: Jenna Ellis in the morning on American Family Radio.
Jenna Ellis: I love talking about the things of God. Because of truth and the biblical worldview. The U.S. constitution obligates our government to prot preserve and protect the rights that our founders recognize. Come, from God our creator, not our government. I believe that scripture in the Bible is very clear that God is the one that raised up each of you. And God has allowed us to be brought here to this specific moment in time.
: This is Jenna Ellis in the morning.
Jenna Ellis: Good morning.
Another school shooter has been identified as transgender in Canada
It is Thursday, February 12, and there has been yet another school shooter, this time in Canada, who has been identified as transgender. So someone who was born male but identifies now as female and apparently started identifying that way as young as 12 years old. This is just an incredibly sad story. So, this coming from the NewSong York Post. Transgender Canadian school shooter who slaughtered eight including mom and stepbrother seen holding rifle in eerie photo. So this, this person, was only 18 years old and was an ex student who went on the rampage at a secondary school. And then in the press conference after this shooting, the police were wanting to respect the gender preferences of the shooter because apparently still in 2026, this is something that is a thing where instead of looking at the facts, facing the facts and questioning, you know, maybe some of these hormone inducing drugs and some of these other things that we've been experimenting with medically, are resulting in a really alarmingly high instance of some of this what, what has been termed trans violence. And, and the statistics are getting more and more severe. And this just really begs the question, where do we go from here when you have a leftist ideology that refuses reality? And it's, it's not just the harm of taking away opportunities and championships and so forth from women's sports, but it's now resulting in a very high incidence of actual violence and harm against others. And yet we don't see that there may be some causation here and that these drugs and this type of ideology is incredibly damaging.
Father Frank Pavone is founder of Priests for Life
So let's welcome in Father Frank Pavone. He's founder of Priests for Life and one of the foremost advocates for life and reality and the truth. And so, Frank, I, you Know, I read some of these headlines and then I see how law enforcement and, you know, government and the so called, quote, unquote experts, the powers that be, react to this. And it's really, I think, irresponsible at this point. I mean, it was irresponsible from the beginning, but especially at this point with now all of these instances, to continue to deny reality and to be, trying to quote, unquote, trans, children as young as 12 in this case, but in other cases, I mean. As young as toddlers.
Frank Pavone : Yes, exactly. I mean, this is an example of how ideology blinds us. Radical, ideology of transgender, political ideology. In other words, the difference between having a strong conviction, versus, ideology is that with the latter, you lose common sense and you lose the ability to analyze situations objectively, go where the evidence leads, you know, pay attention to patterns. I mean, you know, I, I share your sentiment. I mean, I'm sick and tired now of hearing about, you know, oh, here's another act of violence. And, oh, by the way, the shooter was transgender. Enough already. You know, when are we going to, connect these dots? And, I mean, the dots are being connected us. And so to fail to ask the question of, okay, what is this connection, we have to look at the causality here. And then we've got to double down on our policies of getting rid of this, this, this mutilation of children, both for their own good, which of course is a theme we've been hitting on for, For a long time, but now, obviously, for the common good, for the safety of our. Of our communities.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, absolutely. And, and yet it's, the left that refuses to look at reality and to say, okay, maybe this was a bad idea to accept responsibility and course correct. I mean, there's, there are so many different, apt phrases and, and other paradigms and all of this that say, you know, if you are, continue. The longer you stay on the wrong track, the further it takes to come back home. You know, the longer that you go down a bad road, then the more time it takes to come back to where you got off to begin with. And our society is experiencing that. But yet, even Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear. I mean, this was just insane that during an appearance on the View this week, so, you know, perfect forum for this kind of nonsense. he explained how allegedly his Christian faith informs his leadership, including opposition to legislation restricting treatments or protections for trans youth. I mean, and I know that you heard this clip, but he said, you know, for me, it's my faith. Most of the decisions I make are based on the golden rule that says we love our neighbors, we love ourselves. And the parable of the Good Samaritan says that everyone is our neighbor. And so my faith teaches me that all children are the children of God. And I don't want people picking on those kids.
Frank Pavone : I mean it reminds me of. Yeah, it's ridiculous. It reminds me of Paul's words to Timothy. You know, those who hold to the form of religion but deny its power. this is the superficial use of religion, the abuse of religion. I mean the devil himself quotes scripture as we know. And this is, you know, we see the same thing in the abortion battle, abortionists, that we can point to who say I do abortions not despite my faith, but because of it. And there's entire organizations like the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, you know, so this is just another variation on the same theme, you know, let's. And these are people who think that religion just means God is patting us on the back. Ultimately we can do whatever in the world we want, you know, and believe whatever in the world we want. And religion is just, you know, the window dressing that's going to give us God's pat on the back for us following our own way. But the power of religion is that inner transformation where we no longer follow our own way, we follow Christ. And that means we take off the old man like Paul says, take, reject that life of sin and self centeredness and arrogance and, and all the devices that he lists and put on the new man made in the image of Christ. This is the power of religion and these people. And I will go so far as to say, you know, the Democrat party now as a whole in its modern day form is guilty of this.
Jenna Ellis: Yes. So well said. And it is absolutely true that people use and twist and contort scripture for their own purposes. And instead of conforming their lives to the truth and and the power of Christ, they use it for their own evil purposes. And these are the people that will, you know, at the end, the end during the judgment when they will say, but Lord, you know, I called upon your name. And he'll say, depart from me. I never knew you. I mean these are people that this is what it means to take the Lord's name in vain.
Frank Pavone : Exactly. Yeah, that's precisely right. Yeah. And then it's like it doesn't matter that he taught in our streets or that we ate with him. What he's asking is, did you obey Me?
Jenna Ellis: Absolutely. And, you know, another, Another individual that we talked about yesterday who is, Is also denying the power and in taking the Lord's name in vain, was Kari Prijon Bowler, who now has been, She has basically been denounced by, a Catholic organization, the Catholic League, who said. And I think that, they're right on this. That for her to say without qualification that Catholics do not embrace Zionism is presumptuous as. And arrogant. Her audacity is stunning. And they say, They basically, denounce her without using the word, you know, that she was being anti Semitic. But clearly she was. And this is another person who is now. Now, the update on this, by the way, for the audience who. Who's listening, who hasn't heard this. She has now been relieved, of her, her commission status, her position on the Religious Freedom Board by the chair, who's current Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. She's now saying, you don't have the authority to kick me off the board. And she's saying, you know, imagine kicking me off. Where is religious freedom just for my Catholic faith? Well, that's a shield. She's being kicked off because she hijacked a hearing, and she used it for her own political purposes. But, But now she's claiming religious liberty, which is such a. A stupid shield. But the point, The point, Father Frank Pavone, is that, you know, she's using this label of her Christian faith and suggesting that somehow her Christian faith requires her to, hate Zionism, which ultimately means hating Jewish people.
Frank Pavone : Well, I was at that hearing, Jenna. I've been going to the. To the hearings of the Religious Liberty Commission at the invitation of the administration, since the beginning. the president founded this last May. And, I have never in any of these hearings, seen a display like Kari put on the other day. never, has Chairman, Patrick had to do what he did during that hearing. At a certain point, he had took. Had to take his gavel and hit it repeatedly. And never have I seen the audience, roll their eyes and scratch their heads the way that they did every time she spoke the other day in this hearing.
Catholic teaching does not reject Zionism, commission clarified
And never have I heard people of the audience shouting out, as some of them felt compelled to do. And one of them, in fact, was so rambunctious that the chairman had to ask him to leave the room. You know, even though he was, you know, he was basically taking the position we take. I mean, the emotions ran so high because not only was she Being first of all inaccurate in her portrayal of the Catholic position, on this. But she was being childish, she was being immature. She was trying to turn this hearing into an interrogation where she was saying I want a yes or no answer. Am I.
