WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.120 Hey, everybody. We have a fantastic podcast for you today. We are with Star Parker. If you're not 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:10.160 familiar with Star Parker, you're about to become familiar with Star Parker. It's going to be a 3 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:14.880 tremendous program. Can't wait for you to hear it. 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Now open your hearts to what God's 12 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:15.200 word has to say to you. Well, today we have with us a, not only a star in my opinion, 13 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:24.560 but a warrior. If I could assemble a biblical image of Debra in the Bible, the great warrior 14 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:31.360 woman of God, I would think of Star Parker, who we have with us today, and Star is on the front 15 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:38.800 lines of doing everything she can to change the cultural direction of where America is at and 16 00:01:38.800 --> 00:01:44.480 where it should go. And we need this more and more in our country today. And so it is an 17 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:49.840 honor to have with us, Star Parker. And just so our audience knows a little bit about you, 18 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:56.400 you are the founder and president of Cure. The acronym stands for the Center for Urban 19 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:03.360 Renewal and Education. And you have had quite a bit of success with this because if I remember 20 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:12.720 rights, you made some impressions even upon President Trump and his administration. And beyond 21 00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:16.720 that, can you explain a little bit about that? Well, that started from a year ago and then I'll 22 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:21.120 go backwards with you. And thank you for having me with you because this is exciting. And especially 23 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:24.960 now you said, you're like Debra. Good, because that's what people say. You're aggressive. I'm like, 24 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:29.200 I like it. Debra was aggressive. Then when they say, oh, they have all these things. They want to 25 00:02:29.200 --> 00:02:33.920 say, I always pick Bible characters to say, well, that's their personality, too. So I appreciate that. 26 00:02:34.880 --> 00:02:40.640 Yeah, actually, President Trump wanted to fix the inner cities. He ran on it. He told the world 27 00:02:40.640 --> 00:02:44.800 that he was going to fix the inner cities. He asked black people, what do you have to lose even 28 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:50.480 though they didn't vote for him in major numbers. That year, he still wanted to fix the inner cities. 29 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:55.360 So I was one of the folks on a task force trying to help shape that, what that should look like. 30 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:03.520 It ended up where Senator Tim Scott and Senator Booker put in the tax bill and opportunity zone 31 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:09.520 initiative. That's right. So in that, we were able to identify all 8,700 broken zip codes. 32 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:13.600 And I'd always been through a cure about that little law sheep because God liked that little 33 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:18.960 law sheep. And we wanted to help them recover their lives, put them on a path to where they could 34 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:23.200 be healthy and whole in America. So I was able to do that. But he also put me on a commission. 35 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:30.320 It is a civil rights committee for the state of California. And we answer to the city, 36 00:03:30.320 --> 00:03:38.560 to the national civil rights commission, which is where they look for race disparities. And so 37 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:44.160 in the new appointments that Trump made for the state of California, we were able to push through 38 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:50.720 to study the impact of AB 5 on minorities. I know there are a whole lot of people that are very 39 00:03:50.720 --> 00:03:55.200 upset that that's what we're studying. But we thought it's worthwhile because a lot of folks 40 00:03:55.200 --> 00:03:59.920 are in the gig business. A lot of people want to stay independent of working for a union. So it's 41 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:05.520 been really fun. This is the first I've heard of this. And I have to tell you, be in a native 42 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:13.440 Californian. And the fact that we know that Trump came here for various fundraising events. 43 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:20.480 But he never really can't paint here. I know that he went up to the farm area near Fresno. 44 00:04:20.960 --> 00:04:25.200 And that was a big deal because he met with farmers. It was a small gathering. But he released 45 00:04:25.200 --> 00:04:30.880 the water back into the custody of the farmers, which was amazing, rather than have it go out to 46 00:04:30.960 --> 00:04:36.960 the ocean. But other than that, I just thought Trump didn't have any involvement whatsoever in 47 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:43.840 California. Well, he had a plan to fix all of the inner cities. And when you think about the 48 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:49.520 Civil Rights Commission and what normally happens through all of these organizations, if you will 49 00:04:49.520 --> 00:04:56.960 governmental interest in black or ethnic or race dynamics, the left has controlled that space 50 00:04:56.960 --> 00:05:02.240 well since they started. The 60s is when we saw many of these things come up after the Johnson 51 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:06.560 administration. And then it moved into a firm of action and racial preferences. And so it's 52 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:10.400 destroyed a lot of racial relationships and other things like that. But these are commissions. 53 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:15.040 And each president gets a chance to put people on there. Many of the Republicans just ignored 54 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:18.800 that opportunity. But President Trump said then put people on there. So it wasn't just in 55 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:22.640 California. It's all over the country. Wherever he saw an empty space on the committee, 56 00:05:22.640 --> 00:05:27.280 he put people on there. Are those committees still going? Or have they been canceled? 57 00:05:27.280 --> 00:05:31.680 Oh, no, well, they can't be canceled. They're part of the, this is great to hear. They're part 58 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:39.440 of the United States Civil Rights Commission. The reason that when the left people like BLM 59 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:45.360 and Antifa complain about race dynamics and all of the woe is means they're lying on the country 60 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:50.560 because what happened at the 60s is the structures were set up that if someone has a complaint, 61 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:55.040 they do have somewhere to go. We have many of that. Every single department has a civil rights 62 00:05:55.040 --> 00:06:00.400 arm. And so they have people that are both sides of the aisle appointed to them by the president. 63 00:06:00.400 --> 00:06:04.080 President Trump is one of the first Republican presidents that took advantage of that. 64 00:06:04.080 --> 00:06:09.040 So now you have a lot of conservative and libertarians on these committees all across the country 65 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:13.600 looking to really find what's broken down and see if we can actually fix it. 66 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:18.720 So in California, we have the most incredible homeless situation going on. 67 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:26.560 And what can you share about that? Why? What's happened to where several years ago 68 00:06:27.200 --> 00:06:34.000 that wasn't something that you saw and then now you do and you see it everywhere? 