Today's Issues continues on AFR with Steve Paisley

>> Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.

Tim Wildmon Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim with Ed. And now, Steve Paisley. Jordan joins us on this Monday, June 2nd. Good morning, Steve.

Steve Jordahl Good morning, everybody. Tim, I gotta say, I like the tan.

Tim Wildmon Thank you.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Tim Wildmon tan, slash burn.

Steve Jordahl Okay.

Tim Wildmon That's what happens to white people inside. I mean, they turn red first and then hopefully they turn brown. Do. What'd you say?

Ed Vitagliano Well, I mean, if you, when you work inside like we do, we're not outside weed eating and mowing, you know, all day long. What's that ever, ever?

Tim Wildmon You know, I always wondered, can people like, brown skinned people or black skinned people, can they get sunburned? I think so.

Ed Vitagliano They can have damage.

Tim Wildmon Oh, they can, they can. But you don't. You don't think about it because it doesn't show.

Steve Jordahl You won't see it.

Tim Wildmon No, but they do.

Steve Jordahl They got skin and it's not that.

Tim Wildmon Mystery solved.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, there you go.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Tim Wildmon So anyway. But, yeah, but yeah, you know, I've tried to take more seriously the, you know, the warnings out there to avoid too much. You don't want to get too much sunburn because you, you know, skin cancers out there.

Ed Vitagliano When I go outside to work, in the yard. Yeah. my wife always says, wear your wide brimmed.

Tim Wildmon Yes, yes. Yeah, I've started doing that too when I'm outside. To protect your face and your neck and your ears from direct sunlight for, you know, four or five hours, however long you're gonna. Yeah, you need some sunlight because, I mean.

Ed Vitagliano Yes. Vitamin D. Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Healthy for you. So, anyway.

Steve Kim: The world is a tinderbox right now

All right, Steve, what's your first story?

Steve Jordahl Well, the world. I heard you guys talking at the end of the last show about the Russia, the attack, Ukraine attack, drone attack on Russia, and what Russia's reaction might be. And we're all a little nervous about this. The world is a tinderbox right now. I'm watching the BBC saying the UK has now decided to go on a war footing. according to the headline, their parliament. There are, a lot of problems around the world. We've got an axis of evil that is on the rise with China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. I was talking with Gary Bauer, Friday, and, he's got some concerns. I wanted to run it by you guys and see what you thought. this is cut 14.

Speaker D I am M. Deeply concerned that the Axis of Iran, communist China, Russia, North Korea, may have made a decision that they're willing to risk everything before America gets strong enough to stop them. Unfortunately, under Biden and Harris, we had four years of foreign policy disasters which weakened America and strengthened our enemies. Every day that passes puts Taiwan in greater danger. There are severe national security risks to us because of Taiwan semiconductor company. Defending Taiwan wouldn't be easy. We should all be praying for the president as he guides our nation through these dangerous waters.

Steve Jordahl So that was on Friday. Taiwan was his primary concern. But that was before the Russian drone attack, the Ukrainian drone attack on Russia.

Tim Wildmon Well, I don't know anything about Taiwan. Something imminent.

Steve Jordahl China has moved its navy, parked a lot of its navy right across the straits from Taiwan. There's nothing like no explosions or whatever but they can blockade that country in a matter of hours and they can invade if they chose. It would be costly but they could, you know, they're, they're parked and ready. And what Gary is looking at is just the geopolitical. So when Trump, like he said, like Gary said, we, he inherited, Trump inherited a very weak militaries all on the social experiments and all this kind of stuff. And now they got Hagseth and they've got Trump and they're, they're building the, the military back up to be a fighting force. Well Gary's suggestion is perhaps China and Russia and Iran aren't going to wait for us to get to fighting force before they decide to do something to press the issue.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, I mean for four years we I don't know if it was for the whole four years but we, a lot of years did not meet our recruitment goals in any branch of the military. A great deal of that from what we've heard is that a lot of these career military families, you know, great granddad was in the military, grandfather, father, son, that the, that these folks were not enlisting like they typically would have volunteering. We have an all volunteer force because of like you mentioned Steve, the social media engineering that was going on and the fact that under Biden a lot of the conservative patriotic Christian individuals who were in leadership positions were purged so that they could elevate the DEI and the other woke individuals into leadership positions. And and that that could be problematic should we get into a shooting war.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, I agree.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. Well as you said, the world is a tinderbox and we, and Gary said something very significant especially for we as Christians and that is we, we need to pray for President Trump and his leadership team because you Know, every day brings new challenges and new threats and they have to make decisions. And by his team, I mean, you know, the whole leadership team there for the White House, the cabinet and everything. The. And if you get into a. You already got, very tense situations around the world with Pakistan and India, you got Ukraine and Russia, you've got Taiwan, everybody. Yeah. Israel especially Hamas.

Tim Wildmon And then you've got, you know, China, potentially with Taiwan. so, yeah, a lot of hotspots.

Steve Jordahl Crazy man in North Korea who.

Tim Wildmon Around the globe. Yeah. He can do anything but launch a boat.

Steve Jordahl Launch a boat. He's launched enough. Icb.

Tim Wildmon Did you see? I don't know what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about? About, about. When was it? About a week or 10 days ago, North Korea was set to launch,

Steve Jordahl One of a new class of destroyer.

Tim Wildmon I believe it was navy ship. And so Kim Jong Un, the dictator, went to a, launching party, so to speak, where they put this boat out to sea, show it off to the world. Hey, look at us. Well, the boat started sinking, am I right? I call it a boat. It's a ship.

Steve Jordahl That was a ship.

Tim Wildmon Navy ship.

Steve Jordahl So this is the one. They launched it instead of backing into the water. This is the one where it rolls off sideways.

Ed Vitagliano Yes.

Steve Jordahl And then, well, only the back part of the ship released. So the back.

Tim Wildmon This is all this is out on satellite.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, the back part went into the water and the front part stayed on land. And it caused a boat to tip. And I think it did sink. It was a pink.

Tim Wildmon I don't think it completely sunk into the ocean.

Steve Jordahl It was.

Steve Jordahl It was. Yeah.

Tim Wildmon They're still trying to deal with it. They don't know what to do exactly. But it was, you know, like, it was like a very. It's like a comedy show for. Here's this dictator coming out and his launch this fabulous new ship, and it's. It sinks halfway into the ocean. So, so, so, so that, that's my joke about. Steve said he'll, he'll do anything I said.

Ed Vitagliano But I'm looking, I'm looking at it now. 5,000 ton Destroyer. so, you know, someone got shot over that.

Why would China, North Korea release information about a new destroyer

Steve Jordahl Well, this is the discussion now among foreign policy types is why would China, North Korea, who didn't have to say anything about this, release all this information? Why did they, why are they talking about it? And I've heard, one of the theories is, well, they are announcing to the world that they have the technology now of A very new and improved destroyer.

Tim Wildmon so anyway, but that's, That's the situation. That's why I said he can't launch a boat.

Steve Jordahl Right.

Tim Wildmon anyway, next story.

Wisconsin wants to replace term mother with inseminated person

Steve Jordahl All right. we keep talking about the Democrats. If they're doing a postmortem of their election loss and are they learning their lesson. And at least in Wisconsin, it appears that they are not in Wisconsin, there has been a bill that has been introduced. It is the Marriage and Family Equality Act. And basically what it does is it takes all of, the, bills, that deal with reproduction and it erases the term woman or mother. I'm sorry, expectant mother is now a pregnant person. a mother is a person who gave birth to the infant. so all throughout, the bill, they've just scratched out mother in these.

Ed Vitagliano Other bills and replaced it with these.

Steve Jordahl And replaced it with these bizarre.

Ed Vitagliano Bizarrely worded.

