In a recent episode of the gossip show “The View,” Kentucky Democrat Governor Andy Beshear appeared as the featured guest. During his introduction, host Whoopi Goldberg noted that he had been on Kamila Harris’s shortlist for running mate, and that he was a presumptive future presidential candidate.

Goldberg also asked how he, a Democrat, had won the governorship three times in “deep red” Kentucky.

After noting a couple of things he thought Democrats needed to improve, he said that while they have been good at focusing on various policy issues, they fail to explain the “why,” as he put it, meaning why they push for those issues. Beshear then gave his “why,” stating:

That’s my faith. Most of the decisions I make are based on that Golden Rule that says we love our neighbor as ourself [sic]. And that parable of the Good Samaritan that says everyone is our neighbor.

So when I’ve taken actions like vetoing the nastiest piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation that ever came through my state … I said my faith teaches me that all children are children of God. And I didn’t want people picking on those kids.

What “faith” is Beshear speaking about? The answer to that question helps to explain his rather un-Biblical views when it comes to the gender-cult.

Beshear is a member of the Disciples of Christ, a liberal Christian denomination. It is a rather old American denomination that has long held that the only essentially binding doctrines are that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and the savior of the world, and that a believer must confess Him as Christ and be baptized.

The denomination also holds that Scripture’s reference to the priesthood of all believers establishes the belief that every member has near-autonomy to interpret Scripture. This, of course, has led to all kinds of dramatically differing views and opinions. It has also resulted in a doctrinally shallow faith, in which concerns for feelings and getting along often trump any truth claims.

The irony is that Beshear, despite his claim that he adheres to the Golden Rule, is not holding to a rule of love but to a rule of preference. In other words, he is saying, I like things this way, so if someone else says they like things another way, I will seek to accommodate them, and in doing this, I will call it “love.”

Beshear is right to note that Christ points to everyone as our neighbor, but the love Christ calls believers to is not one of acquiescing to people’s feelings or demands. The governor must know, having raised children, that simply because they want something, like candy for dinner, does not mean they should be given it. A loving parent knows that showing love means correcting and protecting their children, most often from themselves.

Thus, when Beshear speaks of his vetoing action against “the nastiest piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation that ever came through my state,” he is not engaging in loving action, as Christ has called Christians to love their neighbors; he has done just the opposite. Beshear has protected and enabled those who have been deceiving and preying on children. He has not protected the innocent; he has promoted the vile and destructive.

Furthermore, he falsely insinuates that those lawmakers who put forth the legislation in Kentucky to ban gender-bending and mutilation of children are, in fact, hurting children.

Scripture is quite clear on the issue of the nature of humanity’s fallenness, and as a result, our nature is in enmity against God. As the Apostle Paul writes in Romans, “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away.”

Given that this is the natural condition of humanity, the notion that the “loving” thing to do is just give people over to their base and twisted desires is anything but.

Furthermore, politicians have long quoted Scripture to defend a policy, but too often expose themselves to the reality that they have misapplied or misunderstood what Scripture teaches.

If Beshear were truly being guided by the teaching of Scripture, he never would have vetoed those bills that were aimed at protecting children from the evil transgender cult. Instead, he would have been at the forefront of efforts to demand the legislation. Similarly, Beshear would not have vetoed legislation that aimed to ban abortion in Kentucky. If he is so concerned about the plight of children, then why not the most innocent among us, the preborn child?

What is guiding Beshear is not Scripture; it’s politics and his own policy preferences, which are clearly not informed by Scripture. He may try to use Scripture as a cudgel against Biblically committed Christians to try to deceive them into capitulating to a false framing of the issue, but he is far from the only one. Indeed, the one who has often misused and twisted Scripture to deceive is the Devil himself. Recall that Satan tempted Jesus by quoting Scripture.

Instead of being kowtowed into silence when someone misuses Scripture to defend that which stands in clear opposition to what God has revealed, especially regarding that which is sinful, Christians need to be loving but firmly correct the error. In Beshear’s case, we need to pray that he sees the error of his ways and repents, so that he might come to know and embrace the truth.