Adam Scwhend, Western Regional State Director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, steps into “The Corner.”

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11. 0:31Good evening, everyone.
12. 0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio.
13. 0:37I'm your host Abraham Hamilton III.
14. 0:39I am joined by the Kwaijidevanel.
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16. 0:47producer extraordinaire in the studio with me.
17. 0:51We have an important issue to discuss during today's program.
18. 0:58there's an important election, a state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. We're going to have a
19. 1:03conversation about that that is set to take place. The state Supreme Court election is set to take
20. 1:09place on April 1st, all right, next week. And so all of you who are in Wisconsin first, let me
21. 1:17inform you if you're not informed already, not aware already that there is an election
22. 1:21next week. And it's a vitally important election. It will determine the balance of power on the
23. 1:28the state Supreme Court bench. We are covering this election in full at iVotoguy.com, the iVotoguy
24. 1:35division of AFA action. You have all the information available to you there. Go to iVotoguy.com to
25. 1:41get all of the information you need to not only cast your vote, but to cast an informed
26. 1:46vote in the state of Wisconsin. And this is a place where we remind you daily that what
27. 1:52goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House. At this
28. 1:56moment many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your part time jobs where you
29. 2:00generate an income to your full time jobs, your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
30. 2:06And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the primacy that
31. 2:12God places on family. The first human institution that God established was what? The family with marriage
32. 2:18at the center before you get to modern iterations of civil government before you get to the New
33. 2:23New Testament church before you get to orders of priests, before you get to orders of prophets,
34. 2:27before you get to the division of Canaan, before you get to any of those things.
35. 2:33The first institution, human institution, that God established was the family.
36. 2:36The first command that God gave to mankind was issued within the familial context.
37. 2:43All of that was done intentionally to record for us accurate human history, sure, but also
38. 2:48to inform us of God's perspective on these matters and to allow God's perspective to inform
39. 2:57our understanding.
40. 2:59And as a result of our understanding being informed, we engage life accordingly.
41. 3:05We will never be able to out politic, outvote or even out church deficiencies that abound
42. 3:12in the home.
43. 3:14Our first external outpost for faithfulness and ministry to God is within the familial context.
44. 3:20I say external outpost because the internal outpost is between us and God personally, individually.
45. 3:27So the most immediate impacted context, if you will, for our Christ Father will be our families.
46. 3:35And the unfortunate fact is that too many of us sacrifice our homes in an effort to win
47. 3:41the world.
48. 3:42faithful and fruitful everywhere else, but to the neglect of our homes.
49. 3:47And so we do not, we must not, we must refuse to allow that to happen.
50. 3:51And this, if you're listening to me, if this idea is new to you and you're thinking,
51. 3:56Oh man, I wish I would have known this sooner.
52. 3:59Don't waste any time,
53. 4:01while, while, while in condemnation for what is already transpired,
54. 4:05but to make today the day where you course correct,
55. 4:09But today be the day where you make the adjustment.
56. 4:13And if you have understood these things and you have been investing yourself accordingly,
57. 4:19refuse to become weary in well doing.
58. 4:21And I understand it, man.
59. 4:22Some days are tougher than others.
60. 4:24Some days are busier than others, but it is worth it.
61. 4:28Especially when it pertains to our children.
62. 4:30If you're like me, I'm in a station of life where I have young children still in my home.
63. 4:35The fact is we won't get to have any mulligans.
64. 4:39We don't get any do-overs, you know.
65. 4:41We don't get to go back.
66. 4:42If my oldest is 14, I have a 14-year-old.
67. 4:44I don't get to go back and do 7, 8, 9 years old.
68. 4:49I don't get to do that, do that again.
69. 4:51So let us take full advantage of what God has placed before us now.
70. 4:57And with young ones in our home, and I thank God for the season,
71. 4:59saying to it, tell me, hey, it's going to fly by.
72. 5:03It's going to blink your eyes.
73. 5:05You're going to wake up and they're going to be getting married
74. 5:07and having children of their own.
75. 5:09Many of you who have children, this has been your experience.
76. 5:11You know exactly what I'm saying is true.
77. 5:13Let's take full advantage of the time that God has given us.
78. 5:16So that we don't have to put ourselves in a position
79. 5:18to say, man, I wish I would have.
80. 5:20Man, I regret I didn't.
81. 5:22But take full advantage of it now.
82. 5:24And if you're in a position right now,
83. 5:25and I know there are many of us who in this life stage
84. 5:27where our children are called and grown and gone,
85. 5:30they're out of the home.
86. 5:32Don't throw your hands up.
87. 5:33Don't surrender because they need you now.
88. 5:36They need you as an accurate representative
89. 5:38of the King of glory now.
