Welcome to episode 20 of the Knight and Rose podcast! In this episode, Wintery Knight and Desert Rose discuss the recent explosion of crime in America, the effectiveness of the police, and self-defense. If you like this episode, please subscribe to the podcast, and subscribe to our YouTube channel. We would appreciate it if you left us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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Christian apologists Wintery Knight and Desert Rose discuss apologetics, policy, culture, relationships, and more. Each episode equips you with evidence you can use to boldly engage anyone, anywhere. We train our listeners to become Christian secret agents. Action and adventure guaranteed. 30-45 minutes per episode. New episode every week.

Episode 20:

Episode  Summary:

Wintery Knight and Desert Rose discuss crime and self-defense. We’re going to start by talking about why crime has become a more pressing problem lately. Then we’ll talk about what role the police play in stopping crime. Then we’ll talk about what the Bible says about self-defense. Finally, we’ll talk about the real root cause of crime, and what Christians should do to address it.

Speaker biographies

Wintery Knight is a black legal immigrant. He is a senior software engineer by day, and an amateur Christian apologist by night. He has been blogging at winteryknight.com since January of 2009, covering news, policy and Christian worldview issues.

Desert Rose did her undergraduate degree in public policy, and then worked for a conservative Washington lobbyist organization. She also has a graduate degree from a prestigious evangelical seminary. She is active in Christian apologetics as a speaker, author, and teacher.

References:

Democrats’ push to defund police caused crime to spike (Washington Examiner)

The Rise of ‘Blow Off Steam’ Policing (American Greatness)

Property damage from civil disorder during George Floyd protests could total more than $2 billion (The Week)

Will 2021’s spike in violent crime continue into 2022? (Christian Post)

Wisconsin Dem Senate candidate wants to eliminate cash bail despite Waukesha massacre (Fox News)

Officers Had No Duty to Protect Students in Parkland Massacre, Judge Rules (New York Times)

Sheriff says he got 23 calls about shooter’s family, but records show more (CNN)

Report: Wife’s weeping over anti-union law drove Democratic DA to target Republican governor’s staff and conservative activists with five-year investigation (UK Daily Mail)

Politics – According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture by Wayne Grudem

Hero who stopped Texas church shooter credits God for bravery: I’m ‘not going to allow evil to succeed’ (Christian Post)

What Do CDC’s Surveys Say About the Prevalence of Defensive Gun Use? (American Journal of Criminal Justice)

Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America by Gary Kleck

More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, Third Edition (Studies in Law and Economics) by John R. Lott

Guns and Violence: The English Experience by Joyce Lee Malcolm

Bucking other Texas Democrats, Cuellar and Gonzalez vote against U.S. House bill that would ban semi-automatic weapons (Texas Tribune)

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If you’re not following Libs of Tik Tok, then you are really missing out on some of the finest conservative activism you are ever going to see. Last week, she posted videos made by one children’s hospital, in which they explained how they perform sex-change surgeries on children. This week, she called another children’s hospital and she has audio and screen grabs confirming that they do, too.

Here is the what she wrote:

Last week, I was viciously attacked by the media for raising awareness about Boston Children’s Hospital offering gender-affirming hysterectomies for young girls. Left-wing activists called for me to be banned from social media for drawing attention to a practice Boston Children’s Hospital was publicly advertising. The attacks lasted for a week. They gaslit the public and denied that these types of procedures were being performed on children. According to the media, I was baselessly stoking anti-trans outrage and therefore deserved to be silenced.

Undeterred, I decided to focus on finding out if other children’s hospitals were engaged in these barbaric practices, too. That’s when I stumbled across Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. Scrolling through their site, I came across a page which says the hospital treats young patients between the ages of 0 and 21 for gynecology care and gender-affirming medical treatments, including hysterectomies.

[…]Hysterectomies — whether for gender-affirming reasons or not — are not reversible and will render the patient permanently unable to bear children.

I looked at her screen grab of the hospital web site, and was able to confirm her screen grab at this archive site. The archived snapshot is dated May 31, 2022. It says lists hysterectomy under the “gender affirming” services they provide to people aged 0-21.  As she points out, they scrubbed the site as soon as they got caught. And they will probably have a fact check from Politifact, written by an English major, who will claim that the web site never said that.

Before I posted about this story, I double-checked the details on a mainstream news site, Fox News. They confirmed the story.

Boston Children’s Hospital

Libs of Tik Tok’s previous big story was about Boston Children’s Hospital and their “gender-affirming”. If you haven’t seen the story and the videos that were made by the hospital, and put out there for the public to know what they do, you should see it.

That story was confirmed by Daily Wire. Again, I expect an English major at Politifact to contact the hospital, tell them to change their web site, then issue a “fact check” claiming that the web site doesn’t say that. And then Facebook and YouTube and Twitter will ban anyone who talks about what the web site said before it was scrubbed at the request of the far left “fact checker”.

Münchausen syndrome by proxy

Right now, we are living in a world where selfish adults conceive of children in environments that are not optimal for children.

Just take a look at this story from The Post Millennial:

Recent reporting from Reduxx magazine on the 10-year-old “youngest trans model” has uncovered revealing information about the child’s family. Noella McMaher, a trans-identified male, belongs to two trans-identified female parents, who additionally have a nonbinary “theybie.”

