Patricia Heaton, star of the classic 90s sitcom, “Everybody Loves Raymond,” who is also a very outspoken pro-life Catholic, sat down for an interview with Marissa Streit, the CEO of PragerU, where she advised young women not to put off having kids and focus only on their careers, noting that not doing so made her “fiercer” and “better at fighting for what I wanted.” As you can guess, liberals are going to lose their minds over this, as they want women to forego having kids altogether and just live to work and have as much sex as they want without consequences. It’s almost like they are trying to shrink the size of the human population to make it easier to control.
I know, I know. Got my tinfoil hat out again, didn’t I? I apologize for daring to think outside the box. Wait. No, I don’t.
“When you have children, it breaks open a chamber of your heart that can only be opened by children,” Heaton told Streit, according to Breitbart, going on to add, “it made me fiercer — better at fighting for what I wanted.”
The popular actress also discussed how being a mom ultimately improved her acting, saying, “It never seemed to me that you had to put [having children] on hold for a career, and I found out later when we did get married and had children that it actually improves the way you focus on your career, because when you know you have a solid relationship at home and that no matter what happens to you in show business, you have a person who’s there for you. So that actually gives you stability and comfort, and then when you have children it breaks open a chamber of your heart that can only be opened by children.”
“And it and it gives you another well of emotions to dip into for your acting, and you become more vulnerable because now pieces of your heart are walking around you outside of your body. And so you’re more vulnerable because you’re responsible for them, and that vulnerability is great for acting, that you have more fears and you have more joy, and everything is deepened,” she added during the conversation.
“It made me fiercer as far as what I need, and it’s not for me it’s for my kids,” Heaton then said. “I was better at fighting for what I wanted — and when I talk to actors, especially if I talk to Christian actors, I say, ‘Don’t put off your life. Don’t put off relationship.’”
Streit then asked Heaton if she was ever offered a role for a character that behaved “strongly against your values.” She replied, “I was offered a show, and I went to the showrunner, and I said, ‘I just need to tell you I’m pro-life, so I’m not going to do a pro-abortion thing, unless it’s balanced with a pro-life view.’”
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“And she said, ‘We’re not going to do anything about abortion. Nothing’s funny about abortion.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, I just wanted you to know,’” Heaton went on to explain to the showrunner. “Since then, I’ve had these long running shows, and God’s been very kind to me, putting me on shows that never veered into these areas.”
The actress also noted that Everybody Loves Raymond featured a Catholic family and an episode with “Deborah having a sister who’s becoming a nun,” and Ray’s father “asking Ray why he doesn’t go to mass.”
“It was a huge episode, it got such a great response,” Heaton remarked, going on to point out that the family on The Middle “went to church, and it was just a part of their lives. It wasn’t emphasized, it wasn’t ignored. There would be episodes where we would be in church.”
Hollywood needs more quality actors like Heaton who aren’t afraid to express their beliefs, values, and principles. Folks who will actually stand up for those values without fear of being blacklisted, knowing those things are far more important than their career.