Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) slammed Republicans over the weekend for criticizing President Joe Biden’s decision to promote transgender visibility day on Easter Sunday, claiming that not being pro-transgender was the “opposite of Christianity.”
Warnock made the remarks during a Sunday CNN interview with Dana Bash on “State of the Union” after Bash teed up the senator to attack Republicans for daring to speak out against transgender visibility day which also comes a year after a transgender terrorist murdered six people at a Christian school in Nashville.
“The House Speaker called Biden’s announcement abhorrent and said he betrayed the central tenet of Easter,” Bash said. “What do you say to that?”
“Well, apparently, the speaker finds trans people abhorrent,” Warnock lashed out. “And I think he ought to think about that. The fact of the matter is, as you said, March 31 has been a day to lift up transgender people who endure violence and bigotry. Easter, the date changes every single day.”
“But this is just one more instance of folks who have — who do not know how to lead us trying to divide us. And this is the opposite of the Christian faith,” he continued. “Jesus centered to marginalize. He centered the poor. And in a moment like this, we need voices, particularly voices of faith, who would use our faith not as a weapon to beat other people down, but as a bridge to bring all of us together.”
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Sen. and Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) on Speaker Mike Johnson using Christianity as a weapon to attack President Biden, “This is just one more instance of folks who have who do not know how to lead us trying to divide us. And this is the opposite of the Christian faith.” pic.twitter.com/FSAfMGXf9D
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