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Ep 1111 | Daniel Penny Is Free & BLM Activists Are Outraged
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Allie Beth Stuckey
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Allie Beth Stuckey
Daniel Penney has been found not guilty and has been cleared of wrongdoing by a Manhattan jury in the death of Jordan Neely. We will look at this verdict today. We will analyze the outcome. We will compare and contrast social justice and mob justice versus real actual biblical justice as well as masculinity and the need for more courage. We've got so much to talk about today. We will also talk about some athletes that are sharing the gospel through statements that they are making. Lots to celebrate on today's episode of Relatable. It's brought to you by our friends at Good ranchers. Go to good ranchers.com use code ALI at checkout. That's good ranchers.com code ALLY hey guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day. A great start to your week. It is a great day to do the next right thing in faith, with excellence and for the glory of God. I love what Elizabeth Elliot said. I heard this in one of her talks one time, not in real life but over a podcast and she said the only thing you have to do today is the will of God. And as I was thinking that, I was wondering, okay, but how does someone know specifically what the will of God is in any given moment? Yes, of course we get to read his will for our lives in the Word of God, which is inerrant and authoritative. But a lot of people want to know, but specifically in this moment, what is the will of God? We can discern what is the difference between right and wrong, sin and wickedness. But how do we discern the difference between what is good and what is best? Well, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we simply are responsible to do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. And when we understand that and that Christ gives us the strength to do that, and that God promises us wisdom when we ask for it, it really relieves us of the burden of perfection, of thinking that we have to have it all figured out. We get to depend upon the Lord and the strength and the sufficiency and the wisdom that he gives us. And we simply do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. That is the only thing we are obligated to do, the only thing we have the capability of doing in any given moment. And that is the will of God for our lives. And so just start out this week with that knowledge and allow the troubles of tomorrow to take care of themselves. We serve a good God, a loving Father and a wise and faithful shepherd that will sanctify us and will accomplish what he sets out to accomplish in our lives. And we can have joy and hope in that. And really, that is the message of Christmas, that God is going to go to any length. He is going to do whatever has to be done to seek and save the lost, to redeem his people. And we get to celebrate that gospel all the time, but especially this time of year as we celebrate Emmanuel God with us. That God took the form of a human, and not just any human. But first an embryo was worshiped as an infant was heralded by the kicks of an unborn John the Baptist. And he showed us what it looks like to love, what it looks like to serve. But most of all, he became our righteousness. He became our sacrifice. He died and he rose again, conquering death, so that we might be reconciled to a holy God, be forgiven of our sins, become a new creation and live forever with him. That is the gospel truth that we get to celebrate, especially this time of year, as we reflect in a more concentrated way on what the Advent means and what Christmas means. So just praise God, no matter what is going on in your life. All of these truths that we read in scripture that we've just reminded ourselves of today in this episode so far. All of those things make today worthy of joy and worthy of hope and celebration. Quick pause for our first sponsor for the day, and that is Adele Natural Cosmetics. You guys know how much I love Adele. I use them every day. I love their essential cleanser. I love their essential moisturizing spray. Their serums. Their Blue Lagoon line smells so good. I love all of their lotions, especially this time of year. Their packaging and their scents are just so festive and fun. This company is the real deal. It's a Christian family owned company. They are completely unapologetic about their faith, about their pro life values. They care about every single ingredient that goes into their products. It's all natural, all holistic and it really works. It's changed the texture of my skin for the better. They also have awesome all natural makeup that you really need to try out. If you go to Adele Natural Cosmetics.com and use code ALI, you get 25% off your first time purchase. That's Adele Natural Cosmetics.com code ALI. We also have good news happening in the news, unexpected news that we could celebrate today, and that is that Daniel Penny was found not guilty by a Manhattan jury. They have cleared him of criminal wrongdoing in the death of Jordan Neely on a crowded subway. So some of you may have not been following this story at all. So let me back up and tell you why this is so unexpected and what happened. So In May of 2023, police witnesses say that Jordan Neely, 30, a homeless street performer, a Michael Jackson impersonator, boarded an F train in soho, began shouting, throwing things and making threats. According to Penny and other witnesses, Neely yelled at passengers on the subway, saying things like, I don't have food, I don't have a drink. I'm fed up. I don't mind going to jail, getting life in prison. Someone is going to die today. I'm going to die. One woman who was on the train, one witness thanked Daniel Penney for saving her life. Another passenger described this rant as a satanic rant. And many passengers said that Daniel Neely or Daniel Penney rather, actually kept them safe that day when he put Neely in a chokehold and restrained him. Eventually, Neely ended up dying in police custody. He was actually alive when the police found him, but the police say that they didn't want to resuscitate him. They didn't want to give him mouth to mouth because he was dirty and they were afraid that he was going to give them some kind of disease. That is very sad. But that is not Daniel Penny's fault. So the fact that he was alive when the police found him, that is very significant. Here is Daniel Penney explaining what happened.
