Karmelo Anthony's Conviction and the Republican State Convention

A jury deliberates for less than three hours, a 17-year-old admits “I did it,” and the country still tries to turn the verdict into a slogan. We walk through the Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf case step by step, then zoom in on the part most hot takes skip: what Texas self-defense law actually asks a jury to decide, how provocation changes the analysis, and why “someone touched me” is not a blank check for deadly force. If you want the facts, the timeline, and the legal and moral framework, we bring it.

Then we shift to Texas politics and culture where the fights are already forming. The Texas GOP Convention in Houston becomes the backdrop for a real argument about the future of the party, from pro-life platform wording to what legislative priorities will get pushed next session. Brandon Waltens from Texas Scorecard joins to explain how the convention works, why the platform matters, and how party leadership rules shape outcomes long after the speeches end.

We also dig into a controversy with religious and political fallout: sexually explicit books reportedly found in a church library tied to Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico, plus what it says about “faith” messaging in modern campaigns. From there it’s Houston’s $7.5 billion budget and the risks of fee-driven fixes, and finally the Southern Baptist Convention debate over women serving as pastors and what biblical authority means when the culture wants PR-first answers.

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Houston Intro And GOP Convention Preview

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In the heart of Texas, Houston's gun loving big in the voice of reason. It's the most of the conservative Michael Wilson.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920. It is good to be with you each and every morning, especially today. And there's a lot going on. First of all, we're going to have Brandon Waltons coming on at the top of the second hour from Texas Scorecard to go over everything coming up with the GOP Convention. The Texas GOP Convention coming up here in Houston at the George R. Brown. I think that's Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Patriot Talk 920, along with our friends over at Gun Owners of America, are going to have a booth. I believe it's booth 210. Don't quote me on that. I believe that's the case. Over at the George R. Brown this weekend for the Texas GOP convention. Lots of the people uh with big names will be there. There'll be lots of opportunities. There will be lots of changes made potentially to the Republican Party, lots of internal debates going on on what the future of the party looks like, which direction we want to go. Because you have neoconservativism and you have paleoconservatism. And of course, a lot of the people that are influencing the party want to turn around and head back to Bush-era neoconservatism. And much of the people that are actually in the party, not the people that are running it, much of the people that are actually in it, like you or me, the grassroots, many of us are paleoconservative. Think Pat Buchanan. Think less of the military-industrial complex. Think less of the overreaching tyrannical government, and think more of a government that cares about its people. Government that says, of course, the law is not neutral. Of course you, you know, the neoconservative claim is sort of libertarian. You can't legislate morality. Of course you can. In fact, that's the only thing you ultimately can actually legislate. And they want to take it back. They want to take us back to a time when the party didn't stand for those things. Neoconservatism. They want to return, and pro-life is a great example of this. We'll talk about it with Brandon Waltons. But there's a reason that they desire to remove the equal protection part of the Republican Party's plank on being pro-life. They want it to all be treatment-based and justifiable. They want it all ultimately to feel like everything's okay, and no one should be punished for this. It's just kind of a mistake. As opposed to really getting into the moral nitpicks, into the not even nitpicks, but the moral claims, which are that when you kill an unborn child in the womb, you're committing a murder against an innocent human being. And that's evil. And so we'll have all those conversations at the Texas GOP convention this weekend at the George R. Brown. And we're going to have Brandon Waltons coming out to talk about a lot of the things going on, what we expect to come

