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notifying parents. And there was also, the way it was interpreted, if the child had been a victim of child abuse, child rape, the molester would be able to take the child to get an abortion without the parents knowing that as well. So it really was just an egregiously bad bill. There was another bill where they're trying to amend the state constitution, so that you have abortion on demand for any reason, essentially, for

whatever cause. And there's no You know, David, I was curious, I haven't had a chance to look limits of any kind on abortion. So Republicans back on May, first week of May, I think it was May the 3rd, maybe, they walked out. And when they walked out of the Senate, 13 of them walked out, that broke the quorum, which is the majority, so they don't have a majority of senators to meet. And if you don't have a majority, if you don't have a quorum, then you can't do business in the Senate.

So what it did was essentially shut down the Senate. And it means that these really bad bills can't go forward at all. So talked about them, I don't know, two or three earlier times. And it's really, I mean, these guys really put everything on the line. Because last election, Oregon passed a constitutional amendment that said, if any legislator has 10 days of unexcused absences, then there's economic penalties as well as they can't run for

office again. So when these guys walked out back, first week of May, which you know, now we're four or five, six weeks into this, they gave up their careers, essentially. They walked off, they lost the money that goes with being a legislator, all that because this was... they just were willing to stand for this issue. They've now returned, and

they're back. And that's because the Democrats have agreed to drop several the really radical provisions, while Oregon is still pro abortion, they're dropping the provision of the bill that would remove the parental rights. And so now, if a child 15, or under wants an abortion, or transgender treatment, or anything about hormone therapy, or anything else, they have to let the parents know, which is... that's what they were after. This is

just going too far too low. [I] understand it's a liberal state, but this is too far. And so that's out and the Democrats agreed to drop the constitutional amendment to give abortion for any cause any reason, unlimited abortion resolution, so it really is a really, really good deal. And by the way, along with that the Democrats also agreed to remove a section that would have given taxpayer funded abortion on colleges to pay for abortions on colleges. So that's another

really bad measure. So kudos to these Republicans. They may have given up their career, we'll see. I was talking to some people in Oregon a week or two ago. And they said, well, it was not really clear whether the constitutional amendment was to go into effect this election or the next election. And that still has yet to be determined. So I guess there's a possibility these guys might come back next

time. It depends on what the legal finding is on when the bill goes into effect, but they didn't know that when they walked out and so to their credit, they were willing to give up their career and the income that went with it in order to do this to protect kids and the pro life position, make it as far as they could make it in the state of Oregon, which that's really good. And I just commend them for their courage, and I commend them for staying

out. And, of course, they got beat up by the paper, and they got beat up by all sorts of people in the state just, you know, harping on them and just giving them flak, but they did the right thing. And as a result, this bill, while it's still a bad bill, it's not nearly as horrific as it was. So congratulations to those Oregon Republicans. Good for them.

at what part of the state they live in, but I'm guessing Oregon's another one of these states where Portland drives the... it's the most of the population, so it really drives the legislative agenda. And these are probably some senators from some of the more rural areas with some common sense and It really is weird in these states like that, Rick, that, biblical values you know, basically, Chicago

runs all of Illinois. And yet if you get down in Southern Illinois, in the farm country down there, the people down there, you know, that's more conservative than, I don't know, Arkansas, or Oklahoma or parts of Texas. And the same with when you get up into Washington state. If you get outside of the SeaTac area, Seattle Tacoma. Seattle Tacoma is 55% of the state's population. And it's just... it only exists along that I-5 corridor. So it's just a you know, a few miles wide, so

to speak. And so you might have 80% of the land area of the state all the way over in Spokane. And over in that Clarkston, Lewiston area. They're all super conservative. They're as conservative as any red state in the United States. But they're outnumbered 55-45. And the same in Oregon, when you throw Portland in and Eugene and things like that. So there are a lot of conservatives in Oregon.

And you know, it's interesting when we were up there a couple weeks ago, it's like nobody ever comes up there to see them or work with them or anything, because it's just such a liberal state on the outside that nobody comes up and spends time with them. And so even as we got up there, and we were doing some meetings in churches and groups are coming together, and there were some Republican groups and others that were showing up, it was like, an injection in their

arm. It's like they don't ever get anybody coming up there to help them with anything. And they got really enthused and energetic. And I think there's enough there to be able to do something. They might not be able to overcome Portland or Seattle, or, you know, the big cities like that. But my goodness, there's some good people up there, there's no question.

the greater Idaho movement. I know that changes the Senate, you end up with 200 senators in Washington and all that, but boy, it'd be a whole lot better on all those folks, both sides, right, the left leaning people can make their state as crazy as they want. And then the more conservative rational folks can have a place where they want to raise their kids. And, man, I just think of that when I think of Oregon, when I think of

Washington. There's a lot of states like that, that even Chicago and Illinois, in the same way. I wonder what the Founding Fathers would have said to that, because we hadn't done that since, what? West Virginia? I guess that's the last time that we had a state come out of another state? Maybe? I don't know, I don't... I may not have that right, in terms of which one it was. But I'd love to see more of that. Smaller little republics, I think would be good.