Frank Pavone : Are all Catholics anti Semitic? because we're faithful to our teachings. And she was just being ridiculous. Look, let me clarify for the audience where the Catholic Church stands on this. Catholic teaching does not reject Zionism. If what you mean by Zionism is that the people of Israel have the right to their own state and that we have that it is incumbent on us to be in solidarity with them. M. Now this distinction came up in the hearing as this back. And by the way, this back and forth. This hearing lasted for the course of about six hours. and periodically through that time this little back and forth reasserted itself. And various members of the commission clarified Catholic teaching. but also some of the Jewish scholars that were there testifying said look, let's make a distinction here. If you don't believe that biblical prophecy points to the modern state of Israel as its fulfillment, that's a theological difference and we can respect theological differences. And in fact Catholic teaching doesn't require a connection between biblical prophecy and the modern day state of Israel. But what was also said accurately was this gives nobody the right to say that Israel doesn't have a right to its own country. I mean, and one of the rabbis was saying, you know, are we going to be the only people that are denied the right to have our own country? and then of course even making the theological nuance, the point was made that sometimes a theological position which can be valid to hold in and of itself is used as a mask for anti Semitism. And I think that was the big warning that was, was, was, was, was should be taken to heart. Catholics believe that the that the promises of God to Israel continue though. Yes, Jesus Christ is the fulfillment obviously of the law and the prophets. He's the fulfillment. but that doesn't mean that God has abandoned the covenant with Israel. as a matter of fact, in our Catholic prayers, for example, on Good Friday there's a special set of prayers and one of them is for the Jewish people. And the prayer that I have right here says for the Jewish people that God may grant them to advance in love of his name and in faithfulness to, to his covenant. So if we're as Christians, even if we're saying, you know, if the emphasis is, hey, wait a minute, the new.
: Israel is the church.
Frank Pavone : You know, we are the fulfillment. Yeah, we're the fulfillment. But if we are, how in the world can we look down on what. We'Re the fulfillment of?
Frank Pavone : How could we separate ourselves from that? How could we not like, embrace with, with love and the greatest loyalty our Jewish brothers and sisters who happen to have a state of their own that we defend. I mean, Jenna, the whole thing is like I was scratching my head and I said this, this whole argument is ridiculous. Why?
Frank Pavone : How is it that every Christian doesn't just see so clearly, including every Catholic, that we cannot be who we are unless our Jewish brothers and sisters are honored, celebrated, protected and affirmed in who they are?
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, so well said. And I love the point that you made, Frank Pavone, that you know, the theological disagreements of ultimately prophecy and fulfillment and you know, the NewSong Testament, with the Old Testament, there are some even, Protestant evangelical Christians that are for replacement theology or covenant theology. They believe that the church replaced Israel. And that is an in house debate. I've even had, you know, friends of mine who believe in that view on the program. We've discussed it, but we're still friends and it doesn't devolve into antisemitism, which was the purpose of that hearing. And so there's a distinction between saying, okay, how do we properly read Scripture? And we could, we can and should discuss that. That's one question. But even if you are someone, and I'm a dispensationalist, everyone knows that who listens to this program. I'm an evangelical Christian. I believe that God's covenant is enduring. There is a lot of chur history and also theology and scripture that backs that up, including Romans 9 and 11. but even if you are a believer in covenant theology, that doesn't then give you license or justify anti Semitism in the way that it has been presented on the NewSong Right and especially how it was in this hearing. And the problem especially was that this was a hearing on anti Semitism. And then it became basically one of the board members trying to justify anti Semitism and now being removed. I mean that to me, Frank Pamone is absolutely using the Lord's name in vain.
Frank Pavone : Well, and Jenna, I was sitting there and frankly I was embarrassed as a Catholic, to hear what this woman was saying. and I'll put the blame also somewhere else. You know, I think the reason that a Catholic like Kari can feel so confident in speaking for all Catholics, as she was erroneously doing, is that some Catholic leaders, I gotta lay this at the feet of some Catholic bishops and even some statements of Pope Leo that despite what I just explained, is the official Catholic teaching. Nevertheless, some of their posts on social media and some of their statements have condemned, you know, actions of Israel and not condemned actions of Hamas. How is that even possible to a thinking human being, or much less a religious leader that you're going to convey, you know, without saying it explicitly, but conveying by the absence of what you say or by the imbalance in what you say, conveying this idea that, hey, you know, we got to be careful of this, you know, Zionism and let's not be so pro Israel that we, you know, miss their responsibility. And I'm looking at this and saying, you know, you guys ought to be, you know, it's just the opposite if you're going to err, err on the side of, of, of faithfulness to the, you know, to our, our best ally over there in that part of the world and, and the people of God himself. So I put the blame, partially on the shoulders of some of these Catholic bishops who have just issued these comments that sound more like they're coming from, you know, from, from, from, from the, from the Democrat Party, than from a, Christian leader.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah. So well said. And we've got to take a break here, but this is a great example of why the separate jurisdictions of the church and the state, for Christians, when we are, part of the Church, first and foremost, this grants us freedom to not have to be concerned about the political implications of truth. I mean, I'm out every day on social media saying things that are truthful, that may not be popular, but they are the truth. And first and foremost, my obligation is to be an advocate and an ambassador for Christ. And if that's not favored by either the Democrat Party or the Republican Party, well, you know, too bad. And this is where even Christian politicians should have the courage to say truth first. But when we're not even in a political office, and you don't have to make that calculation, nobody in the Church should be putting politics over truth. So we'll be right back with more.
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Carrie Prijon Boller removed from Religious Liberty Commission
Jenna Ellis: Welcome back. Well, this issue with the, Religious Liberty Commission and the White House is, going even more viral than it was yesterday. And now there are some who are claiming that, this fired commissioner, Kari Prijon Boller now may have a viable religious discrimination claim against the government for being removed from the panel. But, this is what the chair, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick of Texas, actually posted on his social media, declaring that she's, no longer part of the commission. Buller has been removed from President Trump's Religious Liberty Commission. No member of the commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue. This is clearly without question what happened Monday in our hearing on antisemitism in America. This was my decision. The commission has done outstanding work through five hearings. Two more are scheduled. The testimony has been both illuminating and heartbreaking. Under the Biden administration, Americans of all faiths have had their, had their religious liberty not only stolen from them, but were often punished for standing up for their faith in education, the military, the private sector, and even the ministry. This spring, the commission will deliver one of the most important reports in American history directly to the President. The president respects all faiths. He believes that all Americans have a right to receive the great inheritance given to them by our Founding Fathers in the First Amendment. I'm grateful to President Trump for having the vision and boldness to create this commission. Fighting for the word of God and religious freedom is what this nation was founded upon. Leading this fight will be one of his greatest legacy. Signed, Dan Patrick, chair of President Trump's Religious Liberty Commission.
Gerard Felitti: Carrie Projerson was fired over inappropriate conduct
So let's welcome in Gerard Felitti, who is Senior counsel at the Lawfare Project and Gerard. So, you know, this woman is not going quietly. And I think it's just so clear that, she's trying to just use this for political gain because, you know, nobody knew who she was five minutes ago. And now, you know, this is, a big story on the Right, just because, she was, you know, this rude and inappropriate. but to the legal question, does she have a religious discrimination case?
Gerard Filitti: Very simple answer. No, she does not. This is something. She was removed from the panel for her conduct. She was removed from the panel, and that's clearly stated by Lieutenant Governor Patrick, that this was because she hijacked a hearing for her own personal and political agenda, not because of her religious views, not because of the performance of her, religion. She was fired because she was inappropriate. And for that you do not get to sue and recover your job on religious freedom grounds.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, and this makes sense of course, because then literally anyone who claims any faith whatsoever could claim, discrimination as a cover for any other conduct. I mean, if you, for example, you know, steal from your workplace or you're embezzling and you get fired, you know, over that conduct and you claim, well, wait, you know, I'm a, I'm a Christian so you can't fire me or. Well no, because that's not the actual basis of the removal. and so that just naturally makes sense. But here she's also, claiming that Lieutenant, Governor Dan Patrick, the chair of this commission, doesn't have authority to remove, commissioners because she was appointed by the president to that board.
Gerard Filitti: Well, that's a question that goes to the mechanism of how this board works, how the Religious Liberty Commission works. Generally speaking, it's understood that the chair or the highest authority within a commission does have the ability to remove members for cause. that's something that she may very well dispute. And because this is a new organization, this commission was created by executive order by President Trump last year. This may be something that will need to be addressed. It would be beneficial if perhaps President Trump himself, declares that her presence is not wanted on a commission and ah, supports Lt. Governor Patrick. But at the end of the day, that's more of a minor technical issue than what she's claiming to be religious. Just freedom.
