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Hi, guys. We are so excited today. We have a new season launching, and we're going to have a little bit different format this season than we did last season.

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For any of you who followed us last season, you know we came on once a week and had some really good content and had a lot of things to share.

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The good news is that we learned a lot together, and the not-so-good news is about warming out.

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So, this season, we are going to go to every other week and every other episode, we are going to try to bring on a guest that is relevant to the content that we want to put out.

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And I am excited to say that we are launching Season 2 with my friend and hopefully the next Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Ms. Tracy Bradford.

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She just announced here in Tyler, Texas, a couple of weeks ago, her candidacy, and we are very excited to have her today.

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I do want to read her bio to you because she has quite a bit of experience that led her to this decision.

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So, Tracy Bradford is a mother of seven beautiful children, the wife of 31 years, grandmother of three, and a native Texan and faithful citizen of the United States of America.

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She served as president of Texas Eagle Forum for the past four and a half years, and before that served as president for Dallas Eagle Forum for four years.

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Additionally, she founded the Tarrant County Eagle Forum in 2012.

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Tracy has a passion for biblical truth, self-government, the preservation of life, and the freedoms mandated by the Constitution,

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and was able to translate those interests into active engagement through Eagle Forum.

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During her time as president with Dallas and Tarrant County Eagle Forums, those groups hosted a federal senatorial forum that included all six candidates,

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educated group members on critical subjects such as human trafficking issues, pro-life issues, religious liberties, and security for our Texas grid, to name just a few.

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Tracy was presented an Outstanding Eagle Award by Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly.

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She currently serves as the Eagle Forum National Issues Chairman on Human Trafficking.

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So, you can see that we have a lot of very similar issues, and that is how God crossed our paths.

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So today, I am so honored and excited to bring you our next Lieutenant Governor, Ms. Tracy Bradford.

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Welcome to season two of Truth Talk with Wendy.

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We are so excited that you guys are here today.

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I have a very, very special guest with me today.

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She's not only my friend, but she is going to be the next Lieutenant Governor of the great state of Texas that we live in.

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Tracy Bradford, welcome.

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Thank you. It's good to be here today.

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I am so excited.

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I know how God brought us together, and He clearly is not done with our relationship.

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Thank you, Lord.

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He is so good.

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I know that the thing that really connected us was both of our concern for sex trafficking and your amazing work that's led you to this place.

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I want to talk a little bit about that first, and then tell everybody what God's doing in your crazy life now.

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I'm going to have you, if you don't mind, just give a little bit of background on what even got you involved in being an advocate for sex trafficking victims.

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It's really interesting.

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I was about five years old.

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I know this sounds crazy, but I was having dinner talking to my mom, and I remember this very clearly saying,

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And she's like, no, honey.

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That ended, and I'm like, no, there are still slaves.

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And so there was something planted.

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It had to be God planted in my heart.

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And so over the years, that just really never left.

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And then I started trying to do research, and you couldn't really find anything.

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And even, I mean, just as recent as like 15 years ago, I went to my first precinct convention, which is part of the whole process in the Texas government, and you can write resolutions.

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And so the resolution I wanted to write on was in regards to trafficking.

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I tried to do research.

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You couldn't find anything.

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And so, I just wrote something that I thought would, you know, come across to try to get people to hear or think about it.

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Right, right.

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And we did pass it and it went to the state, but when it was part of the state platform, they put it under child abuse.

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And at that point, I just remember thinking, okay, game on.

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I mean, like, we are going to have to start talking about this and getting people to see that this is really here.

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But how do you do that when there's no information?

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Yeah, yeah.

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And so, that's about the time Amazing Grace, the movie Amazing Grace came out.

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And then there was actually a ministry called, it was called at the time, Good Night, Red Light.

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It's Star Seeds.

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But that was dealing in Thailand, in India, not here.

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Which is what everybody thinks, is this is a third world problem.

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This is not something that could ever be in America, much less in Texas, much less we sit here in Tyler.

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Like, there's no way in the middle of the Bible Belt we could have a problem such as this, right?

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Is that what you're finding when you're talking to people who still want to put their head in the sand?

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Yes.

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And what's interesting is there's a couple of things you see, people who just don't know.

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And I think they really do.

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They just don't want to hear it.

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I've actually had people say to me, thank you for doing this, because I just can't even think about it.

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It hurts too much.

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And then there's also, I know, talking to a group of legislators, they really, same thing.

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I mean, they were just like flabbergasted that it was as big a problem as it was.

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And it was in Texas.

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And so one guy even went down to the paper who had been running a whole series,

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because he wanted to go get the material and talk to them.

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I mean, it was one of those things I'm like, I know we're friends, so I know you're hearing what I'm saying.

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But I really appreciate the fact it struck in his heart so much.

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He made the effort to go down and say, I want all the research you have on this.

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The other thing I saw, which was very interesting, is speaking sometimes to women's groups,

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there was almost an attitude of like, well, they're making that decision.

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And once we walk through the presentation, you could watch their faces.

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You could watch the thought process change.

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And I think some people think if I don't know, then I don't have to do anything about it.

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And not that people have to put on their armor and go in and rescue these kids themselves.

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But there are so many good ministries and organizations that are making a humongous difference.

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And God either tells you to go or give.

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And there's a lot of places that people can do that if they're willing to be made aware.

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And I do understand as a mom, it's very disturbing to have that kind of information.

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However, some moms with no information, it's shown up in their own home.

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And so I would rather be prepared and knowledgeable about it to know what to look for

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than I would to not be prepared because I just don't want to hear those details or

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even think that that could be in my backyard.

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Well, tell me, how did the Lord open doors for you to be as impactful as you have been

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in trying to make a dent in this, as we know, worldwide problem,

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but specifically here in America and then in Texas?

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Well, the key was what you said, how did God open doors.

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Because at the time, homeschool mom, I was starting to get a little more involved in

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the governmental realm.

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I've always been drawn to that.

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But even in that process, they were friends that started kind of coming into ministry

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that kind of dropped in their lap.

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And so then we started talking about what they were doing, and then it just kept snowballing.

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And then my daughter, one of my oldest daughters worked for Sower Seeds.

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Oh, wow.

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So we did a lot of research first.

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I always, I come from Eagle Forum background.

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People, Bill Shaffley, you study.

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And you know the issue.

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And so as it kept unfolding and I was working in Austin, he started opening doors with people.

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The left talked about it.

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Oh, wow.

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But the conservatives, we weren't talking about it.

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No, not the Christians.

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And even the women's groups like Eagle Forum, we were not addressing it.

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And so he gave me an opportunity and they were very open once we started.

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Yeah, they were receptive to that.

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That's so good.

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And then just getting those opportunities to talk to legislators.

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And then starting to go, wait a minute.

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Because again, it had been something driven by specific people on the left.

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And some of the policies were good.

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And some of them were dangerous.

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For everybody.

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And so when God started opening that door, it was like talking to these folks saying,

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we, first of all, this is not.

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look good. Right. Christian conservatives and women and we're totally missing from this discussion.

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Yeah, so those doors started opening and then just happened to have a connection

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Ganagod thing with the attorney general and we did, that was very much on his heart when he

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came in. His team, that's always been something on their heart. They do some great work. Are you

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referring to Dan Paxton? Ken Paxton. I mean, Ken Paxton. Yes, not Dan Patrick. We'll get to him

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later. We'll get to him later. Yeah, Ken Paxton. Yes. And he was already prepped when he became

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attorney general with this issue and had a desire to help there. So that's good. That's obviously,

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I love how when the Lord goes before us, he tells us to do something, put something on our heart and

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we're, you know, and trying to talk to people and nobody even knows what you're talking about. But

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then he's already been doing this work over here and then that person comes across your path and

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you're like, okay, all right, now we're getting somewhere, you know. He really tied the strings

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together. A young lady I'd worked with in Austin went to go work for that office, the attorney

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general's office, and that was kind of her niche she was given to organize. And we had an event

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and it gave him the opportunity to speak to just, so this just shows you talked about earlier,

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go or give. Right. They pulled together, we were able to just in the DFW area, bring a hundred

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groups together in like 10 days. Oh, wow. That's how much is out there. And one of the things that

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we were kind of sparked by that is like, if we did a grid of what is being worked on from

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who's reaching, because sometimes people do this, but who's talking to or reaching out to

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the trafficker? Right. Yes. The buyer. Yes. And then, of course, we want to reach the victims. Yes.

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And the women and the children. Right. And have true restoration. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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But the demand, everybody's like, nobody's going to talk to them. Nobody's going to help them.

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But if we could stop the demand, it would definitely stop the abuse for sure. Yes,

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that you're going to have to come back and we're going to have to do a whole episode on that

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because that's definitely something that God has awakened in my heart with the pedophiles

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that are involved in the abuse of small kids. And yeah, nobody wants to think about them

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from a perspective of how can we help them? But that's God's heart. Right. Well, actually, I went

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to do kind of a long time to ponder what we can do next and what piece of legislation and what

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can we do to outreach? And he just hit me with, who's praying for the trafficker? Yeah. And I was like,

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I don't want that. My first reaction was like, I'm for the victim. Wait a minute. You do this all the time.

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I know. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Yes. That is his heart. It is his heart. You know, that doesn't mean

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that there doesn't need to be penalties or consequences. Absolutely. They'll just keep

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replicating. If we don't make some effort to go to that place. Right. It's never going to end.

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I totally agree. I have so much to say on that. And I know we don't have 20 hours to go into that

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today, but that is God's heart. And until we wrap our brains around that there are human levels of

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sin, but to God, it is all sin and we all fall short, then we're never going to fix these ginormous

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problems of trafficking, childhood sexual abuse. I mean, the list is long because we don't want to

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associate ourselves with the lowest of the low. But what is the Bible talking about? If you did

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this for the least of these, you did it for me. Man, that's a whole nother episode. Oh, my goodness

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gracious. Okay. There's a lot. There is so much. I know. This can't be a three hour show. No, anyway.

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Okay. Let's do this. Let me have you give me a couple of examples of how working in the government

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in political arena has impacted the fight against trafficking. Because like you said, when you first

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got involved, like people weren't even they didn't know what you're talking about. But then you were

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able to get some doors open. People started listening. You got some attention. What then

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was the impact that you were able to have? One of the ones I remember very clearly, and it was again

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almost one of those like, oh, wow, bump bump into somebody and God again is opening the door. We ran

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into a person from the AG's office. It was the very end of session. And we knew we were fighting a bill.

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And where it was trying to get the social media groups to bring down bad content, to bring down the content.

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They can somehow make someone disappear that they don't want on there, but they were wanting months to remove this material.

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You're talking about Internet stuff.

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Like Facebook and all that.

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And so we ran into one of the guys from the Attorney General's office, and he just so happened to have some, just some insight for us.

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And so we went over really quickly, found an office, did a flyer, and started going to the conferencing committee offices, which is where the bill comes to the final place.

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And they have to agree because they've made changes in one or other house.

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And so being there and just kind of having this opportunity to hear some insight he had, we were able to get the information out, and it ended up helping with the bill.

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Oh, wow.

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But that also, another fellow walked up that was the outreach guy from the governor's office, and he's like, what else are y'all working on?

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We didn't know about this.

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So we got the opportunity to go back later and meet with them on that and a couple other bills.

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The governor actually ended up vetoing one of those bills because we had our time.

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To me, it's like perfect timing.

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We couldn't have arranged that.

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No, no.

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Trying to get a meeting, not going to happen.

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Yeah, that's God ordering your steps exactly when you're supposed to be there.

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Yeah, that is amazing.

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Have you, obviously, I know just from reading the Bible that trafficking is not a new thing.

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It might be new to us as far as our awareness of it, and especially that it's in our backyard, literally in our backyard.

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But have you seen, do you feel like in 2021 that we are in a better position to fight trafficking than we were when you first got involved?

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Do you feel like it's been fruitful?

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Your efforts have been fruitful because it's a big problem.

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Some people have the attitude of this is like you go to Africa and you see tons of starving children and you're like, okay, so I can't make a dent here.

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But do you feel like that your efforts are making a dent, basically?

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I think when you see these legislators make the effort to go find out more information, when you see you can actually be there to kill bad legislation.

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Right.

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It can be frustrating when there's hollow legislation passed, and sometimes that happens more often than not because somebody wants to go back and say, I passed a bill against trafficking.

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And what it is, is maybe they added two years on a sentence for the trafficker, but the trafficker never goes to court anyway.

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It's not doing anything.

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So that can be frustrating.

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However, I do believe more people are aware of it.

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I do see we had a dad this last session, and I was shocked.

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This was a God thing.

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His daughter was trafficked.

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She was one that was basically scouted out on social media.

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This really, I mean, I knew some of this was happening, but to hear him and tell the story, good family.

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She was doing great in school, everything.

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They lived in a good area in Houston, loved her life.

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She went on a church camp trip.

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Well, guess what?

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The groomer, as a young woman, went on the trip and befriended her.

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A woman?

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A church camp trip.

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Looked like a teenager.

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They became buddies.

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She introduced her to the boyfriend.

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And from there you have, and the dad had to go with a private investor.

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They had to go rescue her.

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Unbelievable.

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But that man has been consistent in working on legislation.

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In this last session, he worked incredibly hard with his own funds, with his own time.

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Wow.

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And they passed a bill that would hold sexually oriented businesses responsible and deep penalties for serving minors,

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for employing minors, for allowing minors alcohol, you name it.

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And we thought, I mean, just having worked in the legislature, you start to see things, you go, they'll never.

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That's so, I mean, the penalties, you're going, yes, this would be fabulous if I could lose their liquor license after one or two offenses.

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Not just a, don't do that.

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So I thought, man, I just, I don't see this moving, but we're praying.

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And we prayed and prayed.

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And a couple of weird events happened to some of the people holding the bill back.

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Oh, wow.

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Very interesting, actually, for one man in particular.

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And it was that Friday, a bunch of us were praying, either remove him or remove him.

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All I know is the next Monday, those bills were shooting out of that committee.

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Wow.

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And they ended up passing this legislation with all the strong penalties.

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And that's against the liquor board.

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I mean, you think about the liquor lobby.