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Daniel Penny
I was scared for myself, but I looked around, I saw women and children. He was yelling in their faces, saying, saying these threats, I couldn't Just sit still. I knew I had to act, and I acted in a way that would protect the other passengers, protect myself, and protect Mr. Neely. I used this hole to restrain him, and I did this by leaving my hand on top of his head to control his body. You can see in the video there's a clear rise and fall of his chest, indicating that he was still breathing. And I'm calibrating my grip based on the force that he's exerting. And, I mean, I was trying to keep him on the ground until the police came. I was praying that the police would come and take this situation under. Take this situation over. I didn't want to be put in that situation, but I couldn't just sit still and let him carry out these threats.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
You know, Isaac, good for him. And we'll put up the picture that went viral after this. He is a former Marine, and he showed courage that most people in this situation simply wouldn't have shown. And the process that he's had to go through for a year and a half now shows exactly why most people in this situation wouldn't have done anything. We've all seen videos go viral on acts where a young woman is being either sexually assaulted, is being sexually harassed, and the men around them do absolutely nothing, either because they're cowards, they don't want to be inconvenienced, or because they know something like this is going to happen to them. Especially if you have a black suspect. That's just the case. When you've got a white person and a black person, and the white person even just appears like the aggressor. You know that you are going to lose in the media. You know that you're going to lose in the court of public opinion. You know that the activists, especially in the. In a liberal area, are going to be against you. You know that there is going to be a progressive DA that tries to ruin your life, a progressive prosecutor that is going to be out to get you. There's more than likely going to be a progressive judge that is going to rule against you. And that was the fear in this case. And that's how it looked up until today when the verdict came out, that there was just too much against Daniel Penney simply because of the color of his skin. So the jury was made up of five men, seven women. They acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide, which could have put him behind bars for up to four years. In Neely's death, the manslaughter charge, which was the top charge Against Penny was actually tossed. On Friday, we'll talk a little bit more about the significance of that and how that was scary when we were looking at what the verdict of this case would be. But jurors ultimately sided with Penny's defense attorneys. They argue that the Marine veteran was justified in rushing to protect his fellow subway passengers when he subdued the erratic homeless man. Jurors heard from more than 40 witnesses, including passengers, who described Neely's terrifying outburst on the Before Penny approached him from behind and took him down. Prosecutors argued that, okay, even if Penny did need to restrain him in the moment, even if he was justified for that, he ended up going too far by restraining him for far too long. But obviously that was not convincing to the jury throughout the trial, he allowed the prosecution to refer to Penny as the white man in front of the jury. And the prosecution, of course, knows exactly what they're doing. Anyone who is a little bit social justice minded, who is even a little bit progressive, which of course, in the city of Manhattan, probably everyone on the jury, was that that is going to indicate to them that Daniel Penny is the aggressor and is the oppressor and is guilty simply because of the color office. Again, I mean, talk about institutional and systemic racism, by the way. That is literally the institution, the system, being blatantly racist and discriminatory against someone simply because of the amount of melanin that they have in their skin. That is partiality. That is the definition of injustice. Anyone who has Micah 6, 8 in their bio should be absolutely reeling about that. If we really care about impartial justice, if we really care about due process, if we really want our justice system to operate in integrity and honor, we should absolutely be disgusted, should be aghast that that kind of language, that kind of demonization