A group of Kentucky church enthusiasts sparked national headlines after they entered the public library and checked out books they deemed “sexually perverse.”
“My first response is where I send my donations to help this continue,” joked pastor John Amanchu, who appeared in CBN’s “Cultural Faith,” “How do you help fund this mission?”
Comment from the North Carolina-based minister came after leaders at Baptist Church in Shelbyville, Kentucky, and said that while they support members of their congregation who chose to “not return” books for professional LGBT children to the public libraries, it was not an official “church order.”
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Located about 30 miles east of Louisville, leaders of the Reform Church in Shelbyville said the ordeal began in June 3024. Families attending the church discovered more than a dozen “sexually evil books” for children on the shelves of the Shelby County Public Library.
Among the library titles were Claudia Harrington’s “My Two Fathers,” “Julian is a Mermaid,” Jessica Love, “Magenta: Transgender Teens Are Susan Kuklin’s “Transgender Teens.” The third one, according to the church, includes an account of the story of a child engaged in sexual acts.
Amanchukwu told CBN News: “I don’t think schools should have books that try to indoctrinate children into heterosexual or homosexuality, transgenderism, beastly, and all these other “isms” and the division of our culture. We shouldn’t be thinking about it by students.
He went on to boldly argued that exposing children to content that has become sexualized at an increasingly younger age is similar to “psychic rape” that “attacks the soul, tains the brain, and steals children from their innocence.”
Amanchukwu read about an excerpt from JJ Austrian’s children’s book, “Worm Loves Worm.”
The pastor continued to argue that just because the US legalized same-sex marriage through a 2015 Supreme Court ruling was unacceptable.
“Heaven does not support the marital bond between two men and two women,” he said. “But this was a move in the American education system.”
The majority of the problem is the lack of understanding of the Bible among Christians in the United States.
In 2022, CBN News reported on the findings of a survey published by Dr. George Burna’s Center for Cultural Studies at Arizona Christian University. Analysis found that 67% of American parents with Preine are identified as Christians, but only 2% have a biblical worldview.
That same study found that only 39% of pastors own a biblical worldview on issues relating to truth and morality.
“In today’s Christian churches, there are people who talk about God and preach from the Bible, and they don’t trust or believe in how they should carry out their daily lives,” he said. “The weak pulpit produces weak Christians. …The weak shepherd makes weak sheep. That’s what we are fighting for today.”
“Today, I think we need to meet Jesus about the importance, error and unfallability of God’s Word,” added Amanchuk. “We need a preacher to return to believing in God’s Word from Genesis to Revelation.
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