69 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:38.160 What's happened? What transpired or didn't transpire for this? 70 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:41.920 That's interesting. Really interesting question because the committee I just told you about, 71 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:45.920 we were looking at homeless too. In fact, I was the one that wanted to work on that area. 72 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:50.880 And then when it came down to the vote, everybody else that was more center right was going toward 73 00:06:50.880 --> 00:06:55.920 AB5. So I threw my vote there and we won by one vote to study that. But homelessness is my 74 00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:01.600 passion area for a variety of reasons. Not just my brother has lived on the street for 25 years, 75 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.600 but you know my background because when I came to your church and talked about, 76 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:09.760 you know what God delivered me from and to the criminal activity, the drug activity, 77 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:15.040 the, you know, I mean, well, he's such a fulfilling God. Like he knows to go get that little 78 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:19.360 law sheet, but he knows where we are. And so he does that with the homeless as well. But the 79 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:25.280 challenge and what change was that the right looks at homelessness mostly through a Christian lens. 80 00:07:25.280 --> 00:07:30.480 That that person is a unique individual and has something that they can contribute to society. 81 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:34.640 They just got lost. So let's go find out what it is. There might be drugs, there might be alcohol, 82 00:07:34.640 --> 00:07:38.480 might be economic. It could be that they're a mental problem. So it could be just they, 83 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:44.480 they're disabled. But the left looks at it very differently. They like them in that capacity. 84 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:49.200 They think that there's nothing wrong except that the Bible thumpers keep saying there's something 85 00:07:49.200 --> 00:07:54.480 wrong. So they just want them comfortable in that state. So when Barack Obama won the presidency 86 00:07:54.480 --> 00:08:00.320 back on 2008, he changed the rules. He moved. What used to happen was homelessness was in in 87 00:08:00.320 --> 00:08:06.000 HHS health and human services because health and human services the department and then they spread 88 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:12.640 their wings everywhere handles human tragedies, human issues. He moved it from there, the budgeting 89 00:08:12.640 --> 00:08:17.520 to HUD because they think it's a housing problem. So they rather go by intense. And so what happened, 90 00:08:17.520 --> 00:08:21.920 the impact across the country over the last 10 years is that the people that were serving the 91 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:25.840 homeless looking at all the areas where they're broken down and helping them fix their lives, 92 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:32.320 all of a sudden their budget's dried up. So now they can go from 300 beds to 30 beds. In fact, 93 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:38.320 one called the Red Door up in San Francisco area almost collapsed because of that one change. 94 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:42.800 And so they've been working to get that thing changed back. But in the meantime, it just forced 95 00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:46.480 every homeless person out into the streets. And it's interesting you asked about President Trump. 96 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:52.080 He was fixing that too. He had hired a person out of Texas and we had just finished all of the 97 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:57.920 planning and then COVID hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remarkable. We had no plan. We had no idea that we'd 98 00:08:57.920 --> 00:09:04.560 be talking about Trump like this. It was not my plan. Well, but in a way, you have to say as aggressive 99 00:09:04.560 --> 00:09:09.040 as it was. And in fact, my fifth book was called Necessary Noise. You know, he inflames the 100 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:14.000 Cultural War and why this is good news for America because he did inflame it. And there are many 101 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:18.640 instances we can see through scripture where God would choose a total heathen to change things, 102 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:23.360 to get his brick against the wall and make you make harder choices or even know that there's a 103 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:28.400 challenge. And so he did some wonderful things in that time. And I think that even today that the 104 00:09:28.400 --> 00:09:34.240 baton was passed to these folks, these pagans to show people just how dark it can get both 105 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:38.720 word administrations that I think were very welcome into our society because we reached a point 106 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:43.360 we just couldn't go on like we were. You know, I've been in Washington and now for 25 years and my 107 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:48.880 cure policy is in Washington DC. It's not just a deep state. It's a dark state and it's 108 00:09:48.880 --> 00:09:53.280 nowhere near what the founders had in mind. They really wanted a limited role of government. 109 00:09:53.280 --> 00:09:57.360 And now governments, a quarter of all of our budget is only on these poverty programs, 110 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:03.600 which are people programs. And we don't want that. This is not where things should be. But most 111 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:09.200 Americans, especially Bible-believe in Americans, were just ignoring the obvious. It didn't touch 112 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:14.000 them so they didn't do anything. They didn't put any passion into it. And so I think God wanted 113 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:20.640 to get their attention. You said something a moment ago and I'm going to act like it cannot be 114 00:10:20.640 --> 00:10:28.080 true. So I'm going to ask you to defend what you said a moment ago. You said that when the 115 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:37.120 Democrat Party made the change under Obama from health and human services to HUD regarding the 116 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:44.640 homeless, you said something to the effect that they like. They're okay with people living in 117 00:10:44.640 --> 00:10:53.920 tents. How can that possibly be true? How did they disconnect from that that's a human being? 118 00:10:53.920 --> 00:10:58.400 You know, these are the elite. These are the people that kill babies in the womb because they 119 00:10:58.400 --> 00:11:03.600 actually think that they may be overwhelmed. I'm so thankful that you're fighting that from 120 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:08.800 happening here in California because it could happen. It will happen if we don't stand our ground 121 00:11:08.800 --> 00:11:14.960 to make sure that God's reward is brought to bear in this earth. But yeah, they're following. 