An Unconventional Story of Hope

We as a society cannot move forward without fathers in their proper place in mothers and fathers at work in harmony to raise the children that they created.

This is family policy with NC family Pres. John Weston thanks for joining us this week for family policy matters.

Today we have a great privilege of speaking to a man who is a national leader on the issues of human life quality dignity and just Ryan Bamberger is cofounder and chief creative officer at the radiance foundation, a somewhat unconventional educational and life-affirming nonprofit organization and adopting himself and an adoptive father. Ryan is proof that Troy helped him rise from what many would consider to be human tragedy. He now uses his talents in media, journalism and public speaking to share about the cultural dynamics of abortion, adoption, eugenics, fatherlessness, natural, marriage, racism, poverty, free-speech religious liberty, and many other issues. He's also just released a new book which will be talking somewhat about today called, not equal civil rights gone wrong Ron Bamberger walking the family policy matter to try to have you on the show again great to be here.

Thanks so much for listeners who may not know you, at least not yet sure a little bit with us if you will about your life journey to the absolutely I am at 1%. You could say I'm the 1% that's used 100% of the time to justify abortion.

My birth mom experience the horror and the violence of rape, yet she still chose life and not only that, she gave me the incredible gift of adoption selected Grosvenor small little family 1510 of us were adopted although people asked him why you passion about this why you even care what it really starts with my own story and thanks to my mom's courage and thanks to the love of my parents. My birth mom's courage and thanks for love my parents, I was adopted and loved. And because of that I'm able to be who I am today, so that's why part of the radiance foundation story. The organization my wife and I began have to do my own personal story.

Well, thank you for sharing that. Now your new book is entitled not equal civil rights gone wrong.

How did you choose this title Ryan M.

From your perspective what has gone wrong in our country when it comes to civil rights oh a lot is going. Part of this came from my experience doing research about civil rights organizations like the NAACP national urban league and realize we the minute the proportions are actually literally partnering with Planned Parenthood and I couldn't understand that as I delve deeper into that during the time I was doing this research, we launch a billboard campaign in the very conservative stamps of the Bay Area with it's not so conservative, but don't know we play 50 billboards along with a good friend of my Walter Hoyt issues rely foundation and we play 60 billboard is in black and beautiful. Too many boarded.com and we were denounced by the ACLU, denounced by Planned Parenthood and denounced by the NAACP. Not only were we denounced Dakota billboard horribly racing and created the illusion that Planned Parenthood kills black babies somewhat. An article about them just detailing the radical pro-abortion position I called on the national Association for the abortion of colored people and they sued me for two years of the report we did prevail, thanks to lines defending freedom.

Thank God we prevailed, but it took two years to fight against them. And that's really where all this came from, how they not on the right side of this fundamental issue and so that's basically were not equal civil rights gone wrong Ron another to have said that the whole concept of race is really a human construct describe what you mean by that.

We made it up. Human beings have a proclivity to separating each other based on the most arbitrary things.

The most arbitrary characteristics. You know that wasn't skin toner pigmentation. It would be the shape of her earlobes, or whether there attached are unattached, we just have this propensity to constantly separating ourselves by class, by color, by whatever we made up race that we could somehow fit people into a category and we have seen by that is far more destruction than anything else. And because of that human construct we we we separate ourselves needlessly. And as someone who is biracial and half white, half black American. I don't want to go into some some human defined category like that. I think it's is detrimental for for us as a society and we look at history, we see how much damage has resulted by this inclination to to fit ourselves into some sort of racial category. Speaking of history. Ron from your perspective as a biracial man and an abortion survivor, so to speak.

How would you compare the historical racism that we seem in America to the racism that we see in our culture today so it's the same I mean it is the same it.

It's a worldview that believe that some of us are less equal than others, and its goal is the same.

The goal of racism is to dehumanize and once you dehumanize, it's much easier to treat someone with such horrific violence and you treat someone with with verbal violence treat someone differently and so I look at it as one of the same. It's a continuum in today's racism which I think is so firmly embedded in our abortion history where you have in your city that the birthplace of Planned Parenthood more black babies are aborted and born alive and yet the same people cry racism in every other facet of American life, and every other institution will deny that it's in the one institution that kills for a living. Racism is just the same. It's it's a depravity of the human heart and it's unwilling to actually see that we truly are one human race you're listening to policy matters a resource to listen to our radio show online resources that will be a place of persuasion in your community website.org will talk about that a little bit more now. We recently commemorated the sad anniversary of the US Supreme Court's decision in Roe V Wade. Many refer to abortion as the civil rights of our day you already spoken about this a little bit but in the context of Roe V Wade in the context of the politicization of this abortion issue. What are your thoughts about this rhyme will Roe V Wade, which of course is based on a lie nor McCorvey is actually general and she initially lied about how she became pregnant she use the excuse of being raped.