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yeah that's crazy that was a god thing that was a god thing yeah that's why when people are like

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oh this is just impossible you know you're just like the more you hear those kinds of stories

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you're like yeah no no it really is not impossible and we can't think that ever as believers yeah no

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we can't i mean there's sometimes we have to re-strategize or he pulls us back exactly

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refocus exactly we can't give up on that exactly absolutely

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okay so i'm gonna get into some of the like nitty-gritty here tell me what role does human

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trafficking or child rape which is what it is play in the current climate of where we are of

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our country right now i think this is probably the hardest thing for people to hear right and

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i look back sometimes in not a joking way but when i do presentations on things i talk about

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issues that were considered conspiracy theories right and have been proven to be true and

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trafficking is one of those right that people are like that's not like you said that's not

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happening here that's not even a thing it's not only a thing it is intentional

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it's intentional from the standpoint if you look at what they're targeting against our kids

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it's to normalize all of this and it's to normalize pedophilia exactly and we want to think

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oh my gosh that would never happen take a look right at what are in school these books in junior

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high that kids are having to read but some of the stuff i mean we had to prove some of this i'm like

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i don't even know what that is right someone explain that and this is you know i don't know

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about you but growing up there was a lot of you're just you think about your children they're

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children right there to be playing and swinging and you're creating not not being driven in a

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sexual way god has designed us for that to come to life when it's time when it's in his timing

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absolutely not not normalizing the most we're going to talk about normalizing a girl and boy

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relationship we're talking the more perverted it is the more it's being pushed right to kids

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right yeah it is something where i have to really check myself because when it comes to my kids i

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have a i'll kill first and ask questions later mentality as i think most moms do and as a victim

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of childhood sexual abuse and especially by my father who was also my pastor there's no one on

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this planet who is outside my radar when they're looking at my child in a way that gives me pause

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right i don't care who they are don't care who they are and um and especially with the role models

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that we seem to have nowadays with um little nos x yes and you know these these people who their

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whole platform is to reach reaching out to try to get kids in and then he comes out with this in

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ridiculous i mean i don't it's so frustrating i'll get fired up when i think about it but yes it is

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trying to normalize and and then these same people who are preaching to us to follow the science

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put this guy on the front of people magazine like he's pregnant i i was so shocked when i saw that

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i'm like okay well did i miss where he's actually a transgender because that you know that could

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happen if he's really a girl but then when i researched him i know he's he's a guy and this is

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like a stunt that he's pulling but but people are they just they laugh they think that's funny

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and our kids are not they they they are being influenced in these ways where it is just

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it's it's what they see everywhere so for conservative christian

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parents that are trying to set examples of godliness in their home it just becomes harder

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and harder and harder and um i'm just oh my goodness it's so difficult because i see these

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people going to um school board meetings and they're just trying to have a voice that this is

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not what we agree with please stop making my child read this they're not in positions to pull their

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kids out of school they're not in positions to homeschool or they don't have the money for a

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private school and i think lord what in the world i would probably be in jail somewhere if i was in a

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position like that because i know that the effects of abuse on a child or making a child do something

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they're they're really not ready for or not willing to do i remember sitting down and trying

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to have a conversation with my children you know when it's when it was age appropriate and time

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in their faces just

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read as a beat, mom, do we have to talk about this?

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And it's not something that they're naturally drawn to.

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And you have so-called psychologists,

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and I just call them the professional pervs,

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that are trying to make others think that this is,

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you know, the last article I read was,

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they are sexual from birth,

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and there's actual information where they did a study

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while they were raping children

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to see how many orgasms they could have.

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It's like, people have the most sick and perverted minds,

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and those of us who know that it's from the pit of hell,

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if we are silent, this will become the norm.

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And if we don't speak up,

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then this is going to get to every living room.

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So whether you want to know about it,

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or you want to recognize that it's there,

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you're going to have no choice at some point, right?

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Is that what you're seeing, or is-

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So much in what you just said,

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and my mind's just racing,

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because I'm thinking, you know, it is where we are today.

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And the first thing, as you were talking,

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that I thought was, we're created in God's image.

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Whether people want to agree with that or not,

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or acknowledge it or not, he created male and female.

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There are two sexes, and that is the end of it.

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And so we cannot allow, as believers,

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ourselves to be canceled, to be shut down,

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because someone has to speak the truth.

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And the bottom line here is, the truth is out of love.

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Absolutely. The truth is,

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God's truth is to reach these people that are hurt,

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that are broken, that are in need of truth,

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not to aid and abet a lie.

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I mean, we're loving people to hell.

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Right, absolutely.

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Because we're not, and we can't speak the truth.

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Right.

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And when I was listening to a woman,

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her name is Dr. Michelle Kurtella,

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and she started an alternative pediatric association,

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because the current one decided to full-on push

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every perverted thing that you could do to a child.

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Well, yeah, we're going to go for that.

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We're going to go for the mutilation surgery.

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We're going to go for the hormone therapy.

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And she did a presentation.

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We were at Eagle Forum, and I remember we knew,

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we know this is bad, right?

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We know this is wrong.

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We know these are children.

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God's pretty clear on protecting children.

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Yes, that whole millstone thing, yeah.

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And I have to stop.

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I mean, just as a human, why?

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What would drive you, anyone, to do any of this to a child?

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Like, it's not, let's just take it away,

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even from the church.

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What would make anyone want to,

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you're not getting a child's agreement.

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Right, no.

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And like you said, they're like,

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I don't want to talk about that.

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You know, they want to play.

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Right, right.

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So what is driving that?

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If you can't stop and ask yourself that,

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as a person, well, there's something wrong with that.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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Just don't even put God in this.

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Just think, what would make someone want to

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cause the child? Common decency.

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Yeah, right, just common decency.

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You can be an atheist,

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and there should just be a common decency

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that children should not be taken advantage of

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in such a way.

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And most of them are having to be drugged

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and having to be manipulated in some way

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so that they do go along,

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because they don't want what is happening.

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And when you keep dripping this information,

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and then they see their friends get attention,

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and then now they're coming in groups

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to go get the hormones at the Planned Parenthood facility.

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But when I heard her talk about,

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when you give the hormone therapy,

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and when they hit puberty, and that's the reverse,

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so you have to reverse the hormones at puberty.

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Right, right.

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You sterilize children.

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It's not reversible then.

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No.

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I don't remember what age I was,

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but I loved playing football,

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and I wanted to be in the backyard with my dad

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doing the plays and running,

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but it didn't mean I wanted to be a boy.

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Yeah, you didn't want all the other stuff,

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just the football.

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Some of those things.

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When you look at how many children are now confused,

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I don't think it takes a brain surgeon

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to figure out that kids,

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if they see anything that's kind of new,

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and people get attention for it,

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or it's something that, oh, this is interesting.

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But when you see it being glorified,

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and you look at what,

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it's so sad because you look at that,

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and they're children.

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So they're looking.

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Maybe they don't realize it,

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but we're the ones to put the boundaries in.

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Right.

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We're the protectors.

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And don't you think it's interesting

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how you see so many people

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that they have a coming out.

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And then there's this big, huge celebration,

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like they've done something so great.

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Well, these kids, I think that part of what's drawing them,

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I don't think they're really confused or homosexual.

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I think they're just looking for the acceptance

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that these people in these pride groups are celebrating.

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It doesn't matter what you wanna call yourself today.

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When we did an episode in season one,

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there's like an insane number of genders

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and what was that called, orientations.

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I'm like, I can't even keep up with them.

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But it doesn't even really matter what you are.

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If you're anything other than heterosexual,

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they're gonna throw a party for you.

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You're gonna be the coolest kid in the whole class now.

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Who would not want that kind of approval and acceptance?

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And what's so sad to me is that that is so temporary.

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There's nothing in the world that is ever gonna satisfy

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for that longing and approval

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that can only come from our creator who created us.

458
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But there are so many people that are buying

459
00:31:09.860 --> 00:31:14.140
into that lie of acceptance and approval,

460
00:31:14.140 --> 00:31:15.700
but it's not about that.

461
00:31:15.700 --> 00:31:19.620
You're just helping them further their perverted agenda.

462
00:31:19.620 --> 00:31:20.460
Exactly.

463
00:31:20.460 --> 00:31:22.140
That's the way I have seen it

464
00:31:22.140 --> 00:31:25.980
because these kids are also at an alarming rate

465
00:31:25.980 --> 00:31:27.340
committing suicide.