122 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:20.240 This is not a new discussion we're having. This is all throughout the scripture. What's happening 123 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:23.840 for most Christian Americans is they never thought it would happen and they have to make these 124 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:28.320 determinations. We've been spoiled. We've lived, you know, what did one of the scripture told us 125 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:34.160 that Moab settled on her lease and been shifted and so now and and tilted and so now that's what's 126 00:11:34.160 --> 00:11:39.200 occurring. And so we have to remember why we believe what we believe. But yeah, the left, the 127 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:44.560 enemies of God have always been. The the the King Solomon said there are an abomination of God and 128 00:11:44.560 --> 00:11:50.560 so yeah, they they when they ride by homeless, they don't even see them. Christian see them. 129 00:11:50.560 --> 00:11:57.600 They just don't know what to do about them. Wow. It's just a reality and and and and it's a 130 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:02.880 continuous. That's why they trap poor children in failing schools. That's why they have nothing to 131 00:12:02.880 --> 00:12:07.920 do with ghetto. They just think it's okay. And there are Christian people that say, but it's not 132 00:12:07.920 --> 00:12:14.880 okay. They just don't know what to do. So not too long ago in this state, there was the numerically 133 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:23.040 this state hosted the biggest governor recall in American history. Gavin Newsom was handed basically 134 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:33.200 a you know, your fired notice and was forced into an election. And Larry Elder, he's a dear friend 135 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:41.200 of ours. We love him. Larry Elder got more votes than all of the other candidates combined and 136 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:46.960 Larry Elder had that front position because he had a plan. And one of the things that blew my 137 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:51.200 mind and I loved about what Larry was saying and it kind of just rings true to what you were just 138 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:56.800 saying a moment ago. I agree with you, Star, that the condition that we're in is because of the 139 00:12:56.800 --> 00:13:04.400 absence of Christian involvement. And Larry had asked me if if he were elected, if I could head up 140 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:11.200 activating the churches in California by zip code, you mentioned zip code. And he said, 141 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:16.320 based upon a church's capability, there's big churches, medium, small churches. He said, 142 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:21.520 I don't really care about that. But if it's a small church in that zip code, maybe they could 143 00:13:21.520 --> 00:13:27.840 reach out to that one, two, three, or five homeless people that are nearest to them and begin to 144 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:34.320 give them a life, give them the gospel, give them a trade, take them in, adopt them off the streets. 145 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:40.640 The church could do this. And it was thrilling. I got so excited about what was going to be coming. 146 00:13:40.640 --> 00:13:44.480 Of course, it didn't turn out well. And it might not have even come that way because one of the 147 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:49.520 things that people don't understand about the political process is this, it's entrenched in 148 00:13:49.520 --> 00:13:53.440 HUD. So even if you wanted to do it and a church wanted to do it, it's illegal to do it. 149 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:57.440 Unbelievable. Yeah, you have to work through the structure, if you will. And now that's in 150 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:02.480 HUD. It's incredible what has happened. When the budget was two billion for the homeless, 151 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:06.880 we had about 200,000 in the country. They increased the budget because it's housing problem to four 152 00:14:06.880 --> 00:14:11.200 billion. Now we have 800,000. Okay, this is government. This is what they do when they create 153 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:17.600 problems. This is the same strategy they use when they built out the ghettos, the housing projects, 154 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:21.200 the section 8. They tell people don't work, don't save, don't get married. And we'll kind of keep 155 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:26.000 it right here in that discomfort. But I think Larry would have done it. He would have gotten 156 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:29.440 it just in a way. That's why I wanted me to Washington DC. Now I said, you know what, someone 157 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:36.800 not to send him how many times President Lincoln lost before he won. And then he still 158 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:43.440 lost. But Lincoln suffered so much death around his life. His loved ones. Especially with 159 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:47.280 Diane Feinstein, ill right now, maybe he should look at that, maybe look at a congressional seat 160 00:14:47.280 --> 00:14:51.600 down in Orange County so that move up the apparatus and make the changes that need to occur. 161 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:57.120 So Larry, we're sending you a message, Larry Elder. He's a good friend. He's a good friend. 162 00:14:57.120 --> 00:15:01.440 But I think that you're on to something when you look at what it is that the Liberals have 163 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:06.080 done to damage what God has asked us to do. You know, we think about some of the social problems 164 00:15:06.160 --> 00:15:11.680 that we have. And the church responds to them. What the LGBTQ community is doing or tempted to 165 00:15:11.680 --> 00:15:15.840 do or children. So there's a reaction to that. What they've done through abortion. Then there's 166 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:20.560 a reaction to that. But where we're now moving and we should move it society. And that's why I do 167 00:15:20.560 --> 00:15:26.640 give Trump credit for having us focus on those broken zip codes is we need to go and see what has 168 00:15:26.640 --> 00:15:32.080 happened to our poor. What has happened to those that God has told us to care about. Now what the 169 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:37.040 left has sent out in messaging is that, oh, those people don't really care. They won't spend any 170 00:15:37.040 --> 00:15:41.920 money in it. But what many don't appreciate is how much money we actually do spend. Now it's not 171 00:15:41.920 --> 00:15:47.040 a lot of the church doing it. It's always like, you know, the 20% doing the heavy lifting. But that 172 00:15:47.040 --> 00:15:53.760 20%. You know what it looks like? 400 billion dollars here. 300 billion dollars abroad. 900 billion 173 00:15:53.760 --> 00:15:58.960 in a welfare state forced into the coffers of Washington out of their paycheck. And that doesn't 174 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:05.200 even include the tithe. So that means that people are benevolent. So they just don't know where, 175 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:10.960 how do you fix what we keep seeing? So we do have enough programs going here and there. But a strategy 176 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:15.040 is what really has to occur. And that's why there was energy and momentum behind Larry because 177 00:16:15.040 --> 00:16:19.280 you're right. He was approaching more like a businessman, not a politician. Politician always 178 00:16:19.280 --> 00:16:23.600 blame somebody else for why they can't get something done. But a businessman looks in the mirror. 179 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:28.560 Says, I'm the reason something's not done. I need to make some changes. And so Larry has more 180 00:16:28.560 --> 00:16:33.440 business mind and would have really been effective here in California. Yes. So I don't know if 181 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:39.760 what I'm going to say is going to get me in trouble or blow up something. But Larry had, 182 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:46.880 he had name recognition. He had the votes. He had the rallies. People showed up in numbers. 183 00:16:46.880 --> 00:16:57.680 Not bad. Yeah. Okay. And he campaigned hard. But the party that he represented with the RN 184 00:16:57.680 --> 00:17:03.760 the end of his name, they didn't get behind him. The status quo party. They actually made it harder 185 00:17:03.760 --> 00:17:11.680 for him. And I saw that. I got to watch that firsthand. What's going on? The RNC, the Republican 186 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:16.320 party is a business. And in that business, they have a board. We call them the 168ers. Every 187 00:17:16.320 --> 00:17:22.000 state gets to every territory gets to and then they have alternatives. I think they call them. 188 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.560 So and those guys, it's, it's just business for them. They're not thinking about making changes. 