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Four Christian baseball players stood firm and Major League Baseball backed down.

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0:00 - 15:00. Matthew 5:4-12. Meekness is strength under control. Controlled strength is directable strength. 15:00 - 31:00. Four Christian baseball players stood firm and Major League Baseball backed down. 31:00 - 48:00. The Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Iran is concerning. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call: 877-616-2396

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
0:11It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
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.
0:24Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28and now, the Hamilton Corner.
0:33Good evening everybody, welcome to the Hamilton Corner.
0:35My name is Abraham Hamilton III,
0:37delighted to be on the program with you.
0:42One of the things that the Lord has been impressing upon me
0:45is the need for us to be continuously grateful
0:47and to overflow with gratitude,
0:51to have a heart condition and an internal disposition
0:54to where gratitude is new natural to us.
0:58And I say new natural because it is a byproduct of being born again.
1:02That's not something that comes naturally to fall in Adam.
1:08But it's very easy to be laser focused on points and reasons to complain.
1:15It's very easy.
1:17It's the tried and true trick of the talking snake in the garden that's super intended to
1:23the rebellion.
1:24You have all the lavish access to the entirety of all that God has created.
1:28that is good, that is very good, yet the talking snake was able to cause a siloed focus on what
1:36was perceived as to one thing you can't touch. When the reality is that what it was, instruction
1:42for protection, you know, the same thing often happens in our lives, but we have all kinds of
1:48things to rejoice and be grateful for, yet we often allow the enemy to cause us to be laser-focused
1:55on things that would turn us into traumasians, complaining traumasians.
2:01But it is the goodness of God that empowers us to be able to overcome the fallen Adam,
2:10the the the Adamic propensities to be a latent to the old man instead of basking and growing
2:18in the new nature afforded to us, us having been born again.
2:22So one of the things I would definitely want to encourage you, this audience to embrace
2:30and to bask in is gratitude, man.
2:34God is overwhelmingly good, overwhelmingly good.
2:38Well, thank you for tuning into the program at this very moment.
2:41Many of you, if not most of you, are making your transition from your part-time jobs where
2:45you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
2:49And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
2:53primacy that God places on family.
2:57Guys, there's lots of things that we can do, but the one thing that we must do, batten down
3:02the hatches at home to have the Joshua 24, 15, not merely to be a Hobby Lobby placard put
3:09on the wall in your home as a median my house, you know, but to live that reality.
3:14reality. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Yes, we know darkness mounts all around
3:20us, but you don't have to kick the door open to your front door of your home and say, come
3:24on in. No, no, no, no, no, no. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. As I say on
3:31a regular basis, my man, a hundred grand Mr. Bobby, hara, rosa is right across from me. We've
3:35had some spirited conversations already before coming on the air and in the screening room,
3:41extraordinary often imitate and never duplicated the real J-Mac. Many try to duplicate him.
3:49Unsuscessfully, I might add. Lahey waving at the Kimbaemu tumble finger. No, no, no.
3:56And let me also introduce she didn't want to be in the studio because you don't want
3:59to be on camera. Not yet. We're gonna get in here and eventually. In turn from the summer.
4:05Ever pristine today she's wearing green. We talking about our sister Kennedy Green. In
4:10the screening rooms sitting next to J. Mac.
4:12Y'all just see that laughing.
4:14Wonderful, you got the young lady.
4:16I'm excited to have her with us for the summer.
4:18We're gonna have a good time working together
4:20and glorifying the Lord as we work together.
4:23All right, to the word of God we go, Matthew chapter five
4:25is what we're gonna begin the program.
4:27Matthew chapter five verses four through 12.
4:29This is a part of the longest recorded sermon of Jesus
4:34in the Beatitudes, Matthew chapter five.
4:36One thing that's just remarkable to consider
4:39that Matthew's gospel is actually recorded
4:41by the Jewish tax collector whose Hebrew name is Levi.
4:47But he was employed by the Romans as a tax collector.
4:50And in fact, Jesus is calling to him to become a disciple,
4:53cause a little bit of beef amongst the disciples even.
4:56But the fact that the Hebrew tax collector Levi
4:59even names his gospel Matthew is a sovereign declaration
5:02that Messiah comes from the line of David,
5:07comes from the Hebrew people,
5:08but he's for the world.
5:11So the Romanist name Matthew is what is used
5:15to title this gospel, God is amazing.
5:17Any, from one man, from one blood, all man comes created
5:23and points to the Revelation 7, 9, reality,
5:26that every tribe, nation, and tongue
5:28will have a portion of the Lord's eternal remnant
5:32to bask around the Lord's throne for all eternity.
5:35Glory be to God.
5:37Matthew 5 verses 4 through 12 is where we're going to begin the program.
5:43And this is what God's word says.
5:44Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
5:50Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
5:55Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled,
6:02or shall be satisfied.
6:04Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
6:09Blessed are the pure and heart, for they shall see God.
6:13Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
6:18Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness's sake,
6:22for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
6:25Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you
6:31and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely.