Jenna Ellis: Right, right. And that, that totally makes sense. And you know, even scrolling through, some of her responses on social media, people that she is, you know, reposted, you know, like for example, this very, you know, kind of woke. Right. lawyer unfortunately that is kind of going off on a, ah, lot of very what I would deem anti Semitic, commentary. So suggesting and saying, and this is what he posted that she reposted, opposing a DNA based supremacy claim to the Holy Land is based on a 200 year old doctrine of dispensationalism. And that's not anti Semitic, dispensationalism is heresy. And he goes into, you know, all of this nonsense about how, you know, that this kind of false history about the view of dispensationalism. But but to suggest somehow that this is conduct that is appropriate or becoming of a commissioner that is on this high level of a commission that's designated by the White House is just really incredibly inappropriate. and so what are the potential alternatives now, for the White House in terms of the pr, because noticeably, the President and even also the press Secretary has been silent on this.
Gerard Filitti: Well, I think that is an issue that we're seeing. This is not a single issue about Kari Projean Boller. We see this with Candace Owens, we see this with Tucker Carlsen. We see a deliberate framing that is far more troubling. It's an effort to repackage classic anti Semitic tropes in theological language to make them sound principled rather than hateful. And this is what we saw at this hearing. This is what we're seeing, from some on the right who are abusing their views on religion to profit Jew hatred. So this is something that is uncomfortable for the White House right now because a lot of these people are very key Trump supporters. But at the end of the day I think that President Trump will do the right thing. He will not let the Republican Party destroy itself by abusing views on religion in order to discriminate and target against fellow Americans.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, and this is becoming a more and more fracturing issue on the right, unfortunately. But it's really odd to me, especially in the context, Gerard, of how the outrage cycle work last Friday when the left immediately capitalized on you know, this video that was kind of the Pride Lands and showed Trump is king of the jungle and the lion and then kind of played into that classic that that racist trope that you showed Obama and Myshel Obama as apes. And you know, and clearly the White House, whoever the staffer was, that posted on Trump's true social, that wasn't the main video that they were intending to post. But nevertheless, you know, the Democrats jumped on this kind of, you know, ah, this racist narrative and and, and the outrage cycle. And yet they've been surprisingly quiet about the actual problem that is on the right, which is in my view, it's not racism, it's antisemitism. And somehow Democrats aren't really challenging this. And I kind of wonder why not.
Gerard Filitti: The Democratic Party has increasingly lost its touch and become the party of anti Semitism. And they're watching the Republican Party start to turn the same way with glee. You're not going to hear Democrats who are critical of efforts to combat anti Semitism, which President Trump has done commendably since his first day in office. You're not going to see them attacking anti Semitism because they really don't care, to be honest. They're looking at this as a way that the Republican Party will follow in the steps of the Democratic Party and exclude, choose. So this is something that for them is a win. it's a win because they can focus on cultural issues that they believe are strong to them on these left wing extremist causes, on having, you know, transgender, in politics and sports and everything that, that's more focused for them than having the ability to fight anti Semitism. So you see silence in the Democratic Party because this is something that they're happy with. They like what Bowler said. They like that approach. You didn't see criticism of her coming from Democr. You're actually seeing some Democrats embracing her religion in order to justify their hatred of Jews.
Jenna Ellis: And this is where, you know, the, the woke right, is going further and further away from the standard of conserving truth. And this is why, Gerard, for a long time, you know, I've always described, the political spectrum as not linear but actually a bell curve. And if you have that the middle isn't being moderate, the middle is actually conserving truth. And you can fall away from that, further and further away to the left or to the right. And we're seeing that, that the further and further you get away from genuinely conserving the truth, whether it's on the left or the right side. It ultimately ends in some of the same conclusions, which is, not moral legitimacy, not legitimacy in civil government, but actually some of the same problems, including anti Semitism. And you wrote a great piece, in jns.org and the title is Anti Semitism Is not why the Church Cannot Platform. Candace Owens. granting legitimacy to rhetoric that conflicts with, sacred teachings risks confusing the faithful and undermining moral authority. and I agree with that, especially on the civil Government context. And when we're, talking about all this, not even just in the context of, theology and what the Bible teaches and prophecy and, you know, some of those things, we're actually then correlating this with, with political strategy and foreign policy and all of this. It really undermines the moral authority and legitimacy of the civil government as well.
Gerard Filitti: It does. And that's the problem here. When you're using religion and misusing. Really, that's the better way to put it. When you're misusing religion as a sword against a minority group or against American values, against classical religious values in the context of government, then you are really perverting not just the separation of church and state, but you are co opting religion, you are co opting worship, you are co opting people who believe, faithful people, into a political ideology that you're using religion to justify. So that's really dangerous because people are more apt to believe when they already have that faith. You're looking at the faithful and you're framing political issues in religious terms, but using religion in a way it was never intended to be used in order to justify the most outrageous political ideology. So that's really where the danger is.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah. And that's what I was describing in the last segment with, Father Frank Pavone as using the Lord's name in vain. I mean, using religion as a justification to advance a political ideology that is totally contrary with scripture, and that's using the Lord's name in vain for, for Christians or for people like, you know, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, who are claiming that somehow, the Bible justifies, you know, this transmutation of children. I mean, you know, utterly ridiculous nonsense. But the left also does this in terms of their worldview and their ideology, which is a religion. If we define religion as a worldview, that is a way of attempting to, place moral authority, as the underpinning of the legal justification. And they do this with cultural Marxism. I mean, when they are using Marxism as a justification to suggest that, you know, all white people are the oppressors and to basically be. Be terribly racist in that sense and suggest that there has been, you know, the systematic oppression of all these minorities, they're actually using a religion or a worldview, to justify immorality as well.
Gerard Filitti: in their worldview, the role of God is replaced by the role of the state. But it's no different than religious ideology.
Gerard Felitti: They're justifying in terms that are religious
They're in the same beliefs in a, worldview. And how things should work. They're justifying in terms that in our context would be seen as religious. In theirs, they see it as statist. But it's really the same thing. It's the same fervent belief system that replaces God with the state. so it really is a religion of communism, a religion of Marxism that we're seeing.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah. Well, we got to take a break here. Gerard Felitti, I really appreciate your, time on this, and, you know, it's good to know that a lot of this is just empty rhetoric and that, Kari Projean Bowler doesn't have, you know, any sort of leg to stand on in terms of, you know, looking at the board and any sort of religious discrimination claim. I mean, you know, this is just something that hopefully maybe this instance will cause, the right and those, like President Trump, who really hasn't said anything, but has largely stood very passionately, with Israel and, understands all of the political implications, to actually come out and affirm what, the position of the right always has been and should be, that, you know, of course we support the nation of Israel and of course we respect the, Jewish people. So I really appreciate it. Jared Felitti, we'll be right back with more.
Congress is nearing a funding deadline that could shutter the Department of Homeland Security
: Welcome back to Jenna Ellis in the Morning on American Family Radio.
Jenna Ellis: Welcome back. Well, a few other headlines that you need to know about. the government is approaching yet another partial shutdown. So this coming from time. As Congress edges closer to Friday's funding deadline that could shutter the Department of Homeland Security, lawmakers in both parties are warning that the consequences may be most acutely felt by those traveling, like we experienced back in November when, of course, with the Thanksgiving holiday that was, approaching and a lot of the, air traffic controllers are put on leave and all of this. So, you know, didn't we learn our lesson here? I mean, this is just, just so ridiculous. But, at a House appropriation subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, the acting head of the Transportation Security Administration offered a blunt reminder of what a protracted DHS shutdown would mean for air travel. Most TSA officers would remain on the job unpaid, protecting the more than 430 commercial airports nationwide. but many, you know, are still concerned about this. And so, so Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who's a Republican from Oklahoma, said the end game here is very hard to predict when you're dealing with Chuck Schumer. Fair point. I think what's likely to happen is that we do a continuing resolution once again for a few weeks. That will probably be sometime, tomorrow, meaning today. so the, the reason why, is because you have 30 Democrats leaving tomorrow to go to Munich. the Munich security conference is February 13 through 15. So really, they need to get all of this done today. Meanwhile, the, Judiciary Committee holds their first hearing on the Sharia Free America. So Congressman Chip Roy and Representative Keith Self were, the catalyst for the Sharia Free America Caucus. But, I also had Congressman Brandon Gill, from the state of Texas on earlier in the week. If you missed that interview, you should really listen to it. He made some, actually excellent, observations about how Islam is infiltrating America, why this is so important. And for this caucus they were joined, early in the month by, Alabama Senator Tommy, Tuberville and other leaders. And on Tuesday they held a hearing that included testimony, that Rep. Roy asked one of the authors, who gave testimony, Robert Spencer, he's the author of Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, if it was safe to say that the goal of the Islamic movement is to make the United States Muslim. Spencer responded, that's very clear from the explanatory memorandum of the Muslim Brotherhood saying that the goal is that Allah's religion is victorious over other religions and they're working toward eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within. And all the non Muslim apologists for Sharia that we see are indications of how successful that hearing has been. So you can watch that entire hearing, on YouTube and you know, it's, it's really concerning. I'm really grateful to the Republicans who are bringing attention to this issue. But even more importantly, as a Congressman Gill said on the program earlier this week, not only do we need federal legislation on this to just ensure it's basically a redundancy protection for what the U.S. constitution already, requires, which is that we have a supreme law of the land, we don't have parallel legal systems, nor a religious legal system. So, that we need that kind of redundancy Protection on the federal level. But we also need legislation throughout the state to ensure that there are no state parallel courts. That would undermine the United States, would undermine our system of government and really be you know, kind of this catalyst to usher in Islam into America. So ah, a really important here and I would encourage you, if you want to support this caucus, you know, call these, these members, call your state legislators as well, tell them about you know, what Christians believe on this issue and especially for the members of Congress. You know, sometimes we see all of these headlines but you know, they don't necessarily directly hear from us, the encouragement. Sometimes you know, we tend to only call when we're complaining about something. So it's a really good thing when they do things that we appreciate, to give them a call as well and say thank you for standing firm. So I've passed along specifically you know, my thanks to these members as well.
