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They're taking their first appointments tomorrow starting at 9 a.m. Missionaries to the pre-born will be there tomorrow beginning at 8.30 in the morning and holding signs and certainly letting the community know that they're not welcome. For information, you can reach out to Missionaries to the Preborn at 414-462-3399. We understand representatives of Faith Baptist Church in Oak Creek are planning to be there tomorrow and for the days to come. Pro-Life Wisconsin planning and holding an event, a rally, at the center. Terry One Hour will also be there, which encourages churches to be engaged in standing for life You can reach out to Terry one hour at 262-672-3685 or 414-921-8126. The central city of Milwaukee does not need despair. It does not need a center to kill preborn babies. It needs hope. It needs Jesus. And so those of you across the many miles, please be in prayer regarding this. And it would be my desire that their business plan would fold, that it would not survive. We're also watching the rioting, the mayhem, the attack on federal officers in Los Angeles. Officers have been injured, property destroyed, American flags burned, rocks, concrete, fireworks have been hurled at federal officers and their vehicles. Streets have been taken over. And as the Daily Wire reported, former Vice President Kamala Harris declared yesterday that she is supporting the anti-ice protest in and around Los Angeles, claiming the demonstrations have been Get it? Overwhelmingly peaceful. Matters are quickly unfolding in Israel as well, and Lord willing, tomorrow our guest will be live in Jerusalem reporting on such matters. But right now, we're going to take and turn our attention to what's happening in our country as it relates to LGBTQ plus pride. We're going to provide coverage today of the pushback against Pride, but also some of the horrendous immoral promotion as well. Joining us today, we welcome back to the program Peter LaBarbera, founder and president of Center for Morality and Americans for Truth. He's a former reporter for The Washington Times, LifesiteNews.com, WND.com, and a former contributing editor for Human Events. Peter, thanks for joining us on Crosstalk. Thank you, Jim. Thanks so much. So let's begin with some of the pushback going on, one of which is the designation of the month of Peter. There are several that are turning away from Pride Month, as we have known it. And we have seen instead that there have been those that are pushing Fidelity Month. There's a professor that is pushing for the month being renamed Fidelity Month, or a seminary student, wrote in National Review. There's also those that are pushing for Life Month, marking the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Those that are pushing for it being dubbed Family Month, like Representative Mary Miller, who introduced a resolution to designate June as Family Month. We have the Department of Education announce it would celebrate June as the Title IX month. This is something not seen before, the renaming of the month of June in this regard. Yeah, Jim, it's so interesting to me. We're in a very interesting moment in which the homosexual activist movement and all its various arms including especially the trans movement has reached so far that we've uh... there's a breaking point now and they're they've turned a lot of people off we're seeing support at least among republicans dropping for same-sex so-called marriage that's huge and jim as we're coming up on the tenth anniversary of the infamous decision of berger fell which legalized so-called actually imposed by the supreme court same-sex so-called marriage on the nation uh... but also trump get some credit for this uh... trump uh... has uh... the disavowed the trump administration and uh... there's not a followers this is the good part of trump which is basically getting rid of all the celebrations of d e i and uh... special celebrations of homosexuality bisexuality and transgender ism But I think the biggest reason we're seeing this pushback is the homosexual movement filled with pride after it won so many wins with Democrats, mostly Democrats helping, up to the Supreme Court imposing same-sex so-called marriage on the nation. Then they went full bore for the trans, Jim. And as you know, that engendered so much opposition because it also brought the feminists in who said, wait a minute, we're not going to have men invading female spaces. uh... defeating uh... males biological male to feeding women in sports as we'll be talking about uh... uh... gender uh... these awful gender surgeries and medic medicalization being imposed on children who are incapable of consenting of course to that uh... and so the pushback has now brought up a big uh... swing against the entire lgbtq movement They really have, Peter, and we're seeing corporations back out of this as well. But since we're on the government side of things right now, we are seeing something happen whereby, as The Washington Stand points out, the LGBT activists up in arms because Pete Hagseth, he's a defense secretary, has ordered the Navy to rename a ship that had honored pederast and gay rights icon Harvey Milk. What's going on there? yeah i did my father's harry milk story as you know for a long time and this is just a brilliant move by headcraft uh... it's uh... it was trolling while the same time doing what's right because uh... i just spared as many did i think we talked about this in previous shows jim they put harvey milk on a stamp obama gave awarded him a posthumously the uh... i think the highest presidential medal of freedom i believe it was called uh... and this is a man a homosexual activist who was a pederast, he engaged as an adult with