April 30, 2026 · 49:48

Governor Abercrombie and Fitch gets a “not so fast” from her state’s court system.

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0:00 - 15:00. Daniel 6:1-5. Integrity is a characteristic that defined Daniel. 15:00 - 31:00. Governor Abercrombie and Fitch gets a “not so fast” from her state’s court system. 31:00 - 48:00. The University of Oxford presents a bald, bearded moment of choosing. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call: 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links Mid Vermont

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:02It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
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0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
0:20God has called you and me to be his ambassador.
0:23Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28And now the Hamilton Corner.
0:33Good evening, everybody.
0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
0:36Abraham Hamilton.
0:37The third is my name joined by the corner contingent right across from me.
0:41My man, a hundred grand Mr.
0:44Bobby, her.
0:47And in the screening room, even if fashion choices are questionable,
0:56produce extraordinary.
0:57I never imitate it.
0:59I often imitate it.
1:00Never duplicated the real J back.
1:02Ladies and gentlemen, is in the string.
1:05He just shaking his head at me like this.
1:08Man, working with a man, this dude.
1:11You ain't never safe, man.
1:12I'm over here just trying to get the video up
1:14and running and there he go.
1:16Captain Strays, while I'm being diligent in my employ.
1:22Thank you to every single one of you
1:24who have tuned in to the program.
1:28So much is going on.
1:31The fallout from the Louisiana case is providing a predictable amount of, shall I say, impassioned
1:43responses.
1:47But before we get into all of that, this is a place where we remind you every day that
1:50what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
1:54As you're listening at this moment, you're transitioning from your part-time jobs, many
1:58of you, your part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you
2:05cultivate an outcome. And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality,
2:10understanding the primacy that God places on family and welcoming his view to become frankly
2:19your view and that we engage with an intentionality and an urgency because the moment truly, truly,
2:28truly is urgent. It truly is urgent. There's a reason that the family with marriage at the center
2:35And it would be clear marriage has one definition.
2:38I don't care how many people offer counter narratives or counterfeit of the definition.
2:46There's only one definition.
2:47Marriage is a lifelong exclusive union of one man and one woman with the capacity to bear
2:52offspring.
2:53There's a biological component that provides the opportunity for fruitfulness to flow from
2:58that union.
3:00The union that fruitfulness is not, it is a construction, a constructional impossibility.
3:07And I'm saying constructional because how many times have there been couples who have been told
3:13that they're not capable of reproducing a husband and a wife, a male and a female and
3:18adult human male and adult human female.
3:21And guess what happens?
3:22Oh, miraculously, the one who refers to children as his heritage is also the opener of the
3:29womb.
3:31So that's what I mean when I say the capacity to bear offspring.
3:35It's on the one definition.
3:38And God has designed the family in the way that he has because it is the primary
3:42institution that is tasked, mandated by him with the generational obligation
3:50and opportunity to execute the King's Commission.
3:57That's why there's so much effort to try to get us as parents to outsource our
4:02opportunity elsewhere so that we become disengaged in this primary responsibility.
4:08But the simple reality is darkness is not an affirmative force, but it reoccupies the space that is vacated by the light.
4:18My prayer for this audience and for our nation, frankly, is that the Lord will grab a hold of us starting in our homes.
4:26And I believe with everything in me, should the Lord tear you, we can see a massive reversal and a new great awakening.
4:33if we would welcome the Lord to grab ahold of us in our families.
4:40To the word of God we go. Daniel chapter 6 is what we're going to go today. Daniel chapter 6.
4:48We were talking with the men in our local church last night about integrity,
4:53about integrity. And when I think about integrity,
4:56one of the first people comes to mind to me from the Bible is Daniel.
5:01And I'll explain why.
5:05I love meditating on Daniel and his life and his ministry because as the scripture unfolds
5:12it, he was among the first of the exiles into the Babylonian Empire.
5:16And when he was exiled there, he was a Yaled, which means that he was a young, he was a boy
5:23when he arrives in Babylon.
5:25And though he physically lives in Babylon far longer than he ever lived in Judah, Babylon
5:31nevertheless never lives in Daniel. At this stage where we are in Daniel chapter 6, Daniel is closer,
5:39if not already, upwards of the age of 80 years old. So we're looking at the elder statesman,
5:47Daniel in Daniel chapter 6. And this is when King Darius is now
5:56King as the transition from the the the Medes into the Persian Empire, say, were successors
6:05to the Babylonian Empire.
6:07And we read in verses one through five, Daniel chapter six, verses one through five.
6:13This is what the Word of God says.
6:14It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom, 120 satraps to be throughout the whole kingdom
6:23and over them three high officials of whom Daniel was one,
6:30to whom these satraps should give an account,
6:32should give account so that the king might suffer no loss.
6:36Then this Daniel became distinguished
6:39above all the other high officials and satraps
6:44because an excellent spirit was in him.
6:48And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.
6:54Then the high officials and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel
6:59with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault because
7:07he was faithful and no error or fault was found in him.
7:15Then these men said, we shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless
7:21We find it in connection with the law of his God.
7:32This proceeds with later on becomes Daniel's,
7:37the account of Daniel in the lion's den.
7:40But I wanna encourage you to remember
7:41whenever you think about Daniel in the lion's den,
7:44never forget that that was the product
7:48of an evil scheme to try to ensnare Daniel
7:53by digging up dirt on him,
7:55but they were unable to find any dirt.
7:57So the only way they could scheme against Daniel
8:00is to somehow cause his faithfulness to Yahweh
8:05to be deemed illegal.
8:11Now I wanna point out a couple things.
8:12And verse one of chapter six, when I say,
8:14please, Darius, to set over the kingdom,
8:15120 satraps, those satraps were provincial rulers,
8:20provincial rulers.
8:22Then above them, this is in the governmental structure
8:24under King Darius.
8:27Darius is at the top.
8:28then underneath Darius there were three high officials.
8:32In Daniel was one of the three high officials.
8:35Then beneath Daniel there were 120 provincial rulers.
8:39In addition to what I said before,
8:40when you think about the lion's den scenario,
8:43also remember that it unfolded as Darius
8:47was about to make Daniel the second in the kingdom.
8:51Just as Joseph was in Egypt,
8:54that was about to happen with Daniel.
8:57even in this exiled disposition. All right? Keep that in mind. And so then what had happened
9:08was the other two high officials, because remember it was three high officials, they were all
9:14peers. They were all peers. And then they had the sat trap, the provincial rulers beneath
9:19them. And so the other two high officials, they became jealous of Daniel because, as the
9:27scripture says he had an excellent spirit within him and he was faithful.
9:34So, the cream that is in Daniel rose to the top and they were jealous.
9:39So the other two high officials conspired with some of the 120 provincial rulers, the satraps,
9:48to say, now we got to get this Daniel.
9:51Now would you have to realize that these high officials in the governmental structure under
9:55These are people that would have had like to make an analogy to our own government cabinet level access.
10:02You're talking about heads of three letter agencies.
10:05You're talking about people that can utilize the full investigatory power of the government,
10:13of the monarchial government to find dirt on Daniel.
10:19In the scripture reads, I know these are just five short verses,
10:23verses, but the way the scripture reads is that the other two high officials work with
10:27some of the satraps in order to do that very thing.
10:30They exhaustively had, stop me, this sounds familiar, well I won't say this sounds familiar,
10:37but they had a sanctioned investigation on Daniel.
10:43And the results of their investigation was verse four.
10:51Then the high officials in the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel
10:56with regard to the kingdom. I mean, he's got to be stealing something. Surely, I mean,
11:03because we're stealing, we're skipping off the top. Surely we all do that, right? And
11:10I'm sure Daniel has a couple of fang fangs that he hadn't told anybody about in his, you
11:15know, they're digging up the dirt. They're trying to find something. They want it to be
11:21useful and actionable to ensnare Daniel and to cause and to corrupt his standing with
11:32of King Darius, and they're using all of their, their wiles.
11:36They're using all of their resources.
11:38They're using all of their connections.
11:40They're using their informants.
11:42S-P-O-C, sorry I had a little, some had a sneeze, had a sneeze.
11:46Even some of the informants they paid.
11:53And they sought for a ground for complaint or any fault against Daniel with regard to
12:00the kingdom.
12:01But this is one of the most profound portions of scripture that we have, not exclusively,
12:05I mean, the word of God is just overwhelmingly profound.
12:09But look at this, and this is said about Daniel
12:12from the narrative standpoint.
12:13This is God's observation of Daniel
12:16that shows why these evil conspirators came up
12:22with zero, with nada.
12:24But they could find no ground for complaint
12:28or any fault against Daniel because he was faithful.
12:36You wanna talk about integrity.
12:40This is an example of what I'm striving for in my own life.
12:44This is an example of what we all should be striving for
12:47in our lives.
12:48You know, I will live in a culture
12:51and you have these nasty comedians and all of these people,
12:55these nasty podcasts with men and women,
12:58all this kind of stuff.
12:59And it's a running,
13:00Joe, who don't let your wife get your phone?
13:05You'll go hungry before you let your wife get your phone.
13:09That shouldn't be for men of God.
13:12Man, we walk in the light.
13:14Ain't nothing about darkness we want to have any parts of.
13:18If you let your wife take your phone,
13:19yeah, my wife takes my phone.
13:22Of course.
13:25Whoa, why you do that?
13:28Cause there's nothing to hide on my phone.
13:31Now, if you're listening to me and you're saying,
13:32whoo, whoo, is it just me or the day?
13:36I get a little thin in here.
13:37If you start breathing like this,
13:43maybe you need to take a marching water from Daniel.
13:47And to be blunt, first of all, just confess your sin
13:51and repent because when we have these things in our lives,
13:55these hooks, you know, Jesus said,
13:58here comes Satan and he has nothing in me.
14:01Nothing.
14:03Man, we should strive to be men and women of integrity
14:06just like this.
14:08Same thing with our sisters,
14:09your husband can't take your phone?
14:10Can't have your cell phone?
14:12What's on your phone that your husband can't look at?
14:18We're looking at all of these things
14:20on the international stage, on the global stage,
14:22on the national stage.
14:26What should we do at night of all of this?
14:27How about we start here?
14:30Cultivate the type of integrity to where it don't matter
14:33who is looking that we can be like Daniel.
14:36And remind the words of Pastor Wang Yi in China,
14:40where they don't have any privacy.
14:41There's no first amendment, no Bill of Rights.
14:43He said, we know the government is looking.
14:45Why don't we give them a picture
14:47of what authentic Christ following looks like?
14:49Because the cameras everywhere they're watching,
14:52I would say in our nation,
14:54we need to cultivate integrity to be people of integrity.
15:00discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:03The Ten Commandments are the moral law of God.
15:08Well, that's Old Testament.
15:09Well, keep in mind the moral law of God does not change.
15:13And the fact is some of the biggest challenges
15:15we're dealing with in our culture, in our world today,
15:19are a direct result of people violating
15:22the clear counsel of the Ten Commandments.
15:24We think of the tragedy of abortion.
15:27The Bible clearly tells us you shall not murder.
15:30God's word is so clear.
15:33Did you know murder is never in order
15:35under any circumstances,
15:36not through abortion or through any other means,
15:38yet sadly we live in a world that tries to say,
15:41well under certain circumstances, murder is okay.
15:45Many try to say that one of those circumstances
15:47is because of abortion.
15:49Remember God's word does not change
15:52and it's important that we as the people of God
15:54are clear, boldly clear on that reality.
16:05Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton Corner on American family radio
16:11Welcome back ladies and gentlemen Saturday will be there Saturday morning in Waco, Texas
16:17We will be at the entrusted homeschool conference. I am looking forward to
16:23Being there is gonna be amazing time. I will be the first keynote presentation
16:289 a.m. Saturday morning May 2nd. I will have a couple presentations
16:34I'll be a part of a Q&A, what we'll delve into, to ESA or not to ESA.
16:42That is the question.
16:43That's education savings accounts.
16:45We'll talk about some particular things to the state of Texas, we'll address the UIL provisions
16:53in this state, among other things.
16:56I am delighted to be a part of that looking forward to it.
17:00They're still time for you to register in trusted homeschool conference.
17:04.org is the website, but we will be there Saturday.
17:08Then about two weeks later, May 14th through the 16th will be in Lansing, Michigan at the
17:14inch conference, inspirational networking conference for homeschoolers in the state of
17:18Michigan put together by the Michigan Christian homeschool network.
17:24Mission is how it's pronounced, but it's spelled M-I-C-H capital N.
17:30So the website to register for that is missionmychn.org.
17:37My wife will be presenting several sessions there
17:39to the moms.
17:40We're gonna have a great time.
17:42If you're in the area,
17:43we'll then come to the area.
17:44I'd love to see you and meet you there.
17:47That is the next two events.
17:50And stay tuned because we'll be all over the country.
17:54Now today I wanna give you just a snapshot
17:57because just for my own edification,
17:59I've been looking at things, looking at our history as we're approaching the 250th celebration
18:05and anniversary of our Declaration of Independence and on this day in history, 237 years ago.
18:12Today, April 30, 1789 was actually the date that George Washington was sworn in and ultimately
18:23delivered his inaugural address, the first inaugural address as the first president under
18:27There are then newly established Constitution, and there were several things that are interesting
18:34that stood out to me as I look back on this time.
18:38First, among them is that you had the predetermined oath of office.