The House approved the Save America Act requiring voter identification
but the House has also passed the Save America Act. And so now all attention is turning to the Senate. And this coming from the Wall street journal in a 218 to 213 vote almost entirely along party lines. Isn't that ridiculous? The House approved the measure known as the Save America Act, a measure that would require a, ah, documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal election and would establish a nationwide voter identification requirement for casting ballots. This just seems, you know, completely obvious that this is something that would be good for America because we have to use ID for so many other things. And if we don't have to use ID for elections, what is that allowing? Well, people who shouldn't be voting in elections. And if there is disenfranchisement of people who shouldn't be voting in elections anyway, that's not actually disenfranchisement, that's election security. And so even a former President Barack Obama, you know, of all people, you know, goes on X and talks about how the SAVE act is going to make it, you know, a disaster for America. And he says Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. And then, and he's like, tell your member of Congress to vote no. And I responded to this and said, if you are able to vote legally, showing identification won't disenfranchise you. If you aren't able to vote legally, not showing, identification will disenfranchise everyone else. And this is so obvious. And yet Democrats are just openly suggesting that first, you know, they suggested that this was racist and somehow, you know, minorities, were so confused and you know, and incompetent that they couldn't go and get voter IDs. And of course, you know, members of, of those minority groups were very vocal saying, yeah, we can and we're fine, and we actually agree with this. now the attention has been turned to women and you have, so many members, even Jamie Raskin. And then they've enlisted a lot of, or several of the Democrat women, members of Congress to go out and make these videos on social media talking about how, you know, it's just going to disenfranchise, you know, so many millions of women who, if they get married and they, and they change their name legally, that, you know, that's, that's not going to allow them to vote, which is utter nonsense. that is not at all what this legislation is saying. And that has been debunked, through the legislation itself. But, you know, we know that. And yet they're trying to advance kind of this fear that somehow it will disenfranchise women. And I love some of the comments to this where people are saying, you know, you, you really think that women aren't competent to comp. To go through the process of a name change and then show, that have an ID and then be able to, to, you know, prove who they are. I mean, under no other circumstances, whether it's, you know, flying, whether it's anything else, getting, you know, obtaining a passport, any of these things, a name change on any basis, but especially for marriage. But, you know, you can change your name legally anytime you want to, but for the name changes, that's never been an issue with anything else. And the Democrat Party has never thought that it's been an issue with anything else. But, but suddenly when it comes to securing elections now this becomes, you know, hugely problematic. So it's just a ridiculous way of suggesting that, we shouldn't have voter id. But don't get caught up in the lies because, you know, the Democrats are not pointing out anything that is a legitimate concern. They just want ultimately their preferred outcome, which is that they don't want voter id. And we have to always ask the question, well, why wouldn't you want our elections more safe and secure? Because if it's easier to vote, harder to cheat is, you know, kind of what the Right has been using as their slogan for this. Why wouldn't you want that? And of course, they can't answer that honestly.
U.K. Supreme Court rules that oat milk cannot be called milk
So, this other headline, though, that you really need to, to hear is that, the U.K. ah, Supreme Court has now said that, oat milk cannot be referred to as milk, apparently, because somehow someone somewhere was thinking that oat milk was actually derivative from a cow or a goat somewhere. And I just had to laugh at this. And I was talking to, my producer Luke, as we were, you know, going through some headlines yesterday, and we were just laughing at this because of all of, you know, the utterance, absurdities to suggest that anyone in any country, I mean, you know, maybe the people in the UK just, you know, they're a little bit more confused than here in America, but nobody has ever been confused, that oat milk, or even almond milk is a derivative of an animal byproduct. I mean, this is why, you know, these are alternatives when you're lactose intolerant, for example. And so, so somehow now, though, if you go over to the uk, I don't know what they're going to replace it with, if it's now going to be like, you know, oat, like cream, or, you know, or does that. Because cream actually suggests, you know, a lactose derivative. So, I mean, what are they going to call it? Like, oat water. But, you know, it's not actually water either. But it's so ridiculous. And it reminded me of the Smart, water lawsuit, where a guy actually claimed that it was false advertising because smart water didn't make him smarter. And I'm thinking, well, you definitely need something besides smart water if that's what you think. and you're drinking Smart Water because you actually think that the implication of the title Smart is that it increases your intellectual capacity rather than just, this is a good decision and it's, it's health, it's for your health. But, people are just so ridiculous. And this is why if you ever look, look at a, you know, a container, like, you know, take the plastic off of the pizza before you microwave it, you know, and some of these things that are just so plainly obvious, chances are there was somebody somewhere that was stupid that initiated a lawsuit that then required as part of the. The, either the settlement or the court judgment to actually have to go and correct this, because we don't want somebody else to be stupid down the line and end up ingesting plastic because they forgot to take the COVID off of their microwave pizza. I mean, these are things that we study in law school that you just gotta laugh, because people are just utterly ridiculous on some of these things. And this is also why tort reform is kind of a big deal. But, in response to the Smart Water lawsuit, there was a great response, that was kind of through a lot of these social media headlines that. But someone said, well, I'm going to sue Girl Scout cookies over Thin Mints because the cookies didn't make me thin. And I laughed at that one too, because, you know, obviously that's not what they're suggesting. But if you are like Amelia Bedelia. Did you guys ever read, those books as a kid? Those are some of my favorites where, you know, she was the housekeeper that took everything literally, like, I'm gonna hit the road. So she literally took out a stick and started like smacking the road with a stick. This is what these types of lawsuits are based upon, is that you don't have an actual intellectual understanding. You're just taking everything so literally that you are making a lawsuit out of it. So, this was just so funny. But apparently in the uk, now oat milk is not a thing. The poor little oats are, you know, gonna have to be labeled something else.
Financial Times says U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January
So in just the last couple minutes, we have here, one other thing that you need to be paying attention to is the blockbuster job reports. so much better obviously than oat non milk, but it surpasses expectations over, 170,000 private sector jobs. So with Secretary, Treasury Secretary Besant emphasizing the re privatization of the American economy, the, Financial Times says the U.S. economy blew past Wall Street's expectations, for the added 130,000 jobs in January, signaling that the labor market is healthier than economists had feared following a recent number of gloomy reports. So this could be, a good upswing in terms of the impact for the midterms because everyone is focused on affordability, the economy, and some of these things that will shape voters opinions come November. So this is good news for the Trump White House. Hopefully. the free coffee that you get in the lobby is not made with oat milk. It'll just have to be, you know, oat derivative or, or something. Or maybe here now in the US we can still call it oatmeal because we know what we're doing.
: Jenna Ellis in the morning on American Family Radio.
Jenna Ellis: I love talking about the things of God. Because of truth and the biblical worldview. The U.S. constitution obligates our government to prot preserve and protect the rights that our founders recognize. Come, from God our creator, not our government. I believe that scripture in the Bible is very clear that God is the one that raised up each of you. And God has allowed us to be brought here to this specific moment in time.
