During a visit to lobby legislators on transgender issues, Senator Carden Summers ® knelt down and told a child he would protect her. When he learned she was trans, he backed away.
On Feb. 6, a group of families met to lobby senators on issues affecting the local transgender community in Georgia. One mother, Lena Kotler, decided to take her two children with her to give the topic a human face. While waiting to meet with Democratic Sen. Kim Jackson, who they had heard was a big supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, another senator passed by — Republican Sen. Carden Summers, the primary sponsor of the state’s bathroom ban bill. Little did he know that one of the children he would be interacting with, Aleix, 8 years old, was a transgender child.
According to Kotler and other families who were present, the senator stopped to say hello. That’s when Kotler spoke to Senator Summers about how she was there with her kids to “talk to legislators about keeping her kids safe.” Although she did not mention that one of her children was trans, they were present with LGBTQ+ signage - something the Senator apparently missed when he knelt down in front of Aleix and said, according to Kotler, “Well you know, we’re working on that and I’m going to protect kids like you.”
Kotler then replied, “Yeah - Alex is trans, and she wants to be safe at school, she wants to go to the bathroom and be safe.”
That is when, according to multiple witnesses, Sen. Summers stood up and fumbled his words, repeating, “I mean, yeah, I’m going to make sure she’s safe by going to the right bathroom,” continuing to use the correct pronouns for Aleix. When asked if he would make her go to a boy’s bathroom, he then allegedly backed away, saying, “You’re attacking me,” turned around, and walked off quickly.
Right lot of assertions here without a lot of evidence to back any of it up.
As I pointed out the text is clearly anti-LGBT and the historical application is as well. Sure if you pick and choose verses you can get different results, that doesn’t mean the other verses aren’t there. It just means that you went about it buffet style.
Big part of the reason why I left. Got tired of defending the Bible.
The scripture is a perfect mirror of the human heart.
One with a heart in alignment with God will use the scripture for goodness. One with a heart out of alignment with God will use the scripture for evil.
It was written by mortals, who are intrinsically flawed. The message it strives to convey is absolute and incorruptible.
Errors in scripture are inevitable, the Bible is a literary device, but the essence of the teaching is incorruptible.
All humans strive for perfection, but the concept of perfection is illusory. Anything truly perfect is inconceivable to the limited human mind.
The history of those that have used the scripture for evil is long. The history of those who have used the scripture for good is equally long.
Christ commanded us to love one another, do we not fulfill the commandment when we are in love?
Gotcha so the text is anti-LGBT. Which is my point. It is not a matter of perspective, it is what it literally says.