18:46But interestingly enough, and we have an eyewitness account to this that was published
18:50in newspapers.
18:51This is one of the ways we know that this transpired.
18:54But George Washington takes the oath of office using the Bible.
18:58You know, several things that he did became president's setting for presidents who followed
19:03him, but there was no president before him.
19:06So his utilization of the Bible was a choice that he made.
19:12Secondarily after the oath of office was administered to him, the first-hand account indicates
19:17that George Washington, now president Washington, leans over and kisses the Bible.
19:24was just so happened to have been open to Genesis chapter 49, and he concludes taking
19:29the oath of office by saying, so help me God.
19:33That was not pre-planned.
19:35That was something that George Washington added of his own initiative.
19:42Then he followed his oath-taking with the first ever presidential inaugural address under
19:50our Constitution, and doing so, he invoked divine providence and offered fervent supplications
19:56to the quote that Almighty being who rules over the universe, this is what he said during
20:02his address, the first presidential inaugural address.
20:10This is at the stage for, as I mentioned, for presidents that followed him for things
20:15like his use of the Bible for the inauguration to include public prayer by the
20:20Adogary, as well as the employment of the phrase, so help me God.
20:26So that was something that was started on this day 237 years ago.
20:32I'm bringing this out to you and presenting this to you once again to show
20:38something that frankly evil forces have sought to strip from our country.
20:46But to show you that our country was forged, forged in acknowledgement of God of the Bible.
20:59Contrary to what many would have you believe, our history is replete with examples just like this.
21:05Alright, I mentioned this yesterday, but I didn't get to dig into it in more detail.
21:10detail. So I want to go back to Governor Abe Crombie and Fitch from the grounds that Mr.
21:26Riosa used to stump, but he's been delivered from foreign nations. It's now become a citizen
21:33of the United States of America. Prior to yesterday's ruling from the Supreme Court, the referendum
21:45we discussed here in the state of Virginia, which was, you know, with Governor Abercrombie
21:50said that, no, no, surely, surely, burr rabbit, we're not going to do any radical governing.
21:58Oh, no, no, no, no, I'm Governor Abercrombie. The motorist, I am motorist. I say, motorate
22:03this and I'm motorate all things until you inaugurate me. And so immediately she moves to
22:14implement a referendum that will completely change the electoral map in the state of Virginia
22:18that will cause 10 out of the 11 congressional districts to all be expected Democrat districts
22:25based upon how the districts were gerrymandered.
22:32There were two cases that were percolating in the state of Virginia prior to yesterday's
22:35Supreme Court ruling.
22:37And so I want to explain to you that, frankly, there are two lines of challenge that are,
22:44That is positioned to invalidate the referendum that was voted on in Virginia on April 21st.
22:50The first of them have to do with a case called Scott versus McDougal that was heard
22:55by the Virginia State Supreme Court.
23:00This is a case that initially brought before the Tayswell County Circuit Judge, Jack Hurley,
23:07Jr.
23:08All right.
23:09And then in that case, what was presented was an issue that would determine whether Virginia
23:14would ultimately adopt the gerrymandering map that would accomplish that governor abacrombie
23:19objective on april twenty first virginia voters passed the referendum but the very next
23:27day and then this is something that hasn't enjoyed widespread reporting but the very
23:32next day judge jack hurlie in the mcdukel case blocked certification of the results now i
23:45Bob, you're probably aware of this.
23:48Were you aware of that?
23:49That the very next day after the referendum,
23:52they had to go to the court to certify
23:54the results of the referendum.
23:55Judge Hurley blocked-
23:56I'm not sure what you said.
23:57Yeah.
23:58In the federal county.
23:59That's exactly right.
23:59Judge Hurley blocked certification
24:00of the results of the referendum,
24:02which caused regressives all over the Old Dominion State
24:05to pull their hair out.
24:09Judge Hurley ruled previously in January
24:14in the McNiggle case that the Constitution
24:17amendment that ended up on Virginians ballot on April 21st was an unlawful referendum. That
24:25it was an illegal referendum because it violated the process laws in the state of Virginia.
24:31He then declared on April 22nd the day after the day after the referendum was voted on in
24:38a related case. So you have the Scott versus MacNougall case, then you have a the Kosky
24:43versus Republican National Committee case challenging the referendum on different grounds.
24:48He rules in the Koski versus Republican National Committee case that the referendum is also
24:55illegal for three reasons.
24:57And he outlines these reasons.
