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Pastor Perry Noble on transgender bathroom issue: 'We can disagree in love'

Chiqui Guyjoco May 23, 2016 07:06 PM EST

A screenshot of Pastor Perry Noble\'s Facebook video message titled \"The Transgender Bathroom Law\" | Perry Noble\'s official Facebook page

Megachurch evangelical leader Perry Noble addressed transgender individuals and other evangelical Christians that "we can disagree in love" after being criticized for his dissenting views on the transgender bathroom policy issue.

"We can disagree in love," urged the senior pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina on a Facebook video posted on May 16.

"I do not hate you," Noble said, addressed to the transgender people. "There is nothing in me that hates you. For me to be labeled a hater because I disagree is intellectual dishonesty on your part. I don't hate you. I just don't agree with President Barack Obama's opinion."

The pastor also advised other evangelical Christians on how to respond to the national heated debate. He called on them to pray and to let the president know their opinion if they don't agree with him but to do so without attacking the president.

This was Noble's response after people called him as "ignorant," "hateful" and "intolerant" after publicly speaking out against President Barack Obama's transgender bathroom directive that allows transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms according to their gender identity rather than their biological sex.

On April 24, Nobles wrote an article on his website supporting the state of North Carolina's Bathroom Bill to overturn the president's anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) discrimination ordinance.

"I don't believe what our president did was right. And it's not because I hate anyone. It's because I am trying my best to be a follower of Jesus Christ, and live according to His teachings," Noble said as he tried to clarify his position on the issue.

The preacher asserted that his concern is one that's a "complete safety issue" that he can't handle as a father and husband. He finds it utterly unacceptable for a teenage boy to change his clothes in the same room as his daughter at school and wondered if the president would have passed the law had his daughter attended public school.

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