The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, welcome, welcome. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Hey, heading into the weekend, I hope you have a great weekend, everybody. A lot going on. It is actually my birthday this weekend, so it will be fun. Family has got a few things going on and we’ll see some friends. So that’ll be cool. And I hope you have a great weekend.
It should be a fun one with lots… If you like basketball, it’s a great weekend for basketball. NCAA tournament – a couple of things on that, by the way. My father went to St. Peter’s University. It was then called St. Peter’s College. It’s a Jesuit College in Jersey City, New Jersey. He’s a graduate of St. Peter’s College. He and his buddies, so they were thrilled watching the University of Kentucky – St. Peter’s College game. And St. Peter’s won, pretty amazing. That’s one of the great upsets of NCAA history. So it’s fun.
All right, speaking of NCAA, we have to talk about this. We have to talk about the NCAA swimming championships, the women’s (so-called women’s) championships, because there’s something really wrong with what’s happening. I mean really wrong. And I don’t understand how we’ve gotten to this point. So we’ll get to that. And we got a couple of great interviews today on pro life issues.
We’re going to speak with Karen Garnett. Karen Garnett is the National Prayer Luncheon for Life executive director, and she has an extraordinary story that is doing, I think, what we need to be done, which is bringing people together who care about the same issues. Instead of having a million people in the fields, a million different entities or maybe thousands of different entities have them still there, but coordinate a little bit more or connected a little bit more. That’s the better term.
So we’ll talk with Karen Garnett, and we’ll also talk with Eric Olson. Eric Olson’s a long time friend. He’s been on the show before. He works in the oil fields in Montana, and he’ll give you a perspective on the American side of the oil fields. He’s a small business owner. He’s had a couple of oil wells, but he’s not Exxon. He’s not one of the big oil companies. He’s an American businessman. And he’ll tell you what impact is happening, what inflation is doing. He’s really a very articulate speaker on what’s happening on the ground.
But before we get to that, what you need to know today, in the NCAA Championships for women’s swimming, they let a guy compete. You know the story. I’m not going to mention his name because I don’t want to make him famous more than he is or his name he uses as a girl. But he’s clearly, when you see him interviewed or see pictures, he’s clearly a different… he’s a guy, who’s swimming with the girls. And he beat everybody. And the thing I don’t understand is how we got here. What you need to know is there’s something wrong in this country, that we’re allowing this to happen.
Now, I don’t know what we’re supposed to do. I know there have been lawsuits, but if you go to the social media, you can see one interviewer was saying, I think it was he or she was talking to a Virginia Tech swimmer who because the swimmer came in 17th and only 16 make the finals, and she was left out because there was a guy, this guy that won swimming with the girls. I mean, everybody knows it now.
In other words, he says he’s transgender and therefore he’s allowed to win all the prizes and he competed as a man, normally, a couple of years ago. This is actually crazy that we’re actually allowing this to happen and then broadcasting it. And there were protesters, like a dozen of them. There wasn’t 1000 protesting against this. And there were counter protesters saying it’s great. And all the people that wanted to object that actually wanted to say this isn’t good. They all had to do it anonymously. Because you can’t say that out loud, but you can say, and there’s lots of people saying it out loud, this is great and using their name.
Think about that. If you disagree on a guy swimming with the girls teams and winning, you have to do it anonymously because it’s not worth the political cost, the small P political cost, or the social cost, that’s a better term. You will be attacked, ostracized, made to feel diminished if you happen to have the opinion that it shouldn’t happen. How do we get here? What is the NCAA doing? How do they judge this? Why is this happening? And I guess it’s been happening for a long time and we’ve seen, I guess the Ivy League Championships happen.
So that happened a few weeks ago and now this is just the NCAA. So I’m kind of late to it. If we cared, we should have said something. I guess somebody could say that. But at this point, there’s nothing that’s happening here that’s not just… It’s not just that it’s not fair. Fair is a funny term, right? What’s fair for you might not be fair for me. It’s hard to judge.
