The United Methodist Church has now fully officially embraced lgbtq ideology we've got the breakdown and Analysis and biblical response to that on today's episode of relatable as well as a little uh ranking and rating of some Met Gala outfits from last night this episode of relatable is brought to you by our friends and good Ranchers go to goodranchers.com use code alley at checkout that's goodranchers.com code Alley [Music] hey guys welcome to relatable happy Tuesday hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far wow y'all have given me a big response and reaction to yesterday's episode
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the issue of whether the church should be so-called gay affirming but really it also had to do with gay clergy and I'm talking openly gay Affirming homosexuality homosexual relationships as what they would call Holy normal fine on the same plane as a heterosexual actual marriage so this has been um a long time in the making this controversy has been for several years even before a few years AG ago uh when they split over this issue I actually remember that was um one of the first times that we really delved into the gay marriage quote unquote
issue and really looked at what The Bible says about this not the first time but I think one of the First episodes where we really talked about this in depth from a Biblical perspective and interestingly the episode this is the only time this has ever happened the episode wouldn't upload to Spotify or actually it went up on Spotify and then it was taken down it's interesting that's actually on my Wikipedia page that I didn't even I don't remember thinking it was that big Of a deal or that scandalous at the time it was just like
big Tech doing its thing but I guess it was enough of a thing that it made it to my Wikipedia page but that did happen thankfully it is back up there so we'll Link in the description if you want to go listen into that but the controversy continues last Wednesday delegates at the United Methodist Church General Conference in Charlotte North Carolina voted to overturn the church's historic Discipline and Doctrine on homosexuality and so-called same-sex marriage now let me just note why do I say so-called why do I say quote unquote why can't I just say
same-sex marriage now I might you might hear me say samx marriage or a gay marriage just because that is the colloquial term and you know what I'm saying you know that I talking about in the eyes of the law it is a marriage but the reason I typically caveat it in that way or describe it in That way is because it's not actually a marriage God created marriage he created the world he defined marriage in the very first chapter of the first book of the Bible as between one man and one woman that is of
course reflective of the marriage between the Bride of uh Christ which is the church and the bridegroom which is Christ himself we see that painted throughout the Bible and of course the Bible ends with that marriage uh the marriage supper of Christ and his church and so the Bible starts with the marriage it ends with the marriage God Alone created it God Alone defines it the law can't redefine it you can change the legal implications and the consequences of two men or two women uh coming together in what is typic what is referred to legally
as a marriage but you cannot fundamentally change the definition of marriage because the state did not create it so that's why you hear me say so-called Quote unquote you sometimes will hear gay Mirage as kind of a play on words because it is not in fact by definition a marriage moving on by the way this summary that we are giving you comes from a few places it comes from the Christian post it also comes from World magazine by Dr Al Mohler so it was approved by a 692 to 51 vote without a word of formal
debate the measure approved removing the language that prohibited the ordination of self-avowed Practicing homosexuals from the book of discipline since 1984 the UMC book of discipline has prohibited the ordination of homosexuals with many progressives and Mainline Protestant denomination openly refusing to enforce or follow the Restriction so Mainline Protestant is always going to be left leaning is always going to be more Progressive uh as opposed to what is typically referred to as Evangelical Protestant so even though I it the word Evangelical it can Mean so many different things I would be categorized as Evangelical even though
within Christian circles we would make a distinction between Evangelical and reformed but for the purpose of statistics for the purpose of differentiating between Mainline Protestant and Evangelical Protestant I am an Evangelical evangelicals are always always more biblical and conservative than Mainline Protestants so Mainline Protestants within this UMC Denomination have been openly refusing to enforce or follow this restriction that has been in the book of discipline over the past several years the UMC has experienced intense debate over whether to change various rules in its book of discipline regarding LGBT individuals in 2019 the Methodist voted to
