1 00:00:06,669 --> 00:00:11,310 Greetings, this is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church 2 00:00:11,310 --> 00:00:15,769 with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. 3 00:00:15,769 --> 00:00:23,929 Today, why should we as American Christians patiently, graciously oppose the gay agenda 4 00:00:23,929 --> 00:00:29,329 despite the recent Supreme Court ruling declaring gay marriage constitutional? 5 00:00:30,109 --> 00:00:36,509 This past June, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. 6 00:00:37,350 --> 00:00:41,990 That the United States Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage. 7 00:00:42,310 --> 00:00:47,890 Now, Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, and in it he said this, and I quote, 8 00:00:48,289 --> 00:00:50,829 No longer may this liberty be denied. 9 00:00:51,469 --> 00:00:56,070 Once again, discovering, finding liberties in the Constitution that are non-existent. 10 00:00:56,829 --> 00:01:02,909 And Justice Scalia pointed this out, too, in his minority opinion, his opposing opinion. 11 00:01:02,909 --> 00:01:05,129 But Kennedy goes on to say, 12 00:01:05,129 --> 00:01:15,349 No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. 13 00:01:16,049 --> 00:01:21,769 In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were, unquote. 14 00:01:21,769 --> 00:01:32,950 Well, Justice Kennedy's sentimental, insipid thoughts, I submit to you, far, far subpar thinking for a Supreme Court justice. 15 00:01:33,590 --> 00:01:38,689 His sentimental, insipid thoughts are so full of fallacies that we must postpone a critique of them 16 00:01:38,689 --> 00:01:41,230 for these points that I have in detail below. 17 00:01:41,230 --> 00:01:48,150 But just suffice it to say for now that Justice Kennedy personifies the perspective of many in our culture today. 18 00:01:48,930 --> 00:01:54,909 The definition of marriage for them begins not with first principles that are objective 19 00:01:54,909 --> 00:01:59,030 and rooted in time-tested norms of faith and culture and society, 20 00:01:59,030 --> 00:02:07,510 but rather for Justice Kennedy and those like him rooted in warm, fuzzy feelings of perhaps a few individuals 21 00:02:07,510 --> 00:02:13,009 who may or may not be making a real contribution to society by doing so, and more on this later, 22 00:02:13,490 --> 00:02:16,789 and who also then may be bringing blessing from God by doing so, 23 00:02:16,849 --> 00:02:23,610 or perhaps, consider with me, judgment from God by doing so, and more on this a little bit later. 24 00:02:23,610 --> 00:02:26,310 But others have reflected on this as well. 25 00:02:26,409 --> 00:02:31,289 I think the thoughts of Dr. Albert Moeller, who is president of Southern Baptist Seminary, 26 00:02:31,449 --> 00:02:32,650 are very pertinent here. 27 00:02:33,009 --> 00:02:35,830 And he says, and I quote Dr. Albert Moeller, 28 00:02:36,349 --> 00:02:39,710 the Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the land, 29 00:02:39,770 --> 00:02:43,250 and its decisions cannot be appealed to a higher court of law. 30 00:02:43,590 --> 00:02:47,490 But the Supreme Court, like every human institution and individual, 31 00:02:47,889 --> 00:02:50,389 will eventually face two higher courts. 32 00:02:50,389 --> 00:02:54,289 Yes, Dr. Moeller is so spot on here, parenthetically, 33 00:02:54,789 --> 00:02:56,550 and I'll bring out some of these points as well. 34 00:02:57,409 --> 00:02:58,789 But Dr. Moeller goes on to say, 35 00:02:59,389 --> 00:03:01,250 the first is the court of history, 36 00:03:01,490 --> 00:03:05,289 which will wonder a judgment that I believe will embarrass this court 37 00:03:05,289 --> 00:03:07,009 and reveal its dangerous trajectory. 38 00:03:07,849 --> 00:03:11,050 The precedents and arguments set forth in this decision 39 00:03:11,050 --> 00:03:14,750 cannot be limited to the right of same-sex couples to marry 40 00:03:14,750 --> 00:03:20,409 if individual autonomy and equal protection mean that same-sex couples cannot be denied 41 00:03:20,409 --> 00:03:22,590 what is now defined as a fundamental right of marriage, 42 00:03:22,810 --> 00:03:25,169 that others will arrive to make the same argument. 43 00:03:25,750 --> 00:03:28,729 This court will find itself in a trap of its own making 44 00:03:28,729 --> 00:03:32,110 and one that will bring great harm to this nation and its families. 45 00:03:32,650 --> 00:03:36,189 The second court we must all face is the court of divine judgment. 46 00:03:36,750 --> 00:03:40,069 For centuries, marriage ceremonies in the English-speaking world 47 00:03:40,069 --> 00:03:42,849 have included the admonition that what God has put together, 48 00:03:42,949 --> 00:03:46,509 no human being or human court should tear us under. 49 00:03:46,909 --> 00:03:50,469 That is exactly what the Supreme Court of the United States has now done. 50 00:03:50,729 --> 00:03:52,629 Unquote from Dr. Albert Moeller. 51 00:03:52,770 --> 00:03:57,030 Very profound words with which I am in complete agreement. 52 00:03:57,030 --> 00:04:01,030 Well, let me expand upon these places as well 53 00:04:01,030 --> 00:04:06,169 by making three points concerning the gay agenda. 54 00:04:06,889 --> 00:04:10,930 There is a theological argument against the gay agenda. 55 00:04:11,189 --> 00:04:14,449 There is a demographic argument and a cultural argument. 