466
00:31:27.340 --> 00:31:28.700
And so many people that have gone

467
00:31:28.700 --> 00:31:31.820
through that transgender process have such regret

468
00:31:31.820 --> 00:31:34.580
and they can't do anything about it now.

469
00:31:34.580 --> 00:31:36.220
It's just so sad to me.

470
00:31:36.220 --> 00:31:39.940
Well, not wanting parents to live in fear

471
00:31:39.940 --> 00:31:43.140
because we especially are not called

472
00:31:43.140 --> 00:31:45.700
to have a spirit of fear, right?

473
00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:50.700
What can parents do to not traumatize their children,

474
00:31:51.540 --> 00:31:55.580
but to warn their kids to know what to look for

475
00:31:55.580 --> 00:31:59.100
in regards to their children not getting caught up

476
00:31:59.100 --> 00:32:00.940
in some of these different things

477
00:32:00.940 --> 00:32:04.060
that are happening right under our nose?

478
00:32:04.060 --> 00:32:08.100
You know, talking to our kids in age appropriate ways.

479
00:32:08.100 --> 00:32:09.180
Right.

480
00:32:09.180 --> 00:32:11.340
That's always a good start.

481
00:32:11.340 --> 00:32:14.060
But the thing that I think is used to be,

482
00:32:14.060 --> 00:32:15.500
I think hard for parents.

483
00:32:15.500 --> 00:32:18.820
We're seeing a lot more of it and I'm so, so encouraged.

484
00:32:18.820 --> 00:32:19.660
Yes.

485
00:32:19.700 --> 00:32:22.460
The fact that they actually want to put the FBI

486
00:32:22.460 --> 00:32:24.420
on parents trying to be parents

487
00:32:24.420 --> 00:32:26.260
tells you we're on the right track.

488
00:32:26.260 --> 00:32:27.100
Right.

489
00:32:27.100 --> 00:32:27.940
Exactly.

490
00:32:27.940 --> 00:32:28.780
Over the target.

491
00:32:28.780 --> 00:32:29.620
Exactly, yeah.

492
00:32:29.620 --> 00:32:33.740
And what we saw even eight, nine years ago,

493
00:32:35.100 --> 00:32:36.580
it was Fort Worth ISD.

494
00:32:36.580 --> 00:32:37.420
Wow.

495
00:32:37.420 --> 00:32:40.300
They were actually sending home slips of paper

496
00:32:40.300 --> 00:32:41.340
for parents to sign,

497
00:32:41.340 --> 00:32:42.980
but they weren't giving them all the information

498
00:32:42.980 --> 00:32:44.580
of what was being taught.

499
00:32:44.580 --> 00:32:46.500
They were telling teachers that they were needing

500
00:32:46.500 --> 00:32:49.100
to ask kids what pronouns or gender

501
00:32:49.100 --> 00:32:50.180
they wanted to be.

502
00:32:50.180 --> 00:32:51.500
And it was on the teacher.

503
00:32:51.500 --> 00:32:53.060
You're now putting all this on teachers.

504
00:32:53.060 --> 00:32:54.300
Wow.

505
00:32:54.300 --> 00:32:55.140
And not the parents.

506
00:32:55.140 --> 00:32:56.900
So it was eight or nine years ago?

507
00:32:56.900 --> 00:33:00.180
And the parents were not to know.

508
00:33:00.180 --> 00:33:01.020
Right.

509
00:33:01.020 --> 00:33:04.540
And I do believe we saw once that we walked

510
00:33:04.540 --> 00:33:07.980
through the whole issue with what has gone on,

511
00:33:07.980 --> 00:33:08.820
the COVID count.

512
00:33:08.820 --> 00:33:09.860
All these parents came home.

513
00:33:09.860 --> 00:33:11.020
So everybody became homeschoolers.

514
00:33:11.020 --> 00:33:12.580
Right, absolutely.

515
00:33:12.580 --> 00:33:13.420
Yes, we did.

516
00:33:13.420 --> 00:33:17.260
They got to see what was going on.

517
00:33:17.260 --> 00:33:18.220
In the classrooms.

518
00:33:18.220 --> 00:33:20.380
Have you noticed since then the uptick

519
00:33:20.380 --> 00:33:21.900
in parents going, no.

520
00:33:21.900 --> 00:33:22.740
Absolutely.

521
00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:23.580
Not okay.

522
00:33:23.580 --> 00:33:24.860
You are your child's advocate.

523
00:33:24.860 --> 00:33:25.700
Right, right.

524
00:33:25.700 --> 00:33:27.220
It's sometimes not comfortable.

525
00:33:27.220 --> 00:33:28.060
Right.

526
00:33:28.060 --> 00:33:30.260
Now they're trying to make it even dangerous.

527
00:33:30.260 --> 00:33:31.100
Right.

528
00:33:31.100 --> 00:33:33.100
And I think now we are domestic terrorists.

529
00:33:33.100 --> 00:33:33.940
Yes.

530
00:33:33.940 --> 00:33:34.780
Right, yes.

531
00:33:34.780 --> 00:33:35.620
Okay, just want to make sure.

532
00:33:35.620 --> 00:33:37.340
And if that's what we have to be called

533
00:33:37.340 --> 00:33:38.620
and to protect our children.

534
00:33:38.620 --> 00:33:39.460
Oh.

535
00:33:39.460 --> 00:33:41.220
That's not going to stop a parent fighting for their kid.

536
00:33:41.220 --> 00:33:43.420
No, it's going to fire me up even more.

537
00:33:43.420 --> 00:33:46.580
And I think that's what you're going to see even more.

538
00:33:46.580 --> 00:33:51.580
And I do think that we just keep telling people,

539
00:33:51.660 --> 00:33:53.500
look, the system's not going to change.

540
00:33:53.500 --> 00:33:54.340
No, no.

541
00:33:54.340 --> 00:33:56.140
We are the ones to make the change.

542
00:33:56.140 --> 00:33:56.980
Right, absolutely.

543
00:33:56.980 --> 00:33:59.660
And when you see politicians or you see these groups

544
00:33:59.660 --> 00:34:01.220
that are coming for your kids,

545
00:34:01.220 --> 00:34:02.740
I'm going to go, excuse me.

546
00:34:02.740 --> 00:34:03.580
Yeah.

547
00:34:03.580 --> 00:34:04.940
I was in bed rest with every one of my kids.

548
00:34:04.940 --> 00:34:05.780
Where were you?

549
00:34:05.780 --> 00:34:06.620
Right.

550
00:34:06.620 --> 00:34:08.300
Where were you when we were paying the $5,000 bills

551
00:34:08.300 --> 00:34:10.300
for dancing or dental work?

552
00:34:10.300 --> 00:34:11.139
Yes.

553
00:34:11.139 --> 00:34:12.580
You know, where are you when the heart's broken?

554
00:34:12.580 --> 00:34:15.100
Don't pull this, it's up to us now

555
00:34:15.100 --> 00:34:18.300
to fix this gap of learning that happened during COVID.

556
00:34:18.300 --> 00:34:21.300
Or it's up to us to give these children a voice.

557
00:34:21.300 --> 00:34:24.300
It's like, you're not giving them a voice.

558
00:34:24.300 --> 00:34:25.139
Right.

559
00:34:25.139 --> 00:34:25.980
You're brainwashing them.

560
00:34:25.980 --> 00:34:27.940
Exactly, you're giving them a script

561
00:34:27.940 --> 00:34:30.420
of what you want them to say.

562
00:34:30.420 --> 00:34:32.100
You know, parents don't realize

563
00:34:32.100 --> 00:34:34.780
there was the big push for the mental health

564
00:34:34.780 --> 00:34:35.620
that we're in.