strengthen their denomination statement on marriage the practice of homosexuality is in compatible with Christian teaching therefore self- vowed practicing Homosexuals are not to be certified as candidates ordained as ministers or appointed to serve in the United Methodist Church that's the controversy that we covered a few years ago that got us it seems kicked off Spotify for a period of time according to Dr Mohler The conservatives believed they could force a division of the church and the Liberals would leave to start their own lgbtq affirming denomination in reality the conservatives became outnumbered Throughout 2022 and 2023
no less than 7,000 churches left the United Methodist Church in some conferences regions like the one centered in Dallas Texas close to 70% of the churches left so really interesting that the conservatives were outnumbered in 2019 when they made the vote and since then so many churches have left the UMC after they established themselves as a liberal Mainline Protestant denomination what was left of the UMC rushed into to abandoning Historic Christianity and Join the lgbtq Revolution which was clearly seen at the general conference in Charlotte this year even before the historic vote was taken uh
speakers introduced themselves by name gender identity preferred pronouns so basically what has happened is that progressives after they basically took over the UMC in uh 2019 they have hollowed out the Methodist Church Church the Methodist denomination and have decided we are Going to abandon Christianity we're going to abandon church history we are going to abandon our Creeds we are going to uh abandon uh the Bible all together and we are going to then in essence uh abandon Christianity and we are going to remake this denomination into our image so really at this point um it's
like the Episcopalian Church it is like uh Unitarianism which can't even be it doesn't even qualify as a Christian denomination and they've said you know What we want to continue the pretense of religion we want to continue to call ourselves Christians we want to continue to go to church want to continue to say that we are uh that we are in some kind of position of leadership a part of clergy within the United Methodist Church but we don't actually want to follow any semblance of Christianity so that's what the United Methodist Church has done and
of course this is always what happens When you abandon scripture when you decide that the Bible is not authoritative when you decide that your opinion or cultural changes or social whims have more Authority than the word of God then you will always end up conforming to the spirit of the age and sexual depression gravity and the feelings that you have the lust that you have of course will take precedence over what God's word says you will change the definitions of Holiness you will change the definitions of sin and repentance you will change the very definitions
of right and wrong because essentially people who do this not just within the United Methodist Church but whatever flavor of Christianity someone is when they decide that the word of God is not good enough that it doesn't give us everything that we need for Life Of God life in godliness that it is not a sufficient standard then what happens is you repace Worshiping the god of scripture with the god of self and when you worship the god of self is I wrote about in my book and as we've talked about several times you elevate two
main values and that's authenticity and autonomy these two main values can be good values but only when they are submissive to to God's standards but when you worship the god of self and you elevate autonomy and authenticity to the Supreme positions everything else must fall in line to These two things so an example of what I mean by that if you worship the god of self and you supremely value autonomy then you will literally sacrifice your unborn child in the name of having autonomy over your own body autonomy that mean uh to mean that you're
um you have authority over your body you have authority over your choices and while again that can be a good value and that we believe that we should have autonomy separate from the government autonomy Taken all the way to its logical end means that you are going to do whatever you want to do within your control no matter who in what that sacrifice is and when you are worshiping the god of self that means you will literally sacrifice a child on the altar of your own autonomy authenticity is the same way authenticity can be a
good thing and that you don't want to be fake you don't want to pretend to be something that you're not or to know things that you Don't know authenticity can be a good thing but when you elevate it too high when you start to worship yourself then authenticity becomes an excuse to s for example I want to be authentic to how I feel so I want to identify as the opposite sex because I must affirm my feelings because I worship myself there's no higher standard than what I feel there's no higher standard than my own
autonomy and authenticity and so authenticity and autonomy become excuses To sin when we exchange the god of scripture for the god of self that's what's happened here that's what happens when all people decide that God's standard is not good enough anymore that it's not God who is love but it's we who get to Define love that's what's happened to the UMC that's why they're losing so many members contrary to popular opinion it is not conforming to the world that wins unbelievers that's what we hear a lot That's the Seeker sensitive strategy that if we look