56 00:04:14,590 --> 00:04:16,629 You expect me to make a theological argument, 57 00:04:16,629 --> 00:04:20,689 but there are important demographic and cultural reasons 58 00:04:20,689 --> 00:04:23,269 why the gay agenda is very dangerous, 59 00:04:23,269 --> 00:04:26,689 and of course which I saw no reflection upon whatsoever 60 00:04:26,689 --> 00:04:29,649 in the opinion handed down. 61 00:04:29,649 --> 00:04:31,970 Well, let me make these one at a time. 62 00:04:32,089 --> 00:04:33,970 First, the one you might expect me to make, 63 00:04:34,029 --> 00:04:35,189 a theological argument. 64 00:04:35,610 --> 00:04:38,490 And that theological argument runs along this course. 65 00:04:38,649 --> 00:04:42,810 Number one, there is one biblical model for family and marriage. 66 00:04:42,810 --> 00:04:47,790 The Bible outlines one biblical model for family and marriage. 67 00:04:48,350 --> 00:04:52,730 Since the creation of the world, God has made man in his image. 68 00:04:53,230 --> 00:04:55,170 The Bible says when God created man, 69 00:04:55,310 --> 00:04:57,110 he made him in the likeness of God. 70 00:04:57,389 --> 00:04:59,470 Male and female, he created them. 71 00:04:59,649 --> 00:05:02,990 And he blessed them and named them man when they were created, unquote. 72 00:05:03,889 --> 00:05:08,810 Dear listener, one male, one female constitute the whole image of God. 73 00:05:11,769 --> 00:05:15,790 Nowhere in Scripture is the image of God put forward as two men or two women, 74 00:05:15,790 --> 00:05:20,389 nor is it one man and plural wives or one woman and a beast or one man and a beast. 75 00:05:20,610 --> 00:05:24,689 It is always only one man, the husband, and one woman, the wife. 76 00:05:25,129 --> 00:05:29,069 Any other configuration by definition disfigures the image of God in man. 77 00:05:29,069 --> 00:05:29,750 Think of this. 78 00:05:30,389 --> 00:05:34,829 Under this point, then there are three subordinate points linked very closely to it. 79 00:05:35,250 --> 00:05:36,550 And that is A under one. 80 00:05:37,029 --> 00:05:39,990 The covenant of marriage underlies this principle. 81 00:05:40,189 --> 00:05:44,430 There is a covenant of marriage that underlies this one biblical model, 82 00:05:44,550 --> 00:05:45,730 one male and one female. 83 00:05:45,730 --> 00:05:52,170 Now, what verse is quoted in Christian marriage services most often? 84 00:05:52,170 --> 00:05:56,990 Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, 85 00:05:57,170 --> 00:05:58,889 and the two shall become one flesh. 86 00:05:59,110 --> 00:06:01,550 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 87 00:06:01,930 --> 00:06:07,170 What therefore God has joined together, let man not separate, said Jesus himself. 88 00:06:07,829 --> 00:06:11,250 Marriage for centuries has been between one man and one woman, 89 00:06:11,250 --> 00:06:15,149 precisely because of the words of God in Genesis and Jesus in the Gospels. 90 00:06:15,750 --> 00:06:18,949 These are not merely nice words to say at a solemn service. 91 00:06:19,050 --> 00:06:21,430 They reflect, rather, the image of God in man. 92 00:06:21,930 --> 00:06:24,629 Note, a man, a man, singular, 93 00:06:24,850 --> 00:06:29,790 shall leave his mother and father and hold fast to his wife, singular. 94 00:06:30,569 --> 00:06:32,389 The biblical math is inevitable. 95 00:06:32,889 --> 00:06:36,009 The two, one man plus one woman, shall become one flesh. 96 00:06:36,009 --> 00:06:40,970 This one flesh relationship is emblematic of the one image of God 97 00:06:40,970 --> 00:06:43,709 that man constitutes by definition. 98 00:06:44,750 --> 00:06:47,250 And how beautiful and how profound it is, dear listener. 99 00:06:47,610 --> 00:06:51,949 The sexual union physically pictures this one flesh relationship. 100 00:06:52,610 --> 00:06:55,629 The one name, the wife takes on the name of the husband, 101 00:06:55,850 --> 00:06:59,589 pictures the single identity of this one flesh relationship. 102 00:06:59,589 --> 00:07:08,310 So, one can understand the gay community's fierce, hysterical response, right, 103 00:07:08,449 --> 00:07:10,610 to the church's assertion. 104 00:07:10,670 --> 00:07:15,910 Because the sexual act of one man and one man with another man, 105 00:07:15,970 --> 00:07:17,910 or one woman and another woman together, 106 00:07:18,230 --> 00:07:21,569 is offensive to God and offensive to the Christian order 107 00:07:21,569 --> 00:07:23,189 and the covenant order of marriage. 108 00:07:23,410 --> 00:07:26,769 And one can understand the fierce, hysterical response 109 00:07:26,769 --> 00:07:30,370 that gays give to this graphic statement of the fact, 110 00:07:30,449 --> 00:07:33,910 since it clearly pictures not only the beauty of the heterosexual union, 111 00:07:34,009 --> 00:07:37,569 but also the ugly and unnatural union of the homosexual union, 112 00:07:37,670 --> 00:07:38,850 the physical union of them. 113 00:07:40,069 --> 00:07:41,949 Well, then, B, under number one, 114 00:07:42,389 --> 00:07:46,089 the covenant of marriage pictures the union of Christ and his church. 115 00:07:46,490 --> 00:07:52,689 This is one of the sub points under Christian marriage, 116 00:07:52,790 --> 00:07:53,430 biblical marriage. 117 00:07:53,430 --> 00:07:57,629 That is, the covenant of marriage pictures the union of Christ and his church as well. 118 00:07:58,209 --> 00:08:01,129 But how many people married today realize that their marriage 119 00:08:01,129 --> 00:08:04,329 is larger than just the two persons who compose it? 120 00:08:04,829 --> 00:08:06,730 And I've counseled and married dozens of couples, 121 00:08:06,870 --> 00:08:08,329 and I hear something like this repeatedly. 122 00:08:08,810 --> 00:08:10,529 Our love is between us, Pastor. 