obscene sexual content with a young man, either 16 or 17, who he was in a so-called marriage with. But beyond that, Jim, he tricked men into trying to seduce them, sailors on leave. He equated pro-family opposition, like Anita Bryant, to uh... you know nazis and the like and even uh... the saddest thing jim is that harvey milk himself was a victim of child molesters he was uh... he had been molested by adult gay men so-called gay men uh... when he was a boy he turned around and did this and it was just outrageous all the honors that were given him and so i accept basically put now the democrats and all the left in the position m position of defending a pederast, basically a man-boy lover, to excuse the Nambla term. They put the Democrats now in the position of defending this, and I think this is just the sort of Trump politics, which maybe didn't occur as much maybe 30, 20 years ago, and now it's forcing the left to do all these terrible things and defend their awful policies. Indeed. And part of this is, and Pete Higgs says, we're not going to have Pride Month. We're returning to reestablish the warrior culture and comports the president's order to purge the federal government, the so-called DEI policies. And that's what he's doing. We know Harvey Milk did not, he did not leave the military with the best of honors, did he? No, and they've tried to contest that and he was dishonorably discharged, but this guy was just not a good human being. The reason the left loves him is that he was very important to so-called gay activism. Jim, he's really the guy who encouraged everybody to come out. uh... come out of the closet any any and but uh... there's so much about him which was unworthy of any honors jim he was he was basically bodies with uh... with jim jones that that this the cyanide killer in you know uh... the jim jones of the of the uh... colony with a nine hundred people uh... mass suicide in guyana uh... you know he was the he was friendly with him he was a far-left activist uh... but the most important thing is He violated the innocence of children. And where is the Democratic Party when they think somebody like this should be honored? And they still are defending Harvey Milk against what HECF did. Yeah, didn't the National Review refer to him as a patriot? Well, yeah, this is a terrible thing. John Fond of the National Review, which was supposed to be the conservative magazine of record, actually be a product article thing defending harvey milk he instantly became the object of ridicule ridicule people saying if this is what conservatism as well you know what the liberal uh... john fund was terribly uh... wrong to put this out there's nothing wrong with uh... removing people who are uh... basically in this case a predator taking the predators name of a u s navy ship i wish they could take his name off the his face in his name off the stamp to jim and any other honors you got and that it probably include i'm not sure about this but i'm sure that national uh... his you know his uh... he'll be he'll be historical designations probably honor hot harvey milk off any sort of governmental honor of harvey milk should be taken back because this man was a predator, and that was proved by a book by a gay journalist, an openly homosexual journalist named Randy Schiltz, who was a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. He's the one who documented this relationship between Milk when he was in his 30s, probably 33, with a 17-year-old boy in New York City. Peter, it's disgusting. Let's take a look at another aspect, and we've got volumes of stories to go through here. We're also seeing from the matter of, well, numerous entities are reporting about corporations that are backing out of their support of Pride. And you've got San Francisco Pride crying out that they were going to run a $200,000 deficit. Kansas City Pride in Kansas City is complaining they're going to have that same kind of budget deficit. The Umbrella Group that runs New York City Pride and similar events in the Big Apple trying to raise $750,000 to cover a substantial budget gap. All these reported by westernjournal.com. and uh... is some of the major sport franchises are are even refraining from posting about pride month uh... including a number of uh... nfl teams and this week was reporting that as well uh... corporations backing away yes and uh... i think this this is a testament to the first of all the glorious thing to finally see these corporations pulling back this money because i think you americans understood how many tens of thousands of dollars the corporations were throwing at these raunchy uh... parades and and what not uh... but i think uh... this is partially due to of course all the work people like you have done over uh... several decades now jim we we tried uh... get this known about a long time ago then with social media and acts and uh... face book uh... it caught on uh... to the point where millions of people could now be uh... made aware when a company for example of course the whole bud light uh... fiasco where they chose a trans-identifying biological male who was identifying as a woman, Dylan Milvaney as their spokesman. This has all backfired on the corporations, and what's different about it is the mainstream, so-called mainstream media could ignore it, but with millions and many more people now on social media than that listen to the old biased left-wing corporate media, it became impossible for the corporations to hide and support these events without people knowing and so it's really that the uh... and the awareness of people like robbie starbuck with uh... an ex-activist who basically uh... every like once a week or once a month called out a corporation says look here's what this corporation is is doing with the i usually homosexual stop transgender stuff uh... sometimes the racial stuff and and it it's been engendered this huge backlash Indeed, there has been backlash, but friends, not all companies are backing away, and some are moving forward. Some as silent partners. We'll get more into that after the break. You're listening to Crosstalk on the VCY American Network. 