A state senator from eastern Oklahoma referred to LGBTQ people as “filth” when asked at a public forum on Friday about the death of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary high school student in the Tulsa area, reported Public Radio Tulsa. Sen. Tom Woods said that his heart went out to Benedict’s family, but that regarding LGBTQ identity generally, “We are a religious state. We are going to fight to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma, because we’re a Christian state. We’re a rural state. We want to lower taxes, and for people to live and work, and to go to the faith they choose.” Benedict, 16, die…