WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.956 --> 00:00:07.539 [gentle music] 2 00:00:15.006 --> 00:00:17.538 God hates fags, god hates fag enablers, 3 00:00:17.538 --> 00:00:20.719 your duty in this life, if you listen to Solomon, 4 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:23.132 he said, "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. 5 00:00:23.132 --> 00:00:24.930 "Fear god and keep his commandments, 6 00:00:24.930 --> 00:00:27.544 "for this is the whole duty of man." 7 00:00:27.544 --> 00:00:29.360 It was almost a year after we left 8 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:33.193 that I finally looked back at some old videos. 9 00:00:35.328 --> 00:00:36.828 It was so surreal. 10 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:41.432 We had all these ideas and it didn't matter 11 00:00:41.432 --> 00:00:45.424 what the impact was on people, on human beings. 12 00:00:45.424 --> 00:00:48.856 line:15% Everyone in the world, you could just lay them waste 13 00:00:48.856 --> 00:00:51.620 line:15% on the altar of these ideas 14 00:00:51.620 --> 00:00:55.287 and how certain we were that they were true. 15 00:01:13.668 --> 00:01:15.455 Thank God for September 11. 16 00:01:15.455 --> 00:01:18.165 He gave you that warning and space to repent. 17 00:01:18.165 --> 00:01:20.556 You people of Sodom just rebel more. 18 00:01:20.556 --> 00:01:22.352 This land will be a desolation. 19 00:01:22.352 --> 00:01:23.269 Isaiah One. 20 00:01:25.008 --> 00:01:28.143 I thought, "This is great, this is proof 21 00:01:28.143 --> 00:01:30.588 "that god is punishing this nation 22 00:01:30.588 --> 00:01:32.900 "and maybe now people will listen to us, 23 00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:35.180 "now they'll understand that they've done these things 24 00:01:35.180 --> 00:01:37.365 "to incur the wrath of god and that's why, 25 00:01:37.365 --> 00:01:39.752 "that's why this is happening." 26 00:01:39.752 --> 00:01:44.644 When you believe that, you have this view of humanity 27 00:01:44.644 --> 00:01:48.108 as essentially, most of it, worthless, 28 00:01:48.108 --> 00:01:51.212 just entirely, entirely worthless 29 00:01:51.212 --> 00:01:55.379 and deserving of complete destruction, which is part of why 30 00:01:56.388 --> 00:02:00.555 we were celebrating those things, those tragedies. 31 00:02:01.832 --> 00:02:04.710 800,000 expected at Chicago Pride today. 32 00:02:04.710 --> 00:02:06.559 WBC was there to remind them: 33 00:02:06.559 --> 00:02:10.726 sin and shame is what you have, not anything worth pride. 34 00:02:12.020 --> 00:02:13.864 Since leaving, we've spent a lot of time 35 00:02:13.864 --> 00:02:17.539 talking with people that we used to see as wicked. 36 00:02:17.539 --> 00:02:22.084 And it was us versus them and we didn't want anything 37 00:02:22.084 --> 00:02:25.160 to do with them and when you come at it 38 00:02:25.160 --> 00:02:28.983 with that perspective, you're not really seeing them 39 00:02:28.983 --> 00:02:32.297 as they are, you're seeing this projected image 40 00:02:32.297 --> 00:02:34.460 that you kinda put on them. 41 00:02:34.460 --> 00:02:37.564 So we were really surprised when we started spending time 42 00:02:37.564 --> 00:02:41.192 with them and seeing that they were amazing people 43 00:02:41.192 --> 00:02:44.792 doing wonderful things and they were well-intentioned, 44 00:02:44.792 --> 00:02:48.064 they weren't just evil or stupid or delusional 45 00:02:48.064 --> 00:02:51.946 or led around by Satan, they're just people 46 00:02:51.946 --> 00:02:53.584 trying to live their lives and trying 47 00:02:53.584 --> 00:02:56.167 to do what they think is right. 48 00:02:57.858 --> 00:03:00.620 I did nothing to deserve the godly parents I have 49 00:03:00.620 --> 00:03:03.932 in Dear Shirley and WBC diplomat, 50 00:03:03.932 --> 00:03:06.349 such are all god's blessings. 51 00:03:07.475 --> 00:03:09.724 The church was our entire community, 52 00:03:09.724 --> 00:03:12.348 they were the people that we spent time with 53 00:03:12.348 --> 00:03:15.848 and worked with and we didn't have friends 54 00:03:17.188 --> 00:03:21.271 or people outside so in that time before we left, 55 00:03:24.947 --> 00:03:26.732 when we were thinking about leaving 56 00:03:26.732 --> 00:03:30.482 and just for the first time, having this idea 57 00:03:32.660 --> 00:03:37.400 that it was even a possibility was like watching everyone 58 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:41.317 that we loved, it was like they were all dying. 59 00:03:44.239 --> 00:03:47.656 Because we knew that it was gonna be gone 60 00:03:48.620 --> 00:03:51.703 and so that was a terrifying prospect 61 00:03:55.535 --> 00:03:57.872 and also knowing that by leaving, 62 00:03:57.872 --> 00:04:01.832 we were gonna be hurting them terribly. 63 00:04:01.832 --> 00:04:05.415 And that was the last thing that we wanted.