90. 5:39You know, I always give the example. Moses was over 80 years old
91. 5:45But he needed the counsel of his father-in-law, Jethro
92. 5:48There's no need to give up
93. 5:53God knows our stations our life stations and his faithfulness is available to us at those life stations
94. 5:59Let us seek to be faithful and diligent for the time the resources and the opportunities
95. 6:05He's given us in the here and now to the word of God we go Jeremiah chapter one
96. 6:091. Verses 1 through 8 are very familiar passage of Scripture. Just to remind you, the Prophet
97. 6:15Jeremiah, this is one in contrast to others we've mentioned, who is described as a major
98. 6:19prophet because Jeremiah's writings were rather extensive. Jeremiah ministered to the southern
99. 6:25kingdom of Judah all the way up starting really in the 600s, sorry, BC, all the way up to about
100. 6:34586 BC when the Babylonian conquest and exile of Judah culminates. Jeremiah
101. 6:41minuses all the way up to that point. Even as Jeremiah 29 is a letter that he
102. 6:46sends to the Jews who are exiled into Babylon. Alright, but in this book we're
103. 6:56gonna begin right in chapter 1 verses 1 through 8 and this is what the word of
104. 6:59God says. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hylkiah of the priests who were
105. 7:05in anaphthoth, in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days
106. 7:10of Josiah the son of Ammon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came
107. 7:18also in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah, until the end of the
108. 7:22eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem
109. 7:28in the fifth month. Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, before I formed you in
110. 7:32in the womb, I knew you. And before you were born, I consecrated you. I have appointed you
111. 7:38a prophet to the nations. Then I said, Alas, O Lord, behold, I do not know how to speak
112. 7:44because I am a youth. But the Lord said to me, Do not say I am a youth because everywhere
113. 7:49I send you, you shall go. And all that I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them
114. 7:58for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.
115. 8:02Now the book begins by giving us a bit of Jeremiah's lineage,
116. 8:06his ancestry, tells us Jeremiah's father's name,
117. 8:09Hilkiah.
118. 8:10I mentioned before about the interaction
119. 8:14and the relationship between Hilkiah, Jeremiah, and Josiah,
120. 8:19who was the chief priest in Jerusalem
121. 8:23when the book of the law was discovered.
122. 8:27Who was that name?
123. 8:28Hilkiah.
124. 8:29All right.
125. 8:31Jeremiah was a descendant of the priestly lineage.
126. 8:37So he was a priest by lineage,
127. 8:42but God called him to be a prophet
128. 8:45in addition to being a priest.
129. 8:46We know about Jeremiah's hometown, Anathoth,
130. 8:49which is one of the priestly cities.
131. 8:52And the scripture tells us that Jeremiah ends up moving to,
132. 8:56basically to Jerusalem and begin prophesying.
133. 9:00Jeremiah's prophesying at Jerusalem for several years.
134. 9:04While Josiah is king of the southern kingdom of Judah,
135. 9:08the influence of Jeremiah is brought to bear on Josiah.
136. 9:11Josiah doesn't just come to the place.
137. 9:13God's hand was on a no doubt about it,
138. 9:14but some of the practical details is that Josiah grew up
139. 9:18as the boy king under the prophetic ministry of Jeremiah.
140. 9:23The scripture bears all of this out.
141. 9:25All right.
142. 9:28Jeremiah continues prophesying
143. 9:29when Josiah's sons take the throne as well.
144. 9:36One of the major things I wanna point out
145. 9:37Well, in addition to that, it just simply shows that the reality of discipleship and investment in ministry is a constant altar out scripture.
146. 9:46You see, Josiah's heart turns to the Lord, he begins as reforms, even before the book of the law was discovered.
147. 9:53His heart was turned toward the Lord's temple.
148. 9:56The temple restoration project is what led to the discovery of the temple, sorry, the discovery of the book of the law under Josiah's authority.
149. 10:04All right.
150. 10:05This is all born out in scripture.
151. 10:07Then the Lord tells us very plainly what I said to you,
152. 10:12the Jeremiah continued his ministry all the way up until the exile of Jerusalem in Judah,
153. 10:17which it says very plainly in verse three.
154. 10:19It came also in the days of Jehovah came in the son of Josiah,
155. 10:22King of Judah until the end of the 11th year of Zedekiah,
156. 10:24the son of Josiah, King of Judah until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
157. 10:30Very, very plainly, but in addition to all of that background and historical
158. 10:36information. The Lord records for our benefit a dialogue that he has between
159. 10:41himself and Jeremiah, which is recorded right in verse 4. Now the word of the
160. 10:46Lord came to me Josiah saying, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And
161. 10:54before you were born, I consecrated you. I have appointed you a prophet to the
162. 11:00nations. This is not the exclusive source, but this is one of the biblical sources
163. 11:07that gives and communicates the reality of pre-delivery humanity.
164. 11:18That this whole idea that a baby is not a baby until it changes geolocation from the inside of the mom until the outside of the mom is an exercise in fiction.
165. 11:31It is a demonic fiction, a demonic fiction.
166. 11:36I watched the debate concerning, you know, the premeditated in utero slaughter of the unborn
167. 11:45children that our society describes calls abortion.
168. 11:51And much to my, I guess I can't say surprise, much to my disdain, I would say.
169. 12:01You had a person literally say that, well, what you have inside of a mom is a fetus to which
170. 12:07the question was asking, what is a fetus?
171. 12:10You guys know the word fetus is simply the Latin term for a baby.
172. 12:15Respondent to the question, what is the fetus and it is tissue to which the pro-life advocate
173. 12:24responded, well if it's tissue, why do you have to have a surgical invasion to kill it
174. 12:31if it's just tissue?
