hey guys Colin here and welcome back to
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things that matter in today's video
we're going to be talking about David
French now just for some background
French is not in the typical demographic
of people that we critique on this
channel he's not a Prosperity Gospel
preacher and he's not a seeker-sensitive
trendy Pastor by any means and while
that is the case please don't lose sight
of the fact that his views still
represent a serious problem for the
Evangelical Church at large regarding
French's resume he's an attorney a
writer an author speaker and political
commentator and quite an accomplished
one recently in 2023 he began writing
opinion pieces for the New York Times
before that many people knew him from
his work with National Review he's also
spent a significant portion of his
career as an attorney with a particular
expertise in constitutional law David
was long considered a Conservative
Christian thought Leader by some he
still is but recently Conservative
Christian have become concerned and even
disenfranchised with his views on a
number of issues most recently he was
justly called out by Fox News host
Tucker Carlson but given that he has a
fairly large platform and he's fairly
well known in this space it would be a
great idea for us to survey his views
and genuinely compare them to the word
of God so in this video that is
precisely what we're going to do let's
start out by looking at a piece that he
wrote for the New York Times it's
entitled quote don't let the culture War
degrade the constitution in this
particular piece French outlines what he
believes to be a glaring inconsistency
among conservative Christians he uses
the issue of transgenderism as a sort of
case study here quote State attacks on
civil liberties are even affecting our
most valued relationships the bonds
between parent and child and he
continues saying quote in January the
times reported on how Public Schools
sometimes withhold from parents
information about a child's gender
transition even in the absence of any
evidence of Parental abuse end quote so
let's review French is presenting a
fundamentally ethics-based argument here
the idea is that parents are in
authority over their children and that
parents have the right to make decisions
that affect their child's well-being and
moreover this right should not be
infringed upon unjustly by any
organization in this case we have the
public schools acting as an impediment
to the parent-child relationship and
they do this by allowing children to
consult their schools in the matter of
their gender identity and transgenderism
while the schools apparently have no
responsibility at all to share this
information with the parents French does
see this as a problem to his credit but
let's ask a fundamental question why
what gives David French the right to
tell these schools that they cannot hide
a child's gender transition from their
parents the only ultimate ethical answer
is found in scripture Ephesians 6 1 says
quote children obey your parents in the
Lord for this is right honor your father
and mother children are commanded to
obey their parents and they are justly
under their parents Authority Proverbs
29 17 says quote discipline your son and
he will give you rest he will give
Delight to your heart end quote thus the
right and responsibility to discipline
children and to Shepherd them ethically
lies with the parent according to God
and Proverbs 3 11 says quote my son do
not despise the Lord's discipline or be
wary of his reproof for the Lord
reproves him whom he loves as a father
the son in whom he Delights end quote so
we can see that even the Lord himself is
a father and as our father he has
ultimate authority over his children the
church even to discipline them so what's
the point here the point is that the
Bible clearly says that parents are to
discipline Shepherd guide teach and
exercise authority over their children
this principle is true because it aligns
with God's holy standard as revealed in
his word and through his creation to a
certain extent David French is making a
point here that is fundamentally based
in the Christian worldview he's
appealing to biblical values he's
appealing to a higher standard but
shockingly later in the article he
continues saying that quote every
culture War action against civil
liberties has its mirror image on the
other side end quote so he's suggesting
here that conservatives or the other
side of the political Spectrum are
offering some sort of equal and opposite
mirror image of the left in this area of
parental rights the example he gives of
this will truly Amaze you he says quote
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas issued a
directive to the Texas Department of
Family and protective services to
investigate as abuse both Surgical and
pharmaceutical interventions for
transgender children regardless of the
good faith and desires of the parents
children and caregivers involved end
quote in other words the governor of
Texas wants to investigate the parents
who surgically chemically or otherwise
change the biological structure of their
so-called transgender children as result
parents who give their children hormone
blockers or who surgically change the
