David Barton hosted the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins on his “WallBuilders Live” radio program today to discuss the military’s move toward lifting its ban on transgender service members, which Barton claimed would allow child molesters to serve in the military without repercussion.

Absurdly stating that the government now recognizes and protects 82 different “gender identities,” including pedophilia and bestiality, Barton claimed that child molesters are now free to openly serve in the military.

“There’s 82 official gender identities now and they all have equal status and protection here,” Barton said, “so we’re talking pedophiles. If you’re a military member and you have an inclination for young children, you can’t be kicked out of the military for that anymore because that is your gender identity. If you are into having sex with animals, bestiality, that is one of the 82 gender identities, you cannot be kicked out for your lack of judgment and your very perverse taste on that.”

For his part, Perkins voiced his opposition to allowing gay and transgender soldiers to serve in the military, as well as to allowing women to serve in combat roles, warning that doing so is unbiblical and will “completely eradicate” respect for women from the “DNA of being a man in the western culture.”

“Men, we’ve been taught to be deferential toward women, to protect women” Perkins said. “That something I hope we don’t lose but this engineering is going to be driven out of the military because you cannot give deference to another member of a fighting unit; that jeopardizes the safety and security of the entire unit. And that is something that will have to be taken out of what’s become a part of the DNA of being a man in the western culture. It’s being lost, it’s not what it was at one point, but this will completely eradicate it to see women no different than a man. Quite frankly, that’s not biblical and it’s certainly not conducive to an environment that respects women.”