24:58He says first that the referendum is illegal and therefore was an unconstitutional vote
25:04on April 21st because the Virginia General Assembly illegitimately usurped the powers
25:10of the Virginia Redistricting Commission.
25:13See the Virginia Redistricting Commission is the commission that is established legislatively
25:18by the lawmakers in Virginia to initiate redistricting processes, not the legislature
25:25unilaterally.
25:26See the way it works, the Virginia legislature had already passed laws creating the Virginia
25:33Redistricting Commission in an effort to try to lift it above board from being viewed as
25:38a partisan activity.
25:39That was the objective all along.
25:42And Judge Hurley says, so y'all just going to act like we don't know we have a redistricting
25:46commission in the state.
25:49So Governor Abraham, you're going to lie to the old Dominion voters.
25:53And then y'all going to act like that we don't have this commission that we already created
25:58by law, you got to talk on do?
26:01Not on my watch.
26:03The next basis is of objection from Judge Hurley.
26:05He said, quote, that the legislation that prompted the special election for the referendum
26:11violated the submission, timing and form laws, clauses of the Virginia Constitution.
26:18Thirdly, and any and all votes for or against the proposed constitutional amendment via the
26:27referendum on April 21, 2026, the special election are therefore ineffective.
26:35Now, that's not being reported as widely as the two not even living districts are proposed
26:42to go to the words of Democrats.
26:44Now all of that happened before, before the change announced yesterday about the Supreme
26:51Court as to how Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act will be interpreted and applied.
26:57So there are now two bases and it's funny, states all across the country, Tennessee,
27:03is discussing challenging the allocations of voting, frankly, I think all rest state
27:10governors should do so.
27:15They need to move quickly because this will,
27:17this will affect the midterm elections.
27:21And it comes back to what I was saying yesterday,
27:22we have to make a decision.
27:24What are we going to be?
27:25Are we going to be a nation that we are part
27:27of the forging forward of a more perfect union,
27:31that though we have horrendous portions of our nation's history,
27:34that we have grown beyond the daughters
27:37of our nation's history.
27:38And we say we want to grow beyond some of those dark portions
27:42of our history, but at the exact same time, we have people,
27:45So let's just be playing about it because there are people that benefit financially.
27:49There are people that benefit politically.
27:50There are people that are power hungry.
27:53And many of them are people who do not have a worldview where there is an eternity.
27:56So their view is whatever goodness and life that we're going to enjoy and by goodness they
28:01mean whatever benefits me, whatever makes me feel good, whatever makes me more wealthy,
28:04whatever it is me in a hedonistic pleasure pursuit, then that's what I want.
28:09So they want to go all in 100% on the Osteenan best life now.
28:19So the concept of a loss of political power to them is unfathomable in their desire for
28:27wielding power largely is for personal grandizement Nancy Pelosi following all of this getting back
28:39to Virginia.
28:41The judge granted the plaintiff's petition in the Koski case for a permanent injunction
28:47against certification of the referendum results from April 21st in Virginia.
28:54Following that, the Attorney General, J. Jones, you know, J.
28:58You know, just old J who fantasizes about killing people's children and desecrating their
29:05burial locations, all in the name of politics, of course.
29:10Because politicians don't really make the right choices until they've been actually injured.
29:15That's wild.
29:16And this dude is Attorney General of the State of Virginia.
29:17That's wild after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
29:20wild, but Jay Jones on April 24 filed a motion for the emergency stay of Judge Hurley's ruling,
29:28saying that that April 21st referendum is illegal to which the court denied that stay.
29:38So that's one line of challenge.
29:42The additional line of challenge will follow the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana versus
29:48Calay that was released yesterday.
29:50And I wanted to bring you up to speed on that because there are some people, and I even
29:54know some people who live in Virginia saying, man, we got to get out of Virginia because
29:58if this goes down with these remade districts and guys, these things have real time consequences.
30:06Because let me give you an example.
30:08I told you guys that I'm born and raised in New Orleans.
30:11My entire lifetime, there's never been a candidate from mayor who was anything other than the
30:14Democrat.
30:17But as I'm talking to you, my hometown doesn't have a mall in all these parish proper.
30:23And Louisiana, their parish is where all other states have counties.
30:27There's not a mall in the entire parish.
30:30Now what?
30:33The uni party local government between the mayor and the city council, they tax the local
30:42population overwhelmingly.
30:44live day that you know, they know as well as I know, the property tax is sky high, the
30:49insurance rates are sky high, all these rates are sky high, people move to the suburbs outside
30:54of Orleans, property gas, what happens?
30:56Rates come down, taxes come down.
30:57So what do you think happens with the population that has the ability to move outside of Orleans
31:01property?
