Teacher Faces Termination For Not Acknowledging 5-yr-old's Gender Transition

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Bill Martinez Show dot com. We are

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live and we're talking about a kindergarten
teacher, Maria Ramerez. She's a devout

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Catholic, and which means that she
believes the Bible says what it means,

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and it means what it says right
that God created only two sexes, male

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and female. So when Maria was
ordered by her supervisors to refer to a

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five year old girl in her classroom
as a boy, which, by the

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way, was that her parents' insistence. By way, she refused without hesitation.

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Yes, you read that right.
We're talking a five year old child

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with us to tell us more about
it. Not only is Maria, but

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Brian Festa joins us as well.
Brian and Maria, welcome to the show.

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Good to have you with us,
Hi, Bill, thanks for having

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us. Well, Brian, let's
start with you. Lay the case out.

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I kind of did a really kind
of a rough outline here. But

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from a legal standpoint, what are
we dealing with here, Well, we're

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dealing with a major First Amendment violation
bill. As you know, the Constitution

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ilicitly protects freedom of religion, the
right to people to be free from oppression

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by their government because of their religious
beliefs. Maria works for the Oakland Unified

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School District. That is a public
school district that is a government agency,

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an agent of the government, and
therefore they are bound by the United States

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Constitution as well as California law against
discrimination. The interesting thing is one of

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the things her school district was citing
her with violating was the Education Code Section

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two twenty of the California Education Code, which does say in fact that you

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can't discriminate against people on the basis
of gender identity, expression, things like

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that, but it also says religion. It seems like they stopped reading,

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so they put religion way down there
in the statute. Gender identity was way

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up there and sexual orientation was way
up there. They put religion down,

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but it's still in the statute.
It's like they stopped reading the statute after

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it said gender expression. Religious discrimination
is prohibited also by Californi you law on

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the Education Code. So they are
saying essentially that because Maria refused to refer

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to this five year old female student
as a boy at the parents' insistence and

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at the schools insistence, because she
refused because she's a devout Catholic, she

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refused to go against her religious beliefs, and they are saying that she is

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somehow engaging in immoral conduct if you
can believe that, they are almost equating

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her to being like a child abuser, right, because yeah, because she

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won't call this girl a boy.
But guess what the Constitution of the United

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States bill, you know, I'm
a civil rights attorney, human rights attorney.

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I have years of experience practicing this
employment discrimination cases. The Constitution of

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the United States protects religion. It
does not say anything about gender, identity

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or expression. So if we are
going to sort of rank the rights,

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and I'm not, I didn't,
you know, tell the school district they

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should make a ranking list of which
right some more important. But if you

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wanted to do that, religion wins
all day long. Why it's in the

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first clause of the First Amendment,
put in there by the frames of our

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constitution. Right, Maria, I
want to talk to you. In twenty

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twenty one, two years ago,
you were nominated Teacher of the Year by

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the Oakland Unified School District. So
you've had a stellar career and you like

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what you're doing, right. I
love what I'm doing. As a Catholic,

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I considered being a teacher of vocation. This is something that I was

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called into as a vocation, and
so I've had stellar, outstanding evaluations all

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throughout my career. I've been elevated
into positions of administration, but I've always

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wanted to work with the children.
I think once you get up in administrative

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positions, you lose touch with the
needs of the children. And so I've

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always wanted to work with with the
children. That's what my my I'm a

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practice practitioner at heart. And so
I was nominated during COVID during twenty twenty

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twenty twenty winning school year, I
was nominated as a Teacher of the Year

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award. And this is when you
know, there was no internet. Our

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families couldn't log on. We were
doing all the work that a teacher and

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beyond, we were social workers,
we were therapists. We were really bleeding,

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you know, for communities and our
families to meet their needs beyond the

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classroom. And so yeah, I
was nominated as a teacher. I got

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into the sixth second round. The
time, I was working as a coach,

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and so they're like, oh,
you're not a teacher, You're you

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have one hundred and fifty kids under
you, so it doesn't you're not a

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teacher, but you are working with
teachers. And so that's why I wouldn't.

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I didn't win, but I would
have won because I love what I

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do. I love working. You
lost because you were working too hard.

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I mean they actually they actually hired
three people to do my job the year

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after that, So that goes to
show I was translating I was doing.

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I was wearing three hats, but
went one pain in Oakland in a fight

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school district. So well, Uh, so tell us your story in terms

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of how this came about. Uh, you know, did did this?

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This young girl first tell you that
she wanted to be referred to as a

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boy, and then when you refused
her, then it went to you know,

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went up the chain or how how
how did you find out that this

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five year old girl wanted to be
addressed in a different gender. So as

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a teacher, we've we've always had
boys and girls in the classroom, and

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so when I saw the children,
it's apparent what their gender is, and

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so there was never a question,
you know, how I should address this

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this scholarship pretty so, pretty much
one hundred percent of the kids, it's

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obvious there there are there a boy
or girls at least close to one hundred

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percent right right now, Biologically speaking, we only have an x X and

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x yite chromosomes in the classroom.
We either have boys or girls in the

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classroom. And this has been such
since I've had a master's in early time

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head education and so you see this
kind of silly, right, you needed

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a master's to figure out there was
a difference, right or something from and