But this is immoral. I can make that judgment. I think it’s immoral. It’s immoral to cheat, right? It’s immoral to steal. I think it’s immoral for our leaders and our adults to allow men to swim and take away women’s sports because isn’t this the end of women’s sports? Now, I know that there’s not enough guys who want to go through what would feel very demeaning to have to go and act and dress or like a transgender to compete. But won’t it happen enough that it’ll be a factor? What happens if there’s a man who wants to compete in basketball and happens to be 64 and a great player? Is he going to be allowed to compete in women’s basketball? I mean, I think he has to, according to the logic, right now.
What you need to know is this isn’t just crazy. This isn’t just crazy. This isn’t just silly. This is actually immoral. And we used to be at a nation that would call out immorality even if it happened, we still would call it immoral and we wouldn’t make it legal. In other words, you used to be able to see people would say, oh, well, abortion is now legal – there’s nothing wrong. Still immoral. And when it was illegal, it was immoral. And just because they were illegal acts of abortion doesn’t mean we’d say it was moral. That doesn’t change the quality of the act. And you could say, well, who are you to judge what’s moral and immoral? We used to be able to get to that.
We used to be able to look at it and say, that’s – right there – that. Stealing – immoral. You know, stealing – immoral. Burglary – immoral. Carjacking – immoral. Rape – immoral. Murder – immoral. Guys claiming to be women and swimming in a championship and winning the championship, actually winning the championship, taking it away from… And where are the feminists? Martina Navratilova got in trouble at one point for saying that she didn’t think this was going to work out well or something like that. She didn’t even say she was against it.
I think she said something more sort of less dramatic, more kind of plain that she was against it, and she was just pillared into silence. I think she actually backtracked. J.K. Rowling – I think she said she thought it wasn’t right and it was not normal or something. And she got all kinds of protesters. So that people have learned and I take you back to this.
People have learned that in a culture, in a nation where the cost to speaking the truth about morality is high, they just won’t do it. It doesn’t mean that they don’t believe it or know it. They just won’t speak about it. And that’s the self censorship we’ve talked about. And once you’re into the world of self censorship, where everyone who’s interviewed… That’s not true. There are a few people that gave their name, but almost everyone that was interviewed that opposed this did so without giving their name because they didn’t want to be attacked. They didn’t want to be vilified on social media or identified.
Once you get to the point where speaking the truth is too costly, you can bet your bottom dollar that doing the right thing is not going to be done.
And so the movement from self censorship, as I’ve said to inaction, is really easy. It’s really a short movement, short movement from self censorship to inaction, very short movement. You don’t have to do much to get there because it’s the same instinct, it’s the same self preservation. Don’t want to have to deal with it. And so the NCAA, if they had said, we’re not going to allow this, they would have had the protests. They would have been the opposite of when the NCAA said they were going to get, moved themselves out of Indianapolis because Indiana had passed a religious freedom act that protected Conservatives. And so the NCAA we’re going to move if they don’t change that.
It’s so terrible. Actually, Indiana and Mike Pence at the time Governor Pence blinked. But if the NCAA had said we’re not going to allow this guy who says he’s a girl to compete, the NCAA would have been put on the hot seat. And they would have (you know, they would have), the Department of justice probably would have investigated. The universities would have said we’re not going to trust the NCAA to do anything. This is completely out of control.
Again, it’s not crazy. It’s not out of control. Well, it’s not only crazy, it’s not only out of control, it’s just wrong. It’s immoral and that we’re watching it happen in public is just stunning. It’s absolutely like out of a movie that this is happening. Someone did an interview and they said that the guy who swims as a girl, he was asked his favorite movie and his favorite movie was like, I don’t know either a shoot em up movie or.. it wasn’t Die Hard. It was something like that, though and it was like the guy’s clearly I don’t know. He’s not even pretending. He’s just taking all the prizes. Taking all the wins.
It’s a crazy situation. Amazing. Terrible. All right, please, I’ll name it. I’m not going to name him, but I’ll say I’m against it. I’m totally against it. I think the NCCA’s doing a great failure, doing a great disservice to the athletes and it’s just a terrible thing.
Okay, we got to take a break. When we come we’ll talk with Karen Garnett about the national prayer luncheon for life, the national prayer luncheon for life, as well as Eric Olson. Be right back. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Back in a moment.