189 00:17:26.560 --> 00:17:32.800 It's a comfort zone. It's a, it's a political party. And the 168ers is where people that are 190 00:17:32.800 --> 00:17:37.840 being compelled to go do something instead of running for office. Maybe they should think about 191 00:17:37.840 --> 00:17:42.400 replacing one of the committee men. Oh, yes. Because that's what happens. They were just come 192 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:46.640 from top and they come down. And so it's just a party. The only reason I ran for office years ago, 193 00:17:47.280 --> 00:17:51.840 here in California is because that was the, your Michael Still had one, the RNC chairmanship and 194 00:17:51.840 --> 00:17:56.800 say what you will about him. And he has gone way left. But when he won and he saw that there were 195 00:17:56.800 --> 00:18:01.120 districts where they just weren't even running people. Yes. And yet the countries turned in blue. 196 00:18:01.120 --> 00:18:04.960 And he's like, wait a minute. You don't run people there? Even, well, they'll never win. 197 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:10.720 How do you know that? So he told them when the 168ers went to their party in Hawaii, 198 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:15.280 you can, you run someone in every district. And so when the California LA party came back, 199 00:18:15.280 --> 00:18:18.560 they're like, well, we have to run somebody. Maybe we should get somebody that could at least, 200 00:18:18.560 --> 00:18:22.720 you know, get some attention. And so they dragged me into that thing. We got a lot of attention, 201 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.480 though. And now, but you know how I looked at it. First of all, five months was not enough time 202 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:31.680 to undo 50 years of social engineering. That's what happens when you leave communities where the weeds 203 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:35.760 come in, the dirt gets hard. Now they're semen on it. It's just going to take time. But you have 204 00:18:35.760 --> 00:18:42.320 to spend the time. And so even with Larry, you know, he is a national figure now. So now it's just 205 00:18:42.320 --> 00:18:47.280 time. And time can be on his side because people in California know something's going terribly wrong. 206 00:18:47.280 --> 00:18:52.000 We're even one of the reasons that guy's running up in LA. He's like, I don't want to leave LA. 207 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:56.880 I love LA. Corusso's his name. Corusso, this is for the mayor. For mayor of Los Angeles. 208 00:18:56.880 --> 00:19:01.360 Yeah, business man. Big business man. Big business man. And his ads are really interesting 209 00:19:01.360 --> 00:19:05.520 because he's just saying, look, I don't want to leave LA. I love LA and we can fix this together. 210 00:19:05.520 --> 00:19:10.800 And so basically what he's saying is let's do this. One of the downsides to what happened to Larry 211 00:19:10.800 --> 00:19:15.600 is it was too close to Trump. And people were too mad at Trump. And so it brought out once they 212 00:19:15.600 --> 00:19:20.080 started messaging that he's just another Trump. It brought the liberals to the polls. But I think 213 00:19:20.080 --> 00:19:25.520 that there might be enough distance now that Corusso could pull out LA. If he's able to do that, 214 00:19:25.520 --> 00:19:31.040 you can then start to see that scene meant getting hammered on. You can be fixed. People are fixing 215 00:19:31.040 --> 00:19:36.720 it all around the world and looking into America because of the build act that Trump also did over 216 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:41.520 some countries in Africa. But also here, we can see it in all of our little broken-down zip 217 00:19:41.520 --> 00:19:46.400 codes that there's some activity. Greenville, South Carolina for instance, they just came out with a 218 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:50.800 book just was written about what they've been able to do. It's called reimagining Greenville. 219 00:19:50.800 --> 00:19:55.600 They took that city and flipped it. And now global travelers magazines say if you go to 220 00:19:55.600 --> 00:19:58.720 a California, I mean if you go to the U.S. and you haven't gone to Greenville, you missed 221 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:04.880 you missed America. We can turn this around. It's just a matter of getting someone with the 222 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:09.360 passion to say I can fix it. But to your point, neighborhood at a time. These churches, 223 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:14.640 I was just talking one of our pastors. We have a three programs in cure. We have the policy program. 224 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:19.840 We have a media program. We have a clergy association. I was talking to one of my clergy. 225 00:20:20.800 --> 00:20:24.480 He told me, oh, I've passed to the baton to a new clergy. I said, oh, when I'm in LA, 226 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:28.240 I'll like to meet with him. He said, well, I have to get an appointment because he lives way out. 227 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:31.040 Like, I don't want to say because they're going to know who I'm talking about. 228 00:20:31.040 --> 00:20:34.640 I'm like, what kind of pastor doesn't live in his community? Never mind. 229 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:38.400 You've got to be a pastor. Never mind. You know, I'm just, if you 230 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:42.880 fix your blocks, if you took the Nehemiah model and fix your blocks and it just next to each other. 231 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:46.320 Fight in front of your door. Right in front of your door. That's right. 232 00:20:46.320 --> 00:20:50.240 So that's what that's where churches have decided to go with a lot of their attention. 233 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:52.640 And the vultures come in. The pay goes are there now. 234 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:57.760 So it's making it harder. The cancers metastasize, but there's healing even in stage four. 235 00:20:57.760 --> 00:21:06.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's been sad, and there's been those who have said it, that California, 236 00:21:07.120 --> 00:21:13.360 that they have hoped for California because it's gone solo. It's gone so down that there's 237 00:21:13.360 --> 00:21:17.440 no further place for it to go. I want to believe that's true. It's not true. 238 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:21.280 But I don't believe it. I think it could go much worse. 239 00:21:23.520 --> 00:21:31.520 What would you say needs to happen in California? Because you have great insights to what's going on, 240 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:40.000 what's wrong and what could be right. What does the average California need to do if they don't 241 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:45.280 want to move? I have to tell you, could I move? I could move. I've been passing this church 242 00:21:45.280 --> 00:21:51.680 for over 30 years. Well, hypothetically, right? I mean, I've passed here for more than 30 years. 243 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:56.560 I could go, but I don't want to go. And I'm not going to go. I'm not leaving. 244 00:21:56.560 --> 00:22:01.600 Yeah, I work in DC, but I'm not leaving California. God called California. Most of our cities 245 00:22:01.600 --> 00:22:06.800 are named after saints. This is the place to be free. Every time I come and you see the ocean, 246 00:22:06.800 --> 00:22:10.960 it reminds me of that poet that said, when I just see that orange skew over the horizon, 247 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:16.960 my sense of possibility returns. We know what that means as California is. We just let it get away 248 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:22.480 from us. And we need to take it back. So it's a war. And I don't think that everybody's going to 249 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:26.400 need to leave. And in particular, when it comes to property taxes, one of the initiatives by 250 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:31.600 Republican here in our state keeps our property tax so low that if you can get a house, you can 251 00:22:31.600 --> 00:22:35.680 keep your house, even when you're age in your house. No, this is just going to take some fight. 