GOP Senate Candidate Hershel Walker Says Trans Kids Won't Go To Heaven
To win over conservative voters, Georgia Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker teamed up with an athlete who has become the symbol of opposition to transgender sports.
During a campaign stop in Calhoun on Tuesday, Walker said transgender kids would not be able to access heaven, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.In a rally alongside Riley Gaines, a former University of Kentucky swimmer who became famous for her fight against NCAA policies that include transgender athletes, Walker said, “Jesus may not recognize you because he made you a boy.
He made you a girl.”“When I get to heaven, I want the Lord to recognize me,” Walker quipped. “Because I can tell you right now, they’re telling the young kids in school, you can be a boy tomorrow even if you’re a girl.” Sen.
Raphael Warnock, Walker’s opponent and incumbent senator in the race, knows a thing or two about heaven. The Georgia senator has been senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta — Martin Luther King Jr.’s former congregation — since 2005.Warnock, like many Democrats, opposes efforts to ban transgender students from sports.
