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of How to Talk About Jesus Illinois

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to Seattle, Washington. When we come back, can

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you give some of those examples to us

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so that, as you said before, it isn't

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just the corporate values. These are corporate values

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that have trickled down and have showed up

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possibly at a YMCA near you. Katie

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Brown is with us. She is National Director

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for American Life League. We're talking about their

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charity watch list and the drift that's happening

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back at this. We're

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visiting with Katie Brown, who is the National

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Director for American Life League. American

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Life League's been around since 1979. They

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are one of the heroes, I think, of the pro-life

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movement. They've also been fighting for families, by the way, and

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those values that have protected our families

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for decades and decades and decades. On

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our website, we have a link to the

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American Life League charity watch. I am personally

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so grateful because they help us in our

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house to make wise choices about

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where we're going to give our dollars and

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what associations we're going to have with certain

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charities based on corporate values. This will make

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it very easy for you. Included in the

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charity watch list this year is the YMCA

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because there has been a purposeful

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drift away from the Christian roots.

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Remember, this is a 180-year-old organization

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that really was about offering Christ's

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love to people who were hurting

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and building character, body, mind, spirit,

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soul, all of it together. You

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in this report, the co-author of this report,

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particularly on the charity watch list and the

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YMCA, talks about the fact that there are

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all kinds of incidents that have taken place.

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As a wake-up call to people listening, Katie, all across the country,

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if you'd be so kind, share some of those incidents. Of

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course, the one that kind of disturbs me the

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most is comes out of Springfield, Illinois. There was

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a 16-year-old girl who was actually forced to leave

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her swim team at the YMCA because

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she felt brave enough to protest their bathroom

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policy, which says that anyone can

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use the bathroom that they most identify with,

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which of course means that there are unclothed

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men in her locker room. So the 16-year-old

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girl was forced to leave her swim team

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just because she felt strong enough to stand

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up. up against this. There's

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a similar instance in San

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Diego where a 17-year-old

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girl stepped out of the shower, saw

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a naked man in the bathroom, went

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and told the YMCA employees and was

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actually, she

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was actually condemned by the YMCA personnel

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because she felt the need, or because

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she felt strong enough to come out

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and speak out against it. And the

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thing that really, the reoccurring

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theme with all of these instances is

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that every single time the teenage

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girl plays the

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perpetrator, I guess you could say, in this role.

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So the YMCA comes after the teenage girl rather

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than get the naked man out of the bathroom,

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which is just kind

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of an upside down world we're living in. Yes, yes

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it is. And

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then there's also several instances in Ohio,

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for some reason the YMCA is in

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Ohio where a lot of these

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instances are recorded, which with

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more of the same people taking

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their five and ten-year-old children into the

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women's locker room and encountering naked men.

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But the good thing is, out in Ohio there's actually a

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group of women who are really starting to speak out against

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this. But unfortunately, kind of

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like with the other reoccurring instances here,

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have received zero support, or even

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any mention from the YMCA themselves.

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Unbelievable. You point out that the Y

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in Northbrook, Illinois allows people to choose

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the locker room they most identify with,

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that apparently there are affirming LGBTQ

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plus communities with pride that are

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promoted. Local events

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led by YMCA, LGBTQ plus

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employees, Seattle Washington, even

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got a website that has listed

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resources for LGBTQ plus teens, including

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abortion provider Planned Parenthood, which is

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described as a, quote, learning and

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service provider for health and wellness, including

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specialized service for individuals of all gender identities

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and sexual orientations. Katie, maybe it's just me.

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Stop me when we get to the Christian

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part of this. I'm very confused. No,

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and that's why we've added them. among

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other things, takes this whole

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idea of locker rooms and bathrooms and

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blows it to smithereens. Now, I mean,

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according to this federal push, if

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the rewrite subtitle line stand

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unchallenged and they're already being challenged, I think

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we're up to 20 lawsuits against it now

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and the number's growing. It's

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bad enough when it's at your local school and

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your school takes federal funding, therefore you fall under

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the saber of these kinds of directives. But

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the why is a separate entity. It's a

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corporation that you have the choice to go

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to or not to go to. So

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now you better find out for your child safety,

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for your wellbeing, what their policies are. And you

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know, this is why I love American Life League

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and have since its inception in 1979. They

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do the work. Then I get to get the

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information and then I, according to the director in

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scripture, can look well to the ways

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of my household. That's really what this is all

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about. God fills your grain houses. You are responsible

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to Him in a stewardship capacity. Where do you

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spend your money? You need somebody to tell you

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what the corporate values are. That's one of the

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many things that American Life League does. So Katie,

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again, I want to tell my friends, I've got

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the list right there in my information page. Don't

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email, it's right there for you to check it

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out, make your decisions. Katie, thank you so much.