6:34on my account. Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven. For so they persecuted the
6:41prophets who were before you." A couple of things I want to point out first where it says in verse 6,
6:48blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. That is a promise
6:56that God makes to us, for those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, they shall be filled as
7:04The blessings are articulated.
7:06Jesus also explains that peacemakers,
7:09peacemakers, blessed are the peacemakers,
7:13for they shall be called sons of God.
7:15You guys have heard me describe before
7:16that peacemakers are not synonymous with peacekeepers.
7:20Peacekeepers are those who seek to maintain
7:23a stasis that they've inherited, okay?
7:26That the peace is an inheritance, you maintain that.
7:29That's what the Lord tells to His church,
7:31to the Apostle Paul, that we are to maintain
7:35the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
7:37We don't create the unity of the Spirit, however.
7:40Jesus creates the unity of the Spirit
7:43by his atoning, salvific work on the cross.
7:46We then, as his disciples, as his offspring,
7:50as those who have been regenerated
7:52and been granted the new nature,
7:54as 2 Corinthians 5, 17 says,
7:56we then maintain what we've inherited
7:59from Jesus as a result of his work.
8:01But here, Jesus is talking about peace,
8:03keep, I'm sorry, peacemakers, peacemakers are those who enter a chaotic foray in forged peace
8:12out of the chaos, who forged peace out of the chaos. And one of the main components I want to
8:19have a conversation about today during this segment is right there in verse five, blessed are the meek
8:26for they shall inherit the earth. Now oftentimes in our culture we conflict meekness
8:32with weakness. And I understand why we do that first and foremost because they work the words
8:37rhyme. You know meek and weak. Feet and meek. They rhyme. They sound like they're pretty
8:42close together. But the notions of weakness and meekness could not be further apart from
8:48one another. Meekness is a fruit of the spirit. Meekness, and I remember teaching my children
8:55early on, early on, we would even do the gestures. Meekness is strength. And my little baby boy
9:01What reflects strength under control.
9:05Meekness is strength under control.
9:08Or to say it differently, meekness is controlled strength.
9:14Controlled strength can be directed and targeted and utilized.
9:23Strength that is out of control, volatility, belligerence is strength that is not directed
9:33and not targeted and is often counter productive.
9:37Jesus says, blessed are the meek
9:39for they will inherit the earth.
9:41Meekness affords you.
9:43And let me say it differently.
9:44In order for one to be meek,
9:45the presumption is that there is a potency.
9:48There is a potent quality.
9:51You cannot be meek if you are weak.
9:54Because if you are weak, there's no need to control anything
9:57because just envision the spaghetti noodle arms.
10:00Like nobody worrying about you.
10:03You know what was in that movie when the arm rested the movie, the over the top.
10:07You know you get you get your bandana you put your arm on the table and nobody ain't
10:09wearing a ball too you got this getting noodles.
10:12But if you have a strength that is controlled then that strength can be targeted, can be directed
10:19and is useful.
10:21When Jesus turned over the tables again at the temple when the money changes were turning
10:28the house the Lord's house of prayer and to a den of robbers is what Jesus said.
10:32The Bible says that Jesus platted the whip.
10:34He didn't just rage and uncontrolled,
10:39like the dude perfect rage monster.
10:41I know I got children, you know.
10:44He wasn't a rage monster.
10:45He platted with strength, under control.
10:49Controlled strength can be targeted and utilized.
10:55This is the time for the exercise
10:58of the fruit of the spirit that is meekness.
11:02That is meekness.
11:04I was talking to yesterday about the reality.
11:06Yes, we live in a crazy time,
11:07but God knew what time we would be living in.
11:08He knew what the, excuse me,
11:12environmental features would be.
11:14He knew, like they countin' my sneezes.
11:16Boy, y'all ain't no good.
11:18They ain't no good, Kennedy.
11:20They ain't no good.
11:23They comin' with a ledger.
11:24How many sneezes will we get today?
11:25That's one.
11:27I love y'all, brothers.
11:30We live in an environment that is,
11:32absurd and insane on many fronts,
11:34but never forget Act 17,
11:36God is ordained us for this moment.
11:37It is he who determined before time the boundaries of our habitation and when we
11:42would live, why so that we should seek God.
11:46I'm thinking about Kennedy and her in the, the, the, the peers that she has.
11:50And I can only imagine the types of conversations that she's been a part of
11:56and that she's witnessing things of that nature.
11:59But God is ordained you for this moment.
12:01Yes.
12:01With all of the confusion that that's abundant with the, um,
12:06absolutely sociopathic articulations from people like Jesse Ridgeway and others who would say,
12:13yeah, we're having a baby. Then, oh, we learned that our baby may have a chance of having some
12:18difficulty, may have trice in me 21, may have Down syndrome and out of the abundance of caution
12:24against having any circumstance where difficulty could arise for us and where our child may have
12:30difficulties instead of risking the chance for that happening, we're just going to murder the
12:34baby murdered a child and then and then on top of that to say and yeah we murdered
12:39him out of compassion because that is sociopathic talk that is sociopathic talk
12:45that's the kind of stuff that that Margaret Sanger and her eugenics society
12:49said you know these people they're unfit for reproduction so we should
12:52sterilize them and murder them you know for their own good you see we don't want
12:57them to you know to these these weeds we don't want these weeds to be inundated
13:04with the responsibilities attended to reproduction.