and sound more like the world then we will attract more of the world what you win people with is what you win people to if you win people with worldliness you are winning them to worldliness we are to win people with the cross with the aroma of Christ Romans 2 God's kindness leads us to repentance right so it is not worldliness it is not compromise it is not Conformity with the world that is Going to win people to Christ um and unfortunately it seems like many people at the UMC just don't understand that they don't
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very sorry to do this bishop uh Thomas Lang Deacon greater New Jersey adult white male thank you Bishop good morning friends I am Scott Brewer assist gendered white lay male delegate from the Great Plains conference go ahead my name is Carol Zs clergy delegate from Minnesota white female gay adult with pronouns she and her oh my goodness these people they Just want so badly to be special that's what it that's what it comes across at ac across like to me they just really want to be special they want to be unique they want to be
different I always think about like what started this desire to be identified in like the most Niche categories and I know some people are like no this is just who they really are this is their authentic selves and they're just showing up and taking space and sharing their truth I Know yada y y all that is nonsense by the way it's vapid harmful nonsense but I always think it kind of goes back well it probably goes back a lot farther than this you could argue it goes all the way back to the Garden worshiping the
god of self but I think about those like Disney princess quizzes or this personality test quizzes that were on social media and on Facebook and probably on like disney.com at the turn of the Millennium and I think that we got so obsessed with Like these personality tasks and finding like what our color is the mood rings the power bracelets like all of these things that were just feeding our narcissism and telling us you are unique you are special you are so different no one else is exactly like this that's what I think of when these
people are announcing all of their little intersectional identities is that we just want so badly to be a part of something that is like Special and different and not a part of the mainstream and that's exacerbated when you have this meta narrative this erroneous meta narrative that says like if you are just a white cisgendered so-called of course that's a nonsense term that was created by like a weird groomer guy but if you were just a a white normal heterosexual Christian conservative guy then you are an oppressor and of course if you are a white
woman who is also Conservative Then you are a part of the handmaid's tail enablers blah blah blah blah blah and so in order to be a part of like either championing the marginalized or on the side of the marginalized you have to take on all of these various identities and again these identities usurp or they supersede God's Authority and who God says that we are and it really is a matter of like going all the way back to Genesis 1 as we've talked about before like transgenderism is a Direct affront to God's Authority because only
God can can declare uh something to be can only create through declaration let there be light and there was light transgenderism says that you can say Let There Be female I am female and become female and that is a Lie from the of hell and that's why I also don't declare pronouns because you are s asting to this ridiculous idea this false idea that you can become something By declaration or that your gender is a matter of Declaration or announcement and it's not it's innate um anyway let's get some background on the United Methodist Church
that I think is important and a lot of this comes from Dr Al Mohler and World magazine so if you look at John Wesley who established the United Methodist Church it was not his intention to establish his own church it was his goal to lead a Holiness movement a kind of Revival Within the Church of England which he really did uh along with his brother uh Charles they wrote HS that were really beautiful they did a lot of good uh they were eventually dubbed Methodist as a term of derision actually due to the methodical approach
taken by Wesley's devotional societies methodism quickly made its way to the colonies Wesley himself self came to Savannah Georgia in 1735 he was loyal to Britain and the church of England so as the war of Independence began Americans were left to established their own church so kind of taking his teachings but they weren't under his direct Guidance the Methodist Episcopal Church was established in 1784 in Baltimore and spread like wild Wildfire a before long the Methodist would be the largest single denominational movement in America and remained strong well into the 20th century but they were
