Welcome to the show.

Hello, friends. It's called Stand to Reason, and I'm your host, Greg Cocoal, 33 years now, and counting.

It's not always been called Stand to Reason, but that's how long I've been in radio, and actually this show had this name right after we started Stand to Reason, which was May 1st, 1993, which means this May coming up in what three months will be our 30th anniversary.

We're gearing up for it. We're pretty excited about it, and we got some treats in store for you in light of that, but of course you have made this possible.

All the listeners, all the friends that I have that I know and I don't know. I mean, you know me. I don't always know you, but I get to meet many of you when I travel and do events, and you guys are what Stand to Reason is all about.

And so we are celebrating you as well, this coming up now on our 30th anniversary. Of course, the way the numbers work, this actually is our 30th year.

We'll be finishing our 30th year on our 30th birthday, just like you finish your first year on your first birthday. But anyway, it'll be our 31st year that we're celebrating our 30 years that have gone before.

Now last show, I gave an anecdote or something happened last weekend, which is great. That was the good news. And I said, I got bad news too.

And I want to talk about that now. And it's only bad news in the sense that we should say only it is bad news, but bad news in a sense that here is another, another report coming from a Christian in culture, trying to get an education and ultimately make a living.

But then being resisted pretty aggressively by the culture on what ought to be recognized as a personal conviction and honored as such and not punished or discriminated against.

But rather acknowledged as an authentic belief that one holds for will just be charitable regarding the reasons they hold it, in other words, you don't call a person disagrees with you.

You don't call them, you must be a hater. That's not charitable. That is that is generally drawing a false conclusion about a personal view.

There could be lots of things people think are wrong, even though they don't hate the people who are doing them. Okay, like no duh, right? All right, in any event, but lots of this has come down the pike. We've seen this going on in our culture.

And I was talking with someone, oh, that was my physical, let's see, physical therapist. No, it was the x-ray technician as I had surgery and I had my checkup last week and I'm talking to him as he's putting me in position to check out see if the replaced hip looking good, which it was and, you know, here, I'm just talking.

And the most depressed group in this country are Christians. And I happen to mention that and he said absolutely now this if you pardon my way of putting it was a person of color.

He's a hip young looking a hip looking young black man saying that the most oppressed agreeing that the most oppressed group in this country are Christians.

Now, I'm not wine inner crying or whatever or just making an observation and this kind of thing, which I am going to read to you, which is an email that was sent to us at STR.

It isn't exemplifies that. And incidentally, try to, when I read this, think about what is going, what happens to this person and what is going on in their life and now in the educational system, at a Christian school, no less, a Christian university.

And if you just substitute the circumstances and just make them racial, you would see how obscene the kinds of circumstances he faced would be.

But when they are regarding a Christian and that Christian's convictions about the morality of sexual behavior or abortion, both of these come up here.

How, how this Christian immediately becomes the object of persecution, simply in virtue of his convictions. Now, I've said this before, this is true about pronouns in general, dealing with that is that when we are

choose as a matter of conscience to use pronouns regarding a person, third person reference, that's how pronouns are used.

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