13:06So let's just kill them and sterilize them
13:08for their own good.
13:09Guys, that's sociopathic talk.
13:11That's evil, man.
13:12That's rank evil.
13:13But God has ordained us for this time.
13:15And His ordinance for us for this time requires us
13:18to be endude by the potency of His Spirit.
13:23That's what I would say is that the fruit and spirit
13:24are the fruit of the Spirit.
13:26You often heard me describe it,
13:27that the fruit and spirit is the evidence
13:29of the Holy Spirit's residence, right?
13:32is the external manifestation of an internal reality.
13:37A portion of that external manifestation is meekness.
13:41It's strength that's under control.
13:44It's strength that can be targeted and directed and utilized.
13:48It's a strength that creates a resolution
13:51that you can huff and puff like a big bad wolf.
13:53All you want, but you came below my house now.
13:56Because my house is not built on the sand,
13:58my house is built on the rock.
14:01It is a strength that causes us not to be intimidated.
14:05Who is this uncircumcised Philistine
14:07who dared to find the armies of the living God?
14:10You've heard me describe it before, Jesus, I'm sorry, David.
14:12Never describe Goliath as a giant,
14:14not because his eyes ain't work.
14:16It's not because he couldn't see.
14:18No, his vision was clear, so clear
14:22that Goliath was eclipsed by David's view of his God.
14:26This is what I'm talking about.
14:28And in our time, often what's required from us
14:31It's the exercise that meekness in the form of resolve.
14:35You can say what you want,
14:36but my ten toes are down on the ground
14:38and they're planted and they're not moving.
14:40And my refusal to move is not about hatred,
14:44it's not about fear, I'm not phobic about anything,
14:47it's actually anchored in love.
14:50My love for my king, which reduces in me, I love for you.
14:55So I'm not moving because truth comes with a capital T.
15:01a discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:04Looking in the book of Romans, Romans 12,
15:07beginning at verse one.
15:09I beseech you there for brethren by the mercies of God
15:12that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,
15:15holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
15:19And do not be conformed to this world,
15:22but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
15:25which you may prove what is that good and acceptable
15:27and perfect will of God.
15:30for I say through the grace given to me,
15:32to everyone who is among you,
15:33not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think,
15:36but to think soberly as God has dealt to each one,
15:38a measure of faith, and individually,
15:41members of one another.
15:44Father, we thank you once again for the wisdom,
15:46the powerful grace, the powerful understanding,
15:48and insight that is ours,
15:50as we spend time with you one on one in your word,
15:53each and every day.
15:54We thank you, and we praise you in Jesus' name.
15:57We do pray.
15:58Amen.
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16:36Shining light into the darkness. This is the Hamilton corner on American family radios
16:43Welcome to the Hamilton corner. Welcome back. I should say to the Hamilton corner Abraham Hamilton the third
16:48here an example of the type of of controlled strength I'm talking about was on display this last couple weeks
16:58um in major league baseball and I want to talk a little bit about it because it was four players in total
17:06three of them
17:08Well, let me explain what happens.
17:10So Major League Baseball had two teams,
17:14and it's funny how this unfolds.
17:18They started this thing having so-called pride knights
17:22in Major League Baseball.
17:24Then they implemented a rule, I think about 2023,
17:27whether you no longer have these, you know,
17:29pride, uniforms, and things of that nature,
17:31but the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants
17:34applied for exemptions from the rule
17:37prohibiting the pride night celebrations
17:43and having the uniforms be changed
17:44and all this other kind of stuff.
17:45Anyway, I didn't know all of this before I learned this
17:47when this issue came to the fore in the news recently.
17:51And I'm gonna say it real slow,
17:53the San Francisco Giants, San Francisco,
17:57home of Harvey Milk,
17:59and the fulcrum, if you will,
18:05of the LGBTQIAP plus Rainbow Gestapo establishment. And then I'm saying that the social political
18:19advance, right? Not to be confused with the individual people, right? And individual people
18:26are bound in various iterations of sin who need the gospel, you know, that's the people.
18:33But then you have the advocates for this social political agenda through which they seek to
18:38to aid the fundamental transformation of the United States of America by employing what
18:43Georgie Lukox said in the 1900s was cultural terrorism by inundating society with sexual
18:52degeneracy and to normalize it.
18:56Well, the San Francisco Giants had four players who said, you know, we don't rock with this,
19:06you know, celebration of pride night.
19:08And I'm going to name these players because the scripture says to give honor to where
19:13honor is due.
19:15These are four men who are Christians and they didn't make a big scene.
19:21They were not belligerent.
19:23They were not volatile.
19:24They didn't try to, you know, blast social media and blast their team.