252 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:41.280 And most of that fight is you and leading your congregation to say, no, it's not about the 253 00:22:41.280 --> 00:22:45.840 economic conditions for why we might leave and go somewhere that's just brutal that doesn't have 254 00:22:45.840 --> 00:22:50.800 what we have in terms of freedom and beauty. But it's because of that freedom of beauty. God wants 255 00:22:50.800 --> 00:22:56.480 us to fight for his land. And we need to do it. And we're dark, but that's why the light has to 256 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:02.480 shine here. I love what you just said. It's so encouraging. And maybe it's because I'm a native 257 00:23:02.560 --> 00:23:10.800 Californian that I say this, but very few people know what you just said that most of our cities 258 00:23:10.800 --> 00:23:18.720 are named after religious figures and our saints. For example, Sacramento is referencing 259 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:27.280 the sacredness, Sacramento, Sacramento. Sacramento. This is the only state out of all the 50 states 260 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:35.200 that have mission stations that fathers Sarah established to preach the gospel. It's the only 261 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:43.040 state in America that has the El Camino Real, the King's Highway, King Jesus. But what is good 262 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:49.680 is always under attack. I mean, you can't say anything. Star Parker cannot say anything that is 263 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:54.640 good without it being attacked. Same goes for me. But what do we expect? Here's the thing that I 264 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:59.520 wish and hope and pray that Californians wake up to, that this state's worth fighting for. 265 00:23:59.520 --> 00:24:04.880 Well, people are going to criticize us if we take a stand. So what? It's worth fighting for. And 266 00:24:07.520 --> 00:24:17.040 technologies right here, computer, aviation, right here, gold rush. It's an incredible 267 00:24:17.040 --> 00:24:22.160 it's freedom. And we're losing that freedom and we have to get our passion to want it back. 268 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:27.040 You mentioned technology. You know, I've used many a time in my column during this abortion 269 00:24:27.040 --> 00:24:32.560 debate that we're having Steve Jobs as an example of would your life be better or worse without him? 270 00:24:32.560 --> 00:24:40.000 I mean, my goodness, he was a single mom. Here she is pregnant with this good who dad, it was 271 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:44.080 and he got adopted out. I mean, adoption is a beautiful option. Got adopted us in this family. 272 00:24:44.080 --> 00:24:48.000 So I think that it's, I think that there are a lot of the techy guys are actually waking up to 273 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:54.400 the reality that freedom is much better than the totalitarianism that the left has in mind. 274 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:58.480 Where it becomes complicated for them is that there's abortion. There are some 275 00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:05.360 absolutes that if they buy into, they're going to be called religious zealots and they don't 276 00:25:05.360 --> 00:25:09.360 want that part of it. But I think that there's room for religious zealots in California. We 277 00:25:09.360 --> 00:25:13.120 can be whatever we want to be and do whatever we want to do. Then I think that we can make Christianity 278 00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:20.400 in Boga again. I think it's wonderful, frankly. What's very cool is the fact that I'm, in fact, 279 00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:26.480 just last night I had a chance to speak to about 300 young people and I'm very encouraged. 280 00:25:27.280 --> 00:25:32.480 A lot of people don't realize that even if they're not believers, those that are 35 and under 281 00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:41.280 are trending pro life because of technology. Yeah, they have apps now where you can put in, 282 00:25:41.280 --> 00:25:47.200 oh, I think I'm eight weeks pregnant. There's all kinds of apps that show computer-generated design 283 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:51.680 activity of what's going on in the inside. And this is changing people's minds. The younger 284 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:57.120 generation's very pro life. We just need to get them to vote. Well, now that's a different issue. 285 00:25:57.120 --> 00:26:02.560 People have to change their voting patterns, but the Republicans are too lazy to go out and say 286 00:26:02.560 --> 00:26:08.800 here at the here, the absolute, so it's almost become meaningless to many. But it's interesting 287 00:26:08.800 --> 00:26:13.760 that not only to become a more pro life, we're starting to see them want to think about marriage 288 00:26:13.760 --> 00:26:17.920 again because they're coming from all this brokenness. The baby boom generation tried it all 289 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:22.880 in it and it's left wanting. So I think that people, we could see a shift, especially with that 290 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:28.640 major young youth, you know, because they're, they've experienced the hurt, the ugly. They're 291 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:32.800 seeing that nothing is going right anywhere in our society while liberals will just keep saying, 292 00:26:32.800 --> 00:26:36.400 well, let's just do it more. And they're like, no, and they actually care. They care about 293 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:40.880 their neighbor, if you will. They're, they're social. And so in that social state, 294 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:46.160 they want to do something. So the job of the church is to be the organization set up to help them 295 00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:52.240 get that done. Exactly. We've always been, but now we got a lazy about us and now God's waking us 296 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:56.320 up to our first mission, our first love to get back out there and help the least of these. 297 00:26:56.320 --> 00:27:01.600 Yep. Yep. So I think that that's what politicians have to do. That's why I was so glad to see you 298 00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:06.000 helping Larry. That's what they have to do in Washington DC. And there's a real lining that is 299 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:11.600 going on. And even though it's dark, we're sitting about, it's grace much more bounds. So when we grab 300 00:27:11.600 --> 00:27:16.560 a hold of that and stop becoming the complaint machine, which is happening, and it's now it's 301 00:27:16.560 --> 00:27:21.280 firming up inside of the party of the right, we can't allow that as Christian conservatives. 302 00:27:21.280 --> 00:27:26.480 Are you kidding? God is gracious. He's full of compassion. He's alive. So why in the world would 303 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.160 we want to think that, what was me? Everything's over. It's not over whatsoever. 304 00:27:31.360 --> 00:27:36.960 Star, what would you say to the Christian community that says, oh, you know, wow, it makes a lot 305 00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:42.960 of sense, Star, what you're saying, but we're Christians and this is the world and this is not our 306 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:49.040 home. Heavens are home and we really don't get involved in anything like that because it's dirty. 307 00:27:49.040 --> 00:27:58.320 It's the world. But it's not the world. God created and wants us to create. We're here for 308 00:27:58.320 --> 00:28:03.760 a purpose. We're to fix what we see is broken in our immediate lives. It's not about dismissing 309 00:28:03.760 --> 00:28:07.680 it and saying, well, I'm going to turn it anyway. What about that lot of life that you have right 310 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:12.320 here? You didn't ask to be here. God put you here. That's why even on abortion debate, it's like 311 00:28:12.320 --> 00:28:17.200 not everyone can get pregnant. So the fact that you're pregnant on or being a mom, even if it's one 312 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:21.280 minute, then you turn that child to someone else that will raise them. So no, I have to look at 313 00:28:21.280 --> 00:28:26.480 everything as an opportunity. And those people that want to escape, especially the ones that say, 314 00:28:27.120 --> 00:28:30.480 oh, well, you know, God's coming. Remember when the economy fell apart and everyone was losing 315 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:35.200 their homes in Orange County and all that meant the rapture was next day. I'm like, maybe you should 316 00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:38.960 read it either from history. Maybe you should travel around the world and see that. No, the fact that 317 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:44.400 you wash your $500,000 house. Just go across the border. What I do every time I get the press, 318 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:50.160 I take a trip to Italy, where they were doing the catacombs and going way down to where they 319 00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:56.480 were stripping skin. And I remind people and myself, remember when God called Netanyu, he said, 320 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.800 there's purity. He said, that guy's really good. You know how he lost his life? They stripped his 321 00:29:00.800 --> 00:29:07.040 skin off. So don't really live in Orange County, California, you're depressed talking about some 322 00:29:07.040 --> 00:29:11.680 rapture. I just laugh at him. I don't even have a word to say to them. That's so true. I love it. 323 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:16.800 Go adopt something. Go do something. Well, watch TV. You know, these are the same ones that 324 00:29:16.800 --> 00:29:22.240 sit there and watch all that secular stuff. We would have an LGBTQ problem right now if Christian 325 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:26.480 people weren't watching and laughing at all that stuff when they were trying to embed it into culture. 