175. 12:34Is this purported tissue human to which the pro-death advocate says no, it is not human,
176. 12:42to which the pro-life advocate responds, well if it's not human, why do you have to kill it?
177. 12:49The pro-life advocate says, is it what you're describing this issue?
178. 12:51Is it alive?
179. 12:53The pro-death advocate says, no, it's not alive.
180. 12:55The pro-life advocate responds again.
181. 12:57If it's not alive, why do you have to kill it?
182. 13:02Pro-life advocate then goes in to say, if it's what's going to happen with what you call
183. 13:10tissue if you don't kill it.
184. 13:13It's going to be a baby.
185. 13:18You have to come up with all manner of lies and layered lies to support the intentional,
186. 13:27premeditated homicide of an unborn child.
187. 13:32Here the text says, God knows Jeremiah before formation in his mother's womb.
188. 13:42God then follows that up by saying, I have consecrated you, Jeremiah.
189. 13:45I have set you apart.
190. 13:47I have dedicated you for a particular life cause and in life purpose before you are born.
191. 13:58Before you are born, I have separated you for a particular life cause and life purpose.
192. 14:05If we are going to be a civilized society, we must strive to become one to where the premeditated
193. 14:15intentional homicide of unborn children is unthinkable.
194. 14:20But with the heatiness excited that we have, we have elevated personal passion to which,
195. 14:27you know, Dr. Everett Piper says that we're living according to the Amago dog and not the
196. 14:32Amago day.
197. 14:33And we're going to be a civilized society.
198. 14:38We're going to be, we must be a people that embraces the sanctity of innocent human life.
199. 14:49What good is liberty and the pursuit of happiness if we don't have life.
200. 14:54Lord forgive us and change our hearts.
201. 14:57Their mission statement says,
202. 15:03The Global Methodist Church exists to make disciples of Jesus Christ
203. 15:07and spread scriptural holiness across the globe.
204. 15:10Dr. Andy Miller III says those two words, scriptural and holiness,
205. 15:14kept Wesley Biblical Seminary out of the United Methodist Church.
206. 15:18Now they are the exact things that have set us up to serve the Global Methodist Church.
207. 15:23You can read the article, no compromise, by Matthew White on thestand.net.
208. 15:29Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton
209. 15:38Corner on American family radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton
210. 15:41Corner Abraham Hamilton the third here and I am delighted to
211. 15:44have on the program with me the Western Regional Director for
212. 15:48Susan B. Anthony Pro Life America. Mr. Adam Schwend Adam
213. 15:52leads the policy and political efforts for SBA and Western
214. 15:56States from the coast to Iowa. Most recently he served as
215. 16:00Director of Government Affairs for the largest professional
216. 16:03Association in Nebraska and as Chief of Staff in the Oregon
217. 16:06Legislature, he studied political science and music at Pacific
218. 16:09University and Sacramento theology at St. Joseph College in
219. 16:13Standish Maine. Help me welcome Mr. Adam Schwinn to the program.
220. 16:18Adam, thank you for joining me here. Pleasure to be here, Amber
221. 16:22Ham. I know you had my whole bio. I forgot some of that stuff.
222. 16:27Well, we don't forget here on the Hamilton corner.
223. 16:29I'm just kidding, man.
224. 16:33You're here to discuss a very, very important issue.
225. 16:37There is a pivotal election, judicial election, in fact, that is taking place in the state
226. 16:43of Wisconsin next week.
227. 16:45April 1st is that election day.
228. 16:48And I wanted to have you on the program to help our audience to understand what's going
229. 16:51on.
230. 16:52We have a pretty significant listenership in Wisconsin.
231. 16:55And so what is it that those in the state of Wisconsin that they need to know as well as
232. 17:00the rest of the nation as to what's happening with the judicial election in Wisconsin?
233. 17:04Sure.
234. 17:06Well, the first thing that the folks in Wisconsin especially need to know is that there is an election
235. 17:11on April 1st.
236. 17:12I think when you just get off a massive presidential election where millions upon millions of dollars
237. 17:21have been spent and especially when you are a swing state like Wisconsin is, you probably
238. 17:27want to just turn off politics for at least six, eight, twelve months to just kind of get
239. 17:33it all out of your system.
240. 17:35But we really can't have folks do that this time in Wisconsin, especially conservatives.
241. 17:40We need folks to get out and vote on April 1st for this judicial election and it's important
242. 17:47but know that you got two candidates who are,
243. 17:50it just couldn't be any definite, right?
244. 17:52They're just miles apart in terms of background,
245. 17:58in terms of judicial philosophy and political ideals.
246. 18:06You've got the conservative Brad Schimmel,
247. 18:10who we at SBA are proud to support.
248. 18:14He was a district court judge.
249. 18:17He was Scott Walker's attorney general for a time
250. 18:22and is just a well-known pro-life judge,
251. 18:26someone who is going to be focused on applying the law,
252. 18:30not someone who's going to be focused on
253. 18:33trying to make the law or twist the law
254. 18:35into what they want it to be.
255. 18:37And on the other side, we've got a liberal,
256. 18:41more activist judge in Susan Crawford,
257. 18:45Judge Crawford was Planned Parenthood's attorney,
258. 18:49represented them in court.
