Rick Green: 0:12
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David Barton: 2:32
Well, the first one comes out of California and it's about the fact that courts even out there are starting to hold California accountable for some really stupid, woke ideas. And they're not just stupid woke ideas, they have consequences and in this case they've really hurt some people, hurt some families, quick question what are the non-stupid woke? Ideas. That's a good point, just for comparison.

Tim Barton: 2:55
If they're stupid woke ideas, then what are the brilliant woke ideas?

David Barton: 2:59
That's really redundant, wasn't it? To say stupid and woke yeah, you're right. So maybe I'm just piling the adjectives on top of each other is what it amounts to. So stupid, woke, bad, crazy, whatever, it came home to roost, at least with one family. There was a family Jessica Conan that's her daughter was in the sixth grade. She was 11 years old, and the school counselors recruited the 11 year old daughter to join an LGBTQ club. And so join the club, and then in the club, and they actually even took her out of class to do this indoctrination stuff. So she's missing academic time to get indoctrinated in this. And so she joined this equality club and at 11 years old she has talked about bisexuality and transgender identities and all this LGBTQ stuff. And she was told that she was really a boy and not a girl, and so she adopted a boy's name. She wore a chest binder, she wore a boy's clothes over the chest binder, and so all this is going on and then, after she's transitioned, then the school counselors call the mother in and say, hey, she has transitioned, she's a boy, and you will call her by her male name and by male pronouns. You won't call her by the name you're used to. This is what you'll now. So it's a school telling the parent what you're going to call her by, and so this continues to go on and she tried to accommodate and do all she could. Well, as this goes on, the girl gets depressed and has all sorts of as she said. She said I was extremely confused and honestly, I was very scared. I wanted to tell my mom and continually said I wanted to tell her, but the counselors told her that I had to keep it a secret. They kept telling me my mom wouldn't support me, and so all this goes on and finally the mom has enough of this and sues the school, and so the school has now got the four. And, by the way, alicia came back away from all that nonsense. She got out of the middle school, she got away from those counselors, she got in a situation so different and, as she says now this is her declaration says I am 1000% a girl. I am Alicia. That's who I am and nobody can ever change that. I feel free. Finally. I feel like I'm not under control by anybody. I can finally move forward my life and be happy, which says a whole lot about what they're doing with indoctrination, with these kids, recruiting in such an early age, pushing them in, bullying the parents, bullying the kids. It's like they want to live out their twisted fantasy through these kids they recruit. Nonetheless, the courts came and slapped the school for $100,000 on behalf of the mother and daughter. So that's good. That's at least a signal. That's a big enough amount that that'll send a signal to other districts that they better be careful of what they're doing. And even in California the courts are stepping in and say no, there are parental rights, even in a state as crazy as this is, and you're not going to do this to kids without parents consent. So that's a really good case coming out of California. There needs to be a whole lot more of these all over the nation. And, by the way, it's not just California that's doing this. You're finding this even in some conservative, rural school districts are finding this going on. So don't assume that just because you don't live in California that your kids are not going to be subjected to this. That's just not the case at all. We're finding this in all states, all kinds of school districts. But good news is hopefully these folks will be held accountable for the damage they're doing to so many families and so many kids.

Rick Green: 6:23
Yeah, David, you know, in that same light as these families and these kids that are now in their 20s experiencing the pain of these horrible decisions and they're suing also doctors and hospitals and people that you know push them into this or even allowed them to do this at a, you know, minor age, those types of things I think you know will help to slow this thing down, to finally create some pushback, where they've just been making a ton of money off of pushing this on kids. They are motivated by the money and so if they start losing the money are there at risk of lawsuits that would cause them to lose their money then hopefully we can start to stop this evil. So good news, good news. Okay, Tim Barton, what's your first piece of good news today?

Tim Barton: 7:05
Well, this one is going to the southern border, it's going to Texas and it's dealing with a Biden reversal of policy For us. We definitely saw the news, we talked about it, but in case anybody hasn't seen the news, President Biden and his administration announced that they were going to clear a way for new border wall construction and they were going to waive environmental laws to get it done quickly.

Rick Green: 7:29
Wait wait, did you? You said at the beginning of this Trump is now president and Trump is going to do those things you just said. Is that what you said?

Tim Barton: 7:37
Trump is going to fulfill his promise of the southern border wall, and he's going to use Joe Biden to do it.

Rick Green: 7:41
This is crazy.

