Pastor Jeff McCreight said the president has gone too far with his suggestions to allow people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.
McCreight and several Lubbock-area pastors united Sunday to publicly denounce President Obama's directive issued Friday. A joint letter from the Departments of Education and Justice went to schools with guidelines to ensure that "transgender students enjoy a supportive and nondiscriminatory school environment," the Obama administration said.
"Opening all showers and all restrooms to all sexes at all times as the president is suggesting is not a reasonable solution but an invitation for violations of privacy and personal safety and extreme complications in the development of the morality of our youngest and vulnerable and formidable of minds," said Jeff McCreight, senior pastor of Rock City Church.
He said the government has overstepped its boundaries and is putting children in harms way.
Wade Webb, a father of three, said the consequences of these guidelines puts him in a tough place when it comes to protecting his kids.
"Not only are you opening up doors for a whole world of countless acts and violence and different things but I think about my children and my daughter going into a restroom where a man is going to be allowed and I can't do that," he said.
McCreight said it is the churches duty to step into the political realm when it comes to issues like these.
"Politics is about people, and the church is a compilation of people," McCreight said. "The whole separation of church and state has been totally misunderstood in our culture. That was in a letter that Thomas Jefferson sent to pastors to ensure that government would not intrude with church affairs, not the church can't be involved in politics. A church that is not involved in politics is dis-involved with its city."
Other pastors said this is just another instance of government taking too much power from the people.
"If we let this stand, you can take the Bill of Rights and use it for toilet paper for all the guarantees that's viewed for your freedom," one speaker said.
Webb's wife, April, said they will have to take further measures to protect their kids, such as not going out in public as much.
"We will be making less trips to the store, to the restaurants, being in public," Webb said. "Having three kids, you go to the restroom quite often between the three of them and I'm not going to subject my kids to any kind of danger or disaster like that."
Nonetheless, McCreight said those in charge need to remember who it was that put them in office and they need to fall in line with their beliefs.
"We elect them, therefore we hire them to do the tings that they do and when it goes against our conviction, government has failed and that's where people have got to rise up and determine to them that they can't force those ruling on us that go against our own values and our own conviction," he said. "This is still a nation of the people, by the people and for the people and the top rungs of our political structure need to be reminded of that."