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This is Crosstalk on VCY America. Our topic today, LGBTQ+, pride, the pushback, and the promotion. With us today is Peter LaBarbera, founder and president of Center for Morality, and discussing the very issues at hand. Peter, we were talking about a number of corporations backing down, but let me share this as well, and both of these are coming from the Washington Stand. with the Family Research Council, and that is recent reporting from outlets like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, show that major corporations are quietly backing away from the signature events of Pride Month, but Target is still missing the mark. According to the New York Times, Target is once again donating at the highest level to the New York City Pride $175,000, but this year they're doing it as a silent partner with no public attribution or signage. And the article says if they're proud of what they're supporting, why not say so? Your response. Exactly, Jim. And I don't think it's going to work because I think the word will get out again. Social media is very more powerful now than the media. And this is I got to say, Jim, this is one of the greatest things. I don't agree with everything Trump does, but I agree with this. Trump made it much more difficult for the liberal media to lie to us by either ignoring news or distorting news. And because of this huge rise in conservative social media, the truth gets out. There's a number of corporations that do not want the pushback from the Trump administration. They don't want to be marked by this. And yet some, as we mentioned, are doing it as silent partners. Washington Stand also declares about the corporate darling of this year's celebration and pride is the Trevor Group. And they say sponsors that are lining up to the tunes of millions of dollars, heavy hitters who are giving six-figure donations, mostly names people will recognize, like Macy's, Petco, Abercrombie & Fitch, Pure Vita, Guest Watchers, Kohl's, Lululemon, MAC Cosmetics, and a collection of lesser-known brands. A $1 million contributor they point out as being Abercrombie. There is also Lululemon's and Macy's. The $500,000 mark, you'll recognize the name of AT&T, 250,000, Coca-Cola, Den Digital, Sephora, Procter & Gamble, The Game Company, 100,000, Delta Airlines, Delta Dental, FedEx, Forever 21, Kohl's, Maybelline, the National Education Association, the NFL, Petco, United Airlines, Wells Fargo, Williams-Sonoma, Xbox, and the list goes on, Peter. yeah we're gonna corporations are very obstinate uh... they still see this as a so-called civil rights issue but i think the tide is turning and what i'm hoping is that it began with the fight against transgender uh... extremism and and now i i have hope that it's coming back toward the issue of promoting homosexuality it's very big jim that word that gallop which is uh... pretty trusted pollster has reported a drop up a steep drop among republicans in support for so-called same-sex marriage because we know that uh... the the so-called gay conservatives are pushing to for the republicans to ought to honor uh... and accept gay so-called marriage and i i think what happened is it's just the trans issue is too much now the corporations we just have to keep the pressure on but you'll be a notice that a lot of those companies were not that the big mainstream ones it's shocking to see the nfl you know still out there pushing homosexuality and transgender radicalism on the public I don't know what that would pull, but I'm assuming that would pull under 10% among NFL fans, Jim. Well, let's take a look at another issue here, and that is the educational establishment. Peter, they've not given up. We saw the NEA is also a backer, and we are seeing schools across this nation also fully engaging in secretly transitioning their children of parents, changing gender, encouraging the change of gender. And we just saw this also here from the Washington Stand about a school in Oregon, a middle school, hosted a Pride Spirit Week for children to kick off June, according to a report from Fox News. The schedule included a rainbow out day, a black clad day of remembrance of lost members of the LGBTQIA plus community, a drag day featuring drag queen king monarch costumes, a queer hero day where students were encouraged to dress as famous historical figures or pop icons who identified as LGBT. A pride flag day where students were told they could dress up as a pride flag of your choice. The pride spirit week also featured classroom lessons on the history of the LGBTQ plus civil rights movement. Parents of students were not notified of this Pride Spirit Week event or activities until 15 minutes after school had let out on that particular Monday. I believe that was June the 5th. But Peter, schools are pushing this over and over again on young people. Yeah, this is a form of child abuse. It's absolutely outrageous, not informing the parents. And hopefully the Trump administration will will help alleviate this uh... but we've seen this uh... escalate for decades jim uh... we've been at this a long time it only gets worse and worse but hopefully the tide is turning because i think they have to do it they they have to not tell the parents because they know it will get out uh... the the sunlight of free speech is forcing of the change here and