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Another school shooter has been identified as transgender in Canada
It is Thursday, February 12, and there has been yet another school shooter, this time in Canada, who has been identified as transgender. So someone who was born male but identifies now as female and apparently started identifying that way as young as 12 years old. This is just an incredibly sad story. So, this coming from the NewSong York Post. Transgender Canadian school shooter who slaughtered eight including mom and stepbrother seen holding rifle in eerie photo. So this, this person, was only 18 years old and was an ex student who went on the rampage at a secondary school. And then in the press conference after this shooting, the police were wanting to respect the gender preferences of the shooter because apparently still in 2026, this is something that is a thing where instead of looking at the facts, facing the facts and questioning, you know, maybe some of these hormone inducing drugs and some of these other things that we've been experimenting with medically, are resulting in a really alarmingly high instance of some of this what, what has been termed trans violence. And, and the statistics are getting more and more severe. And this just really begs the question, where do we go from here when you have a leftist ideology that refuses reality? And it's, it's not just the harm of taking away opportunities and championships and so forth from women's sports, but it's now resulting in a very high incidence of actual violence and harm against others. And yet we don't see that there may be some causation here and that these drugs and this type of ideology is incredibly damaging.
Father Frank Pavone is founder of Priests for Life
So let's welcome in Father Frank Pavone. He's founder of Priests for Life and one of the foremost advocates for life and reality and the truth. And so, Frank, I, you Know, I read some of these headlines and then I see how law enforcement and, you know, government and the so called, quote, unquote experts, the powers that be, react to this. And it's really, I think, irresponsible at this point. I mean, it was irresponsible from the beginning, but especially at this point with now all of these instances, to continue to deny reality and to be, trying to quote, unquote, trans, children as young as 12 in this case, but in other cases, I mean. As young as toddlers.
Frank Pavone : Yes, exactly. I mean, this is an example of how ideology blinds us. Radical, ideology of transgender, political ideology. In other words, the difference between having a strong conviction, versus, ideology is that with the latter, you lose common sense and you lose the ability to analyze situations objectively, go where the evidence leads, you know, pay attention to patterns. I mean, you know, I, I share your sentiment. I mean, I'm sick and tired now of hearing about, you know, oh, here's another act of violence. And, oh, by the way, the shooter was transgender. Enough already. You know, when are we going to, connect these dots? And, I mean, the dots are being connected us. And so to fail to ask the question of, okay, what is this connection, we have to look at the causality here. And then we've got to double down on our policies of getting rid of this, this, this mutilation of children, both for their own good, which of course is a theme we've been hitting on for, For a long time, but now, obviously, for the common good, for the safety of our. Of our communities.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, absolutely. And, and yet it's, the left that refuses to look at reality and to say, okay, maybe this was a bad idea to accept responsibility and course correct. I mean, there's, there are so many different, apt phrases and, and other paradigms and all of this that say, you know, if you are, continue. The longer you stay on the wrong track, the further it takes to come back home. You know, the longer that you go down a bad road, then the more time it takes to come back to where you got off to begin with. And our society is experiencing that. But yet, even Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear. I mean, this was just insane that during an appearance on the View this week, so, you know, perfect forum for this kind of nonsense. he explained how allegedly his Christian faith informs his leadership, including opposition to legislation restricting treatments or protections for trans youth. I mean, and I know that you heard this clip, but he said, you know, for me, it's my faith. Most of the decisions I make are based on the golden rule that says we love our neighbors, we love ourselves. And the parable of the Good Samaritan says that everyone is our neighbor. And so my faith teaches me that all children are the children of God. And I don't want people picking on those kids.
Frank Pavone : I mean it reminds me of. Yeah, it's ridiculous. It reminds me of Paul's words to Timothy. You know, those who hold to the form of religion but deny its power. this is the superficial use of religion, the abuse of religion. I mean the devil himself quotes scripture as we know. And this is, you know, we see the same thing in the abortion battle, abortionists, that we can point to who say I do abortions not despite my faith, but because of it. And there's entire organizations like the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, you know, so this is just another variation on the same theme, you know, let's. And these are people who think that religion just means God is patting us on the back. Ultimately we can do whatever in the world we want, you know, and believe whatever in the world we want. And religion is just, you know, the window dressing that's going to give us God's pat on the back for us following our own way. But the power of religion is that inner transformation where we no longer follow our own way, we follow Christ. And that means we take off the old man like Paul says, take, reject that life of sin and self centeredness and arrogance and, and all the devices that he lists and put on the new man made in the image of Christ. This is the power of religion and these people. And I will go so far as to say, you know, the Democrat party now as a whole in its modern day form is guilty of this.
Jenna Ellis: Yes. So well said. And it is absolutely true that people use and twist and contort scripture for their own purposes. And instead of conforming their lives to the truth and and the power of Christ, they use it for their own evil purposes. And these are the people that will, you know, at the end, the end during the judgment when they will say, but Lord, you know, I called upon your name. And he'll say, depart from me. I never knew you. I mean these are people that this is what it means to take the Lord's name in vain.
Frank Pavone : Exactly. Yeah, that's precisely right. Yeah. And then it's like it doesn't matter that he taught in our streets or that we ate with him. What he's asking is, did you obey Me?
Jenna Ellis: Absolutely. And, you know, another, Another individual that we talked about yesterday who is, Is also denying the power and in taking the Lord's name in vain, was Kari Prijon Bowler, who now has been, She has basically been denounced by, a Catholic organization, the Catholic League, who said. And I think that, they're right on this. That for her to say without qualification that Catholics do not embrace Zionism is presumptuous as. And arrogant. Her audacity is stunning. And they say, They basically, denounce her without using the word, you know, that she was being anti Semitic. But clearly she was. And this is another person who is now. Now, the update on this, by the way, for the audience who. Who's listening, who hasn't heard this. She has now been relieved, of her, her commission status, her position on the Religious Freedom Board by the chair, who's current Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. She's now saying, you don't have the authority to kick me off the board. And she's saying, you know, imagine kicking me off. Where is religious freedom just for my Catholic faith? Well, that's a shield. She's being kicked off because she hijacked a hearing, and she used it for her own political purposes. But, But now she's claiming religious liberty, which is such a. A stupid shield. But the point, The point, Father Frank Pavone, is that, you know, she's using this label of her Christian faith and suggesting that somehow her Christian faith requires her to, hate Zionism, which ultimately means hating Jewish people.
Frank Pavone : Well, I was at that hearing, Jenna. I've been going to the. To the hearings of the Religious Liberty Commission at the invitation of the administration, since the beginning. the president founded this last May. And, I have never in any of these hearings, seen a display like Kari put on the other day. never, has Chairman, Patrick had to do what he did during that hearing. At a certain point, he had took. Had to take his gavel and hit it repeatedly. And never have I seen the audience, roll their eyes and scratch their heads the way that they did every time she spoke the other day in this hearing.
Catholic teaching does not reject Zionism, commission clarified
And never have I heard people of the audience shouting out, as some of them felt compelled to do. And one of them, in fact, was so rambunctious that the chairman had to ask him to leave the room. You know, even though he was, you know, he was basically taking the position we take. I mean, the emotions ran so high because not only was she Being first of all inaccurate in her portrayal of the Catholic position, on this. But she was being childish, she was being immature. She was trying to turn this hearing into an interrogation where she was saying I want a yes or no answer. Am I.
Frank Pavone : Are all Catholics anti Semitic? because we're faithful to our teachings. And she was just being ridiculous. Look, let me clarify for the audience where the Catholic Church stands on this. Catholic teaching does not reject Zionism. If what you mean by Zionism is that the people of Israel have the right to their own state and that we have that it is incumbent on us to be in solidarity with them. M. Now this distinction came up in the hearing as this back. And by the way, this back and forth. This hearing lasted for the course of about six hours. and periodically through that time this little back and forth reasserted itself. And various members of the commission clarified Catholic teaching. but also some of the Jewish scholars that were there testifying said look, let's make a distinction here. If you don't believe that biblical prophecy points to the modern state of Israel as its fulfillment, that's a theological difference and we can respect theological differences. And in fact Catholic teaching doesn't require a connection between biblical prophecy and the modern day state of Israel. But what was also said accurately was this gives nobody the right to say that Israel doesn't have a right to its own country. I mean, and one of the rabbis was saying, you know, are we going to be the only people that are denied the right to have our own country? and then of course even making the theological nuance, the point was made that sometimes a theological position which can be valid to hold in and of itself is used as a mask for anti Semitism. And I think that was the big warning that was, was, was, was, was should be taken to heart. Catholics believe that the that the promises of God to Israel continue though. Yes, Jesus Christ is the fulfillment obviously of the law and the prophets. He's the fulfillment. but that doesn't mean that God has abandoned the covenant with Israel. as a matter of fact, in our Catholic prayers, for example, on Good Friday there's a special set of prayers and one of them is for the Jewish people. And the prayer that I have right here says for the Jewish people that God may grant them to advance in love of his name and in faithfulness to, to his covenant. So if we're as Christians, even if we're saying, you know, if the emphasis is, hey, wait a minute, the new.