Steve Jordahl Similarly, Governor Tony Evers, he has a bill in the Senate that doesn't just tweak a few terms. It replaces mother with inseminated person across 19, 17 pages of government, legal, basically anywhere in the world that. In the. In the Wisconsin law that the word mother is there. It is no longer there. And they wonder why they're not gaining ground.

Ed Vitagliano Well, listen, I'm looking at a story on the New York. New, York Post, this transgender athlete. And by the way, these conservative outlets. New York Post calling this dude a hero.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano In the store.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, I know they do that.

Ed Vitagliano So a lot of them do that. Associated Press. They all do this. But this person, this boy named Veronica Garcia, 17, for the second year in a row, he dominated the, State, Washington state track high school championship. And because he was criticized for participating in girls sports, told her critics, his. Told his critics. It's just bizarre to get a life. That's. That's his attitude. And that's the attitude of the left.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Is get a life. This is the way it is. And the fact that Wisconsin wants to replace the word mother with these absurdly.

Tim Wildmon Worded and, not all of us. Constantinople.

Ed Vitagliano That. Well, that's true.

Tim Wildmon It's not passed yet.

Ed Vitagliano It's a proposed law by Democrats.

Tim Wildmon By, Democrats. But the Democrats are in favor of it.

Ed Vitagliano But they are. They're in favor of it. And I think they want to call.

Tim Wildmon It a birthing person, don't they?

Ed Vitagliano Yes. Birthing person or person who gave birth.

Steve Jordahl Person who gave birth.

Tim Wildmon So what do you do on Mother's Day?

Steve Jordahl Yeah, well, you know, I saw Happy Birthing Day. Yeah. Or you Yeah, I saw a, Well, I won't even get into that. It is the Democrat party. But you know, what are signs that woke. And this kind of stuff is not take. Is kind of receding in public. The Democrats can't read the tea leaves. I came across a website where this guy was going, you know, today is June 2nd and June is Pride Month. Pride Month, Right. And all of the corporate America decides to, you know, Genu flect and put.

Ed Vitagliano And a lot of sports teams.

Steve Jordahl Yeah, all the rainbows everywhere. This guy went and looked at the, web pages of all these different companies to see how they are celebrating, Gay Pride Month and listen to this. Microsoft, no change. Xbox, no change. Disney, no change. Target, no change. Starbucks even Starbucks roached out on the.

Tim Wildmon Gays roached out image bailed probably.

Steve Jordahl all of those companies are not deciding to celebrate Pride Month, at least on their web pages.

Tim Wildmon Okay, so I have a theory on this. Okay, Just a theory. Well, as far as the, corporation sponsoring like the Human Rights Campaign, which is the number one probably advocate or organization for the LGBTQ movement, it's called the Human Rights Campaign. and sponsoring gay pride parades around the country, we're hearing that a lot of corporations are backing out of that and not doing that any longer. My guess is the economy. You don't have extra money for sponsoring Pride Month or Pride events. you know what I'm saying? That are unnecessary, considered unnecessary. The other thing is how much, how much, how much pride and hand clapping does a group of people need? I mean, the LGBTQ community for the most part, has conquered America. There's nothing, there's nothing more to. There's nothing more to take or to, advocate, I mean, to, to promote, because that hasn't already pop culture. So the federal government, you have same sex marriage, it's everywhere.

Steve Jordahl At the same time, Tim, they are the most persecuted group in America.

Tim Wildmon No. Yeah. No, they're not. no, they're not. And, and I think that's the reason why the Pride, so called Pride movement is flailing right now, is because when you, when you have a cause to champion and it's perceived by the general public maybe as an injustice, then they'll, then you get, you get momentum, public momentum.

Companies hesitant to celebrate Gay Pride Month because people will initially think of transgender movement

But once you've conquered that hill, that's why this, the Southern Poverty Law center organization based out of Montgomery, you know, they put out this hate group list every year and of course we're on it every year. Doesn't matter what we do or don't do. It's, you know, you're.