of a person because of the color of their skin is allowed in a court of law. Judge Wy was also accused of handing the prosecution an outrageous gift. This is according to the New York Post, by granting their request to drop the count of manslaughter in the second degree, on which jurors were deadlocked. They couldn't beyond that. And then telling them to only consider the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. The second charge was only to be considered if the jury acquitted Penny on the first charge. Under clear New York law, DAs must choose to choose the charges before trial. They don't get to change their minds once they learn what the jury will buy. And so that's why that was also an injustice. A judge shouldn't be able to say, oh, you can't decide on that. Just go to the next one. Because if they can't decide on the first charge, then that could potentially be good or could have been good for Daniel Penney. But you don't get to say, okay, let's just make sure we get them and if the next charge is more convincing to you, then just go to that one. As long as you get them. That's what he seemed to be saying by allowing the jury to just throw out that charge and then go to the next one. Also, if you look at the prosecutor, she is also a progressive. The prosecutor, of course is very progressive herself. Daphna Yoran. The investigation and prosecution were handled by the Manhattan District Attorney's office that's led by Alvin Bragg. He appointed AN Assistant Manhattan DA, Daphna Yoran, as lead prosecutor. You remember Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. He is the guy that downgraded 60% of all felony cases to lesser charges last year. He reduced 938 of the most serious, serious charges in 2023, 834 of which were brought down to misdemeanors. Since being sworn in on January 1, 2022, Bragg has also declined to prosecute 14% of all arrests. So he is very soft on crime. He is largely responsible for the uptick in violent crime in Manhattan. That's what soft on crimes policies. Soft on crime policies do. This Prosecutor Daphna Yorin. In 2019, she asked for reduced punishment for Matthew Lee, a 57 year old who snuck up on a former professor. Dr. Kim, who is 87 years old, killed him over $300 with a fatal blow to the head. So this vicious murderer, she had compassion for him. So Lee was charged with manslaughter instead of felony murder after he agreed to meet with the victim's family and both parties consented to the outcome. This reduced his potential sentence from 25 years to 10 years. And this all happened because she said this. When I got the time, I took the time to learn about the defendant. So this vicious murder, I really felt incredibly sorry for him that he had gotten to the point in his life where he felt that there was no choice but to commit this robbery. So that is social justice. You look at someone, you consider their past, you consider their skin color. So lady justice is no longer blind, but you're considering, considering all of these factors that according to your own bias, should reduce the punishment for a crime rather than just looking at the facts of the case and acting impartially. That is not actual justice. Because actual justice must be impartial. It must be blind, it must be direct, it must be proportionate, it must be truthful. It can't weigh all of these different aspects of someone's past or someone's life and suggest a verdict or suggest a sentencing based on those things. Again, that is not actual justice, but that is who she is. She is an actual activist at heart. She doesn't actually care about the truth of the matter. She cares about intersectionality. And so that's of course why we were worried going into this case. She maintained a confrontational attitude towards Penny during his trial with witnesses. She is brought to the stand referring to him again as the white man and as the murderer, which of course the Judge Maxwell, Wyoming allowed. I'm rocking my Carly Jean Los Angeles sweatshirt, my new one. I love all of my stuff from CJLA so much. Unless I'm wearing my merch, you will almost always find me wearing CJLA on their jeans, their tops, their jackets, their sweaters. I truly love it all. And I love Carly and Chad who own this company, Another Christian family owned company. Who you can trust aligns with our values. So many women's clothing companies today are actually using our dollars to donate to Planned Parenthood, to pro abortion, anti law enforcement organizations and politicians. You don't have to worry about that with cjla. They are