{"id":21822,"date":"2026-03-16T10:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/democrat-candidate-says-christians-who-oppose-trans-ideology-are-racist\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:47:47","slug":"democrat-candidate-says-christians-who-oppose-trans-ideology-are-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/democrat-candidate-says-christians-who-oppose-trans-ideology-are-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Candidate Says Christians Who Oppose Trans Ideology Are Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">A Lutheran minister looking for a promotion to Congress once claimed that challenges to the traditional definitions of men and women are \u201cvery threatening\u201d to white men and downplayed concerns about the dangers of transgender ideology for women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Sarah Trone Garriott, a Democrat candidate for Iowa\u2019s 3rd Congressional District, claimed that Evangelical Christians oppose \u201cGLBTQ\u201d ideology not because of theology, but racial angst, according to an October 2023 speech uncovered by The Daily Wire. Trone <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Garriott, a former state senator and minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, hopes to unseat incumbent Republican Rep. Zach Nunn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">During her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaumc.org\/newsdetail\/sen-rev-sarah-throne-garrett-encourages-laity-to-confront-christian-nationalism-18119210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a> on \u201cChristian Nationalism\u201d at Ames First United Methodist Church, Trone Garriott argued that Evangelical Christians needed \u201cthreats\u201d to react against to maintain their identity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cA new threat that we see today is the GLBTQ movement,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a challenging of that status quo, of the way that things have been, of who\u2019s a man and who\u2019s woman and how relationships are. It\u2019s very threatening to the idea of the white male, powerful figure, because it muddies the waters and makes things ambiguous and confusing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width:728px;margin:0 auto\">\n<p><iframe style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9;max-width:100%;width:100%;margin:20px auto 5px;border:0\" src=\"https:\/\/player.mux.com\/lMLDZ9vvCDBzGB3j3HUW8yTYObDTTif7?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=5399ab90-7bc5-41da-96a7-a5dacadb390d&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=2026-03-13%3A%20Iowa%20Pastor's%20Speech%20On%20Christian%20Nationalism&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2F4a34e6b4-8679-4471-8eed-665a7de8e203.png&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#5f5f5f;font-size:12px;max-width:728px;margin:-12px auto 0 auto;text-align:right\">Credit: Iowa Conference United Methodist Church<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cWe see all kinds of responses happening in legislation and in community conflicts \u2026 a lot more emphasis on, you know, really funding and supporting the separation, the private schools, the parents\u2019 rights,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd within that, the parents\u2019 rights piece is used to enact book bans, sports bans about who can play and who can compete,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Trone Garriott then suggested that laws to keep males out of female sports or protect kids from sexually explicit books were motivated by a misguided belief that \u201cwhite men\u201d are \u201cresponsible\u201d for protecting women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cIt\u2019s really couched in the language of there\u2019s a threat against women and white men are responsible to protect women from threats. So a lot of the legislation is about we\u2019re going to protect these feminine, fragile, weak women and girls from a threat to their bodies, their persons, their identity in this way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">During her time in the State Senate, Trone Garriott <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.iowa.gov\/docs\/publications\/SJNL\/20220302_SJNL.pdf#page=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">voted against<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> a bill to keep boys out of girls\u2019 sports and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.iowa.gov\/docs\/publications\/SJNL\/20230307_SJNL.pdf#page=26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">opposed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> a bill shielding children from transgender procedures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Republican spokesman Zach Kraft told The Daily Wire that Trone Garriott\u2019s positions were out of step with Iowans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cSarah Trone Garriott is a preacher of the woke gospel,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is sickening to see her twist Christianity as a justification to force sex changes on young children. That may have been popular with her friends at Harvard, but Iowa voters will reject this radical lunatic.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Trone Garriott spent much of her speech attacking \u201cwhite Christian men\u201d and \u201cwhite evangelical leaders,\u201d an aggressive strategy in a state where white evangelicals compose a major voting bloc. She even attacked famed evangelist Billy Graham for having an \u201cattractive, strong, macho guy persona.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">She also challenged traditional Evangelical Christian understandings of Jesus Christ and the Bible. Her denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is much more liberal than its counterpart, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of different ways to think about what Christ did on the cross,\u201d she said during the speech. \u201cThere\u2019s not just one way. It makes us wonder, well, who is this Christ?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Trone Garriott said the Evangelical understanding of the Gospel was tainted by the \u201cwhite patriarchy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cWhat we see more and more is that the good news that a specific variety of Christianity is professing in the world is white patriarchy,\u201d she said. \u201cSo white masculine power, violence, dominance, over and against.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">She also downplayed biblical writings of the Apostle Paul, calling\u00a0 him a \u201cgreat guy and all\u201d but \u201ca product of his time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-democrat-candidate-says-trans-ideology-threatens-the-white-male\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lutheran minister looking for a promotion to Congress once claimed that challenges to the traditional definitions of men and women are \u201cvery threatening\u201d to white men and downplayed concerns about the dangers of transgender ideology for women.\u00a0 Sarah Trone Garriott, a Democrat candidate for Iowa\u2019s 3rd Congressional District, claimed that Evangelical Christians oppose \u201cGLBTQ\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}