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Erick Stakelbeck: April 2, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

April 2, 2025 | S25:E402

From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: April 2, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | April 2, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight, i'm erick stakelbeck.
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And if you blink, you
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May have missed transgender day of visibility.
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It fell on march 31st,
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Just two days ago with barely a whimper.
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Thank god.
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What a difference a year makes.
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In 2024, at the height of the gender and trans madness
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That seemed to be sweeping america.
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The biden white house put out an official statement
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Celebrating transgender day of visibility.
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In other words,
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They were celebrating a small group of unfortunate
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People who suffer from a mental disorder
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That makes them think
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They can change the gender that god assign them.
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Now, the previous administration
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Was fully behind this demonic lie, but
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As the radical left often does, they crossed the line.
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Because last year, transgender day of visibility
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Happened to fall on easter sunday.
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So on the most important day on the christian calendar,
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The biden white house chose to put transgenderism
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On par with the resurrection of jesus.
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Bad move. the backlash was swift.
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We covered it here on the show.
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But again, what a difference a year makes.
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Upon taking office, president trump
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Signed an executive order declaring
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That there are only two genders, male and female.
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Imagine that.
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He's also signed orders banning sex change surgeries for minors
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Under the age of 19 and banning biological men from playing
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Women's sports and using women's bathrooms and locker rooms.
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It's called making america safe again.
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President trump talked about it in his address
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To a joint session of congress last month.
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Take a look.
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Stories like this.
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Why? shortly after taking office,
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I signed an executive order
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Banning public schools from indoctrinating our children
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With transgender ideology.
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I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer
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Funding to any institution that engages
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In the sexual mutilation of our youth.
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And now i want congress to pass a bill permanently
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Banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever
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Ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.
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This is a big lie.
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And our message to every child in america
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Is that you are perfect exactly the way god
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Made you.
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Amen.
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Think of all the kids whose bodies
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Were mutilated beyond repair in these sex chain surgeries
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With the full approval of adults and quack doctors.
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It's one of the great evils of our time,
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And it's an open act of rebellion.
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The so called trans movement is shaking its collective bitter
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Fist at god and telling him you made a mistake.
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You created me in the wrong body.
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And now i am going to play god and correct your mistake.
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Folks, it's all a massive lie.
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And thankfully it's now being exposed
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Under our new leadership.
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But don't tell that to tim waltz.
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The failed vice presidential candidate said
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Last week that he and kamala harris lost
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Because democrats did not embrace wokeness enough.
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Take a look.
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We've been talking about this for years
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As a country of immigrants,
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And we let them define the issue on immigration.
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We let them define the issue and deny the guy,
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And we let them define wokeness.
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We got ourselves in this mess because we weren't bold enough
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To stand up and say, you damn right,
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We're proud of these policies.
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We're going to put them in and we're going to execute them.
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Waltz wants democrats to go all in on the kind
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Of radical policies he's pushed as governor of minnesota.
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Like the bill he signed mandates that tampons
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Be placed in boys bathrooms in public schools.
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Yes, folks,
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There's a reason he's been called tampon time now,
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As the tide turns against the left,
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They're shifting to a few
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Different strategies to fight back.
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One is to double down on their unpopular,
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Insane policies as i just laid out.
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But there's also a few more.
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Number one,
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They're turning to a long time favorite tactic of the left.
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Violence.
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We've seen case after case in recent weeks
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Of unhinged leftists vandalizing tesla cars in protest of tesla
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Owner elon musk and his work with president trump.
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Here's more from ilhan appearing on fox news yesterday.
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I mean, really, this is this
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Is fundamentally a case of terrorism.
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It's widespread, wide scale domestic terrorism
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With the purpose of intimidation
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And it's harming innocent people.
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It's really terrible.
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And i think what
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We actually have to get to are the people who are organizing
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And paying for these attacks and protests.
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That's who we really need to go after, because the people
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Who there were actually throwing molotov cocktails.
