Good evening everyone Chaz Stevens here.
Citizen activists, gadfly, pain in the taxpayer and of course beer maker.
>> Yes, Chaz Stevens not only a beer maker, but
an American hero who resides in Tallahassee Florida.
He has decided to take the right wing's cancel culture in his home state and
twist it to fit his own narrative, and I absolutely love it.
So he is in a tizzy over the fact that conservatives in Florida have
been banning books in public libraries, books that they don't like,
books that tend to deal with issues pertaining to race and sexual identity.
And so he decided, well, since these new Florida laws empower residents
in the state to petition to ban certain books, why don't I participate?
And that's exactly what he did.
He filed a petition to ban the Bible from public libraries.
In petition sent to public school superintendents across the state
Chaz Stevens asked the districts to immediately remove the Bible from
the classroom library and
any instructional material Stevens wrote in the documents.
Additionally, I also seek the banishment of any book that references the Bible.
He says, my objection to the Bible being in your public schools is based
on the following seven points offered for your learned consideration.
And then Stevens, of course proceeds to question whether the Bible is
age appropriate for anyone who's read it not so much pointing to its casual
references to murder, adultery, sexual immorality and fornication.
Do we really want to teach our youth about drunken orgies, he asks in the petition.
Now, I I love this, I love him.
And he's had a long history of activism.
It's very similar to what we're talking about right now.
We're gonna show you some examples and believe it or not.
He's actually been successful in carrying out these stunts, they end up working.
He also took issue by the way to many biblical references to rape,
bestiality, cannibalism and infanticide.
In the end, if Jimmy and Susie are curious about any of the above,
they can do what everyone else does.
Get a room at the Motel Six and grab the Gideons.
>> Grab the Gideons.
>> He's amazing.
>> Grab him by the Gideons.
So look at the article says that he's doing this tongue in cheek and
obviously he loves doing it in a humorous way.
But there is a serious point there, there's a very serious point.
The Bible very likely not under our rules, but
under the right wing rules should be banned.
There are literal orgies in the Bible, people sleep with prostitutes,
nonstop in the Bible.
And there's over the top violence, but
I know the right wing doesn't mind the violence, but they mined the sex, right?
I mean, they're talking about, and a math problem.
There might have been race or sex or something, right?
In the Bible is nonstop sex.
>> No, it's like it's an episode of the sopranos like that's what the bible is.
No, but before we give you specific examples from the Bible to
really make our point and help bolster the point that this wonderful
activist is making here, I do want to explain what really set him off.
Because I'm sure Stevens was annoyed from the very beginning as books
having to do with race or the LGBTQ community were being banned.
But once they started attacking the math, that's when Stevens had had enough, okay.
>> Love is good.
>> So the 57 year old Deerfield Beach man says his ire was stoked after Florida
lawmakers decided this month to ban 54 math books that were claimed
to have incorporated topics such as critical race theory.
I love the algebra says Stevens who studied applied mathematics in college and
those Tallahassee loons just banned a bunch of arithmetic books.
I love it, he referred to them as tally Lunes, which I didn't know it was
a nickname for people from Tallahassee, but it sounds fun.
>> And the right wing from Tallahassee apparently it is.
So if it wasn't before,
it is that I love the word algebra [LAUGH] This guy is awesome man.
As usual, we asked the right wing, can you please make up your mind,
do you want the books banned or don't you want a band.
If you want to ban, if you have any sense of factual consistency,
you must ban the Bible, not my rule, it's your rule.
>> Now I had mentioned that his activism has worked in the past and
of course we're talking about Florida where conservatives managed to do certain
things that are questionable, especially when the government isn't supposed
to be endorsing a specific religion.
And so, I wanna talk a little bit about what he did.
So Florida, especially in South Florida, they were having these government
meetings, they would start these government meetings with a prayer and
he found that objectionable because again, you're not supposed to be doing that.
And so he started petitioning to be allowed to do his own Satanist prayer in
the beginning of these government meetings.
And since the government is not allowed to endorse one religion or the other,
they had no choice but to offer him the space to do his Satanist prayer.
So I'm gonna give you an example of what that state in this prayer looked like and
then I'll tell you what the aftermath was.
Let's take a look.
>> As Stevens a Jupiter resident and self proclaimed Minion of Satan has asked to
lead invocations to Satan at area commission meetings in south Florida
cities after the US Supreme Court ruling in May 2014 that allows prayer at city and
county commission meetings.
After two years of applying to lead an invocation Stevens
was finally accepted by Lauderdale by the sea.
>> Opened the gates of hell to come forth so as to greet us.