: Israel is the church.
Frank Pavone : You know, we are the fulfillment. Yeah, we're the fulfillment. But if we are, how in the world can we look down on what. We'Re the fulfillment of?
Frank Pavone : How could we separate ourselves from that? How could we not like, embrace with, with love and the greatest loyalty our Jewish brothers and sisters who happen to have a state of their own that we defend. I mean, Jenna, the whole thing is like I was scratching my head and I said this, this whole argument is ridiculous. Why?
Frank Pavone : How is it that every Christian doesn't just see so clearly, including every Catholic, that we cannot be who we are unless our Jewish brothers and sisters are honored, celebrated, protected and affirmed in who they are?
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, so well said. And I love the point that you made, Frank Pavone, that you know, the theological disagreements of ultimately prophecy and fulfillment and you know, the NewSong Testament, with the Old Testament, there are some even, Protestant evangelical Christians that are for replacement theology or covenant theology. They believe that the church replaced Israel. And that is an in house debate. I've even had, you know, friends of mine who believe in that view on the program. We've discussed it, but we're still friends and it doesn't devolve into antisemitism, which was the purpose of that hearing. And so there's a distinction between saying, okay, how do we properly read Scripture? And we could, we can and should discuss that. That's one question. But even if you are someone, and I'm a dispensationalist, everyone knows that who listens to this program. I'm an evangelical Christian. I believe that God's covenant is enduring. There is a lot of chur history and also theology and scripture that backs that up, including Romans 9 and 11. but even if you are a believer in covenant theology, that doesn't then give you license or justify anti Semitism in the way that it has been presented on the NewSong Right and especially how it was in this hearing. And the problem especially was that this was a hearing on anti Semitism. And then it became basically one of the board members trying to justify anti Semitism and now being removed. I mean that to me, Frank Pamone is absolutely using the Lord's name in vain.
Frank Pavone : Well, and Jenna, I was sitting there and frankly I was embarrassed as a Catholic, to hear what this woman was saying. and I'll put the blame also somewhere else. You know, I think the reason that a Catholic like Kari can feel so confident in speaking for all Catholics, as she was erroneously doing, is that some Catholic leaders, I gotta lay this at the feet of some Catholic bishops and even some statements of Pope Leo that despite what I just explained, is the official Catholic teaching. Nevertheless, some of their posts on social media and some of their statements have condemned, you know, actions of Israel and not condemned actions of Hamas. How is that even possible to a thinking human being, or much less a religious leader that you're going to convey, you know, without saying it explicitly, but conveying by the absence of what you say or by the imbalance in what you say, conveying this idea that, hey, you know, we got to be careful of this, you know, Zionism and let's not be so pro Israel that we, you know, miss their responsibility. And I'm looking at this and saying, you know, you guys ought to be, you know, it's just the opposite if you're going to err, err on the side of, of, of faithfulness to the, you know, to our, our best ally over there in that part of the world and, and the people of God himself. So I put the blame, partially on the shoulders of some of these Catholic bishops who have just issued these comments that sound more like they're coming from, you know, from, from, from, from the, from the Democrat Party, than from a, Christian leader.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah. So well said. And we've got to take a break here, but this is a great example of why the separate jurisdictions of the church and the state, for Christians, when we are, part of the Church, first and foremost, this grants us freedom to not have to be concerned about the political implications of truth. I mean, I'm out every day on social media saying things that are truthful, that may not be popular, but they are the truth. And first and foremost, my obligation is to be an advocate and an ambassador for Christ. And if that's not favored by either the Democrat Party or the Republican Party, well, you know, too bad. And this is where even Christian politicians should have the courage to say truth first. But when we're not even in a political office, and you don't have to make that calculation, nobody in the Church should be putting politics over truth. So we'll be right back with more.
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Carrie Prijon Boller removed from Religious Liberty Commission
Jenna Ellis: Welcome back. Well, this issue with the, Religious Liberty Commission and the White House is, going even more viral than it was yesterday. And now there are some who are claiming that, this fired commissioner, Kari Prijon Boller now may have a viable religious discrimination claim against the government for being removed from the panel. But, this is what the chair, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick of Texas, actually posted on his social media, declaring that she's, no longer part of the commission. Buller has been removed from President Trump's Religious Liberty Commission. No member of the commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue. This is clearly without question what happened Monday in our hearing on antisemitism in America. This was my decision. The commission has done outstanding work through five hearings. Two more are scheduled. The testimony has been both illuminating and heartbreaking. Under the Biden administration, Americans of all faiths have had their, had their religious liberty not only stolen from them, but were often punished for standing up for their faith in education, the military, the private sector, and even the ministry. This spring, the commission will deliver one of the most important reports in American history directly to the President. The president respects all faiths. He believes that all Americans have a right to receive the great inheritance given to them by our Founding Fathers in the First Amendment. I'm grateful to President Trump for having the vision and boldness to create this commission. Fighting for the word of God and religious freedom is what this nation was founded upon. Leading this fight will be one of his greatest legacy. Signed, Dan Patrick, chair of President Trump's Religious Liberty Commission.
Gerard Felitti: Carrie Projerson was fired over inappropriate conduct
So let's welcome in Gerard Felitti, who is Senior counsel at the Lawfare Project and Gerard. So, you know, this woman is not going quietly. And I think it's just so clear that, she's trying to just use this for political gain because, you know, nobody knew who she was five minutes ago. And now, you know, this is, a big story on the Right, just because, she was, you know, this rude and inappropriate. but to the legal question, does she have a religious discrimination case?
Gerard Filitti: Very simple answer. No, she does not. This is something. She was removed from the panel for her conduct. She was removed from the panel, and that's clearly stated by Lieutenant Governor Patrick, that this was because she hijacked a hearing for her own personal and political agenda, not because of her religious views, not because of the performance of her, religion. She was fired because she was inappropriate. And for that you do not get to sue and recover your job on religious freedom grounds.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, and this makes sense of course, because then literally anyone who claims any faith whatsoever could claim, discrimination as a cover for any other conduct. I mean, if you, for example, you know, steal from your workplace or you're embezzling and you get fired, you know, over that conduct and you claim, well, wait, you know, I'm a, I'm a Christian so you can't fire me or. Well no, because that's not the actual basis of the removal. and so that just naturally makes sense. But here she's also, claiming that Lieutenant, Governor Dan Patrick, the chair of this commission, doesn't have authority to remove, commissioners because she was appointed by the president to that board.
Gerard Filitti: Well, that's a question that goes to the mechanism of how this board works, how the Religious Liberty Commission works. Generally speaking, it's understood that the chair or the highest authority within a commission does have the ability to remove members for cause. that's something that she may very well dispute. And because this is a new organization, this commission was created by executive order by President Trump last year. This may be something that will need to be addressed. It would be beneficial if perhaps President Trump himself, declares that her presence is not wanted on a commission and ah, supports Lt. Governor Patrick. But at the end of the day, that's more of a minor technical issue than what she's claiming to be religious. Just freedom.
Jenna Ellis: Right, right. And that, that totally makes sense. And you know, even scrolling through, some of her responses on social media, people that she is, you know, reposted, you know, like for example, this very, you know, kind of woke. Right. lawyer unfortunately that is kind of going off on a, ah, lot of very what I would deem anti Semitic, commentary. So suggesting and saying, and this is what he posted that she reposted, opposing a DNA based supremacy claim to the Holy Land is based on a 200 year old doctrine of dispensationalism. And that's not anti Semitic, dispensationalism is heresy. And he goes into, you know, all of this nonsense about how, you know, that this kind of false history about the view of dispensationalism. But but to suggest somehow that this is conduct that is appropriate or becoming of a commissioner that is on this high level of a commission that's designated by the White House is just really incredibly inappropriate. and so what are the potential alternatives now, for the White House in terms of the pr, because noticeably, the President and even also the press Secretary has been silent on this.
