Hey, folks, it's a Sunday. That means it's time to jump into the Ben Shapiro Show mailbag.

You actually have to be a subscriber over at DailyWirePlus.com in order to have your question answered in the mailbag.

Jeremy says, I went on two dates with this girl. Our values seemed to line up. We're both spouse-seeking, conservative and Christian.

She's Catholic. I'm Protestant. We disagreed on the subject of gay marriage. I said, my attendance at a wedding, meantime bearing witness and giving approval to the union, I couldn't do that for a gay wedding, even for a beloved family member.

She explained why she would attend and would obviously want her future husband to attend. On the other side, I'd want my wife to agree with me on such a fundamental and difficult subject. We amicably decided to end the courting process, and for both of us, this feels like a pretty fundamental disagreement, unwise to pursue the relationship further. Am I being too strict in my application of biblical principles here?

I don't think so.

I mean, if you're asking whether I would attend a same-sex wedding, I've said publicly I would not. I also would not attend in intermarriage, right? There's like a lot of things that I would not attend. As far as whether it is important enough for you not to get married over it, I mean, obviously it's important to you. Honestly, I would think that the more important thing, it feels like the Catholic Protestant divide is a fairly

real divide. And so, again, I tend to be a person who believes that the most durable marriages

are ones in which people share their religious precepts. There's some pretty fundamental

divides between Catholics and Protestants is my understanding. Again, I'm no Christian, but it seems like a thing.

So, yeah, I mean, my feeling is that as many factors should line up as humanly possible before you marry somebody.

Aaron says, hey, Ben, I'm a young army officer and West Point grad.

I majored in economics.

I'm soon to transition out of active duty service.

I'm debating whether to pursue an MBA or to enter corporate America and begin working in a civilian career immediately. After a few years in the workforce, I would then pursue further education with the state of the economy and the world. Would you recommend taking on debt now to pursue an MBA while young and without a family or start a career and pursue an MBA in the coming years. Huge fan of all you do. Keep it up for those who still love the country and the values it was founded on. My belief is that if you are single and you are young and you can get a decent loan rate, then getting an MBA earlier is better. First of all, it's going to give you a leg up on everybody else who's trying to enter the job market. You just start off at a different place, and there is in career somewhat of a path dependency. If you start off in your career as a, as a grad level student, you're going to start a higher pay and you're probably going to gain positions that are higher more quickly. Now, you could theoretically just stop a couple of years in, bump up to the MBA and then move on, but life sometimes gets in the way. So my feeling is sort of get as much out of the way as humanly possible. This was my wife's strategy, by the way, with medical school. When she decided to go to medical school, we didn't have kids yet. And my statement to her was, it's a long road. By the time you finish medical school in residency, our kids are going to be still very young. They're not even going to remember when you were in medical school. And that's true. By the time my wife finished medical school, which was in 2020, our oldest was six. So she barely remembers mommy being in residency. And so that's, you know, getting past this sort of stuff, I think, is a good thing. Susan says, Ben, there was a recent BRICS meeting in South Africa this week, is formation of Bricks Communist China's first step in invading Taiwan. Could it be the Communist China hopes to use Bricks to sidesteps the West economic sanctions if China invades Taiwan? How do you see it? Well, I mean, clearly, China is that they're cut off from the world economy. Now, the reality is that even Russia hasn't been totally cut off from the world economy. They've been cut off from Western economies, but they haven't been cut off from China. They haven't been cut off from India. China would hope that the contingency plans that it makes, if invades Taiwan, are going to offset, at least to a certain extent, the economic downturn that will happen when they do, because the West will cut them off. The United States will cut them off, Europe will cut them off. So, yeah, I mean, the fact that they're trying to create an alternative currency to the U.S. dollar, it doesn't vote, I mean, again, one of the reasons why the United States should not be racking up national debt the way that it racks up national debt is because we owe that money back to the people we hate. We owe that money in large part back to like communist party China.

And not only that, communist China holds our bonds. If they sell those bonds on the open market,

guess what dips? If they start selling our debt, guess what our ability to raise new debt looks

like? Not particularly amazing. So, I mean, we're much stronger than China economically, like by far, it's not close. But could China do a serious damage? Absolutely. That's why they're attempting to build other mechanisms outside of sort of Western economics. John says, hey, Ben, hope you're well. After hearing and discuss Trump's legal cases, along with Joe and Hunter's likely corruption, I'm wondering what you think a Republican

president should actually do if they get elected in 2024. If Trump ends up getting convicted and Republican president pardons him, it seems unlikely to me they would even then try to charge a Biden for corruption, at least on a federal level, given how political that move would look. even if Trump were pardoned in relation to the more bogus January 6th case, it would be difficult to make the case to the public.

Biden should be charged.

In your view, is the choice between pardoning Trump and seeking a criminal charge for Biden,

a binary one. If so, which choice do you think Republicans would be better off making?

...