thing. But it's interesting, Rick, you say that, because historically, when you go back, so many of those other states before, they were free states, and what the Democrats were doing, who were pro slavery at the time, they were trying to get the pro slavery part of those free states to become a separate state, so they can pick up two pro slavery votes in the Senate. So it's exactly the opposite of what we're talking

about now. Because if you could get, say, an Eastern Washington split from Western Washington, you added two more votes to the Senate, but they would be two conservative votes because they come from the conservative part of the state. So it would pretty much make Oregon or Washington or whatever, just a, almost a no show, they wouldn't have any impact at all in national elections, because they'd cancel each other, which is better than what it is now where they are liberal states because of those

big cities. So it's happened before in that sense, but earlier, it was the, kind of the wacky side, the pro slavery side that was trying to get the states to split so that they can have more pro slavery votes in the Senate. Although, as you mentioned, West Virginia did split from Virginia in 1863 in the middle of the Civil War, so that they can become a free state as opposed to Virginia being a slaves said at that point in time, but it's an

interesting option. And they were... they literally were talking about those options and exploring and how do you do it. And it looks like it's a really hard, long convoluted process today. But we'll see what happens. But they're certainly

for that to happen. It's just, you got to have legislative approval of each state that the boundaries would touch and also have congressional approval. So you're right, it's some big steps. Alright, Tim, we made you wait almost halfway through the program before you got to share some good news. What's your first piece of good news today?

And last year was a record high for Americans supporting the homosexual agenda, gay marriage, etc. And this year, there's been a 7% decrease, which is the largest drop, pretty much ever in Gallup polling, in the support for homosexuality in general, but specifically, of individuals that find it to be a morally acceptable thing, where they say this is a morally good or morally relative thing. Now, still the majority of Americans definitely view homosexuality in

a positive light. 63% of Americans still think that there's nothing wrong with gay

or lesbian relations. But it's super interesting that, as we've seen over the last several months, whether it be with Bud Light, whether it be with Target, with some of these different companies that have come out promoting, supporting, and, of course, in June, when it felt like all of these major companies were promoting this so much, it's really fascinating to see that Americans are coming to the place that after last year having an all time high, they're saying, you know, we're kind of

tired of you guys forcing this down our throat. Again, the majority of Americans still support this, but the fact that this is the largest drop off they have ever seen, and it comes this year, I think, for so long, and for so long being relative that the Gallup polling identified that it wasn't until 2011, when Americans... a majority of Americans first said that gay and lesbian relationships, the LGBTQ+ agenda

was morally acceptable. So up until then, the majority of Americans still recognize that's really not the best kind of relationships, that's not the right kind of relationship, it's not the way it should go. Since 2011, the majority of Americans have identified that way, up to last year being an all time

high. But guys, I just think it's super interesting that when we saw an all out push in this transgender movement, when there's just so much in your face... and maybe even since COVID, when more and more people are waking up. And you know, the fact again, last year was an all time high, maybe people were starting to wake up but weren't really pushing back, yet. And then when you had this in your face nonsense that we had earlier this year, at that point, maybe there's people

saying, you know what? This is it... You've gone too far, this is the straw that broke the camel's back, we're not doing this anymore. And it does seem to be that people are saying, we don't want this kind of stuff pushed on our kids. We don't want this pushed in our culture. It's not yet back to the majority of the Americans, majority of culture saying we don't want this. But this is the biggest drop, the biggest change that Gallup has ever seen in their polling. And that is very

encouraging. What this could be for culture, hopefully beginning to wake up to some of what has become acceptable, that should not be morally acceptable.

this. But I would guess that if you look at the numbers that are changing in the polling, those are probably people that were kind of sitting it out. In other words, they were just on the sidelines, they weren't really invested on one side or the other. They were just saying, yeah, I'm okay with everything. Just let everybody love everybody. And now all of a sudden, they're going I can't sit on the sidelines, this is affecting my children too.

anymore. which is also seems to be very telling, because for so much of these woke issues, it by and large, oftentimes seems to be these white college kids, you know, that... or sometimes these Karen moms, so to speak, but these very liberal ladies, or these very liberal white kids that are promoting this agenda. When we were even looking back at some of the Black Lives Matter protest, there was as much, if not more, Antifa violence from white kids than there were from anybody else in

some of these protests. And it's just... it's kind of interesting, that the people who have embraced the radical wokeism the most is not necessarily sometimes the community that's put forward in some of these issues. And so the fact that 10%, the biggest swing, came from what Gallup identified as non whites is kind of interesting, in this context. And, Rick, I know we need to go to break so we can pick up the rest after break.