Murder Trial Facts And Self-Defense Claims

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out of it. With that being said, the first story that I want to kick it off with, you probably all have seen this, but I I want to get into it a little bit because it's a big story. Carmelo Anthony, you guys might remember this story going around, and it's really stayed kind of in the public eye even while it wasn't at trial, even if it kind of faded to the back burner a little bit, it was still there. And uh, so I'm gonna go ahead and give background. I'm sure you guys already know, you probably heard when the story dropped, but I want to re-establish a lot of the facts as we go into understanding what's going on now. This talk dropped back in April, April 2nd of last year, uh, when 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, who was a Memorial High School athlete, was attending a track meet, Frisco ISD, at Kirkendell Stadium. Of course, rain kind of popped up, which sent students back toward the team tents. Carmelo Anthony, who was 17 and was competing for Centennial High School, entered Memorials tent, even though the tents are reserved, right? You have the Memorial City tent, you have the Centennial High School tent, you each have your own track area. Multiple students testify that Anthony was repeatedly asked to leave. According to the arrest report and trial testimony, Anthony reached into his bag and warned Austin, in substance, to touch him and see what happened. Now, actually, I don't need to establish self-defense and all that. We're gonna get into it as you see what happened in the trial. Uh, but he warned he reached into his bag as as these people are telling him to leave, and he says, Touch me and see what happens. That's not as it was established during the trial, that's not a warning, that is a threat, and there is a very clear difference between the two. Austin eventually pushed or grabbed Anthony, who produced a folding knife and stabbed him in the chest, which, of course, penetrated his heart. Anthony immediately acknowledged the stabbing. A coach testified that Anthony said he admitted that he had stabbed someone who put his hands on him. Body camera evidence reportedly captured Anthony, correcting an officer who described him as the alleged suspect. Quote, I'm not alleged, I did it. Anthony nevertheless maintained that he had acted in self-defense. Anthony was initially held on a $1 million bond. On April 14th, the judge reduced it to $250,000 and ordered house arrest and electronic monitoring. And he was released after that bond was posted. A Collin County grand jury indicted Anthony for murder on June 24th, 2025. Because Texas treats 17-year-olds as adults in the criminal justice system, the juvenile certification proceeding was required. They didn't require that in essence. Now the Anthony's family campaign was hosted by uh GiveSend Go. They started this, it's sort of like GoFundMe. As of June 10th of this year, that's today, it raised more than $631,000. The campaign explicitly says the money is not limited to illegal expenses and may be used for relocation, basic living costs, transportation, counseling and security, those sorts of things. That unusually broad description, because usually it would be specific, but the fact that they used it for all of those things invites criticism naturally because donors were subsidizing more than just, hey, we need to afford our lawyers. And so in April of 2025, reporting indicated that the family was living in or renting an expensive gated community home and had purchased another vehicle. Contemporary fact check concluded the claims that the donations submitted for that were headed towards that were potentially true. We don't know that for a fact, but the family went from where they were living before to a gated community house with a nice car. You gotta wonder if that $631,000 was going towards that. They could say, well, we don't have any verifiable proof of we can't see their bank account. We don't know if the funds donated went to that, but it's the fungibility of money. You have to imagine that's where that fund went. Now, what I want to say is that the jury selection began June 1st of this year. So it had been a year since he was indicted, basically when the trial started. Now, the defense, of course, raised a batson trap challenge after prosecutors struck the remaining black prospective jurors. But the judge accepted the prosecution stated race neutral reasons for rejecting them. I know the black community came out in mass and said, well, you know, there are no black jurors, so of course he's going to be found guilty. But the judge very clearly stated, and the prosecutors very clearly stated, and everyone very clearly stated, it has nothing to do with race at all. This is not a race-oriented jury selection. There's no evidence of that whatsoever. Every reason we gave was completely legitimate. It kind of reminds you of the gerrymandering argument, right, where they say, well, you race gerrymandered. No, we politically gerrymandered and they're not the same. We we didn't look at race at all. Race wasn't even considered. It just so happens that black people are maybe voting Democrat. And so you might see some comparison there, but it's not related fundamentally, right? It's correlation, not causation. Same thing with here, with this, right? You look at it and you say, well, there are no black jurors, but it's not because they were black, it's because of the same reasons that we always select our jurors in certain certain trials. Nevertheless, the prosecution argued that Anthony provoked the physical encounter by refusing to leave, reaching into his bag, and and essentially issuing a touch me threat. The defense emphasized that Austin was considerably larger, made the first physical contact, and had no legal authority to physically remove Anthony. Self-defense claim was not frivolous merely because Anthony had a knife. Texas law can permit deadly force against an unarmed person when someone reasonably believes that it is immediately necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury, but the jury had to evaluate the entire sequence of events, which included the warning, his access to the weapon, his refusal to leave, the degree of force that Austin used, and whether a reasonable person would have believed that a lethal stabbing was immediately necessary. After hearing four days of testimony, the jury rejected self-defense and also declined to convict Anthony only of manslaughter. Yesterday, the court found him guilty of murder after less than three hours of deliberation, which is very short. In other words, they went out, they talked, they said, Yeah, this this this 17-year-old very clearly he's eighteen now, but this this seventeen-year-old did murder Anthony uh Austin Metcalfe. Now, during sentencing, the defense sought a finding that Anthony acted under sudden passion, which would have lowered the punishment range to two to twenty years instead of the twenty to ninety-nine. The jury rejected that argument and sentenced Anthony to thirty-five years in prison. Anthony is reportedly eligible for parole consideration after serving half the sentence, though that eligibility is not guaranteed, release you'll have to meet certain qualifications. Anthony's supporters have condemned the verdict as racially biased, pointed to lack of black jurors, and continue chanting that self-defense is not a crime. Many have been claiming all over social media, all over the internet in general, uh that that a black teenager has effectively been denied the right to defend himself, that young black men are being targeted by the criminal justice system. Now, of course, those of us who can see facts for what they are and are not using any sort of racial bias and lens to look at that are simply saying that someone asking you to leave from a place you're not supposed to be and then pushing you does not justify you stabbing them in the heart. Austin's father repeatedly resisted, turning his son's death in anything but that, but saying that this was not self-defense. Now understanding, right, that this was this was, you know, not turned in, it kind of reminds you of the whole George Floyd debacle in a certain sense, right? We look at all of the facts. We say, what was the thing that actually killed George Floyd? What's the basis for this? What is the training and proper procedure for officers and all these things? We can see that the trial in that case was very different because you had a lot of this activism that very clearly pushed towards a certain outcome. In this case, it's much more obvious. The conviction needed to happen just by looking at the facts. The sentencing needed to happen. And 35 years is certainly less than I think many of us believe that justice demanded, especially when Austin Metcalf received no second chance, no parole hearing, no opportunity to grow older. He has a twin brother who's never going to have his twin around anymore. Uh, but it is still an un unmistakable rejection of the argument that an ordinary teenage confrontation should or ever could be answered with lethal force. And so I think it's important to know all of those facts be because of where we're at now, right? He he admitted he did it, he told a coach he did it, he told the officer he did it. It was very obvious what happened. You don't get to provoke an encounter. You don't get to suggest that you are gonna you don't get to threaten someone with with lethal force, invite someone to fight you as you're refusing to leave an area you're not supposed to be in, and then claim that any any physical contact, right? He didn't he didn't put him in some sort of chokehold or try to strangle him, nothing like that. Any physical force at all gave you permission to stab someone in the heart. It's not how it works. The law, the way that it works, the way that it's supposed to work in any self-defense case, regardless of who you are, is supposed to understand was lethal force reasonably necessary? Not whether you were angry, whether you felt disrespected, not whether somebody else initiated contact, not the size of the other person. Was death a reasonably necessary option? Twelve jurors watched that testimony. They they heard the evidence, they heard the competing claims, uh, and it's very clear they were instructed on self-defense. They had all of the evidence. And in less than three hours, they said it was not self-defense, it was murder. And uh the jury also rejected that it was under sudden passion, which would have changed the sentencing range. They denied that too. They said it was not sudden passion, it was very, very clearly premeditated and it imposed 35 years. And so, and by the way, I I understand why myself and others will say that 35 years is not enough. If Anthony receives parole at his first opportunity after roughly half the sentence, he could theoretically still be released when he's in his 30s. Right? There is an unavoidable, I'll say, imbalance in the temporal punishment for murder. No prison sentence is going to return the years stolen from the victim. And from a Christian perspective, civil justice is not about personal vengeance, by the way. Uh Romans 13 goes a lot in depth into the magistrate, the civil magistrate, the government, as we would call it today, which bears the sword as God's servant against the wrongdoer, as the arbiter of justice. The state's responsibility is to punish evil proportionately, protect the innocent, and publicly affirm the value of the life that was taken away, which is what happened here. A Christian can and should pray that Carmelo Anthony genuinely repents, believes the gospel, and can receive mercy through faith, through grace in Jesus Christ, while also believing that he should spend decades, perhaps all of his life behind natural bars, or whatever else the just system demands. Because grace does not declare murder as harmless, right? And this is one thing that I think a lot of Christians have messed up on in they try to separate church and state, and yet then they bec they allow themselves to become convinced that that forgiveness from a Christian spiritual perspective should equal mercy from civil or criminal court. It's not how it's not how it's supposed to work, it's not how it works. That's that's not how the Bible operates. Repentance does not change temporal, on earth, earthly consequences for your actions. Right? And of course, you also have a lot of this racial tribalism going on. Of course, you know, Anthony was black, Austin was white. Almost immediately you had people on the left who treated this like a race war. Well, the only reason that you're convicting or sentencing Anthony is because a black, a young black man defended himself from a white kid. That's that's what happened. That's right. They they declared Anthony's being prosecuted because he's black. Uh they they portrayed Austin as this racist bully. Despite no, no evidence of that, by the way. There's no evidence that Austin said anything racial. None of the evidence from anybody, including Anthony, ever claimed that there was any sort of racial tension whatsoever. It's a total distortion. There's no evidence that black men in any reasonable capacity have any less a right to self-defense than anybody else. That's that's simply not actually true. There's there's just zero evidence of that being the case. And and this is why we got a text in and it kind of asked the same question. It says, Good morning, Lone Star Conservative. Would these people be protesting the verdict if the victim and the perpetrator were switched? Black victim, white perpetrator? And and of course, of course not. They would be demanding far harsher sentences. Right? You have to think back to Daniel Penny, right? Where you had on a New York subway, where you have a very clear instance of self-defense and and uh a situation where the the guy that was defending killed the other guy, and it was very clearly unintentional. He didn't expect the guy to be dead. And yet everybody across the country in this woke race war mindset demanded that Daniel Penny be convicted on nothing other than, well, he killed a black guy. So we know if you switch them that they that it's not the same. You know they don't call for the same kind of justice when it's switched. It is pure racial tribalism, right? This is not an issue of self-defense. This is not a question of whether the criminal justice system is being unfairly weaponized against young black men whatsoever. It's not even remotely related, right? No race has some special dispensation to convert I was pushed into a death sentence for what happened. And again, if you had a white athlete who was in another coat school's tent refusing to leave over and over and over again, reaching into his bag and telling a black, a black teammate, touch me and see what happens, before stabbing an unarmed black athlete through the heart, would any of those activists claim that was self-defense? Of course not. Would those activists be willing to raise more than $600,000 for him and his family? Of course not. Would they stand outside the courthouse chanting his name and claiming that there must be a lack of conviction? Of course not. We know the answer. That's it's not a standard of justice. It's it's they view themselves as a certain race and it's racial team sports, is what they view this as. And and uh again, you we're not supposed to have partiality. That's not just, you know, uh a modern due process claim. That's also biblical. You can go back to Leviticus, where judges were not to serve partiality to the poor or to the great. Deuteronomy also demands impartial judgment. Proverbs condemns acquitting the guilty, uh, just as it condemns uh convicting the innocent. You can't do that. That means we don't excuse Carmelo Anthony because he's black. It also means that we don't condemn him because he's black, right? We judge the act, we examine the evidence, we apply the law, and that's what the jury did very, very plainly, right? Um and again, you you look back and you can see this tribalism on display even before you get to the trial and all the claims of self-defense. When you look at at this money that's being given to the family, you're raising over $600,000. If you look at the average income in the US, you're giving more than 10 years of income to the family because of murder. This this 17-year-old murdered someone, and you gave the family 10 over 10 times the average income, the average annual income in the US. Right? And and and it's I think it's incredibly troubling to see where our country is in that regard. And it's incredibly troubling. And the reality is, you know, Anthony's family, uh Austin's family had to bury their son. Austin's family has to go through never having their son around again. Anthony's family gets to live in a gated community with a new car, probably still money that they have access to. And it's an inversion of sympathy. It is an exact opposite of what justice is supposed to look like, of where support should be because of the fact that the the aggressor in this case was black. That that that's all this is. They they they justify supporting someone based purely on the color of their skin. They want to claim all the nine, well, it's supposed to be the merit of character, and that's what DEI is always about. But the claims always boil down to something much simpler than that. It's never about the merit of character, it's never about your accolades or your testing or your qualifications. It always boils down to this. They always treat it as if it's race-based because to them it is. This is why when you see the the charts, it's really interesting to see. When you look at the charts of how races prefer other people, right? You look at you look at blacks, for instance. Black people have this predisposition in in every major study ever done where they prefer people that are black. And then they and then you look at the scale, and white people they prefer almost not at all. They're they're lowest on the list. Asians prefer their own race and then everybody else is lower on the list. Uh Hispanics prefer their own race and then everybody else is lower on the list. Then you get to white people. White people, singularly, if you look at the charts, have almost the same preference for everyone, regardless of the color of their skin or of their race. Why? Because we're the group that's required over and over and over again to say, no, I'm not turning it into that. I'm not going to do it. I I'm going to be kind, I'm going to be impartial, I'm going to be fair. While everybody else is the exact opposite. That's why you don't see the activism saying, well, Daniel Penny was white. Even in the case of activism in Daniel Penny's case, it had nothing to do with race. Conservative activists turned it into, no, this is self-defense. And you can't turn it into anything but that. And in this case, it wasn't Carlo Anthony was a black kid. It had nothing to do with that. We said no. But you don't get to go into another team's tent, refuse to leave, threaten someone, and then kill them because they pushed you. That's not how the world works. And this, I think, is a massive cultural crisis. Again, and you can look, I this is not an indictment on black people. It's the truth. Federal family statistics showed that just in the past few years, 38% of black children lived with two married parents compared with 60% of Hispanic families and 75% of white children. Only 38% of black children had fathers who were present in the home. Yeah, I mean, and that's not, again, that's not an indictment on single mothers that are forced to do that. I I understand that. I understand that if you're a single mother, you still have to raise your kids and you should do the very best that you can, but we should not pretend that there's not an obvious problem, right? Fatherly absence, family fragmentation, those things are very important. Right? Boys need fathers who teach them that strength is very crucial, but that it's governed by a level of self control and restraint. Right? It's not that good men are weak, it's that good men are strong, violent, and dangerous, but keep that restrained and used correctly. Boys need fathers who teach them that disrespect does not justify death. This is why when you hear all the claims, you can't use you know the word, you can't use that word, or I'll kill you. You hear that all the time on social media from from black activists. If you if a white guy ever uses that word, you're gonna die. Over a word? What are we what are we talking about? That's never justified. That's not a justifiable response. That's not justice, it's evil. And and even where you have biological fathers who are present in the home, even then you have this sort of spiritual fatherlessness in the black community. A boy can live in the house with a technical father and never be disciplined into self-control, responsibility, or reverence for God, respect for human life, those things don't have to come across. And that spiritual fatherlessness is very present in our country. It's consuming every part of American society. Our entire culture is producing boys that turn into boys with adult bodies, adolescent emotions, no fear of God, no government, no self-government in themselves whatsoever. And we have to confront the the the very severe statistics in communities rather than treating every discussion of fatherhood as some sort of racist attack. Because if we do that, nothing's gonna get better. It kind of reminds you of the Charlie Kirk claim. He was approached, asked, you know, if you love somebody, shouldn't you be willing to affirm them, to be kind to them, to be tolerant? And and Charlie says, no. In fact, I think that's the opposite of love. I think that you're afraid of confrontation. You're afraid of any sort of disagreement. You're afraid of any sort of of argument. That's not love. That's that's cowardice. Love means being honest with someone even when it's hard. Love means telling someone the truth, even when it's difficult, because you think that the solution is more important than someone's feelings. It's the same thing we talk about racial statistics. When you look at black families and black homes and black crime, if you want those things fixed, if you actually love people, then the response should not be to cower around and say, no, I'm not gonna bring those things up because that's racist. It's no. Those things are real, they're happening, and if we want them to get better, it has to start with real admissions of the truth. It has to start with us saying, hey, something specific is going on in the black culture that has become problematic and evil. It's creeped in, and if you want it changed, you have to admit that's happened and it needs to be solved. FBI data has long shown those racial disparities. That's not new. But you're not supposed to talk about it because, well, that's racist. Well, that statistics are racist claims. No, they're not, actually. In fact, I'd argue the exact opposite. It's kind of the same claim I make about misogyny. People say, Michael, you're a misogynist because you believe in a patriarchal worldview, because you think that God created men to be leaders in the home, so you hate women. No, in fact, I think that you hate women because you want them to act like men. You require that they be men in spirit and in character. I think that's the most hateful thing you can do to a woman that God designed to be softer, more meek, more gentle, more taken care of and protected. I think that's the the the least loving thing you can do. So you can call me a misogynist or a racist or a bigot in each of these categories. But truth is not bigoted, it's not hateful, and it's not racist, and it's designed, you know, speaking the truth in love. It's because the love aspect is designed to say we want these things to be better. We want these things to be fixed for everyone's benefit. And and that's not racism or hatred or bigotry, it's speaking the truth in love. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna talk about Taller Rico. James Tallerico, uh, because uh there was a uh a library collection at James Tallerico's church. They had a library in his church in Austin, and they found sexually explicit books in that library, um, which include books that have been challenged in Texas schools over sexually explicit content, as well as gender ideology, which is not much of a surprise, but I want to get into it in the next segment. As always, if you'd like to be a part of the show, we've already gotten a text in this morning. If you would also like to text into the show, let us know your thoughts on any of the stuff we're covering, any questions you might have, maybe a disagreement that you have with something that I've said, or something that I haven't reported on that you want to hear more about, feel free to text in. That number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord willing, I'll be right back with James Halarico's Church's books right after the break. So stick around. We'll talk soon.