Christian, they love America and they just make awesome clothes for every stage of life, every season of the year. I love it so much. If you use my code, ALIB30, you get 30% off your order. Go to Carly G in Los Angeles.com ALIB30 as is typical for social justice activists, there has been an attempt at mob justice. This is the same thing that happened to Derek Chauvin. Rather than just looking at the facts of the case, what really happened, like for example, that George Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl in his body and that it actually looks like Derek Chauvin's knee was on his back, on his shoulder blade and not on his knack. Activists want mob justice. They want the person to be punished because again, of the color of their skin, because of the station in life, because of how things look, because certain verdicts are politically expedient. The same kind of thing was happening here. That is of course, what BLM does. BLM doesn't care about justice at all. They just care about their desired outcome. They care about retribution. In the immediate aftermath of Neely's death, liberal outlets released think pieces proclaiming that he was killed for the crime of being hungry and unhoused. BLM activists called Neely's killing an example of white supremacy. There were subway signs that said a man was lynched here. So lynched. That is so disrespectful. Insanely disrespectful to people throughout history who were actually lynched because of the color of their skin. There is no indication, there is no proof that Daniel Penney targeted this person because of the color of his skin. It didn't have anything to do with that, by the way. There's no evidence that Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd because of the color of his skin. And everyone just jumped on this idea that George Floyd was killed because he was black. There is no proof of that whatsoever. There's no indication of that. There's no justification for George Floyd or Jordan Neely. Jordan Neely to be hailed as some kind of hero. I'm not saying that Derek Chauvin was as a hero either. But the way that the world reacted to that incident was completely disconnected from reality. The way that it was used to then push policy, which has actually been extremely harmful to black communities, like defunding the police, which has allowed a boom in violent crime, which disproportionately affects black Americans. I mean, it is a huge blight on American history. And the fact that any evangelical went along with that, that nonsense and couldn't think for one second. Hang on. Is this true, first of all? And is this a real biblical call for justice, or is this a call for something else, for something actually nefarious? We had a lot of people who just suspended biblical wisdom, suspended judgment during that time. But it does seem like things have shifted a lot, because I think if what happened to Jordan Neely happened four years ago, we would have seen a different verdict, which is actually very sad, because verdicts should not depend upon the cultural moment. It should not depend upon social media outrage. It shouldn't depend upon protest or how loud one side is. It should only depend upon the facts of a case. And yet there was chanting outside of the courtroom. There were BLM activists who were calling him a murderer, calling him a subway strangler. And of course, it's Manhattan. A fear that a lot of us had was that these protests were going to affect the jurors, that the jurors were going to be intimidated. They were going to be too scared to say that he was not guilty, and they were going to act upon that fear of intimidation rather than the facts at hand. After the judge dropped the manslaughter charges against Penny. So that was last week. One of the co founders of bl, Black Lives Matter Greater New York, spoke outside of the courthouse saying that Daniel Penney's trial is no different than Jim Crow and that they will not find a white man guilty of killing a black man in modern day America. That is literally insane. That is insane. Again, no connection to reality whatsoever. I mean, as we have already articulated, Daniel Penney was the underdog in this case. The fact that the prosecution and their witnesses were allowed to refer to him as a murderer and as a white man, you would have never been able to get away with that if it were the other direction, if it were referring to someone as the black man. In order to put this idea in the jury's minds that because someone has a darker color of skin, they're automatically guilty. Here's thought 7.