[…]Reduxx reported on information collected from a now private social media profile, that Noella’s biological mother, Dee McMaher, is “a social justice advocate who identifies as non-binary, appears to be on hormone replacement therapy, and recently had a cosmetic mastectomy.”

McMaher, 35, and her partner Ray, 32, recently wed in 2019. Ray is a biological female who also identifies as transgender and works in “LGBTQ health justice,” according to Reduxx. They describe Noella beginning his transition at age 4, where they began referring to him as a girl and dressing him in girls’ clothing.

Noella was 4 when his mother said she brought him to therapy at the gender development clinic at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. During the sessions, Noella told a gender counselor he was a “girl” and by age 6, his legal documentation was already changed.

Where’s the father?

McMaher has stated in an interview for Chicago Parent that she plans for Noella to have “gender surgeries” at age 16, but would start the child on puberty blockers and hormone therapy before then.

[…]The “hate crime” – as the individual who wrote Noella’s profile refers to – is about the biological father, who was against Noella’s transition.

What’s really going on here?

[…]Sinead Watson, a prominent voice of the detransitioner community, spoke to Reduxx about the situation with Noella. “That this child parents both happen to be ‘trans’ or ‘queer’ is no surprise to me. They are forcing their own ideological ideas onto their innocent baby,” she said.

“As with the social contagion among vulnerable children, we’re seeing more and more parents with Münchausen syndrome by proxy. It’s not the kids who are trans – it’s the parents who want them to be trans,” added Watson.

When I read stories like this, I understand that the secular left has thrown out the entire concept of morality. After all, if you vote for infanticide, child mutilation, stripping parents of child custody for disagreeing with permanent damage to their children, etc. then you have left morality behind. How do people on the secular left expect to marry and have children, if they have no concept of right and wrong? Pity their children.

I really hope that Republicans pass laws allowing children who regret what selfish adults did to them to sue them for everything they have.

I’m keeping a close eye on Florida to see what sort of conservative resume Ron DeSantis is building ahead of the 2024 presidential elections. This time, DeSantis fixed his sights on the woke public school system, endorsing 30 conservative school board candidates. Out of those 30, 25 of them won – including in some heavily Democrat areas like Miami-Dade and Hillsborough.

I saw an article in the Tallahassee Democrat about this story, and they called DeSantis’ involvement in these school board elections “unprecedented”:

Gov. Ron DeSantis took unprecedented steps to influence Florida’s nonpartisan school board races this year and largely was successful, with 25 of his 30 endorsed candidates winning or advancing to a runoff.

[…]DeSantis flipped school boards in some counties that had left-leaning majorities, shifting them into solid conservative territory.

[…]DeSantis-endorsed candidates also won in Democratic counties such as Miami-Dade and Hillsborough where school boards defied the governor on issues such as mask mandates.

Instead of firing off mean tweets, or crudely insulting other conservatives, DeSantis worked hard to get other conservatives elected in Democrat-infested areas:

Both Sarasota and Duval counties will now have conservative board majorities after DeSantis weighed in heavily on those races. The governor held rallies in both Sarasota and Jacksonville on Sunday. All five of his endorsed school board candidates won in the two counties.

[…]DeSantis worked to boost GOP turnout with his aggressive campaigning in school board races, helping to counteract the fact that Republicans didn’t have any competitive statewide races to bring GOP voters out. DeSantis’ political campaign paid for campaign mailers for his endorsed candidates and he barnstormed the state Sunday, hosting a series of rallies to boost their campaigns.

DeSantis has been pushing back against critical race theory, transgender indoctrination and COVID mandates for children. He also introduced mandatory teaching about the historical record of communism. Communism has a terrible historical record.

The article also mentioned Moms for Liberty, a group that works to get conservatives elected on school boards across the USA:

Not only did DeSantis have a good night Tuesday with his school board picks, but a conservative group that launched last year in Florida to influence school politics also scored some big wins.

Moms for Liberty supported nearly 60 candidates in 24 counties with endorsements, campaign donations, or both. Many of their picks were also endorsed by DeSantis.

[…]Of the 59 candidates, 23 candidates in 14 counties won their races, 12 got enough votes to advance to runoff elections, and 24 lost, according to an analysis by the USA Today Network – Florida. That means more than half — 59% — of the candidates Moms for Liberty supported either won or advanced to the General Election.

I’ve been trying to shop at Publix more and more, now that Walmart and Amazon are increasingly far-left.

OK, that’s enough about DeSantis’ latest achievements. Let me talk about some of his previous achievements below.

DeSantis has already signed bills to:

• teach students about the historical record of communism
• ban grooming of young children
• protect wildlife
• banning biological males from women’s sports
• punishing Big Tech social media companies for censoring conservatives

Many cynical people like to say that there isn’t much difference between Republicans and Democrats on social issues. But those people aren’t following the legislation. If you watch the legislation, Republicans do a lot for social conservatives.

Keep an eye on DeSantis. He is building achievements in the teeth of opposition from leftist schools, leftist corporations, and leftist news media. My preference is to support candidates who achieve results over the opposition of their enemies. I don’t much care for how good a candidate is a snarky  insults. I want results.