Pastors Must ‘Make It Clear To Our People’ That Anti-Parent Transgender Laws Come From ‘One Political Party’

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Lakepointe Church’s Josh Howerton shared a powerful message on social media in early May that may divide some Christians when it comes to their political affiliations.

Colorado’s legislature passed HB25-1312, a bill that Republican lawmakers recently said was a stealth means of declaring war on parents. The bill would define all Colorado parents who refuse to enable their children’s mental illness around gender as “child abusers.” Schools will now be forced to adopt “transition” policies, and anyone caught “misgendering” or “deadnaming” will be brandished with the label of “discrimination.”  The law also allows mentally ill parents to “traffic” their children into the state of Colorado to undergo genital mutilation surgery. (READ MORE: ‘They’ve Declared War On Parents’: State Rep. Sounds Major Alarm After Sunday Shocker)

As we wrote in a previous article on this legislation: HB25-1312 specifically states that “when making child custody decisions and determining the best interests of a child for purposes of parenting time, a court shall consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control.” The lawmakers define “coercive control” as “means a pattern of threatening, humiliating, or intimidating actions, including assaults or other abuse, that is used to harm, punish, or frighten an individual.”

Howerton’s Powerful Stance On This Issue

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Howerton added that he talks “about culture / politics disproportionately on X, because it’s where things like this are discussed. If you start listening to my preaching, expecting it to be political hot-takes every week, you’ll be disappointed.”

Howerton is probably one of the most interesting and vocal voices in modern American church leadership, touching on everything from the previous election to whether UFOs are real.

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