326 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:31.360 So I think that to reverse it, go instead and help it at a crisis pregnancy center because they're 327 00:29:31.360 --> 00:29:37.440 going to get overwhelmed when we end abortion, when we overturn Roe v Wade. Our centers are going 328 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:41.120 to need everything. They're going to need time, talent, research, everything. They're going to 329 00:29:41.120 --> 00:29:46.480 need to imagine what you just said if we had, if we could somehow get the challenge across that 330 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:53.200 we're going to have like 30 days of Jesus do. Jesus do. That's a great. Let's do 30 days of Jesus 331 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:59.600 do. What does that mean? Okay, no technology. Let's get up. Let's get out. Right? And let's 332 00:29:59.600 --> 00:30:05.120 let's let's go do something. Let's clean up our streets. Let's go and volunteer somewhere. Let's 333 00:30:05.120 --> 00:30:09.280 take care of somebody's little child that's up. Yeah, I like it. Yeah. Yeah. Call the city. 334 00:30:09.280 --> 00:30:13.120 It's like this. You might even like it. And you know who can really do it or the singles because 335 00:30:13.120 --> 00:30:18.240 all they do is what was made they want to be married. But if you go out and you do the work of Anna 336 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:23.440 and others in the scripture, then then you'll be fulfilled. You'll find that that you're looking for 337 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:27.200 instead of sitting there watching TV. So why don't you do that? You're a pastor. You have a big 338 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:30.960 following. Why don't we do it? 30 days of Jesus do. That's the question that we should do it in 339 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:36.240 June because June is now the gig month. And we can be happy gay too. I don't even, you know what? 340 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:41.680 I've noticed. Nothing happens. Well, when these cameras turn off, let's let's figure it out. Oh, 341 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:48.640 we want Jesus do. Jesus do want. That's actually a really good idea. Yeah. Yeah, because 342 00:30:49.760 --> 00:30:54.960 imagine just imagine. I mean, how many churches are there? And if everybody said we can do that 343 00:30:54.960 --> 00:31:00.080 together surely. We are the church. And every Christian, I mean, a third of Americans still 344 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:05.280 get them go to church when their church is open. So that's 100 million that go that do that. 345 00:31:05.280 --> 00:31:10.400 So 100 million people in their various states on one month just doing something that they think 346 00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:15.040 the Lord would appreciate. That could actually imagine if somebody like Star Parker could even 347 00:31:15.760 --> 00:31:24.240 craft an assignment where the Jesus do thing is pick one of these five things for your church 348 00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:29.440 or community. Oh, I can give some thought to that. It's one of the ideas that we have at Cure 349 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:34.960 is charity tax credits. You know how you get deductions when you give or you're offering or give 350 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:40.640 donation. But in our broken zip codes and areas that really need attention, if we could get charity 351 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:45.440 tax credits to where people volunteer in there and or they give money in there, it's dollar for 352 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:49.840 dollar just like they have their per child tax credits. So we haven't gotten that to law yet, 353 00:31:49.840 --> 00:31:54.960 but the discussions continues. And every time there's a political turnover and Republicans 354 00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:59.920 in charge, you just try to get your ideas into something that they're already doing. So that's 355 00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:05.200 an idea that we have been trying to move forward. You know, it just comes to mind that what we're 356 00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:11.840 talking about is what the early church did in colonial America. The early church was the epicenter 357 00:32:11.840 --> 00:32:16.800 of the community's activities. Government got in our way when you look at what happened. After 358 00:32:16.800 --> 00:32:22.560 the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, freedom was our country. We were reborn as a people. 359 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:26.960 Now it became very individual, individual, whether you're dealing with racism in your life, 360 00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:32.240 whether you're dealing with anger in your life, whether you're dealing with poverty in your 361 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:37.360 life, that was our moment to say, let's go do what the founders had envisioned. But instead, 362 00:32:37.360 --> 00:32:42.720 they developed a welfare state within a year. A year later, the government's like, oh no, no, 363 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:47.440 your churches are not doing what you used to do. We're taking over this and we secularized 364 00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:53.760 everything. And over time, it just got to where it really corrupted our society. So now we have 365 00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:00.640 you know, energy problems. We have the hard, you know, dangerous energies overwhelm 366 00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:05.280 the creative energy. It just in pockets though, but it's fixable. It really is. If we add 367 00:33:05.280 --> 00:33:10.080 the body of Christ focused on it, it is fixable. And then we can take it from the government again. 368 00:33:10.080 --> 00:33:14.080 It's hard to pull it out now because seven out of ten dollars that comes into Washington, 369 00:33:14.080 --> 00:33:19.360 immediately goes out to a person through a program. But over time, the way we got here, 370 00:33:19.360 --> 00:33:23.600 we can get out of it, but it does take long term planning because it's 50 years that took us 371 00:33:23.600 --> 00:33:29.440 to get here. So I think of citizens cared. They just decided to care. I think they do care 372 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:33.840 pastor. I think they just don't know what to do. Everyone, so it's easier to tune it out. 373 00:33:33.840 --> 00:33:38.560 Which by the way, this is a good place for us to start wrapping this up. We're very committed, 374 00:33:38.560 --> 00:33:44.960 as you well know, to being a church of a non-spectator faith. We don't believe in a 375 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:53.040 spectator faith. That if a believer believes then they're going to go do the Jesus thing. 376 00:33:54.240 --> 00:34:00.880 And so you spoke here rather recently and you don't know this, but you came out here 377 00:34:01.840 --> 00:34:06.000 and you were so gracious because the schedule had to get shifted up for some reason I forget. 