259. 18:51When the folks in Wisconsin, the legislators in Wisconsin,
260. 18:55just wanted to maintain basic health
261. 18:57and safety standards for women, she couldn't have that.
262. 19:00So she went to work for Planned Parenthood defending them
263. 19:05and trying to get those basic health
264. 19:07and safety standards over caring.
265. 19:08So that really could not be a bigger difference in these candidates.
266. 19:15I want to take a couple steps back because I know a lot of our listeners are very
267. 19:20familiar with SBA and what Susan B. Anthony does.
268. 19:23But would you just share with our audience here what it is that Susan B.
269. 19:26Anthony does and a bit more of the details as to your role with that organization.
270. 19:31Sure. Well,
271. 19:33certainly, Anthony, pro-life in America.
272. 19:35Maybe some of your listeners might remember us as Susan B.
273. 19:38Anthony list until we rebranded.
274. 19:41We're the largest pro-life political advocacy organization
275. 19:45in the country.
276. 19:45We've got a network of over 1 million people
277. 19:49that we can reach out to at any given time.
278. 19:52We've got numerous parts to our organization.
279. 19:56But the two big things that people probably
280. 20:00know us for especially in Wisconsin
281. 20:02is our field team, our political team.
282. 20:05They're on the ground every presidential election,
283. 20:10at least every presidential election,
284. 20:13often in other elections, knocking on doors
285. 20:16to talking to pro-life voters to make sure they get out,
286. 20:20devote for the pro-life candidate.
287. 20:23In this situation, we actually had a,
288. 20:27because the timeframe is so tight,
289. 20:30we were able to actually get our student deployment out.
290. 20:34And I'm still proud of these kids, David.
291. 20:37And these guys, these folks are 100 kids
292. 20:42who are on their spring break.
293. 20:44Now they could go home, see their families,
294. 20:47they could go down to Florida and have a great time.
295. 20:50They could just stay down campus and work,
296. 20:53but they take their spring break
297. 20:55and they go to Wisconsin and they knock on doors.
298. 20:59And these are college students?
299. 21:01These are college students, okay.
300. 21:03and they're knocking on doors and just over the course of a week, right?
301. 21:07That's a spring break.
302. 21:08And so they're knocking on doors, making sure people know where these candidates stand on
303. 21:15the issue of life.
304. 21:17And they were able, over the course of just one week, a hundred of them, they had over
305. 21:21150,000 doors.
306. 21:24And any folks who know how they've ever worked in a political campaign, the doors are where
307. 21:33It's one in lost.
308. 21:34So we have those students out there,
309. 21:37we're able to do this student deployment
310. 21:39over the course of a week.
311. 21:40And I'm just so proud of them.
312. 21:42I've done this for a solid part of 20 years as a career now.
313. 21:48And sometimes I can get a little jaded.
314. 21:52But when you're standing there, young kids
315. 21:53doing this for the right reason.
316. 21:56It's right.
317. 21:57No reason for themselves.
318. 21:59They're doing this because they know it's right.
319. 22:00It makes me feel really good.
320. 22:03Another thing that we do a lot of work in is our legislatures, our state legislatures
321. 22:07and in Congress, because we believe it is the people and the legislatures, just like Brad
322. 22:13Shim will believe, is the people and the legislatures who are making the law and not activist judges.
323. 22:18So that's a big part of what my role is, is I get into the legislatures, we have folks
324. 22:24who work in Congress, I don't do that, but we get into our legislatures, we talk to legislators
325. 22:31who they really haven't thought about this issue.
326. 22:33Maybe they're pro-life, but they need a little bit more encouragement.
327. 22:36They need a little bit more information and we're happy to provide that for them.
328. 22:40We're also working to make sure that we're getting pro-life governors.
329. 22:44We're getting pro-life congressmen, senators and state legislators, lieutenant governors,
330. 22:48attorneys general, pro-life folks up and down the ballot, getting them elected.
331. 22:53So that's the other part of the work that I do.
332. 22:55And it is just so incredibly satisfying to be able to do this work.
333. 22:58because really when it comes down to it, we've all got a lot of rights. We're very, as Americans,
334. 23:05we're very jealous of our rights. We want to hold to our rights, but you can't have any
335. 23:09other right if you don't have a right place.