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how many how many kids were in
your family growing up? Mariah, we're

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five in our family. How many
boys? How many girls? I have

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four brothers and no sisters. So
you figure out real quick what there is

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a difference? Right? Absolutely,
you grew up knowing the difference. Okay,

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then then your race is a Catholic
and the word of God tells you

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what you're seeing and what you know
to be true is true, right,

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right? And so now you go
get educated, you get your master you're

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in in the world of education,
and now you've got people wanting to turn

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logic and reality inside out on you. Correct that and that's it. And

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it's so heartbreaking as as a mother, is heartbreaking as an educator to know

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that their identity, that Christ has
given them a conception, not a signed

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at birth, because that's what we're
being told, that gender is a signed

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at birth, but it's not a
sign at birth. We know that conception

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God has determined and he's the only
one that can decide what gender that child's

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going to because he's the creator of
that child, and so he decides if

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you're going to have an XX chromosome
or an x Y chriminosome. It is

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not for us to fight the Creator
on what what he does. And it

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hurts me to it breaks my heart
to know that there's children struggling, you

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know, thinking and they're the wrong
body. You know, we all we

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all thought this way. We're in
the wrong marriage, we're in the wrong

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body, in the wrong Yeah.
Then then then where will we lad?

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There's one truth, there's only one
truth, and we can't there's we cannot.

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It's not as creation. We cannot
oppose our creator. That is sacrilegious.

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Right, well, it's actually stupid
and it is sacriligious. But it's

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also stupid because the fact the matter
is is God's really clear, as you

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say, you know, in his
word it says that he wove us while

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we're in our mother's womb. He
is the designer. He put us together.

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And when you think, how wonderfully
and miraculously we're designed, and and

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all of a sudden, now it's
these kids are being told and that's that's

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my first question. Who told you
you were a girl? Who told you

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you were a boy? You know, I mean, who's telling you something

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that is not consistent with your true
identity? And uh, you know,

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and and Brian, I want to
give give him a moment here to rest,

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and we'll come back to her.
But this is where we get back

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into a First Amendment issue, is
that we want to suspend reality for an

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agenda and something that violates our inherent
right as documented and certified in our constitution,

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right, right, I mean,
we need to defend these rights because

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there are just so many in this
country that are all too happy to run

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rough shot over those rights, to
tear apart the Constitution, to pretend like

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it doesn't exist. And if we
let them get away with it, ladies

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and gentlemen, if we stand by
organizations like ours, you know, attorneys

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like us, we do nothing.
We don't defend these people, we don't

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file any lawsuits. They will eventually
just create a new system of government where

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none of those rights even exists.
There will be no First Amendment, no

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Second Amendment, nothing, no due
process nothing. Okay. And that's the

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direct action that they're heading. And
we're trying to cut them off the pass

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and stop them. So it's vitally
important to anyone who supports Maria and supports

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the work that we do. Please, I have to make a plea here,

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Bill. I hate putting it like
this, but we are We're in

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some pretty dire financial straits because of
what Bidenomics has done to this economy,

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and especially you know you run an
on propum you know this. You understand

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fundraising is very difficult in this economy. And I believe personally that they purposely

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orchestrated this economic collapse in part in
part to crush organizations like ours, because

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they don't want us fighting back against
their agenda. So let's stand up.

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Let's not play into their hand.
Let's stand up and fight against them.

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I don't care even if it's only
five dollars you can give to her.

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If you can give more, great, We the Patriots USA dot org.

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You'll see her fundraiser right on there. We need this for these legal expenses

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because this is a very expensive battle. And of course they don't care.

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The school district gets as much money
as they want from the state and from

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the federal government, right so they
can just you know, they've got attorneys

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on payroll. They're not hurting because
of this. They're just gonna be They're

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gonna be able to go into court
as many times as we bring them.

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But we need to get these decisions
on the books from not only the courts

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in California, but from the United
States Supreme Court saying that it is illegal

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to do this. It's unconstitutional to
oppress someone like this because of her religious

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beliefs. You know, the parents
don't get to dictate what her religious beliefs

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are. Neither, and certainly a
five year old child doesn't get to dictate,

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and the school district doesn't get to
dictate what her religious beliefs are,

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and that she has to check her
religious beliefs at the door of the schoolhouse.

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No, yeah, right, exactly, And you're exactly ry, Brian.

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Is that it is unfair that the
school district can operate off of taxpayers'

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money to fight this legal battle.
And here Maria is left to her own

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devices, you know, doing what
she can on weekend, doing a cake

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walk, selling churos or whatever to
raise money, you know, for her

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legal defense. Uh, you know, this is not She's not gonna have

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to do that. We have committed. Let me just say this, She's

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not going to pay a penny for
this, all right. We're putting our

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organization and our funds on the line. This is why we're asking donors to

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step up and give it to us, because Maria is not going to pay

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one dime for her legal expenses,
but we are going to pay that.

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We don't have millions of dollars.
We're not some big company that's flushed with

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cash and has angel investors. No, we don't even have one million okay

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most of the most of the time, we don't have a half a million

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okay, in our in our in
our budget, and we've got lawsuits from

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New York to California to pay and
a staff to pay. So you can

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imagine how to how we figure that
out. It's only by the grace of

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God that we have the lights on, okay. So we really need help

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from whoever wants to stand with us
and whoever wants to stand up for Maria.