123 00:08:10,750 --> 00:08:12,610 It's about us and no one else. 124 00:08:13,470 --> 00:08:15,089 If you examine the Bible, however, 125 00:08:15,149 --> 00:08:18,490 you begin to see that a husband and a wife are living out in miniature 126 00:08:18,490 --> 00:08:23,250 the bond between Christ and his church on the larger stage of history. 127 00:08:23,949 --> 00:08:26,230 This is true whether you want it to be or not. 128 00:08:26,529 --> 00:08:29,089 It is true whether you are aware of it or not. 129 00:08:29,350 --> 00:08:32,950 And you may scoff or scorn or cast skepticism upon this idea, 130 00:08:33,070 --> 00:08:38,350 but it is still true and wired into the very fabric of the institution of marriage itself. 131 00:08:39,269 --> 00:08:41,789 Gravity is a law which must be obeyed, isn't it? 132 00:08:41,789 --> 00:08:46,450 The law of inertia is a law which must be obeyed whether we think the magician's wand 133 00:08:46,450 --> 00:08:49,429 will absolve us of it or not. 134 00:08:49,529 --> 00:08:51,929 So God has constructed the covenant of marriage 135 00:08:51,929 --> 00:08:56,769 that it is meant to picture Christ and his church regardless of what we think. 136 00:08:57,429 --> 00:08:58,250 God has made it so, 137 00:08:58,370 --> 00:09:02,049 and he will require it at the judgment seat from every couple ever married. 138 00:09:02,149 --> 00:09:04,049 How true to that model were you? 139 00:09:04,049 --> 00:09:08,769 It is a wondrous mystery that is beautiful and profound 140 00:09:08,769 --> 00:09:11,029 when it is contemplated as God intended it. 141 00:09:11,690 --> 00:09:12,809 The Apostle Paul says, 142 00:09:13,450 --> 00:09:14,850 This mystery is profound, 143 00:09:15,110 --> 00:09:17,730 and I'm saying that it refers to Christ and his church. 144 00:09:18,029 --> 00:09:19,029 That is, marriage does. 145 00:09:19,389 --> 00:09:21,529 The marriage between the one woman and the one man. 146 00:09:22,090 --> 00:09:24,970 The mystery of marriage refers to Christ and his church. 147 00:09:25,330 --> 00:09:28,029 The husband pictures Christ as the head of the church. 148 00:09:28,649 --> 00:09:30,789 The Bible says the husband is the head of the wife, 149 00:09:30,850 --> 00:09:32,450 even as Christ is the head of the church. 150 00:09:32,450 --> 00:09:37,669 And the wife, alternatively, pictures Christ's body, the church. 151 00:09:38,370 --> 00:09:39,149 And the Bible says, 152 00:09:39,289 --> 00:09:40,669 As the church submits to Christ, 153 00:09:40,809 --> 00:09:44,149 so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 154 00:09:44,409 --> 00:09:48,470 Then, together, one man representing Christ as the head 155 00:09:48,470 --> 00:09:51,450 and one woman representing his bride as the body. 156 00:09:51,990 --> 00:09:54,210 These symbolize Christ and his church. 157 00:09:54,649 --> 00:09:55,830 This is the model. 158 00:09:56,190 --> 00:09:58,710 Can you see how anything else distorts it? 159 00:09:59,370 --> 00:10:01,370 Two men in marriage are a disfigurement. 160 00:10:01,370 --> 00:10:03,950 Two women in marriage are a rejection of that model. 161 00:10:04,450 --> 00:10:07,789 One man in plural wives destroys the numerical model. 162 00:10:08,409 --> 00:10:10,350 And the profound mystery is, by definition, 163 00:10:10,549 --> 00:10:14,730 one man and one woman symbolizing the one Christ and the one church. 164 00:10:14,990 --> 00:10:21,049 And God will hold every couple married responsible for their fidelity to this model. 165 00:10:21,210 --> 00:10:22,889 Well, this is the theological argument, 166 00:10:23,009 --> 00:10:27,289 but there are also two other arguments that should also be made. 167 00:10:27,289 --> 00:10:30,669 You can reject the theological model if you so care to. 168 00:10:30,750 --> 00:10:32,350 You do so at your peril. 169 00:10:32,850 --> 00:10:37,210 But logically, reasonably, you cannot reject these secular, 170 00:10:37,309 --> 00:10:39,029 let me put quotation marks around it, 171 00:10:39,370 --> 00:10:41,289 the secular arguments as well. 172 00:10:41,450 --> 00:10:43,289 And these cannot be gainsay. 173 00:10:43,289 --> 00:10:52,149 So, let me make a point here that the biblical model for marriage, 174 00:10:52,350 --> 00:10:57,409 when it is abandoned, a downward demographic spiral ensues. 175 00:10:57,610 --> 00:11:01,470 This is the second argument I want to make, a demographic argument. 176 00:11:01,590 --> 00:11:04,169 That is, when the biblical model for marriage is abandoned, 177 00:11:04,409 --> 00:11:07,490 a downward demographic spiral ensues. 178 00:11:07,490 --> 00:11:11,669 It's an unalterable fact, and it's little considered as well 179 00:11:11,669 --> 00:11:13,889 in the current debate over homosexual marriage. 180 00:11:14,549 --> 00:11:19,110 Demography is the study of societal fluctuations in births, 181 00:11:19,389 --> 00:11:21,250 deaths, and population shifts. 182 00:11:21,710 --> 00:11:24,029 Population shifts, excuse me. 183 00:11:24,649 --> 00:11:26,210 The demographic argument. 184 00:11:27,049 --> 00:11:30,870 Demography figures in the gay and lesbian arguments as well. 185 00:11:31,090 --> 00:11:31,950 So, make no mistake. 186 00:11:32,090 --> 00:11:36,250 Any society that encourages or passively tolerates homosexual marriage 187 00:11:36,250 --> 00:11:39,429 will see the ineluctable decline in birth rates 188 00:11:39,429 --> 00:11:43,429 that will eventually contribute to the death of that society. 189 00:11:43,789 --> 00:11:45,250 It's true for a number of reasons. 190 00:11:45,409 --> 00:11:48,450 The demographic argument is true for a number of reasons. 