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Kentucky Gov. Uses Bible As Support for Mutilating Children
Red State ^ | 02/11/2026 | Eli Shepherd

Posted on 02/11/2026 7:04:26 AM PST by DFG

Don't. Just don't.

I say this as a pastor, not a pundit.

When I first saw this clip of Andy Beshear on The View, invoking his faith to defend the medical mutilation of children, my stomach dropped. Not because I was surprised. Because I was grieved.

“My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.”

I have buried children. I have prayed with parents in ICU waiting rooms. I have sat with teenagers drowning in confusion and shame. I have walked families through seasons where the pain felt unbearable. So hear me clearly. Love for children is not theoretical for me. It is personal. It is pastoral. It is sacred.

And that's why this argument doesn't just fail; it is against every ounce of true care one can have for a child.

Yes, all children are children of God. Amen to that. But in what world does that truth lead us to sterilize them, cut them open, or affirm every feeling as final truth? In fact, the opposite is true. If children belong to God, then we are stewards, not experimenters. Protectors, not affirmers of confusion. Shepherds, not butchers.

I have never once encountered a hurting child who needed less truth. I have met many who needed more patience, more presence, more stability, and more adults willing to say, “I love you too much to lie to you.”

The left loves to quote mercy. They rarely mention righteousness. They cling to love while quietly discarding truth. But Scripture never separates those things. God’s love is holy. His mercy is just. His compassion does not contradict His design.

This selective theology is not accidental. Satan has been twisting the Word of God from the very beginning. He never denies God outright. He redefines Him. He takes one attribute, isolates it, and uses it to smuggle in destruction. “Did God really say?” is still the most effective question in his arsenal.

When politicians invoke faith to defend policies that permanently harm children, pastors have a responsibility to speak up. Silence is not kindness. It is cowardice.

To be in the middle of the Epstein file releases, and then hear a sitting governor invoke "faith" to push ideologies that attack the very innocence of the most vulnerable among us... I honestly don't know where to begin. Maybe with the words of a simple man born in Bethlehem:

But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Sign me up for the millstone tying team.

Let me be blunt. Protecting kids from bullying does not require puberty blockers. Stopping mean words does not require mastectomies. Preventing cruelty does not demand lifelong medical dependence. That is not care. It is abuse done by the hands that claim to be helping. The psychological damage done can be as irreversible as the surgeries.

And it puts parents in an impossible position. Either affirm a narrative they know is false, or be labeled hateful. Either surrender their authority, or be told they want their child to suffer. That is coercion, not care.

In my years of ministry, I have learned something painfully simple. Feelings are real. They are not reliable. A loving adult helps a child navigate feelings without surrendering truth. We do not let kids drive cars, vote, or sign contracts because we understand development. Yet somehow we are told they can consent to irreversible medical decisions during their most vulnerable years.

That should alarm every parent, believer or not.

The Bible does not call us to affirm confusion. It calls us to walk people toward wholeness. It does not tell us to redefine the body. It tells us the body is a gift. It does not command us to eliminate suffering at all costs. It commands us to endure, to disciple, to heal, and to tell the truth in love.

I am not interested in winning culture wars. I am interested in protecting sheep. Especially the smallest ones. So, no, Andy Beshear, when you use God’s name to justify policies that leave children scarred for life, I will not applaud the sentiment. I will challenge the lie.

Real love does not mutilate. Real mercy does not lie. And real faith does not twist Scripture to make sin sound compassionate.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 01percentofminors; andybeshear; beshear; childabuse; childmutilation; mutilation; satanism; theview; trans
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To: DFG

Andy’s gonna run!


21 posted on 02/11/2026 7:38:30 AM PST by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
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To: DFG
and I didn’t want people picking on those kids

And when the "kids" start shooting heroin, does that clown still not want people "picking on them?" How about kids who steal cars? Rape girls?

Once you open that door, there is no logical stopping point.

22 posted on 02/11/2026 7:38:46 AM PST by LouAvul (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6)
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To: Sipp

Trans medical atrocities are seductive to inferior doctors because they promise a cash cow for life, what with ongoing “medical” regimens to maintain altered physiology, and the unethical faux ‘counselors’ who maintain the con through endless ‘treatment.’ But the real villains are the moronic education people who have rejoiced in their ignorance, duped gullible parents, and perpetrated vicious harm on vulnerable children. Without them, the medical ideologues would be starved for fodder.


23 posted on 02/11/2026 7:40:24 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: Thank You Rush

At the link there is a clip of Beshear on “The View” saying that he is against the “most anti-LGBTQ law’ ever because of his faith. He doesn’t want people “picking on those kids”.

I presume that the law he’s talking about prevents the mutilation of under-aged children.


24 posted on 02/11/2026 7:44:17 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: gibsonguy

“””How did this creep become Governor of KY?”””

Because he was elected by the same tards who elected mASSie, Rand Paul and Turtle Mitch.


25 posted on 02/11/2026 7:45:11 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Thank You Rush

https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/2020943112127004916


26 posted on 02/11/2026 7:47:00 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Remind Beshear of the millstone


27 posted on 02/11/2026 7:58:07 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness)
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To: DFG

Preach it!


28 posted on 02/11/2026 8:03:38 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: DFG

It’s even worse than merely mutilating children.


29 posted on 02/11/2026 8:08:25 AM PST by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: DFG

evil never rests . . . Lord, give us the strength to proclaim Christ crucified to all, Amen


30 posted on 02/11/2026 8:15:51 AM PST by RatRipper
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To: DFG

Amen!


31 posted on 02/11/2026 8:23:52 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: DFG

Kentucky having that Ark doesn’t mean there’s a righteous Noah hanging out there in their state or govt


32 posted on 02/11/2026 8:32:13 AM PST by delchiante
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To: DFG; All

Fool doesn’t seem to have read Romans where St. Paul powerfully denounces such evil practices. Maybe he needs to read about Doktor Josef Mengele, late of Auschwitz fame, because that’s who he’s emulating. DemonRats call us Nazs while they’re the ones actuaally practicing Nazi “medicine.”


33 posted on 02/11/2026 8:40:58 AM PST by libstripper
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To: j.havenfarm

His appeal is to women. 70% or more of the women of all ages here in Kentucky think that “he’s hot” and support him. He’ll likely appeal to women nation wide.


34 posted on 02/11/2026 8:47:50 AM PST by damper99
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To: Qiviut

Bkmk


35 posted on 02/11/2026 8:48:53 AM PST by Qiviut (A Mighty Fortress: “...the body they may kill. God’s truth abideth still. His kingdom is forever")
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To: DFG

Only those who believe on YESHUA are GOD’s children.


36 posted on 02/11/2026 9:10:51 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: DFG

Thank you for posting this. Christian In Name Only - total fraud!


37 posted on 02/11/2026 9:22:28 AM PST by ne1410s (2 Tim 4:3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.)
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To: DFG

Mr Beshear, God made those children in his image. They were perfect when born. The mutilation of these children was not a personal choice. It was imposed on them by evil people for political purposes.

So spare us this utter bullchit.


38 posted on 02/11/2026 9:25:17 AM PST by dforest
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To: DFG

Amen.


39 posted on 02/11/2026 9:56:01 AM PST by Orosius
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To: combat_boots

Breshear support Mengeleism.


40 posted on 02/11/2026 10:03:11 AM PST by kaktuskid
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