Louisiana Pastor Luke Ash said he is now in a tough spot financially but wasn’t willing “to compromise for the sake of mammon.” Christians often must have tough conversations, he said to Perkins, “but the library made their decision that they would rather have a difficult conversation with me than for a transgender person to hear something that they didn’t want to hear.”
Logan Wolf, a board member at Forum for Equality—Louisiana’s LGBTQ+ human-rights organization—said, “You just have to treat someone with basic decency, and I think that’s at the crux” in this case.
About Pastor Ash, Wolf said, “This person willingly violated policies and procedures of the [East Baton Rouge] library towards another employee, and I think that’s not okay. He’s doing this because he wants to be aggrieved, instead of actually being aggrieved, and it’s just not right.”