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Sexually Explicit Books In Church Library

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Through the library of the Austin Church, where James Tallerico both attends and supposedly preaches. An online catalog for St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church includes titles such as Gender Queer, All Boys Aren't Blue, This Book Is Gay, as well as Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, books that I think have been clearly pointed out to contain graphic sexual content, which is inappropriate for anyone, much less minors. The discovery is, of course, drawing massive criticism against Cal Rico as he is presenting himself as a Christian leader, increasingly has been centering faith in discussions and political messaging during a Senate campaign. I'm I'm the goody two shoes pastor seminary boy, and here's why you should listen to me. And then you hear these books are in your church that you're supposedly preaching at and residing in. Well, you have to wonder and again, it can't be a surprise given what you know of James Hallerico, right? It's not like we're coming out and saying, Wow, can you believe James Alarico postures himself to be this Christian goodie boy and he has these books in his church? Well, we know what James Hallarico believes about being queer. We know what he believes about genders. We know what he believes about you know boys playing in girls' sports and and the entirety of the LGBTQ agenda. We we know about that. Um again, all boys aren't blue, for instance, includes descriptions of sexual acts uh and has been removed in libraries around the country. Uh Genderqueer is one of the most contested books in America after parents objected to graphic illustrations depicting sexual activity. Uh Bonnie Wallace, you guys have probably heard of Bonnie Wallace, got kicked out of uh an HISD meeting. She's a conservative activist. Uh she's she's been involved for quite some time now in efforts to remove this sort of sexually explicit content from school libraries. Uh she said, just as a grown man who puts on a pink tutu and says he identifies as a five-year-old little girl is not a little girl, just because someone identifies as a Christian does not make them a Christian. The Bible is very clear about the way to Christianity being very narrow. Many will hear, depart from me, I never knew you explicitly from Jesus. She said, I'm saddened to see the books the Tal Rico's church offers to minors, but I can't say that I'm surprised. Uh according to a previous report, the Church of the Library Collection extends beyond books, challenges, public schools, and includes the courage to be queer, which argues that God himself is queer. And so I I think it's it's very very evident, or it should be, that this is who's running for Senate as the Democrat. Democrats are not the Democrat Party of fifty years ago. They've changed drastically. And they're they're they're precipitating their principles on Christianity now. You hear from James Alarico, and not only is he saying, I'm a Christian, here's what I believe, but he's actually using his Christianity to justify his beliefs. When he justifies abortion and consent when it comes to bearing a baby, uh, as Mary being approached by the angel Gabriel, and says, Well, that's an example of where abortion could have been allowed if she had not consented to that pregnancy. Or he justifies, well, we i transgenderism is possible because God doesn't have a gender because he's a spirit. But he uses the provocate uh the provocation saying, Well, really, if you think about it, uh God, God is non-binary, and uses that to pretend that men can and women can be non-binary. We see that he's weaponizing the Christian faith against real Christians. And this is why you know I'm sure it's gonna get thrown around a lot during the campaign and in the defense of his campaign. Well, God says, do not judge. Who are you to arbitrate what real Christianity is? And I my response would be the Bible. Very clearly scripture. You've had heresy and false interpretations of the gospel and the rest of scripture for millennia. It's come out all over the place, from Pelagianism to Arianism and everything in between. And the reality is that when you look at James Salarico, he's just a false prophet. That's all this is. This is false prophecy. We've had to deal with it in the church for thousands of years. People who claim to be Christian, but who are very clearly not abiding by the principles found in the Word of God through God's word to us. Abortion, murder, those things are not allowed. Right? You look at transgenderism, we hear very clearly from scripture that men should not dress as women or pretend to be women, that God made them male and female. These precepts are found throughout scripture, rooted in the created order of God. And James Alarico is trying to run a campaign pretending that that's not the case. Well, no, I've I've finally found a new version of the Bible that means something completely different than everyone knew it meant for thousands of years. And if you call me wrong, you're judgmental and you're bigo you're bigoted. And the the answer from us, from conservatives, from Christians, should be no. You're a false prophet. You're you're preaching an anti-gospel, you're preaching things that are evil and destructive. And furthermore, for that reason alone, we have to make sure that he does not win come November. With that being said, we can get back from the break. The Houston controller has now certified Mayor Whitmeyer's seven and a half billion dollar budget proposal coming ahead of the city council vote. Uh, the controller has has said, well, this is a legal obligation, not me endorsing the budget. I'm not saying that I like the budget or that I support it. I don't, but I'm legally obligated to certify it. But he was still raising concerns on the reliance on utility revenues and the long-term financial sustainability of the budget itself. So about that certification and the vote, which by the way is supposed to happen later today. All of that when we get back from the break. If you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And Lord willing, I'll be right back after this break to talk all about the Houston budget and what's coming up later today. So stick around and we'll talk soon.

