Faith leaders: State's Newest Trans Scheme Actually Codifies 'Evil'

Faith leaders are warning that Colorado's newest transgender scheme actually codifies "evil."

Colorado, run for multiple years already by Democrats in the governor's office, Democrat majorities in the state House and Senate, and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court, has moved into realms where even leftist California has feared to tread.

Religious rights are suppressed, or at least the state tries. Abortion on demand is promoted. The state in recent years has lost twice at the U.S. Supreme Court after it tried to mandate the thoughts and beliefs of business owners, in its promotion of the LGBT ideology.

Now a report at CBN explains what faith leaders think of its newest agenda point.

It's a law that would define as child abuse a parent's use of a child's legal name, if that child has been encouraged by activists to claim to be transgender and have picked another name.

That's what the Democrats call "dead-naming." Equally criminal would be calling someone by the wrong pronoun.

"House Bill 1312 would add "misgendering" and "deadnaming" to Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Act if it becomes law. It has passed the House and now awaits a Senate vote that could send it to Gov. Jared Polis's desk," the report said.

"Well, first and foremost, it harms children. There's just no doubt about it," said Brent Leatherwood, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. "It makes the state of Colorado this sort of safe haven for this radical transgender insanity. Moreover, it tries to insert the state in really horrible ways between parents and children."

"This bill regarding parental rights is really, really concerning -- saying that, if a parent does not adopt a name that a child chooses for him or herself, that if a parent calls them by a name they gave them the day they were born, that that parent is guilty of child abuse -- and that the implications of that is a child could be removed from custody," warned Meg Kilgannon of the Family Research Council.

State Rep. Yara Zokaie, a promoter, has no hesitancy in going to extremes, characterizing parental rights organizations concerned about her agenda as being like the KKK.

The ERLC said, in the report, "If passed, this bill will force people to use language that violates their consciences and religious beliefs. It would also expose individuals, ministries, and religious organizations to legal action for simply affirming a biblical worldview of sex and gender."

At a recent rally to oppose the plan, Sean Cole of Emmanuel Baptist Church said, "I'm just gonna say one thing to the devil ... this is God's state. ... Because this type of tyranny is from the pit of hell. And it's a spiritual battle for the soul."

According to the report, Pastor Matt Patrick said it's not about politics, but standing for biblical truth, regardless of backlash.

"It would be a lot easier to not get up here and talk about political things. But we are the church, and we must stand for truth. And when the truth of God is being defied, we must call it out. And my job as a pastor is to tell you what is true, right and good from the word of God."

Leatherwood said the state should be working for good and to restrain evil, but this Democrat plan "actually seeks to codify evil."

Originally published at WND News Center