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 If you have a question for the podcast, record it and send it our way using www.speakpipe.com/Apologetics315 or you can email us at [email protected]