Those who claim to be Christian and are supporting the surge of legislation aimed at punishing transchildren have apparently not paid much attention to what Jesus had to say about children.
As Candice Marie Benbow at Religious News Service affirms:
All of our children deserve better. Transgender youth deserve a world where they are safe, and cisgender youth deserve that same world. It can come into being when adults push past their own agendas and limited understandings to let it be so.
More than half of Americans (54%) oppose anti-trans legislation, specifically laws that criminalize gender-affirming care for minors. This is a good thing. Perhaps America isn’t that soulless, after all. Perhaps the majority of us do care about all children and desire to create a world where their thriving is essential. If only our legislation — and lawmakers — reflected this intention.
At the same time, Jesus told his disciples that they must become like children to enter into heaven, he also said it would be better for a millstone to be placed around a person’s neck and to drown than for that person to make life unnecessarily hard for children.
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