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Why Christians Need to Stand Up — Live With Riley Gaines at Dream City Church
Sun, 09 Mar 2025
Enjoy Charlie's speech with Riley Gaines at Dream City Church in Phoenix where she discusses how standing up for women in sports helped grow her faith, the importance of Christians everywhere standing up for themselves, and more. To get your copy of Pastor Allen’s new book, Angels, Demons and You, visit allenjackson.com/angels.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is the purpose of Freedom Night at Dream City Church?
So, you know, a podium at the front, seats out in the audience, like a whiteboard behind me. And upon delivering my message, a group of protesters, Russian, they turn off the lights, hundreds of them. They turn off the lights to the room. So it's pitch black. And they ambush me like I'm fully accosted. I'm being pushed. I'm being shoved.
I'm being like punched in the face by these men wearing dresses, which fortunately for me, their punches don't hurt that bad. But nonetheless, these protesters ended up barricading me in a room and holding me for ransom for about, I mean, four, almost five hours demanding that if I wanted to make it back home to see my family safely again, I had to pay them money.
Um, you might be wondering where were the police? Uh, we were in San Francisco. So the police were being held for ransom with me. Um, our three in this room, right? I'm looking at them. Can't you do something? Isn't it actually your job to do something to which they outright said no. No, we can't do anything.
We're not allowed to do anything because we're not allowed to be seen as anything other than an ally to that community or else we'll lose our jobs. Again, the same community who's on the other side of the door calling these officers racist pigs for protecting a white girl like me.
Anyways, it's about midnight at this point, the middle of the night, and the dean of students shows up and starts negotiating with the students how much I owe each of them to be able to leave, which the price they agreed upon was $10 each, which makes me mad because I think I'm worth more than $10.
Eventually, we were able to get out of that room, but not because the protesters dispersed or were letting up, decided to go home. No, about, I mean, however many officers had to form a diamond around me, we pushed out. But the most remarkable part about this story is what happened the next day when the vice president of student affairs at the university sent out a university-wide email.
So to all faculty, all staff, the entire student body. And in this email, she said, we are so proud of our brave students for handling Riley Gaines in the manner that they did. We know how deeply traumatic her presence is on this campus. And so here's some counseling resources for you all. You know, take the day off of school. Just know that we see you. We love you.
We hear you and we stand with you. No mention of, of course, the condemnation of violence, violence against women for that matter. No mention of the value in upholding free speech. No, of course not. I could tell story after story after story of being spit on, of people throwing glass bottles at me, pouring drinks on me for hours.
But again, that shift that we've seen, and to, I mean, to be very clear, from the beginning, the support has been tenfold compared to the negative. But you compare three years ago to now, a lot of the support at the beginning was in privacy or in secrecy or in direct messages or done through winks or whispers. That has totally shifted now.
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Chapter 2: How should the church engage with controversial cultural issues?
If they weren't making money on this, they wouldn't do this. Could you imagine walking into a doctor's office and saying, don't really feel like having a right arm today. Could you cut it off? Your doctor, physician, surgeon would look at you like you're literally insane. But because they can attach a price tag to it, and we saw this. We saw it in my backyard. I live in Nashville, Tennessee.
And that video of this Vanderbilt clinician who came out and said, you know, forget abortions. We can only make $200, $250 for every abortion. These are lifelong patients that we're creating. These are cash cows, $70,000 to $100,000 per procedure. And we have them for life. And just knowing all of this is being done for profit, it makes me sick.
And so to see these parents who are opportunists, and that's the kindest way you could put it, is disturbing.
I think the buried lead of that is that if they weren't able to post on social media that they were doing it, I don't know if they'd be doing it. I think that it's not even that they're getting the bad ideas from social media, it's that they get like a mini celebrity by, excuse the language, pimping out their toddler for medieval witchcraft practices on their TikTok and Instagram.
That's a whole nother level of dementedness that we can explore at another date. Everybody, I want to thank you guys for standing strong. Please go back to your communities and bring the Freedom Night in America concept to your town and give it up for Riley Gaines and Luke. Please get on up here. Thank you guys. Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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