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BLM Activist
America has not changed. And I hate to say it, it may never change. And people who keep asking, are we going to riot? Are we going to protest? Is that what's needed? Do glass have to break? Do cars have to burn for a black man to get justice in America? We can't show up with peace. We can't show up with facts. We can't show up with evidence. And witness after witness, you give us nothing and then you ask us to love this country. America hates black people. And we see it from that jury poll.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
That is. That is again, literally so stupid. That has no foundation in reality whatsoever. Okay? There is absolutely no evidence that there is systemic favoritism towards white people when it comes to the criminal justice system today. I'm not saying that has never been the case, but there is no indication that that is the case today. And in fact, we have a lot of evidence that shows the opposite. Like you're really telling me that this progressive judge, this progressive da, this progressive prosecutor, what was very likely a progressive jury, that they all hate black people and that is why we got the verdict that we did. You know that that's not the case. The fact of the matter is the evidence must have been so overwhelming that the jury overcame their own biases, overcame their own personal fears, their fear of retribution, their ideas about politics, their thoughts about systemic racism or oppression of white people or of black people at the hands of white people, to come to an objectively right conclusion. That is justice. Justice is not. It's not defined by outcomes per se. It is defined by the process. And BLM and all social justice activists only look at the outcome. And if the outcome is what they want, they Say that that is justice, no matter how they got there. So if it's by mob justice, if it's by some kind of malicious retribution, as long as the black person ends up on top, they call that justice. But that's not real justice. After Penny was acquitted, that same BLM activist had this to say. Sought eight.
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BLM Activist
In my Bible, thou shall not kill. In the Torah, thou shall not kill. My heart bleeds for the Neely family. My heart bleeds for his father who sat in front of me every single day and prayed for justice for his son. These wonderful white people, I hope they celebrate their Christmas while the Neely family is praying and asking God for comfort from them and America.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
My goodness. Okay, well, Here is another BLM activist calling for black vigilantes to fight against oppression. Sat 9.
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BLM Activist
We need some black vigilantes. That's right. People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud. How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us? Right?
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Allie Beth Stuckey
I'm tired. That is, again, just absolutely ridiculous. And it is so hard to respond to. Look, Jordan Neely was born in the image of God. I mean, he was made in the image of God. Of course his life mattered. And the outcome of his life is really sad. But how he got there is also really sad. That is not Daniel Penney's fault. I think that we all know, like white or black, that we would rather be in a train car with Daniel Penney than Jordan Neely. And we all hope that if we are in a situation where we feel threatened and there is an erratic person who is threatening our lives or the lives of our children, that someone like Daniel Penney with that kind of courage and that kind of boldness is in the same space with us. And you're joking yourself if you say otherwise. We all know if we are in that situation, we want to see that kind of heroism. But here, these activists are not only saying that this is wrong, that it was wrong that he defended his fellow subway passengers, but that there should actually be some kind of violent retribution for that. Again, there is just no evidence that the oppression of black people in the United States is because of white supremacy or because of white people at all. Like, we can talk about the problems that are facing the black communities, why so many disparities exist. The first place you should look is not white people, is not white supremacy, is not even in modern America today, the criminal justice system. Like, if we look at specifically Jordan Neely's life, if we look at his dad and what he is trying to do to make bank off of his child's death. I think we get a pretty good idea of why Jordan ended up the way he was, which is very sad. I've been talking to y'all about We Heart Nutrition for a while now. I started taking their women's supplements at the beginning of this year. 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In fact, if we look at Jordan Neely's upbringing, we get a really good idea of why his life ended up the way that it did, which is very sad, but again, has nothing to do with the system, has nothing to do with white people. It has to do with his own father. On Wednesday, December 4, Jordan Neely's father, Andre Zachary, filed a civil suit in the New York Supreme Court against Daniel Penney, which, of course, a lot of people are afraid this is going to be the outcome of Daniel Penny. They're saying, get out of New York, go take refuge in a red state. They're still going to try to ruin your life and absolutely bankrupt you. But his father, Jordan Neely's father, is accusing him of negligence, assault and battery. So he's trying to get money out of Daniel Penny. That's what he's doing now. Why is this so egregious? Is this just a sad father who is seeking some kind of justice, some kind of recompense, Recompense for his precious son, as the BLM activist indicated? No, of course not. This is a derelict father who wanted nothing to do with his son for his entire life, who abandoned him and is now seeking to make money off of his death. According to the Guardian, Neely's mother was killed by his stepfather in 2007 when he was 14. He bounced between homes before ending up in the foster care system. According to some relatives, Neely had autism and schizophrenia and later developed severe depression and ptsd. He was reportedly abandoned by his father as a young age, again was raised by his mother and stepfather. But that ended in tragedy too. At any point in life, it seems to me, the father could have stepped in and could have been present in his son's life. Who knows what the outcome of his life could have been if he had had a father who before now had stepped up and taken care of him. But now, only when it is financially expedient for him, only when he can capitalize upon his son's tragic death, is he saying, oh, hey guys, I'm present, I'm here. So if we want to look at why Jordan very sadly ended up where he did, we can look at his family, we can look at his dad. It is a cop out to say this has to do with some kind of intangible specter of white supremacy out there that somehow killed him. That's simply not the case. It's not. What happened here is his father saying, this was rigged. Sat 10 what are we going to do, people? What's going to happen to us now?