Tim Barton: 7:43
This is the Biden administration doing those things. What is so crazy I mean genuinely so crazy is, as Trump was building the border wall initially, this is where people were saying he's racist and he's bigoted and all these things that the left, that liberals were saying, that even Joe Biden was saying against Trump as they were navigating some of this back in 2020, and Biden acknowledged, like this is a terrible thing, it shouldn't happen. Biden actually said building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution. Well, I think he's changed his mind a little bit. Also, by the way, levels of irony when he told individuals guarding the border to actually go cut holes in the fence. So when you're telling your own border patrol, homeland Security, to go open access, make access easier for individuals to get across so they're not stopped by fences, and then you realize, hey, I think we need a wall, levels of irony are great. However, it is good news that finally, now I do not take this to mean that President Biden is going to become serious about immigration to the southern border and all of a sudden, he's going to shut off immigration and we will have no immigration problems going forward. It is, however, good news that they're at least on some level identifying that there is some kind of problem on the southern border and acknowledging that a wall can be a good solution to part of the problem we are seeing. There's been very few Democrats that I've seen anywhere in the media coming out against the Biden administration. In fact, even Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary. He identified that there's an acute, immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries in the United States in the project areas. The Biden administration is identifying, finally, that there are some problems. As we are looking at some of what's happening in Israel, one of the cautions and concerns we have seen for many people is that what we've seen Hamas do in Israel is coming from a small contingent of a couple thousand people. When you look at the open southern border we've had now for several years under the Biden administration, estimates are five to seven million known individuals came across. But with the unknown I've seen people think it could be as much as 10 or 15 million unknown that came across the southern border and estimates are at least one and a half million of those have probably the same ideology as we've seen in Hamas, and so there are people suggesting that there's probably some terrorists are setting up cells in various cities. It's a reason in Texas, which this is not part of the good news in my stack today, although it probably will be next week, as Governor Abbott just identified there's going to be several million dollars of funding immediately given to help protect Jewish schools throughout the state of Texas so that they, hopefully, will not have to deal with some of these levels of persecution and can feel safe against the danger of what's been happening in Israel. However, this is something that again very real concern that people should pay attention to, and, just like we talked about a little bit yesterday with some of the intelligence failures in Israel, we could similarly say there's been some major intelligence failures in America, not just because of southern border, but even the fact that America didn't have the intelligence to warn Israel or Netanyahu about what was coming on, although we have heard speculation that perhaps there are people in Egypt that told Netanyahu about what was coming and Netanyahu said, ah, it's just Hamas, we're not worried about it. There is a caution that it's possible that the Biden administration is saying, ah, we're not worried about these guys in the southern border. They don't really pose a threat when in reality, those people paying attention to it could be more dangerous. However, again, the good news is that the Biden administration is following some of the Trump policy and they are actually not just building a wall in the southern border. They are literally waving more than a dozen federal laws, environmental laws, to be able to put this wall up sooner. So good news that there is a portion of a wall going up in the southern border to try to slow down this tidal wave of illegal immigrants coming across.

Rick Green: 12:10
And I'm guessing, guys, that a lot of this is Democrat Blue city pressure from mayors that are like you know, we're just can't handle it anymore. They're ruining our cities. The White House has got to change this, to which we have to give credit to you. And you guys know how reluctant I am to give Abbott credit after all the craziness of COVID, but you know the fact that he did, you know, send so many to these cities. It was Rhonda Santas's idea initially, but you know we're glad Abbott did it and he did it well. But is that? Do you think this is part?

David Barton: 12:38
of? Yeah, there's no question, because Just Abbott by himself Abbott by himself has just announced that 50,000 immigrants have been bussed out of Texas to other areas, and so when some of those cities were getting five and six hundred, the mayor started squealing, said this is going to collapse our city, and so he sent 50,000 out, and that's only a fraction of what's come through Texas. So it's been mayors like New York City mayor and Chicago mayor and all these other blue mayors, and they're starting to say hey, bubba, you better listen to the mayors in the blue states, because if you think that that we're going to just line up behind you, you're, you're killing our cities.

Tim Barton: 13:13
Also worth noting that most of these individuals that Abbott sent out on buses he sent to sanctuary cities and all of a sudden right mayor Adams is like, hey, we were a sanctuary city, but not anymore and and we need to find a place for these people to go.

David Barton: 13:27
We got our quota of four people that came in and that's all we're sanctuary for.

Tim Barton: 13:31
So yeah, I mean Rick, to your point. I think it's definitely fair to say that when some of these Democrat mayors started dealing with the reality of of their Policy positions they were advocating for and they realized how intentable it was, it made them change their tune, which certainly put pressure on the Biden administration. Because also, people watched some of these like town hall kind of meetings when you had people in Chicago who I mean for all practical purposes. You know, chicago is a very strong Democrat city, so presumably most these people showing up at town halls are Democrats and they're saying this ain't right, that right these. There needs to be Accountability, that we need to know where these people are, that they're coming here taking our resources. When you have the people in the bluest cities becoming irate of the Biden policies, it is going to mandate a shift or it is going to be really reflected an indicative of a negative outcome for Democrats in the next election cycle.