565
00:34:35.620 --> 00:34:36.460
And we fought it,

566
00:34:36.460 --> 00:34:38.300
not because we don't care about people's mental health.

567
00:34:38.300 --> 00:34:39.340
Right, absolutely.

568
00:34:39.340 --> 00:34:42.900
But what people understand is a lot of these groups,

569
00:34:43.860 --> 00:34:45.100
the LGBT groups,

570
00:34:45.100 --> 00:34:47.060
I'm talking about these foundations.

571
00:34:47.060 --> 00:34:47.900
Right, right.

572
00:34:47.900 --> 00:34:49.500
Like Meadows and Robert Woods.

573
00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:52.219
And these foundations state

574
00:34:52.219 --> 00:34:55.860
that they want to start tracking a child

575
00:34:55.860 --> 00:34:58.740
and they're kind of what makes them up,

576
00:34:58.740 --> 00:35:00.100
makes their personality.

577
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.920
Yeah, their goal is to track you when you're pregnant.

578
00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:04.840
Wow.

579
00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:06.760
And they have a test that they call

580
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:10.160
Adverse Childhood Experiences or ACEs.

581
00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:11.000
Oh, wow.

582
00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:12.960
And they start tracking your child

583
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:17.960
and they keep a file that you do not have access to.

584
00:35:18.160 --> 00:35:19.600
As the mom?

585
00:35:19.600 --> 00:35:21.320
And it's there till they're 21.

586
00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:23.760
And then the thing is,

587
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:26.680
if you've ever looked at one of the ACEs forms,

588
00:35:26.680 --> 00:35:28.600
I knew we were in trouble the first question

589
00:35:28.600 --> 00:35:31.920
because it said, have your parents ever hurt your feelings?

590
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:38.040
Okay, I do research daily

591
00:35:38.040 --> 00:35:40.640
and I've never even heard of this form.

592
00:35:40.640 --> 00:35:43.360
Okay, who are these people keeping this form?

593
00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:45.440
Is this the public school system?

594
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:47.760
Through the school system, pediatricians.

595
00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:48.800
Pediatricians.

596
00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:50.360
You could have that starting,

597
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:52.560
their goal right now, it's in the schools.

598
00:35:52.560 --> 00:35:54.400
So you're starting at kindergarten.

599
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:55.240
Right.

600
00:35:55.240 --> 00:35:57.000
They want to put it to the pediatricians

601
00:35:57.000 --> 00:35:57.840
is what you're saying.

602
00:35:57.960 --> 00:35:59.520
And they get all the way up to where

603
00:35:59.520 --> 00:36:02.160
I do an assessment on you as the mother.

604
00:36:02.160 --> 00:36:03.000
Right.

605
00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:04.000
Like, do you have guns in your house?

606
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:06.440
Do you, you know, the typical questions

607
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:08.840
that of course we're over there, yes, yes, yes.

608
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:10.320
Right, right, because we're protecting our kids.

609
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:11.440
We think you're helping us.

610
00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:12.280
Right.

611
00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:13.280
And what they don't realize,

612
00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:16.000
what people didn't realize when everybody was pushing this

613
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:17.440
is now in code.

614
00:36:19.160 --> 00:36:21.280
The ACEs, I just saw a report where they said

615
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:22.680
the ACEs test isn't quite working

616
00:36:22.680 --> 00:36:23.520
the way they thought it would.

617
00:36:23.520 --> 00:36:25.040
And it's like, really?

618
00:36:25.040 --> 00:36:25.880
Wow.

619
00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:27.400
Because the questions you're asking children,

620
00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:28.800
they're all going to say yes to.

621
00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:32.000
But what about the question where they say,

622
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:34.480
little Susie, it says, is marriage,

623
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:36.120
marriage is between whoever,

624
00:36:36.120 --> 00:36:37.960
or marriage is between a man and a woman,

625
00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:41.080
or marriage is between a dog and a person.

626
00:36:41.080 --> 00:36:44.400
Well, if your child checks between a man and a woman,

627
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:45.760
who's to determine,

628
00:36:47.160 --> 00:36:49.720
who's determined the value of that?

629
00:36:49.720 --> 00:36:52.680
And they could think, Susie, she needs some help

630
00:36:52.680 --> 00:36:54.440
because she's off here.

631
00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:55.280
Wow.

632
00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:56.600
And that's what people don't understand.

633
00:36:56.600 --> 00:36:58.760
And the parents consent, a lot of times,

634
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:00.160
you don't even know this is going on.

635
00:37:00.160 --> 00:37:03.280
So we were fighting, I'm at the point where anything

636
00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:07.080
that has to do with our children has to be opt in.

637
00:37:07.080 --> 00:37:07.920
Absolutely.

638
00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:08.760
Not opt out.

639
00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:09.600
Absolutely, yes.

640
00:37:09.600 --> 00:37:10.840
And that's to parents.

641
00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:12.160
So you were asking, what can we do?

642
00:37:12.160 --> 00:37:15.200
You have to be on top of all of this.

643
00:37:15.200 --> 00:37:18.040
And don't think of it as I'm just fighting trafficking

644
00:37:18.040 --> 00:37:19.440
or I'm looking for the bad things.

645
00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:20.640
You're fighting for your child.

646
00:37:20.640 --> 00:37:21.480
Right.

647
00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:26.120
At what age, so I have friends that have littles,

648
00:37:26.120 --> 00:37:27.840
and then I have friends that have teenagers,

649
00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:29.720
and then some are empty nesters.

650
00:37:29.720 --> 00:37:34.600
At what age should a parent start having,

651
00:37:34.600 --> 00:37:36.200
as you said, age appropriate?

652
00:37:36.200 --> 00:37:40.760
But I mean, is it necessary to talk to a three-year-old?

653
00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:43.040
Is it necessary to talk to a five-year-old?

654
00:37:43.040 --> 00:37:45.840
I mean, what age do you think we should find

655
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:48.240
an age appropriate curriculum of some sort

656
00:37:48.240 --> 00:37:49.920
or words that they understand

657
00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:53.000
and actually start some of these conversations?

658
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:55.640
So as you're talking again, it popped in my head.

659
00:37:55.640 --> 00:37:56.560
First of all, we pray.

660
00:37:56.560 --> 00:37:59.200
We pray when that baby, you're carrying that baby.

661
00:37:59.200 --> 00:38:00.280
Right, right.

662
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:02.120
From that point on.

663
00:38:02.120 --> 00:38:05.480
Some kids, I think a lot of it is a parent.

664
00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:06.560
You know your child.

665
00:38:06.560 --> 00:38:07.400
Okay.

666
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:10.400
And I had a couple of children that I felt like early on

667
00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:12.960
needed to hear more than others.

668
00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:14.840
But even when they're younger,

669
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:16.320
we always the stranger danger.

670
00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:17.160
Right.

671
00:38:18.200 --> 00:38:19.640
I've had some friends that talk more

672
00:38:19.640 --> 00:38:21.200
about the private parts earlier on

673
00:38:21.200 --> 00:38:23.200
where I was kind of, I think maybe probably

674
00:38:23.200 --> 00:38:24.480
because we homeschooled and our kids were with us

675
00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:25.320
all the time.

676
00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:26.680
Right, right.

677
00:38:26.680 --> 00:38:28.040
That, you know, we'll get to that.

678
00:38:28.040 --> 00:38:31.240
Or you really do watch different, your kids.

679
00:38:31.240 --> 00:38:32.080
Right.

680
00:38:32.080 --> 00:38:33.680
Who you see in the environment they're in.

681
00:38:33.680 --> 00:38:34.520
They're in.

682
00:38:34.520 --> 00:38:35.360
Yeah, yeah.