divided by the Civil War and then the church uh Reunited in 1938 and then they added the Evangelical United brethren in 1968 forming the United Methodist Church uh they did appear United for decades but then as we have discussed there were liberal conservative tensions within the United Methodist Church at the end of the 20th century the same thing happened in the Southern Baptist Church by the way in the 1980s the conservatives won though it was the lgbtq movement that Eventually blew up the church as we've already discussed and here's a quote from Dr Muller on
this John Wesley's Holiness movement once America's largest denomination now reduced to a shadow of its former self abandoned the Christian faith and established a new religion with the celebration of lgbtq SE uh sexuality at the center a mighty movement that Wesley had founded to bring Holiness and piety to the Church of England surrendered to the revolution Pushing the new sexuality and radical gender ideologies and it did so with gusto and of course so this is the end of the United Methodist Church because again this goes all the way back not just to the passages about
sexuality not just to Romans 1 not just 1 Corinthians 6 not just the verses in Leviticus that say a man line with another man is an Abomination it goes all the way back to Genesis 1 that God created the heavens and the Earth because if he created the Heavens and the Earth that changes everything what do we always say he alone says what is and what isn't what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad what's true and what's false what a marriage is what a woman is when life begins and why it matters
if he created all of this then he has the authority to Define all things and if the God who created all of this and has the authority to Define all things and tells us that marriage is between a man And a woman as we read in Genesis 1 127 and gender is male and female as we read in in Genesis 1127 and he is also the God who is love first John 4:8 and everything he says and does how he defines things the boundaries he puts in place are all also done in love and this
is the belief the UMC departing from Biblical sexuality is the belief that they can actually out love God by disagreeing with him but you can't because you are not love I am not Love God Is Love Therefore everything that he does and says is done and said in love and just a reminder the alliteration that we always use biblical marriage between a man and a woman is rooted in creation Genesis 1:27 it's reiterated throughout scripture for example honor your father and mother it's repeated by Jesus himself Matthew 19 4-5 have you not read that he
that in the beginning he made them male and female as he is answering a question About divorce he goes all the way back to creation and defines marriage it is a representative of Christ in the church as we read in Ephesians 5 that the husband represents Christ that the wife represents the church and therefore it is reflective of the Gospel the Bible starts with that marriage it ends with a marriage marriage between a man and a woman is an Earthly representation of an eternal and spiritual Heavenly reality the marriage between Christ and a church To
men can't represent that to women can't represent that that is why it's so fundamental that is why always when you see someone abandon what God says about sexuality and about gender they eventually abandon all of it you just don't know very many people who can live in that in congruence for very long who say yes God's word is authoritative on John 14:6 that say that says that he is the way the truth and the life and that no one can come to the father except Through Christ but it's not authoritative when it comes to sexuality
it's not authoritative when it comes to Creation it's not authoritative when it comes to Ephesians 5 and the definition of marriage like there are some people that try to live in that tension for a certain period of time it never lasts long it never lasts long either God gracious ly sanctifies them into repentance and into cohesiveness and congruence or they are tempted away from The faith and again they enter that um they enter that wide gate so they did try to have some kind of biblical support of their decision at this general conference for the
uh UMC James how I think that's how maybe you how you pronounce his last name he's a clergyman from Western North Carolina he um he gave a little bit of a speech saying you know this is why we must compromise on this issue that would be my phrasing but why we must vote for Full inclusion of lgbtq people here's S three scripture enables us to keep our arms around all people who dream who are broken who are seeking the grace and the mercy of God we've talked a lot about regions here in the region where
I work what we know is that cynics and young adults will not listen to us talk about Jesus if we say that we do not condone people that they love and care about they just shut us out if we do this I always suspect that the important Bible Verse for the day might be Romans chapter 8 verse1 there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus okay I just want to note quite a few quite a few things there first on that last thing that he said he miss misquoted it and this is actually really important he