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We have a saying here with the
Patriots USA. It's actually our trademarked

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slogan bill. You're gonna love this
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love it. We the Patriots USA
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to donate, and we appreciate any
donation, any support whatsoever that will go

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towards Maria's case. Maria back to
you in terms of uh here, in

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terms of how this developed, how
did you find out that there was a

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conflict? Did the did the five
year old girl first resist and say well,

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I'm a boy, I'm not a
girl, and and then it went

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up to uh, you know where
it ended up with the principle and her

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parents getting involved. How how did
you how did this come about? That

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That's exactly how it came about.
And so because I was working out a

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dual immersion program in Spanish, all
the adjectives are conjugated, all the now

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that are conjugated a gender based language, and so based on the way she

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was conjugating her verbs, I had
to correct her right because if you're a

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female, you have to use female
now tips. And so that's when I

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was told not to correct the student
because the on the parents' request, correcting

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the child was misgendering the child.
So that's when I was faced with reprimand

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and meetings because me correcting her in
Spanish was misgendering uh. And this is

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this is a Hispanic, this is
a young Hispanic girl that has been modernized

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and become pronounced sensitive. This is
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like you, coming from the Hispanic
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this is a shock to me.
I had no idea that this was a

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young Hispanic girl. Well, she's
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her mother is white and her father
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right, So maybe that explains some
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again, as you know, in
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up. I mean, there's not
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a girl. You got that right. In Latino communities, that's not even

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a question what gender you are.
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devout Catholics, we're a firm.
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that that God gives. In families, we celebrate every child that is born

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because they are, like you said, we are, life is considered very

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sacred ex So we take every part
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to be part of the family.
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cherish it, we protect it.
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and It's very heartbreaking as well to
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What what what? What are the
other teachers saying? What are they

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telling you? Oh, they're staying
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Uh. They took two giant steps
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Yeah, you know, I think
our Lord rolled up his sleeves and entered

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human mess. In my my fellow
colleagues would not roll up their sleeves,

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The Union would not roll up their
sleeves turn to this, uh, this

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glorious mess. And so I'm left
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support me. I'm very thankful to
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be if it wasn't for Brian and
and the in his organization. And I'm

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I'm moved, uh to be here
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with everyone in the United States.
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this psychologically speaking, you know,
you go through the entire you know,

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you're you're you're trying to Okay,
did I get something wrong here? What

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did I do? What what happened? I mean it, Uh, you

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know, because you've got to You've
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no, this is what I believe, this is what God told me,

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and I need to stand on this. And so as you go through

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this process, you become more and
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God bless you, Maria, because
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I mean, look at we We
just had a Supreme Court justice get

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in front of the you know,
get in front of elected officials, and

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she couldn't even tell you what a
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how crazy the culture has become.
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figure out certainly there are laws.
And that's why Brian's here to reinforce and

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remind us of our constitutional rights that
you have a First Amendment right, and

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that because it's not only you,
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citizens of America and the teachers down
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you know, getting you know,
getting run over like you're you know,

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like they're trying to do to you
exactly exactly. It's important if we

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if we have enshrined the first constitutional
right that our Constitution has been enshryed to

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protect our religious rights to worship in
freedom, we should we should be allowed

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to worship in freedom. I shouldn't
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getting fired because of my religious convictions. I should be able to worship in

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freedom. And that's what that's been
taken away from me, the freedom to

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worship as a teacher in Oakland public
schools. Right. Well, I'm interested

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because of the parents, and Brian
Ivy chime in just second. Here with

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the parents, it seems to me
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sense says the mother is driving,
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be able to answer that. I
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but it's confusion. And you talk
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f on this issue when they say
at the parents' insistence, I've talked to

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both they and they both agree that
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Yes, okay, all right,
Brian, go ahead and add your

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comment. Well, what I wanted
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so important that we protect teachers.
It's important that we protect our schools so

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that teachers like Maria can continue to
teach there because if we don't bring this

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lawsuit, if we don't win this
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precedent, or even if we don't
bring the lawsuit at all, that sets

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a precedent that the school can get
away with this. The school can tell

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a teacher they're not allowed to honor
the religious beliefs and they must must honor

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in the classroom, in every classroom
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If we get you know, obviously
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or we continue to file lawsuits like
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the United States, we need precedent
on the books that says a teacher will

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be protected and will be allowed to
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That's really what it is. He's
a cult. Remember, the establishment

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clause is not just the freedom of
religion clause. There's also an establishment clause

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in the First Amendment of the United
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establish a religion, okay, shall
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And that's exactly what the state is
doing here, because their ideology is

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a contrary religious belief. This is
what people don't understand what you are doing.

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If you are forcing a teacher to
use preferred pronouns in the classroom and

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to teach other children that they should
be using preferred pronouns when speaking to one

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another. You are teaching a religious
doctrine that is contrary to Christianity, contrary

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Catholicism, contrary to almost every religion
in the world. Okay, And so

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you are forcing the students to abide
by a contrary religious doctrine that is a

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state sponsored religion, which violates the
establishment clause as well as the free exercise

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clause, and there's all other kinds
of violations we can talk about. We

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talked about the state law as well. But I mean this, They're in

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a mess of trouble, are they. I don't know if they realize that,

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but they're in a heap of trouble. Are they understanding this? Brian?