683
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:37.800
With homeschooling for eight years,

684
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:40.520
all of the parents were homeschooling

685
00:38:40.520 --> 00:38:42.160
for the same reasons we were

686
00:38:42.160 --> 00:38:44.000
so that we didn't have a lot of,

687
00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:45.320
okay, well, if we don't tell them,

688
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:46.840
Johnny's gonna tell them at school

689
00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:50.320
because Johnny didn't know either, right?

690
00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:53.640
But one thing you just mentioned to me, stranger danger.

691
00:38:53.640 --> 00:38:56.800
I remember having a conversation with a parent

692
00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:00.400
who had found out it wasn't a stranger.

693
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:03.200
It was their husband who had, you know,

694
00:39:03.200 --> 00:39:05.400
molested the kids.

695
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:08.240
And you think, yeah, stranger danger.

696
00:39:08.240 --> 00:39:10.200
That's something we all learned, you know,

697
00:39:10.200 --> 00:39:11.680
even me growing up.

698
00:39:11.680 --> 00:39:15.200
And, but that's not necessarily the danger anymore.

699
00:39:15.200 --> 00:39:17.440
Some of our own dangers are coming from

700
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:21.280
within our own homes and our own schools.

701
00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:22.680
And they're not strangers.

702
00:39:22.680 --> 00:39:27.680
They are people that you know and trust in a lot of cases.

703
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:28.800
You're right.

704
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:30.160
It does blow out the hole.

705
00:39:30.160 --> 00:39:31.720
Look for, I don't know if you remember,

706
00:39:31.720 --> 00:39:33.640
when we were younger, if somebody has a uniform,

707
00:39:33.640 --> 00:39:36.240
fireman, policeman, whatever, you run towards them.

708
00:39:36.240 --> 00:39:37.080
Right, right.

709
00:39:37.080 --> 00:39:37.920
And when you think,

710
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:40.160
I think the hardest part about any of this,

711
00:39:40.160 --> 00:39:41.600
and I think, of course,

712
00:39:41.600 --> 00:39:44.080
you can speak to this better than anybody,

713
00:39:44.080 --> 00:39:45.440
is that trusted person.

714
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:46.280
Right.

715
00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:49.280
And how does a child, the damage that that does,

716
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.800
I mean, how do they even go about thinking in their head

717
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:53.640
how to get help?

718
00:39:53.640 --> 00:39:54.560
Yeah, yeah.

719
00:39:54.560 --> 00:39:55.600
Who do they talk to?

720
00:39:55.600 --> 00:39:56.440
Right, right.

721
00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:57.840
And I know we,

722
00:39:59.720 --> 00:40:00.560
when

723
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.840
Our kids were younger. We actually put cards in their wallets or with them that were a couple of

724
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:11.440
names with phone numbers. Right. The people they could talk to if they couldn't talk to us. Yeah,

725
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:15.440
that's a great idea. And these are people we trusted. Right. But we also knew there's going

726
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:19.200
to be like, I have a couple of kids that will just tell me everything. Sometimes you just want

727
00:40:19.200 --> 00:40:23.840
to go, I don't. I just didn't need to know that. You need to know the details of that. Stomach

728
00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:31.200
good. Yeah. But I had a couple of kids that wanted, you could tell it mattered to them

729
00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:36.400
to do everything right. Right. They didn't want to do that. Because you're always like,

730
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:42.480
are you upset with me? Right. So that was a way that they could have somebody to talk to

731
00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:46.640
knowing that that person would, we would come back or they would come back to us. It wasn't

732
00:40:46.640 --> 00:40:51.040
to hide something. Right. But at least it let them have a place to ask questions that they

733
00:40:51.040 --> 00:40:54.320
couldn't ask us. Right. And like I said, the other ones will just fly out and ask you and

734
00:40:54.320 --> 00:41:00.480
you're just like, Whoa, okay. Right. But again, knowing each child and how you would handle that,

735
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:06.320
that particular child. Right. And then there's, it doesn't hurt to ask other people. Right. Right.

736
00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:10.000
Absolutely. You know, there are people that have experiences where they could say,

737
00:41:11.200 --> 00:41:17.680
and you know, you've, you've walked something out beautifully. Right. And you can help other people

738
00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:25.520
by that. That's a place I can't go that I feel like is so critical. I think the hardest thing,

739
00:41:25.520 --> 00:41:30.720
probably, for people to get in their minds, and I'm glad you brought this up, is we're seeing

740
00:41:30.720 --> 00:41:38.560
more and more of the offender is a parent or someone that the child knows and loves. So what

741
00:41:38.560 --> 00:41:48.720
do they do? It's the worst situation for them because they first don't think anybody will

742
00:41:48.720 --> 00:41:56.000
believe them. And secondly, because they know and love them and trust them, they don't want to,

743
00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:59.200
you know, the quote is like rock the boat. You don't want to, you don't want to disrupt the

744
00:41:59.200 --> 00:42:04.000
family. You don't want to get that person in trouble because the child sincerely has

745
00:42:04.720 --> 00:42:09.840
love feelings for them, you know, like actual healthy love feelings, not the way the other

746
00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:17.280
is. So you, you, it's easy to not say anything, not to mention the shame that comes with that.

747
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:21.600
And you think you're the only person on the planet that's going through something like that. You

748
00:42:21.600 --> 00:42:28.480
don't have the mental capacity to process what's happening. So the easiest thing to do is just not

749
00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:37.200
to say anything. And I know in the classes that we teach, when we are giving children the tool

750
00:42:37.200 --> 00:42:46.320
that they need to recognize child lures that lure them in, which came directly from people in prison

751
00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:53.040
who had been busted for that, and they were interviewed, there are 16 of them. But one of

752
00:42:53.040 --> 00:42:58.480
the things that we tell these kids is you need to pick out two people, just like what you were

753
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:04.800
saying, one inside the home and one outside the home that you trust and that you know you can

754
00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:10.160
trust no matter what. And, you know, so in my case, maybe my dad would have been one of my

755
00:43:10.160 --> 00:43:16.640
trusted people. Well, that could have changed, right? So in my situation, had I known that and

756
00:43:16.640 --> 00:43:21.920
had a trusted person inside the house, I would have had then a trusted person outside the house

757
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:29.360
that I could have then gone to. Now, in my case, everybody that I knew was on my dad's payroll. So

758
00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:35.440
that was very difficult for me because there was no trusted adult in my world. So, you know, but

759
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:40.720
that's again where prayer comes in and you just have to cover your children. You know, I mean,

760
00:43:40.720 --> 00:43:46.320
I remember I used to live in fear of them just checking the mail, you know, just like allowing

761
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:50.240
my child, you know, when they were little, just leave the front door, go check the mail and come

762
00:43:50.240 --> 00:43:55.760
back and I would stand there and watch and watch. I'm like, Lord, please, please, you know, because it's just,

763
00:43:55.760 --> 00:44:01.120
I mean, a van can come up, pull them in and then you just never see them again. And you don't want

764
00:44:01.120 --> 00:44:07.040
to live in that fear, right? You know, God does not give us the spirit of fear and it is, as my husband

765
00:44:07.040 --> 00:44:12.160
says, the gift that keeps on giving. It's like when you've been through something like this, it is a

766
00:44:12.160 --> 00:44:20.320
daily, hourly, sometimes minute by minute battle to not let the fear overwhelm you, but yet at the

767
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:26.160
same time to stay alert. So you have to be aware of it so that you can tell your children, but you

768
00:44:26.160 --> 00:44:32.960
can't live in fear of it because as we all know, God orders our steps and he has ordained all of

769
00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:38.000
our days. So there's nothing we can do to add one day or to take away one day from our life. So I

770
00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:44.880
have just learned to rest in that and that is, for me, just been a lifesaver. But okay, let's talk

771
00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:53.440
about what is going on in your life today. I'm so excited. Okay, what would you do as the new

772
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:59.920
Lieutenant Governor, which we know you will be, in regards to changing our approach on this?

