment from
00:32:38.159 parents um you know it was you are who
00:32:40.919 you are if you want me to you know if
00:32:44.120 you tell me how you want me to address
00:32:45.440 you yeah tell me how you want me to
00:32:46.960 address you and I will respect that um I
00:32:49.919 might I might screw up you know but just
00:32:51.559 just poke me and let me know yeah you
00:32:53.480 know and and so we were always really
00:32:55.880 the safe house there so that it was nice
00:32:58.960 that our daughter felt comfortable
00:33:01.159 enough with us to to come out you know
00:33:04.320 as she started to to Really coales who
00:33:08.039 she was yeah but it's a discovery the
00:33:10.840 minute that you as a parent and I'm not
00:33:13.039 going to tangental lie this but as a
00:33:15.080 parent your job isn't to relive your
00:33:17.360 life or to vicariously explore things
00:33:20.480 you never got through your kid they're
00:33:22.360 experiencing their life for the first
00:33:24.200 time and figuring out who they are and
00:33:26.120 our job is to support them and give them
00:33:28.039 guidance and to not be malicious
00:33:30.360  you would think it would be so
00:33:32.919 easy you know it's like seems like
00:33:35.320 common sense you know um but but again
00:33:38.720 just huge props to to the younger
00:33:41.080 generation you you all yes you're
00:33:43.279 kicking ass keep doing what you're doing
00:33:46.440 keep supporting the inclusiv keep moving
00:33:49.919 forward you know I know it feels
00:33:52.559 probably like the weight of the world is
00:33:54.159 trying to push you back as schools are
00:33:56.080 trying to put stuff in you know they're
00:33:58.679 they're they're making you know they're
00:34:00.480 they're making medical laws more
00:34:02.840 difficult they're making counseling more
00:34:04.760 I mean they're in Texas they're trying
00:34:06.840 to replace counselors with um chaplain
00:34:10.560 you know I mean they are really trying
00:34:12.520 to push religion into the school and and
00:34:15.599 trying to push anything lgbtq out yeah
00:34:20.159 and I'm going to tell young people if
00:34:21.560 you don't like those laws if if you're
00:34:23.599 affected by like things like chaplain
00:34:25.760 push back don't be afraid afid to write
00:34:27.560 letters don't be afraid to to go ahead
00:34:29.560 and tell the superintendent and other
00:34:31.520 adults I'm not going to accept this if
00:34:33.800 you want to do peacefully protesting and
00:34:35.879 walkouts I definitely encourage that we
00:34:37.679 have the right to peaceful protest
00:34:38.960 that's written into our constitutional
00:34:40.399 rights and we have the right to exercise
00:34:42.159 those rights um so don't be afraid to
00:34:44.599 stand up for things and stand up against
00:34:46.960 things that are wrong like chaplain and
00:34:49.040 schools unless they're going to make
00:34:50.000 them inclusive and they're going to
00:34:51.639 allow people of many faith it seems like
00:34:53.599 right now it's focused on Christians
00:34:55.280 specifically and unfortunately looks
00:34:57.000 like they went through focus on the
00:34:58.079 family geared programs um but you know
00:35:00.839 push for other representation you know
00:35:03.560 there's there's Muslim kids in school
00:35:05.119 there's Hindu kids in school there's you
00:35:07.000 know Buddhists there's there's so many
00:35:08.680 different kinds of people and it's
00:35:09.960 school is supposed to be a secular space
00:35:11.920 where you get to learn and focus on
00:35:13.800 learning not you know fighting about
00:35:15.599 faith issues and things that don't
00:35:17.160 belong there but if they're going to do
00:35:18.640 it push for the inclusivity ask for that
00:35:21.920 and and ask representation you have that
00:35:24.280 right and you're okay to do that yeah I
00:35:26.200 mean you've been following some of these
00:35:27.800 laws in Texas um you know that that
00:35:30.920 they've been trying to push through and
00:35:32.400 I think you had said a lot of them did
00:35:34.560 not pass did not pass which is great um
00:35:37.320 you know they're they're going to
00:35:38.440 continue to try they use project Blitz
00:35:41.000 you know they they've really been using