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And so I've got one here from Alabama. And in Alabama, this first part says that another 132 United Methodist churches disaffiliated, leaving the north Alabama conference of the denomination. So just in North Alabama, just north Alabama, 132 United Methodist churches have left the denomination. And then I see further in the article, it says, and earlier in the week, the Alabama and West Florida conference finalized the disaffiliation of 193 more

churches. So just basically in that Alabama thing you're looking at, what is it, 350 churches may be going out? So there's a lot of churches, even in a fairly liberal denomination, that aren't really wanting to be liberal. And it kind of maybe goes to the poll that Tim was talking about before the break where, we're seeing a change in the way the country is viewing some of these things, and it doesn't have the support it had a few years ago.

And then I pick up this article that gives the overall numbers in the last few years here, and it says 5000 churches have bolted the Methodist church over the LGBT debate. So in total over that period of time, 5000 churches have said, no you've taken a non biblical stand, and we're not going to be part of this denomination if you're going that much against the scriptures. So it's a total of 5000 United Methodist churches

that have left. Now, a bunch of them have gone into a new Methodist denomination conservative, the global Methodist, and a lot of them haven't gone anywhere. They've just become independent as a result. But nonetheless, that's just another piece of good news, were that the people in the churches are actually holding to a biblical position and not willing to compromise that position. And I just think

that's really healthy. That's a healthy sign when the church is holding by the Bible as opposed to standing with the culture. And so, that's just great news out of Alabama and overall. And by the way, not to suggest that 5000 is the end of the Methodist denomination. They still have 25,000 that are part of the denomination. But there's no question that when you've lost one six of that denomination that's a fairly strong signal to the denomination of what they're thinking.

head? I know, we've had some good news stories on other denominations as well, because this is obviously a battle in, you know, almost every mainline Christian denomination. And I think, I know that... you know, there were different fights where people were splitting. And so I mean, this is pretty well cutting across most denominations. Are they actually leaving, like the Methodist have done here and just saying, we're

done? Because I remember even some fights over property, right, where they had some cases where they... who was going to get the church, who... the literal physical property and that sort of thing? And I guess I'm asking you a general question, do you see this as good across the board in other denominations as well? Even though we don't want to see people splitting, we don't want them to just go along with

sinful activity. So the good thing is that some in each of these denominations are standing.

I've heard a lot of the Southern Baptists talking about this whole movement, they've got about going woke and moving into the woke direction and the Assembly of God churches, heard the same thing from a lot of their leaders that they're going really woke and leadership is moving in the wrong direction.

So it's kind of strange that in the kind of liberal denominations, we've seen a certain group within that coming more conservative, but you know, maybe it's a small group and things like Baptist and Assembly of God, you know, like this is 1/6 of the Methodist becoming more conservative, maybe it's only 1/6 of the Baptist, and Assembly of God becoming more

liberal, [I] don't know. But it's interesting to see it going both ways in this thing, so I guess maybe the minority is making the news here rather than the majority. But that's certainly what it seems to be in the case of looking at those denominations and others as well.

kids, having a better life. When they had their oldest daughter, now they have a three year old as well, when they had their first daughter, she... very quickly they saw she was very gifted. When she was four years old she was already playing Mozart, on piano with no lessons. She watched some videos on her iPad. And then she went and sat down at the piano and began to do it. And they're like, this seems impressive.

This doesn't seem normal. She would watch somebody do a painting and she would just sit down and she would replicate drawing the painting, whatever it was, and so they thought, okay, this is special. She's five years old. They go to the public school, and the public school, didn't know what to do with her. She was really talented. They didn't have a program. So the parents then take her to a charter school. They leave her there for a couple years and there's just not... they're not finding to

productivity they wanted. Their daughter's bored, it's not really working, so the parents decide, okay, we're going to homeschool her now. So they homeschool her, and part of homeschooling, they say we're going to do work for six hours a day. And then we, you know, go play, go hike outdoors, even video games, other things. For six hours a day, she does this. And, in 2020, they found out there was a local community college where they could do a dual enrollment program. She

gets on in 2020. And at that point, she's 10 years old, I believe, which is just crazy, taking college courses, does really well. They decided, hey, you know, she can start taking 3, 4, 5 courses a semester, in addition to her normal homeschool work. But even with the college courses, her daily homeschool, she was only doing it six hours a day. Well, come to present time. She graduated

with an associate's degree. And her parents credits that she has a cell phone and it's very restricted what she can use, but she can make call, she can send text messages, but no social media. And the parents said, look, we think social media is keeping kids lazy. It's taking up so much time of their day. For her, we tell her that during that time, she should go read a book, go play outside, do

something productive. And that's where I was so challenged, like man, I totally spend time on social media that I could be way more productive reading a book, going hiking outside, something, whatever it is, I am super impressed with his 12 year old girl. And kudos to these parents for recognizing the opportunities that homeschool provide. Only six hours a day, they're doing school, and what

they were able to accomplish. It reminded me of early American education, what they were pulling off in a short amount of time with a very high standard, but kudos to this family. And congratulations to this 12 year old girl graduating college with a 4.0 GPA.