WATCH: Texas School District Uses God To Justify Hateful Treatment Of 5 Year Old

The Pearland Independent School District recently denied Kimberly Shappley’s request to allow her five year old transgender daughter Kai from using the girls’ bathroom.

Instead of preaching compassion, the Texas public school district is arguing that transgender students must use the bathroom which corresponds to the sex labeled on their birth certificate. When Shappley approached the school district, the district’s superintendent Dr. John Kelly refused the request by saying:

“Unless we return to the Biblical basis on which our nation’s laws were established, we are in serious trouble – and cannot expect God’s continued  favor.”

Once again discrimination leans on God for support as proponents from the alleged religious faction talk down to the rest of us. They pretend to be speaking for God when in fact they are speaking from the basis of human fear. They mock our assumed knowledge of God by portraying their word as authoritarian.

Instead of countering the false men of God with words of men, it is time we counter back at them with words from God because pseudo men of God are trying to convince us that the creator of all that is seen and unseen is also an omnipotent potty regulator.

 

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Unfortunately these hateful absurdities can cause a child to feel like an abomination. Sadly as petty judges falsify testaments to justify their own prejudices, children like Kai are left sitting at the foot of her bed praying to go to heaven:

“Kai was begging the Lord to let her die. My child would pray and ask the Lord to let Joseph go to heaven and be with Jesus.”

Imagine listening to your three year old asking God to let her die because the people around her say she is an abomination because she wanted to wear a big red bow instead of play with trucks. Religious justifications for condemnation overlook how Jesus walked with societal outcasts and derided the temple priests for marginalizing certain people by saying:

“Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’?”

Jesus didn’t congratulate the priests for their discrimination. If Dr. John Kelly is looking for a pat on the back he certainly wouldn’t have gotten it from Jesus. Jesus was about marching against hate and ultimately paid for it by being nailed to a cross.

Today that lesson of acceptance has been lost as man-made passages of discrimination bleed into religious parables to justify intolerance. Suddenly a compassionate God is brushed aside as the inconsequential on earth rule on who is welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven.

But pastors of ignorance find compassion troublesome as their fear turns a five year old’s desire to use the bathroom into an act against God. So man’s fear misrepresents Jesus’ narratives of kindness as the supposed members of God’s house forget the most important commandment of all:

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind….And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

The passage does not go on to say ‘except for those who are different or who have a different sexual orientation.’ Love thy neighbor is for all God’s children, even those who are transgender.

Children should never be made feel like God doesn’t love them or that their sexual orientation is something to be feared. God walks with all of his children, leaving no one to sit in the darkness of abandonment.

I’m confident God wouldn’t have a problem letting Kai use His bathroom.

 

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