31:02What do you think happens?
31:07It's the same story all over the country, all over the country.
31:11Because when you have regressive ideology governing the local instruments of government,
31:18real consequences. If you have this redistricting phenomenon that presents the possibility that
31:25there is not a district in Virginia or if there's just one district in Virginia where
31:30people have the type of policies that would allow them to live successfully, it's going
31:36to impact them. And then you add that into the fact that Governor Abraham would be signed
31:43on to the National Popular Vote Compact to where she literally is pledging, really, really
31:48matter what Virginians want. If the majority of the rest of the United States of America
31:53votes for another presidential candidate, that's who our electoral college votes are going to
31:57go to. That's just insane. That is just insane. But that's what's happening. So I wanted to
32:05share that because that, that, those are separate tracks that were happening independent of one
32:11another. And it's easy to get that lost in the shuffle. And because of where Virginia stands
32:17in the fallout of what happens and what states win, it's odd number, year elections.
32:23It tends to set the tone, set a tone, I should say, for what happens thereafter.
32:29So just wanted to share that information with you.
32:32When we come back, we'll dig into a little bit of the insanity in Vermont, but thankfully,
32:40the mid-Vermant Christian school got some relief after being frankly persecuted to a degree
32:48by their own state government.
32:49We'll get to that when we come back from this break.
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34:13Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here. This is
34:18another case that I had in my stack yesterday another story but I ran out of
34:24time before I ran out of show. This case has to do with the Mid-Vermont
34:29Christian school and it dates back to 2023. And what happened there is that the
34:35Midvern Mount Christian school girls, varsity basketball team, and made it to
34:41the playoffs, and they were scheduled to play against the team that had a boy on
34:45the team who was calling himself a girl. So the coach met with the players, the
34:52players' parents, the Christian schools administration, and we're talking about
34:56small Christian school, they have 111 students, you know, in their school. All right. And they
35:04decided, man, this is a violation of our faith to affirm that this boy is a girl. This boy
35:10should not be playing girls basketball. This boy needs help. This boy needs ministry. This boy
35:15needs counseling. What this boy does not need is to have us as a Christian school in our state
35:22to affirm his delusion. And so they made the decision soberly and deliberately, I mean,
35:28at the time in 2023, there were seniors on their team that dedicated themselves the whole season.
35:34They were trying to win a state championship. But instead of pursuing that, even the seniors
35:39agreed it was a unanimous decision that now this, this boy's soul, frankly, and truth are more important
35:48than our pursuit of our athletic goal here. So they declined to play and they forfeited the game.
35:58Well, the state of Vermont did not take too kindly to the Christian school's decision,
36:05and they ramped it up led by the Vermont Principles Association. They said, oh, oh, oh, so y'all don't
36:11want to play, huh? All right. Cool. Then your school will be prohibited from participating in any
36:18scholastic activity in the state, and any sports activity in the state, which included
36:27prohibitions on the school participating in the state's spelling bee and other events in
36:35its entirety.
36:39That reprisal by the city of Vermont led to the Christian school getting legal representation,
36:45our friends at the Alliance of Fending Freedom took up their case.
36:50the lawsuit against them, the lawsuit went to the district court, went through the processes
36:55there, took years in litigation.
36:59The case went all the way up to the federal appellate court, I believe the second circuit
37:05court of appeals.
37:07In the second circuit court of appeals, slap down the Virginia principles association and
37:15the governmental agencies that basically sought to take
37:21retribution against the Christian school for having the audacity
37:25to stand on their school statement of faith in the
37:28Santa want the Bible teaches about identity and human sexuality.
37:32In the course of litigation, the state said to Vermont
37:36admit the Mivermont Christian school that your beliefs are
37:40wrong, your beliefs are wrong.
37:43How do you fix your mouth to tell these people what they believe is wrong?
37:47The state government is going to tell the private Christian school that your beliefs are wrong,
37:52threatening them by saying things like you're on the wrong side of history.
37:56What all of that got to do with the First Amendment?
37:59What does that have to do with the First Amendment?
38:02Well, Mitt Vermont Christian School finally got some vindication because the Second Circuit Court of Appeals said,
38:10On the state of Vermont, you are violating the United States Constitution in particular,
38:14the First Amendment, and then instructed for the case to be sent back down to the district
38:19court level to re-initiate hearings there.
38:24Following that instruction from the Second Circuit Court of Appeal, the state of Vermont
38:28cried, Uncle, or if you want to use your jiu-jitsu reference, they tapped and entered into a
38:35$56,000 settlement with mid-Vermont Christian School.
