North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson tells it like it is regarding the transgender confusion sweeping through our culture.
Robinson, a Republican, made the controversial comments in 2021 at the Asbury Baptist church in Seagrove, North Carolina.
“There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth,” he told the audience. “And yes, I called it filth. And if you don’t like it that I called it filth, come see me and I’ll explain it to you.”
His words went viral after the liberal group “Right Wing Watch” tweeted a clip of his speech. In recent days, scores of Democrat advocacy groups and politicians — from Raleigh to the White House — have denounced what Robinson said. His remarks were immediately called ‘Hate speech.’
“These words are repugnant and offensive,” said White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates in an Oct. 8 statement. “The role of a leader is to bring people together and stand up for the dignity and rights of everyone; not to spread hate and undermine their own office.”
When she first heard Robinson’s comment, Allison Scott of the Asheville-based non-profit Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE) said her thoughts went to the LGBTQ youth experiencing prejudice because of their identities.
“For some of them, it starts taking away their hope that things are going to change or even can change,” she said. “And that’s scary.”
Robinson's words, Scott said, illustrate why more local governments should push for LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinances.
Nancy Petty
Pro-LGBTQ lesbian pastor Nancy Petty, of the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church demanded that Robinson apologize for his remarks, and resign if he would not apologize. Since 1992, Petty has been an outspoken advocate of social justice, ecumenism (interfaith), and LGBTQ inclusion. Some people are unaware that LGBTQ inclusion is a major platform of the social justice movement.
But Robinson is standing by his words. When asked by WRAL in an Oct. 7 interview if he would use a different word besides “filth,” he said, “absolutely not.”
Commentary
Fulcrum7 is not advocating for politics, but rather observing powerful trends that are at work in our world. Many evils are currently being promoted in our culture, and there are no human solutions to those evils, only a divine one. Our response should be to resist those evils, speak against them wherever we have opportunity, and reach out to those who are enslaved by unbiblical lies. We must stand for the right, though the heavens fall, condemn lies when we hear them, and affirm the truth when we hear it.
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“We should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ. (Ephesians 4:14-15).