Midweek Musings: Christian Fundraising, Abortion Risks, and School Libraries

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When principles collide with practicality, where do we draw our moral lines? This episode dives deep into several contentious issues where faith-based values and contemporary social challenges create complex ethical dilemmas.

We begin by examining how GiveSendGo, a Christian crowdfunding platform, is defending its decision to host a half-million-dollar fundraiser for a murder suspect's legal defense. While the company's co-founder Jacob Wells admits he isn't "proud" of hosting the campaign, he justifies it as "standing on principle" and "loving people even in the midst of very hard and dark places." This stands in stark contrast to major platforms like GoFundMe that have refused similar campaigns, raising profound questions about where compassion ends and enabling begins.

The conversation shifts to public health concerns with an examination of a troubling new study on abortion medication safety. According to research cited, nearly 11% of women taking abortion pills experience serious adverse effects—a rate allegedly 22 times higher than what appears on medication labels. Despite these alarming statistics, FDA leadership appears hesitant to take action, demonstrating how regulatory inertia can persist regardless of changes in political administration.

We also explore a Pennsylvania school board's unanimous decision to restore controversial LGBTQ-themed books to school libraries despite previous determinations they weren't age-appropriate. This highlights the continuing tension between parental authority, educational institutions, and cultural representation in our schools. These three issues collectively demonstrate that meaningful institutional change requires more than just new leadership—it demands consistent moral principles that transcend partisan politics.

What do you think about these ethical dilemmas? Share your thoughts in the comments and join our next live discussion for more thought-provoking conversations on faith, culture, and current events.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, good morning, happy Wednesday.
We're halfway through the week,all right, we really do have to
get right to it.
Today.
I have a few stories here on X.
The first one I want to talkabout is this.
Givesendgo supposed to be a goodChristian company who is the
co-founder is not proud to hostfundraiser for alleged track

(00:21):
meat murderer.
Suspect says some donors arewrong but as yet he's hosting.
I'm so disappointed.
However, he has a reason.
Um.
More than a half a milliondollars has been donated to the
help carmelo anthony officialfund on the crowdsourcing site

(00:41):
gifts and go.
Now I even applied for a jobfor them because they were
hiring for customer service reps.
You could work from home.
I haven't heard anything back,which is fine.
I don't want to work for themnow.
This half a million dollar sumis the result of an alleged
murder that occurred.
You know who it is, we know whoit is, but I want to get to the

(01:03):
part of um now.
Give send go is leading anonline fundraising for the
anthony's, for anthony's familylegal expenses.
Other major crowdsourceplatforms, including gofundme
and kickstarter, have notplatformed a campaign for
anthony on their sites.
Good, but give send goco-founder Jacob Wells and his

(01:27):
leadership team are featuringAnthony's campaign.
Oh y'all, please don't do this.
How proud am I of this campaign?
I don't.
I wouldn't say I'm proud at all.
Wells told Fox News Digital,but he's again a Christian
company.
I have no pride in having thisbeing on Give Send Go.

(01:49):
I just have appreciation forwhat Give Send Go is doing in
the midst of these tragicmoments, which is standing on
principle, which is lovingpeople even in the midst of very
hard and dark places.
You know the victim, austinMetcalf's dad is a Christian,
apparently, and he said he gaveCarmelo Anthony immediately,

(02:13):
which I find really hard tobelieve.
But you know, not hard tobelieve, but I don't think I
could do it right away.
Maybe eventually over time.
So he's a better Christian thanme, I guess.
So I think the father mighteven support this, because Wells

(02:34):
claimed his company has only ohgosh, I pop up ad, let's see.
Wells claimed his company hasonly ever removed campaigns for
causes deemed illegal or raisingmoney under false pretenses.
So what are you going to raisemoney for Pedophiles?
I mean what?
Where does it stop?
But we got to love everybody,but really you don't have to

(02:57):
enable them either.
I have a problem with this andI'm just very surprised with
GiveSendGo doing this, all right.
Moving on, 11% of women who takeabortion pills suffer serious
adverse events, largest knownstudy finds.
This is from LifeSite News.
I blogged about this on my blogthe other day in conjunction

(03:21):
with the FDA, and how dirty andcorrupt they are too, and
they're really not changing justbecause, just because Trump's
in charge now and they have DrMcCarty Dr Marty McCary is the
commissioner now at FDA.
He needs to do some stuff.
I don't think he's going to,though.
I think he's going to be statusquo over there at FDA.
Over there at FDA, the largestknown study of the abortion pill

