A quick review of what the Bible teaches about gender identity:
Christian Schrock’s religion claims that God created women’s identities by taking a man’s rib, doing some magical genetic engineering with it to change its gender, and then having the man marry his own surgically-altered rib.
Maybe Christian Schrock doesn’t have the best foundation for claiming that other people have weird ideas about gender.
Christian Schrock is Assistant Pastor at the Ottumwa Baptist Temple in Ottumwa, Iowa.
The lead pastor of the Ottumwa Baptist Temple, Travis Decker, has been an outspoken opponent of equality for Americans of different genders and sexual orientations.
Christian Schrock is assistant pastor at the Ottumwa Baptist Temple under Travis Decker, and appears to share Decker’s animosity toward LGBTQ Iowans. This February, Schrock commented on H.F. 2389, legislation that would require the state government of Iowa to track the gender identities of all residents of Iowa and force them to comply with the gender identities that the state of Iowa decides they ought to have.
In his comment, Schrock declared that Iowa should “keep our children safe by sticking to identities the way God created them to be!” According to a Public Religion Research Institute survey released in January 2024, 29% of Iowans are non-Christian. Schrock did not explain why the children of non-Christian Iowans should be forced to adhere to identities purportedly assigned to them by the Christian god.
Many people have a difficult time understanding why some Christians are such fervent devotees of Donald Trump. To grasp what motivates Trump Christians, it’s essential to look at what they actually say and do.
In the new book Donald Trump’s Army of God, authors Clifford and Anise Cook provide a case study of Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.
Instead of speculating, they looked at the evidence available to the public, and found murder, terrorism, a lust for religious war, fraud, corruption, bigotry, demons and Nazi propaganda surfing through the minds of Donald Trump’s Christian supporters in Iowa.
It’s a bizarre realm of faith-based fascism, but we can’t just dismiss it. In 2024, more than ever, we need to take this strange movement seriously.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates American law
Let’s learn more about the extremist Christian Nationalists who are members of Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.