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I mean because you're you said it
exactly right, because it's the big

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exchange. You're always exchanging something for
something else. Okay. So you're replacing

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religion or your faith with this new
doctrine, right, correct, this doctrine

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which is directly contrary, directly,
diametrically opposed to Christian doctrine. Okay,

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And you're saying we have to substitute
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doctrine that violates the Establishment clause.
So they're they're in a heap of trouble.

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I don't know if they know it, and I don't know if that

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if the Ninth Circuit is gonna back
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the Supreme Court in the United States
would back up Maria based on their recent

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decisions. The majority anyway, I'm
not saying every justice you mentioned one we

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didn't know what a woman was.
I'm not talking about every justice, but

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the majority of the justices on the
Supreme Court I believe strongly would rule in

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favor of Marea. It would rule
and favor religious liberty for these teachers because

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you know, regardless of what kind
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the Constitution is the supreme law of
the land. It says that in

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the Constitution, okay, if you
read the beginning the preamble, it says

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right there, this is the supreme
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so it trumps everything else, any
laws contrary to the Constitution. It trumps.

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So they have to respect that.
And again, this is going to

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be I think a very solid win
that will send precedent all throughout the state

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of California. We win this case, at the very least, even if

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it doesn't go to the Supreme Court. If we win this case, even

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just at the district court or the
Ninth Circuit level, then every single teacher

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in that district in that jurisdiction,
which is huge. I mean California alone

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is huge. And that's not even
not only the only state in the in

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the Ninth Circuit on the state we're
based in Idaho. As part of the

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Ninth Circuit, it would be preserved
in law that all the states in that

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circuit, if we get the Circuit
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get a California win, would have
to obey that precedent, which means that

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teachers cannot be forced into using obeying
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You would be safe knowing that you
have certain teachers you could send your child

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to and request your child be in
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be taught in the classrooms, even
in a public school. All right,

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that's huge. Right now, we
don't have that you send your child off

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and all the teachers have to just
march in obedience to the trans cult exactly,

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guess what one. The other thing
changing, The thing that concerns me

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is that if if you were to
lose this battle, and if you don't

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stop it now, then it would
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all this, you know, these
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That whole agenda then comes running through
the door, and they wouldn't even

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have to tell the parents. Already
in California, they're saying that you don't

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have to tell parents if the if
a child comes to you and wants to

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transition, that that can be something
secret from them. No, there shouldn't

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be any secrets between school staff and
the child that the parents don't know about,

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because in most cases it's the opposite. And this is a unique case

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if the parents are actually pushing for
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I think this case has great facts
because we're what we're setting a precedent for

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is even if the parents are in
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allowed to opt out and refuse on
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beliefs. That's key. But in
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even in favor of it, very
often the child does this out to the

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parents. California lets the children do
whatever they want without parents' knowledge or consent

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in many cases, and that is
just horrible. We can't allow that to

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happen because then these school based health
clinics, they're going to start doing gender

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if they're not already doing it exactly, gender transition counseling and all this kind

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of stuff. We have to stop
this. We need to get those banned

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from all schools, and we need
to stand up for religious freedom and protecting

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the rights of teachers like Maria,
and the parents should have the choice to

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say I want my child in Maria's
class, not in this other teachers class

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with teaching gender ideology. They should
be able to do exactly Maria. What

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about the other kids, I mean, you're talking one child in the classroom,

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what of twenty five kids? Roughly
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Okay, so one child, So
now you've got minority rule. What kind

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of impact I mean you would think
the parents, the parents are the other

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children, I mean, do they
not see how this could affect the you

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know, the perspective of their children. And you have twenty five families,

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when you have twenty five students in
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that they all have different opinions,
and they're torn, you know. They

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they want to be merciful to families
who have transgendered students. But mercy comes

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with truth, right, you have
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mercy, not the other way around. And so they're conflicted and they feel

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that they can't speak up because they
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community. Right, So that stuff, and then of course we're back to

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what's happening at the university level,
where leadership at the school is not prevalent

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to deal with this issue. Right, So I take it that the principal,

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the administrative staff of the school and
the district is such to side with

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the one family. That's correct,
and even the union and so so everybody

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is citing with one family out of
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Well, that's a breach of law
too. The Fair Labor Standards Act requires

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that a union provide as a duty
a fair representation. Okay, they're obligated

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to represent her and defend her.
They can't decide that they're not going to

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represent her in her termination. Proceedings. They're not going to defend her.

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They're going to side with the school
district. That is illegal and she can

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bring another claim and we'll talk about
that off air. Maria against the union.

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Wow. Okay, So Maria,
I mean, this seems like maybe

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we got a pigpile here that they're
really coming up against you like this.

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And of course, this is the
problem that we have in our culture today

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is minority voices are given extraordinary place
and they you know, they're given the

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megaphone and you're being shot down.
And you know, thank God for we

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the people you say dot Org and
for Brian and his team to support your

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case here to you know, help
fight the good fight not only for you,

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but for all the other teachers.
That's right, you said that.

