"I'm Glad You Said That" - Jim Minnery Talks Faith & Politics

Pat Trompeter is Director of Advancement of Regent University School of Law.

That means he meets with people of influence every day to connect them with his school's mission. He is passionate about the fact that at Regent School of Law, they are serious about Christ.

From their website, Regent's "commitment to faith-law integration is woven into our curriculum, as our faculty, dedicated to Christ’s call both personally and professionally, provide a caring and nurturing environment in which students gain an understanding of the foundations of law and learn to develop the ethical and moral code required for the recognition and resolution of ethical dilemmas.

Additionally, students are encouraged to explore the call of God on their lives, the gifts God has given them and discover how this translates into the practice of law."

As the only state in the nation without a law school, Alaska needs more graduates from Regent coming to the Great Land to be influencers. 

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Katie Faust is one of those humans that when I first met her, it felt like she was the sister I never had.

She is brilliant. Hilarious. Bold. Scattered. Deep. And so relevant.

The ministry she founded and runs, Them Before Us, says this on their website.

"There’s nothing exceptional about the people behind Them Before Us. We aren’t professional writers or pedigreed activists. We are just people who think that children deserve to be the primary consideration when considering what is best for, well, children. We are ordinary people willing to state the cost that children, as well as society, pay when children are deprived of their fundamental needs."

Isn't that what needs to be said out loud more often ?

Oh...and she's also on the Organising (that's European for organizing) Committee of a new group called the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship - created as a counter to the World Economic Forum.

She's in good company on that Committee with the likes of Jordan Peterson, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Victor Davis Hanson, Riva Melissa Tez, and Vivek Ramaswamy among others. The right response to the formation of this group would seem to be - "It's About Time!"

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Maybe it's because he's from Texas where quiet confidence reigns.

Maybe it's because he's a Principal in Golovin, an Inupiat Eskimo village on the Seward Peninsula where respect for elders is generational.

Whatever the reason, Alan Davis, Principal of Martin L. Olson School in Golovin, has given a desperately needed boost of confidence in the public school system by recently coming out in support of Governor Dunleavy's parental rights bill, HB 105.

Public school teachers, counselors, administrators and Board members have been relentless in advancing sexual orientation and gender confusion ideologies and very purposefully withholding that from parents. HB105, that shouldn't even be necessary, would require public schools to obtain parental consent before they teach anything related to sex, and those classes could not be taught to kids in K-3rd grade. The bill also mandates that parents must be informed if kids begin identifying as a different gender in school. Finally, the legislation creates safe locker rooms and restrooms by separating those facilities by biological sex.

Alan Davis, who joins me on "I'm Glad You Said That" today, is one of, if not the only public school employee, who has stepped forward to support this eminently reasonable legislation. Unbelievably, a large percentage of those opposing HB105 have been teachers and counselors who are actually standing against parents.

Principal Davis, his letter is shown below, should be commended and should inspire what is hopefully a large number of reasonably minded, parent-focused public school employees to also step up and take a stand !

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Zach Young is a life long Alaska with strong roots in conservative politics. He enjoys being involved with political activism all over Alaska. As the president of the Anchorage Young Republicans, Zach is uniquely equipped to help conservatives refine their messaging to attract young skulls full of mush to see how Government needs to be reigned in. As a local Anchorage Realtor, he knows the town like the back of his hand and when he's not engaged in the political arena, he enjoys fishing, hiking, and spending time outside. I've been blessed to know Zach since he was young and am honored to have him on the show today. 

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After yesterday's election results confirmed that Anchorage would be continuing down the road toward higher taxes, more rampant crime, homelessness and disgrace, I began wondering if I needed counseling.

Suzanne Downing came to mind.

As someone who always can put a smile on my face, I'm honored to have Suzanne on "I'm Glad You Said That" today to digest the Anchorage elections results and keep a proper perspective. This is not the end folks.Very frustrating yes but there is still much good work to be done.

We'll also chat about Governor Dunleavy's parental rights bill that has caused an LGBTQIA+ storm and why it's so important to move this legislation, and the associated public dialogue, as far as possible. 

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Tune in today for "I'm Glad You Said That" to learn about the Help Not Harm movement !

"A young girl who feels she is a boy – or a boy who feels he is a girl – may feel that way for any number of reasons.

Perhaps she feels she doesn’t fit in socially with other girls, and would fit in better if she were a boy. Perhaps she is generally uncomfortable in her body or with the changes it’s going through, and she is reacting to that in a similar way to someone who, for example, has an eating disorder.