191 00:11:48,909 --> 00:11:52,149 And A, then, under two, the demographic argument, 192 00:11:52,610 --> 00:11:55,950 gay and lesbian marriages are, by definition, unfruitful 193 00:11:55,950 --> 00:11:57,850 when considered in themselves. 194 00:11:58,529 --> 00:12:02,149 The Bible says that God expects godly offspring. 195 00:12:02,149 --> 00:12:07,809 How can homosexual marriages produce offspring, by definition? 196 00:12:08,669 --> 00:12:11,730 Try as they might, the union of Adam and Steve, 197 00:12:11,830 --> 00:12:14,230 that is, a homosexual marriage, will issue. 198 00:12:15,669 --> 00:12:20,950 Not in seminated ovaries, but just the opposite. 199 00:12:21,149 --> 00:12:24,370 No, try as they might, the union of Eve and Genevieve, 200 00:12:24,610 --> 00:12:28,350 that is, a lesbian marriage, will issue only in an unfulfilled, 201 00:12:28,490 --> 00:12:29,529 unfertilized ovum. 202 00:12:29,529 --> 00:12:34,669 Lesbian gays cannot self-propagate, can they? 203 00:12:35,149 --> 00:12:37,690 It is biologically impossible for such unions 204 00:12:37,690 --> 00:12:40,470 to be demographically productive in and of themselves. 205 00:12:41,049 --> 00:12:44,590 They cannot produce pagan offspring, much less godly offspring. 206 00:12:44,789 --> 00:12:47,909 There are, of course, child-rearing options for these couples. 207 00:12:48,029 --> 00:12:50,970 It's not to say that there are not child-rearing options for them. 208 00:12:51,029 --> 00:12:51,470 There are. 209 00:12:52,070 --> 00:12:56,529 For example, the Dr. Scher Fertility Clinic Center 210 00:12:56,529 --> 00:13:00,809 for Reproductive Medicine lists several of these options, 211 00:13:01,009 --> 00:13:04,870 and you can check out the Dr. Scher Fertility Clinic Center 212 00:13:04,870 --> 00:13:06,409 for Reproductive Medicine. 213 00:13:06,809 --> 00:13:07,570 They have a website. 214 00:13:07,950 --> 00:13:10,629 They give these options for gay and lesbian couples, 215 00:13:10,809 --> 00:13:13,909 and that is adoption, of course, foster care, 216 00:13:13,909 --> 00:13:17,450 in vitro fertilization with donor sperm. 217 00:13:17,769 --> 00:13:19,990 That's the way that a lesbian couple, indeed, 218 00:13:20,470 --> 00:13:25,769 can find impregnated wombs, is, of course, with donor sperm. 219 00:13:26,070 --> 00:13:30,110 Then there's donor egg IVs with surrogacy for male couples, 220 00:13:30,730 --> 00:13:33,669 or in vitro fertilization with surrogacy for male couples. 221 00:13:33,850 --> 00:13:36,610 Then there's traditional surrogacy for male couples. 222 00:13:36,610 --> 00:13:42,070 Then there's donor in utero insemination and embryo adoption, of course. 223 00:13:42,370 --> 00:13:45,909 All these are options given for gay and lesbian couples. 224 00:13:46,470 --> 00:13:53,509 But besides the steep legal hurdles that many of these options face in many states, 225 00:13:53,629 --> 00:13:56,889 and there are many states that are opposed to these kinds of options, 226 00:13:57,269 --> 00:14:00,889 there is still the ultimate Darwinian hurdle, I submit to you, 227 00:14:01,090 --> 00:14:02,870 and that is reproductive inertia. 228 00:14:02,870 --> 00:14:08,049 There is, amongst the gay and lesbian community, reproductive inertia. 229 00:14:08,830 --> 00:14:11,110 Even if we're to double the number of options available 230 00:14:11,110 --> 00:14:14,269 for the wonders of reproducing our kind to the gay and lesbian community, 231 00:14:14,490 --> 00:14:17,929 they still have little or no desire to do so. 232 00:14:18,929 --> 00:14:23,389 Currently, for example, the stats bear this out for us. 233 00:14:24,029 --> 00:14:29,889 For example, currently, 33% of lesbian and 20% of gay households 234 00:14:29,889 --> 00:14:32,049 have children being reared in them. 235 00:14:32,870 --> 00:14:35,549 It is important to note that most of these, even, 236 00:14:35,690 --> 00:14:38,230 that's far below heterosexual couples, 237 00:14:38,610 --> 00:14:40,990 it is important to note that most of these, even, 238 00:14:41,090 --> 00:14:43,309 are from previous heterosexual relationships. 239 00:14:44,309 --> 00:14:47,289 Even at this, only 50% of lesbian women 240 00:14:47,289 --> 00:14:50,029 currently even express a desire to parent. 241 00:14:50,330 --> 00:14:51,509 It doesn't mean they're doing so. 242 00:14:51,830 --> 00:14:54,210 Only 50% have a desire to do so, 243 00:14:54,490 --> 00:14:57,110 and not necessarily with a product of their own womb. 244 00:14:57,710 --> 00:15:02,610 There simply is no incentive to create offspring with their own equipment. 245 00:15:02,610 --> 00:15:05,070 Much less godly offspring. 246 00:15:05,070 --> 00:15:09,889 So, taken with the spiritual and emotional aberrations 247 00:15:09,889 --> 00:15:12,970 that characterize many in the lesbian and gay community, 248 00:15:13,490 --> 00:15:16,950 this one points again to the selfish, self-centered, 249 00:15:17,370 --> 00:15:20,009 and narcissistic nature of gay and lesbian relationships. 250 00:15:20,409 --> 00:15:22,110 That is, reproductive inertia. 251 00:15:22,110 --> 00:15:26,269 Well, secondly, then, we also see that gay, 252 00:15:26,429 --> 00:15:29,909 and why they contribute to demographics' downward spirals 253 00:15:29,909 --> 00:15:32,470 is that gay and lesbian marriages, by definition, 254 00:15:32,730 --> 00:15:35,409 subtract productive parents from the pool. 255 00:15:35,909 --> 00:15:38,250 Gay and lesbian marriages, by definition, 256 00:15:38,490 --> 00:15:40,970 subtract productive parents from the pool. 257 00:15:40,970 --> 00:15:46,289 Oh, yes, and there's a geometric regression 258 00:15:46,289 --> 00:15:48,429 that happens here in this case as well. 259 00:15:48,870 --> 00:15:51,389 Every gay couple subtracts two potential husbands 260 00:15:51,389 --> 00:15:54,330 and the children that they would have spawned with their seed, 261 00:15:54,529 --> 00:15:58,269 and every lesbian couple subtracts two potential wives 262 00:15:58,269 --> 00:16:00,809 and the children their wombs would generate. 