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The Counsel of Trent

#1028 - When Liberals Were on "The Wrong Side of History"

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this episode Trent shows how liberal ideology often drove its advocates to defend what we now call indefensible. How our culture grooms CHILDREN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjd4ndVTQn4&t=609s

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0:00.0

When you take a stand for traditional values like marriage being the union of a man and a woman,

0:04.6

liberals often accuse you of being on the wrong side of history.

0:08.8

The President of the United States and the United States of America has stood on the right side of history.

0:14.3

They say you should just give up, or else society is going to move on and you'll just be remembered like the bigoted losers of the past who oppose

0:21.9

things like interracial marriage. However, I only care about being on the right side of truth,

0:27.2

not the right side of history, because God is the Lord of history and he knows the final ending.

0:32.5

Besides, the Catholic Church was correct when it fought against interracial marriage bans in the mid-20th century,

0:38.7

and the church is still correct in its refusal to acknowledge so-called same-sex marriage.

0:43.9

And you were correct, by the way, when you acknowledge our channel by hitting the subscribe

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button and by acknowledging us through your support at trendhornpodcast.com.

0:52.4

This is what allows us to boldly and publicly advocate

0:55.1

for the right side of truth in the public forum. So please head over there if you like our channel

1:00.1

and support us. Once again at trendhornpodcast.com. But in today's episode, I want to show you

1:06.0

three times that liberals defended horrible ideas. And now they try to forget those times that they were on

1:12.9

the wrong side of history. Number one, eugenics and forced sterilizations. Liberals often praise

1:18.9

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. for his dissent in the 1905 case of Lochner

1:24.2

versus New York, and other cases that forbade states from passing minimum wage laws

1:29.1

or capping workdays at 10 hours. But in 1922, Holmes joined seven other justices to uphold

1:35.5

mandatory sterilization laws in the case of Buck v. Bell, which upheld the right of the state

1:41.5

to forcibly sterilize people that the state deemed feeble-minded,

1:46.0

people like Kerry Buck. Homes delivered the court's opinion, writing in part. It is better for all

1:51.8

the world if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve

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