Gov. Andy Beshear and other leftists love telling Christians that “loving your neighbor” means accepting the entirety of their political agenda — but while they may appeal to Scripture, the whole counsel of God exposes them by their fruit.
When leftists seek to sway Christians into backing destructive policies or moral compromise, they often weaponize the very faith they routinely mock or ignore.
The latest example is Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, D, who has built his career on appealing to Christian-sounding platitudes while championing abortion, gender-transition procedures for minors, open borders, and other staples of leftist ideology.
Beshear recently appeared on “The View” — part of his perpetual campaign for higher office — where he claimed his Christian faith drives his support for child gender transitions, opposition to immigration enforcement, and more.
“People want to know what drives us…For me, that’s my faith,” he said. “Most of the decisions I make are based on that Golden Rule that says we love our neighbor as ourself, and that parable of the Good Samaritan that says everyone is our neighbor.”
He specifically tied this to vetoing what he called “the nastiest piece of anti-LGBTQ legislation” in Kentucky history — Senate Bill 150 (2023), which sought to protect minors from gender-transition procedures, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. In his veto message and public statements, Beshear framed the bill as “picking on” vulnerable children, insisting his faith teaches that “all children are children of God.”
Yet Beshear’s record extends beyond that veto. In September 2024, he issued an executive order banning so-called conversion therapy for minors — defined broadly to include any counseling (even by pastors or therapists) aimed at helping individuals accept their biological sex or address unwanted same-sex attraction. He labeled such efforts “torture.” When the legislature later passed a bill to lift his ban, he vetoed it.
On immigration, Beshear escalated his rhetoric, declaring on “The View” that “every ICE agent should be withdrawn from every city and every community,” calling for the agency to be “reformed from the top down” to include firing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and retraining all agents. He also criticized President Trump’s election comments while ignoring Democrats’ prior push for nationalized elections via bills like the For the People Act.
Remarkably, this very liberal Democrat has twice won election in deeply red Kentucky — a state that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in the last three presidential cycles and maintains a Republican supermajority in the legislature. His success stems largely from two factors: strong backing from the state’s powerful teachers’ union (which resists pension reforms) and a cultivated “nice guy” image built on vague appeals to faith, unity, and compassion.
To Beshear and anyone swayed by his rhetoric, consider these questions: Is it truly loving to affirm placing vulnerable children — many struggling with autism, trauma, or mental health issues—on irreversible puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones that can cause sterility, bone density loss, and lifelong regret?
Is protecting children from surgical mutilation “nasty” or “picking on” them? Cases like Chloe Cole, Kayla Lovdahl, and Fox Varian illustrate the harm. Varian, who underwent a double mastectomy at 16 without proper evaluation for gender dysphoria, recently won a landmark $2 million medical malpractice verdict against her psychologist and surgeon.
Is it loving your neighbor to allow unchecked illegal immigration that enables crimes like the murder of Laken Riley by Jose Ibarra, an illegal immigrant previously arrested for child endangerment in New York but released instead of being turned over to ICE?
Beshear and similar figures know these appeals ring hollow. They twist Scripture — starting with the Good Samaritan or “love your neighbor” — to justify policies that contradict clear biblical teachings on life, sexuality, marriage, and lawfulness. As Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, has pointed out, this isn’t Christianity, it’s the religion of left-wing politics.
The pattern repeats across the left. The Washington Post recently called Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show “wholesome” and evocative of “traditional family values,” despite its lewd dances, explicit sexual lyrics, and dehumanizing content.
Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., asked acting ICE Director Todd Lyons if he considered himself religious and whether he thought he was going to hell for enforcing immigration laws. Liberal churches have long hosted Democratic politicians, turning pulpits into campaign stages and exchanging the Gospel for progressive activism.
These voices invoke Christ to defend abortion up to birth, mutilating child gender surgeries, the sexualization of minors, adult sexual perversion, and non-enforcement of borders — even as they decry orthodox Christians as bigots or theocrats for upholding biblical truth.
Yet Scripture provides the test. Jesus declared, “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments” (John 14:15).
The apostle John elaborates in 1 John 2:3–6:
“By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, ‘I have come to know Him,’ and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.’”
The Bible warns repeatedly against false teachers (2 Corinthians 11, 2 Peter 2, Jude) who twist God’s Word (as Satan did in tempting Jesus). Today they quote “love your neighbor” while rejecting God’s clear commands: that sexual activity belongs only in heterosexual marriage, that abortion ends innocent life, that God created male and female, and that lawlessness and fraud are evil.
True love, as shown by Christ, does not rubber-stamp sin. He sacrificed Himself to save us from it, calling us to repentance and transformation — not affirmation in confusion or immorality. Many who despise biblical Christianity cynically use it to advance anti-Christian policies. That’s why Christians must judge them by their actions and their fidelity to God’s commands, not by their empty slogans.
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