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BLM Activist
I had enough of.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
This system is rigged.
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BLM Activist
Come on people.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
Let'S do something about this. I mean, these kinds of lies, this view of the world and of justice, this refusal to take responsibility, to see things as they are, to only see things through the lens of white skin or black skin, it is such a cancer to any community, to any group of people. And these race hustlers who want to make a buck off of the death of an image bearer of God. You cannot convince me that they care about this young man, that they actually care about the loss of black life. I'm sorry, I mean, maybe somewhere deep down they do, but I think that BLM itself has revealed that it's really just a grifting organization that wants to make money when a black person died, that they dies, that they really just want political power. I don't really think that they care about helping people. I mean, these are, these are the same people, the same progressives that will celebrate an abortion, will ignore black on black crime, but only pipe up about injustice when a white person harms a black person, whether it is justified or not. You're not going to convince me that those people really believe in justice. And one thing that I meant to say was that BLM activist who said, my bible says do not kill. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says Thou shall not murder. And not all killing is murder. Self defense is not murder. War is not considered murder, at least according to the God of the Bible, who invented justice. Of course, there are, of course, war crimes that are not justified, but there are certain kinds of killing that are not murdered. The death penalty is not murder, according to the God who commanded the death penalty for murder and who created justice and who is the source of truth and who is in himself love. And so it is simply not true to say that all forms of killing should demand the same kind of outcome and the same kind of verdict and the same kind of sentencing. I do think this was the correct verdict. And I think courage should be rewarded. I think masculinity should be rewarded. This is a unique kind of boldness that seems like a relic of the past. We want men, black or white, no matter what their background is, to have an instinct to stand up for the most vulnerable and to take action when danger presents itself. We don't want people who are eager to kill someone, of course. We want people who believe and honor the dignity of image bearers. I don't want Jordan Neely to have died. I want him to still be alive. But he had a long criminal record of assaulting the dignity of human beings. He broke the face of an elderly woman by assaulting her. And a man finally stepped up and protected other people from becoming Jordan Neely's victims. And so this verdict was correct. And I just want to finish this segment by reading you the difference. This is from my book, Toxic Empathy and Social justice and Justice. We have a whole chapter on this which is certainly the most controversial chapter in my book. I think it's all controversial. Social justice is not justice. That's not only because it harms those it pretends to help, and it's not only because it's supported by philosophical and statistical errors. It's not justice because it is evil. It is the opposite of what God calls justice. Proverbs 20:10 tells us unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike. An abomination to the Lord. In God's lawgiving to ancient Israel, he prohibits favoritism even to the poor. You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great. But in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. Showing partiality is a perversion of justice that God disdains. God himself shows no partiality, and we are to follow his example. And I include all the biblical references there just as mistreating someone because they're black is wicked. So is mistreating someone because they're white or because they're deemed privileged. God doesn't see one form of mistreatment as less abominable than the other. And then we go on to define what true justice actually is, which is proportionate, which is truthful, which is direct, which is impartial. And social justice, of course, is none of those. Is none of those things. Social justice is typically defined as the fair and compassionate distribution of the fruits of economic growth. But of course it is morphed into something much more far reaching that basically always says that the white straight quote unquote CIS male is on the side of oppression and that everyone else is at least somewhat a victim. When you see every case and every crime through that lens, that makes it impossible to discern what is actually true, what is actually right, and what is actually good. All right, we might have more on that in the coming days. But we are praising God for justice. We pray for the protection of Daniel Penney in this case. And we also pray against any acts of vigilantism or retribution. It should be good news to black or white people that our justice system, even in progressive Manhattan, does work. This is the fruit of due process. While our justice system is very imperfect, it is the greatest ever constructed in the history of the world. And it is based on the biblical principles that we read in God's law giving to Israel. Lady justice should must remain blind. That is a benefit to all of us. Again, no matter what our background is, no matter what our color is. So no matter who you are, we should be praising God for that. Okay, it is time for you to switch to Every Life diapers. You might not know this, but the diapers that you're using are probably donating to pro abortion causes, which is really like sickly ironic. 