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You said that correctly, Bill.
If I go, everybody goes. The

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buck has to stop here, right
because if I'm not protected from my religious

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convictions, then no teacher will be
protected for the convictions. And this goes

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across the state. So it's really
important that that this is that you know,

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parents here, I mean, if
I told these stories about my district,

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you wouldn't believe you wouldn't believe it. There's already things that parents don't

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know about that happens in our district. There are closets that are given to

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students who are if they want to
swap clothes for the day, So when

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they enter the building, if they
want to swap clothes, they're allowed to

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swap close and then swap into back
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And the parents don't know. And
so this is in your district.

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I've heard of this happening. I
didn't know. I had not spoken with

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anybody directly who's experienced this in her
classroom, but you have, yes,

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that happens in my district. And
of course nobody is saying anything because everybody's

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being bullied into complying, right,
that's right. Well, this is so

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dangerous, Brian. You know what's
being done here, you know, to

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our kids. I mean, do
we have to wait till you know,

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ten fifteen years down the road,
when all this damage has been done to

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our children and you know, and
then of course they'll somehow, the teachers'

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unions and others will find a way
to escape accountability. But this is at

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their doorstep. I mean, this
is very dangerous what they're doing. Yeah,

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it's dangerous psychologically, it's dangerous,
dangerous physically. It's dangerous spiritually of

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course, because they're they're very souls
and salvations are at state. But from

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a physical and mental and psychological standpoint, yeah, I mean these kids are

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pressured into transitioning. They're told or
they're supported. If they have gender dysphorier

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and believe they're another gender, they're
supported. What other mental disability? Are

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you supported? In delusions? Yeah? Are you told? If you're you

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know, schizophrenic and you think you're
hearing voices and seeing things, are you

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told by the psychiatrist? Yes,
those things are really there. Yes,

414
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they're trying to kill you, sir, Yep, they're coming after you.

415
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Yep. Who would say that?
That would be incredibly dangerous. Well,

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it's the same thing here. Yes, you're a girl, yep, you're

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not a boy, you're a girl. Yep. If you're saying that,

418
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and then you would convince them to
do surgeries, that should be criminal because

419
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guess what happens. That's mutilation.
A child cannot consent, just like a

420
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child cannot consent to sex under a
certain age per law. There's a statutory

421
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age in every state. Correct if
you're below that age, you can't give

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consents considered rape. Okay, well, guess what the same should apply to

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gender mutilation and surgeries and stuff like
that. A child should not be able

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to consent to having the genitals cut
off, because what happens if they're twenty

425
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twenty one years old and realized,
oh I never I didn't want that to

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happen. Why did my parents do
that to me? Why did they convince

427
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me? Why did the doctors do
that without when I wasn't able to give

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consent? That should be illegal.
And so what ends up happening is you

429
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have many adults, many many,
a good proportion I would even venture to

430
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say the majority, all right,
who reach adult age, and at some

431
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point, maybe not at twenty one, maybe at twenty five, maybe at

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thirty realize I wish I didn't do
this, but they can't really go back.

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And we had a great interview on
our podcast. You can look it

434
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up. Terren Gregson is our podcast
host, Faithful Freedom with Terarren Gregson.

435
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:40.880
It's on our Rumble channel, also
on our website with the Patriots USA dot

436
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:44.960
org. But if you go to
we the Patriots USA on Rumble and look

437
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:51.319
up Scott Nugent. He was you
know, he's been very outspoken against gender

438
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transition surgery because he did transition.
He was transitioned to a male and now

439
00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:02.000
has been speaking out against it all
over you know, the internet and media.

440
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And we did a great interview.
Tarran did a great interview with him

441
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:09.759
where he talks about the damage it
did to him, you know, recoverable.

442
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:15.039
You can't you can't unwind this.
I mean, uh, you know

443
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whether this is a deal. And
already, I mean we were told in

444
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the two and a half years of
COVID you got to follow the science right.

445
00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:27.559
Well, you know what they're doing
is external the DNA, you know,

446
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:30.960
like what Maray and I were talking
about, how how God weaves you

447
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:36.680
together in your mother's womb. I
mean, the circuitry, the nuance,

448
00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:40.160
the design of the human body is
so significant that you can't you know,

449
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:43.359
sit there and say, Okay,
I'm gonna I'm gonna alter, I'm gonna

450
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take you know, a young woman's
breast off and and call her a male

451
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when all the circuitry tells her she's
a female. So then you have this

452
00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:57.359
conflict and now we have psychological damage
is taking place you've got an increase a

453
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number of suicides is taking place,
all these ramifications, and for some reason

454
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here in the United States, I
guess we're so open minded and we know

455
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better, you know, we let
it go on. But meanwhile, in

456
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:14.000
European countries they've realized the damage of
this insanity and they said, stop,

457
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:19.920
We're not doing this anymore right right
exactly, and we need to. I

458
00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:23.039
mean, we never should have even
let it happen, honestly, you know,

459
00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:28.320
that's on you know, I'm I
don't want to point fingers, but

460
00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:32.599
that's on all of the you know, groups and organizations and attorneys. You

461
00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:36.960
know, fifteen twenty years ago,
when this was for first starting to crop

462
00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:39.400
up and people were even suggesting it, there should have been legislation and lawsuits

463
00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:43.239
and everything to fight back against it. You don't wait till kids are already

464
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:45.599
being harmed and for years, years
and years, and then decide you're going

465
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to do something. I listen,
I wasn't an attorney back then, so

466
00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:52.159
I guess that gives me a little
bit of a pass. But you know,

467
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:55.880
responsibility still still on the shoulders who
were the people Maray I want to

468
00:34:55.880 --> 00:35:00.400
bring We need, you know,
because well just a minute, Brian,

469
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:04.320
only because I want to bring Ray
in here, because what we're talking about

470
00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:07.639
is a spiritual issue. You know, God says he'll contend with those that

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contend with us, and you know, and God, these are God's laws,

472
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:19.519
and he he sees the violation of
said laws. And it's up to

473
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we, the people, people of
faith, who can come together and unite

474
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and bring God into the center of
this situation. Because you know, even

475
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though you said, Maria that in
some cases people could come face to face

476
00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:35.360
with Jesus and still deny the truth, I get it. They did it

477
00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:38.840
the first time and and they'll continue
to do that. They're so ideologically fixed,

478
00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:44.519
as Jordan Peterson says, that they
render themselves stupid. But just because

479
00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:46.400
people want to be stupid doesn't mean
that we have to be stupid with them.

480
00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:51.079
You know, we're going to follow
what God has told us to do

481
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because he says so He's he is
the creator of it all, and He's

482
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in control. And I and I
trust, I mean this this idea that

483
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:00.119
you know, as you were talking, I just felt, you know,

484
00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:04.719
you know, the spirit telling me
that look at you know, God will

485
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.079
contend with those that contend with you, Maria. Yes, we're grateful for

486
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:10.079
Brian. Brian needs to do everything
that he will do. We'll pray that

487
00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:16.000
his efforts will be multiplied, that
the money will be donated that will be

488
00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:21.880
multiplied. You know, if Jesus
can feed four and five thousand with a

489
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:25.159
couple of fish and a couple of
a couple of pieces of bread, I

490
00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:30.880
believe God can do a lot here
in this situation. But we need to

491
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:35.559
bring God like we've never done before, into the center of this problem,

492
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:42.519
don't you think absolutely we are sinning
against a holy, holy God, who

493
00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:49.480
who who became man, became one
flesh with us, who united himself into

494
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:53.800
his humanity, he created by the
womb of woman. And so his humility,

495
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:58.320
his love for his creation. He
didn't he didn't abandon us. He

496
00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:02.280
entered into his creation. And we're
celebrating this in Christmas right, that he

497
00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:07.519
has loved the flesh that he's created, he has died for the flesh that

498
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:10.440
he's created in his image. And
so our response is to say, yes,

499
00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:15.599
we believe in in Christ, we
believe in his teachings, we stand

500
00:37:16.159 --> 00:37:22.320
in his teachings, and and we
should all stand in unity together as the

501
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:24.920
family that He's created. We believe
in a trying God, in the unity

502
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:30.559
of one God. We should come
together in unity as well. Yeah,

503
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:32.960
Maria, have they put is the
district put you on time out? Or

504
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.599
you still in the classroom? Are
they put me on? I have been

505
00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:43.360
away from the classrooms since January?
Oh wow. Yeah, that's got to

506
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:46.960
be tough, because this is what
God designed you to do. And this

507
00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:51.599
is what grieves me. Brian.
I'll say this time and again when we

508
00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:57.840
see these injustices, when people are
denied their God given right not only to

509
00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:02.239
exist, but to you know,
to work in a manner that is consistent

510
00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:07.079
with the way God has designed them
to. To me, I think this

511
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:12.639
just a This is a grievous offense. It is. It is, and

512
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:15.599
it's you know, it's You're absolutely
right, both of you. You know,

513
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:17.960
it's an offense against God. It's
not just an offense against the Constitution.

514
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:22.280
Remember those rights recorded to the Constitution
were God given rights. Yes,

515
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:25.400
okay, we don't get our rights
from the Constitution. That's a piece of

516
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:30.840
paper that recorded the rights. Okay, so they'd be protected and enshrined in

517
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:35.360
our system of government, but they
were given to us by We're endowed by

518
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:38.599
our creator, right, like the
founder said, And so you know,

519
00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:44.199
we have we have to stand up
and defend God's rights that he gave to

520
00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:47.320
his people he created us. You
know, listen, if God had wanted

521
00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:51.000
to create more than two genders,
he could have done that. He could

522
00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:53.000
have done that, but he didn't
do that. He chose male and female.

