During a House debate ahead of a vote on the passage of the Equality Act, which would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Republican Congressman Greg Steube of Florida sparked anger when he suggested that transgender people are an offense to God.
The GOP member told the House he would begin his speech by giving them the “truth” as he read from Deuteronomy 22:5 in the Bible. “A woman must not wear men’s clothing nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this,” he read.
Then he told the House that the verse was concerned with people determining their sexual identity. “It’s not clothing or personal style that offends God, but rather the use of one’s appearance to act out or