773
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:08.160
War of trafficking both both, you know sex trafficking and labor trafficking as well. What what what is your plan there? I

774
00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:13.040
Think just is again. So I was listening to you. I thought wow when people

775
00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:15.640
Speak truth. Mm-hmm

776
00:45:15.640 --> 00:45:21.200
The healing that can come right and I think one of the things is and just about any

777
00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:27.120
Serious issue we have to be willing to get down to the truth, right? And and the truth is

778
00:45:27.640 --> 00:45:29.640
Trafficking is big business. It is

779
00:45:29.680 --> 00:45:31.640
Trafficking is not a left or right issue

780
00:45:31.640 --> 00:45:37.660
It is they send issue across the board right and we have to treat it that way and we have to start with

781
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:39.880
If you have an offender

782
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:43.000
They need to have consequences

783
00:45:43.600 --> 00:45:45.600
Absolutely, because the message you're sending

784
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:53.360
To the victim and I almost take referring but they are victims right at the same time for them to overcome that right?

785
00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:59.320
They don't have to be a victim forever don't write right and that even speaks to how we would

786
00:45:59.720 --> 00:46:06.400
Work with I I believe you know, I think there are people with good intentions that have been working in these

787
00:46:07.520 --> 00:46:10.760
Facilities and in agencies within the government, but I really do believe

788
00:46:11.640 --> 00:46:13.080
restoration comes

789
00:46:13.080 --> 00:46:19.360
Because of the love and grace of Jesus and for those kids who really do want that need that

790
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:24.840
I would love to see more partnering and and driving more of that piece of it actually

791
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:31.280
Honestly, except for going to jail all those pieces right all the pieces of this this process

792
00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:38.400
I think would be better served through churches. Yeah, and through these places just I mean listening to you share

793
00:46:39.680 --> 00:46:42.120
Imagine how that would help

794
00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:43.880
Someone

795
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:50.720
Versus a program where I don't know if you've heard this but a lot of these kids are repeating this program six and seven

796
00:46:50.720 --> 00:46:52.400
times Wow

797
00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:53.760
so I

798
00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:57.520
My personality. I just thought I wonder do they feel like they're failing right?

799
00:46:57.720 --> 00:47:05.040
Right, how many of them leave and just say forget it? Yeah, and what we know and I know it's government people

800
00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:08.360
Church and government, right? No. No. Yeah

801
00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:13.720
What when you're a business you're gonna look for the best person to partner with if you write something

802
00:47:13.720 --> 00:47:17.600
So why wouldn't we go to that? Right? Yes, you can pass laws

803
00:47:17.600 --> 00:47:23.520
Yes, but as we've seen we've passed laws where they're giving stricter sentences, but people aren't being sentenced

804
00:47:23.520 --> 00:47:26.080
Yeah, and then they just find a loophole around exactly

805
00:47:26.080 --> 00:47:31.120
I mean, there's I just read another thing yesterday about a new loophole that they've come up with with all this crazy stuff

806
00:47:31.720 --> 00:47:35.640
Going on at the border, you know, which brings up a whole nother issue

807
00:47:35.640 --> 00:47:37.240
I mean, you know

808
00:47:37.240 --> 00:47:43.040
We're working working working working working to help the kids and there's what is it?

809
00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:46.440
800,000 now that go missing every year just in America

810
00:47:46.440 --> 00:47:53.040
I mean that's just here in you know in our states, but now we've apparently, you know, I guess knock the wall down

811
00:47:53.040 --> 00:47:57.480
I mean, I don't know exactly seven been down there. My husband won't let me go down there

812
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:01.200
But um, I don't know how in the world

813
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:07.760
That we can have an open border and they're not being vetted

814
00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:14.480
They are coming from only God knows where with children that clearly do not belong to them

815
00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:18.920
I mean, how how are we supposed to fix this?

816
00:48:19.600 --> 00:48:21.200
well, our

817
00:48:21.200 --> 00:48:23.200
border is

818
00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:29.720
Our it's it's about our sovereignty of our state. Yes, and it's about protecting our state, but it's also about protecting

819
00:48:29.720 --> 00:48:32.600
I I think you're protecting these children

820
00:48:32.600 --> 00:48:38.080
We're absolutely because they're being sold that you know, the labor trafficking I think sometimes can get kind of pushed aside

821
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:43.480
Sure, but you don't want anyone traffic. No, and I'm not saying that adults don't matter

822
00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:48.160
But right if they think that they aren't trafficking children in the labor end of it. Oh, oh, right

823
00:48:48.200 --> 00:48:52.040
It's it's a boondoggle. They were making up to 14 million dollars a day

824
00:48:52.160 --> 00:48:59.920
Oh my goodness, and I researched this because I'm like that can't be right, right, right and they it's too much and people are trusting

825
00:48:59.920 --> 00:49:05.760
They're thinking. Okay. Here's my life savings. Get me over here or we'll come over work. They become indentured servants

826
00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:09.760
Yeah, yeah, and we're first of all, but I

827
00:49:10.660 --> 00:49:14.260
We cannot depend on the federal government. We see what they're doing, right?

828
00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:18.440
Having saying we're going to put up fencing down there and it's laying down on the side of the road

829
00:49:18.640 --> 00:49:26.400
We have to be serious about the border for a number of reasons right but for if nothing else the fact

830
00:49:26.520 --> 00:49:32.880
These families these people are coming across and they're being sold into labor or just sex trade, right?

831
00:49:33.040 --> 00:49:37.880
Right, and yes, it's all about the money. It's always about however, they can get the money

832
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:43.760
They can sell sell them sexually they can sell them for work. Whatever it is. It's it's about the money

833
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:46.960
It is and there have been people who have brought ideas

834
00:49:47.600 --> 00:49:52.600
There was a group we worked with that I actually got to see them show the technology

835
00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:56.800
That they wanted to help on the border and they wanted because they're Patriots

836
00:49:56.800 --> 00:49:59.800
They were like we want to do this as cheap as possible

837
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.600
incredible equipment. These were guys top-notch scientists and nothing

838
00:50:05.600 --> 00:50:11.840
crickets from the Texas government. So they started to use this technology

839
00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:19.880
outside of Super Bowls. Oh wow. It's amazing they are not

840
00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:24.320
giving up. Yeah. Because they know what's going on. Yeah. But the fact that we would

841
00:50:24.320 --> 00:50:29.280
not seek out good solutions for our border. Right. And that's a whole

842
00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:34.840
another show. Yeah. But when you think if nothing else, there's these children

843
00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:37.520
coming across and these people that are being trafficked and there are people

844
00:50:37.520 --> 00:50:41.320
coming through that are being taken thinking they're going to job interviews

845
00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:45.640
legitimately. Yeah. Yeah. That want to work, that want to have, you know,

846
00:50:45.640 --> 00:50:49.360
they want to go through the process. They want to do it right, but then they're being

847
00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:55.840
taken advantage of by the people that are. Yes. Okay. And so I know that there

848
00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:01.880
are other agencies outside of government that are also trying to get involved in

849
00:51:01.880 --> 00:51:06.920
the process so that, you know, they don't have to report to us anymore. So, I mean,

850
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:13.640
it seems like that this problem is just growing and growing and growing.