19:27But they said, nah, it was all really like the Hebrew boys except these are like 20 something,
19:3330 something year old grown men who make millions of dollars who have the unmitigated
19:39and go to say, you know what, we're not doing that.
19:41We're not doing that.
19:42So what am I talking about?
19:44San Francisco's right hand pitcher, Landon Rupp,
19:4832 year old JT Brubacher, Ryan Walker,
19:53and then you had a fourth player,
19:55give you his name, and his stance was a little bit different,
19:58but in agreement with the other three Christians
20:00with three of the other Christians on the team,
20:02Sam Hintjitz, who's 29 years old.
20:05So we're talking about a 29 year old, a 27 year old,
20:07thirty-year-old and a thirty-two-year-old all grown in, obviously.
20:12Three of them, Landon Rupp, JT Brute Baker, I said back, I'm sorry, and Ryan Walker all
20:19decided, oh, the team is going to make us wear these Pride Knight uniforms on our hat.
20:27We're going to write Genesis chapter nine, verses 12 through 16.
20:33And what Genesis 9, verses 12 through 16 explains is that the bow is God's bow and its expression
20:40of God's covenant with mankind never to deluge the earth to destroy the earth again by a global
20:46deluge, a global flood.
20:50So these three men, right, landing up, J.T.
20:52Brubaker and Ryan Walker said, we're going to write Genesis chapter 9, verses 12 through
20:5716 on our hats.
20:59The fourth man, the fourth man, Sam Hintges, said, you know what?
21:04I ain't wearing a rainbow colored hat.
21:07I'm gonna just wear the regular San Francisco Giants baseball hat.
21:11Now all four of these gentlemen did what they did in opposition to what their teams were
21:17requiring.
21:18All right?
21:20It became a huge deal that deal as you might imagine.
21:23In San Francisco, some say San Francisco, I didn't say that.
21:27Some people say, some people say.
21:30It was a huge deal.
21:32doing interviews every quarter. You think they asking them about balls of strikes? Nah.
21:37You think they want to talk about, man, you had a, you threw a curve ball. You had a, nah.
21:40You want to talk about, and in fact the Giants lost the game, by the way, five to one, they
21:44lost the game. You want to talk about them? Nah. They want to say, well, will we notice
21:48that you decided to put some, some wording on your hat? Why did you do that? And they accused
21:54the players of hate of being phobic. You know it the whole deal. And to a man, they said,
22:00And this is not about hate at all.
22:01I just believe what I believe.
22:03And one of them even said, I just feel like I'm being compelled
22:05to do something and embrace something
22:07that I just simply don't agree with.
22:08It's not about hate.
22:09I just disagree.
22:10And I don't want to be forced to embrace
22:11and endorse something that I don't agree with.
22:14Well, first, the first response after that,
22:19the San Francisco Giants' manager came out,
22:23basically threw his own players under the bus.
22:25Not all the way under the bus.
22:26I mean, they wasn't looking at the undercarriage all the way,
22:28They probably were in the truck with the space they
22:31were spare, you know what I mean?
22:33They were probably in the trunk, you know?
22:37The manager, which is the coach in baseball, said, well,
22:41we had players there, grown men, he'd say like this,
22:43but he said, but they have the right to exercise,
22:45they believe, but we as an organization, we as a team,
22:48we have this long standing support, blah, blah, blah,
22:52Yak and he smack it, y'all know the drill.
22:54Then after that, Major League Baseball itself
23:00sent out a very nebuchanezer like public rebuke and I'll give you all the
23:06Ape standard version. They said A.O. San Francisco Giants players.
23:11Y'all know we have a policy in the league concerning our uniforms
23:16and if you put extra wording on your baseball hats that is a violation
23:21of our policy. Y'all know how policy violations get handled.
23:26Find suspensions, you know the drill.
23:31And the players.
23:34But something crazy happened.
23:36And the players, and look,
23:39late 20s, early 30s, and millionaires, you know,
23:42but these are not like the most popular players in the league.
23:45These are not like show-haled, tony.
23:47These are not, you know, these are not, you know,
23:49Bryce Harper.
23:50These are not the super, uber, uber, super stars.
23:52These are just regular players.
23:54And even while professional sports,
23:56regular players can get the regular player treatment.
23:59They just said that way very easily.
24:02But the players, guys, the players did not back down.
24:06The players did not back down.
24:09The players reasserted their positions.
24:12Look, this is not about hate at all.
24:15We have a belief system.
24:16We believe we have the right and thankfully we live in a country that we can express ourselves.
24:21And if there's something we feel like that our conscience won't allow us the support to
24:24embrace, you know, and they stood firm.
24:27And then something amazing happened.
24:31immediately after Major League Baseball, the commissioner, which is Robert Manfred, sent
24:37out his screen and the condemnation and the rebuke came from Robert Manfred, by the way.
24:41He came from the commissioner of baseball, reminding the players about their policies,
24:46their rules that they could face fines, they could face suspensions.
