Bible-Thumping Ohio Lawmaker Suggests Critics of Her Anti-Trans Bill Should Be Drowned

[RandySF]

The Ohio Republican behind a bill that would ban transgender students from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity quoted scripture in justifying the legislation on Wednesday, deploying a verse suggesting that her opponents should be drowned in the sea.

State Rep. Beth Lear whipped out the reference to Luke 17:2 while answering questions on House Bill 183 at a morning committee hearing. Facing Lear, State Rep. Joseph Miller, the ranking member of the House Higher Education Committee, asked her how she could “jive” her bill with “the teachings that you proclaim.”

“In Luke 17, Jesus says that if you cause one of these little ones of mine to stumble, it would be better for you to have a millstone hung around your neck and be thrown into the deepest sea,” Lear replied. “So—there are also concerns that Jesus has for children. And in Genesis, he tells us that he created the male and female.”

Lear has previously invoked the Bible in explaining her reasons for sponsoring the proposal, which she introduced alongside State Rep. Adam Bird (R) and more than a dozen other Ohio Republicans last May. At an October hearing on the matter, according to The Buckeye Flame, Lear recited Genesis 1:27, saying, “In our country, since the Puritans and Pilgrims first arrived and until recently, we believed ‘God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.’”



https://www.thedailybeast.com/bible-bashing-ohio-rep-beth-lear-suggests-critics-of-her-anti-trans-bill-should-be-drowned?ref=wrap

[SarahD]

1. Ironic pronouns.

She can't seem to settle on "him" or "them" for mankind.

[sanatanadharma]

2. The Bible says God created a dual-nature human

"He created him; male and female He created them."

[ExciteBike66]

3. The puritans also banned Christmas... nt

[Takket]

4. Why does America keep electing people with no clue how to run an operation as large as the government?

[werdna]

5. The Luke 17:2 quote in context shows -

- it has nothing to do with the issue. Usual faux-christian cherry picking and misapplication.

Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come. 2 It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble. 3 So watch yourselves.

“If your brother or sister[a] sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. 4 Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them.”

Based on this a legitimate Christian stance should be not to legislate against "sin" but to open their herts and forgive.