Gerard Filitti: Well, I think that is an issue that we're seeing. This is not a single issue about Kari Projean Boller. We see this with Candace Owens, we see this with Tucker Carlsen. We see a deliberate framing that is far more troubling. It's an effort to repackage classic anti Semitic tropes in theological language to make them sound principled rather than hateful. And this is what we saw at this hearing. This is what we're seeing, from some on the right who are abusing their views on religion to profit Jew hatred. So this is something that is uncomfortable for the White House right now because a lot of these people are very key Trump supporters. But at the end of the day I think that President Trump will do the right thing. He will not let the Republican Party destroy itself by abusing views on religion in order to discriminate and target against fellow Americans.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah, and this is becoming a more and more fracturing issue on the right, unfortunately. But it's really odd to me, especially in the context, Gerard, of how the outrage cycle work last Friday when the left immediately capitalized on you know, this video that was kind of the Pride Lands and showed Trump is king of the jungle and the lion and then kind of played into that classic that that racist trope that you showed Obama and Myshel Obama as apes. And you know, and clearly the White House, whoever the staffer was, that posted on Trump's true social, that wasn't the main video that they were intending to post. But nevertheless, you know, the Democrats jumped on this kind of, you know, ah, this racist narrative and and, and the outrage cycle. And yet they've been surprisingly quiet about the actual problem that is on the right, which is in my view, it's not racism, it's antisemitism. And somehow Democrats aren't really challenging this. And I kind of wonder why not.
Gerard Filitti: The Democratic Party has increasingly lost its touch and become the party of anti Semitism. And they're watching the Republican Party start to turn the same way with glee. You're not going to hear Democrats who are critical of efforts to combat anti Semitism, which President Trump has done commendably since his first day in office. You're not going to see them attacking anti Semitism because they really don't care, to be honest. They're looking at this as a way that the Republican Party will follow in the steps of the Democratic Party and exclude, choose. So this is something that for them is a win. it's a win because they can focus on cultural issues that they believe are strong to them on these left wing extremist causes, on having, you know, transgender, in politics and sports and everything that, that's more focused for them than having the ability to fight anti Semitism. So you see silence in the Democratic Party because this is something that they're happy with. They like what Bowler said. They like that approach. You didn't see criticism of her coming from Democr. You're actually seeing some Democrats embracing her religion in order to justify their hatred of Jews.
Jenna Ellis: And this is where, you know, the, the woke right, is going further and further away from the standard of conserving truth. And this is why, Gerard, for a long time, you know, I've always described, the political spectrum as not linear but actually a bell curve. And if you have that the middle isn't being moderate, the middle is actually conserving truth. And you can fall away from that, further and further away to the left or to the right. And we're seeing that, that the further and further you get away from genuinely conserving the truth, whether it's on the left or the right side. It ultimately ends in some of the same conclusions, which is, not moral legitimacy, not legitimacy in civil government, but actually some of the same problems, including anti Semitism. And you wrote a great piece, in jns.org and the title is Anti Semitism Is not why the Church Cannot Platform. Candace Owens. granting legitimacy to rhetoric that conflicts with, sacred teachings risks confusing the faithful and undermining moral authority. and I agree with that, especially on the civil Government context. And when we're, talking about all this, not even just in the context of, theology and what the Bible teaches and prophecy and, you know, some of those things, we're actually then correlating this with, with political strategy and foreign policy and all of this. It really undermines the moral authority and legitimacy of the civil government as well.
Gerard Filitti: It does. And that's the problem here. When you're using religion and misusing. Really, that's the better way to put it. When you're misusing religion as a sword against a minority group or against American values, against classical religious values in the context of government, then you are really perverting not just the separation of church and state, but you are co opting religion, you are co opting worship, you are co opting people who believe, faithful people, into a political ideology that you're using religion to justify. So that's really dangerous because people are more apt to believe when they already have that faith. You're looking at the faithful and you're framing political issues in religious terms, but using religion in a way it was never intended to be used in order to justify the most outrageous political ideology. So that's really where the danger is.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah. And that's what I was describing in the last segment with, Father Frank Pavone as using the Lord's name in vain. I mean, using religion as a justification to advance a political ideology that is totally contrary with scripture, and that's using the Lord's name in vain for, for Christians or for people like, you know, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, who are claiming that somehow, the Bible justifies, you know, this transmutation of children. I mean, you know, utterly ridiculous nonsense. But the left also does this in terms of their worldview and their ideology, which is a religion. If we define religion as a worldview, that is a way of attempting to, place moral authority, as the underpinning of the legal justification. And they do this with cultural Marxism. I mean, when they are using Marxism as a justification to suggest that, you know, all white people are the oppressors and to basically be. Be terribly racist in that sense and suggest that there has been, you know, the systematic oppression of all these minorities, they're actually using a religion or a worldview, to justify immorality as well.
Gerard Filitti: in their worldview, the role of God is replaced by the role of the state. But it's no different than religious ideology.
Gerard Felitti: They're justifying in terms that are religious
They're in the same beliefs in a, worldview. And how things should work. They're justifying in terms that in our context would be seen as religious. In theirs, they see it as statist. But it's really the same thing. It's the same fervent belief system that replaces God with the state. so it really is a religion of communism, a religion of Marxism that we're seeing.
Jenna Ellis: Yeah. Well, we got to take a break here. Gerard Felitti, I really appreciate your, time on this, and, you know, it's good to know that a lot of this is just empty rhetoric and that, Kari Projean Bowler doesn't have, you know, any sort of leg to stand on in terms of, you know, looking at the board and any sort of religious discrimination claim. I mean, you know, this is just something that hopefully maybe this instance will cause, the right and those, like President Trump, who really hasn't said anything, but has largely stood very passionately, with Israel and, understands all of the political implications, to actually come out and affirm what, the position of the right always has been and should be, that, you know, of course we support the nation of Israel and of course we respect the, Jewish people. So I really appreciate it. Jared Felitti, we'll be right back with more.
Congress is nearing a funding deadline that could shutter the Department of Homeland Security
: Welcome back to Jenna Ellis in the Morning on American Family Radio.
Jenna Ellis: Welcome back. Well, a few other headlines that you need to know about. the government is approaching yet another partial shutdown. So this coming from time. As Congress edges closer to Friday's funding deadline that could shutter the Department of Homeland Security, lawmakers in both parties are warning that the consequences may be most acutely felt by those traveling, like we experienced back in November when, of course, with the Thanksgiving holiday that was, approaching and a lot of the, air traffic controllers are put on leave and all of this. So, you know, didn't we learn our lesson here? I mean, this is just, just so ridiculous. But, at a House appropriation subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, the acting head of the Transportation Security Administration offered a blunt reminder of what a protracted DHS shutdown would mean for air travel. Most TSA officers would remain on the job unpaid, protecting the more than 430 commercial airports nationwide. but many, you know, are still concerned about this. And so, so Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who's a Republican from Oklahoma, said the end game here is very hard to predict when you're dealing with Chuck Schumer. Fair point. I think what's likely to happen is that we do a continuing resolution once again for a few weeks. That will probably be sometime, tomorrow, meaning today. so the, the reason why, is because you have 30 Democrats leaving tomorrow to go to Munich. the Munich security conference is February 13 through 15. So really, they need to get all of this done today. Meanwhile, the, Judiciary Committee holds their first hearing on the Sharia Free America. So Congressman Chip Roy and Representative Keith Self were, the catalyst for the Sharia Free America Caucus. But, I also had Congressman Brandon Gill, from the state of Texas on earlier in the week. If you missed that interview, you should really listen to it. He made some, actually excellent, observations about how Islam is infiltrating America, why this is so important. And for this caucus they were joined, early in the month by, Alabama Senator Tommy, Tuberville and other leaders. And on Tuesday they held a hearing that included testimony, that Rep. Roy asked one of the authors, who gave testimony, Robert Spencer, he's the author of Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, if it was safe to say that the goal of the Islamic movement is to make the United States Muslim. Spencer responded, that's very clear from the explanatory memorandum of the Muslim Brotherhood saying that the goal is that Allah's religion is victorious over other religions and they're working toward eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within. And all the non Muslim apologists for Sharia that we see are indications of how successful that hearing has been. So you can watch that entire hearing, on YouTube and you know, it's, it's really concerning. I'm really grateful to the Republicans who are bringing attention to this issue. But even more importantly, as a Congressman Gill said on the program earlier this week, not only do we need federal legislation on this to just ensure it's basically a redundancy protection for what the U.S. constitution already, requires, which is that we have a supreme law of the land, we don't have parallel legal systems, nor a religious legal system. So, that we need that kind of redundancy Protection on the federal level. But we also need legislation throughout the state to ensure that there are no state parallel courts. That would undermine the United States, would undermine our system of government and really be you know, kind of this catalyst to usher in Islam into America. So ah, a really important here and I would encourage you, if you want to support this caucus, you know, call these, these members, call your state legislators as well, tell them about you know, what Christians believe on this issue and especially for the members of Congress. You know, sometimes we see all of these headlines but you know, they don't necessarily directly hear from us, the encouragement. Sometimes you know, we tend to only call when we're complaining about something. So it's a really good thing when they do things that we appreciate, to give them a call as well and say thank you for standing firm. So I've passed along specifically you know, my thanks to these members as well.