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Houston Budget Worries And New Fees

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So essentially, Houston controller Chris Holland's certified mayor John Whitmeyer's proposed $7.5 billion budget for the city, clearing a key procedural hurdle before Houston City Council considers final approval. But he again wanted to emphasize that his certification should not be mistaken for support. In the letter that he sent to both the mayor and the city council, Holland stressed that his decision was based on his legal responsibilities as controller and not an endorsement of the administration's financial strategy. He said certification is not a test of optimism, it is a test of certainty. The certification course comes after weeks of debate. In fact, they were originally supposed to have the budget vote last Wednesday, but after a lot of testimony and talks and statements from people like the controller, among others, they decided to postpone that vote for a week to continue deliberating, conversing, and making their final decision. Again, it seeks to address with a variety of things, by the way, it seeks to address the ongoing financial challenges, a new monthly trash fee, as we've talked about extensively, a plan to generate more than $100 million through a new right-of-way fee charged to the city's combined utility system. While certifying the budget, Hollins outlined significant concerns about the proposal, particularly the reliance on utility-related revenues. He said, as with previous budgets, there are assumptions and projections in this budget that do not mesh with reality and almost certainly lead to additional deficit spending. Now, I don't like controller Chris Hollins, if I'm being completely fair. I I'm going to give the same clarification he did. This is not a test of optimism, but it is a test that I agree with him on this. I I think that Chris Hollins is intentionally biased and partial against the mayor. I think he doesn't like the budget, even if it made sense. I don't think he'd like the budget and he'd say the same thing. I think that he is using woke language as his justification for not liking the budget, but I'm with him on the fact that I think these things are dangerous. My request is the same as it's been through every city budget ever passed, which is instead of relying on growth projections and pulling from other fees and adding new funding, how about instead we get a whole heck of a lot better at spending within our means? That's what every family has to do. We have Dave Ramsey on our station. You guys ever hear Dave Ramsey talking to someone who's in massive debt? The response is never I and I'm not saying that it's never make more money, because sometimes it is. It's not that they don't have enough money. It's not because of inflation. It's not because they're just it's just impossible. It's because they can't get down and focus on real issues, prioritize the budget and spend within their means. And so on that note, I actually do agree with the controller and I think that we are in a budget deficit that's demanding we raise prices somewhere because we can't make it work otherwise. And the reason for that is not simply because we don't have enough money, it is because we're not good at spending the money we already have and being good stewards of what God's already given us, so we have to charge people more money. With that being said, we can get back from the break. We of course have coming up the bottom of the first hour weather report, which you of course won't want to miss if we're going over the weather for today, the outlook going into the Texas GOP convention and through the weekend. So stick around. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. As always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and I will be right back. Lord willing to wrap up the first hour of the show with the weather report. So hang tight, and I'll be right back.

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Summer Weather Outlook For Houston

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Sunrise is now arriving as early as it ever will all year in Houston, while the weather is beginning to look increasingly like we have made it to summer, which we have. Highs in the 90s, rising dew point temperatures, and only isolated afternoon thunderstorms are in the forecast. Now, although the forecast is not going to change very much through Friday, a surge of tropical moisture could bring higher rain chances by early next week. Meanwhile, our early sunrises are offer another reminder that summer setting in across our region. Today is going to bring another warm and increasingly humid, muggy day across southeast Texas. Afternoon temperatures are going to climb into the lower and mid-90s under partly cloudy skies, while dew point temperatures, an indicator of the humidity levels, remain locked in the 70s. Together, that makes for a typical June day. I think that's the best sum up. Most communities are going to remain dry, though, of course, as always, there is the potential for brief afternoon rain. The overall pattern is not going to change much through the weekend. Afternoons should remain in the lower to mid-90s. Overnight temperatures should hold in the mid-70s. With two points holding in the 70s, that means the air will continue to have that characteristic June, muggy, sticky, whatever across our region. Rain chances are going to remain in the forecast through Friday, but those opportunities demand primarily or depend primarily on daytime heating and the sea breeze coming off the coast, pushing inland. That setup favors isolated hit or miss kind of storms and leaves most of us dry. By late weekend and early next week, broader rain chances could, this is a big hypothetical, could return. The exact details remain uncertain, but indications suggest deeper tropical moisture and a less stable atmosphere, which could return to the region. If that happens, then rain chances become more widespread rather than remaining confined to isolated afternoon rain. That could mark a shift away from this week's isolated afternoon storms. For now, temperatures should continue to reach the lower to mid-90s through at least Friday, before increasing cloudiness and rain chances might provide some relief going into the next week. Also note, Houston is now at its earliest sunrise period of the year. Sunrises are going to occur around 6.20 AM through about June 17th. What makes this notable is that the summer solstice, which is a day featuring the most daylight of the year, is still more than a week away. Because of the relationship with Earth's tilted access, its slightly elliptical orbit, and the way that solar time differs from the time you see on your clock, sunrise and sunset don't reach their annual extremes on the same date as the solstice. Houston's earliest sunrise occurred on June 4th, but sunrise times remain within seconds of that through much of this week. And the summer solstice marks the midpoint between the earliest sunrise and the latest sunset, which will arrive, by the way, June 28th, when it'll set at 826 p.m. And that'll persist through July 2nd. Uh but that we're basically right now in the longest daytime of the year. That'll do it for your weather report today. We'll again, of course, have that at the bottom of the hour of Lord Willing tomorrow morning. In the meantime, when we get back at the top of the next hour, we're gonna have Brandon Waltons from Texas Scorecard. Text in 713-779-5978. And Lord willing, I'll be right back with Brandon Waltons to talk all about the upcoming GOP convention after the break. Hang tight.

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Texas GOP Convention Priorities With Brandon Waltons

SPEAKER_20 53:33

Welcome to the show, Brandon.

SPEAKER_05 53:35

Hey, always good to be on, Michael.

SPEAKER_20 53:37

Always good to have you on. I want to kick it off saying, hey, you know, I believe you'll actually be in town for the convention. Is that correct?

SPEAKER_05 53:44

Yes, absolutely. I'll be uh heading down later today, and uh uh we'll be here through Saturday. I know that there's thousands of people that are gonna be there. Uh the Republican Party of Texas Convention is one of the largest political gatherings in the world. I think uh, you know, one of the only ones bigger is the Chinese Communist Party's Convention, which is a little bit of a different affair. And so uh it's a it's it's a big event and it's always fun.

SPEAKER_20 54:08

Yeah, that feels more like uh you have to. It kind of reminds you of the Kim Jong-un. You know, they they go to people's houses and they check to make sure that the portrait they have to have of their supreme leader is dusted off. It's like you have to show up to the CCP convention. This people are choosing to come to.

SPEAKER_05 54:23

Yes, exactly. People are taking, you know, it's it it is amazing. I'm amazed every time that you have people from all corners of the state. You know, a lot of folks taking time off work, uh, but because the work is is that important and um, you know, and and there's there's a lot that's actually done. I mean, people might be more familiar with the Republican National Committee, Democrat National Convention, rather. Uh, you know, both of those that happened during the presidential years. And uh primarily these days it's you know just a series of prime time speeches, sort of a rally before elections. Um in contrast, the state convention, um, I would say is a lot more substantive. There's actually work that's that's done. It's not just listening to politicians, though there will be uh a little bit of that, um, but there's actual work that that is done as well by those that's who it has.