i just think that they're getting increasingly desperate and the entire movement now faces the potential wrath of the American public. So we can only keep pressing on and keep alerting people to what's going on in schools. Indeed. And let me share another one going on in schools this time in Florida. This is from the Daily Wire. It just came out last week. Florida high school students drilled for being straight, asked to consider being gay, are told that straight people are to blame for overpopulation, according to course materials obtained by the Daily Wire. During a course for high school children, Miami Dade County students were assigned to complete a sexually focused questionnaire that asked a series of bizarre questions such as, what do you think caused your heterosexuality? Is it possible that being straight is just a phase you may grow out of? Considering the menace of hunger and overpopulation, could the human race survive if everyone were straight like yourself? The course called Preparing for Student Success, Other questions, to whom have you disclosed your straight tendencies? Why do you insist on showing off your heterosexuality? The questionnaires come from a textbook, Power Strategies for Success in College and Life, by Robert Feldman, a senior research associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Other questions, when and how did you decide you were straight? Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex? Peter, on and on those questions go, and again, unbeknownst to many, apparent that their students, their children, were asked these questions. Yeah, and Jim, I think this highlights the subversive nature of the entire homosexual, bisexual, transgender movement. That survey, which assumes it's a snarky survey, basically taking questions that they say are asked to homosexuals and applying them to normal people. But this is a tactic that's been going on for, again, for decades. In fact, I remember writing about a similar type of survey, and I think it was in Massachusetts, too, more than two decades ago, Jim. But the interesting thing about this movement is because it's celebrating a sin against God, at whatever level it's at, whether it's in schools or whether it's in the conservative, the Republican Party, wherever you see homosexual activism, there's a subversive element to it. And what could be more subversive than poisoning the minds of innocent children? Yeah, indeed. And Peter is going into the locker rooms as well. This story just came out last week from WND.com. It's the Defense of Freedom Institute filed a federal civil rights complaint against the South Colony Central School District in New York over a male student who allegedly frequently switches gender identity throughout the day to watch girls change in bathrooms and locker rooms. The complaint alleges that the high school boy competes on the boys' track and field team, wears the male uniform, but claims as a transgender identity during the school day to access the girls' facilities. Several girls have reported the boy to school officials for staring at them while they change, but the Title IX complaint alleges the school showed deliberate indifference to the student on student harassment. The district told the Daily Caller News Foundation that it was unable to comment on individual student matters due to privacy laws. Peter, this is what you have warned about in years past. Yeah, I was just going to say, we've been talking about this for a long time, and you're always going to have devious students like this one who are going to exploit the chaos that's created by LGBTQ activism, especially trans activism. And Jim, I'm not just saying this sarcastically, but if your ideology says you are what you think, then what's... I mean, there's actually been homosexual and LGBT publications that talk about alternating your gender identity. I think there's one of those crazy orientations or gender identities. It stipulates that you can change it. There's even a word for it. I just can't remember which crazy word it is, but for alternating your gender identity. So, I mean, this is just a very troublesome and devious kid who decided to learn how to the crazy system that homosexual and trans activism has created. And friends, we've often said that children are in the crosshairs of this as well. And, Peter, just coming out from The Daily Wire is also a story here on an LGBT-rooted-in-pride art exhibit surrounding a children's playground in Brooklyn, New York. featuring nude images and what appears to be a man dressed in drag, promotes gender confusion and anti-Trump messages. This is around the J.J. Brin playground. Families and children's youngest toddlers play there, Peter. Yeah, I could not believe this. This is one of the articles you sent me, Jim. I had not seen this, but it just speaks to the awfulness of cities, the decrepit morality in cities. There's the kids and there's those posters. and and one of them was like yeah i was like i don't know if it was transgender people but they were nude and they were lying with each other and it was right there a poster on a fence where a kid could walk up i mean what kind of insanity is this uh... and this is why i've always said you cannot trust the lgbtq movement with children whether it's teaching what whether it's any kind of act activity because they don't understand the boundaries it's very similar to the pride parade jim i went to one new york city ten years ago this this year and new york city and there i witnessed guys who are practically naked coming up on uh... on rollerblades the little children there was no open nudity there was very crass and vulgar signage uh... cuss words I saw hundreds and hundreds of children lining the streets because they're mainly coming with their families. When you have these homosexual households, or gay parenting as it's called, they bring the children to these gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, so-called pride parades, which are just lewd and totally inappropriate for young children. They are inappropriate. And, Peter, sadly, in places around the country, including in our own city of Milwaukee later this month, they're touting what they're calling a naked bike ride. I mean, to bear what you dare. And we're talking full-fledged nudity. And children are free to attend. The police are not doing anything, turning their heads. You know, this is, you know, just their way of expression and then can protest, you know, the use of promoting greenness and so forth. It is outrageous. And again, young children are encouraged to encourage pictures and everything else taking place there. It's an outrage, Peter. Yeah, Jim, I want to say something on that, too. There was one of those in Columbus, I believe, last year. And let me give some good news to the listening audience. The Democrats are wedded to this sort of fanaticism. we've seen it with the transition you would think that many transgender uh... many i'm so excuse me many democrats politicians and leaders would start disavowing the more radical aspects of the transgender movement because it's uh... a strong case can be made that that helped trump win a decisive election in twenty twenty four uh... and yet the most democrats are staying either staying silent or they're defending the transgender issue all of these sexual left issues i'm talking the left wing uh... uh... sexual activists the democratic party is is trying to these groups and they can't let go because then they're afraid of being criticized by the same groups and so the good news is i i believe uh... conservatives will gain and reasonable people will gain in future elections if the hard left uh... is continues to be wedded to one of our two major parties in the united states friends we had to take a break we'll be back with more information just a bit this is cross talk on the c y How many times have you met a Muslim man or woman, maybe in the airport, on a bus, or in your neighborhood store, and you felt burdened to share the good news of Jesus Christ? 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And another one of these, Peter LaBarbera, who's with us today from the Center for Morality, is PBS, the corporation for public broadcasting, namely that of Sesame Street, geared toward young children. Again, friends, grooming is taking place from crosswalk.com. While many major companies and organizations are scaling back their Pride Month recognition, Sesame Street is doubling down. The social media accounts for the popular children's show marked Pride Month with a rainbow-themed post and a concise message about the LGBT celebration saying, on our street, everyone is welcome. Together, let's build a world where every person and family feels loved and respected for who they are. Happy Pride Month. Well, Jim, I think this is evil on so many levels. But I think the greatest evil is this propaganda line of who they are. Everybody's welcome based on who they are. That means, first of all, it's not just now it's homosexuality, it's everything. And this is a movement that's now pushing so-called polyamory, multiple partner relationships, of course, transgenderism. And you're telling a child who has no idea even what intimacy, what sex is, you're telling that child to accept homosexuality, which is historically sexually deviant, an abomination in the eyes of God, unnatural, a sin. But you are redefining, before a child can even formulate through his parents, hopefully, what morality is, and hopefully in the best situation, obviously, through parents honoring God and the Word of God and teaching that to their children, you are again and a activist of talk about this by the way you're getting to them you're super imposing uh... a deviant uh... imprint on them before they can even formulate a morality through their family. Indeed. And, Peter, we're seeing the, you know, NPR, the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, and promoting other programs as well through the years, from Arthur to others that certainly have taken kids down this path. And we're just saying, parents, beware. Also, Peter, on another issue is in most libraries are providing porn and other offensive materials as well. Several of them have summer reading programs and during June Pride Month and featuring books for young people as well. But the library has become a dangerous place for young people, for parents to drop their children off, especially during Pride Month, as these books are being pushed on young people. Yeah, well, it makes sense. I mean, we've basically seen the so-called gay revolution, which morphed into other deviancies, corrupt just about every institution in American society. They destroyed the Boy Scouts. They destroyed the Girl Scouts. Well, lesbianism is now, you know, an option. They, you know, all these institutions, 4-H, it doesn't matter. So, of course, they're going to go after libraries. And, Jim, another article you sent was about this ban on books. I guess we're going to be talking about that. But, you know, libraries have been guiding, many, many libraries, especially in bigger cities, and and suburbs have been pushing this lgbt propaganda uh... and so that they talk about banned books but they are the ones who are who are basically guiding which books kids are even allowed to see and of course every it seems every book that comes out of the gay world the transgender were a lot of crazy literature those books make it in the library while it whereas books about by ex-gays