523
00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:55.960
Created He them, as it says
in Genesis chapter one, right,

524
00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:00.039
and in chapter five to there all
right, it says there are just two

525
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:07.199
sexists, male and female. And
when you contradict that, you are contradicting

526
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:09.440
God. You are contradicting nature.
I mean, even if you're an atheist,

527
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:14.519
even if you don't believe in God. You look, Maria came on

528
00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:16.519
right from the beginning of this interview
and talked about the chromosomes. At the

529
00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:22.719
chromozonal level. You have XX and
x Y, right, person, are

530
00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:25.960
the only two options. There's not
a third option for x y z okay

531
00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:30.119
or xx or something like that that
doesn't exist. It's x X for female

532
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:35.920
an x Y from male. Okay. I'm not a biologist either, like

533
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:39.880
Justice Jackson. I'm not a biologist, but guess what I took high school

534
00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:44.760
biology, and I learned that when
you're at conception, you know, it's

535
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:49.679
decided there's either an X chromoson in
an X chromosome or an X chromosome in

536
00:39:49.719 --> 00:39:53.519
a Y chromosome. Okay, and
that is how God created humanity. So

537
00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:59.039
you can do whatever kind of surgeries
you want, take hormones, take pills,

538
00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:01.440
and all this other stuff. But
when they analyze the DNA, they're

539
00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:04.719
still going to see only an AX
and and X are an X and a

540
00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:09.119
wife, right, and that produces
a particular response. You know, one

541
00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:13.480
of the things I've said repeatedly on
the show here recently is that you know,

542
00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:15.760
we have to be respective of God's
infrastructure. You know, he created

543
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:21.760
the heavens and the earth, and
he created them to produce a specific outcome.

544
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:25.280
Well, with the fall of man, that outcome was compromised. And

545
00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:31.159
since that time you read in the
Bible, it's that you hear all of

546
00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:37.320
God's creation is groaning, It is
in pain, wanting to go back to

547
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:44.679
its original true design. And I
believe that groaning is within the inner part

548
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:50.719
of every man, woman, child, every being that's created. That we

549
00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:54.599
know when we're around peg in a
square hole, when things aren't thinking up

550
00:40:54.679 --> 00:41:00.920
correctly, and that's problematic. Now
I said that, and people might say,

551
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:04.480
well, Bill, that's our argument. That's our argument about there being

552
00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:08.760
some confusion between a male and female. Well, I understand, in the

553
00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:14.119
natural course of this fallen world there
is going to be some confusion because it

554
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:17.960
comes with the area that we're in
right now in this fallen world. But

555
00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:21.639
you know, like Mariah said,
if we're not going to hold on to

556
00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:24.280
the word of God, which is
our compass to get us to where we

557
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:27.880
need to be, to get us
to you know, back to standard,

558
00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:31.519
to know what the right difference is, not some theoretical difference, but what

559
00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:36.199
the right difference is. Boy,
we do this at the risk of creating

560
00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:40.280
a lot of damage here. Well, we know that the God we worship

561
00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:45.000
is not the author of confusion.
He is a god of order, of

562
00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:51.840
beauty, and of harmony. And
so we know that the risen Lord cares

563
00:41:51.840 --> 00:41:57.119
so much about our fleshly body that
he promised to resurrect and give us glorious

564
00:41:57.159 --> 00:42:01.280
bodies. So he cares about every
step of the of the way and when

565
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:07.599
the way he's designed it preconception,
inconception, during the gestation, at first

566
00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:14.320
even at death. We are assured
of his teachings that he cares so much

567
00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:16.840
about his design that he's not gonna
let our bodies rot. You know,

568
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:22.519
this is promise. He's going to
resurrect our bodies and give us glorious bodies.

569
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:24.239
And so that's I mean, it
doesn't stop there, right, There's

570
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:28.000
a beauty in the design, and
we're saying, yes, Lord, we

571
00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:30.840
love the beauty in the in the
design that you've given male and female.

572
00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:35.480
We love that. We celebrate that, and we want others to celebrate that

573
00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:38.719
truth too. It's an invitation,
and they're saying, like, embrace the

574
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:45.639
beauty of this creator, right,
like embrace his teachings. He's a glorious,

575
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:51.599
beautiful, harmonious, peaceful, loving, merciful savior. You know so

576
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:57.559
well. Maria Ramirez is with us. She's a devout Catholic and kindergarten teacher.

577
00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:05.159
Uh is currently suspended because of this
pending case. And she suspended because

578
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:09.360
she believes what God said. And
I would say that in the general sense,

579
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:13.840
most of us, most of the
majority of Americans, believe what God

580
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:17.079
said that there are two sexes,
male and female. And as she just

581
00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:21.480
so rightly said, God is not
the author of confusion. He's a God

582
00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:25.760
of order. And if anything,
it's not that God's confused, it's that

583
00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:30.719
we're confused. It's not that God
is out of order, it's that we're

584
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:32.920
out of order. Brian. In
these last couple of minutes we have together,

585
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:36.639
I want you to you know,
summarize the case. And again,

586
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:43.199
you know, let's appeal to our
viewers here to participate with we the Patriots

587
00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:47.800
USA dot org to donate whatever you
can to the cause here, the cause

588
00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:52.000
of freedom, the cause of our
constitution, the cause of our God given

589
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:55.840
rights. Go ahead, yes,
well, once again, we are committed

590
00:43:55.840 --> 00:44:00.559
to defend Maria all the way through
the courts, whatever we have to do

591
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:06.880
to get justice for her. Where
we are a nonprofit public interest law firm,

592
00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:09.519
so we do not charge client fees. There's no billable hours there for

593
00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:13.800
her. We're not running up a
bill for her. We are going to

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00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:16.960
pay We've retained counsel for her,
and our organization funds that litigation. But

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00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:22.400
we can only do that with the
support of generous donors like your listeners.

