Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh was in California yesterday to testify before the state Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism Committee.
Conservative California legislators have proposed two bills (AB 89 and AB 844) designed to protect women’s sports from men masquerading as females.
Assemblyman Bill Essayli, who drafted AB 844, invited Walsh to advocate on behalf of the legislation. If passed and signed into law, it would require students to only play on teams and use school facilities that are consistent with their biological sex.
That such commonsense legislation is even necessary points to the troubled times we’re navigating as a country.
Walsh, who famously engaged the public with the provocative and popular documentary, What is a Woman? spends no time wondering if his comments poke the proverbial bear. He’s of the mind that truth is more important than people’s feelings, especially the deceived or antagonistic.
Here’s what he told the committee:
Allowing men into female sports teams and into their bathrooms is incredibly unsafe.
You must keep men out of women’s sports and out of their facilities for the simple reason that they are men. Men are not women. A man who claims he is a woman is still not a woman. So why shouldn’t men play in women’s sports? Because they aren’t women. It isn’t true. We shouldn’t allow men into women’s sports for the same reason we shouldn’t go around claiming two plus two equals seven. It’s just not true. It’s a lie.
The man who identifies as a woman is either deluded and confused, or he is a crossdressing fetishist looking to play out his fantasies in public. In either case, the claim that he’s making, the claim to womanhood is not true. And compelling women to take part in this untruth, is evil, perverse and predatory.
If you would use the force of law to compel young girls to use a changing room with a boy, you are yourselves, are predators. Transgenderism is a lie. It is such a deranged lie that mankind has ever invented. In a free country, nobody should ever be forced to participate in a lie. As lawmakers, you have an obligation to the truth. It is a truth that I know you all recognize because every human who has ever lived on earth recognizes it – that men are men, and women are women, and it is that simple.
And the question before you is just as simple. The question is this: Will you side with the truth, a truth so basic that every toddler understands it, or will you disgrace yourselves by denying it? That is your choice to make.
Matt Walsh is right. Truth sets us free (John 8:32) but is suppressed by the ungodly and unrighteous (Romans 1:18). Because of that, we’re commanded to speak it when given an opportunity to do so (Zechariah 8:16).
Walsh and others are trying desperately to wake up a weary world. “Culture War” fatigue is real. People grow tired of the fight, the constant sparring and push back, especially on the most basic of things like the existence of two genders and the sanctity of every life.
Sadly, Walsh’s testimony and other pleading fell on deaf ears. Both bills were killed.
Tim Goeglein, Focus on the Family’s Washington, D.C. liaison, was at the Supreme Court Plaza on Wednesday morning. He was there to observe the pro-abortion throngs protesting ahead of oral arguments concerning whether South Carolina and other pro-life states can remove Planned Parenthood from state Medicaid programs.
“Their zeal and passion are from a demonic pit,” observed Goeglein. “My grandmother once told me that she heard the Germanic voice of Hitler shouting through the radio, and that, even though she could not understand the language, she knew it was of another realm.”
Some Christians are checking out of the battle. They may not agree with the radicalism, but they would prefer to live a quiet and peaceful life. So they ignore the news and merrily live in their bubble. As believers, we have no such luxury. We’re called to engage, advocate, defend, and support God’s agenda.
As Christians, we’re called to duty. That includes shaking our fellow believers from their slumber. If even half of those who claim Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior would stand up and speak up, our culture would be transformed overnight.
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