bodies of their children would face
potential consequences as they should
yet this is something that David French
finds morally reprehensible but there
are several issues with his perspective
here first he seems to be forgetting
that the two situations he's comparing
here are fundamentally different at a
basic level in fact they're
diametrically opposed on the one hand
you have parents who hypothetically want
to know if their children are
participating in transgender ideology as
parents they have both the right and
responsibility to step in the Lord
commands them to guide their children
well and allowing your son to dress like
a girl or allowing your daughter to
dress like a boy would be the opposite
of that and of course it can get much
worse on the other hand though we have
the wicked parents who are encouraging
their sons and daughters in their
unbiblical delusions about gender these
people continue to promote the idea that
their child was somehow Born Into the
wrong body and rather than ushering them
in a better Direction they're a confused
child that's what you do with them these
parents encourage their children to get
sometimes irreversible surgeries by
which they can mutilate their bodies so
let's ask the audience since David
French clearly thinks it's appropriate
to compare these two situations do you
think that these two situations are
comparable at all from my perspective
this is an asinine comparison one group
hypothetically is trying to honor the
standard of God and be diligent informed
authoritative parents and the other
group wants to irreparably damage their
children in a way that God's word most
assuredly condemns as wrong how on Earth
are those two things similar ethically
in any way Genesis 1 27 says that the
Lord created US male and female In His
Image thus an attack on male and female
as instituted by God in word and in
creation is an attack on the image of
God as well but David French sees the
attempt to prevent this transgender
nonsense as an infringement on the the
rights of parents who want to do that
unfortunately for him he has lost all
moral foundation in doing so you see his
first argument is rooted in biblical
principles and his second is completely
the opposite it's a clear violation of
God's word French is not consistently
implementing the Christian worldview and
its ethical standards here that's the
problem his compromise on transgender
ideology is disturbing and calls his
work into question but this brings us to
the second example of his compromise in
the following clip French is having a
conversation with Phil vischer the
creator of VeggieTales who's sort of a
pro-choice liberal Christian at least
he's pro-choice in some notable areas
and in the video French makes the case
that if you are one of the people who
wants more biblical influence in
politics more Christian influence in our
country on the political level then you
should be happy with the way things
stand currently why well because
bible-believing Christians are the main
voting demographic or an important
voting demographic for Democrats and
Republicans watch this if you're saying
that we want Christian influence in the
United States
I have good news for you the biggest one
of the most important voting blocs in
all of America on both the Democratic
and Republican side are bible-believing
Christians so you have the white
Evangelical voting block goes to church
more than the average American says they
believe in the Bible they're the
foundation of the Republican Party
Democrats try winning without black
Protestants like their Democratic party
is nowhere without its its core base of
black American Protestant Christians who
are Bible believing and so that's one of
these things that imagine sort of the
the arrogance of saying that a vote for
a republican is faithful and a vote for
a Democrat is Unfaithful now what's
truly shocking to me is that David
French can say this despite the fact
that he has a law degree and is
considered an expert in constitutional
law I cannot believe that someone so
well educated so experienced would make
such a basic categorical error as this
basically French implies that those who
want more Christian values to be
represented in politics should be happy
to a certain extent with the Democrat
Party after all he says black Protestant
bible-believing Christians make up an
essential voting block for that party
what French has missed here is the
obvious fact that we don't merely want
more people who identify as Christians
to vote no we want people to
specifically vote in a way that reflects
the values which a Christian will find
in scripture and therefore voting for a
party that supports transgenderism gay
marriage and the killing of innocent
children is not tantamount to Christian
influence in the United States and no
one should think that that is obviously
secular influence and it is being
Advanced faster more effectively and on
a broader scale in the Democrat Party
than almost anywhere else in our modern
day culture any unbiblical principles of
the Republican Party do not come close
to the rampant outright god-hating
secularism that we see on the left
basically David French is suggesting
that a party who supports Wicked
anti-biblical practices is actually a
good example of Christian influence in