Rick Green: 14:26
I just can't get the image out of my mind of the children of Israel With, you know, quail coming out there in Australs. I just, you know, it's kind of like they wanted it. They wanted it. He said I'm going to give you so much you can't handle it anymore. So for the sanctuary city mayors, y'all wanted it. Now you got it and it's like quail coming. You just add more than you can handle.

David Barton: 14:46
Yeah, and, by the way, elaborate on that story, just live it. For people who don't know it, god provided the children Israel manna, gave them everything they needed for meals to keep them healthy, nutritious. And they got tired of manna and said, hey, we want some meat, we're tired of this bread stuff. He said you want me, I'll give you quail, I'll give you exactly what you want, until you're so sick of it it comes out your nostrils. And that's, Rick, what you're referring to. And so he gave him what they wanted. And they decided, no, we, we prefer what you had. Let's go back to what you gave us. We like the manna better than quail coming out our nostrils. And it was really that kind of thing where that he had something really good for him and they didn't want it. They thought they knew better. And I think you're exactly right, rick. These, these, these blue mayors now have quail coming out their nostrils and that sanctuary city thing didn't work out too good for them. Theoretical and practical are two very different things.

Rick Green: 15:34
Yep, and they were giving great manna. They were giving a great constitution, a wonderful Declaration of Independence, wonderful system of freedom, and they just had to change it to this Marxist utopia that they've been after. And now they're living with the pain. Alright, folks, quick break. We've got more good news coming up when we come back from the break. You're listening to WallBuilders.

Tim Barton: 16:00
Hey guys, we want to let you know about a new resource we have, at WallBuilders, called the American story. For so many years, people have asked us to do a history book to help tell more of the story that's just not known or not told today. And we would say, very Providentially, in the midst of all of the new attacks coming out against America, whether it be from things like the 16 19 project that say America is evil and everything in America was built off slavery, which is certainly not true or things like even the Black Lives Matter movement, the organization itself, not not the statement, black Lives Matter, but the organization that says we're against everything that America was built on and this is part of the Marxist ideology. There's so many things attacking America. Well, is America worth defending? Well, what is a true story of America? We actually have written and told that story, starting with Christopher Columbus, going roughly through Abraham Lincoln. We tell the story of America not as a story of a perfect nation or a perfect people, but the story of how God used these imperfect people and did great things through this nation. It's a story you want to check out. WallBuilderscom the American story.

Rick Green: 17:03
Welcome back to Walb orders. It's good news Friday, bringing you as much good news as we possibly can in our short period of time together. So, David, what's our next piece of good news?

David Barton: 17:11
Well, Rick, this piece of good news comes from California, just like my first one did, and it is good news because it is on the failure of another war policy in California. Now this states back to about 15 years ago when Texas and North Carolina voted to have gender specific bathrooms. I guess maybe that's only four or five years ago. It feels like 15 years ago All the stuff that's happened. But this is just a few years ago that those states said, hey, we're going to do gender specific bathrooms and California said, okay, we're now boycotting those states. So there were four states that initially did it. We actually talked about this at the time is called the right of expatriation. Founding fathers gave the right. You have the right to move freely from one state to another in the United States. But California said, hey, we will not let our state employees on any state business go to. These other four states were boycotting those four states and so they forbid travel from state employees to those other four states, which again, that that violates that, that fundamental right of expatriation and founding fathers talked about. But that's not a right they put in the bill of rights because it was such a logical right they didn't think that have to, but nonetheless, california violated that Well. As the years have gone along, the last four or five years, it's now up to 26 states that they're boycotting. So they're boycotting more than half of the United States. I mean, this is the same thing that we talked about a few weeks ago, that San Francisco had done this boycott and they finally reduced the boycott. Because they're boycotting so many other states. They can't get in the products they need and they can't get all the supplies they need and they were hurting themselves more than any other state. And so now they've added in California states that said, hey, we're going, we're only going to let gender specific folks play in sports, we're not going to let a boy who thinks he's a girl playing girl sports, etc. And so there were 26 states and California has now rolled that back and said, hey, this has not been a good deal. It is limited our opportunities, it's caused us to isolate our services, it's, it's just a bad deal. So the good news is another woke policy fell. Now the bad news is what did California say they're going to do as a result? They decided they needed to go evangelize all these states who think wrong. So they have appropriated state funds to start advertising campaigns in those 26 states to get them to think right. I don't think that's going to go well either. That's going to be a great loss of their funds. Nonetheless, california has backed off another whole policy because once again it did not work. This would be good news if they weren't progressive, but being a progressive means never having to say you're sorry. Progressive how? The memory of an elephant, which is alleged to have a memory of only a few seconds and progressives don't ever remember when it fails and so they'll try something else.

Tim Barton: 19:44
Stupid, but at least it keeps failing Well, and I would maybe suggest a goldfish A goldfish there you go. Because an elephant. I think you can train an elephant to do some tricks.