said there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus that's not what the verse says Romans 81 says there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus for those who are in Christ Jesus for those who have been saved as Ephesians 2 says by grace through faith in Christ so for those of us who are Christians who have been purchased who by Grace uh by grace through faith have been made alive in him who have been saved who are New Creations by the grace and the mercy and the power of God for those of us
there is no condemnation because he who knew no sin became sin that we might become the righteousness of God we are the righteousness of God Not because we have merited that on our own not because we have earned that but because God's work on the cross was sufficient for our Holiness and our righteousness for our justification so because we are justified by faith in Christ we are justify by his blood shed on the cross there is no condemnation for us there is condemnation for those outside of Christ not just here but in eternity and so
that is wrong there's no Condemnation for anyone out there so you're saying that Christianity just offers moral relativism to people that the Bible has no s standards that there's no definition of Holiness or sin there's just no condemnation then why would anyone become a Christian you can get that from the world why go to church on Sunday when you can go to brunch you can hear from anyone you can hear from the mo most staunch Satanist that there's no condemnation what's different About the gospel what exactly is the good news if there is no condemnation
for anyone ever and another thing that I want to address is something that I alluded to earlier when he says uh that we know that if we don't condone gay people people who identify as the opposite sex the people who identify as quote unquote queer then the Skeptics the cynics the unbelievers will not listen to us look that is a lie almost as old as Time that we have to compromise in order to win that we have to lie to people that we have to affirm the sin that God says is killing them in order
to win them to the Cross of Christ and I love this verse from 2 Corinthians 2:14 but thanks be to God who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession and through US spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere from for we are the aroma of Christ to God Among those who are being saved and among Those who are perishing the aroma of Christ the aroma of Christ to God Among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing to one a fragrance of death of death to death to the other
a fragrance from Life To Life who is sufficient for these things for we are not like so many pedlers of God's word but as men of sincerity as commissioned by God in the sight of God we speak in Christ wow that's a really big privilege that's a really big Deal that is our role that is our privilege that we are the aroma of Christ that we spread the knowledge of him the knowledge of the gospel and I'll always or I'll also rather uh read you Romans 2:4 or do you presume presume on the riches of
his kindness and forbearance and patience not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance but because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up Wrath for yourself on the day of Wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed and of course this is following Romans 1 which very explicitly says that relations between two men or relations between two women are abominable are dishonorable are sinful so we could start for example in verse 24 although I think the whole chapter is relevant therefore God gave them up in the lust of their
hearts to impurity to the dishonoring of their Bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever amen for this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions for their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to Nature and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another men committing Shameless acts with men and Receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error and since God did not see fit
to a since they did not see fit to acknowledge God God gave them up to a debase mind doing to do what ought not to be done they were filled with all manner of unrighteousness evil covetousness malice they are full of Envy murder Strife deceit maliciousness they are gossips Slanders haters of God insolent hottie boastful inventur of evil disobedient to parents foolish Faithless heartless Ruth ruthless though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them all right I
want to play you one more thing on the approval side then I want to give you an example of those who actually said no I'm opposing this and this is not what we are going to stand for uh Dawn Higgins Wiggins hair getting Tongue Tied this morning uh General Secretary of the UMC General Commission on the status and role of women said following the lgbtq affirming vote this stop four you did good work very good work yesterday in our journey towards full in usion you indeed set the table wider and pulled up some extra chairs
at God's table not ours for persons and voices that have been silenced too long okay so she's very emotional about That I really pray for her repentance she will be much more emotional Before the Throne of God one day when she realizes this Grievous error and encouraging and enabling people to to sin and to this is really encouraging people away from Christ away from the Liberty that is given to us in Christ when he no longer makes us a slave or allows us to be a slave of sin we can be free from the oppression