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You will get some definite perks when it comes to ticket sales, when it comes to merch, when it comes to what you have access to, when it comes to discounts. I will have more on share the arrows 2025 coming up soon. All right, we don't have time to get into the daystar updates today. I promise you that we will because there are updates on it, but we just don't have time for two, like very long and detailed stories on today's episode. So we're going to end with some more light hearted stuff and some encouraging stuff. Well, it's, it's like, it's kind of sad a little bit, but it's also encouraging and that is the courage of an athlete, a soccer player, or as our friend across the pond would say, a football player wearing a Jesus loves you armband, despite the warning that he was given to not wear something like this. And so last week, Crystal palace, it's a professional soccer club based in South London that competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English soccer. Defender Mark Mark Gay, I think that's how you pronounce his last name. He wrote I love you Jesus on the armband in a second game. Jesus loves you. This is his league issued rainbow colored captain's arm band. He was given a warning that writing that on his rainbow colored armband went against the England's football. England Football Association's Rules for Religious slogan. So more details on this. During 13th and the 14th match weeks of the Premier League season, the league partners with Scottish LGBT charity Stonewall for Rainbow Laces, a campaign to promote LGBT acceptance in soccer. So that's all fine, which that is a sort of religion, that's certainly an ideology that not everyone subscribes to and so they're forced to promote that. But you can't say something as simple as Jesus loves you without violating their rules, huh? The league provides all 20 Premier League clubs with rainbow corner flags and other equipment. Most notably, club captains during these games are given the option to wear a rainbow colored armband, which they're technically free to decline, that they are encouraged not to decline. It's unclear how much pressure is put on them to comply. And so this player could have just said, no, I'm not going to, which could have made a statement, but he decided. During the team's November 30 match against Newcastle United, Gay chose to wear the rainbow armband, but wrote I love Jesus on on it in marker. And the team's following game on December 3, he wrote again, Jesus loves you. And so of course the Football association was very upset by this. After the second time Gay wrote the phrase, on December 3rd, the league issued a formal warning and yet another reminder of the rules. So the league is saying right now they're not going to take formal action. They might because he's a devout Christian. So the fact that he put this over the rainbow armband, they're saying that that could be seen as hateful. During the second game, midfielder Sam Morrissey, who was a practicing Muslim, was the only player who refused to wear the rainbow armband. He instead wore the usual black version. ESPN says the Football association considered Morrissey's decision to be a matter for the club than the individual and does not contravene any uniform regulation. So it'll be very interesting to see if they are even handed in how they treat the players and the reasons for the players not using the rainbow armbands. Gay responded to this controversy. He said, I think the message was pretty clear. To be honest. It was a message of love and truth as well and a message of inclusivity. So I think it speaks for itself. I believe 100% and the words that I wrote, even what I've just said right now, it's a message of truth in love. And I hope people can understand that my faith is my faith and I'll stand by it for the rest of my life. So good for Him. His father also had something to say. His father spoke to the Daily Mail. If you look at the LGBT community, if you look at what they're doing, they're trying to impose on others what they believe in. It's belief against belief. But at the end of the day, everyone has the right to an opinion. He didn't refuse to wear that armband like Morsi did. People should pay more attention to the person who refused to wear it. Mark said yes and did the right thing. He accepted to wear the armband. He was just trying to balance the message. He was saying, you gave me the armband. As a Christian, I don't believe in your cause, but I will put it on. But Morsi didn't put it on. Honestly, I think it's fine not to put it on too. I