00:35:42.960 projects Blitz since what like seems
00:35:44.960 like 2016 is or so if you haven't looked
00:35:48.200 into it look it up it it can be a rabbit
00:35:50.599 hole so be careful the resources that
00:35:52.440 you're utilizing compare notes and check
00:35:54.960 evidence but project Blitz was just all
00:35:57.160 about getting the churches gaining power
00:36:00.599 throughout the system and they're much
00:36:02.240 more outspoken I think it was Jason
00:36:03.599 rapert recently came out and just
00:36:05.560 blatantly said Christians run for
00:36:07.440 everything run for everything that you
00:36:08.760 can you know every office that's
00:36:10.920 available from the school boards on up
00:36:12.800 run and that's that's what they're doing
00:36:15.280 and um I'm not about theocracy we are a
00:36:17.520 pluralistic nation and Christianity
00:36:19.720 definitely has its place there um but
00:36:21.640 not making laws not being legislators
00:36:24.319 not deciding to put their faith in in
00:36:26.800 front of people you're there to
00:36:27.960 represent everyone and if you can't move
00:36:30.240 your faith aside and do that then
00:36:32.280 there's a problem and you probably
00:36:33.520 shouldn't be representing a diverse
00:36:35.800 group of people yeah and and there are
00:36:38.119 some some um Christian denominations
00:36:40.839 that are very lgbtq friendly um and then
00:36:43.960 you have the Evangelical militant branch
00:36:47.560 which unfortunately is the one that
00:36:49.720 seems to be growing and really pushing a
00:36:53.240 lot of this hate and these laws um you
00:36:56.040 know and trying trying to push America
00:36:57.960 into a theocracy that's the whole point
00:36:59.640 of project Blitz is to move America into
00:37:02.520 much more dominionist where they believe
00:37:04.560 that you know the world is really gods
00:37:06.680 and that God should rule everything so
00:37:08.800 it's kind of scary when you think about
00:37:10.119 it like that because again we're not
00:37:12.160 we're not all Christians right so uh why
00:37:14.319 should we be living based on their faith
00:37:16.160 and it's not so many interpretations of
00:37:18.440 that specific Faith just like many
00:37:20.119 others you know whether it's the Jewish
00:37:21.720 faith or the Muslim faith or there's so
00:37:23.599 many different interpretations and uh if
00:37:25.960 that's the way you to live great you can
00:37:27.760 do that you could decide for yourself
00:37:29.319 based on those laws that you've believed
00:37:31.480 in for your your religion but uh
00:37:34.040 probably not for for other people yeah
00:37:36.599 and you know again it's it's just it
00:37:39.040 would be great except for the fact that
00:37:41.760 they are targeting and demonizing the
00:37:44.599 lgbtq communities and and and promoting
00:37:47.720 lies just I mean vicious lies oh yeah
00:37:50.800 and and that's the part that it's like
00:37:53.480 no you know what what happened to love
00:37:56.119 your neighbor and and get along and
00:37:58.400 accept and no judgment and all of that
00:38:00.400 sort of you know that that went out
00:38:02.560 the window now it's all judgment yeah
00:38:05.280 recently well not very recently but
00:38:06.920 recently when it was representative Zoe
00:38:08.760 zeper when on Montana they were so
00:38:11.319 spiteful to the point that they put her
00:38:12.960 out in the hallway because they didn't
00:38:14.520 want to listen to her because she was so
00:38:15.800 outspoken and because she was so uh
00:38:18.280 strong in her representation of the
00:38:20.839 lgbtq and specifically trans community
00:38:23.560 that they had her out there in the
00:38:25.160 hallway outside the chamber
00:38:27.280 working from the bench yeah and then and
00:38:29.839 then not only that then okay so it's bad
00:38:32.839 enough she has no office she's working
00:38:34.720 in the hallway then a bunch of these
00:38:36.680 people got together and they brought
00:38:38.359 their MIMA in yeah and said oh you know
00:38:41.200 what we can do we can go to there early
00:38:44.319 and we can all sit on the benches so Zoe
00:38:46.880 doesn't even have a bench to sit on and
00:38:48.760 Zoe has to work standing up in a hallway