David Barton: 19:52
You know it is an elephant has a long memory. That's right. It's a goldfish, that doesn't.

Rick Green: 19:55
There you go.

David Barton: 19:56
That's right, and they are on the ocean, so that would kind of work. Yeah, yeah, I chose the wrong animal there, my bad. Yeah, it was not an elephant, that happened, good memory. That's right, it's a goldfish memory. Good call, good catch.

Rick Green: 20:08
It's impossible for WeTexans to bring good news from California without poking a little fun at California. We just have to do it. It's just in our DNA. Folks, you, just all of our California listeners. We love you All. Right, Tim, what's your piece of good news?

Tim Barton: 20:20
Yeah, just don't tell like Jack Habs and Rob McCoy and our friends out there, right, right, it's great people out there. Okay, this one is, it's from Loudoun County, Virginia, and, guys, this is something that is so, so encouraging, as we have been over many years doing so many pastors briefings and so many pastors conferences and challenging pastors to get involved. Obviously, when COVID happened and parents were forced to homeschool their kids for whatever length of time, that was based on what state and what school district and so many parents found out just on a small scale, very small scale, some of the nonsense that their kids were being taught and then some of the lack of basic education their kids were not receiving, and many parents at that point started looking for other options. We know this is when there was a boom in the homeschool community. We also know that some Christian schools grew as a result. Well, there is a church in Leesburg, Virginia, cornerstone Chapel, that decided it's Loudoun County that they were going to open a school specifically because so many of the public schools in Loudoun County were teaching and promoting things like critical race theory or LGBT ideologies and they wanted an alternative for Christian families who did not want their kids to be fed that level of propaganda. And so they opened Cornerstone Christian Academy and now, right now, it is only kindergarten through eighth grade, so it doesn't have high school, but for so many of the formative years is giving a place for kids to go in. And I'm going to go through more of this article and highlight more things there. But one of the reasons I'm so encouraged by this is we've been telling pastors for a while that, pastors, you need to help provide solutions, you need to help be engaged in your community, and we've been telling pastors that you need to look at whether you host a co-op right, whether you are helping families that are homeschooling or you start a Christian school. Churches need to help offer some level of Christian education, given the nature of the culture in the world we are now living in. And so, whether that's some very basic assistance, whether it's again hosting co-ops and, by the way, as we're saying this, if there are pastors and ministers listening, there's a lot of homeschool groups out there that have co-ops and they look for places to meet, and so, even if you are again a church or ministry, you have a facility and you say, hey, I am more than willing for a co-op to come meet here and certainly you can work some things out. You can have a contract, but even offering a facility at an extremely discounted rate or maybe even for free Maybe that can be part of your ministry is you can offer a facility for free for them to use. Nonetheless, super encouraging that Cornerstone Christian Academy is now in Leesburg, Virginia, in Loudoun County. The head of school, sam Bada, is a former principal of other Christian schools. He was also the men's basketball coach at Regent University and he identified one of the main reasons they're doing this. He identified its gender related issues. It's incomprehensible that any school, any adult could tell this little boy that he could choose to be a girl if he wanted to, or something else If he chose to, when it's very clear how he was created and, as he pointed out, the Bible tells us, or talks about in Psalm 139, that he or she, whether it's a boy or girl, they were fearfully and wonderfully made by God and that sex, what we now call gender, was determined then by God in the womb and at birth and no matter what somebody says, that doesn't change. He goes on to point out that in schools they've tried to hide information from parents. In public schools. They've tried to hide information from parents. They don't want to share information about things that public schools are teaching their kids. He said at Cornerstone Christian Academy we have a different approach. We welcome parents in our schools. We see them as partners. We want them to come alongside them, since God really made them and they are the primary educators of their children, which already right, is significant because the reason that Yonkin is governor in Virginia is because the former Democrat governor on the campaign trail said that parents should have no part in their children's education. That is the ideology that is becoming more and more evident from the left, from progressives, from Democrats, even from teachers, from teachers' unions, where they think parents, they're not smart enough to help raise their kids, to be involved in education their kids. And he said no, we see him as partners. We want them to come alongside, since God made them the parents. They are the primary educators of their children. We just play a very important role, but we come alongside as they raise their children. He pointed out, all their curriculum is faith-based. The article goes on for quite a while, but what is so encouraging to me is not just that there's another Christian school that's opening, but it was opened by a church that recognized there was a need in the community, that recognized they could help fill a gap. They could help fill that need and they are stepping up to do this. This is something I wish more and more pastors would do, but to this point, absolutely congratulations to Cornerstone Chapel. Kudos on Cornerstone Christian Academy. We wish them nothing but the best and we think this is part of the answering solution we need in culture going forward.

Rick Green: 25:21
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