Letter: Texas politicians paid by gender clinics

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“God created man … male and female” (Genesis 1:27 KJV).
“Know ye that the LORD … hath made us, and not we ourselves” (Psalm 100:3).
Transgender people “change the truth of God into a lie” (Romans 1:25).
“Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! … Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, ‘What makest thou?’” (Isaiah 45:9-12).

Texas has 17 children’s gender clinics. It is legal to sterilize and mutilate children through sex-change drugs, hormones and surgeries. Ninety-five percent of Texas Republican primary voters supported banning these procedures. Forty-three corporate giants opposed any ban.

Many Republicans serve corporate interests instead of their constituents. With calculated duplicity, they publicly supported child protection legislation, knowing bills never would come up for a House vote.

Speaker Dade Phelan assigned every House and Senate children’s transgender bill to the same committee. Its Republican chairwoman Stephanie Klick killed four. The fifth, along with the transgender athlete bill, was purposely stalled by House Republicans past voting deadlines. Instead of demanding a vote, Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick remained silent.

According to Transparency USA, political action committees affiliated with the Southwest’s largest children’s gender clinic in Dallas and a Rio Grande gender clinic catering to transgender illegal immigrants, gave Abbott $885,000; Patrick $945,000; Phelan $155,000 and Klick $4,000.

The Bible warns: “Take no gift: for the gift … pervert[s] the ways of judgment” (Exodus 23:8; Proverbs 17:23); “Woe unto them … which justify the wicked for reward” (Isaiah 5:22,23; Micah 7:3).

Texas children were sold shamelessly “for reward” to Texas businesses.

Michael W. Ellis
Belton, Texas


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