Ed Vitagliano Because of our views, Biblical views.

Tim Wildmon Our biblical views on homosexuality.

Steve Jordahl Focus on the Family made it on Friday.

Tim Wildmon They did.

Steve Jordahl They were just needed.

Tim Wildmon So any Christian group that has orthodox views about homosexuality and especially who are active is going to be categorized by them as a hate group. The splc. But, I'm just saying these groups, but that didn't get much play in the media like it used to. Like it used to. So I just don't think. I just don't think the cries of, oh, we're second class citizens and we're discriminated against. I just don't think that flies anymore because people say, no, if anything, you get special treatment.

Ed Vitagliano Well, and I don't disagree with anything you guys have said. I agree with. And let me add one other thing. I think what we were, initially talking about, the transgender movement has made because of the clear unfairness of males participating in women's sports and the fact that the overwhelming percentage of Americans, 70% plus, do not want that, I think a lot of these companies are hesitant to celebrate Gay Pride Month because people will initially and first think of the transgender movement.

Tim Wildmon That's true.

Ed Vitagliano And these companies don't want to get tied up with all that. And I, I. So I think for a variety of reasons, these companies stepping back, it. Yeah, it's just not worth. It's just not worth it because it sounds like they're in favor of boys beating girls at girls sports when they come out and celebrate Gay Pride Month. And, and they don't want to lose.

Tim Wildmon Money because it is lgbtq. Yeah, it's all those letters.

Roached out refers to behavior of players who run away from difficult situations

All right, you're listening. Go ahead.

Ed Vitagliano I was gonna say, by the way, I, did, find out what this roached, out means.

Steve Jordahl Oh, yeah.

Ed Vitagliano And so I looked it up. It says in the context of World of Warcraft, which.

Steve Jordahl Oh, well, there you go.

Ed Vitagliano Which was a. Gaming. A very. It's probably still is very popular, gaming, platform or games. Series of games. Roached out refers to the behavior of players who run away from difficult situations in dungeons or raids, similar to how cockroaches scatter when disturbed. So when this guy that you played, said, they. They've roached out, it means they're running away in fear from a very difficult situation.

Steve Jordahl Well, I'm glad I didn't look it up. And now I'm just glad now to find out it wasn't obscene, so.

Ed Vitagliano Yes, that's right. Because it would have been N. Knowing.

Steve Jordahl You, Steve, I know Right.

A young man with brain cancer has been diagnosed with three new tumors

All right, I have a little bit of bad news to share with you guys, but maybe a prayer concern if you want. Do you remember the little kid, D.J. daniels, that was at the president's, address to Congress, that was awarded.

Ed Vitagliano He was the honorary.

Steve Jordahl Honorary Secret Service. And he's been inducted into tons of police. He's a cancer survivor. he was given five months to live and then, in 2018. And well, his family has announced that they have found three new tumors. Yeah, this poor kid in D.J. daniel.

Ed Vitagliano So, brain tumors, right?

Steve Jordahl Yes, I believe so. Brainstem or somewhere in there. Yes, it's the same.

Ed Vitagliano Very brave young, man. Loves law enforcement. I think he had a, I don't know, it seemed like it was a state trooper uniform or something. Honorary member. Remember, this is the young man the Democrats would not stand up and applaud.

Steve Jordahl Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano And this is where their ideology is leading them to take nonsensical stands when the vast majority of Americans would, you know, love this kid.

Steve Jordahl He has been inducted and sworn into 1351 Law enforcement agencies across the country. And the White House put out a, statement that says, agent Daniels, we're praying for you.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, it's a very, very sad situation, folks. Pray, pray for this young man and what's, his name again?

Steve Jordahl D.J. daniel.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, I remember him at the. That was at the State of the Union speech or whatever they called that.

Steve Jordahl Was addressed to a joint session of Congress.

Tim Wildmon I mean, in, January.