336. 23:12So true. So very true. So this election is going to be Tuesday, April 1st. Everybody needs
337. 23:19to be aware of it. Wisconsin listeners, there is an election. And as Adam pointed out, we
338. 23:23understand election fatigue, sometimes these off election years, and when I mean off where
339. 23:30there's an election that is not happening alongside or contemporaneous to a presidential election,
340. 23:36turnout is often much lower, which means the 150,000 doors that these students not done could be all of
341. 23:43the difference in this election. And the significance of this race is actually made evident in terms of
342. 23:49all of the investment in the intention as being poured in have have you guys
343. 23:53experienced those who are hostile to the site of human life giving particular
344. 23:58outsized attention and focus on this judicial election in Wisconsin. Oh yes
345. 24:04oh yes the abortion industry an opportunity to to actually have a win
346. 24:13no they had a rough election cycle they had been roping the people on ballot
347. 24:18measures. Well, we kind of found the secret sauce and how to defeat them, fighting them
348. 24:27on every time they try to bring these extremist ballot measures. So they had never lost is
349. 24:33there. Of course, lost the presidency, lost the Senate, they lost us. They have lost and
350. 24:40lost, lost. And so they all, they realize that their base, the hard law, the Democratic
351. 24:48Party, they're mad. They see an opportunity because you're mad, you vote. And they want
352. 24:57to capitalize on that. So we are seeing millions, tens of millions of dollars come into the
353. 25:04state of Wisconsin from outside of Wisconsin. You know that the pro-life community, we don't
354. 25:13have those dollars. We do not have George Soros money. And really that's where a lot of that
355. 25:20money is coming from. George Soros gave quite a large chunk of money that isn't found its
356. 25:26way to Susan Crawford, the liberal running in this race. We don't have that kind of printing
357. 25:33press sort of money. So unfortunately we've got to work them and when you have a side that
358. 25:47is just so angry because if you ever talk to somebody who is pro-abortion I guarantee you
359. 25:53when that topic ends up they're angry and right now they are angry and angry folks. So what we
360. 25:59need to do is make sure that we're getting our folks out there to show up and vote. We cannot
361. 26:04be complacent because the other side is motivated and we got to be the thing that just turn out.
362. 26:11We can't let the turnout be the thing that creates us.
363. 26:16What is, and this is the election April 1st for the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, what is
364. 26:21the current makeup of the court and is it possible that this election will tip the balance of
365. 26:27constitutional
366. 26:29constitutionalist judge judges on the wisconsin state supreme court
367. 26:33uh... with this particular election could this tip the balance on the state
368. 26:36supreme court there in wisconsin
369. 26:37well it absolutely good a ramen and we
370. 26:40but
371. 26:41for for those of us who have been doing this is kind of uh...
372. 26:44uh... they don't know a moment groundhog day moment because
373. 26:48uh... in twenty twenty three we have this
374. 26:52we we have the same sort of thing
375. 26:54where it was actually the court was majority conservative.
376. 26:58And the liberals saw an opening.
377. 27:02We had there was an open one of the conservatives who retired.
378. 27:06And the liberals did what they're doing right now,
379. 27:08just gallons and gallons of money over and over and over,
380. 27:14spreading the quiet unfortunate lies
381. 27:18about the track record of their candidate.
382. 27:23But unfortunately, that candidate won.
383. 27:25So we now have a majority liberal Supreme Court.
384. 27:31This time, there's a liberal who's retiring
385. 27:35and so we have an opportunity to swing this back
386. 27:38to the conservative side.
387. 27:39And this is so incredibly important, even beyond the life
388. 27:44issue, and maybe you have some folks who are listeners
389. 27:47for whom maybe they've got friends who are life issues
390. 27:50and the biggest issue for them,
391. 27:52about more of a more liberal takeover of the government worried about President Trump's
392. 28:00agenda not being able to be put forward.
393. 28:04It would not surprise me for those folks in Wisconsin may know the issue around redistricting
394. 28:10that they experienced in the state legislature because of a lawsuit and because we unfortunately
395. 28:19lost that last uh... that left in court race
396. 28:23it was a report who
397. 28:25read through required a redraw of the legislative maps
398. 28:29in wisconsin and that meant that from having a
399. 28:33uh... majority of super majority republicans in the legislature
400. 28:37quite frankly just being able to hold the majority
401. 28:40right now
402. 28:42and
403. 28:43it will not surprise any of us
404. 28:46uh... a
405. 28:47Susan Court revisited, as the Liberal want them to do, revisited the congressional maps
406. 28:56that Wisconsin has. And anybody who thinks of House of Representatives right now in BC
407. 29:04know that there's only a couple votes majority. And if the Liberal, Susan Crawford Supreme Court
408. 29:13in Wisconsin, three district and gerrymandered districts to flip a couple of those districts
409. 29:20to get having a conservative Christian speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, to an extremist liberal
410. 29:29speaker of the House in Hakeem-Japanese. And President Trump's agenda just going completely
411. 29:36the window because you can't get through a Democrat.
412. 29:41Perhaps.
413. 29:42I mean, that is one of the downstream, downstream consequences, potential consequences, from
414. 29:48this race.
415. 29:49And it is, it could seem like, oh, this is just an off-year deal, but this is very, very
416. 29:55significant.
417. 29:56Now, there are some people who may be listening who may not be aware that in Wisconsin that
418. 30:01their state Supreme Court judges are elected.
419. 30:04you just speak to that a little bit about the fact that yes unlike in some other places
420. 30:08unlike in the federal judiciary a state supreme court judges in the state of wisconsin are elected
421. 30:13and as you mentioned uh... that brad shimmel served as the attorney general state attorney general
422. 30:19under scott walker he's currently a district court judge in the state of wisconsin is that right
423. 30:25that that is the case and and in some states i think i don't have the exact number but in a number of
424. 30:31states, their states their
425. 30:33state justices are elected.
426. 30:35So if there is a vacancy,
427. 30:39depending on the state, maybe
428. 30:41governor will appoint or in
429. 30:43some states a governor appoints
430. 30:45and their senate would approve.
