Compassion Anchored In Origin By: Zach Collins Recently on The View, Andy Beshear articulated his position on transgender ideology through the language of Christian faith: “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… My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” Many Christians heard those words and felt torn. The language is biblical. The appeal is emotional. Compassion for children is non-negotiable. Every believer should recoil at bullying, cruelty, or dehumanization. Emotional appeals, when allowed to outrank Scripture, do not clarify truth; they distort it, trading divine guidance for human confusion. Christians have a duty to test every appeal to Scripture, asking whether God’s Word is being rightly divided, or used carelessly as a tool to sanctify a political position. The issue is not whether we should love our neighbor. The issue is how the Bible defines love and whether love can be separated from truth. Christianity does not stop at asking what feels loving. It asks a deeper question: What does love mean according to truth? To answer that, we must walk upstream, back to our origin. If you find a small stream in the woods, and walk upstream long enough, you eventually reach a stream’s source. The same principle applies to sexuality. Where we arrive morally depends entirely on where we begin spiritually. Scripture begins with our origin, “So …