people who've left homosexuality detransitioners, people who have left the transgender lifestyle, those books don't make it in the library. And, friends, again, as children are in the crosshairs of all of this, this story from The Daily Caller, a Philadelphia school district that oversees almost 200,000 students, paid Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania nearly $40,000 in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HIV grant funds to provide up to 70 trainings which decry biological sex as a myth support medical child sex changes and normalize men and women's sports, according to documents obtained by the DCNF through a public records request. Planned Parenthood using tax dollars, Peter, to train educators, biological sex is a myth. Right. And people are noticing now that Planned Parenthood, you know, obviously known for being the biggest abortion business in the world, has been very aggressively pushing transgender ideology and uh... because uh... you know again uh... they gain from it but it's this entire left uh... sexual left abortion nexus uh... that we see and it's so evil and i'd just hope that one of our political parties stays away from this entirely it's bad enough the democrats party of harry truman you know are are now this far left but we cannot have two parties joining in this and so i i've really been starting to educate myself jim on that this decade conservative movement in the republican party and what not uh... uh... i was very sad to see milania trump do a fundraiser for a log cabin, which is a homosexual Republican group. But, you know, we need to pull, keep the Republican Party out of this. And hopefully, one day, maybe the Democrats will start to pull away from this sexual radicalism. Yeah. And sometimes there's a mixed message that comes. And though, I mean, let's look at the Kennedy Center, for instance. And we have a situation here where President Trump is taken over the Kennedy Center. No more drag shows or other anti-America propaganda. Only the best, Rick." Referring to Rick Grinnell, who is in charge of the Kennedy Center now. But just one week, I mean, just a week ago now, we have the firing from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., of Floyd Brown, who was engaged in certainly bringing programming and so forth to the center. He was a vice president of development at the Kennedy Center, but previously, as a former owner of the Western Journal and a Reagan administration presidential campaign alumnus, he's been in the crosshairs because of his pro-family, pro-marriage post, and Rick Grinnell would have none of it. Right, and let's remember who Rick Grinnell is. Rick Grinnell is probably the most powerful openly homosexual Trump backer. He's been loyal to Trump for a long time. He calls himself a Christian, says that God made him gay and he's a better Christian for being gay. That's a paraphrase, that's not the exact quote, but that's the idea, Jim. So we have somebody who's practicing really a blasphemous take on the Bible. You can't be celebrating sin, and especially an identity rooted in sin, celebrating that as a believer in Jesus Christ that doesn't work that same person fired floyd brown who is not just a a conservative a long-time conservative activist he wrote a book against hillary clinton he was a big reaganite long ago you know this is a a movement conservative a very good man but also a faithful christian he fired for a brown and and now rick reynolds not even taking questions and apparently he's claiming according to floyd brownie he's claiming that he did not even he doesn't even know who floyd brown is even though floyd brown has met them several times so uh... i'm calling this grinnell gate This is wrong. They need to reinstate Floyd Brown under the Trump administration. We did not vote. I personally, I voted for Trump. but i did not vote for donald trump to engage in anti-christian discrimination which is what this is and some conservatives are saying for a brown has a lawsuit here jim he could still because apparently he's being fired because it at one time of course you stood strong to defend marriage between a man and a woman he also criticized a republican staff on capitol hill who were secretly undermining the republican platform back when we when we had a strong platform before Trump kind of watered it down. This is just wrong, and I'm hoping that this wing of MAGA, the Make America Great Again movement, doesn't become ascendant because you can't have gay activists, a tiny minority, boxing out the faithful Christian majority, many of whom voted for Trump. Peter, we could delve into every one of these stories, and there's so much to unfold from them, but we're going to hit another issue here today, and that is what's happening within the arena of sports. And here is the story again. The College Fixed has it about high school girls' softball team wins a championship behind the arm of a male pitcher. Daily Wire also joins it, saying, a girls high school softball team in Minnesota won its first ever state championship on Friday, thanks to the lights-out pitching of a boy who identifies as a girl. Just happened, the individual pitched 21 innings for the team between three different games, and this was a title game, and here again we have you know, a boy identifying as a girl and dominates because of certainly there's a difference in regard to strength and lung capacity and bone structure, everything else going on. But it's happening over and over and over again in sports. And and now we have Simone Biles picking a fight with Riley Gaines over this issue as well. Yeah, I just it just amazes me that this continues to happen, even though again i hate to bring it back to politics every time but i