Last month, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced that he would not sign a state “religious freedom” bill unless it was changed so that it more closely mirrored the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Among the reasons that Hutchinson cited for opposing the bill in its original form was that even his own son has signed a petition asking him to veto it.
On the “WallBuilders Live” radio program today, Arkansas pastor Tim Brooks ripped Hutchinson’s “total lack of parenting” for raising up a son who would support marriage equality.
“Our governor came on our local TV stations and said, ‘My son has signed a petition for me to repeal this and I, on the other hand feel this way about it,'” Brooks fumed. “And he said on TV, ‘This is clearly a generational issue where my son and his generation feel this way, my generation, however, feels this way’; clearly making this a generational issue that Arkansas has got to come to terms with and deal with.”
“And Rick, I was appalled,” Brooks continued. “I didn’t know biblical mandates were generational. I thought there is another case for a total lack of parenting. At somewhere in this line, our governor did not transfer his values into his son’s life. When he said, ‘I think this way but my son thinks another way,’ clearly he didn’t parent in morality”:
