Hi everyone, welcome to Off the Bench. This is Heidi St. John. I'm glad you guys have joined me at my little corner of the internet for everyone who's watching this on YouTube.

Welcome to the video version of the Heidi St. John podcast where glad you guys are here today.

I'm going to tackle something that is really fascinating to me personally. This is something I've been talking about for a long time.

It's the the condition really that our libraries are in right now. And today I have a repeat guest on the show who really is a hero.

In Inido, glauoma, and I got to know her you guys know this of course through my girl Melissa, but they've had tremendous success in fighting the woke agenda in our libraries.

This is going to encourage you guys stick around. I think you're going to be glad that you did.

All right, you guys. So before we get started today, a couple of things I want you to take note of I have a women's retreat that's coming up the first weekend in November.

I've had a lot of you asking about that. That retreat is sold out. It's sold out within 48 hours of us opening it up.

We are looking at some other dates early next year. So if you're interested in that, just stay tuned. We're going to be giving you guys information on that as the time gets a little bit closer.

Also, this is the week that I will be talking about transgenderism and this idea of non binary that we're hearing from the culture right now.

It's really coming from the radical left, but sadly has infiltrated the church. And so I'm going to be talking about it from a biblical point of view over at my Bible study for moms,

which is mom's strong international. You guys, we've got to be able to talk about these things from a biblical point of view.

We need to know what God says. And guess what? God's word is not incompatible with science. God is the author of science. I keep hearing people say, Oh, trust the science. I do because I trust the creator.

God knew what he was doing when he created us in his image, male and female. And so we're going to talk about that.

And also some responses to rapid gender, you know, rapid onset gender dysphoria. So many things that are happening. Our kids are being confused by the culture around them.

Our libraries, frankly, were a breeding ground ground for this. We saw this years ago. I started going to my library board several years ago when they started inviting drag queens, grown men dressed clonishly like women coming into sexualized or children and talk about things like warm loves,

warm and and drudging as animals. And it seems harmless on its face. It's anything but harmless. And it has caused so much frustration for parents who don't know what to do. And today's guest is going to give you guys some insight into how they have been successful in beating back the woke agenda that the libraries are pushing in out into our committees through grants and all kinds of things that come to the libraries.

Emily Ladick is a home school mom. And she shares her passion for true through e learning to reach the next generation of American Patriots. Another reason I lever.

Emily's began teaching as an adjunct college professor or instructor, rather of political science and history in 2004. She has an M. Ed and a bachelor's of arts and political science and history.

Her website, grade American studies.com offers high schoolers and American national government course you guys need to check it out early American history is going to be available in January of 2023. I cannot wait.

But you know this Emily is best known to me anyway as one of the ined freedom fighters. I'm so glad she's joined me. Emily. Thanks for coming back on the show.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited.

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