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I hope this is the first of many conversations

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we have together. Thank you for all that you

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do through American Life League. Back after this. Jesus

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there really is a theme to this hour and

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I have to give God again all the glory

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because if

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you're looking for an alternative you want American

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heritage girls and the websites easy American heritage

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girls dot o-r-g and when you

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get to that website one of the things they

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do because this is about equipping young Saints they've

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got an e-book that you can now download and

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use in your family as well and it's very

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important particularly as we sit here getting

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through the so-called pride month well the e-book

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is called raising godly girls guide to gender

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and identity so Patty break this down a

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little bit more for me it's going to

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be up there in our website if they

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don't go to American heritage girls dot o-r-g

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it's right there on our information page it's

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a direct link for you to be able

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to download it either way we want to

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get this in your hands so

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how who's the targeted age what a parent's

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gonna find when they open this up what's

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your goal well

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the goal is to really inform

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and equip parents as to

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what the issue is why it's important and

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the importance of getting and talking with your

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daughter earlier than later and the target age

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really is ages five I mean the girls

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we serve five to eighteen and this is

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a parent going through this book with her

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there is nothing that is what shall I

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say something that would be

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offensive although all this whole thing can

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appear offensive but we do it from

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a perspective of a biblical worldview which

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we do all things in American heritage

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girls so first we dive in to

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talk about what gender what a cultural

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understanding of gender is which is meaning

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what the society say versus what does

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God say and that's important with whatever

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we do is to look at everything

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through a biblical worldview lens and there

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are differences very very strong differences and

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because there are such strong differences we

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also then include a glossary of terms

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because as we know the progressives have

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taken over our dictionary words that used

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to mean one thing now means something

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else and so we need to know

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the terms because an equipped parent a

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parent that knows what she's talking about

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or he's talking about is one that

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understands these glossary of terms so that's

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really important next we dive into

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Janice a little bit about how to prepare your

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heart for this discussion. Because

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one key thing that we've learned

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is that an alarmed parent, a

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scared parent, a fearful parent, a

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freaked out parent is not a parent that a girl

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will go back to. They will think

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mom doesn't know what she's talking about, dad is

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afraid of this subject, I'm going to find somebody

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who will and often times those are

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friends and peers or people on the

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internet. So you want to make sure

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that you prepare your heart through prayer

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and through a calmness and be ready

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to really talk about this with your

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daughter. And then we offer open ended

40:33

questions to ask that we all that

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have been parents know it is easy

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for our children to answer yes, no

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questions and then they want to shut it off.

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It has to be open ended. And so this

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is a prodding question so that you

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have real answers so that you know

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where your daughter's heart posture is on

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this issue as well. And then we

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go into some activity pages and part

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of this is to pull the Scripture

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and to open up the

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Bible and to say, Who does God

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say I am? What is

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that identity? What is God's design for me?

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What is that divine design? And

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we start to look into that and

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to see that the relevancy of the

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Bible is so obvious in today's world

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and particularly around this

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particular subject. Then we

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go on and we have some resources for

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that are additional that go even deeper. We

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go we believe strongly in aligning with

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like minded biblically based

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resources and psychological resources

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and then what to do when you feel

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like I think my daughter is really struggling

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with this. I need pastoral and

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I need Christian counseling care how

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to find those kinds of people

41:40

in your life. And then you

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can go on and learn more about raising godly

41:44

girls and all the issues that

41:46

we talk about in today's society

41:48

for today's girl and today's parent,

41:50

quite frankly. Wow. What

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an unbelievably important resource. We

41:55

could talk about this for hours, but I'd love to have

41:58

my friends listening get just a sense of this. When

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we talk about godly femininity, I know that

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someone who doesn't yet know the Lord is

42:04

their Savior think it means lipstick, high heels,

42:06

and an apron. That's not

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what we're talking about. Can you break that

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down a little bit? So when we want

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to instill in our daughters and our granddaughters

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this precious gift of godly femininity, what

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are we talking about? Really

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talking about the beauty and uniqueness in

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the way that the Lord has created

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us. It is not a

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stereotype or a labeling. For years

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in the 70s we were trying to break

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all the labels and break the glass ceiling

42:35

and do all these things and now we're

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putting each other in boxes. So this is

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not to put someone in a box but

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to understand that there is a difference between

42:44

male and female. It is worth celebrating. That

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doesn't mean that you might like something that

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your sister might not like and that makes

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you a boy. No.

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That you are unique and that God

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created you in the gender that you

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were to be, in the birth sexuality

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that you are to be. Not

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assigned at birth, those are some of the

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glossary terms we cover by the way, but

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also the fact that we are biologically male

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and female and that is to be celebrated

43:10

and we enjoy different things. We have unique

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strengths and we have unique weaknesses but that

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doesn't make us less than. And

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so to celebrate what God has already

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done for us and that divine design

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is worthwhile. Amen to

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that. So again to draw

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the distinctive between a Christ-centered organization that

43:27

develops character in young girls to young

43:29

women and the Girl Scouts which has

43:31

lost its way. The Girl Scouts

43:34

now have an LGBTQ Pride badge. If

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you're at the various levels, whether it's

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children beginning in kindergarten all the way

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up to junior Girl Scouts, you

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have to participate in three Pride

43:44

related events to earn the patch.

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So the indoctrination, the propaganda continues.

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But in American Heritage Girls you

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have something now called the True

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Girl Patch Program. Tell me what

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that is. We

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are so excited to be coming alongside.

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girl, which is the Minist written

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the book, the li First

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she began with the and

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this is now the gliis we're

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