SPEAKER_20 55:09

I'm really glad you brought that up. That was actually gonna be my first question, was not necessarily asking how it differs from, say, the Republican National Convention, but kind of wondering is this weekend shaping up to be, and does it usually shape up to be more of a rallying cry for the midterms, or is there a lot of conversation as to the future of the party, the future of the grassroots, the future of the movement?

SPEAKER_05 55:30

Well, there's certainly uh a bit of both. I mean, on the first part, I think, um, especially coming out of these runoff elections a couple weeks back, um, there's been, and I think people have seen it, a lot of calls for uh unity around the Republican ticket, um, which of course will have 10 taxes and and and you know, facing off the game change Calorico on the top, and then you know, right below that you've got Governor Abbott, the rest of the statewide and on down. Um there's definitely been a push in Republican circles to say, well, okay, Democrats are taking this race seriously, they're going to pour a lot of money. This could be a billion-dollar race uh election cycle, and so certainly that uh has pushed, I think, a lot of people together. And so there will uh I would expect to see a lot of that. The speaker of the house, um, a lot of these people in in just as an assignment. I don't know the last time, if maybe ever, that we've had the governor, speaker, and lieutenant governor addressing the Republican uh state convention in Texas. And so uh there definitely are a lot of calls for that. Um, but there are also a lot of issues dealing with uh the platform and the priorities, you know, in addition to um electing state leadership at the convention, so you know the party chair, vice chair, uh different positions like that. Um there's also there's the platform and the priorities. And you know, the platform is sort of the uh the big long list of you know where the party stands on any given issue. I think there's 200 and there's about 250, I think, playing from the platform right now. Um it's a big document, but it's basically a big reference. Um and uh but in addition to that, you'll have uh legislative priorities coming out of the convention. And these are a much shorter list of essentially it'll be eight items if this is like past uh past convention, eight items that are you know sort of the the top issues that Republicans say they want to see accomplished when the legislature meets next year.

SPEAKER_20 57:33

Right. Now I want to get into some of the specifics on that. I know that some of this will of course be speculation, and it may it must, even if we had you know a document, an internal document, it would still be some sort of speculation because it hasn't happened and it's still some sort of prophetic uh situation. But I'm kind of wondering on a couple of these things. Uh first and foremost, I think one of the big things, you know, when you have a 250 whatever long list of the party planks, the platform's direction, uh a couple questions on that. Do we see that changing in terms of adding more, removing some, or changing any of the wording of those planks? Is that something that we expect to see coming out of this weekend?

SPEAKER_05 58:11

Well, I think uh you know, there's generally addition uh when these when these conventions happen. So I would expect to maybe see a few more planks added when all is said and done. Um one of the areas that's gotten a lot of attention though has been the party's position on pro-life issues, especially in the in the wake of the the ending of Roe v. Wade. Um the party platform currently says uh the party stands for abolishing abortion, and that has even divided some in the uh you know the pro-life circle. Um there are some groups uh technically life and abolish abortion techniques that they want to keep that in the platform, uh, and then there's another group, a more um more frankly, a I guess moderate um group of life life, or the thing they want to take that platform, and they want to replace it with um more language about ways to care for mothers and things like that. Um this is uh started a bit of a debate before the convention now. Uh you know, it doesn't look like uh for right now, it doesn't look like that's going to uh uh be be changed in the platform, but uh anything could happen over these next several days. And there's also the question, too, about uh um, you know, whether or not protecting life ends up being a legislative priority for the party as well.

SPEAKER_20 59:27

Right, on top of it just being a plank. That's another thing that I actually want to talk a little bit about. So we see that some of the planks are being debated, wondering if we're gonna add more, which ones we'll add, uh, what the wording will look like if the planks will stay the same or if they'll be more moderated, or or some of them may become more conservative. Uh, we'll find a lot of those things out. Another question I have is on those legislative priorities. I'm sure that some of them are related. I mean, we had uh during the last election, we had questions. Hey, what do you think about Sharia law? We had the the 10 uh questions that were put at the bottom of the ballot. Where do we see the legislative priorities right now? Just speculation, where do we kind of see those going coming out of this weekend?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:07

Well, I think a good amount of them will be um, you know, I think uh what I would expect to see as far as uh what will make that finalist debate, and just so people understand the process, basically there's a committee that this week is going to narrow that down to 15. They already have a draft list, but it's not uh official official yet. But they'll have to have a list of 15 um priorities and then delegate for vote eight uh vote will become the eight legislative priorities. So we will we'll have the candidate will have those in a week or so. Um the issue that I would definitely expect to be in the thing number one is um is in the case. Uh remember a couple months ago. Uh you know, you voted in the candidate, there were a little bit of Republican voters. The way to address the modification of factors that become such a great issue. Uh I would expect that it would probably be one of the legislative legislative priority. Um in addition to that, I think uh pre-free connectives um something that they obviously don't want a conversation about is and ultimately eventually eliminate. Pre-free connectives, I think, is something that we're we're gonna see uh uh some movement on in legislative priorities. Um and then there's you know there are other issues as well that remain a little more evergreen, things like protecting Texas children, um, you know, stopping stopping gambling and casino expansion in Texas. There's a few others that uh could potentially uh make it on there as well.

SPEAKER_20 1:02:05

Right. Another question that I have, and this is more operational, and maybe you don't have the answer. I'm just this is sheer curiosity on my part for myself and for our listeners, and that is kind of the operational methodology going into this. Some of these things also, I'll give you an example of this just so you can kind of understand my perspective. When I look at, say, the Islamification of Texas, is there going to be opportunity for conversations to kind of come up and say, hey, like, yes, of course, we got a 97 odd percent support on the banning of Sharia law, but I want to have a conversation on what's driving Sharia law, right? It it's not just Sharia itself, but there's needs to be conversations on, well, is Islamification more than that? Is Sharia law the end goal? But we have things we have to do in the meantime that aren't technically Sharia, but that are contributing to the end goal of Sharia law that we have to address. Will there be opportunity for those sorts of conversations to come up as well?

SPEAKER_05 1:02:56

Absolutely. Uh not only in uh committees that that take place this week, but also, you know, all of these things do get debated on the floor. I mean, if you you know, if you can imagine if folks haven't been before, uh you've got a few thousand people there, and yes, there are actually open debates uh that that do happen on the floor. Sometimes they're a little more chaotic than others, but um, yes, language can be changed, things can be added, uh, and so it really is a very fluid process.

unknown 1:03:21

Right.

SPEAKER_20 1:03:22

And of course, over here at Patreon 920, as well as at Texas Scorecard, a lot of the work we do in exposing or reporting, journalism in general, I think a lot of the goal is to allow for an opportunity for people to see what's happening so that there can be more conversation, right? We're not most of the time our goal is not to just say, hey, you need to do this, but a lot of it is hey, you need to know what's going on so that we can address these things correctly, so that you are aware. Like, for example, on this area law conversation, you'll see a lot of reporting from Patriot 920 or from Texas Scorecard, hey, this is what's going on in the the meadows, you know, renamed from the the Islamic Plano Center, Epic City. Those things will come up as a sort of, hey, there is other stuff going on that you need to be aware of. And I think this convention is a is a phenomenal opportunity for people to have a position on things and to get to say, hey, here's what I believe, here's the truth of this, and here's what we need to do moving forward, and to have those sorts of conversations and impacts that people can take all the reporting they've seen, all the information they've received from us, and go out and say, let's let's make a difference.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:27

Exactly. This is this is really uh where where the rubber meets ago. People uh um, you know, who uh it's it's sort of the next step of political involvement, right? People voted in the primaries, you you vote in the runoff, maybe you get your friends to go vote. Um I do I do encourage people to say, maybe uh if you're not going this year, uh consider going to vote for the state community in two years. It's definitely um a very participative process and it's um but it's but it's like I said, it's very important. These are the conversations, these priorities, these are the platforms, these are the things that are going to be pushed in the first by the party for the next two years, which means during the next legislative session. Uh and it is, you know, uh obviously these things cannot get accomplished. We certainly uh talked about that. Um but the you know just having an issue be a legislative priority, uh, you know, gives uh gives it such a such a boost when um when people are pushing for it in the legislature and they can easily point to a state, well, this is a priority of the Republican Party type. Uh that's a that's a powerful tool, and and that's why all of this is so important.