(03:47):
has found that almost 11% ofwomen in the US suffer serious
adverse events following achemical abortion, a rate of 22
times higher than when, thanwhat was reported on the drug
label.
So that's out on the X-File.
If you want to read that, I'mgoing to, let me go.
No, no, let me finish readingthis.
The simply stated my, my prieststone I guess that's the name

(04:09):
of the drug as used in realworld conditions is not safe and
effective for women.
The researchers concluded,without noting the fact that the
abortion pill kills innocentunborn beings.
So mccary said he's not goingto do anything about this
abortion pill.
He says he needs to wait formore data to come in.

(04:29):
Meanwhile, it's not safe andeffective.
Take the drug off the marketwhile you do more research.
And then, because it is harmingwomen, not to mention killing
babies.
But you know, whatever, what amI going to do about it?
Right, just because Trump is incharge now, just because he's

(04:53):
the president and he has signedthese executive orders, doesn't
mean we are back to normal,because we're not.
Because pennsylvania schoolboard votes unanimously to
return graphic lgbt books tolibrary.
This is also from life's lifesite news.
Let's go over here.
The radnor township schooldistrict board of pennsylvania

(05:17):
voted unanimously yeah,unanimous, unanimous, yeah to
restore several notorious bookspromoting LGBT ideology to
children to the school, alibrary, despite their explicit
nature.
The Philadelphia Inquirerreported that the board voted
six to zero, with threeabstentions, to restore

(05:40):
genderqueer, with threeabstentions to restore
genderqueer.
Fun home and blankets,reversing a committee's February
judgment that they were notage-appropriate.
These books are memoirs aboutreal struggles that our students
have.
Really.
Why do they have it, though?
Because of you.
Board President Sarah Dunndeclared Are you going to tell

(06:05):
kids you can't have your booksback.
You go buy them at barnes andnoble.
Okay, go buy them online,they're not banned, but I want
them out of the library atchildren where, where my
grandson is eventually going toprobably go to.
No, we're not having it.
Um.
Disagreement remained, however,over when and how to amend the
2000, blah blah.
So that is still happening and,um, a lot of other things are

(06:27):
still happening thanks toliberal judges.
I'm going to read a couple otheruh headlines and then we're
going to move on to the questionof the day.
Let's see here um otherheadlines.
This is the most useless phraseto put in an email expert says
it's, it accomplishes nothing,and that phrase is just checking

(06:48):
in.
So this is.
This is actually a pretty longpost on on the new york post.
It's a long article actually,and I, just after I started
reading it, I didn't.
I was like you know what thisis the liberals trying to tell
us what we can and cannot say,because it makes people
uncomfortable.
F you, that's all I have to sayabout that.

(07:09):
I'm going to say what I want tosay.
Um, okay, I guess that's allI've got.
Well, we're going to move on tothe question of the day.
Here we go.
But first I have to say I waspretty impressed how you guys
sent me the stuff yesterday.
Uh, giblet sent me randyjohnson hits a bird while he was

(07:30):
pitching and I watched thevideo.
I was like, oh, I think I hadlike an out loud physical
response to that.
Oh my gosh, that was so wild.
And then nancy's vodka'sdenture you know who I'm talking
about.
That's a long, that's a longname.
Let me see if I can go find it.
Nancy's soaked nancy's vodkasoaked denture sent me one rick

(07:54):
mirrors, being the only personto skin a rabbit with a racing
tire.
I watched that too.
Wow, there are some weird stuffhappening out there in the
sports world.
That's crazy.
So along that line, I need giveme something, give me some more
of that stuff, let's.
Let's go with music.
Let's go with.
Let's go with music, let's gowith concerts.

(08:16):
Have you been to a concert oror what kind of famous concert
happened where some weird otherthan like Ozzy Osbourne
supposedly bit a bat's head off?
I don't think that reallyhappened, but is there anything
weird like that that happenedthat you can send me more videos
of?
That was some wild stuff, allright, I don't know if that's

(08:36):
really a question of the day,but hold on a minute, okay.
If you don't like that question, then here's a question of
question today, Trump's first100 days.
Do you think things are goingwell and do you think anybody's
going to be fired soon?
If so, who?
Who do you think will be firedfrom the cabinet?
Okay, I gotta go.

(08:57):
Thanks for listening.
Love y'all Bye.