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It really is. No. Some people say no. I don't know. Teapot Dome, I don't know. There's a lot there. But the fun thing about being from Illinois is we have term limits. One term in office, one term in jail. So it's a little bit. It's different than Ohio style term limits. My grandmother was a lifelong Republican, probably one of the most unbelievable Catholics ever in the history of North America. I mean, she would watch EWTN after going to Mass and read the catechism and then tell everyone around her what they were doing wrong in their Catholic life. A perfect Catholic. And I say that, I mean that with love. I have a great amount of love for Catholics growing up in Chicago, and she passed away and she's been voting Democrat ever since being from Chicago. And so she would approve of that. But no, it's 100% true, by the way. And so I'm from Chicago, started Turning Point usa. Been at this for nine and a half years. It's been the most unbelievable journey one could be on. I get to do what I love every single day. I do podcasting, I do radio, and then my day job is trying to save the country from absolute bitter destruction from people who hate the country and in some ways actually hate themselves. I'll get to that in a second. So let's talk about life for a second. And I think that we. I'm going to have a call to action at the end of what we need to do. But for those people in the audience, there might be only a couple of them that might not yet be pro life or understand the issue. It's very, very simp simple. And I think the more that we actually get into the logical and the scientific argument around life, I think that we're more successful. And so I was at the March for Life last year right before the lockdowns. Anyone else was there? It was a wonderful. If you have not been, it's worth going at least once. It is definitely. I don't want to say it's disorganized, but it's Definitely chaotic. I think that's probably fair to say. But it's worthwhile, it really is because it's one of the most amazing. There's young people from all across the country and that's one of the things I'm going to convince you of, if not already, which is that life is actually a winning issue. See, I was told in the first couple years in the conservative movement, stay away from that abortion topic, stay away from life. You know, it was kind of this Mitt Romney way of the world, like all we should care about is shipping our China's, shipping our factories to China and basically de industrializing the backbone of our country. But if you dare talk about life or the family are somehow going to lose young people and the data actually doesn't reflect that at all. So this is the most pro life generation in American history that the more we learn it's true it and whether it's religious young people or secular young people. And so my first piece of advice, and not just advice I'm going to convince you of it is we have to lean in on this issue. And so I was at the March for Life and I saw this nine year old that had more wisdom on this sign that she made than the entire combined professor class at Harvard, Princeton and Yale. There was more wisdom on her one sign and all it said was this. It's like this is the best pro life argument I've ever seen. It's not your DNA, it's not your choice. So what? That's a phenomenal argument. So that's as simple as it possibly gets. Because the entire argument from the left that I hear, or from the abortionists, which by the way, I'll get to this in a second. Never again. I never want to hear pro choice, ever. They're not pro choice, they're abortionists. Call them what they are, pro abortion. Stop giving them a mantle of something that is moral. A choice is moral. Destruction of a life is not. Call them what they are, which is pro abortion. I'll get to that in a second. And I said that debunks the pro abortion argument of my body, my choice. It's not your body, somebody else's body, it's unique DNA, it might be a different blood type, it might have its own heart, it does have its own heartbeat after 21 days, but at least after six to eight weeks it's not your body. So even that talking point in of itself is invalidated. And then there's just some logical hurdles that the abortionists have to overcome. Which, of course, and I don't celebrate this at all, but Chrissy Teigen, who's a very foolish person, and she's a celebrity and she's married to John Legend, and you can follow her on social media and. And she's very, very pro abortion, Very pro abortion, raises money for Planned Parenthood outspokenly. So a lot of young people are deceived by her. And tragically, she went through a miscarriage recently. And for her, the miscarriage, in her own telling of the events, was the death of a child, the death of a baby. And I can't help but think, how is it for her that that was a sad death of a child and not a sad death of a clump of cells or a fetus? So for her, she helps finance an organization that convinces young women that it's nothing but a clump of cells, and then inconvenience can be eliminated in a moment's notice. But she wept. She had pain. Because that child was not able to continue in its development. Do you notice how I just phrased that? Continue in its development, not that it becomes a human being. Was a human being at conception. The way we talk about this is very important. We must have this entire conversation on accurate, truthful, moral terms. And so within their own nomenclature, within their own narrative, there's logical and rational, not just inconsistencies, but fallacies. For example, if you were to go to Kim Kardashian, whom I've had the opportunity to meet, and she's actually smarter than people would think she is, she's a smart person. And I think that if I had an hour just to talk to her about the abortion argument, I could flip her, I really do. But she says she's pro abortion. And when. If she were to host a pregnancy celebration, what would she call it? She'd call it a baby shower. Interesting that it's not a fetus shower. Now, having a baby shower, having a celebration of life, the expectation of life under the moral paradigm that our children are learning in the university and in high schools, it's perfectly acceptable to have a baby shower and then right after get in the car and go to Planned Parenthood and end that baby's life. Basically, what we're really fighting here is subjective versus objective morality. And what has always made the west different is an objective belief of how we interpret morality, how we are able to look at what a human being is. And that person is made in the image of God. We are image bearers. And so the four common and this. I did not Come up with this. My friend Seth Gruber made me aware of this. There's websites dedicated to it. But I want every pro life person to listen carefully. And this will be rebroadcast on my YouTube channel and on the podcast feed is the four biggest points of logical fallacy amongst the pro abortionists. And it's an acronym called sled. You might have heard it before. Size, level of development, environment and dependency. Degree of dependency. Now this is the four arguments that the abortionists will make as to why it's okay to terminate innocent life. So number one, size. Their argument that the size of a human matters. It's only the size of a peanut, therefore we're allowed to eliminate it. So Therefore I'm about 6 4. If I was to say that anyone smaller than me should be eliminated, you'd say that's the most immoral argument I've ever heard. Of course it is. Size is irrelevant to whether or not human life matters. That one is pretty obvious. Number two, level of development. That beautiful child that was just shown up on stage, Shown on stage. No one would say that that child is not worthy of human protection. Level of development is completely irrelevant. Number three, environment. Does it matter where a person actually is, whether it be in the womb or whether it be independent of the woman's womb? And that's the fourth one, dependency. Now this is the one that they really are able to win young people on. They say you're able to eliminate that fetus because that fetus is dependent. Now that of course is a logical fallacy in and of itself because every single human life at some point is going to be dependent. For example, that child, if you left that child alone in the crib for three weeks and that child unfortunately and tragically were to no longer be able to live, you would then go to jail for infanticide. We have laws against that. That's exactly why they're getting rid of those laws in Virginia. That's why they get rid of those laws in New York, because that paves the way for the eventual moral justification of abortion, which is the subjective taking of life. Now this idea of dependency is easily debunked through a compassion based argument. I know people in my life that are dependents because they have down syndrome or because they have some form of mental, let's say, handicap. By no means does the law justify us to be able to take those people's life. They have equal rights of protection under the law and so should an unborn child. And so it really comes down to a very simple question that an abortionist cannot answer. The most important question, which is, when does human life begin? It's that simple. We're able to answer that question. It begins at conception, when DNA starts to form. You see, we have science on our side. The left says, oh, we need to trust the science. They don't know. It's an unbelievably Orwellian. And I'll just take a little bit of a tangent here. The lockdowns, we're anti science. The lockdowns will go down as the worst mistake ever done by our society. And I'm gonna build this out throughout. The lockdowns are directly correlated to the rise in suicides, mental health issues, business closures, opioids, drug usage, and alcoholism. Now, that's not to say that I think every single person should take the virus the same degree of seriousness. If you're over the age of 65 and you have underlying health conditions, you absolutely should take this virus seriously. If you're 14, you should not be locked down in your home for six months behind a Zoom and a Skype computer class, have no human interaction, no spring sports, no prom, no commencement, no summer