SPEAKER_20 1:05:34

Right. One more thing, and I I meant to bring this up before because you mentioned it and I forgot, but I want to ask one more thing, and that's you mentioned the the party chair and the direction of party leadership. What does that process look like at the convention?

SPEAKER_05 1:05:47

Um Well, there there's a vote for that. You know, there's a couple times during the uh convention where people have split off into their Senate districts or state Senate district, so um basically thirty one little caucuses. Um that Yeah, you can you can find a configuration for the chair.

SPEAKER_20 1:06:52

Yeah, I think that also, I mean, if you have a male win both, do they have to which one loses? Which one do they I mean that's Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:59

Basically if they they they'll do the chair race first, and then if a if a male wins that then the uh you know the male candidates for vice chair are disqualified, so they are just they're not even voted on.

SPEAKER_20 1:07:10

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:11

It's sort of a strange uh DEI kind of.

SPEAKER_20 1:07:15

I was gonna say that's a wild thing to have in our state law. That's that's a wild process. Um makes a little to no sense to me, and maybe we'll change that. Maybe that maybe that makes it to a priority is changing that up a little bit. Yeah. Um we can get the best leadership we can actually get. But with that being said, Brandon, as always, how can people stay to date with all the reporting that I'm sure will be coming out of the convention from Texas Scorecard, as well as all the other state stuff that will be coming out as well over the next few weeks?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:40

Absolutely. We're at Texascorecard.com. You can follow us at Texas Scorecard or follow me at the Walton, B W A L T E N S on it.

SPEAKER_20 1:07:47

Awesome. Well, as always, Brandon, we greatly appreciate you giving us your time this morning and for coming on and keeping us posted. And Lord willing, we'll talk to you again soon with more updates on what's coming out. See you there. Absolutely. I'll see you there. With that being said, ladies and gentlemen, when we get back, we're gonna talk about the Southern Baptist Convention also going on. They're considering a proposal at their annual meeting uh over in Orlando, Florida, imposing stricter restrictions. One of the big conversations is women leadership opportunities in the church, which of course will impact us here in Houston, but it's a big conversation on theology that I want to get into. If you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord Wung, I'll be right back with the Southern Baptist Convention updates after the break. Stick around. We'll talk soon.

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SBC Fight Over Women Pastors