24:49If they did not comply with the uniform standards, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
24:55After that, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley stepped into the fray.
25:01I'm going to read to you a little bit from Josh Holly,
25:03Senator Holly's letter to Robert Manfred.
25:07And he begins his letter to the hustle.
25:08I'm not going to read the whole thing.
25:10I'm not going to read it.
25:11And Pastor Carl, you're already on it.
25:12You're already on it because Josh Holly called that out.
25:15Pastor Carl said, I bet they would have no problem
25:17if they put BLM on their jersey.
25:19Actually, Pastor Carl, that happened.
25:24There are scores of players who did it,
25:25and nobody faced any retribution,
25:27the condemnation, or a bug for it.
25:29But this is how Josh Holly began his letter
25:31to Commissioner Robert Manfred.
25:33He said, quote, Dear Commissioner Manfred, I write with grave concern over your reported
25:37decision to issue a formal warning to three major league baseball players for publicly
25:41expressing their Christian faith.
25:43This follows a high profile undercover investigation that revealed at least one MLB player, I'm
25:48sorry, one MLB team, discriminated against a player based on his faith.
25:53You must answer for what appears to be a patted of discrimination within Major League Baseball
25:57against players who profess their Christian faith, end quote.
26:02Josh Holly, in addition to communicating the theological and the moral and legal principle,
26:09he then started talking big boy talk.
26:12I'll take you to the fifth paragraph in Josh Senator Holly's letter.
26:22He said, quote, my concern is sharpened by the singular legal position and major league
26:26baseball occupies.
26:28Alone among America's professional sports leagues, baseball enjoys a sweeping, judicially
26:33manufactured exemption from the federal antitrust laws.
26:39A privilege, the Senate Judiciary Committee has examined with bipartisan skepticism in
26:44recent years.
26:46A league that benefits from such an extraordinary dispensation owes the public a corresponding
26:52measure of accountability, and it invites the closest scrutiny when it appears to wield
26:58its market power to punish Americans for their beliefs.
27:02exemption in any event has never been understood to shield the league from its legal obligation
27:08not to discriminate against its employees on the basis of religion."
27:11And y'all know I translate league leagues.
27:17I want to know a little nice little secret secret.
27:21Guess who sits on the US Senate Judiciary Committee?
27:24That would be Senator Josh Hawley.
27:27Will Senator Josh Hawley just explain for all the world to know is like I'm back up from
27:31the mic.
27:34Baseball, you guys are actually violating our antitrust laws.
27:41And my committee just so happens to be the committee
27:43that reviews that antitrust exemption that you guys enjoy.
27:47You guys violate the antitrust laws,
27:49but we've granted you an exemption.
27:51But my committee is reviewing that exemption.
27:54And you know, I would hate to have to take
27:55a little bit more scrutiny to that exemption
27:59since you guys wanna discriminate against people
28:01because of their beliefs, Christians in particular.
28:07You know what the antitrust provision state?
28:09Because usually violations of antitrust laws
28:11result in things like breaking up monopolies
28:14and things of that nature.
28:15Because you, how can you have one organization that owns
28:17major league baseball, triple A, single A, double A,
28:19they own all the leagues?
28:22Y'all would not want us to look into that to see
28:24whether or not this is an illegal monopolized industry.
28:28Would you want us to do that?
28:30That's what y'all is saying.
28:32And by gosh, what do you think happened next?
28:36What do you think happened next?
28:37Well, you don't have to guess, I'll tell you.
28:39Commissioner Manfred responds.
28:45Commissioner Manfred responded to Josh Holler
28:47with the letter himself saying,
28:51"'Because some players were uncomfortable
28:53wearing pride-themed uniforms,
28:54the league adopted a policy in 2023."
28:57You see.
28:58In 2023, a prohibiting club's from using special uniforms,
29:02capsular equipment in their celebration days,
29:04except under very narrow circumstances,
29:06such as honor, special patches, honoring deceased members
29:09of the baseball community, things of that nature.
29:11as you know he didn't say this in the letter,
29:13but the Dodgers and the Giants had an exemption from that.
29:21But this is what Commissioner Manford's letter goes on
29:23to explain that the exemption that the Giants
29:27and the Los Angeles Dodgers enjoy
29:30from the rule they adopted in 2023
29:33allowed the permitted the usage of pride,
29:36emblems on captain uniforms on so-called pride nights,
29:39quote, provided that no players or uniform staff
29:42would be required to wear them, and that the team would speak to the players to make
29:47sure they were comfortable with the apparel.
29:51Unfortunately, this year's Giants communication with players was inadequate and not clear.
29:57Some players apparently did not understand that they had the option to wear their normal
30:01uniform and elected to add messages to their hats bearing the pride logo as a result.
30:08The Giants players were allowed to wear the hats with Biblical references for the entire
30:11after the game had concluded my office issued a routine oral warning about the
30:16uniform policy violation. Unfortunately it was issued before we became aware of
30:22the giant slaps in communication. The players were neither fined nor
30:27disciplined nor will they ever be in court. I didn't do that Bobby did that
30:37I'm not sure.
