Friday, April 14, 2023

Mutants, Devils, and Imps

The words of Webster Barnaby, Republican state representative from Florida, on April 10, 2023:

“I’m looking at society today and it’s like I’m watching an X-Men movie with people that when you watch the X-Men movies or Marvel Comics — it’s like we mutants living among us on planet Earth. And, you know, some people don’t like that, but that’s a fact. We have people that live among us today on planet Earth that are happy to display themselves as if they were mutants from another planet.



“This is the planet Earth, where God created men male and women female. I’m a proud Christian, conservative, Republican. I’m not on the fence. There is so much darkness in our world today, so much evil in our world today, and so many people who are free to address the evil, the dysphoria, the dysfunction. I’m not afraid to address the dysphoria or the dysfunction.

“The Lord rebuke you Satan, and all of your demons and all of your imps who come and parade before us. That’s right, I called you demons and imps who come and parade before us and pretend that you are part of this world. So I’m saying my righteous indignation is stirred. I’m sick and tired of this.”

Oh, then he apologized... AFTER they passed yet another anti-trans bathroom bill.  Like that will make it all better.  

So he invokes comic books AND the Bible while degrading transgender people as less than human.  Insert your own joke here.

Hey Rep. Barnaby, you said you're not afraid to address the dysphoria and dysfunction, but you missed one.  Because you yourself are PART of the evil, and you know it.  You just wrap it in a flag and stamp a cross on it like that will make it all better.