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That's me, the Lone Star Conservative, Michael Wilson. I'm excited to get into this topic. The Southern Baptist Convention is right now considering a proposal on at its annual meeting in Orlando that imposes stricter restrictions on women's leadership opportunities in the largest Protestant faith group in the United States. Which, of course, could at least affect, could affect at least one church in the Houston area, but many, many, many churches all across the country. The motion comes from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Moeller, Al Moeller, who seeks to amend the section of the SBC Constitution that defines a church in friendly cooperation with the organization. His amendment would say that an SBC church does not act to affirm, appoint, or endorse a woman serving in the office or function of a pastor, elder, or overseer, specifically preaching to the assembled congregation. Moeller, who has stated that a vote is expected this morning, said he wants the Convention to clarify its stance on women in the pulpit. While the SBC currently says in its Baptist faith and message that women cannot hold the office of pastor, elder, or overseer, similar prohibitions don't exist in its constitution. So even though it's out there, it's not been codified as an amendment. He said we also need the efficiency of having really clear language in our Constitution that expresses that conviction. We did this a generation ago on LGBTQ issues, and that has really helped the SBC. I think similarly, we need to do this. Now passing a constitutional amendment, same as in government, requires a two-thirds affirmative vote in two consecutive years by messengers who attend the SBC's annual meeting. While a proposal on the issue received the necessary votes in 2023, it then failed the following year. Another move to bar church with female pastors from the SBC failed last year. The SBC is increasingly focused on churches that allow women to serve in pastoral positions, earning criticism from some who believe the convention is prioritizing more pressing issues like preventing sexual abuse. And so you have Meredith Stone, executive director of advocacy group Baptist Women in Ministry, who shockingly is not a fan of this new policy. She's talking all about how the pressing issue should be sexual abuse. In order to take sexual abuse seriously, you have to respect the dignity of women. And so all of these moves toward trying to prohibit women in ministry, further to me, seem to be a backlash response to the push the sexual abuse crisis has to be taken seriously. Because of course, you can't walk and chew gum at the same time, right? Of course, we can't say no. We we firmly believe that sexual abuse is evil and must be rooted out, and also say that we believe the biblical prohibition on women in the pulpit. Apparently, you can't do both of those things. She's saying you have to violate biblical principles when it comes to women's leadership in order to justify standing against sexual abuse, which is an insane logical fallacy in the first place. Stone, of course, whose organization works with women in Baptist faith traditions, including the SBC, says that people outside the convention often ask why women don't just leave the organization. And she said, We're not trying to change the outcome of any vote. What we would like to do is make sure that the message that God does value women equally is heard by the millions of women and girls in the Southern Baptist Convention who are constantly hearing these negative messages that they are inferior, which no one on our side of the aisle is claiming. This is not superiority and inferiority. This is specific, dedicated structure. And so the SBC, by the way, has been serving as the instrumental voice for really the Christian right since its conservative, you know, situation decades ago at this point. Uh it values church autonomy as a core tenant, giving churches wide leeway in how they handle their specific internal affairs. Um, you have, say, the church, Copperfield Church in Northwest Houston, which is affiliated with the SBC, which has employed female pastors. Copperfield has put women in roles like operations pastor and discipleship pastor, uh lead pastor John Glass emphasized that the SBC believes in church autonomy and said that Moeller's amendment prohibiting female pastors has vague wording that could be problematic to include in the SBC constitution, which doesn't sound all that vague to me. But I want to give, I'm gonna have time, I want to leave time to actually go into my position on this issue. Because what you what you heard is remarkably revealing, uh, because nearly every argument against restricting the pastorate to qualified men avoids the central question, which is there the the the debate from the other side of this is not, well, how does this help women? How does this paint superiority or inferiority? The arguments they're making are all about, well, how to make sure women are heard and valued and viewed and all these things. When the the court question should actually be, what is God commanded? Everything else flows out of that. I know that this is confusing for a leftist uh in the church, but the question is actually not, how does this impact me? The question is not how does this impact my policy and my personal feelings? The question is actually supposed to be, uh, what does God say? And then everything else, we align with that. It kind of reminds me of the time I was, and you probably all heard this claim from leftists. I remember a specific time when I was a bit younger, when I was in a debate um with a Christian leftist, kind of a an oxymoron, if you will, but they they they claimed it. And they said, I I said, Well, God commands this, and they said, A God that commands that can't be good. And I said, See, there's your problem, is you preconceived what goodness was without the authority of Scripture and the authority of God. And when you do that, when you use your personal opinion on righteousness or morality as the baseline for everything else, you're gonna fail. Because we're not commanded to sit around and delineate what we think morality is. God already told us. And so it's not fitting our version of what God says to fit what we think good is. It's changing what we think good is to fit what God already says, because God is the arbiter of what is good and what is evil. What we're reading and what we're seeing, they want us to begin with institutional policy. They want us to start with the reputation of the Southern Baptist Convention, failures of sexual abuse, the emotional experiences of women in ministry, and and accusations that men want to silence women, and that's the whole point. Uh but Christians are not supposed to begin with public relations and emotions, right? We don't begin with modern assumptions about equality and civil rights. We begin, and really we should end with scripture. And scripture presents a very clearly, like it or not, patriarchal order. And I know that word makes people in the modern day very uncomfortable. Patriarchy has been turned into a slur, right? It's it's been used as if it automatically means cruelty, oppression, misogyny, hatred of women. But biblically understood, patriarchy means father rule, patriarchy, the rule of the father. It means that God ordinarily places men under a unique obligation to lead, to provide, to protect, to teach, to judge, and when it becomes necessary, uh to sacrifice themselves for those who are placed under their care. It's not merely authority, it's responsibility, which of course, responsibility becomes authority. It is part of authority. Again, that's not a license for male selfishness, right? That's not what anybody's claiming. Uh it's actually a death sentence to that, and a death sentence to the ability of males to be passive and and sit eyeligh eye and twiddle their thumbs when things are going on. In fact, if anything, it's actually uh the opposite. If you grant men no authority, and you say, no, no, no, that's bad, that's evil, that's that's tyrannical, what you wind up with is anarchy. What you wind up with is passive men who won't lead, and that's significantly worse. The Bible tells us, and and you don't have to like it for it to be true. And that's something that the left has had to grapple with for years, and they they can't seem to comprehend. The truth is not concerned with what you like. What you like should be concerned with the truth. The husband is the head of his wife, as Christ is the head of the church. That does not mean that we behave like petty dictators as men. In fact, it's quite the opposite. It means that we're commanded to love our wives, that men are commanded to love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. The elder is not given a throne for some sort of ego trip. No, no, no. A pastor is entrusted with the souls of Christ's people and will answer to God, by the way, uh, for everything that he teaches, all of the things that he disciples, his courage, and his failures. The father is not merely an adult in the home, right? He bears responsibility for the direction, the protection, the instruction, and and the condition spiritually of everybody in his home, his his wife and his children. So when Christians are defending male headship as I do, we're not simply defending authority. We are we are saying, yes, there is authority associated with this, but it's actually a massive amount, a massive burden of responsibility and stewardship that God has given to men. Uh and that distinction, by the way, is completely absent from all of the female reporting on this, from all of the feminist reporting, it the the stewardship and and and the responsibility part, absent. They're viewing this purely as authority, which is why you can't trust them really in the first place. And so, and that position, by the way, the position that Al Moller is taking on this, uh, that that a church cooperating with the SBC cannot affirm or appoint a woman to the office of really pastor, elder, overseer, that position is not invented by politics of the 20th century. I know that that's again what the leftists are trying to claim. That's actually rooted in not only the New Testament, but church history, right? Paul writes in 1 Timothy that he does not permit a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man. And he grounds that instruction not in the culture that Timothy would have been in, uh, same in Corinthians. He's not just writing to the Corinthian church. This is inspired canonical scripture, which means we have to believe and affirm the things that Paul says in his letters. He grounds the instruction not in the customs or the culture of Ephesus when he writes to Timothy, uh, but in Adam and Eve, in how God created male and female. He says, No, this is this is not new. I'm not making this up because Ephesus has certain rules and regulations. I'm saying God made this up when he made man and woman. He he appeals to to creation itself and says, this is biology. That this is literally what God made. The qualification for an elder always speaks of a man who is the husband of one wife, who manages his household. That's not just custom. It's very clearly speaking of male headship in those verses. Whatever modern activists want to come out and claim, the Bible is not treating ordained church hierarchy and government as some gender-neutral, non-binary institution. And again, that's not surprising because that pattern is all throughout the entirety of biblical history, all the way back to Genesis. Adam was created first. Eve was made from Adam, and for Adam as a helper corresponding to Adam. Adam was given the original command concerning the tree after the fall. God called to Adam first, even though God, in his sovereign knowledge, knew who ate the fruit first. He didn't call out to Eve and say, I know you did this, and then you tempted Adam. No, no, no. It was no Adam, you're the authority. Why did you let that happen? What are you letting happen in my garden? This is your home. What do you what did you do? And that tells us something again about responsibility. Adam was held accountable as the covenantal head. Throughout scripture, God raises up fathers, patriarchs, priests, kings, the apostles, the elders, the heads of the each household. There are, of course, exceptional women whom God has used mightily, and we're not denying that. Faithful Christian women should be honored. We we're not pretending like they don't exist, right? You you have prophesiers, you have instructors, you have servants of the church. Uh older women are actually commanded to teach younger women in the ways of femininity, right? Women have prayed, they've supported Christ's ministry, they've suffered for the faith, they've raised children in the Lord. C.S. Lewis has written extensively uh about how despite all the things that are that are that are instrumental in culture, uh, from the railroads to the airplanes to everything else, women were raising the little boys that would would become the men who would do those things, that women were a primary part of that that raising. But exceptional service does not change the created order that God has made. The existence of faithful women doesn't change that that offices are open to to both men and women. The the existence of faithful women does not prove that that, oh, well, God doesn't have ordained headship. That's that's not the case. In fact, if anything, it's an example of judgment because when you look at people like Deborah, you see, well, there were no righteous men willing to stand up for God. And that's a big problem. That's the issue. It's on display. The deeper problem is that the modern America, the the modern culture has confused equal worth with interchangeable function and biology. Men and women are made equally in the image of God. Men and women are equally guilty before God. Men and women are equally in need of Christ and of salvation. Men and women are equally heirs of eternal life. All of that is true. Uh but equality before God does not equal equality in purpose, equality in function, equality in biology and of capability. That's simply not true. The father and the son are equal in divine nature, yet the son willingly submits himself to the father in the work of redemption. Right? Christ is not inferior because of that. The church is not degradated because we submit to the authority of Christ. In fact, if anything, we're freer. We're we're we're we're actually better off that way. And so none of this has any actual correlation back to scripture. All of the claims they're making, from sexual abuse to the worth of women, none of that's even related to what we're discussing. We're discussing what God set in stone, right? I'll give you a good an a good analogy. Uh when a father abandons his children, you have fatherlessness in the home, we don't conclude that fatherhood is oppressive, right? We conclude that that guy failed. That that he that he failed to be a good father. Uh when when a pastor abuses his authority as a pastor, we don't conclude that the church should be abolished. We conclude that he failed to be a good pastor. Uh, when you have somebody in government, a politician that's corrupt or that takes bribes, for instance, uh, we don't we don't conclude that government is bad and we need anarchy. We say no, actually. We need to punish corruption and say that was a bad politician. Abuse is not proof that hierarchy and God created order is evil. It's just the perversion of that authority. And that's where I think feminism has distorted the debate. I mean, even first wave feminism, and I know that you know the big movement. As well, we need to stop fifth wave feminism. But even first wave feminism was not a narrow quest that women receive protection from injustice. It was a growing rejection of the Christian social order, in which the household was understood as a basic unit of society under the headship of a father. They wanted that done away with. They wanted that ended. And over time, the movement, feminism, treated submission, motherhood, and differentiated sex roles as inherently degrading and inferiority. The feminist revolution was was not just asking, hey, you know, uh, did did men act unjustly at times? Because the answer, of course, to that would have been yes, but they they wanted to challenge the legitimacy of male headship. They wanted to say, well, because there have been bad abuse of tyrannical males, therefore, therefore, um, we should just do away with any sort of male leadership whatsoever. It should be non-discriminatory. And once a culture accepts that any difference between men and women is discrimination, then that logic spreads to everything because it doesn't just stay in the church. It doesn't just stay in the government. It spreads. It reaches the church where pastor and elder have to become gender-neutral job descriptions. It reaches the home where husband and wife are treated as interchangeable partners with no defined headship. There's a supposed comedy in theaters right now called the breadwinner, where it's about this woman that has to go off to make her company great, and the man has to stay behind and watch the kids. And the whole thing is a humiliation ritual for men. It's to say you are basically just bad at being you are a woman. You are the same as a woman in every conceivable way. And of course, there's truth, even in the midst of lies, and so even in that movie, which I haven't seen and don't plan on seeing, by the way, and I see almost every movie, so that should tell you something. Even in that film, from everything we're seeing, the evidence is so clearly on display that he's really bad at it. He says, This is really hard for me. I'm not good at this, right? This is clearly not what I was made to do. I'm not I'm not having a good time. Why? Because that wasn't God's created order for men. Of course, men aren't gonna be as good as as women at the job that women are given to do. And of course, women are not going to be as good at the job that God created men to do. It also reaches education, law, business, the military, right? Really? Women on the front lines. It reaches government. The debate then that we're having at the SBC uh is not merely about women can have the word pastor on their church website. Um it's it's a question about ultimate institutions and about cultural belief. And when the church is refusing to teach the created order, the family is going to forget it, the culture is going to forget it, the government is going to forget it. The church is going to be filled with passive men, overburdened women, undisciplined children, and and bureaucratic institutions that are trying to replace the household. Hence, men gone out and to work, women gone out to work, and children off at government schools. That's what happened. And that's one reason why biblical patriarchy cannot become an excuse for men to sit back while women are carrying the spiritual, emotional, financial, and and any any other weight of the family. Because I I you know you can't take one verse out of context in scripture and then not follow the rest of scripture. Leftists again try to do this all the time. They'll go, Michael, don't judge. I go, Great. Can we read the rest of the chapter, please? Can we read what God's actually saying in Matthew? Can we actually read through the rest? Do not judge. And then later says, to judge rightly, do this. Okay, so he's not saying don't judge. There must be greater context to this. In similar fashion, you know, of course there's tyranny. You'll have people trying to quote, wives, submit to your husbands, and then ignore husbands, love your wives. Of course that happens. That's called sin. But that doesn't change that God says, wives submit to your husbands. Sin does not justify the end of what God has called men and women to do. We we we can't insist that men should govern the church and then refuse to study theology, uh, maintain self-control with in regards to anything, from our appetites to our temper. We can't refuse to protect the vulnerable, provide for our homes, raise our children in the faith, and then also say, but I'm in charge. That's that's that's literally what tyranny is. But the existence of sin and of oppression and of tyranny does not dissuade me from believing the truth of scripture. It it doesn't. Right? Biblical patriarchy is is it starts with actual masculinity. I know that they want to title it toxic, but it's not. It it biblical patriarchy tells men to become strong. It tells selfish men to to prefer others, it tells cowardly men to defend the truth, even in the midst of opposition and debate and confrontation. It tells men who have issues with lust to remain pure, right? It tells um absent fathers, and not just absent physically, but absent spiritually, who are who are around, but not really. Uh it tells them to return to their children and to raise them in the fear and admonition of the Lord. It tells pastors that they are not supposed to be celebrities, but that their goal is to be good shepherds. And it tells rulers, by the way, because this extends to the government itself. It tells rulers that authority is under God and is is used as a means of God's justice. Which, of course, you can look back at history, um, political communities didn't used to be understood as some sort of you know, detached individual pursuing personal autonomy for their own, you know, for their own purposes. Political communities were collections and and networks of households and of fathers, mothers, children, churches, neighborhoods, and obligations that you had in those roles. Civil leadership is supposed to have justice and responsibility and courage and using force in a good way, accountability for the protection of your people. Uh a biblical patriarchal perspective is not regarding political office as some sort of personal self-expression or career opportunity, which most politicians are treating it like today. Oh, this will just advance my political career. That's not the goal. It's supposed to be a uh a guardianship. It's supposed to be a courageous endeavor to defend people and to be a good man and a good leader. And again, that that's not that doesn't require us to come out and say, well, well, uh, actually, um, um, that that that you know no woman ever has had wisdom or courage or any competence. That's not anything we're claiming. Scripture itself, again, gives us examples of of wise women. In fact, it encourages older women to teach the younger. Um, but it does mean that a Christian society should cultivate men to be the primary leaders. And that's a burden, as much as it comes with authority, it is a burden of stewardship rather than celebrating male passiveness and cowardice and then calling the the result of that some sort of liberation of women. It's not true. The modern world hears male leadership and just starts picturing privilege and the ability to do whatever you want. But the Bible, when it talks about male leadership, talks about judgment. Adam was the one called to account. Priests were judged for incorrect or corrupt worship. Kings of a nation were judged for their injustice. Elders, pastors are the ones that will give account for the souls of their sheep. Husbands are going to answer for how they treated their wives. Fathers are going to answer for how they raise their children. And so no, the Southern Baptist Convention is not insulting women by saying that the pastoral office belongs to men. That's that's not an insult. It is confessing that Christ is the authority over the church. And that that the value that women possess does not come from their ability to be ordinated as pastors or to be leaders or to be head of homes. That's not where the worth of a woman comes from. Our worth comes from God. You don't need to be a woman with a male title to be significant in the eyes of God, or in the eyes of the church, or in the eyes of your husband, or in the eyes of the government. Motherhood is not some sort of second-place consolation prize. Teaching children is not a second-class ministry. It's one of the most important ministries, if not the most important ministry that exists in every age. Historically, mercy, prayer, study, evangelism, missions, all those things are not worthless because they don't involve being in a leadership position. The modern obsession with titles is a very worldly understanding of importance. I actually did a speech on this in high school when I talked about Alexander Hamilton, who derived, despite all the good he did, he derived his worth from temporal earthly success. That was his worth. It wasn't found in God and in ministry. It wasn't found in being a good man and doing what God had called him to do. And so the question should not be, why can't every person occupy every position? The question should be, how has God called us to serve for his glory? The church does not belong to any one man, it belongs to God. It belongs to Christ. It is Christ's church. And we're servants. And God, as servants, has put us with particular preconceived notions and particular biological implications and particular roles for that reason. And this feminist ideology that has been increasingly found in the church and in the political realm and the culture is incredibly destructive. And it's very anti, it's very anti-biblical. And I know that's controversial to say, and I know that's probably gonna get me in trouble. Uh, but again, being a strong man is when there's trouble, you still speak the truth. And that's what I promise to do on the show. That's what I'm gonna continue to do. With that being said, to wrap up the show when we get back, we're gonna have Islamic groups in Texas public universities tied to Iran and China. Several Islamic activism groups are found to have ties to left-wing terrorist groups as well as Iran itself. Um, they've been voicing radical opinions, support of the Iranian regime at Texas public universities. Talk about all of that influence when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text in the number, which does not change, and this is by the way, your last opportunity to do so, is 713-779-5978. That's 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and Lord willing, I'll be back to wrap up the morning show after this last break. So stick around, and we'll wrap it up soon.