431. 30:47There's numerous ways of doing it.
432. 30:49And of course in our federal
433. 30:51Supreme Court, the president
434. 30:53appoints and the senate would
435. 30:55confirm that's not the way it
436. 30:57works in Wisconsin.
437. 30:59When there is an opening, there's an election.
438. 31:02These folks are elected for 10-year terms.
439. 31:05So this is not like you don't like your congressman.
440. 31:09And in two years, you can vote him out,
441. 31:10or you don't like your senator.
442. 31:11In six years, you can vote him out.
443. 31:13This is a 10-year term.
444. 31:15That is a lot of time.
445. 31:18That can be, and a lot of damage can be done
446. 31:21in the course of 10 years.
447. 31:22I think it's just an important thing
448. 31:24to think about in our, in kind of the political world
449. 31:28that we exist in.
450. 31:29We always think about the president, right?
451. 31:31We think about president.
452. 31:31Maybe we think about the senators.
453. 31:33Maybe we think about our governor.
454. 31:35It's really important to think about some of their positions.
455. 31:38That really will affect us probably more than the president
456. 31:43in the United States decisions ever well.
457. 31:46These decisions that are made by the Supreme Court,
458. 31:48Justice, affect the daily life of you and me.
459. 31:52It's the same thing with your local mayor,
460. 31:54on your local school board.
461. 31:56these races when you look at the voter turnout compared to what you see in a
462. 32:02federal race like like president. The voter turnout is just so much lower and
463. 32:07it it really is too bad because these actually are the people who affect your
464. 32:11daily life more often and that's why on April 1st it's so important to get out
465. 32:17and vote for the conservative Brad Schinn. Adam Schwinn thank you for joining me
466. 32:21here on the Hamilton Corner folks April 1st in Wisconsin the state Supreme Court
467. 32:26judicial race April 1st, get out and vote.
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472. 32:47calling people into unity through the power of the gospel.
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476. 33:10Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
477. 33:14Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third year.
478. 33:17It was great to have Adam Schwend on from Susan B. Anthony, Pro Life America, formerly
479. 33:23the SBA list to talk a bit about this election in Wisconsin and it's and I'm giving attention
480. 33:31to it.
481. 33:33Yo, boy.
482. 33:35Oh boy.
483. 33:36It's never it's never a dog moment over here there for I'm telling you boy.
484. 33:43I wanted to give some attention to this election because what what may not appear to be obvious
485. 33:50is when you have these off off your elections,
486. 33:53turnout is usually much lower.
487. 33:56And so it takes far fewer people to turn the result of the election.
488. 34:00Now we are covering this race in particular,
489. 34:02expansively at iVotogide, our iVotogide division,
490. 34:07the division of AFA action.
491. 34:09You can go to iVotogide.com to get all of the information
492. 34:13on Brad Schimmel versus Susan Crawford.
493. 34:16You can see their records, like for example, Brad Schimmel
494. 34:19is a current sitting district court judge in the state of Wisconsin. You can see his judicial record,
495. 34:25his rulings as that would events his judicial philosophy versus Susan Crawford, whose record gives a clear
496. 34:34indication that she appears to be more activist in an orientation, and in particular having formerly
497. 34:39been the attorney for Planned Parenthood. It gives you a keen indication of where she's going to stand
498. 34:45on the issues, you know. And when we talk about the desire to have constitutionalist judges,
499. 34:50this is a state Supreme Court, so it's not the federal court system. But they still govern
500. 34:58the judiciary in the state of Wisconsin, as Adam pointed out, that the elected judge will
501. 35:04serve a 10 year term, a 10 year term. One of the things that stood out to me in conversing
502. 35:10with Adam about this is that this tenure term will encompass, encompass the next census,
503. 35:15the next census that is going to take place.
504. 35:17I mentioned earlier in the week about how the demographic data is indicating that states
505. 35:22that are historically Democrat-leaning states are losing population, like California and
506. 35:27Illinois.
507. 35:28And as a result of that loss in population, they are slated to lose congressional seats.
508. 35:33Well, the loss of congressional seats also means a loss in electoral college votes,
509. 35:38you know?
510. 35:39If you have a person who's elected to this to this court, where there are seven justices right now, you have a more
511. 35:49Regressive leaning court based on its makeup for
512. 35:52Regressive justices versus three constitutionalist justice this election with one regressive justice retiring which tipped the balance
513. 36:00will change the balance of the court if a
514. 36:02a constitutionalist is elected or it will preserve the current stasis in the
515. 36:08wisconsin court so could the legislature as adam pointed out
516. 36:11not legislature could the court uh participate
517. 36:15in a gerrymandering phenomenon to where if the state legislature offers
518. 36:20a redistricting plan in the in the state supreme court
519. 36:23uh puts the kibosh on it if it's not gerrymandered sufficiently to allow for
520. 36:31for them to be regressive elections to govern the day.
521. 36:34That could happen.
522. 36:35So if you're in the state of Wisconsin,
523. 36:37or if you know someone in the state of Wisconsin,
524. 36:40friends, family, relatives,
525. 36:42please share this program with them
526. 36:45and let them know, hey, do you realize
527. 36:46there's an election in your state on April 1st?
