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(DC Pundit) – Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, a Democrat and ordained Baptist pastor, stood before members of the IKAR synagogue in Los Angeles this week and delivered a sermon that doubled as a political broadside, declaring that opposition to transgender ideology amounts to spiritual violence. Speaking alongside Rabbi Sharon Brous, Warnock told the congregation that society must “push hard against bigotry, racism, anti-Semitism, transphobia, xenophobia in all of its forms because it is violence not only against humanity, but against divinity. It is an offense to the glory of God.”
It’s worth pausing on that word choice. “Transphobia” implies fear, yet most Americans who object to the broader trans agenda aren’t afraid of anyone, they simply don’t want it taught to second graders, and they don’t think biological men belong in their daughters’ locker rooms. That’s not a phobia. That’s a boundary.
Warnock didn’t stop with a general lecture on tolerance. He turned the criticism inward on his own community, confessing he’s had to chasten members of his own church for their views, admitting “that church is as homophobic as anybody.” He went further still, telling the room that Christians have been “blind to our bigotry, to the ways in which we are inhospitable to those who had another way to center,” before crediting Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and the LGBTQ community with teaching the church a lesson about who truly understands divine glory.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) says "transphobia" is "violence not only against humanity but against divinity. It is an offense to the glory of God." pic.twitter.com/CVMbGP07Vm
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None of this should come as a shock from Warnock, who has spent years cultivating his image as one of the Senate’s most outspoken champions of transgender politics. He tweeted during his 2020 campaign against then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler that he’s “a pro-LGBTQ+ pastor who understands that no one is free until we are all free,” and Breitbart notes he’s a “self-described ‘pro-LGBTQ+ pastor,’ and one of the Democrats’ loudest voices when it comes to promoting the transgender agenda.” He’s also endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, hardly a neutral validator.
What’s notable here isn’t just the theology, dubious as it may be coming from a man of the cloth lecturing other people on what offends God. It’s the political calculation. Democrats lost ground in 2024 in part because swing voters recoiled from the party’s aggressive push on gender ideology, particularly around kids and sports. Rather than recalibrate, Warnock is doing the opposite, reframing the entire debate as a matter of religious righteousness, with anyone who disagrees cast as committing an offense against the Almighty himself.
Make no mistake: this isn’t a one-off speech. It’s a signal of where the party intends to plant its flag heading into future elections. Parents who simply want a say in their children’s education are now being told by a sitting U.S. senator that their position is a form of “violence.” This is an attempt to put the debate beyond debate, and voters who feel talked down to tend to remember it at the ballot box.
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