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If you are of Medicare age or getting close or you have a loved one that is, be careful with those unsolicited phone calls that I know you know about. We get told about them all the time. What you need to know is that many of those phone calls are not even legal. They're coming from offshore call centers. Sometimes they're calling regardless of whether you're on the do not call list. Isn't that nice of them, by the way? It's really sweet of them to just do that because they are thinking that they can't get caught. Bottom line is when you get on there and you talk to them, they're already kind of operating sidelong of what should be done. And sometimes people end up in plans that they did not intend to enroll in. And so what do you do? Call somebody local. If you got a local agent, my gosh, call them and get in front of them. And if you don't have a good agent, think of an organization like Senior Health Services where you can sit down, talk about what you're looking for, and get the help that you need. You don't need to be talking to phone operators in other countries that you don't know who they are, where they are, or what in the world they're doing.

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Campus Islamist Networks Plus Final Takeaways

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. We've got a couple decks in. The first says, God help us, the story about Tallerico is very disturbing. Of course, Taller Rico's church having sexually explicit books in their church library. I mean, that has to, that has to be reminiscent of God with whips, with Christ with whips, just getting out the money changers of the temple, right? That that has to be right where we go in with whips, right? I'm not calling for violence. I gotta say that on the show. But that's that's gotta be the response, right? That Christ would be making a whip and going in that church. Uh the other text says, Hi, Michael, as a woman and a conservative Lutheran, I agree with you that women should not be pastors. Men and women have been given different roles by God. Thank you for speaking up on this. God bless you. Absolutely. And I know that it's hard in the modern culture to take up some of these issues. I'll also highlight, just to tag on to that, I think that there's different roles and different abilities based on those roles. Um modern, even modern, you know, complementarianism, I don't want to get into too much of the the difference in these sorts of things, uh, will say that, well, there are different roles, but we're really all the same underneath. No, actually, there's different roles, and God has given us capabilities to achieve those roles spiritually, emotionally, biologically, logically, brain-wise, neuro neurologically. There are differences in men and women. And so the reality is that that's that's very important. I want to wrap up by saying this: that according to Texas Public Policy Foundation, senior fellow Sam Westrop, an Islamist network working to radicalize Shia Muslim students at educational institutions across the state, is made up of agents and proxies for murderous Iranian regimes. We know that sort of influence is going on. And if you want to protect your family, you can go to goahhouston.com. That is our sponsor, Gun Owners of America. They understand that there is a lot of violence on display. There is a lot of danger from a variety of ideologies in our country, and you have a God-given right to defend your family. They do that by campaigning for good candidates, by lobbying for good bills and against bad ones, and by, if need be, going to court and fighting against violations of the Constitution. Again, you can go to GOA Houston to become a member. It's a $25 annual membership, $25 a year. It goes right back to their ability to continue pushing back against the people who would violate your God-given rights to self-defense, the right to keep and bear arms, which shall not be a French, that is GOAHuston.com. This sort of stuff is in our culture. Um you had the Al Qud's Day celebration going on. They believe in anti-American rhetoric. Muslims across the globe are supposed to reject American imperialism and unify against their common enemy. Uh, despite what they claim, they are very anti-American in ideology. And I don't have enough time to go into the rest of the details and my analysis, but let's just say that Islamification is more than just Sharia law and we have to nip it in the bud. That'll do it for the show today. Lord William will be back bright and early tomorrow at 6 a.m. before heading out to the state convention for the Republican Party. In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy the rest of your Wednesday and God speed.