Apologetics 315 Podcast 026 – Them Before Us with Katy Faust

Today’s Show Notes:
Episode 026 – Them Before Us with Katy Faust

In this episode, Brian Auten, Chad Gross and The Belfast Bigot interview Katy Faust about the global children’s rights movement (and book): Them Before Us.

0:38 – Pre-show chat; The Belfast Bigot and the original Bigot.
2:38 – Introduction to Katy Faust and how she got into running a global children’s rights movement
6:43 – How Katy went from being anonymous to going public
7:49 – How Katy influenced the Belfast Bigot
9:40 – The goal of the Them Before Us movement / organization
13:36 – How does Katy hear from kids whose parents prioritize their own desire above children’s rights
15:31 – What do we mean when we talk about “rights”?
20:09 – Why children’s rights is something that all political parties should prioritize
24:33 – Three staples of a child’s social/emotional diet
25:27 – How dads are not always the idiots; men and women are different
32:58 – “How are you not pushing a religious view?” and “you’re just shrouding religious views in secular arguments.”
36:11 – Let the data do the talking; disagreeing with reality and biology
38:21 – Can’t same-sex parents do just as good of a job at raising kids?
41:44 – “You’re just hand-picking these stories!”
44:20 – The data we do and don’t have; society is experimenting
47:34 – The psychological damage to children from losing a parent
50:13 – The practical application of “Them Before Us”
53:38 – How does one engage with these topics when people are so quick to label you a bigot or a -phobe?
57:52 – Having reasonable conversations
1:00:17 – Discussion of exceptions to the rules; dishonest argumentation; appeals to acceptance, etc.
1:05:28 – Reproductive technologies and the buying and selling of humans
1:07:51 – Where to find more resources

www.thembeforeus.com

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