263 00:16:01,350 --> 00:16:03,990 So make no mistake about this, dear listener. 264 00:16:04,370 --> 00:16:05,970 This fact has a profound impact 265 00:16:06,570 --> 00:16:09,730 upon the demographic future of the United States of America. 266 00:16:09,730 --> 00:16:13,269 Currently, the United States has a birth rate 267 00:16:13,269 --> 00:16:14,710 below replacement level. 268 00:16:15,509 --> 00:16:19,269 The numbers are, anything under 2.1 children per woman 269 00:16:19,269 --> 00:16:22,929 in any given country is considered sub-replacement. 270 00:16:23,350 --> 00:16:25,289 Just to replace the people that are currently 271 00:16:25,289 --> 00:16:27,250 walking the face of the earth, 272 00:16:27,610 --> 00:16:30,210 2.1 children per woman is required. 273 00:16:31,110 --> 00:16:34,850 Currently, it is now 1.89 children per woman 274 00:16:34,850 --> 00:16:36,529 in the United States, 275 00:16:36,990 --> 00:16:38,929 though it is not as bad as other nations, 276 00:16:38,929 --> 00:16:41,950 and one resource I would encourage you to check on this 277 00:16:41,950 --> 00:16:46,110 is the book How Civilizations Die by David P. Goldman, 278 00:16:46,389 --> 00:16:49,250 one of the most important books published in 2011, 279 00:16:49,570 --> 00:16:52,889 but it details many of these stats I'm drawing upon. 280 00:16:53,049 --> 00:16:56,389 How Civilizations Die is the title of his book 281 00:16:56,389 --> 00:16:57,909 by David P. Goldman, 282 00:16:58,490 --> 00:17:02,129 and there is indeed a demographic argument to this, 283 00:17:02,730 --> 00:17:04,589 especially to gay and lesbian marriages. 284 00:17:04,589 --> 00:17:07,250 Eventually, all other things being equal, 285 00:17:07,410 --> 00:17:09,910 any given population with that kind of birth rate 286 00:17:09,910 --> 00:17:12,950 would dwindle into insignificance and or extinction. 287 00:17:14,009 --> 00:17:17,450 So, while the gay and lesbian marriage subtraction 288 00:17:17,450 --> 00:17:23,289 of reproductive peoples is only one factor in this equation, 289 00:17:23,630 --> 00:17:25,730 other things include women's liberation, 290 00:17:25,730 --> 00:17:30,750 which postpones child-rearing for a woman's career, for example, 291 00:17:30,750 --> 00:17:31,470 or abortion. 292 00:17:31,470 --> 00:17:33,329 Abortion also contributes, then, 293 00:17:33,450 --> 00:17:35,690 to a demographic downward spiral. 294 00:17:36,390 --> 00:17:38,009 Then there's the feminization of men, 295 00:17:38,109 --> 00:17:39,670 the decline of religious faith. 296 00:17:40,250 --> 00:17:43,049 Goldman, in particular, in his book How Civilizations Die, 297 00:17:43,130 --> 00:17:46,869 makes a point of when you have a decline in religious faith, 298 00:17:46,869 --> 00:17:49,970 you also have a decline in birth rates, 299 00:17:49,970 --> 00:17:51,289 and he makes that connection. 300 00:17:51,630 --> 00:17:54,890 Well, while only one factor in this equation, 301 00:17:55,470 --> 00:17:57,789 the expansion and contraction of gay marriages 302 00:17:57,789 --> 00:18:01,069 will have an impact upon this figure. 303 00:18:01,549 --> 00:18:04,809 The more reproducing couples you have in any given society, 304 00:18:04,930 --> 00:18:07,109 the greater the expansion of its population. 305 00:18:08,210 --> 00:18:10,049 What would be the demographic world 306 00:18:10,049 --> 00:18:12,430 if any given individual from a homosexual couple 307 00:18:12,430 --> 00:18:14,670 instead married a partner from a lesbian couple 308 00:18:14,670 --> 00:18:16,069 in a traditional marriage? 309 00:18:16,210 --> 00:18:18,210 Well, the results would be exponential, I submit. 310 00:18:18,210 --> 00:18:20,230 that multiple children from these marriages 311 00:18:20,230 --> 00:18:21,990 would marry and create multiple children 312 00:18:21,990 --> 00:18:24,910 and further marriages in an expanding family tree 313 00:18:24,910 --> 00:18:27,529 that would mean a growth of the American population 314 00:18:27,529 --> 00:18:29,710 rather than a shrinking and withering of it. 315 00:18:30,150 --> 00:18:31,329 But, as it stands, 316 00:18:31,710 --> 00:18:35,130 there will be an inverse exponential collapse at this rate. 317 00:18:35,289 --> 00:18:38,589 We subtract from the potential number of population 318 00:18:38,589 --> 00:18:41,789 those which these couples would otherwise have produced. 319 00:18:42,430 --> 00:18:45,710 A society, I submit to you, gets the future it deserves, 320 00:18:45,809 --> 00:18:47,609 and we're getting the demographic future 321 00:18:47,609 --> 00:18:49,089 that we deserve, dear listener. 322 00:18:49,950 --> 00:18:52,549 Now, I understand that this demographic argument 323 00:18:52,549 --> 00:18:55,130 is considerably more abstract 324 00:18:55,130 --> 00:18:57,910 than ones usually put forward by either side 325 00:18:57,910 --> 00:19:00,269 in the debate on gay marriage. 326 00:19:00,890 --> 00:19:01,349 Why? 327 00:19:02,130 --> 00:19:03,609 It does not have, of course, 328 00:19:03,670 --> 00:19:05,910 the emotional glitz and charge 329 00:19:05,910 --> 00:19:08,549 that we only want our civil rights 330 00:19:08,549 --> 00:19:10,849 under the Constitution to marry. 