"There are more genders than you are aware of ... You do not know the mind of God."
In March, the father of a trans teen was dragged out of the Arkansas Senate and arrested for going over his allotted time while speaking against anti-trans legislation.
He was 30 seconds over his time.
In March, the father of a trans teen was dragged out of the Arkansas Senate and arrested for going over his allotted time while speaking against anti-trans legislation.
He was 30 seconds over his time.
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00:00Your time is up. Every constituent who votes or who will vote is a parent or child.
00:03Every person affected by this bill is a parent or child.
00:07Your time is up. Would you move him from one table?
00:20I would like to address the transgender youth of the state of Arkansas as a real father does,
00:25a real father of a transgender child. No matter what happens here today,
00:29no matter what happens here today, you are loved. You are loved.
00:33No matter what happens today, we will prevail over this injustice.
00:39I come here today knowing full well that nothing I say will persuade this committee.
00:42You're hell-bent on passing this bill and running it through the rest of the legislature.
00:48You know that this bill is unconstitutional and will not survive federal courts.
00:52The Supreme Court has already found that transgender Americans are protected from
00:56discrimination. Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by five Supreme Court justices who still sit on the
01:00court, that's six, that's a majority, wrote that it's impossible to discriminate against
01:04a person for being transgender without discriminating based on sex.
01:09And discrimination based on sex violates our U.S. Constitution.
01:15You know this bill will further stagnate our state's economy.
01:18Diversity and inclusion are good for business. Discrimination imposes enormous productivity
01:23costs and exerts undue burdens. No economy in the history of the world has flourished
01:28under policies of hatred. Business will leave this state.
01:31New business will not come to this state. Remember North Carolina?
01:35As a business owner who pays tens of thousands of dollars in taxes to this state and who employs
01:42transgender workers, I am offended that you would squander our limited taxpayer resources
01:48paying lawyers to defend this infantile nonsense in federal court.
01:52Many of you claim to live according to the Bible in your Christian religion.
01:55So you have certainly read Romans 16.33 in which Paul asks, who knows the mind of the Lord?
02:01Those of you who had passed this bill into the full house claim to know the mind of God.
02:06There are more genders than you are aware of. There are more biological sex than you are aware
02:10of. You do not know the mind of God. I sit before you as a father. Every constituent who votes or
02:15who will vote is parent or child. Every person affected by this bill
02:23is a parent. Your time is up. Would you move him from one table? You had two minutes.
02:32Like everyone else, your time is up, sir. Thank you for your comments.
02:52I'm relaxed as I can be. You are loved. We will prevail against this injustice.