38:40Listen to and watch clip number five that is discussing this case clip number five.
38:47Go.
38:48It has been three years since the girls basketball team here at the Mid-Vermont Christian School
38:52forfeited a playoff game against the team that had a transgender student in the lineup.
38:58The incident made national headlines and now a settlement in the case.
39:02So this settlement is a giant win not only for the First Amendment, but obviously for the school itself.
39:08That's according to senior counsel for the mid-Vermot Christian School.
39:12The school filed a lawsuit against the Vermont Principles Association in 2023,
39:17after all of its teams were barred indefinitely from competition and athletic tournaments conducted by the Vermont Principles Association.
39:24The heavy-handed penalty came after the girls basketball team boycotted a game against the team with a trans player.
39:31The VPA claimed the school's actions violated the state's anti-discrimination policy,
39:36but mid-Vermot teams were once again allowed to compete this season after a federal appeals court
39:41issued an injunction against the VPA late last year. This week, the VPA agreed to pay out more than
39:47a half million dollars in damages and attorneys fees and promised similar bans would not take place
39:53in the future, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom.
39:55religious schools and families shouldn't be punished merely for engaging in their
40:00religious beliefs and religious exercise and we appreciate the VPA for actually
40:04coming to this conclusion and agreeing to settle the case. Now you see this
40:11happening all over the country and I just want to remind people that what is
40:17what is the prevailing understanding in our country actually is a misunderstanding
40:20because you'll hear people say over and over again well the United States of
40:24America, there's a separation between church and state.
40:27Those eight words, separation of church and state, do not mean what people are utilizing
40:31it to mean, using, utilizing them to mean.
40:35Those eight words are stripped, kicking and screaming out of their context from a letter
40:40that was written by Thomas Jefferson to a bunch of Christians in Danbury, Connecticut,
40:47in the late 18th century, as the U.S. Constitution was being debated, was drafted and debated,
40:54and then ultimately ratified, because there were Christians in
40:57the Emperor of Connecticut that were concerned because of what
41:00had just, they just experienced under King George that whatever
41:04the monarch's faith was, that was the determined faith for everybody
41:07within the Commonwealth.
41:09And they wanted to make sure that that is not the scenario here
41:12in the United States of America.
41:13And in response, Thomas Jefferson articulated this full
41:17explanation that no, no, no, no, no, that is not the case here.
41:20That is not something you need to be worried about here.
41:22In the United States of America, there is a wall of separation
41:25has been erected between the church and the state, that wall of separation is a wall that
41:30is meant to keep the state out of the church. It's a wall that is meant to keep Vermont from
41:38telling Christians in Vermont that their beliefs are wrong. That wall is a one-way wall. It does
41:44not work in the opposite direction. The church has a lawful authority to participate in government,
41:51to be exercised within everyday life, and to even tell the government this is what we were
41:57This is what the word of God says, you are violating God's word.
42:00This is why from the very formation of our nation, there's been paid chaplains and curvers.
42:08This is why whenever these cases occur and when suits are filed and when they make their
42:14way through the legal system, they always come out like this.
42:20There was a time previously when that didn't happen because you had justices at the Supreme
42:25Court, for example, that misunderstood that.
42:29In the late 18th century, Danbury Baptist phrase,
42:32separation of church, the wall of,
42:34has been erected to separate the church from the state,
42:37was never quoted out of context until 1947,
42:39in the case called Ingo versus Vital.
42:43Where in that case, you had one judge who recognized
42:47that American people have become kind of ignorant of history,
42:50don't really read too much anymore.
42:52So now we can strip this phrase out of context
42:54to make it do something that it doesn't do.
43:00So there are a couple things
43:01that should be takeaways from this story.
43:02First and foremost, if you experience some type of persecution or trampling of your constitutional
43:07rights in your own lives, don't roll over.
43:10Fight.
43:11Fight.
43:13Mivermont struggled at the lower courts.
43:18They lost, but they kept fighting.
43:20And they go to the second circuit where they're ultimately vindicated.
43:25Now there's a real cost.
43:26Like I mentioned, in 2023, you had seniors who couldn't play.
43:28From 2023 and 2024 you had the entire school that was banned from
43:35participating in
43:37competitions not just athletic events
43:40Because they're standing on guys were
43:442025 much of the year still couldn't participate until you had an injunction reversing the things in Vermont
43:49But beyond that beyond that guys we we
43:57Must work
43:59So that we have people in positions throughout our society
44:02society who understand ordered liberty, who have a worldview that is conducive to our governmental
44:09exercise in self-government, as John Adams rightly pointed out, that our Constitution is
44:16only, only as efficacy for religious and moral people.