528. 36:50I know, and it's not April Fools, it's not a joke.
529. 36:53It's not April Fools Day.
530. 36:54You got some major things happening April 1st.
531. 36:56Yes, you got the reciprocal tariffs
532. 36:58coming from Trump on a federal level,
533. 36:59you have a state Supreme Court election that is vitally vitally important in the state and
534. 37:05please go to ivotoguide.com to get all of the information you can look up the background and
535. 37:09the history of the candidates. There's two candidates there. It's the general election for
536. 37:14the state Supreme Court seat. You can see who is funding their campaigns, where they're getting
537. 37:18their money from. You can see statements that they've made in the past. You can see rulings and
538. 37:22judge shimmels in case where you can see his record. You can see all of that at ivotoguide.com.
539. 37:30so that you not only vote, but you cast an informed vote.
540. 37:32And this is what we want because we have to be vigilant and diligent,
541. 37:38step by step, moment by moment, pace by pace, elections alone will not move our nation in the
542. 37:47direction that we need to go, but elections play an important role. And so you want to be an informed
543. 37:51voter and engage in such a way to where you are a part of the solution as to what's transpiring
544. 37:57in our country and to do your part in moving our nation
545. 38:04in the proper direction.
546. 38:04And I just wanna talk about that a bit more broadly
547. 38:09because one of the passions of my heart,
548. 38:12one of the major passions of my heart is having
549. 38:16the people of God be responsive to him
550. 38:19and they hear him now.
551. 38:22That responsiveness begins first and foremost
552. 38:25with an individual personal commitment to the Lord.
553. 38:28You know, I've said it before and I will continue to say,
554. 38:31when you have been captured by the King of glory,
555. 38:33you move away from merely giving offerings
556. 38:35to being the offering.
557. 38:36One of the sad realities of our nation
558. 38:39is that we have far more churchy-ends
559. 38:41than we have Christians in our country.
560. 38:43Church-ends of people that may be familiar
561. 38:45with the whole process of church attendance necessarily.
562. 38:48And I'm not even saying attending,
563. 38:51they're just familiar with that process
564. 38:52as opposed to being lifelong, obedient disciples
565. 38:56Jesus Christ to where the Word of God is the ultimate authority in our lives for all matters
566. 39:01of life, doctrine and practice.
567. 39:04And we don't have enough people who live in that way.
568. 39:06But it doesn't mean that it's over, not in the least bit.
569. 39:10Because one of the things that I am finding is that when people are introduced to or are
570. 39:17exposed to authentic discipleship, it's attractive.
571. 39:22It's attractive.
572. 39:24something that even those who are professing unbelievers, when they encounter authentic
573. 39:30Christ's followers, it garners respect. It garners respect because when you have an authenticity
574. 39:41in your lifestyle, we're so familiar with and confronted with frauds and charlatans and fakes
575. 39:50all across our nation. When we see something that's real, that's authentic, and it's attractive.
576. 39:56It's attractive.
577. 39:57And I'm just one of these people, man.
578. 39:59And I'm, I don't want to just be a complainer about what's happening.
579. 40:04I want to be a part of the solution.
580. 40:07And I want to be a part of the solution starting right on the ground, starting right at my own
581. 40:11home.
582. 40:12I talk about this all the time.
583. 40:13Moving out in our own communities.
584. 40:15And we need to be keenly aware that we are ultimately going to give a record.
585. 40:22We have to give an account to the Lord for what we've done with our lives, how we've conducted
586. 40:27our lives.
587. 40:28And it's something that is just
588. 40:36Staring in me, you know a couple weeks ago. We had Delano Squires from the Heritage Foundation on the program when we're talking about
589. 40:43marriage and its importance and
590. 40:45One of the things that I'm experiencing frankly
591. 40:48In my life and it's people who have been deprived from a genuine presentation of
592. 40:55masculinity and femininity
593. 40:58Young men not knowing what it means to be a man young women not knowing what it means to be a woman and
594. 41:02and conversely, young men not knowing what a godly woman
595. 41:05actually should be or it looks like.
596. 41:10You know, young women not knowing what a godly man
597. 41:14looks like.
598. 41:15And we developed this rubric of making choices
599. 41:19solely avoiding negative exposures that we've had.
600. 41:23Not knowing what we should affirmatively pursue.
601. 41:25All we know is, well, I've seen that and I don't want that.
602. 41:29And that's not enough, guys.
603. 41:30That's not enough.
604. 41:31That's not enough.
605. 41:33That's not enough.
606. 41:36It's not enough.
607. 41:39We were talking in the first segment about Jeremiah and how the Lord called him from his mother's womb.
608. 41:45He knew him that scripture says and
609. 41:50consecrated him to be a prophet to the nations and yet we have
610. 41:55Unfortunately many Christians that'll debate the sanctity of human life. Like what are we talking about?
611. 42:01What are we talking about? Sometimes we have people who haven't
612. 42:07examined the scriptures on the matter and some places we have a kind of
613. 42:14a cultural, a churchy entity, cultural ethos,
614. 42:18that really revolves around like democratic talking points,
615. 42:20like, you know, Jamal Bryan's of the world
616. 42:22and all these people, you know, it's like,
617. 42:24man, that's not Christ following.