596
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:25.239
You know we've been on the show
before. We love your followers, your

597
00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:30.239
listeners, We love what you do
Bill because the mainstream media won't cover this.

598
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:32.440
You know that this isn't going to
be This isn't going to be even

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00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:36.119
on Fox or anything like that.
This isn't gonna be on any mainstream media.

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They're not covering this story. We
rely on independent programs like yours to

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get the word out. And if
there is anyone that can give in your

602
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there that have some degree of wealth
who agree with us, who listen to

604
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that. I've got to believe that there

605
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are people that it's not just George
Soros and Bill Gates and stuff funding they

606
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stuff, that there are good people
on our side that have wealth that could

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fund this because our organization desperately needs
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most taxpayers. As you know,
if you donate to a five to one

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C three like ours. That is
something that you can take off deduct on

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your taxes as long as you make
it by December thirty first. You can

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either donate online at we the Patriots
USA dot org, or you can send

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us something by mail or through a
donor advised fund. We have our website,

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We have our mailing address on our
website and on our donate page.

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If you go to we the Patriots
USA dot org and you can mail us

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a donation. Our tax ID number
is on there as well for a donor

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advised fund donation. So some people
like to do that because they want to

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give anonymously. You can give anonymously. Some people even send us cash.

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I don't really recommend that, but
people have done that. So there's many

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ways to give an As long as
it's postmarked by the thirty first December or

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made electronically online by the thirty first
December, you can deduct it when you

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do your taxes in April or earlier, if you do them earlier. So

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God bless you all. We thank
you once again, Bill for allowing us

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to use your platform to get this
word out and help. It's all about

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Maria, It's all about our clients. None of this peres into my pocket.

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My salary is set. I get
a set amount by the board and

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that's it. I can get ten
million dollars tomorrow and Brian's not getting another

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penny. Okay, it's going into
the litigation, it's going into the organization

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to keep the lights on things like
that. So we just we pray and

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we hope. We know that you're
a man of faith. We know many

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of most of your listeners are.
Please please pray with us, pray for

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us as we close this year,
that we can get this money from Maria

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and we can continue to fund our
mission. Maria, I want to give

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you the last word in this last
minute that we have together. What do

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you want to say to parents and
other teachers and there are there's other teachers

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like yourself that are being attacked.
What do you want to say to them?

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I would say that our Lord is
a He showed his sacrificial love on

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the cross, He bled for us. He was serious about his work,

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and we need to be serious about
our work as parents, as teachers,

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as educators, and that means sacrificing
everything. That's what we need to do.

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It was modeled by us we're not
greater than our teacher, We're said,

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and there's a cloud of witness who
are looking down and cheering us on.

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When we align ourselves to the glorious
God, we're given an opportunity.

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And I just hope that everyone can
pitch in exactly. Well, we know

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that Jesus has a special heart for
children, right, He's made that pretty

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clear. Yes he does. Let
the children come to me, yeah,

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do not keep them away from me? Exactly? And what and what does

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that mean? I mean, you
know, spiritually, a philosophically, you

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know, eternal, you know,
we have to are our charge is to

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make sure our kids that they're with
Jesus, because that's what Jesus wants.

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Right, So are we adding?
I guess the question is with anything,

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anything that we teach in the culture, in the classroom, or whether whatever

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we teach at home, are we
adding or taking away from that proposition?

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I think that's the qualifying question that
we must ask, and that should be

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our north star. Right, that's
right, Let the children come to me.

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What are they coming to? They're
coming in to purity, they're coming

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to innocence, They're coming into truth, they come into life, They're coming

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to a person. Jesus was a
person, right, and that's what we're

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tasked to do, is to preserve
the innocence, the beauty of the innocence

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and purity. Ask children and was
that innocence, that truth that there's only

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a male and female? And that's
glorious, It's beautiful, It's something to

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celebrate, not to fight and terminate
me because of it, you know exactly

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well, Maria Paris, thank you
so much for coming on and tell Cory

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appreciate you. Merry Christmas, Happy
New Year and Brian Festa with Wie THEPATRIOTSUSA

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dot Org. As always, we
appreciate your time, your inside, your

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passion you know, to fight the
good fight of faith on behalf of America's

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people. Thank you so much for
Thank you, God bless you, and

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Merry Christmas and happy New Year to
you as well. You got it.

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Maria Ramirez a kindergarten teacher and she
believes what the Bible says when it says

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that God created only two sexes,
male and female. So when she was

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ordered by her supervisors to refer to
a five year old girl in her classroom

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as a boy, and the parents
insisted on that, she refused without hesitation,

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and you're right, a five year
old child, this is where this

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is at. And she was nominated
in twenty twenty one as the Teacher of

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the Year by Oakland Unified School District, and Brian and his team are helping

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to fight the fight on her behalf
and take it on up to the Supreme

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Court because clearly this is a constitutional
issue. We have the right to life,

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liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and we have a First Amendment

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right that spells exactly what is available
not only to Maria but to all of

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the citizens of this great country of
ours. I want to thank you for

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your time, Thank you for being
with us. May God bless you and

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keep you, may make his face
shine upon you. May He be gracious

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unto you and give you peace.
Thanks again for being with us. Merry

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Christmas and Happy New Year.