She may have heard teachers talk about identifying as transgender in school, or watched videos online about transitioning, and that led her to believe it was a solution to the depression or anxiety she faced. Or, she may have more organically developed these feelings as a child.

Whatever the cause, one thing is crystal clear: a child who believes they must alter their body in order to be comfortable in it is a child who is deeply hurting.

The last thing we should do? Hurt them even more.

When a child is struggling to accept his or her biological sex, transgender activists will send that child a message to “be yourself.” In reality it’s a message that says:

Be Yourself except -

- Change your body chemistry makeup
- Change or amputate healthy body parts
- Change your appearance through surgery

Many states are now pushing back and providing much needed legal protections for children who are being directed toward unnecessary, life altering procedures that many now, in the thousands, are regretting.

Join me today on "I'm Glad You Said That" for an important and enlightening conversation with Joseph Kohm III, Esq, the Director of Public Policy for our national partner, the Family Policy Alliance Foundation. 

Joseph is a good friend and is traveling across the country testifying and providing expertise on this issue to lawmakers and others to stand in the gap for sensible measures to protect children.  We will be doing everything in our power to get legislation in Alaska toward this end. I hope you can join us for the show.

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Join us on "I'm Glad You Said That" today for a chat with Spencer Moore who is running for Anchorage Assembly in District 5.

As you likely know, although supposedly a "non-partisan" body, the Assembly is dominated by progressives with only two of the eleven members even remotely conservative.

Much of that has to do with anemic voter turnout.

Will we be able to recapture any of the several seats up for grabs this election cycle ?

Spencer Moore is doing his part to answer that in the affirmative. Hope you can join us for the conversation.

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Many of us in the conservative movement in Alaska were surprised when the Alaska State House was finally able to organize around the Republican majority that had been elected. For too many legislative sessions, members of the Grand Old Party were not able to play in the sandbox together.

Usually, that meant giving the power to the Democrats who then sat in the powerful positions determining what bills were heard and not heard. It was always bad for Alaska Family Council's legislative agenda.

This year, praise be to God, the Republicans in the House (the State Senate is another matter), were able to work with some rural Independent legislators and create a functioning Republican Majority.

And they elected Representative Cathy Tilton as the first Mat-Su legislator to hold the position since Jalmar Kerttula in the 1960s.

We couldn't be happier about having her in this important position of influence. Cathy has been a friend and ally for many years. She is grounded in her faith and will be an incredible asset for the next two years.  

Please join me today on "I'm Glad You Said That" as I have the pleasure of chatting with House Speaker Cathy Tilton - a good friend, woman of God and steady leader with wonderful convictions.

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If you know Kelly Tshibaka, you know it wasn't going to take long for her to rebound from her loss to Lisa Murkowski and get back in the fight.

For liberty-minded, small government conservatives in the Great Land, that is a positive.

In addition to raising her family, she is advancing a movement across the country to stop the cancer of ranked choice voting from metastasizing into other states.

As dark, big money once again leads the charge to convince Americans that Alaskans couldn't be happier about the "rank" new election process, something even liberal pollster Ivan Moore has shown is not the case, Kelly is engaging with a group called Preserve Democracy to expose RCV as "a political weapon and emerging threat to our democracy. It is a complex, multi-step process that confuses voters, escalates negativity, increases costs, and results in voter suppression."

Please join me today on "I'm Glad You Said That" and learn how and why Alaska does indeed need to lead on this issue - by sending it to the graveyard of bad ideas.

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Bethany Marcum is a fierce defender of school choice.

As the leader of Alaska Policy Forum, (APF) her steadfast voice has fought for freedom on many fronts. But today, the battle before her and others like her is defending the rights of parents and kids to choose the school option that is most suitable for their needs.

Scott Kendall, who brought us ranked choice voting, has teamed up with the NEA to decrease the educational options for kids in Alaska.

APF released the following press release recently.

"Yesterday, the Institute for Justice (IJ) teamed with a group of Alaska families to defend the state’s Correspondence School Allotment Program (CSAP) against an NEA-funded lawsuit that seeks to end parents’ ability to use their correspondence school allotments for private educational services. IJ, a nonprofit public interest law firm, has filed a motion to join the case, to defend Alaska families and the current school choice program. Alaska Policy Forum (APF) is not a party to this legal action, but strongly supports school choice, and commends Institute for Justice (IJ) for standing with Alaskan families."

I am privileged to chat with Bethany today on "I'm Glad You Said That" and hope you can tune in.

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