00:38:51.720 just making it so uncomfortable it's
00:38:54.200 it's so bigoted and it's open blatantly
00:38:57.079 boted blatantly outward bigoted and
00:39:00.400 everybody you I shouldn't say everybody
00:39:02.599 but there is a good portion of people
00:39:04.599 that are okay with that and I don't
00:39:07.560 understand it and again you know I
00:39:09.359 called my parents out on bigotry when
00:39:12.119 you know they that was an uncomfortable
00:39:13.800 conversation yeah it was but you know
00:39:16.119 they said some they they said some and
00:39:18.079 they did some not so very nice things
00:39:21.160 around my oldest daughter and I'm sorry
00:39:24.000 if I'm not giving my parents a pass mm-
00:39:26.560 nobody else is G getting a pass and I
00:39:28.599 don't have the best relationship with my
00:39:30.560 parents but still they're still family
00:39:32.599 and I don't give anybody a pass if
00:39:34.640 you're going to be a blatant bigot yeah
00:39:37.040 I'm going to call you a bigot and Bo by
00:39:39.280 the way me calling you a bigot because
00:39:42.000 you're a bigot is not bigotry so you
00:39:44.960 know however you wrap it up in a bow
00:39:47.160 that oh well these these bigoted um
00:39:50.319 beliefs are okay because of some book
00:39:53.520 with a magic Sky person you know or some
00:39:56.760 Pastor told me that no it's still
00:39:58.520 bigotry yeah you know bigotry I don't
00:40:00.800 care where you're coming from it the
00:40:02.880 perspective if you're perspective is
00:40:04.880 about being hateful towards someone if
00:40:06.400 you want to be a racist or a bigot you
00:40:08.280 can't say oh well my religion no your
00:40:10.119 religion does not support you being a
00:40:11.920 hateful bigot or racist person or
00:40:14.359 Prejudice person and pushing that on
00:40:15.839 other people that's you um and that's
00:40:18.319 there's no place for that and if you
00:40:20.000 believe that that's what you are uh
00:40:21.640 faithful towards you should really take
00:40:23.440 a better look at who you are as a person
00:40:25.200 because that's pretty Jack up um yeah
00:40:27.640 that was very uncomfortable with your
00:40:28.720 parents and it's still kind of a weird
00:40:30.280 situation but you know it's it's just
00:40:32.520 the way things have gone um and it's
00:40:35.400 it's really sad because my parents were
00:40:37.800 never religious I wasn't raised
00:40:41.000 religious they just totally went off the
00:40:44.280 the deep end and now you know they they
00:40:46.680 again they made some very rude some very
00:40:49.319 bigoted remarks in front of our daughter
00:40:51.960 and I'm not going to take that I'm
00:40:54.160 just not it's you know my job is to
00:40:57.319 protect my children and I don't care if
00:41:00.520 you're my parent or not if you start to
00:41:03.720 harm my children there is that there is
00:41:06.480 a whole other side of me that introduced
00:41:09.880 to that's that's what parents are for
00:41:11.520 they're they're to guide support protect
00:41:14.560 and uh you know hopefully you do those
00:41:16.440 things to the best of your ability but
00:41:19.119 and again that's that's what you know
00:41:21.079 that's the sad part because that's
00:41:22.640 what's missing from a lot of the people
00:41:25.319 in the LGBT Community is the support of
00:41:28.400 their family they their their families
00:41:31.119 should be loving them supporting them
00:41:33.680 you know and and so many times they
00:41:36.520 don't get that we saw that time and time
00:41:38.760 and time again but that's where
00:41:40.440 individuals can step up and and be there
00:41:43.400 you know family is what you choose I
00:41:45.359 know that very well because I I have a
00:41:48.280 very messed up family um you know
00:41:50.119 dynamic but I have you and the kids and
00:41:52.400 I have you know siblings and you know my
00:41:54.520 sister thankfully is a great person that
00:41:56.839 I you know I can have a relationship
00:41:58.760 with but it was hard fought and uh I
00:42:01.160 have a lot of other people that I
00:42:02.280 consider close to me that are like
00:42:03.680 family because that's the people that
00:42:05.800 stepped up and that's the people that