don't think it was necessarily the more right thing to put it on and say, jesus loves you. I think it would have been fine not to wear it. The Football association are happy for the crowd to sing God Save the King when England plays, which mentions God and religion. And they're happy to have their religious ham abide with me during the final. Yet they have to go at my son for expressing his beliefs. Where's the sense in that? What has he done wrong? I think that good for him. I think that he showed courage in that and obviously got people talking about that message. And the word of God does not return void. John 3:16 is true that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him will not perish, but will have everlasting life. And that message was conveyed. People are talking about it. And so I believe that God can use this for his glory. Yes, and amen. So good for this soccer player for deciding to speak up in this way. Last sponsor for the day is Jace Medical. We just don't know what the future holds. 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We've got a coach this time, another person in the athletic realm, this time from Boise State on this side of the pond, speaking up for the truth of the gospel after a game here. Stop four.
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Boise State Coach
Thank you, Jesus. And I mean Jesus deserves all the glory. I mean, we serve a champion. He died on the cross, but he rose again three days later. That's the God I serve, man. Everything's possible. And our players, they don't run from hard work. They just keep swinging, swinging, keep swinging, keep swinging. That's uncommon. They deserve the credit. Jesus deserves the credit. We got the best staff in the nation and we got the best fan base in the nation, too. Bronco Nation undefeated.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
I love that. That was so clear and so pointed. He didn't have to do that. He could have, if he wanted to, just said something vague about God. But he decided to share what the Christian faith hinges on. And that is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. That's what validates Christianity. If we don't have the resurrection, we don't have faith in anything. And he went up there and he articulated that, and I'm just so grateful for that. He's also making an impact on his team. I didn't know this. I'm sure a lot of you did, especially those of you who are fans of Boise State. But he actually baptized running back and Heisman trophy candidate Ashton Gentee back in August. Here's top five.
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Boise State Coach
Good morning. About to go get baptized today, so.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
Lord, I thank you for the obedient.
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Boise State Coach
Hearts that are sitting in this room.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
And I thank you, Lord, that this.
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Boise State Coach
Is going to be a point of.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
Separation, Lord, from the old passage. Upon your confession of faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, we now baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit into the name of the Lord Jesus, and may you arise in newness of life. I love that. There's a lot of. There are a lot of reasons today to be praising God. Yes, there's some sadness and some craziness going on in the world. Absolutely. And we'll be talking about some of that later this week. But honestly, today there are things to celebrate. We get to celebrate a good verdict. We get to celebrate the courage of athletes, which I think is just like a microcosm of what seems to be happening at the college level throughout the country. I think that we are seeing among the younger generation a sort of awakening, a sort of revival. And every bit of courage counts, every bit of sharing the gospel, of speaking the truth and love counts. And again, we just see over and over again God's great mercy. It seems like our culture has gone to hell in a handbasket. But I see so many reminders that God's eternal plan of redemption is still going off without a hitch. I still see reminders that the beauty of Western civilization in many cases is still holding. And that happens because of the efforts and the courage of Christians to raise a respectful ruckus about the things that matter. So never think that what you are contributing to the kingdom or to this country, that they don't matter. God works all things together for the good of those who love Him. And that's not to conflate, conflate our politics or our political movements with the gospel or with our Christian faith. Those things do go hand in hand because they have to. I'm not saying those things are the same. I'm simply saying that whatever we do for good causes that are bigger than ourselves do contribute to the preservation of a country that we love and that we want to survive and thrive for our children and our grandchildren. And our faith absolutely plays a role in that. All right, that's all we got time for today. We will be back here tomorrow.
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