Though who have understanding as your brothers, your sisters and
elected officials.
Deliver us the good residents of Lauderdale by the sea,
people of Broward County and this august body,
almighty Satan from all past errors and delusions.
>> Everyone in that room was so uncomfortable.
It was so great, it was so great.
Real quick, you know what ended up happening?
Bunch of these government meetings decided to drop the prayer.
>> Of course they didn't, know look guys for people who are atheists,
we don't get it for religious people, they think Satan is real.
So when he's doing that Satan prayer, they're scared,
Satan's gonna come in the room.
That's what they're like, well sick that they were like, we gotta get out of here.
We got, here comes meals above, here comes meals above and
they're worried about it, they're worried about the cops are worried about it.
The cops were like, Jesus lord.
>> Don't shoot anyone, don't shoot anyone.
>> Okay, okay.
>> We thought Satan came in, we thought he had a gun, I mean, come on.
>> So, okay, great job on that video by the way.
So we're gonna read you the Bible quotes as well.
For our religious viewers, I love you guys and there's a wonderful side of religion.
I say it every time he helped the poor, the needy.
I've seen wonderful Christians do a wonderful Muslims, Jews, etc do it, and so
there's great sides.
But if you take it literally, it leads to these kind of absurdities and
that is what fundamentalists do, they take it literally.
So >> Yeah, and
look at the point that I wanna drive home and
I hope everyone understands this distinction.
Okay, I have no interest in being needlessly antagonistic towards people of
faith.
Okay, I genuinely believe in what this country is supposed to support, which is
religious liberty and that includes the freedom to not be religious, right?
So if anyone tried to do away with people's religious liberty, their ability
to have faith, I would fight against that even though I'm not a person of faith.
With that said though you practice your faith, let me practice my non faith,
let us live, let us live in this country as free human beings.
But I do wanna give you some specific examples from the Bible that,
you might not want your kids to read about.
So let's go to Genesis where that portion of the Bible says Judah
said to Onan in sleep with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty
to her as a brother in law to raise up offspring for your brother.
But Onan knew that the child would not be his.
So whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground.
>> Jesus.
>> To keep from providing offspring for his brother.
What he did was wicked in the Lord's sight, so the Lord put him to death also.
>> Wicked, although.
>> Wicked, my bad.
>> Okay with it would be fun to it would add to the story.
We just got banned in the state of Florida for reading the bible.
This is way more graphic than any book that they pulled off the shelves
in Florida.
None of those books talked about spilling the semen all over the floor,
having sex with your dead brother's wife and
doing the withdrawal method and then God executing you for it.
>> Lots of animal cruelty also.
If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he has to be put to death and
you must also kill the animal, although animals should be left alone.
The animal didn't make that decision.
>> Yeah, but no, God says he did, and we're putting the animal.
I got two more for you guys.
This one's Exodus 4:24-26, we're doing Bible study today.
At a lodging place on the way the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him.
That's interesting.
But Zipporah, interesting, I think that's the name of the website these days too.
But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and
touched Moses feet with it, curious choice.
Surely you're a bridegroom of blood to me, she said, so the Lord let him alone.
So if you're having troubles with the Lord cut off the foreskin,
touch it to your feet.
If you don't touch it to the four feet, it doesn't count, okay.
And then finally we go to Ezekiel 23:19-20.
>> This is my favorite is very naughty.
>> This, if the Bible is in the classrooms,
the kids could read this and I'm telling you if you've got kids now,
I haven't stopped watching the video cuzit's about to get it super dirty.
Here we go Ezekiel.
Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she called the days of her youth when
she was a prostitute in Egypt.
There she lusted after her lovers whose genitals were like those of donkeys and
whose admission was like that of horses,
why are we talking about the emission of horses?
Okay, so guys, you can get wonderful things out of the Bible,
the Koran, the Talmud, the Bhagavad Gita, etc.
But this stuff is also in there.
If you think that's literally true, God bless.
Okay, it is what it is.
We live in a free country, you're absolutely allowed to believe that, okay.
But, I'm a little skeptical, okay, obviously.
But if you're gonna ban books because they're, they mention sex.
It is inarguable that you must ban the Bible.
>> Yep, and I am happy to hear that Chaz Stevens is not only an awesome activist,
but he's a beer maker as well, along with being a taxpayer.
This is a good American and I would love to have a beer with this guy.
>> Yeah, yeah, absolutely, next time we go to, south Florida maybe.
And then the next time I get in trouble with the Lord and I'm like, hold on,
I'm going to touch the feet with, okay.
>> My God [LAUGH] >> I'm sorry guys, I'm sorry,
but come on, really?