618. 42:29And as wicked and wild as they are,
619. 42:32and conversing, not even on the opposite side,
620. 42:35and you have people like Paula White,
621. 42:37talking about give her $1,000
622. 42:39and you get this special blessing,
623. 42:40I mean, that's shenanigans.
624. 42:43And it is ungrately unfortunate
625. 42:48that President Trump doesn't seem to have
626. 42:49the discernment to know that, you know, she's a wolf.
627. 42:55I'm not throwing she on her personally.
628. 42:56I'm talking about her presentation.
629. 42:58Or should I say her abuse over the gospel proclaims?
630. 43:02That's just false.
631. 43:04So we have people that are exposed to those kinds of things
632. 43:07and don't have any idea what the authentic should look like.
633. 43:14And it ends up marring the testimony
634. 43:17of the believers in our country.
635. 43:20But instead of allowing those examples to govern the day,
636. 43:23I'm saying you and I need to be the ones
637. 43:26as we live locally, that we endeavor
638. 43:28to be authentic representations of what the Lord requires of us.
639. 43:32And that what we proclaim with our words
640. 43:36is consistent with the quality of life that we live.
641. 43:41One of the most enduring things that we can do,
642. 43:47I came across these videos and you have young college women
643. 43:53talking about, if I happen to, pregnant,
644. 43:57you mean I you want to ruin my collegiate activity,
645. 43:59I'm just like, if you engage in the activity
646. 44:03that produces life, you shouldn't be surprised
647. 44:08when life is produced by your activity.
648. 44:13But we have such a slow estimation for human life
649. 44:16that you have this young lady saying,
650. 44:18oh, you want me to ruin my college career
651. 44:21to deliver a baby?
652. 44:22I'm just like, what?
653. 44:27And it shows our lack of appreciation for life.
654. 44:36One of the most enduring things that we need to have happened, especially amongst our younger men and younger women,
655. 44:41when a young man to be discipled.
656. 44:46So that requires one, a young man who recognizes the value of discipleship,
657. 44:51but also an older brother in the faith who also recognizes the value of discipleship and is willing
658. 44:59to worship the Lord sacrificially and serving in that capacity.
659. 45:03And I'm saying sacrificially because discipleship takes a life on life investment, and it's not always pretty, but it's worth it.
660. 45:14And when you younger women similarly who recognize the need for discipleship, older women who recognize the biblical responsibility of helping to sharpen and equip younger women, I've said before, the scripture says he who finds a wife finds a good thing, the quality.
661. 45:31He's not talking about who finds a female.
662. 45:33The scripture is talking about the quality of the wife that is present when the prospective
663. 45:38groom finds her.
664. 45:39And when he young men and young women to join themselves together and holy matrimony, what
665. 45:46an idea, holy matrimony.
666. 45:49The unfortunate reality in many segments of our society, we have people who want to have
667. 45:52children but they don't want to be married.
668. 45:56Why?
669. 45:57Because marriage has been bludgeoned and degraded and downgraded and eroded in our society.
670. 46:05segments of our society, nearly three fourths of the children being born or being born into families
671. 46:09were either without married parents committed to rearing the children together. Guys, that's
672. 46:16a formula for destruction. It's a formula for destruction. One of the most enduring and important
673. 46:25things that we need is godly men to pursue godly women for holy matrimony and to rear children
674. 46:32together in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and that we work towards founding
675. 46:39transform families as a foundation for transform communities. You know, we haven't gotten to where
676. 46:46we are as a society just by, you know, the I dream of Jeannie Wink, no, we've walked into it.
677. 46:52I would say we've discipled, I went into it and we are living in the product of a generational
678. 46:57commitment and investment. To where, as I said, we have lots of young people who want to have children
679. 47:04They don't want to be married.
680. 47:05And our society has suffered as a result of it.
681. 47:12With the disintegration of the family,
682. 47:15we are enduring the expansive ascension of the Leviathan state,
683. 47:19also known as the government,
684. 47:22to the point to where no matter what the question is,
685. 47:26no matter what the issue is,
686. 47:28the response and the reply and the answer, the solution,
687. 47:31government.
688. 47:33Government is the answer.
689. 47:34Government is the solution.
690. 47:37Guys, that's a formula for chaos.
691. 47:42So this election in Wisconsin is not all that is important, but it is an important step.
692. 47:47But as we're preparing to vote, make sure you set your course, those particularly in Wisconsin
693. 47:54are preparing to vote. And for the rest of us, in addition to our brethren in Wisconsin,
694. 48:00let us set our course to be so enlightened, to not merely be heroes of the Lord's Word,
695. 48:05but to put into practice what we know to be true. It's vitally vitally important. It's vitally vitally
696. 48:13vitally necessary, it is an inescapable reality because government goings alone will not make
697. 48:20our nation what we need to be.
698. 48:21That's just a simple reality.
699. 48:24So before we are quick to complain about what's going on, let us ask ourselves what are we doing?
700. 48:29How are we living our lives?
701. 48:30Does the quality of our lives contribute to the solution to our problem in our country?
702. 48:36Or to the detriment to the problems that already exist in our country?
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