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traditions of the church rather than the Traditions our local traditions and our cultures in our local in our local areas yeah so he is representative of many Africans in the United Methodist Church there who are saying no not okay not only have they seen how difficult it Is to be a Christian in a Muslim majority country a Christian in a place that doesn't accept Christianity that truly persecutes malign even kills Christians but they have also seen the physical effects of uh male and male sex and they understand its physical consequences as well as the spiritual
consequences of sin um and so I appreciate this guy standing up up there and saying look we see the graves of people who have given their lives to Maintaining the tradition of the church now one thing I will say and I don't know if this is just because there's a language issue or if this is truly what he meant but it's more than a tradition because a tradition is man-made a tradition is arbitrary because it's dependent upon what you want to do in a particular era or cultural moment a tradition is passed down from ancestors
from generation to generation and there are great benefits to Traditions but That's not what is uh that's not what's being torn apart and destroyed here what's being torn apart is the very or attempted to be torn apart is the very Authority in the word of God and that's a much bigger deal than tearing down a tradition darl Harrison pointed out that Sierra Leon is nearly 80% Muslim yet this brother comes to America and is in the minority at the convention of his own denomination that is that's a problem That's a problem um so that's what's
happening at the United Methodist Church they are of course not only Progressive in that way they are progressive in every way when it comes to Social and so-called racial Justice um they discussed at this General Conference how they commissions were monitoring the event to keep proper decorum respect for the rules of the Gathering and respect for diversity uh Dr or Reverend Royo he is a gay man a gay man married to Another Reverend who is an ordained Deacon in the Methodist Church and he asked delegates who address the event to State not only their name
annual conference and if they were l or clergy but also their gender identity and racial or ethnic identity um and and also said it was important to avoid exclusively male language for god um monitoring is not policing he said be respectful of the choice of language that is used including avoiding that Exclusively male language and then uh he also presented their report card and the diversity of officers elected to the conferences legislative committees then scolded attendees to work a little bit harder on inclusion with language and interpretation and you know this so often happens that
this racial nonsense this Dei nonsense goes hand inand uh with compromise on lgbtq issues they're not the same thing but the uh race is so often conflated or placed in the same Category as so-called gender identity and sexuality um and obviously there's a difference because it's not a sin to have any skin color or have any ethnicity and you're all equally made uh in the image of God and you have equal access to the father through Christ as a Christian um and so it's not the same of course as someone sinning against God through their
sexuality or denying their biological reality but Both of these kinds of uh both like non-white people and people who identify it's lgbtq are placed in the same category of Oppression and so they are placed under under the same marginalized and oppressed umbrella and therefore the same mechanisms are employed to purport to defend them and so very often through what I think is the vehicle of what I typically referred to as toxic empathy people are convinced that to be loving you have to employ these kinds of Dei Programs that say that they protect gay people trans
people black people brown people immigrants they're all kind of placed in the same bucket and too many people kind of fall into that trap of thinking that to be empathetic we have to believe in this victim mentality and treat people as if they are oppressed when they are in fact not and that we can't differentiate between what is a sin and what is simply an ethnicity and also convinces us to buy into the lie That all non white people are oppressed and all white people are privileged that's not true this nonsense seems to all go
together and we have to be super Discerning about that um okay so UMC is super happy this is how we're going to end this but uh this uh they're super excited about this and they decided of course not to end their conference with worship song praising God but with this number it's to five [Music] Okay so that is that that's that so that's what's happened in the United Methodist Church um the Gates of Hell will not Prevail against the church there's always been compromise there's always been Temptation there's always been sin remember the gate is