378 00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:12.080 You came out like about four hours ahead of schedule and you delivered a message that was 379 00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:17.760 to come back California, I believe it was, or whatever that special event was. 380 00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:28.000 What you said was so anointed. It was so powerful and it got a lot of traction and so much so 381 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:36.960 that soon I have a plan to show it here. I'm going to introduce it to the congregation 382 00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:42.400 and what the event was and then throw you up on the screens and have it played. 383 00:34:43.200 --> 00:34:50.640 Because of the magnitude and the impact of what you said was so true, so honest, so direct 384 00:34:51.600 --> 00:34:57.760 and your voice needs to get out so much more. I know you're out there but it needs to get out more 385 00:34:58.640 --> 00:35:05.360 and I know that when you look up Star Parker's name it will say most often activist. 386 00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:14.000 And I hate that title in most contexts but here's how I view it because of having seen you in 387 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:19.520 person speak is if you want to label her activist it's because she's activated. 388 00:35:20.080 --> 00:35:25.200 Okay. You've been active. You want to slap active activists whatever but you have been so 389 00:35:25.200 --> 00:35:32.400 activated. You are truly preaching and saying and offering what you believe. 390 00:35:33.360 --> 00:35:38.800 And so what can our audience do to help you? Where can they send their love? 391 00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:42.480 Oh they can send their love to curepolicy.org for sure. 392 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:48.960 Curepolicy.org. We are nonprofit and we can use every dollar and we do wisely to get the 393 00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:54.080 messaging out for sure in those three areas that I mentioned but also the encouragement of prayer 394 00:35:54.080 --> 00:35:59.920 and then to be active in what we're asking to do. One of the reasons I started Cure is to get 395 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:06.480 poverty issues out of Washington DC. Charity belongs to the church. It belongs to local communities 396 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:10.720 and we've allowed government to take over and destroy people's lives. So I wanted out of there 397 00:36:10.720 --> 00:36:16.000 so they can also volunteer. Our pregnancy care centers really need their help. This is a big 398 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:23.120 deal for me because when women say no men will go to work and then they'll marry. 399 00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:28.080 Imagine. So and that's what has broken down. In fact I just did my column and I'm looking 400 00:36:28.080 --> 00:36:33.920 at the numbers of what happens to men when they get lost. Marriages of social stabilizer God put 401 00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:39.520 the biological clock in a woman to help stabilize our society but when marriage breaks down men get 402 00:36:39.520 --> 00:36:44.800 lost and now we have a lot of lost men so we're seeing suicide rates. We're seeing the gun violence 403 00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:49.920 so they're always alone men. They don't they're just lost in society and it's women that help them. 404 00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:56.960 So when because of birth control and welfare stayed abortion women are not demanding marriage 405 00:36:56.960 --> 00:37:02.080 and then they don't demand marriage. Men lose child. You should see the numbers in fact my call 406 00:37:02.160 --> 00:37:06.880 it's out this week. You look at that and see the numbers of the men that are just dropping out of 407 00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:12.080 society. They're just dropping out of work and now the women are the ones working and marriages totally 408 00:37:12.080 --> 00:37:19.120 collapsed. Where's this column? Oh it's at curepolicy.org too but it's a nationally syndicated column. 409 00:37:19.120 --> 00:37:22.160 I don't know where it runs around here it used to be an orange kind of register but then they sold 410 00:37:22.160 --> 00:37:25.840 and they did all kind of stuff but it's all across the country and a lot of papers all across the 411 00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:30.480 country. Wow and a lot of websites if y'all I don't know where that thing is I made it for creators 412 00:37:30.560 --> 00:37:34.960 and then they get it out everywhere. I know I just found out I'm in Chattanooga every Sunday 413 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:39.440 because I said yeah you're in my Chattanooga paper every Sunday 250,000 people I'm like really 414 00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:43.840 I never knew yeah it is great because I knew I was in Nashville and I knew I know I'm in a lot of 415 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:47.360 low places but I had no idea I was in Chattanooga on the Sunday morning so that's kind of cool 416 00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:53.040 but yeah the the back to the point that the churches the model for what people need to do and I 417 00:37:53.040 --> 00:37:58.400 think that the more we understand that you know how um you know when you what is a scripture you 418 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:03.520 know where you have more responsibility to whom much is given much is required that's right so 419 00:38:03.520 --> 00:38:10.320 we're we're required to to to to to recover our lives and this is a punish lives you know he was 420 00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:14.640 wonderful he didn't give us that statement as a punishment you know to whom much is given much 421 00:38:14.640 --> 00:38:20.240 is required he gave that to us as a motivator it should be like really wow when you're faithful 422 00:38:20.240 --> 00:38:24.320 with a little bit you know I love what you just said and I and I don't know if it was through 423 00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:32.080 Ben Shapiro or or Dennis Prager whatever group it was but um something to the effect but this 424 00:38:32.080 --> 00:38:39.760 I do remember where the question was put forth who do you think uh is better off the single man 425 00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:44.640 or the married man and most people thought the single guy he can do whatever he wants and he can 426 00:38:44.640 --> 00:38:51.280 do well if he can do whatever he wants he also sleeps in and he also doesn't engage what happens 427 00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:58.160 is at the end of a certain time frame I don't remember if it was 45 or 55 whatever it was the married 428 00:38:58.160 --> 00:39:06.080 man makes more money because he's motivated and the married man the married man has less mental 429 00:39:06.080 --> 00:39:11.680 health challenges and he's physically healthier every in every every you know it's like he can do 430 00:39:11.680 --> 00:39:16.640 it every once it's like a child that you don't have the fence up they don't go out because they're 431 00:39:16.720 --> 00:39:22.800 you got up right and men women are their social stabilizers so they reach their their goals 432 00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:28.160 and the challenge that we have with more single men is single men are promiscuous men 433 00:39:28.160 --> 00:39:34.960 yep generally speaking and promiscuous men they're creating dangerous men 95% of the men in our 434 00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:39.600 prison system have no relationship with their dad now the blacks want to reverse it and try to make 435 00:39:39.600 --> 00:39:44.800 it seem like it's racial it's not racial because when you see black husbands married to the mother 436 00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:49.680 of their children we can't even measure the difference in how their children fair whether it's 437 00:39:49.680 --> 00:39:55.120 educational crime economically when we compare to whites where the husbands married to the mother 438 00:39:55.120 --> 00:39:59.840 children but where you see single life that's where you have this disparity 75% of those young 439 00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:03.680 boys in our criminal justice system they don't have a relationship with their dad they're not they're 440 00:40:03.680 --> 00:40:09.200 from single households these these these guys and marriage in a black community unfortunately has 441 00:40:09.200 --> 00:40:14.400 broken down at a faster pace than in the white community so now you have about 30% of black adults 442 00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:18.080 married in a white community they're right at 50% that's why you're starting to see the same 443 00:40:18.080 --> 00:40:22.480 pathologies that we thought were only in our poor communities everywhere in society we can 444 00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:28.160 recover this if all we do is get rid of abortions so women will be much more mindful about their 445 00:40:28.160 --> 00:40:33.200 sexual expressions and learn to say no again you say no they'll marry you and when they get married 446 00:40:33.200 --> 00:40:38.800 they fare better that's how God designed it and it's worked throughout history as you've said 447 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:43.280 and we thought we knew better and we learned lightning and we changed things and now we're looking 448 00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:49.200 at the data saying this is not good wow you know the you mentioned 75% the first time I ever heard 449 00:40:49.200 --> 00:40:57.840 that was from a man who said the reason why there are more black men in prison is because 75% 450 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:04.480 of those men grew up in homes where their dads fathered them but never was never a dad and 451 00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:10.320 abandoned the family and that's got a change you know said that Barack Obama said that yeah yeah 452 00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:15.520 Barack Obama and then he made it to the presidency and he turned that race card out and and didn't 453 00:41:15.520 --> 00:41:20.800 look back anymore at the damage that he was doing to these young men and I think that that's why 454 00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:26.960 we saw a lot of black young men gravitate toward Trump because they need that they need someone all 455 00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:33.360 men need someone that channels their energy from the streets to sports or to school into something 456 00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:38.400 and usually it's the wife that will help do that in a man's life and that's what makes society 457 00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:45.600 you're right including aging they age men don't age well alone and and we can go on this is a 458 00:41:45.600 --> 00:41:51.120 dad I study through cure this is what we do we try to fix things we just came out with our first 459 00:41:51.120 --> 00:41:56.400 home a book the state of black America and it's an and it's the alternative to what we've been 460 00:41:56.400 --> 00:42:00.320 hearing from the urban league and all the rest of them in their state of black America since the 461 00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:05.680 50s that every problem that happens in these communities is somebody else's fault and we just 462 00:42:05.680 --> 00:42:10.480 came out with ours and said we're going to take an in-depth look at the history the good the bad 463 00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:14.400 the ugly and then we're going to try to move forward and so next year when we come out with it we're 464 00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:20.000 going to look at where it broke down in social policy and make sure that the society recognizes 465 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:25.040 that this is not about race this is the challenges we're having today are moral challenges it's 466 00:42:25.040 --> 00:42:29.680 about spiritual well-being and we've lost that in our in our culture we've lost it all throughout 467 00:42:29.680 --> 00:42:34.800 our culture so now we have to get to the place that when Nehemiah he was crying he went in 468 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:39.360 to them and they said will you build you want to do this and people said yes that's why I'm 469 00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:43.840 encouraged because people they all said yes but he did go around the leaders to get to the people 470 00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:47.280 he had to go around all of them he slept a few guys you're right I just lapped a few guys around 471 00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:54.960 you know well you said I'm Deborah I think she slapped around a paper but yeah exactly well yeah 472 00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:59.120 I think that um you know if your Christians will get their their their encouragement back 473 00:42:59.120 --> 00:43:03.760 that God saved them yeah then I think that we can get our country back and get our culture back 474 00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:08.720 so listen you've got some materials that people get at cure dot orgy right yeah well you've got 475 00:43:08.720 --> 00:43:16.480 to go to cure policy dot or or and everything we have books we have and we only we don't bother you 476 00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:20.880 we've just once a week you're going to get an email or to have my tv show in there or have my podcast 477 00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:25.040 in there have um some research we've done in there so just once a week and kind of go through 478 00:43:25.040 --> 00:43:28.960 all of that but books are available and things like this as well including the state of black 479 00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:34.240 America and then annually we have a policy summit for the clergy that are serving in those zip 480 00:43:34.240 --> 00:43:39.600 codes and so we really want people to come to the one that we have coming up in October this year 481 00:43:39.600 --> 00:43:44.080 because it's one month before the election and so we're encouraging people to send their gifts to 482 00:43:44.080 --> 00:43:49.360 us so that we can scholar pastors that are in some of our battleground senate states and get them 483 00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:54.240 in a room for three days and lock the door and let them know that that Tuesday they need to encourage 484 00:43:54.240 --> 00:43:58.800 their congregation to stop voting against their Christianity wow don't vote your color vote your 485 00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:05.200 Christ that's what we're doing this year where and when again it's in Washington DC every year but 486 00:44:05.200 --> 00:44:11.360 it's in the fall it's in October the first week but this year we're really pushing in to get 487 00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:16.480 pastors that are from those different states just come in and listening to this regular diet 488 00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:22.240 of what has broken down and in particular for their congregations and how it is imperative 489 00:44:22.240 --> 00:44:25.920 that they do what you do on Sunday they inform their congregation say you know what 490 00:44:26.160 --> 00:44:32.240 we love God but we're going voting against him and we need to stop don't worry about whether there's 491 00:44:32.240 --> 00:44:39.200 a DNR anymore just go and vote your values that's right that's right so that's in October for us 492 00:44:39.200 --> 00:44:47.200 amazing yeah where you guys start Parker so send your love to cure policy dot orgy cure policy dot 493 00:44:47.200 --> 00:44:53.520 orgy I would love for you guys to respond to her website because she mentioned the word sponsorship 494 00:44:54.080 --> 00:44:58.720 to get leaders to this conference that they can make a difference in their community that's how 495 00:44:58.720 --> 00:45:05.440 we're going to experience things changing in America two different ways revival will take place 496 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:10.720 within the church it's the church that must be revived when the churches revive the culture is 497 00:45:10.720 --> 00:45:16.720 changed if you study revival in history that's exactly what happens she mentioned Nehemiah a 498 00:45:16.720 --> 00:45:22.800 couple of times that's exactly what happened and that's what the hope for California is it's in 499 00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:28.320 the church it's not in the state house it's in God's house and so please remember pray for 500 00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:35.520 star Parker support star Parker cure policy dot orgy awesome materials there and star is great 501 00:45:35.520 --> 00:45:40.880 heavy you thank you love your love your boldness love your clarity thank you 502 00:45:45.680 --> 00:45:51.600 this jack hips podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported 503 00:45:51.680 --> 00:45:58.800 will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to jackhybs.com to learn more 504 00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:06.320 and stay connected