{"id":163556,"date":"2023-04-11T17:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=163556"},"modified":"2023-04-11T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:26:31","slug":"florida-gop-lawmaker-calls-transgender-speakers-demons-and-imps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=163556","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Florida GOP lawmaker calls transgender speakers \u2018demons and imps\u2019<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/florida-gop-lawmaker-calls-transgender-221500294.html\">https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/florida-gop-lawmaker-calls-transgender-221500294.html<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">TALLAHASSEE \u2014 A Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives called transgender Floridians \u201cdemons and imps\u201d and compared them to \u201cmutants from another planet\u201d during a committee hearing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">During a debate over a bill that would prevent people from using bathrooms \u201cdesignated for the opposite sex,\u201d Rep. Webster Barnaby, R-Deltona, lashed out against the several transgender Floridians who spoke out against the bill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe Lord rebuke you, Satan, and all of your demons and all of your imps who come parade before us,\u201d Barnaby said. \u201cThat\u2019s right, I called you demons and imps who come and parade before us and pretend that you are part of this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">He compared the speakers, who included transgender Floridians and parents of transgender children, to the X-Men, characters from the Marvel comic books in which bigotry, hatred and fear of mutants are central themes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cI\u2019m looking at society today and it\u2019s like I\u2019m watching an \u2018X-Men\u2019 movie,\u201d Barnaby said. \u201cWhen you watch the \u2018X-Men\u2019 movies or Marvel comics, it\u2019s like we have mutants living among us on planet Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThis is the planet Earth,\u201d Barnaby continued, his voice rising, \u201cwhere God created men male and women female. I\u2019m a proud Christian, conservative Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}