wide that leads to hell and the gate is narrow that leads to eternal life in Christ and again that's not earned by our own works by our own Perfection but it is one by Christ on the cross praise God for that and those who are truly saved will be Sanctified and will gain the knowledge and the wisdom of his word that is necessary to live a life of godliness and so it's very discouraging um but we already see that the UMC is a shadow of its former self and that denominations like this end up dying
and that God will protect his people he is still a good shepherd the Sheep know his voice and we follow him and that doesn't mean there Will never be the theological disagreements because of course there will be um but he is going to preserve his people and we can trust that and going back to Romans 8 and what Romans 8 actually says nothing can separate us God's people who've been purchased by him from the love of Christ um and read that end of chapter of chapter 8 it defines who God's people are really really well
and explicitly all right before we move into just short Light-hearted segment about the Met Gala which I know some of you like that when we talk about people's outfit some of you don't so you can just you can just end the episode here if you don't want to hear this but if you're watching on YouTube and you love us raiding people's clothes celebrities clothes not just anyone that would be weird just celebrities clothes um then you can stick around for that also speaking of clothes I forgot to do this at the Beginning look how cute
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the Garden of time you know these themes are like so I feel like they're they're so convoluted and the to be fair the goal is it's open to interpretation so the celebrities interpret it but it is a Book uh The Garden of time is a story written by JG Ballard and it's yeah I don't think it even matters what it's about because people just took the theme and said it's Garden themed that's what I gathered it's a short story by JG Ballard I'm sure it's weird uh that concerns a couple living in a beautiful home
a mob is slowly making its way toward them bringing destruction so it's always very dramatic um what happens at the Met Gala Do you know what are they doing it's yeah that's a good question um I mean it's a fundraiser so I think it's a dinner um and and they're raising funds for the Met yeah for the met the costume Museum of Art yeah okay um uh so Sleeping Beauties Reawakening fashion The Garden of time okay got it so there were some Goods there were some bads and by the way you know what it's okay
if we're a little bit judgmental About these outfits because they wear them to be judged that is like a whole part of this before they go in they're very dramatic and they wear purposely weird stuff a lot of them do not all of them so it's okay for us to say oh that's weird all right um okay Cole Escola Escola I don't know who this is okay is this a man Bri it is he is he looks like a like someone getting eloped in the 1940s a bride getting eloped in the 1940s but also kind
of like a child also a child which child bread a child bride which is very concerning in a lot of ways he's wearing for those of you who are listening like a teink straight skirt with a white Blazer it's all white yeah this is the garden of time this is the garden of time ugly um okay one through 10 one being the best this time 10 being the worst um this is 10 this is awful yeah this is really bad 10 okay 10 being the worst Okay yeah uh Dan Levy I know who this is
let's see him is he also wearing a skirt no um I have such a hard time seeing on this monitor um are those pantaloons they're pantaloons it's a it's just a suit but it's like it kind of ombres from black to like flower pattern okay oh it all together like what it's a jumpsuit like the bottom of no no no it's a jacket and pants but the bottom of the jacket is like the flower pattern also so it looks like it's Got it thanks George um okay uh it's not as bad as the last one
but I obviously don't like men wearing um floral curtains so I'm going to go I'm going to go with like an eight though being the worst okay I actually really like this one I agree I don't like men wearing floral patterns but I think for what it is it's kind of nice it's fine okay so what's your number I'd say I'd say four okay one being the best one being the best okay gndn Christie okay I can't imagine that the purpose was to look good mhm so I'm trying to like rate it based on that
um I don't know I don't know who this is he's an actor actress ress I don't know uh she kind of looks like the Queen of Hearts is that what she's going for she definitely looks like a character out of Alice and Wonderland I was thinking hunger the hunger games also that okay sure why not 6.8 qualin wow okay I'll I'll give it a Seven okay um Bad Bunny what Bad Bunny is a man I feel like I said this last year too I I thought Bad Bunny was a woman um this is bad bunny
can confirm and what is is he a singer rapper he's a singer I don't think he raps yeah he's a singer okay I'm probably WR sorry to assume Bad Bunny um okay I mean this is the best masculine look that we've seen or it looks like he's wearing uh Mary Jane tap shoes a little bit Yeah uh uh I don't know I guess a six it's supposed to be bizarre I don't know what the hat is the Hat's like a poofy I don't even know what the what the right term is I think this look