Even same word, excuse me, she use that scenario.

That horrible scenario. It wasn't true but yet that's how that case got propelled to the Supreme Court Roe V Wade, it's always touted as this empowerment of women. But what it really did.

Is it empowered men to have sex and run and that is why I made beats the residual effect of Roby Wade has been a culture of abandonment of cultural fatherlessness and meet the demographic hardest hit the black community. So you've got literally abortion and poverty, taking the place of fathers that has been the result of Roby Wade in abortion industry that preys on the vulnerable understands when you take the father out of the picture you create a family in a vulnerable community. That's exactly what they want. How do you think we can best remedy that in our culture today.

We talk a lot about fatherlessness in trying to address it. But what do you think are some of the remedies for that quote unfortunate. I talked about enough. Certainly I means you get these fantasies award shows were always celebrities go in and out or pontificating about all the issues that our society is facing.

But I never bring up fatherlessness in order to bring a follows is you have to talk about what the ideal is and that is for the mother and the father who created the child to actually be cleansed to take care of the child and they they can't because that talked about natural paradigms and they don't want to do that fatherlessness is devastating. I may even mention something to hire usage of drugs. Higher rates of suicide, parents of teenage pregnancy incarceration rate and the list goes on and on higher rates of abortion and the reason for that is because mothers who are amazing weren't meant to be both mother and father, and so we have to celebrate fatherhood. We have to encourage young men to somebody this my guys to understand what it means to be a man, let alone what it means to be a father and sideswiped part will be due the reins foundation is encouraging mentoring fathers step into a young man's life and help them understand what it means to be a man because so many of them don't grow up with that will model it changes everything. I mean we as a society cannot move forward without fathers in their proper place them in mothers and fathers were at work in harmony to raise the children that they've created and when it's and when that's the one that's our focal point children, most from it. Society benefits they may have a minimum our adoption is a very personal topic for you and your family as you shared with respect to your own personal history and your family situations all can we do to encourage mothers and crisis.

First of all to consider adoption and then what can we do to support those families who open their homes to children through adoption. One. There are pregnancy resource centers over 3000 across the nation that are there to be that resource for women facing unplanned pregnancies for mothers and fathers I should say because it takes to create life and they are amazing resources and and so if adoption is it it obviously one of the two life-affirming alternatives to abortion and those princely centers will will lead and and guide these these women to those decisions and show them beautiful examples of of what adoption is. We work with a lot of adoption agencies as well including inferences like Bethany Christian services adoption unleashes purpose.

It is there to restore what was broken and my encouragement is especially for churches who should understand that adoption should be second nature to Christians at all. I should be first nature because there is no salvation without adoption until there there are different things at different elements of our society can do. But if we are willing to talk about adoption on the same level as choosing to parent your child instead of looking at some sort of last resort option. People think this way but it is such a beautiful act of justice yes is an act of love. But it's also an act of justice in that when you have a single mom raising a child, that child is five times more likely to grow up in poverty and so adoption is not the answer to poverty, but it's part of that answer.

Putting the child in ideally a two-parent married home with a with a mother and a father. So as an adoptive father. Myself and four children, two of whom were adopted at being adopted myself. I have lived, what it means to be transformed by adoption, and it doesn't just transform the child by the way, it often transforms the world. I think one of the most powerful statements in your book, not equal civil rights going wrong was when you said, I've always been taught to love others to be compassionate and to speak and live the truth and to be prepared for people to hate me anyway and I know that those are experiences that you have throughout your life and especially as it is public is you have chosen to be. How do you continue to stay motivated to love and speak the truth in the face of what inevitably will be controversy really is. My faith is my my love for God and I thank my parents for instilling that in me. That's what keeps you motivated because otherwise you lose your ever loving mind is that we live in a world that's upside down, but a lot of what drives me.

This particular verse first 2013 six love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth and when you see someone getting a hold of something that they know that they finally discover his true and you can almost see the visual transformation. It's amazing my student college campuses and I see something going off the light going off in your young students eyes is it's an amazing thing being set free is an amazing thing why my wife Betty and I do what we do because we truly believe we were put on this earth to help create content to help people experience freedom so that's why we do what we do that's awesome. To learn more about the work of the Radiance foundation and also to get a copy of your new book, not equal civil rights going wrong.

They can go to our website W WW.Radiance that's RA DIA NCE.life and they can know they can check out all the content that we create in our books, not equal civil rights going wrong is available through our website great wealth without Ryan Bromberg. I want to thank you so much for being with us on family policy matters and I just thank you so much for your courageous and life-affirming work. God bless you and we just wish the best for you and the continued success of your organization, family policy matters production of NZ formally to listen to our radio show online for more valuable resources and information about issues important to families in North Carolina website family.org and follow us on Twitter and Facebook