sports, under the idea that this virus is equally as big of a threat to the 14 year old as it is to the 81 year old. That's immoral. So I'm pro life not just to be able to protect people in the womb, which they are people, but I'm pro life in every single public policy measure that I espouse. And that goes to another logical fallacy or another lie that our young people come across on college campuses or all of you. How many of you heard from your liberal friends, you're just pro birth. You see, you don't actually care about the human being because you don't want open borders, you don't want to give away government programs, you don't want all these sorts of things. You're just pro birth and throw the baby away. So what we need to do a much better job of is demonstrating, communicating. So, no, no, no. We're pro life not just to protect the unborn child, but I want more police on the streets so that gangs are not shooting children on the way to schools. I'm pro life so that parents are able to have educational choice to send their kids to a better school. I'm pro life so that we do not have thousands of people in southeastern Ohio overdosing on opioids and methamphetamines. I'm pro life because I want a southern border so that Guns are not smuggled into our country alongside of women that are sex trafficked over 11,000 into our country every single year. I'm not just pro life at birth, I'm pro life all the way through that child's life. That's how we must articulate a culture of life. And so to understand the sled paradigm size, level of development, environment and dependency, it's very important to be able to counter the abortionists argument, public narrative and popular narrative. But let me tell you this. They're growing increasingly nervous that the science is not on their side. Life begins at conception. It's that simple. What is life? You see, if college was doing their job, which most colleges aren't, it's true, most young people would be able to answer this question. What is life? Life is that which grows. Life is that which improves. That which is dying does not grow. Therefore that which is formed at consumption is growing and improves. What a simple way to argue that. Not to mention it has its own unique deoxyribonucleic acid. We Learned this in 5th and 6th grade DNA. And yet for whatever reason they say that's special mixture of DNA, that special combination that will never happen again, is not worthy of constitutional protection. And they are not able to get over a very simple logical question which is when does human life begin? And the next question is, what species is a fetus? It's a very simple question on the animal kingdom. What species is a fetus? Because what they've done, because there's no depth and there's no wisdom, because there's no God. It's an old, Old Testament saying, no God, there is no wisdom. That's why you go to a college campus and you say there's unbelievably intelligent people saying stupid things. It's because intelligent people can not be wise. It's because wisdom is a choice. You must want to be wise. And universities decide not to be wise because there is no God. And so you have these people at these universities that are saying this pablum, they say, oh no, that is not a human life. Well then a very simple logical question would be, well then you need to place it somewhere on the animal kingdom. If it's not a Homo sapien, is it a bald eagle, an ostrich, an elephant, what is it? And of course under pressure they would say, okay, it is human. Well then if it's living and it's a human life, then how does that human life not deserve constitutional protection? And so this really is a theological debate and we as Christians, I'm not Catholic. I consider all of us to be part of the Christian family. Some Catholics don't believe that. Some evangelicals don't believe that. I think we're all Christians. We believe Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. So we're all in this together. That's my belief. And so. And let me say, I think Catholicism is a beautiful religion. I really do. It's a phenomenal tradition. And I learn a lot from my Catholic friends and my Catholic brothers and sisters. And so let me say this. My biggest complaint is how Christians do not understand that there's a theological debate happening in this country. And so we as Christians believe two basic things. We believe a lot more than this. Right. This is not the end of our theology, trust me. But this is basically the beginning of what we Christians believe. There is a God, and you are not him. It's really simple when you think about it. That's the beginning of the Christian faith. We recognize there is a God, and I am not Him. Now, the reason why abortion has become so popular, the same reason, like a lot of these trends are happening transgender, and I'll get into all that nonsense, is because they don't necessarily believe in either of those. They might say, okay, there's a God, but I might be that God. You see, if you believe that you're made in the image of God and you believe that life is uniquely formed in God's image, and you're not that God, then who gives you the right to take away that human life? You don't. And that's the theological debate raging in our country right now. And it's in every single public policy discussion. And what do Republicans want to talk about? Corporate tax cuts? I'm going to say this as lovingly as I can because I can't stand the left. And the Republicans are the only thing that stops us from becoming the left in some ways. But Republicans just introduced into the House of Representatives a repeal of the estate tax, which basically is a tax on intergenerational wealth and inheritance. Okay, I don't like the wealth. I don't like wealth tax. I don't like inheritance tax. I'm a free market guy. But on the hierarchy of wants and needs of a broken republic, when men are able to go into women's locker rooms, when women's sports are under attack, we have open borders and a million abortions a year, I probably wouldn't put the estate tax as the top priority. The Republican Party. And so. And again, I'm totally against. I'M totally against the estate tax. It's fine. But it seems as if that corporate interests of go bow down to some ridiculous woke secular fortune 100 company and we're going to just finance your campaign. That's been the prevailing Wisdom in Washington, D.C. and one of the main reasons why Republicans are starting to win a state like Ohio by 8 to 10 points is not because they're going on a whistle stop tour saying we're going to get rid of the estate tax, which does hurt farmers. I understand that, but that's, that's not the primary concern. The reason why Republicans are doing better in Ohio is because people of faith, people of moral conscience are like Republicans are all we got. That's it. That's the reason why Republicans are doing well. That's it. And Trump deserves a lot of credit for his ability to communicate with Appalachian voters and middle class workers that felt disenfranchised. And so this is the theological debate raging in this country. But I want to focus some of my criticism and I get so much backlash for this, which is precisely why I choose to do this. So you're going to be in all the paper, you're going to have more visibility for this beautiful organization than ever before. So you're welcome. And so I know, I say no, I mean that. And so I read this thing the other day, but this Timothy Keller. Anyone know who Timothy Keller is? This guy in New York Redeemer Church. And one of my biggest frustrations, and I'm putting that very nicely, is how people that can believe we're made in God's image, that can believe there is a Creator who cares about what you do and how you act, that wants to get back into a relationship with you, that sent his son to save you, commanded you to look after the least of these, and then can be kind of on the fence when it comes to abortion. So here's Timothy Keller. He writes this Facebook post, who Redeemer Church. He's part of Christian Incorporated, Big mega Church. This guy has a very big following. He says this, the Bible binds my conscience to care for the poor, but it does not tell me the best practical way to do it. Any particular strategy may be good and wise and may be even somewhat inferred from other things the Bible teaches, but they're not directly commanded. And therefore we cannot insist all Christians as a matter of conscience to follow one another. He continues to say, the Bible tells me abortion is a sin and a great evil, but it doesn't tell me the best way to decrease or end abortion in this country, nor which policies are most effective. The current political parties offer a potpourri of different positions on these and many. Let me just stop there. Timothy Keller. It's very simple. The Democrat Party believes that you should be able to massacre born children. The Republican Party doesn't. It's really not that. It's not a potpourri. That's not a Socratic dialogue in the pursuit of truth. Okay, that's pretty. That's as black and white as I could possibly make a public policy decision. Okay. He continues, and I only bring this up because I know that there's a Christian undertone of this gathering. No, I mean that. No, seriously, because Christian, we need to get very, very intense and direct towards our Christian ministers and pastors that talk about this nonsense. He continues, by saying this means when it comes to taking political positions, voting, determining alliances and political involvement, the Christian has liberty of conscience. Really, Christians cannot say to other Christians, no Christian can vote for, or every Christian must vote for, unless you can find a biblical commandment to that effect. Well, theologian Timothy Keller, how about thou shalt not murder? It's probably a good one to start with. And this Timothy Keller, who runs Redeemer Church in New York and has millions of followers, is the true definition of cowardice. This right here is moral indifference. And so let me put it aside plainly as I can. Morally, I want to replace one word in Timothy Keller's pile of dribble. The Bible tells me that slavery is a sin and a great evil, but it doesn't tell me the best way to decrease or end slavery or which policies are most effective. Unless you can find a biblical of command to that effect, it's very easy to say that what were the people in the 1850s thinking when it came to slavery? It's so patently obvious, isn't it? And what the activist media says a media matters. They love writing me up when I compare abortion to slavery. And they're similar but different sins. But the massacre of 60 million unborn children since Roe versus Wade I think is a stain on the moral conscience of this country. And people say, is that a worse sin? Is it? I said, I'm not in the judging of the hierarchy of sins. That's not my business. What I am going to say, though, is that the moral indifference from the people that are supposed to be the moral referees in our country, the people that are supposed to be the communicators of God's spoken word, is not just scandalous, it's reprehensible. And so you know that the Bible does not have any specific verses about hanging homosexuals. It doesn't. We could say that that is obviously morally wrong. The Bible does not say anything about female genital mutilation, but we can obviously say that is morally wrong. The point is that the Bible explicitly commands us against abortion. I knew you before you were born. It's pretty simple, made in the image of God, image bearers. And the amazing thing, and Thomas Aquinas deserves great credit for this. The more we go into the scientific realm, the more it confirms the teachings of the Bible. You see, we as Christians should be unafraid to have this conversation on a scientific basis. Okay. You believe in science? Absolutely. I worship the God of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Okay. No, it's actually true. People have, like, vigils to that maniac. It's unbelievable. Been wrong about everything he has said in the last year and is responsible for things. Thousands of teen suicides across the country. That's what I think of Dr. Anthony Fauci. And so I trust science. If you trust science, then go back to the Pope of Science and the archdiocese and tell me when life starts. Human life begins. And then if you say, well, I think human life begins at conception, but I think prenatal development is not worthy of constitutional protection, then you should say, then what value of where do you then draw the moral guardrails on anything else? Their argument falls apart. And so we know that abortion, by definition, is dehumanizing. The entire movement of abortion in this country is trying to make you care less about the neighbor around you. You see, one of the reasons why abortion has been so popular, and it is an industry in our country, people make a lot of money off of this. It is a very profitable endeavor. God forgive us for what we've done. I mean, it's just unspeakable to think that people are getting richer off of the elimination of human beings. It's true. One of the reasons why is because it's not always in the public eye. That's right. It's because it's behind closed doors. You don't always have to see it. And they frame this as an argument of privacy and of women's rights. Well, if they cared about women, the law of averages would tell us that out of the 60 million abortions, 30 million of them are women. Therefore, 30 million women never were able to live since Roe v. Wade. That would be anti woman, not pro woman in any sort of rational argument you could possibly make about abortion. And so I do want to Take some questions. I think that's part of what we want to do. And you're going to do okay, good. And so let me continue to build this out. Believe it or not, we are actually on the precipice of the most exciting pro life change our country has seen. I know it might not feel that way, but I study the left and I don't actually say this jokingly. I go to college campus, so you don't have to. I have spoke at Brown, I've spoke at Stanford, Yale, UC Berkeley, you name it, I've spoke there. Security guards, snipers on the roofs, helicopters overhead, death threats, the whole thing. And one thing that I've learned about the left is that I can tell when they get nervous and anxious. The reason why Governor Ralph Northam comes out and says, you gotta have the baby. Boring. And you relax that baby. And then a decision is made. The reason why they're all of a sudden doing things they never would have done on abortion is they actually know public opinion is falling out of favor there. So the question is, how do we move public opinion to where it was from all of a sudden, the 1830s, people thought that slavery was going to be the law of the land forever. And then our sixth president. Yes, John Quincy Adams, is that right? Six or seven. Yes, that's right. The sixth president, phenomenal president, abolitionist, went back to Congress just for this reason. John Quincy Adams went to Congress to abolish slavery. Which let me just say as a side note, one of the biggest lies that your children are learning is that America was founded on slavery. It's a pathological lie. It's not true. We were founded on freedom. Did some of our founding fathers participate in unspeakable sin? Yes. However, what the next part of the story never talk about is. Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. He also signed a moratorium saying no new slaves into the United States 20 years after the ratification of the U.S. constitution. We never talk about how the document that he wrote in his handwriting explicitly condemned slavery in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence and that document inspired the abolition of slavery in 1777. Or that Thomas Jefferson argued for the end of slavery in the Virginia House of Commons. The Founding Fathers never wrote glowingly about slavery. They struggled with it morally. Sound familiar to something we're going through right now. They wondered how to get rid of. Was always a question of how. Not if you see that's a moral country. We don't teach our children that. John Quincy Adams, an abolitionist, went back to Congress after losing the presidency. So Imagine you lose the presidency, Andrew Jackson, you go back to Congress for this purpose. Thaddeus Stevens, Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionists. And they got it done. And it was not easy. And so the question is, how do we do that now? Because I can understand the frustration. And for those of you where this is all you do, you're beyond heroes. And I want to tell you something that bothers me. It bothers me how under resourced the pro life community is in this country. No, it really does. And by the way, God bless you for supporting this unbelievable organization. You deserve thanks and praise and gratitude. But planned Parenthood receives $500 million a year of your money. $500 million a year of taxpayer funding. And that doesn't count all the other pro abortion groups. And so I've said every single church across the country should have 10% of their operating budget go to pro life causes and Pregnancy Crisis Center. 10%. Enough of the big buildings, enough of the endless amount of. I get it, okay? The light show, all that stuff, it's, it's great, okay? I'm, I speak at those churches all the time. I feel like I'm going to a Led Zeppelin concert. And I think to myself, that's great. No, I think it's terrific. It's seeker people come in, it's all that. But for goodness sake, the pro life community is under resourced like I've never seen before, especially up against the opposition. And so how do we change this? How do we all of a sudden change public opinion to go from something that is unthinkable, ending abortion, to something that is policy? Well, we can actually learn something from recent years. An example that probably some of us like and an example we don't like. There was a man by the name of Joseph Overton. He theorized something called the Overton Window. For you political nerds out there, you know exactly what I'm talking about. The Overton Window is a way to look at ideas that are in the public arena. And everything in his theory, which was brilliant, moves on the spectrum, whether we realize it or not, from an idea that is unthinkable to an idea that is radical than an idea that is acceptable, than an idea that is sensible, than an idea that is popular, than an idea that is policy. I think that's a pretty fair way to look at things. So now let's ask ourselves, when in recent years have we seen the Overton window shift? Gay marriage is a very good example of that. But let's even go a little bit more recently because Gay marriage was unthinkable that we would all of a sudden redefine a biblical covenant to be something that it isn't. However, in more recent years, let's use one that hits home. Literally defunding the police. Right. It would have been unthinkable five years ago that local city departments would be defunding the police. And yet leftist activists were able to move the unthinkable to policy instantaneously. Here's another great example. How is it that all of a sudden we are sending stimulus checks to every single person across the country? Universal basic income, and some people need the help, and I'm morally opposed to universal basic income, but that's a different. Completely different conversation or a different time. But how did they move that? Well, they obviously communicated throughout a crisis and they were advocates for it. So what are the lessons of that? Well, this is where organizations like this matter a lot. Number one lesson of how to move the Overton Window. Because we don't want to take something from unthinkable to policy. Right? That's our goal. Whether you guys realize it or not. You're all participating in the Overton Window here tonight, right? So the question is, where is the pro life movement? I can tell you right now that because of your courage, you're not in the unthinkable realm. You're not. No, you're not. That's a very good thing. You're in the radical realm. And that's okay. Ending abortion is considered radical, not unthinkable in the country. The fact that you've actually moved. We've moved that far. Is actually worthy of applause. It really is. It's something that's in the zeitgeist, which is the spirit of the times. And so how does one move that spectrum? Because that's really what we're talking about here right now. Mind you, the Overton Window can move backwards too. Something can be policy slavery and then become unthinkable. So it goes both ways. So how does one move, number