Claims He Has a Biblical Responsibility to Oppose the Rights of Transgender People
A Republican state lawmaker who was forced to withdraw as President Donald Trump’s nominee to become Secretary of the Army has just announced he will run for Congress. Tennessee State Senator Mark Green (photo, right), who has said transgender people are an “evil” that must be “crushed,” will try to win the seat currently held by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). Blackburn is running for the U.S. Senate seat of Republican Bob Corker, who announced he will not seek re-election.
“The government exists to honor those people who live honorable who do good things – to reward people who behave well and to crush evil,” Green said, as this video from GLAAD (below) details.
Green says he has a biblical responsibility to oppose the rights of transgender people.
“So that means as a state senator, my responsibility very clearly in Romans 13 is to create an environment where people who do right are rewarded and the people who do wrong are crushed. Evil is crushed. So I’m going to protect women in their bathrooms, and I’m going to protect our state against potential infiltration from the Syrian ISIS people in the refugee program. And whoever wants to stand up and take me on that, I’m ready to fight.â€
Green supports Alabama’s anti-gay religious extremist “Judge” Roy Moore’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate.
A self described creationist, Green rejects evolution. He also has said that being transgender is a “disease.”
Green has “said he would not tolerate students learning about Muslim beliefs and religious practices and claimed erroneously that Muslims don’t believe Jesus ‘was born from a virgin,'” according to the Tennessean. He has “suggested Tennessee should not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and insinuated that permissive attitudes that legalized same-sex marriage could eventually open the door to using taxpayer dollars for infanticide.”
The Tennessean reports Green currently has no GOP opponents.
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