Like other Religious Right activists, Gordon Klingenschmitt is outraged that a Planet Fitness franchise in Michigan revoked the membership of a customer who wouldn’t stop complaining after a transgender woman hung up her coat and purse in the women’s locker room and so he is now calling for a national boycott of the fitness chain.
On his “Pray In Jesus Name” program today, the Colorado Republican state legislator said that “there is a demonic spirit of lying” inside of transgender people, whom he said are “parading their parts” in front of small children because they are driven by “a predatory spirit of sexual exploitation.”
Klingenschmitt then once again asserted that since the Bible says that transgender people are not allowed in church, they should likewise be banned from using public facilities, saying that “if they can’t enter the assembly of the Lord, why should they be able to enter your women’s locker room.”
Klingenschmitt concluded by praying that children would be protected from “predators” like this and that millions of Americans would boycott Planet Fitness “until that corporation changes their policy”:
