Florida GOP House member calls members of trans community 'demons,' 'mutants' [View all]
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 Floridas Twitter account).
Im looking at society today and its like Im watching an X-men movie with people, when you watch the X-men movies from Marvel comics, its like we have mutants living among us on Planet Earth, and you know, some people dont like that, but thats 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. Im a proud Christian conservative Republican. Im 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. Im 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. Thats right, I called you demons and imps who come and parade before us and pretend that you are part of this world.
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