During a visit to lobby legislators on transgender issues, Senator Carden Summers (R) knelt down and told a child he would protect her. When he learned she was trans, he backed away.

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.

read more: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/georgia-senator-vows-to-protect-girl?publication_id=994764&post_id=141716994

      • MojoMcJojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        324·
        9 months ago

        I agree with you that they are not interchangeable. A large swath of Christians are appalled by fascism.

        But, they have historically used each other for their own means, and that can be difficult to ignore. I think once again people are seeing the two get back together, and we all know how that relationship turns out.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2411·
        9 months ago

        For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

        The Bible is very clear. Christianity is fundamentally anti-LGBT. Stop following it if you want to be a good person.

          • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            9 months ago

            Well I don’t see that but it really doesn’t matter. “and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.”

            Paul wasn’t a top thinker. Even when it seems to occur to him that if God is the architect of all things no one can be punished for doing the wrong thing he just invokes the devilish forces (that God allows to operate) to step in. His conception of free will and judgement are not complicated they just aren’t thought out very well.

          • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
            72·
            9 months ago

            Given that he never existed I am positive of that. At most he could only “know” me in the sense the Easter Bunny could. You know, not at all.

            Now instead of talking about me why don’t you address what I said? Might be more fruitful

            • tehlaughing1@lemmy.worldEnglish
              22·
              9 months ago

              I think I responded to the wrong poster. I meant to say that to the person saying (falsely) that the Bible condemns queerness.

              Have they never heard of David and Johnathan? Does Jesus taking twelve men and washing their feet mean nothing? Was John not the Beloved disciple?

              I am a queer Catholic, and it deeply angers me when people believe that the two are mutually exclusive. The current wave of LGBT hatred (in the USA, at least) started with the Evangelical church in the 1940’s. It is not some ancient and infallible dogma.

              Forgive me for causing you anger, I spoke only to gently admonish and correct the sinner.

              • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                9 months ago

                The Bible does condemn being LGBT.

                Have they never heard of David and Johnathan?

                Sure and why doesn’t the Bible say explicitly what their relationship was?

                Does Jesus taking twelve men and washing their feet mean nothing?

                Means nothing. Clearly a call back to the references in the OT of the same act.

                Was John not the Beloved disciple?

                And?

                The current wave of LGBT hatred (in the USA, at least) started with the Evangelical church in the 1940’s. It is not some ancient and infallible dogma.

                The Catholic Church had literal torture devices specifically for male homosexuals.

                I think if you scroll up you will see a decent breakdown of all the references to homosexuality in the Bible, but if you want you can just look at what Paul said twice.

                Forgive me for causing you anger, I spoke only to gently admonish and correct the sinner.

                No worries. Save you some time I have been an open atheist since 2018.

                • tehlaughing1@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11·
                  9 months ago

                  Hatred begets hatred.

                  I spoke to inform both the believer and the non-believer.

                  There are Christians in this world who have taken Christ’s words to heart and strive to live in His image daily. This way of living inevitably leads to compassion.

                  There is the Church of Peter, and the Church of John.

                  The Church of Peter is the Earthly institution that instructs the faithful and leads to a life filled with Love.

                  The Church of John is the Church of the Beloved disciple who put his head on Christ’s chest and listened to the heartbeat of the One who Created Love.

                  These two Churches are present in all people, at all times, throughout history. They shall never fail, as long as there is suffering in the world. This is why the faithful call them eternal.

                  When these two Churches are in harmony in the soul of the individual, and in the soul of the World, there is harmony. When they are in disharmony in the soul of the individual and the soul of the world, there is chaos.

                  Christ has Illuminated the soul of this individual, and there is only harmony.

                  This harmony is available to all, whether Jew or Greek, male or female, believer or non-believer.

                  Forgive me for being unclear in my communication, and I pray your soul knows this peace.

                  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    9 months ago

                    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_Lopen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          46·
          9 months ago

          Ah yes, I’m sure Kim Jong Un attends his local Baptist Church every Sunday like a good fascist.