Ed Vitagliano Yes.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano Just be praying for this young man and his family.

Steve Jordahl Absolutely sad.

Six illegal migrants arrested in South Carolina after random shooting, robbery

All right, we, this is not getting a whole lot of play. there was a random shooting in South Carolina. Ah. A woman named Larisha Cherelle Thompson was in her car and was shot to death and then robbed six shot to.

Tim Wildmon Death and then rob.

Steve Jordahl Well, the car that was purpose randomly chosen. Killed. And then they robbed the car and her purse and everything. Anyway, they have arrested six, illegal migrants. these are. Their names are Ashell, Amandades Torres, Chinoros. I can't do these names.

Ed Vitagliano I wouldn't.

Steve Jordahl Jarby. Yeah, well, okay, there's a 21 year old, an 18 year old, a 17 year old, and then three juveniles, 15, 14 and 13 years old. ISIS put a detainer on them, but they, they were tweeting out while they were doing this, what. While they were in their spree. They, they wanted to do a killing spree. It. What appears from their, from their tweets, they tweeted out, mission failed or this Is just the beginning was one of the tweets. And they, they were. The news reports say they showed absolutely no remorse once they were.

Tim Wildmon So they were, they were caught obviously arrest. How many of them?

Steve Jordahl 6.

Tim Wildmon And the young, young woman is dead?

Steve Jordahl Yes, sir.

Tim Wildmon Wow. Just because. I mean that just they wanted to rob. Just, just for the.

Steve Jordahl Maybe the thriller, the kicks. Yeah.

Ed Vitagliano listen, and of course the lead story today was the Boulder, Colorado incident. That was also somebody that was an Egyptian.

Tim Wildmon Not supposed to be in our country in the first place.

Ed Vitagliano Not supposed to be here.

Steve Jordahl Right.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. And this is, this is happening more and more. These, violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants that you read about here. And there's people that shouldn't be here. Probably came in when Joe Biden opened the floodgates and.

Steve Jordahl Absolutely.

Tim Wildmon Some say 15 million people here. Remember the member those for those first two or three years.

Ed Vitagliano Yes.

Tim Wildmon It was like Biden just said, y' all come from around the world. And they did. And now people are here and you know, vast majority of them are peace loving people, I'm sure. But you're going to have your element that are. Well, because some criminals and some of.

Ed Vitagliano The countries in Central and South America were purposefully sending.

Tim Wildmon Yes.

Steve Jordahl They're not sending their best.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, they weren't sending their best. They were emptying their prisons.

Tim Wildmon Right. Tell them to go to America. Yeah, that happened. Venezuela.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Well, they did that. Right. So anyway, so now President Trump is left to try to deal with the ramifications of Biden letting everybody in. 15 million people in here. And, it's a mess. And they're trying. ICE is trying to. They're at least now allowed to do their job. Right.

Ed Vitagliano They are getting resistance. I saw a video over the weekend. I'm not sure where it was at. but ICE agents were trying to go pick some people up and other people were.

Steve Jordahl Gerald's office.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah. Was that where it was? So it's. And then you have judges who are putting the hammer down on President Trump's policies. And so it's difficult going.

Tim Wildmon But the supreme. And the Supreme Court basically sided with that. The President States has the authority to deport people here, here, here illegally.

Steve Jordahl It's back and forth. There's. I don't remember what the latest, President Trump was not with the latest. With the Federalist Society judge that he appointed it.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. I think that had to do with the, tariff law, not the illegal immigration.

Ed Vitagliano But anyway. That's right.

Tim Wildmon Deportation. I mean, hard to keep up. It is. Yep.

American Family Radio thanks you for listening to today's Issues

All right. Thank you, everybody, for listening to the program today. Thank you to Steve.

Steve Jordahl My pleasure.

Tim Wildmon To Ed, Brent Creely, our producer. And we thank you for listening to this program, today's Issues and keep listening to American Family Radio. Thank you.