our country so when it comes down to it
French is not accurately representing
the situation here and more importantly
his response is out of step with the
biblical worldview and this brings us to
the third example it comes from an
article written by French entitled quote
why I changed my mind about law and
marriage again in this piece he explains
why he has come to be in favor of the
legality of gay marriage he says this
quote I emphasize the word civil
marriage because my view on the
religious nature of marriage has not
changed it is a lifelong Covenant
between a man and a woman sealed before
God and breakable only on The Limited
conditions God has outlined in his word
end quote now this is important because
it establishes that David French is not
confused about what the Bible says with
regard to marriage he knows exactly what
marriage is he just doesn't think the
United States legal system should
accurately reflect it and why not well
he goes on saying quote millions of
Americans have formed families and live
their lives in deep Reliance on a
burgerfel gay marriage being good law it
would be profoundly disruptive and
unjust to rip out the legal
superstructure around which they have
ordered their lives end quote so this
statement is notable for a few reasons
first He suggests that gay marriage is
the Bedrock of the families that it has
created in other words if two men get
married and adopt a baby they are now a
legitimate family in his eyes and
according to French it would be quote
disruptive and quote unjust to make the
foundation of that family gay marriage
illegal I agree with him that it would
be disruptive for some people but not
that it would be unjust that's a
different thing altogether again French
is making an ethical appeal with no real
ethical Foundation by what objective
standard should Christians be in favor
of gay marriage legally or otherwise by
what standard would you say that Society
should Implement gay marriage God has
not called it marriage in fact he's
called it an unnatural sin Romans 1
26-27 says this quote for this reason
God gave them up to dishonorable
passions for their women exchanged
natural relations for those that are
contrary to Nature and the men likewise
gave up natural relations with women and
were consumed with passion for one
another men committing Shameless acts
with men and receiving in themselves the
due penalty for their error end quote in
fact there is not one biblical principle
in all of scripture that would indicate
we should recognize this as marriage at
all moreover the governing Authority is
instituted by God himself and functions
as a minister of God when it comes to
Justice in society Romans 13 1-4 says
quote for there is no Authority except
from God and those that exist have been
instituted by God for he is God's
servant for your good but if you do
wrong be afraid for he does not bear The
Sword in vain for he is the servant of
God an Avenger who carries out God's
Wrath on the wrong doer so again the
government when it functions properly is
meant to enact Justice and how do we
define justice as Christians if not by
God's word so here's a challenge for
French and anyone who agrees with him on
this can you give me one biblical text
that indicates it would be unjust as he
put it to make gay marriage illegal for
the entire history of the church our
forefathers thought the exact opposite
was true so clearly there's a big burden
of proof here one which has simply not
been met can you honestly make the case
that the Apostle Paul would have fought
for the right of homosexuals to marry by
law if so where exactly in his writing
does he indicate that and if you have no
biblical text directly supporting such a
novel secular invention which gay
marriage is then what does that tell us
about your commitment to scripture as
our source of truth and the standard of
Ethics these are all very important
questions and those who subscribe to
David French's radical pluralism should
answer them carefully more carefully
than he does in fact it seems abundantly
clear that French has gone in a
direction contrary to Isaiah 5 20 which
says this quote woe to those who call
good evil and evil good who put Darkness
for light and light for Darkness who put
bitter for sweet and Sweet for Bitter
End quote French has actively defended
the so-called right to transition your
child he has also actively defended the
so-called right to marry someone of the
same gender and finally through an
agonizing word salad He suggests that we
ought to celebrate the fact that the
Democrat Party represents the influence
of bible-believing Christianity on our
land nothing could be further from the
truth ladies and gentlemen this is not
the Christian worldview being accurately
implemented this is something different
altogether at best this is a bizarre
unrecognizable hybrid of the biblical
and secular worldviews mashed together
in a vain attempt to gain some sort of
mythical moral neutrality at worst this
is an outright compromise to the
malevolent machinations of those who
hate God and hate his word in either
case it's safe to say that French's
compromise is significant and that
should be recognized by conservative
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