think this is why we this is one reason why there is a president trump and not a president kamala harris this has got to be a ninety ten issue jim they say it's eighty twenty meeting eighty percent of americans oppose biological males participating female sports precisely for this region reason i mean we saw of a woman getting hurt again from a biological male boxer who who was uh... claiming to be a woman, transgender. We saw a female volleyball player, I believe it was in high school, who got bashed, hard-hit and injured to the head by a biological male player on the other team. This is an issue which is turned the tide against the entire lgbtq movement and i'm thankful for that although at the same time you green for these poor girls i have to go to daughters and three sons i had my daughter uh... youngest daughter participated a long time in in girl soccer inconceivable to me that there would be a boy running around with with with the girls because i also saw a boy's soccer images it's just a different level of activities but as you said faster stronger taller quicker. This is the way God made humanity. God made them male and female, and it's this crazy left-wing movement that is trying to fudge everything with this gender politics, and the only silver lining is that it has woken up a lot of Americans to what's going on. Indeed, and friend states are waking up to Nebraska just became the 27th state to pass a law that does not allow males to compete in female sports. Friends, are you a member of AARP? I'm going to have a story in just a moment, but let's open our phone lines to get your questions, your comments. Our number to crosstalk 800-733-9829. That's 800-733-9829. 733-9829. Peter, this comes from amac.us. An article published on AARP's website May 30th titled, Pride Month 2025, Making Connections Through Community, makes clear that AARP has no intention of backing down from its full-throated endorsement of LGBTQ ideology and exposing children to it. That article encourages readers to join forces for celebration and advocacy. Quotes from Jackie Lees, who's on the board of directors for AARP Affiliated Generation Plus Committee, a group that describes itself as dedicated to serving members of the LGBTQ plus community who are 55 and older, also identifies as transgender, specifically says that Pride Month should be used to close the generational gap and what we're here to help the young ones. Alarm bells ought to be waving over people's minds here, Peter. absolutely it's always targeting the young uh... and uh... that i'm just thankful that people are seeing it for what it is a a r p all these organizations are wedded this destructive philosophy and i believe lawsuits are going to change uh... the the picture work we're going to see some major lawsuits on this transgender issue jim i think there's still one out by against kaiser permanente uh... by chloe cole who is a detransition er We're going to see lawsuits. I think they're going to go our way, because even in the UK and Britain, we saw that the highest court recognized that a biological male is not a woman. Very interesting. Friends, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back to your calls. Peter LaBarbera is our guest. You're listening to Crosstalk on the VCY American Network. For the Worldview Report, I'm Brandon House. Our website's worldviewtube.com. Riots have broken out in Los Angeles. Many Americans are watching it on their TV screen. But do they really understand the context? Oftentimes, he who controls the narrative or the language wins. Well, there are socialist organizations behind it. You can go right to their websites, like Freedom Road Socialist Organization. That's their name. What is their slogan? The headline on their website say, build the movement against Trump, make the US ungovernable, end quote. That's their own direct words. Don't forget, pro-Chinese groups are out there fomenting chaos. This is part of Chinese doctrine, Maoist doctrine of the Chinese communist dictator, Mao Zedong. Americans, your worldview matters and your understanding of history matters. I'm Brendan Howes. Well, friends, there's both pushback and promotion going on on LGBTQ Plus Pride and taking your phone calls. Peter LaBarbera is with us. Peter, just before we pick up our calls, your website, give it out to our listeners. Yes, it's still the americansfortruth.com website, americansfortruth, that's f-o-r-truth.com. Center for Morality is a nonprofit organization. We're publishing on the americansfortruth.com site, and we've just started publishing again, so keep coming back. Okay, again, the website americansfortruth.com. Let's go to the phone lines. We have Jude calling from Linden Station, Wisconsin. Jude, you're on the air. Hi, I first want to say bless you guys and your ministries. and what you do thank you god that we have the airwaves to that okay i have to question uh... wouldn't it be discrimination if a straight child wanted to go get in implant and their breath or nowadays uh... the puppy but her in battle are they allowed to do that Or is it just the removal of the trans? I don't have an answer, Peter. Do you have an answer for that? Well, we wouldn't want them to do it, but I don't think they'd be allowed. It's a good thing, but I see your point. Most people were unaware that this was going on, and then they try to say, oh, it's only a few cases. But Jim, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was found to be well over a thousand cases of young people being administered either the medicalization, which is the puberty blockers, which is a revolting concept, or the surgery. So this has happened extensively among young people in the United States. Yeah. You had a second question? And my second one