331 00:19:10,990 --> 00:19:13,630 Lesbians and gays have a right to be happy, 332 00:19:13,710 --> 00:19:14,049 don't we? 333 00:19:14,049 --> 00:19:15,890 We can't help how God made us. 334 00:19:15,990 --> 00:19:18,289 These have an emotional tug upon us, do they not? 335 00:19:18,569 --> 00:19:19,089 But, nevertheless, 336 00:19:19,609 --> 00:19:20,950 this demographic argument 337 00:19:20,950 --> 00:19:26,190 is not any less real for being abstract. 338 00:19:26,990 --> 00:19:28,809 The acceptance and growth and expansion 339 00:19:28,809 --> 00:19:30,069 of gay and lesbian marriage 340 00:19:30,069 --> 00:19:32,730 will contribute to a demographic death spiral 341 00:19:32,730 --> 00:19:34,210 in the United States. 342 00:19:34,549 --> 00:19:36,730 Well, my third argument that I would like to make 343 00:19:36,730 --> 00:19:38,069 is a cultural argument. 344 00:19:38,069 --> 00:19:40,750 That is, when the biblical model for marriage 345 00:19:40,750 --> 00:19:41,329 is abandoned, 346 00:19:41,650 --> 00:19:44,809 a cultural death spiral ensues as well. 347 00:19:45,289 --> 00:19:46,730 It's a corollary, really, 348 00:19:46,829 --> 00:19:47,910 of the demographic argument. 349 00:19:48,089 --> 00:19:49,930 But, when I hear the emotional appeal, 350 00:19:50,390 --> 00:19:51,309 what does it hurt 351 00:19:51,309 --> 00:19:53,390 if a gay couple marries? 352 00:19:53,549 --> 00:19:54,549 I immediately respond, 353 00:19:54,630 --> 00:19:56,289 it spells the death of a life culture. 354 00:19:57,289 --> 00:19:57,869 In the end, 355 00:19:57,930 --> 00:20:00,109 it is impossible for a culture of life 356 00:20:00,109 --> 00:20:01,990 to coexist with a culture of death. 357 00:20:02,910 --> 00:20:04,809 Lesbian and gay culture, 358 00:20:04,809 --> 00:20:05,549 such as it is, 359 00:20:05,690 --> 00:20:07,549 is by definition a culture of death, 360 00:20:07,670 --> 00:20:09,509 in part because of the demographic spiral 361 00:20:09,509 --> 00:20:10,750 that I outlined above. 362 00:20:11,230 --> 00:20:12,890 That is, it cannot self-propagate. 363 00:20:13,589 --> 00:20:15,150 It is further a culture of death 364 00:20:15,150 --> 00:20:16,410 because it is by definition, 365 00:20:16,730 --> 00:20:18,910 it must flourish at the expense 366 00:20:18,910 --> 00:20:20,130 of a straight culture. 367 00:20:21,230 --> 00:20:23,230 Lesbian and gay culture must flourish 368 00:20:23,230 --> 00:20:25,150 at the expense of a straight culture. 369 00:20:25,829 --> 00:20:27,390 It is by nature parasitic 370 00:20:27,390 --> 00:20:29,849 and will and must eventually kill the host 371 00:20:29,849 --> 00:20:32,349 if that host culture encourages 372 00:20:32,349 --> 00:20:33,789 and allows it to flourish. 373 00:20:33,789 --> 00:20:36,049 This implicit conflict, 374 00:20:36,130 --> 00:20:37,990 and it is an implicit conflict, 375 00:20:38,430 --> 00:20:41,069 goes to the heart of what culture is. 376 00:20:42,230 --> 00:20:43,490 Edward Taylor defines, 377 00:20:43,670 --> 00:20:45,829 in fact, his definition has been classic 378 00:20:45,829 --> 00:20:46,690 through the centuries. 379 00:20:47,250 --> 00:20:50,430 He says that culture is the complex whole 380 00:20:50,430 --> 00:20:54,210 of belief, art, morals, law, and custom 381 00:20:54,210 --> 00:20:57,269 acquired by man as a member of society, unquote. 382 00:20:57,269 --> 00:21:01,309 This complex whole that he talks about 383 00:21:01,309 --> 00:21:03,049 of all that we are and love 384 00:21:03,049 --> 00:21:06,490 wants to be communicated to the next generation, too. 385 00:21:07,049 --> 00:21:09,049 This is the impulse of humanity. 386 00:21:09,589 --> 00:21:11,950 It's no less true of lesbian and gay culture 387 00:21:11,950 --> 00:21:13,309 than it is of straight culture. 388 00:21:13,789 --> 00:21:16,410 It is the nature of culture to be preserved 389 00:21:16,410 --> 00:21:19,269 and protected and propagated to the next generation. 390 00:21:19,269 --> 00:21:21,990 Now, as Goldman puts it in his book, 391 00:21:22,849 --> 00:21:23,210 he says, 392 00:21:23,529 --> 00:21:26,089 individual human existence looks forward 393 00:21:26,089 --> 00:21:28,230 to the continuation of the culture 394 00:21:28,230 --> 00:21:30,309 that nurtures, sustains, and transmits 395 00:21:30,309 --> 00:21:34,069 our contribution to further future generations, unquote. 396 00:21:34,750 --> 00:21:36,809 It is the human impulse to propagate 397 00:21:36,809 --> 00:21:38,130 and continue one's culture. 398 00:21:38,950 --> 00:21:40,670 Lesbian and gay culture has within it 399 00:21:40,670 --> 00:21:41,529 the same impulse, 400 00:21:41,630 --> 00:21:43,930 to be continued as much as straight culture does. 401 00:21:43,930 --> 00:21:46,329 This is where the conflict occurs. 402 00:21:46,890 --> 00:21:49,450 How is lesbian and gay culture 403 00:21:49,450 --> 00:21:51,210 transmitted to the next generation? 404 00:21:52,009 --> 00:21:54,509 What of lesbian and gay culture is communicated 405 00:21:54,509 --> 00:21:56,190 is another pertinent question. 406 00:21:56,950 --> 00:22:00,109 Note these points under this question. 407 00:22:01,549 --> 00:22:02,130 First of all, 408 00:22:02,509 --> 00:22:05,690 the very subjects of the next lesbian and gay generation 409 00:22:05,690 --> 00:22:09,569 must be recruited from this straight generation. 410 00:22:09,789 --> 00:22:11,450 Here's where cultural conflict occurs 411 00:22:11,450 --> 00:22:13,630 because lesbian and gay culture 412 00:22:13,630 --> 00:22:15,750 other lesbian and gay populations 413 00:22:15,750 --> 00:22:18,410 are not naturally born 414 00:22:18,410 --> 00:22:19,450 and naturally generated 415 00:22:19,450 --> 00:22:21,049 by other lesbian and gay couples. 