The House approved the Save America Act requiring voter identification
but the House has also passed the Save America Act. And so now all attention is turning to the Senate. And this coming from the Wall street journal in a 218 to 213 vote almost entirely along party lines. Isn't that ridiculous? The House approved the measure known as the Save America Act, a measure that would require a, ah, documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal election and would establish a nationwide voter identification requirement for casting ballots. This just seems, you know, completely obvious that this is something that would be good for America because we have to use ID for so many other things. And if we don't have to use ID for elections, what is that allowing? Well, people who shouldn't be voting in elections. And if there is disenfranchisement of people who shouldn't be voting in elections anyway, that's not actually disenfranchisement, that's election security. And so even a former President Barack Obama, you know, of all people, you know, goes on X and talks about how the SAVE act is going to make it, you know, a disaster for America. And he says Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. And then, and he's like, tell your member of Congress to vote no. And I responded to this and said, if you are able to vote legally, showing identification won't disenfranchise you. If you aren't able to vote legally, not showing, identification will disenfranchise everyone else. And this is so obvious. And yet Democrats are just openly suggesting that first, you know, they suggested that this was racist and somehow, you know, minorities, were so confused and you know, and incompetent that they couldn't go and get voter IDs. And of course, you know, members of, of those minority groups were very vocal saying, yeah, we can and we're fine, and we actually agree with this. now the attention has been turned to women and you have, so many members, even Jamie Raskin. And then they've enlisted a lot of, or several of the Democrat women, members of Congress to go out and make these videos on social media talking about how, you know, it's just going to disenfranchise, you know, so many millions of women who, if they get married and they, and they change their name legally, that, you know, that's, that's not going to allow them to vote, which is utter nonsense. that is not at all what this legislation is saying. And that has been debunked, through the legislation itself. But, you know, we know that. And yet they're trying to advance kind of this fear that somehow it will disenfranchise women. And I love some of the comments to this where people are saying, you know, you, you really think that women aren't competent to comp. To go through the process of a name change and then show, that have an ID and then be able to, to, you know, prove who they are. I mean, under no other circumstances, whether it's, you know, flying, whether it's anything else, getting, you know, obtaining a passport, any of these things, a name change on any basis, but especially for marriage. But, you know, you can change your name legally anytime you want to, but for the name changes, that's never been an issue with anything else. And the Democrat Party has never thought that it's been an issue with anything else. But, but suddenly when it comes to securing elections now this becomes, you know, hugely problematic. So it's just a ridiculous way of suggesting that, we shouldn't have voter id. But don't get caught up in the lies because, you know, the Democrats are not pointing out anything that is a legitimate concern. They just want ultimately their preferred outcome, which is that they don't want voter id. And we have to always ask the question, well, why wouldn't you want our elections more safe and secure? Because if it's easier to vote, harder to cheat is, you know, kind of what the Right has been using as their slogan for this. Why wouldn't you want that? And of course, they can't answer that honestly.
U.K. Supreme Court rules that oat milk cannot be called milk
So, this other headline, though, that you really need to, to hear is that, the U.K. ah, Supreme Court has now said that, oat milk cannot be referred to as milk, apparently, because somehow someone somewhere was thinking that oat milk was actually derivative from a cow or a goat somewhere. And I just had to laugh at this. And I was talking to, my producer Luke, as we were, you know, going through some headlines yesterday, and we were just laughing at this because of all of, you know, the utterance, absurdities to suggest that anyone in any country, I mean, you know, maybe the people in the UK just, you know, they're a little bit more confused than here in America, but nobody has ever been confused, that oat milk, or even almond milk is a derivative of an animal byproduct. I mean, this is why, you know, these are alternatives when you're lactose intolerant, for example. And so, so somehow now, though, if you go over to the uk, I don't know what they're going to replace it with, if it's now going to be like, you know, oat, like cream, or, you know, or does that. Because cream actually suggests, you know, a lactose derivative. So, I mean, what are they going to call it? Like, oat water. But, you know, it's not actually water either. But it's so ridiculous. And it reminded me of the Smart, water lawsuit, where a guy actually claimed that it was false advertising because smart water didn't make him smarter. And I'm thinking, well, you definitely need something besides smart water if that's what you think. and you're drinking Smart Water because you actually think that the implication of the title Smart is that it increases your intellectual capacity rather than just, this is a good decision and it's, it's health, it's for your health. But, people are just so ridiculous. And this is why if you ever look, look at a, you know, a container, like, you know, take the plastic off of the pizza before you microwave it, you know, and some of these things that are just so plainly obvious, chances are there was somebody somewhere that was stupid that initiated a lawsuit that then required as part of the. The, either the settlement or the court judgment to actually have to go and correct this, because we don't want somebody else to be stupid down the line and end up ingesting plastic because they forgot to take the COVID off of their microwave pizza. I mean, these are things that we study in law school that you just gotta laugh, because people are just utterly ridiculous on some of these things. And this is also why tort reform is kind of a big deal. But, in response to the Smart Water lawsuit, there was a great response, that was kind of through a lot of these social media headlines that. But someone said, well, I'm going to sue Girl Scout cookies over Thin Mints because the cookies didn't make me thin. And I laughed at that one too, because, you know, obviously that's not what they're suggesting. But if you are like Amelia Bedelia. Did you guys ever read, those books as a kid? Those are some of my favorites where, you know, she was the housekeeper that took everything literally, like, I'm gonna hit the road. So she literally took out a stick and started like smacking the road with a stick. This is what these types of lawsuits are based upon, is that you don't have an actual intellectual understanding. You're just taking everything so literally that you are making a lawsuit out of it. So, this was just so funny. But apparently in the uk, now oat milk is not a thing. The poor little oats are, you know, gonna have to be labeled something else.
Financial Times says U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January
So in just the last couple minutes, we have here, one other thing that you need to be paying attention to is the blockbuster job reports. so much better obviously than oat non milk, but it surpasses expectations over, 170,000 private sector jobs. So with Secretary, Treasury Secretary Besant emphasizing the re privatization of the American economy, the, Financial Times says the U.S. economy blew past Wall Street's expectations, for the added 130,000 jobs in January, signaling that the labor market is healthier than economists had feared following a recent number of gloomy reports. So this could be, a good upswing in terms of the impact for the midterms because everyone is focused on affordability, the economy, and some of these things that will shape voters opinions come November. So this is good news for the Trump White House. Hopefully. the free coffee that you get in the lobby is not made with oat milk. It'll just have to be, you know, oat derivative or, or something. Or maybe here now in the US we can still call it oatmeal because we know what we're doing.
00:52 - 20:00 | Father Frank Pavone talks about the LGBTQ+ issues in America and on the recent school shooting in Canada. Jenna and Father Frank shifts the conversation to discuss the recent controversy on Carrie Prejean Boller.
21:30 - 35:15 | Gerard Filtti Joins Jenna to talk about the Anti-Semitism problem in America. They also talk about his recent article “ Anti-Semitism is not Catholic : Why the church cannot platform Candace Owens”
36:00 - 50:00 | Jenna brings insight about the SAVE ACT bill.
https://x.com/dloesch/status/2021726964894113984?s=42
https://www.jns.org/antisemitism-is-not-catholic-why-the-church-cannot-platform-candace-owens/
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