30:38Again, what was Commissioner Maaphur saying?
30:44Uncle, Commissioner Maaphur was saying,
30:49Senator Holly, we don't want no smoke.
30:52We don't want any smoke.
30:53Listen, listen, listen, listen, Senator Holly,
30:56let me tell you what happened was,
30:57we already adopted the rule in 2023.
31:00This never should have happened.
31:01See initially I thought that the players agreed
31:04to wear the hats and then they want to ride on them
31:06and then that was the problem.
31:07But no, you see, we ended up finding out,
31:09And I want to make sure that you know that I know that you know that I know so that you know that the problem was the giant
31:14You see the team the team didn't tell those players that they didn't have to wear the hats
31:19That's what it is. So in spite of the letter that I wrote
31:23Remember Rob Manfred is one who sent the letter to the Giants instead of players
31:26In spite of the letter that I wrote threatening them with fines and suspensions
31:31It was just a big mid-hand standing coinkie think that's all just a big little coinkie thing. There's a problem
31:36Just a little, you know, see the it's the Giants fault. It's not my fault
31:40You know, it's not my fault as a commissioner of the league and I sent out this rebuking scathing threatening letter to the players
31:47Before I realized oh, they didn't know they didn't have to wear that
31:54Now why am I presenting all of this for this simple reason?
31:59Blessed are the meek
32:01controlled strength
32:02Now the players didn't know that Rob Manfred would cry uncle and back away
32:06All they knew is that their team was requiring them to use God's bow in an unlawful, unbiblical
32:16manner.
32:17And they said, we're not going along with it.
32:19We're not going along with it.
32:22I don't know what this would cause us.
32:23You know, I don't know how this is all going to play out, but we're not going to stand
32:28for it.
32:30And my prayer for us guys is that this will be encouraging because often in our lives,
32:34all that's necessary is for you just to take a stand.
32:38your feet, take a stand and act upon the truth of God's word and standing in
32:44righteousness. That's it. This is a modern example of having a goliath so to
32:51speak to back down. These players didn't know that the major league, the league
32:57would bow and capitulate and back away from their previous threat. But when
33:04you're standing in conviction, this is not the product of the work of pollsters.
33:07You don't stick your finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing and
33:10You know, you want to mean test your ability to say what is going to be the fallout?
33:14You simply take your stand.
33:18We need more meatness demonstrated in this fashion in our society.
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34:02Listen to the US hockey players as they're getting off the plane yesterday in Miami.
34:07So many of those guys say, we're so glad to be home.
34:11If you've traveled abroad, you're glad to get home.
34:15This is still one of the best, if not the best place to live.
34:20Which is why so many 15, 20 million people
34:24try to break into this country.
34:26Today's issues weekday mornings at 11 Eastern, 10 Central,
34:29on American Family Radio.
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34:39are available at AFR.net.
34:41back to the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
34:45Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
34:49Now one thing I want to point out is that in light of this, and something I wasn't aware of,
34:54that Robert Manfred Commissioner of Major League Baseball made public now,
34:58through his correspondence with Senator Josh Hawley, is they outlawed using Major League Baseball uniforms
35:06for these quote unquote special messages in 2023.
35:09And one of the things that Senator Hawley pointed out
35:12is like you guys had messages,
35:14you promote messages all the time that you want,
35:16but you wanna come down to these players
35:19when they wanna say, you know, you're misconstruing
35:22what God's boy actually means.
35:23So that led to Commissioner Manfred saying,
35:25you know what, I'm backing off of this thing.
35:29But now here's a question that's gonna persist.
35:33Because the only two teams that secured the exemption
35:36from the 22-23 rule was the Dodgers,
35:38Los Angeles, colleges, and the San Francisco Giants.
35:41What do you think they'd like to do that they would be,
35:43I don't know, rainbow themed baseball uniforms in 2027?
35:51Eh, what do you think?
35:52Eh, I don't know for sure, but it seems like
35:56we might not see that anymore.
36:00And that is due to these four players,
36:03three of which put Genesis chapter nine,
36:05verses 12 through 16 on their hats,
36:07one of which you say, you know what?
36:09I don't know what the consequences are,
36:10but I'm not wearing that hat.
36:13I'm not wearing that, that, that, that alter uniform.
36:17Sometimes guys, all that's necessary is to stand.
36:20That's what I'm saying.
36:21It's to stand, it's to stand.
36:27You know, we're not going out, you know,
36:28looking to be belligerent, looking for a fight,
36:31but also we're not gonna back down
36:32when you are trying to impose upon us
36:34something that is, that is constitutionally unacceptable,
36:40unacceptable.
36:42So I'm grateful for these men who took their stand
36:46and created a public showing up moment
36:49as a result of their willingness simply saying,
36:52now we're not gonna go along with it.
36:56All right, now I wanna go into,
36:58and I'm gonna try my best to avoid too much commentary
37:00on this point because I just want you
37:02to be aware of this first and foremost.