00:42:07.119 involved thems in my life and uh you
00:42:09.480 know they deserve that too so get out
00:42:11.720 there folks if you support the community
00:42:14.280 and and be there for these folks cuz
00:42:16.319 they deserve that everyone deserves to
00:42:17.920 have people that they know are there for
00:42:19.839 them yeah exactly family doesn't have to
00:42:21.839 be the the the people that birth they
00:42:23.920 don't have to be your your direct blood
00:42:26.559 descendant family is who you make it
00:42:29.119 yeah you know and and you can find
00:42:31.680 Family within a group of people um you
00:42:34.400 know our our congregation we have people
00:42:37.040 that you know probably consider close to
00:42:39.680 family absolutely you know and and uh
00:42:42.920 it's it's a good thing and it's it's one
00:42:45.040 of the things that TST does well I agree
00:42:48.480 there's I mean the ability to have a
00:42:50.680 close-knit group of people that you you
00:42:53.319 know are there for you is nice and I
00:42:55.119 think it's harder when you identifies
00:42:57.400 other like a Satanist or when you're
00:42:59.880 part of the lgbtq community because
00:43:01.839 there's just so much prevalent
00:43:03.880 negativity in the world that tells you
00:43:06.000 that you don't have a right to that
00:43:07.480 space and you do you have a right to
00:43:09.119 friends and family and Gatherings and
00:43:10.920 get togethers and and community and it
00:43:13.440 is it's always going to be there you
00:43:15.400 know that's one of the things I like
00:43:16.400 about Satanism is is we're not there to
00:43:18.200 judge you as an individual the only time
00:43:20.040 you're going to run into a problem is if
00:43:21.440 you are doing something dangerous or
00:43:23.480 harmful taking away people's bodily
00:43:25.400 autonomy uh hurting people then you know
00:43:28.240 there'll be an issue but outside of that
00:43:30.000 it's pretty hard to piss piss people off
00:43:32.240 you know yeah yeah it really is but you
00:43:34.559 know I I think um you know again this is
00:43:36.880 our our first podcast um we thought we
00:43:40.000 should definitely cover pride month as
00:43:42.960 our first one um my My Hope Is this one
00:43:46.520 went pretty good um and that they just
00:43:49.200 get better well people let us know yeah
00:43:52.160 you know and and you know we're going to
00:43:54.200 keep doing these um we're going to be
00:43:56.359 talking about different subjects again
00:43:58.760 these are our personal beliefs the these
00:44:02.119 are from our personal standpoint even
00:44:04.040 though you know we're in TST we're both
00:44:06.680 ministers um we're not speaking on
00:44:09.640 behalf of tsts this is our own personal
00:44:13.400 belief we are here as Satanist talking
00:44:15.440 about our lives and hopefully we get to
00:44:17.520 involve a couple of other you know
00:44:19.240 individuals we know a bunch of really
00:44:20.599 cool people that have we've talked to
00:44:22.359 about having these conversations so we
00:44:24.319 hope to bring you a lot of other cool
00:44:25.640 perspective Ives as well but at the end
00:44:27.680 of the day we're just people and we're
00:44:28.920 just people trying to live and live the
00:44:30.640 best we can uh based on who we are and
00:44:33.480 who we happen to be in part our Satanist
00:44:36.599 yeah so with that very happy pride month
00:44:39.720 yes live your genuine self and know that
00:44:41.599 people will love and respect you and if
00:44:43.240 they can't they probably don't deserve a
00:44:45.040 place in your life but uh you are valued
00:44:47.359 as an individual for who you are yep you
00:44:49.640 are valued you are loved and and you be
00:44:52.720 you and and that is the most important
00:44:55.400 part and and just know that there are
00:44:58.200 people out there supporting you and
00:45:00.000 fighting for you every single day y
00:45:02.520 that's right and so with that we will
00:45:05.400 we'll hell Satan you and and wish you a
00:45:07.359 very good uh whatever part of the day
00:45:08.880 you happen to be in and uh thank you so
00:45:10.599 much for listening yeah hail satan
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