is totally goofy which I guess is what he's going for yeah okay Dan Levy do look did look better than him yeah I don't know okay what's your number I'm G to say eight okay 10 being the worst okay okay Del re I know who that is okay okay what do you think she's trying to do uh she's caught she's caught in a net I don't know I mean those are like um branches I think that are coming up okay maybe it it's like a tree with cobwebs in it yeah yeah yeah um I kind
of think it's cool because it's obviously the the veil is pro is trying to be something it's like she thinks it's like flattering but The dress itself is pretty yeah okay one being the best probably my favorite so far so I'll go with like a three and a half okay I'm going to do three I like it okay okay cool uh wisdom Kai a model what that's Lil NS X it's not I thought the same thing it's not what okay that's so funny because I saw someone on Twitter being like I have no idea who
this is but he slayed I was like I'm so in the no it's a little nosx Wow okay not wisdom Kai yep um is that a dress is that pants what's going on it's pants but he's got like a huge coat over it so it kind of gives it a dress effect but I don't know you probably can't see it but they're little like burn holes in all of it Oh I thought they were just polka dots um okay I kind of like the like the burn holes for the passage of time it's like the
like this outfit has it's like mothballs have eaten away at the outfit Because it's been you know put in storage for a long time yeah so I kind of get that I kind of like that now he is kind of dressed like a woman yes so I don't like that so I have to deduct some points so I'm going to have to go with like a 6.2 probably okay I don't like this one I say eight okay I think he looks kind of evil yeah he does definitely the red and black but I like your
assessment that's I didn't think that yeah I think They're going with something there okay Mindy King I saw this one on Twitter okay I have just like so many comments about her how different she looks I know she looks so different which kind of makes me sad she's put in a lot of effort to look completely different than her natural self but um I actually like this dress I think it looks beautiful on her I don't know how it fits the theme at all but well I wish we don't have like a Profile shot right
because like the little thing behind her is huge um yeah no we don't have a profile shot she okay I'm going to go with one being the best I'm probably going to give this a 3.8 I like it a little less than Lana Del re wow okay I feel like it looks like she got caught up in a pair of panty hoes M I could see that and maybe she did she she may have so I actually am going to give it an eight whoa I'm a hater sorry okay I thought That it was flattering
on her wow okay Ellie Fanning is this Dakota Fanning sister yes El Fanning yeah oh El Fanning what is she in yeah this one is kind of hard to see but it's meant to sorry I meant like shows and stuff oh oh I she well she was in Sleeping Beauty the movies um something probably on HBO or something that I haven't watched so she was in Sleeping Beauties she should have ate and she didn't you don't think so no I love this I it's supposed to look like She's wearing glass and I think it's really
cool I guess I'm kind of judging people based on the theme too yeah I mean she looks beautiful obviously this is extremely flattering on her she looks gorgeous yeah but I I would have maybe thought of something a little bit more themy for the Sleeping Beauty herself that's fair it should have been her night you're right about that but she does look really pretty so I have To okay I'll do a I'll go with a three just cuz she looks so good but I can't give her a two or a one wow sad I'm going
to give her a one okay I think she looks great Fair okay Tyla okay this is my favorite this gets a one from me because she is this is on theme and it looks beautiful so the passage of time she's got a little hourglass with sand in it that is literally passing the time and then her um her dress is like very form Fitting and like basically it's I think made for her like exact form but um it has like sand on it it looks like sand it looks like she's dripping in sand yeah and
so it not only looks amazing on her but it also signifies passage of time yeah I think it's great one for me if we're looking at these like costumes obviously yeah I think it's great but you didn't like you well you didn't like it or I thought or well I mean it's like it's to Me aesthetically ugly as a dress but like for what it is for the event I think it's great okay so I would say like for me probably four whoa okay okay tension on set all right that's all we've got for y'all
y'all can let us know what you think about these about these designs now obviously I I know if just in case I get anyone saying this I know that these aren't for the women the most modest dresses in the world I understand that and I not condoning the Immodesty that's just kind of a given when we're looking some of these celebrities but we never post like the most scand we never talk about the most scandalous ones because they're just too much um but yeah that's our assessment there are a lot of looks out there you
can let us know what you think all right that's all we got time for today see you back here [Music] tomorrow for