44:20And it's entirely inadequate for the governance of any other.
44:25This is why you see so many people and so many forces in our country trying to fundamentally
44:29transform the United States of America.
44:31They don't want godly government.
44:37Now we have an opportunity to engage.
44:39We have a say so about that.
44:41And it's not a compulsion phenomenon.
44:44It is reasoning and appealing to our fellow citizens
44:52and countrymen.
44:56I'm encouraged by the results of the legal case,
44:59but we should not stop at a legal case.
45:06We should seek to be a part of the formation
45:09of the more perfect union.
45:10And that is not limited to some type
45:12of governmental construct that applies to the corpus
45:16of our nation, our fellow citizens.
45:18What type of people make up our nation?
45:24What type of nation do we wanna be?
45:28Just like the conversation we were having about,
45:31Louisiana versus Calate case.
45:33That was the opinion was released yesterday.
45:36And you wanna talk about the time for choosing.
45:38I wanna give a little bit of warning
45:39cause I'm gonna show some pictures.
45:41If you're watching the show, if you're a minor,
45:43you're a child, I'm gonna ask you to step away
45:45I'm going to show some pictures during this show that if I was a parent, I would appreciate,
45:50well, I am a parent.
45:52If I was listening to the show, I would appreciate having a warning and I want my children to step
45:56away and not watch this without my awareness, without my oversight before they would see
45:58something like this.
46:00But I want you to see this because sometimes we need to be jilted into reality because
46:07this is what we're facing.
46:08And what am I talking about?
46:10a dude who was a science professor at the University of Oxford, you know, pinkies out,
46:15in England, in Oxford, this all still refined, prestigious institution of Hoya, learning,
46:26you know, not a quality leering center, but an institution of higher learning.
46:31They have a professor by the name of Matt Ratley.
46:34He's a lecturer in biochemistry at Oxford's St. Hilda's College.
46:39But there's just one issue though.
46:41Oh boy, Matt Ratley is a ball headed, big bearded dude who likes to wear fake prosthetic
46:48breasts while he's teaching.
46:52He's wearing them for class, y'all.
46:53He's wearing them for class.
46:54They are colleagues at Oxford who are disturbed by the presentation, but nobody will say
47:00nothing to them though, that's the thing.
47:02Because Matt Ratley has taken the disposition of who's going to check Mee-boo.
47:08You see, we didn't, we didn't,
47:10filleted freedom and faith and clarity and truth
47:15and England so sufficiently,
47:18well, you can have such a grotesque display
47:21that, that other professors are saying,
47:23like Professor Michael Biggs,
47:25that many of the women, professors and students
47:27at the university are quite uncomfortable
47:29with Professor Ratley's display,
47:31but nobody will say anything to him.
47:34All right.
47:36Now again, children, if they're children, please step away.
47:39Step away from the screen, step away from the television,
47:42step away from the show, and ask your parents
47:45if you can watch this, all right?
47:48I wanna give you a few moments to do so.
47:51Because now I wanna show the pictures, Jeff,
47:53because a picture's worth a thousand words.
47:58What I'm about to show you on the screen is Matt Ratley,
48:01the way he dresses for class.
48:03This is how he goes to class, y'all.
48:06This is how he goes to class.
48:08Ball head, dude.
48:10Big beard, think duck dynasty,
48:11for those who are listening on the radio and you are listening on the podcast.
48:17So, doodles ball.
48:18So, he don't have frequent barbershop appointments like Jeff in big duck dynasty beer and lipstick,
48:27but he's also wearing these very large oversized prosthetic fake breasts.
48:33And this is how he goes to class.
48:36This is how he conducts lectures.
48:38He's saying he wants to live in his full person himself.
48:41And my question is, what are you going to do about it, Oxford?
48:46Because this is a time for choosing.
48:49And I'm presenting this because clearly this is in England.
48:53But the same things are happening here.
48:54Remember on Resurrection Sunday morning when Mr. Ice
48:58Creme Man was still president?
49:00And instead of acknowledging with reverence the resurrection of the King of Glory, you
49:05have what?
49:06Trans day of visibility.
49:08Huh.
49:13What kind of people will we be?
49:16What kind of people do we want to be?
49:18And that's at an institution of higher learning.
49:23We've learned so highly, we have no idea what a man is or what a woman is.
49:31Good as being called evil.
49:34And evil is being called good.
49:39The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
49:44Family Association or American Family Radio.

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