one, a relentless commitment to playing offense. Think about the defund people. BLM Incorporated. They are in your face. Now. I don't recommend that as a tactic. I don't. So I actually think it's going to backfire on them. And I think that there's actually a backlash. But there is something to be said, and the gay marriage debate was probably the most effective that we saw is that they were. They had an offensive strategy, placing advertisements in areas that hadn't heard it before, testing out new messaging, using the enemy's own book against them. That's a rule from Saul Alinsky. So the wonderful reverend opened up with a speech earlier. If we want to all of a sudden get into this. And I think it's absolutely dangerous, this critical race theory direction in our country. And they want to overly racialize everything. And let's talk about the slaughter of the black community in abortion. Let's talk about how if you see a black woman in the subway in New York City, she's more likely going to an abortion clinic than to the delivery room. They want to overly racialize everything. They want to know why black birth rates have flatlined. Maybe because there are more Planned Parenthoods than churches in Brooklyn. Maybe that would be the reason. And so to move the, to move this window, it also is going to take innovation, creativity, non territorialism, working with other partners that might disagree with you on a couple things. And I'm all for, especially when it comes to Republican primaries, I'm all for temporary purity tests and my goodness, do we need them. We're probably going to need one in this state very soon. That's all I'm going to say. But I'm not going to say any more than that. However, when you're talking about big ideas, because you're not just talking about electing some guy to dog catcher, right? You guys are here tonight for a big idea, right? You're here like the guys were in 1860 that started the Republican party at Ripon, Wisconsin were like, hey, we're going to start a new political party. I'm not suggesting that, but that's how big you're thinking. And what was the party they started? The Republican Party. Do you know that it was a single issue party? What was that issue? Abolition of slavery. That was thinking big. And so what else they did? They lifted up the most charismatic people. They were willing to contest and fight for their beliefs. And you don't allow the enemy to have you be anything but optimistic. I'm telling you right now, I talk to young people. The only problem the pro life movement has, the only problem that's probably not true, the biggest problem is exposure. It's that simple. When pro abortion young people are properly exposed to the truth that I shared tonight, their minds change. I've seen it happen, the wonderful work that Lila Rose does. And again there's people where their full time job is the pro life thing. And I obviously am unafraid to talk about it, but it is not my only focus. I have a broad approach to what's happening in the country. But I can tell you, when I do talk about it, this issue is moving and it's moving quick. The more ultrasound technology, the more science, the more transparency, the more we talk about it. And so this is the moment where the pro life movement should be saying, okay, we're either going to quiver and fight amongst ourselves and kind of go in and just kind of say it's never going to happen, or we're going to think really big. We're going to say, this generation, by the time that I am 50 years old, abortion will be illegal in America. That's thinking big. And it can be done. It can be done. And it's an all of the above strategy. It's forming sanctuary cities like they did in Lubbock, Texas, where they say no abortions in our city. It's getting involved in lawfare. It's challenging people on their own hypocrisy. It's running hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising on television. That's what the gay marriage movement did, where you say, when does life begin? Big questions. That's why I say we're under resourced. And what an unbelievable investment to be able to live, to leave for the generation behind you. And so I want to get to some questions, and let me say this, which is that what you are doing is, in my opinion, the issue that impacts all the other issues. And it's an issue, as you could tell, I'm very, very passionate about and outspoken about. And it's an issue that I believe if you get that issue wrong, don't be surprised when all the other moral decay follows from it. When you can't even defend the child that has no defense, don't be surprised when all this other injustice spreads. And so I'm a big believer in the God of the Bible, a God that cares about what we do and how we act. And I truly believe that Christians will be judged based on whether or not we contest and get involved in this very simple fight of right versus wrong. There is no ambiguity here. There isn't. And so let me say this. The truth is on your side. You know that this generation is trending in your direction and the enemy is nervous. The opportunity is in front of you and together we'll seize it. Okay, let's do some questions. Right. Okay, good.
