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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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1 posted on 02/11/2026 7:04:26 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Exactly, you can be a Christian or a leftist but not both.


2 posted on 02/11/2026 7:06:29 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: DFG
These people are beyond wicked. And the lies they tell to push their wickedness are jaw-dropping.

"Do you want a live daughter or a dead son?"
"It's medically necessary treatment."
"Schools don't need to tell parents about their child acting out as the opposite sex. Let's keep it between us."

3 posted on 02/11/2026 7:09:47 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: DFG

Some one talked that child into that surgery,, We need someone now to talk that same child into suing the *doctors* that performed that operation..when doctors face financial ruin they will change.


4 posted on 02/11/2026 7:14:02 AM PST by Sipp
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To: DFG

To have a unified country, there has to be a consensus of commonly held decent values. Sadly a decent, rational person cannot find a true basis of unity with Democrats.


5 posted on 02/11/2026 7:14:13 AM PST by allendale
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To: sauropod

bkmk


6 posted on 02/11/2026 7:14:53 AM PST by sauropod
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To: DFG

Andy Be-she


7 posted on 02/11/2026 7:16:38 AM PST by sopo
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To: DFG

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.
..................................

Boom.


8 posted on 02/11/2026 7:19:04 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: No name given

How did this creep become Governor of KY?


9 posted on 02/11/2026 7:19:16 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: DFG

Picking on kids, bad. Sexually mutilating kids, good. Got it.


10 posted on 02/11/2026 7:19:26 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: DFG

I rebuke Beshear.


11 posted on 02/11/2026 7:21:01 AM PST by combat_boots
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To: DFG
One of Andy's beloved trannies just shot up a school in Canada.

Congrats, Andy.

12 posted on 02/11/2026 7:21:36 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: DFG

Jesus calls for rope millstones and deep water for people who hurt children.


13 posted on 02/11/2026 7:23:32 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: DFG

Interesting. Democrats in Red states are claiming that the bible validates their destructive agenda. Recently Senate candidate Tedesco in Texas argued that the Bible and the story of the Annunciation allowed “choice” when it came to killing unborn children. Now the duplicitous evil Governor Beshear puts on makeup, goes on the disgusting View and argues that the Bible endorses gender dysforia and the mutilation of children. Their polling must tell them that this tactic may fool some very marginal people. Its important to call these people oot, mock them and hold them accountable.


14 posted on 02/11/2026 7:24:25 AM PST by allendale
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To: DFG

Do you want a live daughter or a dead son or a dead son who thinks he’s a daughter who kills a bunch of school kids?


15 posted on 02/11/2026 7:25:02 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: DFG

Ky, aptly named, is loaded with liberals and homos.


16 posted on 02/11/2026 7:25:31 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: Sipp

First find out who is paying for those surgeries.
Insurance?
Government?
NGO?


17 posted on 02/11/2026 7:26:46 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: DFG

Where in the clip is the subject of children mutilation and his defense of it? I don’t hear it mentioned....


18 posted on 02/11/2026 7:31:01 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Sipp

Are we reading the same story? I don’t hear him discussing/defending the subject of mutilation of children OR “that child” you mentioned in your reply.....


19 posted on 02/11/2026 7:33:33 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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On this forum I’ve suggested we should be afraid of him in 28. His good looks and faux centrism too Kentucky- twice. I feel better now. I’d never actually heard him speak until Matt Walsh played this clip yesterday. He doesn’t have a pleasant speaking voice and expressing positions like these really calls into question his ability to pull off the moderate schtick


20 posted on 02/11/2026 7:37:24 AM PST by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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