851
00:51:13.680 --> 00:51:19.680
It's money. Yes. Yes. It's, you know, we, I mean, we've been talking about this I

852
00:51:19.680 --> 00:51:24.000
think for some years now, but that the cartels switched from drugs because the

853
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:29.680
drug you can take once. Right. A person can use over and over. Yes. But when you look at

854
00:51:29.680 --> 00:51:34.160
the money they're making and you look at what I told, you know, we were talking earlier

855
00:51:34.160 --> 00:51:38.840
about 20 miles off our border into Mexico. Yes. Where they're like a full army, the

856
00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:45.080
cartel army. And we, we have got to realize this is where it comes back to,

857
00:51:45.080 --> 00:51:49.440
we were talking about our faith. Yes. And what is heartbreaking to me is to realize

858
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:56.520
that this is a message of hope. Right. And love. Right. And grace and mercy. Right.

859
00:51:56.520 --> 00:52:00.320
And when you pull all that together, you're looking at not punishing people

860
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:03.440
that want to come to this country. We want people that want to come into our

861
00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:07.160
country to come through the right way. Right. We do have things to work on with

862
00:52:07.160 --> 00:52:11.760
that. Right. Absolutely. But what we've created in this open border, I always

863
00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:14.800
think it's interesting, the very people that want open borders, would they leave

864
00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:18.800
their house unlocked for us to just come anytime I want? No, no, absolutely not. I

865
00:52:18.800 --> 00:52:22.000
remember asking a Harvard professor who was for this. I said, so we can all let

866
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.480
people, let everybody into Harvard. Right. Exactly. No, no, no, no. That's different.

867
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:29.280
No, it's not. It's not different. It's not. Yeah. And most of them, it's not just

868
00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:32.600
their house that's locked up. It's their whole subdivision. You know, they live

869
00:52:32.600 --> 00:52:36.000
behind these big gates and, you know, they don't want anybody. Well, we're going to

870
00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:39.640
open it up. How about your checking account? Yeah, there you go. I mean,

871
00:52:39.640 --> 00:52:43.600
what else? Because we're paying for everything that they're doing. Yes,

872
00:52:43.600 --> 00:52:51.080
absolutely. Yeah, it does not make sense. And it is very, very frustrating. And for

873
00:52:51.080 --> 00:52:58.600
me, I am so excited for not just myself, but the entire state of Texas, because it

874
00:52:58.600 --> 00:53:06.360
seems as though we have Republican in name only, better known as rhinos, in

875
00:53:06.360 --> 00:53:13.400
these positions that then do use their power to stop all the hard work of

876
00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:18.600
people in these advocacy groups that are really doing the hard work of making

877
00:53:18.600 --> 00:53:26.760
change. And to me, when somebody is given a platform that they then have the

878
00:53:26.760 --> 00:53:32.200
power of, you know, to sign a bill or push a bill or at least get something,

879
00:53:32.200 --> 00:53:39.080
you know, into being able to be voted on and they don't do what they should do,

880
00:53:39.080 --> 00:53:44.200
then it's time for them to be removed. And, you know, the Bible tells us, to whom

881
00:53:44.200 --> 00:53:50.160
much is given, much is required. And the Lord is going to fulfill His purposes

882
00:53:50.160 --> 00:53:56.120
with or without us, with or without them. So those of us who are trying to help

883
00:53:56.280 --> 00:54:00.920
protect children and all the hard work that goes into that, because it is a very,

884
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:08.680
very, it's a war within itself. It's very, very time consuming. And then to just be

885
00:54:08.680 --> 00:54:14.280
so disrespected that that stuff never even makes it onto the floor for a vote.

886
00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:18.360
And I don't understand, I mean, you're so much more politically, I think we should

887
00:54:18.360 --> 00:54:21.800
have session every week, personally, you know, I'm like, why do we have to wait so

888
00:54:21.800 --> 00:54:25.160
long? I'm like, there's a lot of problems we need to be solving. What do these

889
00:54:25.160 --> 00:54:29.960
people do all day, you know? So, you know, for me, I'm like, why is this so

890
00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:33.880
complicated? It doesn't, I mean, it should just be like we're talking about common

891
00:54:33.880 --> 00:54:40.680
decency. It should just be clear. If we can help save more kids, sign me up.

892
00:54:40.680 --> 00:54:46.520
Right. And that is what I'm so excited about for the state of Texas, because we

893
00:54:46.520 --> 00:54:52.360
need somebody in there who actually will make these things happen and push these

894
00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:55.320
things through. And, you know, because I don't think it is a right or a left

895
00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:59.960
problem. I just don't. I don't think, I think you could find many, many people.

896
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.600
on the other side of whatever side anybody finds himself on that would agree, you know,

897
00:55:06.600 --> 00:55:11.400
because we've all been children and none of us would want those things to happen to us.

898
00:55:11.400 --> 00:55:15.440
And there's atheists that live by the gold rule, you know, treat others how you want

899
00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:16.440
to be treated.

900
00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:20.760
I'm pretty sure there's no child that would sign up for something like that knowingly.

901
00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:30.360
So I do believe it is a an issue that can bring unity among many, many people.

902
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:37.880
And so on behalf of the entire state of Texas and your future people that you can govern,

903
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:44.920
I want to say thank you to you because we are we are long past the need for someone

904
00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:50.720
like you and with your boldness and your courage and your tenacity to be in this position

905
00:55:50.720 --> 00:55:52.480
actually getting things done.

906
00:55:52.480 --> 00:56:00.160
So when you get down there, because you will, then I want to be an advocate for you and

907
00:56:00.160 --> 00:56:06.260
get on board with whatever it is that you're doing to help stop this, because it's God's

908
00:56:06.260 --> 00:56:10.840
grace that has gotten me, you know, to this place in my life.

909
00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:15.200
But without his grace, you know, I would be one of those statistics.

910
00:56:15.200 --> 00:56:16.200
Yeah.

911
00:56:16.200 --> 00:56:20.800
And so I am firsthand knowledge of the damage that it can do.

912
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:24.000
And that's what drives me to want to help other people, you know.

913
00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:28.440
So thank you very much for joining us today.

914
00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:33.720
Thank you for everything that you've done to get to this point and everything that you're

915
00:56:33.720 --> 00:56:39.040
going to do, because we are we are praying for you and we are voting for you.

916
00:56:39.040 --> 00:56:44.480
Everybody needs to vote, Tracy Bradford, Lieutenant Governor, and and if there's ever

917
00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:47.680
anything that we can do to help you, please, please let us know.

918
00:56:47.680 --> 00:56:48.680
Well, thank you.

919
00:56:48.680 --> 00:56:52.920
And I want to thank you for being a beautiful example.

920
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:53.920
Thank you.

921
00:56:53.920 --> 00:56:56.680
Of what restoration looks like through God.

922
00:56:56.680 --> 00:56:57.680
Yes.

923
00:56:57.680 --> 00:56:58.680
Absolutely.

924
00:56:58.680 --> 00:56:59.680
And there's hope.

925
00:56:59.680 --> 00:57:00.680
There is hope.

926
00:57:00.680 --> 00:57:01.680
There is hope.

927
00:57:01.680 --> 00:57:04.480
And that is the thing that I think so many people are missing today is hope.

928
00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:05.720
They just want to give up.

929
00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:09.120
There is hope on the other side of that cross.

930
00:57:09.120 --> 00:57:14.440
We just have to be willing to take this brokenness and sweep it up there to him, you know, because

931
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:17.280
he is the only hope that any of us have.

932
00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:18.280
That's right.

933
00:57:18.280 --> 00:57:23.920
So we want to thank you guys for tuning in today and tune in next time for another episode

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