416 00:22:21,289 --> 00:22:22,990 No, they must be recruited 417 00:22:22,990 --> 00:22:25,029 from a straight generation. 418 00:22:25,170 --> 00:22:26,210 Have you ever thought about this? 419 00:22:26,990 --> 00:22:29,569 It's not a passive question of mere toleration. 420 00:22:30,210 --> 00:22:31,789 How do lesbian and gays propagate? 421 00:22:32,109 --> 00:22:32,950 We've already observed 422 00:22:32,950 --> 00:22:34,750 that self-propagation is impossible. 423 00:22:35,089 --> 00:22:35,750 By definition, 424 00:22:36,029 --> 00:22:37,390 homosexual and lesbian marriages 425 00:22:37,390 --> 00:22:38,329 are unfruitful. 426 00:22:38,829 --> 00:22:41,170 Whence tomorrow's lesbian and gays then? 427 00:22:41,549 --> 00:22:42,529 There's only one place. 428 00:22:42,529 --> 00:22:44,869 From despised breeders, 429 00:22:44,950 --> 00:22:45,869 as they call us. 430 00:22:46,269 --> 00:22:48,009 From despised breeders. 431 00:22:48,630 --> 00:22:50,569 You are looked at as mere fodder 432 00:22:50,569 --> 00:22:54,029 for future gay and lesbian predations. 433 00:22:54,390 --> 00:22:56,150 Where else are they going to get 434 00:22:56,150 --> 00:22:57,349 their next generation? 435 00:22:57,490 --> 00:22:58,470 From cabbage patches? 436 00:22:58,609 --> 00:22:59,369 From storks? 437 00:22:59,589 --> 00:22:59,910 No. 438 00:23:00,150 --> 00:23:01,089 From breeders. 439 00:23:01,190 --> 00:23:02,829 That is heterosexual couples. 440 00:23:03,190 --> 00:23:04,309 They are the only ones 441 00:23:04,309 --> 00:23:05,910 who produce children consistently 442 00:23:05,910 --> 00:23:06,589 and prolifically. 443 00:23:06,589 --> 00:23:08,490 You and your family 444 00:23:08,490 --> 00:23:10,130 are the only and exclusive 445 00:23:10,130 --> 00:23:11,410 fruitful harvest field 446 00:23:11,410 --> 00:23:12,309 from which subjects 447 00:23:12,309 --> 00:23:14,049 may be plucked and harvested. 448 00:23:14,630 --> 00:23:16,430 If the lesbian and gay culture 449 00:23:16,430 --> 00:23:17,170 is to continue 450 00:23:17,170 --> 00:23:18,269 to the next generation, 451 00:23:18,490 --> 00:23:19,710 it must entice, 452 00:23:20,289 --> 00:23:20,630 capture, 453 00:23:20,970 --> 00:23:21,589 and train 454 00:23:21,589 --> 00:23:23,569 an army of socially conditioned children 455 00:23:23,569 --> 00:23:24,329 to become 456 00:23:24,329 --> 00:23:25,089 lesbian, 457 00:23:25,470 --> 00:23:25,690 gay, 458 00:23:26,089 --> 00:23:26,490 bisexual, 459 00:23:26,710 --> 00:23:27,569 or transgendered. 460 00:23:27,569 --> 00:23:28,650 This is why you see 461 00:23:28,650 --> 00:23:30,829 LGBTG apologists 462 00:23:30,829 --> 00:23:32,049 stridently advocate 463 00:23:32,049 --> 00:23:33,029 for the strategies 464 00:23:33,029 --> 00:23:34,150 by which they do 465 00:23:34,150 --> 00:23:34,910 recruit 466 00:23:34,910 --> 00:23:35,910 and seduce 467 00:23:35,910 --> 00:23:36,809 the next generation. 468 00:23:36,970 --> 00:23:37,529 For example, 469 00:23:38,230 --> 00:23:39,130 lesbian and gays 470 00:23:39,130 --> 00:23:40,730 commandeer the school systems. 471 00:23:41,230 --> 00:23:42,369 Behold the common core. 472 00:23:42,509 --> 00:23:43,470 In the name of tolerance, 473 00:23:43,569 --> 00:23:44,869 they indoctrinate the minds 474 00:23:44,869 --> 00:23:46,089 of the bulk 475 00:23:46,089 --> 00:23:46,990 of straight society 476 00:23:46,990 --> 00:23:48,390 to passively accept 477 00:23:48,390 --> 00:23:49,890 lesbian and gay culture 478 00:23:49,890 --> 00:23:51,329 while aggressively suggesting 479 00:23:51,329 --> 00:23:52,089 to vulnerable, 480 00:23:52,410 --> 00:23:52,890 weak adolescents 481 00:23:52,890 --> 00:23:54,470 that they are lesbian or gay. 482 00:23:54,910 --> 00:23:56,269 How many marginal kids 483 00:23:56,269 --> 00:23:56,970 would go straight, 484 00:23:57,089 --> 00:23:57,269 indeed, 485 00:23:57,369 --> 00:23:58,470 if not for this kind 486 00:23:58,470 --> 00:24:00,029 of societal and cultural pressure? 487 00:24:00,869 --> 00:24:01,329 They also, 488 00:24:01,470 --> 00:24:02,750 the lesbian and gay cultures, 489 00:24:02,849 --> 00:24:04,430 also co-opt the culture. 490 00:24:05,289 --> 00:24:06,589 Why are gay characters 491 00:24:06,589 --> 00:24:07,670 portrayed sympathetically 492 00:24:07,670 --> 00:24:08,690 in TV sitcoms 493 00:24:08,690 --> 00:24:09,210 and in movies? 494 00:24:09,470 --> 00:24:10,289 Why do musicians 495 00:24:10,289 --> 00:24:11,430 increasingly make out 496 00:24:11,430 --> 00:24:12,089 with one another 497 00:24:12,089 --> 00:24:13,109 and sing queer music? 498 00:24:13,450 --> 00:24:14,650 Why do news commentators 499 00:24:14,650 --> 00:24:15,650 and political pundits 500 00:24:15,650 --> 00:24:16,769 now openly advocate 501 00:24:16,769 --> 00:24:18,170 for tolerance and acceptance? 502 00:24:18,809 --> 00:24:19,450 Oh, dear listener. 503 00:24:20,210 --> 00:24:21,369 Also, lesbian and gay 504 00:24:21,369 --> 00:24:22,789 is increasingly criminal 505 00:24:22,789 --> 00:24:24,569 dissent, do they not? 506 00:24:24,650 --> 00:24:25,490 When all else fails, 507 00:24:25,690 --> 00:24:27,049 shut down, 508 00:24:27,170 --> 00:24:28,150 shut down dissent. 509 00:24:28,789 --> 00:24:30,130 You pass city ordinances 510 00:24:30,130 --> 00:24:31,089 against discrimination. 511 00:24:31,430 --> 00:24:32,650 You protest hysterically 512 00:24:32,650 --> 00:24:33,710 against any opinion 513 00:24:33,710 --> 00:24:34,410 that disagrees. 514 00:24:34,549 --> 00:24:35,809 You lobby for legislation 515 00:24:35,809 --> 00:24:36,829 that criminalizes 516 00:24:36,829 --> 00:24:38,390 any political opinion 517 00:24:38,390 --> 00:24:39,130 that will dissent 518 00:24:39,130 --> 00:24:40,269 from doctrinaire opinion. 