Some “Christian” Leaders Claim It’s An ‘Abomination’ To Use The Bible To Cause Harm With Anti-Trans Laws

The following report is by Insider:

Many on the religious right call members of the LGBTQ community an “abomination,” using Biblical scriptures to justify their stance against queer and transgender rights and inclusion.

But some within the Christian community have flipped the script, saying the real “abomination” is threatening people’s lives with anti-LGBTQ laws and policies.

As a Christian leader, it’s horrifying to me that Christianity and the Bible are being used by the religious right to bludgeon people through these many bills.

Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, the president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, told The Associated Press.

Jones, the first woman to lead the UTS, was previously the president of the American Academy of Religion, another LGBTQ-inclusive organization.

To use religious language like that is an abomination.

Jones added

Rev. Pat Langlois, senior pastor of Metropolitan Community Church United Church of Christ in the Valley, echoed Jones’ thoughts to the AP.

These bills are the most vitriolic and cruel legislation I’ve seen. I have a non-binary teenager, so I take this really personally, not just as a person of faith and as a lesbian, but as a mom.

Langlois told the outlet.

Unlike Jones and Langlois, many church leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention and the Catholic Church have been instrumental in the crusade against LGBTQ acceptance and inclusion for decades. Pope Francis, who has said the Church cannot recognize same-sex marriage, has denounced anti-gay laws.  That stance has drawn criticism from conservative Catholics for his positions.

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And in 2021, the Southern Baptist Convention campaigned against the Equality Act – a bill that included protections against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation – saying it went against “God’s good design of males and females and heterosexuality as clearly expressed in Scripture.”

SEE: South Baptist Convention Ousts Churches Over LGTBQ Inclusion. The SBC Under Turmoil

Jones told the AP that transgenderism “wasn’t something that the Bible even thought about.”

The larger message there is a message of love and inclusion.

Jones said.

Conservative lawmakers across the country have cited Biblical scriptures to support their bills targeting trans healthcare and inclusion in public life.

Texas Rep. Steve Toth, who is an ordained minister, spearheaded a bill to make it a felony offense to provide minors with gender-affirming care.

“They are threatening the lives and well-being of so many people around the US and the world,” Jones told the AP.

American Civil Liberties Union is watching a total of 474 anti-LGBTQ bills across the country this legislative session, representing a wave of conservative legislative interest in restricting queer and trans rights.

The number of anti-LGBTQ bills has doubled since 2021 and multiplied eight-fold since 2020, Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America , said in a statement in March.

The language in many of these bills attacks the humanity of trans and nonbinary people, often erasing the dignity that should be afforded to everyone.

Eaton said.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

Proverbs 17:15, 29:27

These people are not “Christians:” no way, no how, are these people born again.

I’m not on the “right,” mind you. The KJB says: “Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil” (Proverbs 4:27). God does not play politics, and the whole truth can never be found in either extreme. And the SBA are just crawling full of perverts and hypocrites, works-salvationists and Calvinists who also do not believe the word of God, but change it all time and have no perfect standard they can rest on.

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But doctrine aside, the Protestants, the Baptists, and more of old, would have NEVER in their wildest imagination ever pontificated what these bogies are saying now; calling good evil and evil good.

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

2 Timothy 3:5

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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