37:06I came across several different reports
37:08because I've been wanting to learn what is in the memorandum
37:13of understanding between President Trump,
37:16more really the United States of America and the Iranians.
37:20And there are lots of considerations to be made.
37:27I want to state on the onset, man, being present in his hardest job in the world.
37:35But also, I'm committed to being an equal opportunity true teller.
37:40And I'll tell you, man, I do not like this deal at all.
37:43I do not like this deal at all.
37:47And when I'm looking at this, you know, memorandum of understanding this MOU, which is not the
37:53final agreement, but it is establishing the framework for the final agreement, it leaves
37:59me thinking, are we better off now than we were before Operation Epic Fury began?
38:08And where do the radical Shiite 12ers stand?
38:13Are they better off now than they were before with this?
38:16place and then the consistent notion I've raised multiple times, how do you negotiate
38:22with the sycophantic religiously zealous murderous Shiite regime that has demonstrated throughout
38:33history their willingness to use lying as a tactic? How do you negotiate with them? So let's get into
38:42it a little bit. And one of the first things I'm concerned about is if our objective was
38:51to eliminate the prospect of nuclear threat from the Iranians, then why isn't that point
39:00number one in the memorandum of understanding? I don't want to reach much into it, but I
39:04would have thought that would have been point number one. But no, no, no, the issue of Iran's
39:12nuclear enrichment and we don't get to that to a point eight of the 14 points in the MOU.
39:21Just telling it like it is.
39:23So let's start at the beginning.
39:24Point number one, an end to the conflict and end to conflict on all fronts.
39:29I thought this was interesting and I pointed this out to you before.
39:33The very first paragraph of the agreement notes that the US and Iran and allies would
39:38declare a quote immediate and permanent termination of military operation on all fronts, including
39:47Lebanon.
39:49Lebanon was mentioned numerous times.
39:53If you've been paying attention to this, Israel has been carrying out strikes in Lebanon
39:57throughout this ordeal, throughout the entire engagement, which is a straight straight up
40:06outright broadside proclamation that Iran is equally interested in Lebanon.
40:12The governing authorities in Lebanon, the governing authority in Lebanon is Hezbollah.
40:18Hezbollah is Iran extended.
40:21And they're basically admitting that.
40:23If the number one point in the memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran includes
40:29a cessation of hostilities in Lebanon. This is once again an affirmation that Iran. I'm
40:37sorry that Lebanon is Iran extended. As I said, the final agreement according to the MOU
40:51will lead to the permanent termination of the conflict. Point number two, I'm trying
40:57to move a little quickly. We only got 10 minutes and I'm hoping and planning to continue
41:02this tomorrow with a bit more commentary because this is one to get the points out
41:05today. Point two is respect for internal affairs. The text of the documents notes that the U.S.
41:14and Iran will quote, respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and refrain
41:19from interfering in each side's internal affairs.
41:24My people alone, I don't know how I can kill them.
41:31Yeah, yeah. Now think about it, this is coming from people who we know slaughtered at least
41:3540 some odd thousand of their own citizens. Also, do you recall that our president said,
41:41what did he say when this started? Help is on the way. Remember that? And this is why this concerns
41:48me. You know, you have that help is on the way. And you had previously 38 times it was counted before
41:53this that President Trump said that we're close to a deal. We're close to a deal. We're close to a deal.
41:57The issue I have with this is it nullifies the potency of our commander in chief's art
42:03articulation. So now, and we never should have been, it's my
42:09estimation that if regime change was the objective, that never
42:13should have been the objective with this. But the US
42:21president said help is on the way. How do you think that's
42:23going to impact the people that were willing to rise up
42:25before? And to which I asked the question, is that is that is
42:31it's better or worse for the Iranian people? Yet the agreement
42:35is that is respect for each other's internal affairs,
42:40which as a general principle, of course,
42:42I agree with that and I believe
42:44that we should respect each other's internal affairs,
42:48but that way we are.
42:52And let me, again, let me try to get the points out.
42:55Save much of the commentary.
42:57Point three, an extendable 60 day timeline,
43:01which by the way, the 60 days have started.
43:04A quarter to the third point in the document,
43:06the US and Iran will commit to negotiating
43:08achieving a final deal in a quote unquote maximum of 60 days, although that timeline could
43:13be extended with mutual consent.
43:15So much of the news reporting has been we're in a 60 day ceasefire at 60 days, 60 days,
43:2060 days, but the MOU itself says that 60 days can be extended.
43:26So what I'm saying is don't hang your coat on 60 days.
43:36This document was signed at the Palace of Versailles in France and has been signed by
43:42President Trump and by Iranian President Masood, Pasekian.
43:48All right, point four, point four in the MOU.
43:52The U.S. to end the blockade.
43:56According to the MOU, one signed, which it has been signed, now the U.S. will begin removing
43:59its naval blockade and quote any disturbances or impediments that have been placed on Iranian
44:04ports.
44:07The blockade will end fully within 30 days according to the MOU.
