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Headline:  Metro Weekly, 6/1/2023

State Rep. Gary Click (R-Vickery) gave the sermon, recorded and subsequently posted to YouTube, four years ago at the Fremont Baptist Temple, where Click is a pastor. 

While Click has denied that his bill, which he touts as a measure to “protect children,” is motivated by his personal religious beliefs or anti-LGBTQ animus, his words from the sermon appear to undercut that claim, according to the Ohio Capital Journal. 

Throughout the sermon, Click asserts that God has a specific plan for the family, involving two parents of opposite sexes raising children together in a committed marriage, and that homosexuality and transgender identity, as well as single-parent households, run afoul of God’s plans for humankind. 

He says that Satan works to tempt individuals to stray from that plan, and that the breakdown of the two-parent nuclear family subsequently leads to the “crumbling” of society.