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They are the foot soldiers.
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But we need to go after the generals
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And we're going to do so.
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The president has made it very clear
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That we're going to go
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After those that are paying in organizing
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That these these violent attacks.
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Now, he also mentioned the hypocrisy
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Of democrat politicians who've remained silent
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In the face of this domestic terror campaign against tesla.
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And when it comes to hypocritical left
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Wing politicians, they don't get more slippery
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Or more radical than california governor gavin newsom.
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He's got an eye on running for president in 2028,
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And he's now trying to remake his image.
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He's been a big booster of transgenderism, but
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He now wants to present himself as a moderate on the issue.
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Take a look.
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So what do you say to people who say, well,
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This sounds all very good, but but governor,
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You were the poster boy for a lot of this stuff.
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I see today the trump administration is
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They talked about i don't know if this is true,
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But they talked about the fact that california,
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You had a rule that schools cannot be required
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To notify parents if their kids in school
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Have changed their gender, their pronouns.
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That's the kind of thing,
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Even though it doesn't affect a lot of people.
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That makes a lot of people go, well, you know what?
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That's the party without common sense.
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Now, if that's your state, how are you?
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Are you? i just i just disagree with that.
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I mean, the law was you would be fired.
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A teacher would be fired if a teacher did not report
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Or snitch on a kid talking about their gender identity.
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I just think that was wrong. i think teachers should teach.
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I don't think they should be. required to turn in kids.
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And by the way, we're talking with their parents.
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You cannot snitch. the idea of a snitch
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And a parent to me doesn't comply. just
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So if a teacher informs a parent
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That their little boy is dressing
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Like a little girl at school
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And wants to be called paulina instead of paul,
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They're a, quote, snitch in gavin newsom's view.
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Good to know.
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As he plans his presidential run.
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But it's a reminder for all of us
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That the battle to defend faith, family,
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Freedom and biblical values has only just begun.
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And we can't let down our guard a bit later in the show,
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I'll share how one state is helping
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Lead the fight for religious freedom in america.
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But up first,
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Reverend franklin graham, president
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And ceo of samaritan's purse, is here to share
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How you can help the people of myanmar who are reeling
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From a massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake
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That's caused widespread devastation.
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That's next.
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That's next.
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At least
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2700 people are dead and over 400 more still missing
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After a massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the southeast
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Asian nations of myanmar and thailand on march 28th.
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Right now,
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There is a desperate hunt for survivors amid the rubble.
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And aid groups are rushing to provide assistance
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In very difficult conditions.
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As always, samaritan's purse is at the forefront
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Of these efforts.
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We're joined now by the ceo and president of samaritan's purse
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And of the billy graham evangelistic association.
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Reverend franklin graham.
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Reverend graham, thanks for joining us.
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Hey there.
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Also, some very strong aftershocks
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Following that initial quake.
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And there's widespread devastation
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In myanmar in particular.
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People's homes are destroyed.
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They're sleeping outside.
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This was a truly horrible natural disaster.
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What are you hearing from on the ground?
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Well, we've talked to some of our
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Or certainly we've heard from some of our church partners.
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We've done
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Operation christmas child in this country for many years.
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And the two churches in this area was notified of stay.
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They said, you know, we don't know what to do.
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We don't know how to help the people around us.
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We don't know even how to help the people in our churches.
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We need water.
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We need mosquito nets.
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We need tarps.
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We don't have shelter.
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We are scared to go back in the buildings.
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And so they are really
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I think they're kind of i mean, they're just desperate.
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And this is a part of the world that is difficult to get to.
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The the main airport, of course, of the country
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Is in yangon
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Or used to be known as rangoon when it was called burma.
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But mandalay is the second largest city.
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This is basically where the epicenter
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Was in the mandalay area.
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But the roads, the bridges, all of this is compromised.
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Very difficult is taking, you know,
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16, 20 hours to drive up there.
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So it's it's going to be very difficult.
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It's going to be a very hard deployment for our
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For our teams, for our people to go up there.
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But we're ready. we're prepared.
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And it's you know, the people of burma need our prayers.
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You know, people say, well, what can we do?
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Pray? that's what they knew.
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They need our prayers
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And pray that the churches will be a light during this
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Very dark hour of their the history of their nation.
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It's very tough. so
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We're taking in, i
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Guess, a 60 bed field hospital.
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It's a tier three weekend.
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We've got two operating theaters.
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We have an emergency room.
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We have
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All the things that need to go laboratory x ray.
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All of this we're taking with us.
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These hospitals we have are the same as the u.s.
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Military uses.
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There's a mash hospital, so they're equipped for trauma.
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We have to take our own electricity.
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So we have our own generators.
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We have to provide our own water purification.
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So we have reverse osmosis machines that we take.
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We have to provide our own housing.
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So we have tents with beds for the doctors and nurses.
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So you're taking a mobile city when you go in,
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But there's a mobile hospital and it's
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We've got just a great team of people.
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They know what to do and how to do it.
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But pray for the people of of
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Myanmar right now.
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It's a really a tough situation.
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Yeah.
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And folks, the need is great, as reverend
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Graham just laid out, it's urgent.
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As a matter of fact, please visit samaritan's purse dot org.
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That's samaritan's purse dot org right now to contribute
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To the relief efforts in myanmar right now.
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Reverend graham, you know myanmar very well.
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You preach there in 2016 a difficult few years
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In that country, civil war to military government.
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A lot of challenges as you just laid out.
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But this is a unique country in many ways.
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And you have a heart for myanmar.
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Talk more about that.
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The challenges they're facing,
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Especially now in the grip of this earthquake.
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Well, i did. i preached there.
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Let's see, it was about nine years ago,
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I think 2016. and our first time
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That the government allowed an evangelistic
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Campaign to take place.
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And this is their modern history since world war two.
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We had about 170,000 people in over two nights.
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I had a chance to preach, give an invitation.
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People came forward.
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People god save just a lot of excitement.
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And after after the event, in the evening,
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As we were leaving, people were still coming.
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So they came from all over the country to
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To hear the gospel.
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And as we've come on this on on this occasion,
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We come in the name of jesus christ.
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We want the people to know that god loves them.
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And we know after a tragedy like this, many people
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Think, well, is god judging us?
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Have we done something to make him mad at us?
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And i tell them now that these things happen
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In this world, this is a fallen world.
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This world says sinned against god,
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And the god of this age is the devil.
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And he's the one who enjoys seeing tragedy.
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But we come in the name of jesus christ to hold up the gospel.
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And so we'll be bringing the hospital and others
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This coming weekend.
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They'll be arriving and they'll be setting it up.
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Our sometime next week.
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And then we'll have more flights come in.
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We will have
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Multiple flights bring in supplies
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Because we have to resupply ourselves.
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We take out reverse osmosis water purification systems. and
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This is a huge need.
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So we not only
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We have it for the hospital, but we'll bring in others
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Just for the community,
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Just so that we can give people fresh water.
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You have to have water.
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And of course, the water is contaminated
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With all the broken pipes and so forth.
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And people
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People are afraid because these aftershocks
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Are bringing down more buildings.
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You know,
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You had the main earthquake of 7.7
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And then followed with just within an hour or so.
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There was one that was six point something.
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And so it's been
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One or, you know, earth series of earthquakes.
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And so buildings are still coming down.
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People are afraid.
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Wow. and myanmar right now, reverend
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Graham is front and center
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With what you're doing, samaritan's purse.
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But look,
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You're still on the ground
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Working in north carolina and california
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In the wake of the disasters there.
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You actually have an easter special easter
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From the ashes, filmed
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In los angeles with michael w smith charity gayle.
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It airs here on tbn on easter sunday, april 20th at 9 p.m.
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Eastern time.
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We're looking forward to that.
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But real quick, before you go.
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North carolina, california, still pretty dire situations
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There as well that people can contribute to.
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Samaritan's purse with and really be
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The hands and feet of jesus.
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Well, again, we want to we want to lift up christ.
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We want to
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We want the gospel to be heard that god so loved this world
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That he gave
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His only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him
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Shouldn't perish, but everlasting life.
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We want people to know god does care and he loves them.
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And if we'll repent,
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Turn from our sins and believe on the name of the lord
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Jesus christ, we can be saved from the flames of hell.
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And when we come to easter, this is what it's all about.
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God's saving us by sending his son jesus christ.
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And if we're willing just to believe
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And turn from our sins and accept christ
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As our savior, environmental horrors,
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God will forgive our sins
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And he will invite us to be with him in heaven for eternity.
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And that's this is the message we preach.
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And of course, going into burma or myanmar is
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Is a great opportunity.
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Just a lot of people in the name of the lord
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Jesus christ, and to help them and try to
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To bind up their wounds, bandage them
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And bring healing to their bodies.
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And hopefully,
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Hopefully god will open up their hearts
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And their ears to hear the gospel.
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Amen. reverend franklin graham, well-said.
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As always, folks.
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Again, samaritan's purse, dawg, urgent need right now
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To help in myanmar. reverend graham, thanks so much.
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God bless you.
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We'll see you again soon.
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And up next, we are shifting gears
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Back to right here in the united states where
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An atheist group is targeting christian students.
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Folks, you going to want to hear about
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What's happening in oklahoma
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And how oklahomans are fighting back
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For biblical truth and religious freedom.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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A major battle over religious freedom is unfolding right now
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In oklahoma.
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The freedom from religion foundation, which is a radical
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Atheist group, is targeting an oklahoma school
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For allowing a student to pray over the intercom.
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And here's the kicker.
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This atheist group is not even based in oklahoma.
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It's based in wisconsin.
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Thankfully, oklahoma state superintendent
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Ryan walters
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Is not to silently conceding
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To this attack on the religious freedom of oklahomans,
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Along with the oklahoma state department of education.
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He's filed a lawsuit
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Against the freedom from religion foundation
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And he joins us now to share more. superintendent.
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Great to see you.
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Can you give us some more specific details on this case
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And why you decided to take legal action
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Against this freedom from religion foundation?
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Yes. thank you, eric.
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And again, you said that well,
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I mean, there are radical atheists, left wing group
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That comes in and they sue and threatened to sue
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Small districts all over the country.
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They've done it multiple times in oklahoma.
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This time they're going after a grade school kid
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Who during morning announcements,
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They have a moment of silence where, again, you can do
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What you want, you can pray,
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You can sit silently, you can do whatever.
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Well, this student chose to pray.
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Well, not on their watch. right.
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You know,
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They want to run every prayer out of school,
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Every mention of the bible out of school.
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So they threaten the school,
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Threatened the school administration.
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Very small rural school here in oklahoma.
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And we stood up and said, absolutely not.
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We're picking on our schools.
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Quit fighting against the constitutional rights.
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We will protect those rights.
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Let me tell you,
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Your constitutional rights don't stop
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Because you enter a public school.
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And we're going to continue to fight for the individual
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Freedoms that our founders put in place for us. amen.
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And this isn't the first time this freedom from religion
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Foundation has stirred up trouble in oklahoma. right?
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This has been a long running, not only in oklahoma,
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But around the country. this is a very,
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Very problematic, radical left atheist group.
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And this is what you see from the left.
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What they do
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Is they try to bully and intimidate using lawfare.
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I mean, they went after president trump.
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They go after individuals, teachers, parents, students.
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They they want to force atheism on you.
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They want state sponsored atheists.
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And where
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The only thing that can be mentioned in
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A school is the absence of god and the lack of a god.