44:12between the US and the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
44:16Within 30 days of the final deal being signed, that is not the MOU.
44:20Within 30 days of the final deal being signed, the US has committed to moving American forces
44:25from the quote, proximity of Iran.
44:29Practically this means that the US military will return to the posture and the assets it
44:34had in place before hostilities began on February 28th.
44:38Alright?
44:39Let me try to move faster.
44:40Straight of our moves is .5.
44:4321 miles wide. According to the MOU, Iran will quote,
44:48"'Make arrangements using its best efforts to allow safe passage of commercial vessels
44:52through the Strait of Hormuz with no charge."
44:55We have reports that has happened when the straits were open, 19, what million barrels of
45:00oil were shipped, that immediate day. And the MOU says that the traffic will start flowing
45:04immediately, taking into account the need to remove technical and military obstacles and
45:09conduct de-mining operations. That is an important point, if you've been paying attention to President
45:13Trump mentioned that the global oil reserves had got down to the point to where only about
45:19four weeks left.
45:21So that's, and when a global reserves was refined, immediately readily usable petroleum products,
45:29as opposed to being crude and other things that required additional refinement.
45:33Point six, and this I'm just be real, this is the biggest gut punch to me.
45:37I felt like I got mule kicked in the chest when I read this.
45:41The six point says the US and regional partners will develop a quote definitive mutually
45:48agreed plan worth at least $300 billion for reconstruction and economic development in
45:55Iran.
45:56$300 billion.
45:58That'll be clear.
46:00The financial mechanisms will be agreed within 60 days of the final deal.
46:04That's not the MOU, but the final deal in all licenses, waivers, and permissions will be
46:07granted by the US.
46:09However, this does not mean the US will be financially involved.
46:13And now I'm leading to some of the latter points.
46:15What they're considering is kind of a combination of releasing frozen assets, removing sanctions
46:24and things of that nature.
46:25Again, so point seven is that all sanctions against Iran from the US will end.
46:34That's two mule kicks to the chest for me.
46:36For now.
46:37Yeah.
46:38Bobby says for now.
46:39Well, it's all behavior oriented.
46:40Yeah.
46:41Yeah, this is true.
46:42that this is that that in order for this to come into fruition that Iran basically has
46:46to comply.
46:47They have to be good yet to be a good boy in order to get all of this stuff.
46:51But do you trust him?
46:58I don't trust him.
46:59According to point seven, the US will terminate all economic sanctions against Iran, including
47:03those included in UN Security Council resolutions and those implemented unilaterally by the US.
47:09So think about this is not only the sanctions imposed by the US, but also those imposed
47:14by the United Nations. Yeah. Mm hmm. And the final deal, I'm kind of moving ahead a little
47:26bit, the final deal requires a resolution to be issued ultimately by the UN Security Council,
47:32solemnizing these agreements. Then when you get to point eight, and again, I asked why it wasn't
47:37this point, number one, Iran has agreed not to procure or develop a nuclear weapon. And both sides
47:43have agreed to deal with the enriched uranium terrain already has the method to manage this
47:50enriched uranium however is unclear but the document knows that the mechanism will quote
47:55be mutually agreed upon in subsequent talks but that at a minimum it will be down blended
48:02in place and in place under the supervision of the international atomic energy agency
48:06the ia which iran is already saying by the way we do in that but they find agreement they
48:14It's not an agreement.
48:17Oh, which again, how then should we as American people reconcile the previous assertions?
48:29For example, Operation Midnight Hammer, we've decimated their nuclear capacity.
48:32Doesn't seem like that.
48:34Ended up to be true.
48:38Depends on what the definition of it is, what this decimated mean.
48:43We destroyed all of the nuclear enrichment, but we're going in to stop their nuclear capabilities.
48:49I mean, it's just, this, this, this, man, this is, this bothers me, man, this bothers me.
48:56Points 9 and 10 status quo, we're getting close to the end.
48:58I'll try to say these and I'll pick up with 11 through 14 tomorrow.
49:01Lord willing.
49:02The US and Iran agreed to a status quo of Iran's nuclear program in the meantime until the enriched
49:08uranium can be dealt with.
49:09Practically, this means that the US will not impose new sanctions in the meantime and it
49:14will issue waivers for the export of oil, petroleum products and other associated services,
49:18such as banking transactions and transportation.
49:24Guys, I don't like this.
49:25I don't like it at all.
49:27And I understand President Trump is in a difficult position,
49:29but I have all kinds of concerns.
49:34Did we have the proper expectation and assessment
49:38before we did all of this?
49:40It seems like it was a surprise that Iran
49:43was able to endure as long as they did.
49:47It seemed like there was a surprise that they were able
49:49to exercise such a stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz.
49:51And I know that we didn't unleash the fullness
49:55our capabilities of course, but this feels bad and it looks bad.
50:02Maybe I'm missing something.
50:03We'll dig into a little bit more in our office from commentary after we get through the last
50:06four points.
50:07Lord willing tomorrow.
50:10The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
50:15Family Association or American Family Radio.

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