Florida GOP House member calls members of trans community 'demons,' 'mutants'

[RandySF]

A Florida House Republican member Monday referred to members of the transgender community as “mutants” and “demons” in a two-minute speech in a House Committee meeting.

Volusia County Republican Webster Barnaby was addressing the House Commerce Committee following a debate about a measure that would criminalize transgender adults who intentionally enter a restroom or changing facility opposite their sex at birth. (Video available here via Equality Florida’s Twitter account).

“I’m looking at society today and it’s like I’m watching an ‘X-men’ movie with people, when you watch the X-men movies from Marvel comics, it’s like we have mutants living among us on Planet Earth, and you know, some people don’t like that, but that’s a fact,” Webster said. “We have people that live among us today on Planet Earth that are happy to display themselves as if they were mutants from another planet.”

“This is the Planet Earth!” he went on to say. “Where God created men, male, and women, female. I’m a proud Christian conservative Republican. I’m not on the fence. Not on the fence.”

Barnaby went on to add that there “was so much darkness in our world today. So much evil in our world today. And so many people who are afraid to address the evil, the dysphoria, the disfunction. I’m not afraid to address the dysphoria or the disfunction. The Lord rebuke you Satan, and all of your demons and all of your imps who come parade before us. That’s right, I called you demons and imps who come and parade before us and pretend that you are part of this world.”




https://floridaphoenix.com/blog/florida-gop-house-member-calls-members-of-trans-community-demons-mutants/

[ananda]

1. Projecting. That's what he sees when he looks in the mirror.

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[area51]

4. +1 n/t

[ificandream]

2. Repughs do a lot more name calling than they do governing.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Sounds like he missed the point of the X-Men movies.

If you haven't watched, the original film is about a bigoted politician determined to use the power of his office to persecute children who were born different.

[raging moderate]

5. Read the gospel of Matthew, Mr. Webster. Chapter 19, Verse 12.

Jesus SAID that not everybody is born male or female. "For there are some people who are born eunuchs, and others who have been made eunuchs by men," he said. He was saying that we should cut these people some slack.

[TeamProg]

6. All that fire and brimstone sounds awfully evil. nt

[LoisB]

7. The evil and dysfunction come from people like him. "Judge not that ye be not judged..."

Matthew 7:1-3. Guess he didn't read that part.

[vercetti2021]

8. Awesome

Can I have Mystique's powers then?

[Initech]

9. This is literally what the Nazis did.

Fuck these MAGA scumbags!

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

10. "I'm a proud Christian conservative Republican."

That's funny, Mr. Barnaby, you come across to me as nothing more than an ignorant, bigoted fucking asshole.

If you were to meet face to face with the Jewish carpenter, I have a feeling he would treat you like he treated the moneychangers in the Temple.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. I'm willing to bet he couldn't recognize a trans woman if his

life depended on it.

[Nevilledog]

12. Someone hacked his Twitter account

Link to tweet

[Irish_Dem]

13. He sounds psychotic.

Delusional word salad.

[sarcasmo]

14. Words a hate preacher would use.