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That's all they want.
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And that's absurd.
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Our founders would be rolling
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Over in their grave if they saw this going on.
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We've got to stand up for our freedoms here in oklahoma.
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Every county voted for president trump.
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We are a maga country here in oklahoma,
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And we're going to continue to stand up
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For those individual rights and freedoms.
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Yeah, and this is only the beginning.
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Look, this lawsuit is very important.
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I think this will be something
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The entire nation should be watching, superintendent.
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And also, look, you've been promoting
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Over the past few years.
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Let's have the bible in school.
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Let's have biblical teaching again,
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A return to our judeo-christian roots.
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Tell us a bit
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More about what you're doing in oklahoma, in the schools,
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And why it's so important for the nation, not just oklahoma.
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Yes, sir.
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You know, we've got to go back to playing offense.
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You know, as conservatives,
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As traditional americans,
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You look at where the country's gone
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And you look at where joe biden and kamala harris took us.
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It's not enough to just stop what they're doing.
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We got to go back to the basics. in education.
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That means, guys, guess what? it is unquestionable.
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The bible had a significant role in american history.
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You can't read a history book and not see that.
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You can't read the letters from the founders.
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You can't read the declaration of independence
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Or rights coming from our creator.
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You can't read every presidential speech
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And not see mentions of god, of jesus, of god's providence
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Here in this country.
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So we are bringing the bible
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Back to every classroom in oklahoma.
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We're going to ensure that our kids understand
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Its historical context.
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And we have got to get back to the basics and take the fight
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To these radicals
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And say, listen, no,
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Actually in our school,
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We're not going to have radical
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Gender, ideology, pornography
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Like they've pushed
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In our schools like genderqueer and flames.
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We're going to go back to the constitution,
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The declaration of independence and the bible.
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And i think that's how we get our education
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System back on track.
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Superintendent, well said.
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And look, we have a golden opportunity here.
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As you said, we need to go on offense.
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We can't squander this opportunity
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That we have right now.
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Speaking of which, president trump looking to abolish
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The department of education, what are your thoughts on that?
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I mean, you know, we can't stop
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Celebrating over here in oklahoma.
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I think it's tremendous.
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I think history is going to forever see this moment
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As when you change.
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When president trump changed the trajectory of america
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By taking our schools and saying, listen,
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We're not going to allow a federal department
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Of education that never should have existed
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To continue to weaponize itself against parents,
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Against teachers, against kids. never again.
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We will return education back to parents
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The way it should be, the way that it was.
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And that's what we're going to continue to do here in america.
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I think this is a forever this is one of these moments
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That forever changes the course of american history.
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You're going to see schools
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Go back to affirming american exceptionalism,
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Talking about judeo-christian values
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And the role
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It played in american history, focusing on the basics
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Like reading, math, history and science.
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Not all this woke ideology. this is huge.
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We couldn't be more excited.
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President trump has really opened the door
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To getting america great again
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By getting the federal department out of education.
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State superintendent ryan walters.
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Oklahoma's at the fore front of this fight.
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Keep up the great work.
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God bless you. we'll see you again soon.
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And coming up after the break, my thoughts on how we can stand
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Against the madness. it's real simple.
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Find out next.
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Find out next.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight folks.
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As we wrap up here,
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We've been talking about fighting
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Against the madness of the radical secular left.
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Well, from our leaders
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Down to the average american,
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The book of matthew chapter ten versus 32 and 33
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Gives the strategy.
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Jesus said, whoever acknowledges me before others,
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I will also acknowledge before my father in heaven.
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But whoever disowns me before others, i will disown
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Before my father in heaven.
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You can't lose when you follow the words of jesus.
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That is the way tomorrow.
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Jonathan conricus, former spokesperson for the israel
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Defense forces, has a great middle east breakdown.
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What's happening there and why it affects you.
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You won't want to miss that.
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Until then, god bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: April 2, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

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