was as parents are not allowed to give our kids alcohol under the age of 21 or cigarettes, but the state or federal government can do these surgeries without our parents' permission? Sometimes it's happening, certainly medication that's happening in states and even in split homes where you have one parent that is allowing for the surgical means and others saying no, that they're citing, Peter, it seems universally, with the parent that wants their child to so-called identify as a different gender. the engine also hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of school across the country have policies which are explicit in saying that parents are not informed when the school learns the child wants to get a so-called gender transition. I'm talking about just saying a boy says he wants to identify as a girl before surgery and everything, but the parent deserves to know that. That's a huge event in that family's life, a terrible thing, and they're keeping it on purpose away from parents. Thanks for the call. Let's go to Sharon in Fort Worth, Texas. You're on the air, Sharon. Hello, Sharon. You're on the air. I want to thank you for taking my call, and I just want to say, commit that. I just find it appalling that Simone Biles is coming out against Riley Gaines by having men train as men in women's sports. Yeah. And I also want to ask the question, do you guys know, is there any men in the sport that she have her medals in? Any men that do what? i believe now she has another any men who are it have medals in her sport i believe not because they're you really have to be a small what woman to to participate in that but a lot of people have said uh... she the only reason uh... she felt free to say something like that against riley gaines is because her sport hadn't been affected yet maybe someday it will have discontinued if trump is unable to stop it and by the way jim we gotta hope we must hope and pray that all these good things that trump is done on DEI and transgender is codified through our Republican-led legislature on Capitol Hill. Sharon, thanks for the call. We've got Andreas in New Mexico. You're on the air. Thank you for taking my call. Yes. I was wondering, you know, I think the culture, the United States is beginning to walk on very, very thin ice. on, you know, committing the unpardonable sin as far as the Scripture goes. And it's not a wonder why other countries call the U.S., you know, the evil, because the example is totally there. And we know what happened in Sodom. We do. And, you know, we're not too far from there if we don't change our way. But one more thing, the Bible says, when all you've done, all you can do, to stand, I believe, and it goes on, just stand for what you believe in. Thank you very much. Thank you, having done all to stand. Thank you. And if I could say one thing, it shows like, Jim, like yours, VCY America, you've been standing for so long, and I believe it's these people like you and VCY who've been at this for a long time, who basically created the environment now, where it's made it a lot easier for conservatives to criticize the trans issue, but it's still not convenient, politically convenient, to criticize homosexuality. And what I'm telling people all the time is, look, this trans insanity did not come out of nowhere. It grew out of the so-called gay revolution. That was the big one. That was the Sodom and Gomorrah issue, the sin of Sodom. And it's, of course, logical that other extreme behaviors and identities would come out of a movement which said that a behavior which God calls an abomination, and we know Romans 1, all the passages in the Bible are very clear on homosexuality, It's amazing, and it really was a sad day for America when we began to normalize that behavior. And then we went further, and our highest court in the land attached the divine institution of marriage to an abomination. Let me get to Allen Bridgeport, West Virginia. You're on the air. a brother jim picture of my call uh... brother peter thank you so much for what you're doing there and i wanted to talk about the the uh... the softball pitcher that won a state championship i'm gonna blame that coach a little bit because do they have to let that player play uh... i coached uh... girls softball for many years very successful very blessed uh... but i don't think i could do that uh... i would just probably tell the parents that uh... your child is going to have to get better but i think that that uh... coach wanted to win that championships so bad uh... look the other way or i i don't think it would happen uh... but also to understand inject something in there about the planned parenthood uh... jim could they not denied the business license for this uh... outfit or or what was going on with that do you know You mean the one in Milwaukee? Yes. Yeah, well, actually, I mean, the city is, we have leadership that's all engaged fully in the killing of preborn children. So there is not the heart, the sentiment, the morality to stop that from taking place. We're out of time. I apologize to other callers. Peter LaBarbera with us, americansfortruth.com. Peter, thanks for being with us today on the broadcast. Thank you, Jim. Thanks for all you do. And friends, we thank you for joining us here today on Crosstalk. Indeed, there is pushback like we have not seen in some time, but there's also the promotion that is taking place. One city has even passed the LGBT pride flag as being their city flag in order to continue flying it when the state has said no. Thanks for joining us on Crosstalk. You've been listening to Cross Talk via satellite and the Internet from VCY America. Views expressed may or may not be those of this station. 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