519 00:24:40,509 --> 00:24:42,089 Oh, because there is 520 00:24:42,089 --> 00:24:42,910 nowhere else to go 521 00:24:42,910 --> 00:24:43,849 but to the breeder 522 00:24:43,849 --> 00:24:45,349 of straight culture 523 00:24:45,349 --> 00:24:46,009 for the subjects 524 00:24:46,009 --> 00:24:47,049 of the next generation 525 00:24:47,049 --> 00:24:48,410 of gay and lesbian culture. 526 00:24:48,529 --> 00:24:49,049 Well, then, 527 00:24:49,470 --> 00:24:50,630 this culture is by nature 528 00:24:50,630 --> 00:24:51,490 parasitic, 529 00:24:51,930 --> 00:24:52,769 needing the host 530 00:24:52,789 --> 00:24:53,490 of breeders 531 00:24:53,490 --> 00:24:54,690 upon which to draw 532 00:24:54,690 --> 00:24:55,650 to constitute 533 00:24:55,650 --> 00:24:57,390 its next cultural generation. 534 00:24:57,529 --> 00:24:57,950 Dear listener, 535 00:24:58,450 --> 00:24:59,349 they would be nowhere 536 00:24:59,349 --> 00:25:00,490 without your children. 537 00:25:01,009 --> 00:25:01,970 They would have no one 538 00:25:01,970 --> 00:25:02,950 upon which to feed 539 00:25:02,950 --> 00:25:04,329 to supply that next 540 00:25:04,329 --> 00:25:05,369 cultural generation 541 00:25:05,369 --> 00:25:06,650 of lesbians and gays. 542 00:25:07,329 --> 00:25:08,410 We must also observe 543 00:25:08,410 --> 00:25:10,089 that in this cultural argument 544 00:25:10,089 --> 00:25:12,650 that lesbian and gay culture 545 00:25:12,650 --> 00:25:14,190 behaves like all cultures 546 00:25:14,190 --> 00:25:14,869 in accordance 547 00:25:14,869 --> 00:25:16,170 with its own need 548 00:25:16,170 --> 00:25:17,009 to survive. 549 00:25:17,769 --> 00:25:19,430 Straight mainstream culture 550 00:25:19,430 --> 00:25:20,710 is so naive. 551 00:25:21,130 --> 00:25:22,190 We assume that gay 552 00:25:22,190 --> 00:25:22,970 and lesbian couples 553 00:25:22,970 --> 00:25:24,230 merely want to be left alone 554 00:25:24,230 --> 00:25:25,089 to live their lives 555 00:25:25,089 --> 00:25:26,069 in peace and fulfillment 556 00:25:26,069 --> 00:25:27,250 just like any ordinary 557 00:25:27,250 --> 00:25:28,789 heterosexual couple. 558 00:25:29,049 --> 00:25:29,569 How naive. 559 00:25:30,329 --> 00:25:31,470 Awake, America. 560 00:25:31,589 --> 00:25:32,970 The agenda is far more aggressive. 561 00:25:33,710 --> 00:25:34,450 And I quote here 562 00:25:34,450 --> 00:25:35,490 Paula Edelbrecht 563 00:25:35,490 --> 00:25:37,289 of the Lambda Legal Defense 564 00:25:37,289 --> 00:25:38,289 and Education Fund. 565 00:25:38,970 --> 00:25:39,809 And she says, 566 00:25:40,170 --> 00:25:40,670 and I quote, 567 00:25:40,670 --> 00:25:41,809 Being queer is more 568 00:25:41,809 --> 00:25:42,750 than setting up house, 569 00:25:42,950 --> 00:25:43,769 sleeping with a person 570 00:25:43,769 --> 00:25:44,529 of the same gender, 571 00:25:44,630 --> 00:25:45,789 and seeking state approval 572 00:25:45,789 --> 00:25:46,490 for doing so. 573 00:25:46,910 --> 00:25:47,690 Being queer means 574 00:25:47,690 --> 00:25:48,789 pushing the parameters 575 00:25:48,789 --> 00:25:51,410 of sex, sexuality, and family, 576 00:25:51,609 --> 00:25:52,329 and in the process 577 00:25:52,329 --> 00:25:53,710 transforming the very fabric 578 00:25:53,710 --> 00:25:55,009 of society, unquote. 579 00:25:55,710 --> 00:25:57,230 How naive we are. 580 00:25:57,450 --> 00:25:58,049 Are we not? 581 00:25:58,829 --> 00:26:00,289 If you think that lesbian gays 582 00:26:00,289 --> 00:26:01,750 are at present hysterical 583 00:26:01,750 --> 00:26:02,410 and aggressive 584 00:26:02,410 --> 00:26:03,589 in promoting their agenda, 585 00:26:03,690 --> 00:26:04,670 they have only begun. 586 00:26:05,029 --> 00:26:06,230 It will never stop 587 00:26:06,230 --> 00:26:07,509 until your sons are queer, 588 00:26:07,630 --> 00:26:08,589 your daughters are lesbian, 589 00:26:08,589 --> 00:26:10,009 and your dog partnered 590 00:26:10,009 --> 00:26:11,670 with a differently specied human. 591 00:26:12,529 --> 00:26:13,630 Dear brother and sister, 592 00:26:13,730 --> 00:26:14,329 what are we to do? 593 00:26:15,150 --> 00:26:20,829 Well, we must also demand 594 00:26:20,829 --> 00:26:21,990 and pray for a complete 595 00:26:21,990 --> 00:26:23,190 spiritual reformation 596 00:26:23,190 --> 00:26:24,670 in the United States of America. 597 00:26:25,210 --> 00:26:26,130 Christ is the beginning, 598 00:26:26,269 --> 00:26:26,630 the middle, 599 00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:27,690 and the end of our hope 600 00:26:27,690 --> 00:26:28,230 for redemption. 601 00:26:28,430 --> 00:26:29,990 And only as we return to him 602 00:26:29,990 --> 00:26:31,109 as our head 603 00:26:31,109 --> 00:26:32,630 will we as his body 604 00:26:32,630 --> 00:26:34,250 remain in fidelity 605 00:26:34,250 --> 00:26:35,950 to the model of marriage 606 00:26:35,950 --> 00:26:37,210 set before us. 607 00:26:37,450 --> 00:26:38,650 Pray indeed for these things. 608 00:26:38,769 --> 00:26:40,109 This is Pastor David Bass 609 00:26:40,109 --> 00:26:41,890 at New Geneva Orthodox 610 00:26:41,890 --> 00:26:43,009 Presbyterian Church. 611 00:26:43,109 --> 00:26:43,670 And we meet 612 00:26:43,670 --> 00:26:44,670 for holy worship 613 00:26:44,670 --> 00:26:45,529 at 10 a.m. 614 00:26:45,549 --> 00:26:46,150 on Sundays 615 00:26:46,150 --> 00:26:47,710 at 101 4th Street 616 00:26:47,710 --> 00:26:48,349 on the corner 617 00:26:48,349 --> 00:26:49,349 of 4th and Boulevard. 618 00:26:49,710 --> 00:26:50,410 You may call us 619 00:26:50,410 --> 00:26:52,109 at 5-2-3-0-1.