Here are some statements from bible-belt Christian Fundamentalists:
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Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., condemns President Obama's http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...terview-robin-roberts-abc-news_n_1503311.html [endorsement of same sex marriage], while calling for gays and lesbians to be put in an electrified pen and ultimately killed off.
Build a great, big, large fence -- 150 or 100 mile long -- put all the lesbians in there, Worley suggests [in the clip, reportedly filmed on May 13].
He continues: Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can't get out...and you know what, in a few years, they'll die out...do you know why? They can't reproduce!
Note that Charles L. Worley, the North Carolina pastor, includes lesbians in his call to put them in an electrified fence to kill them off.
More preachers:
Pastor Sean Harris of the Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville: if he is effeminate and crack that wrist if he is limp-wristed.
Similarly, Tim Rabon, condemned states such as Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maryland which have already re-defined marriage to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples before asking his congregants, "What is stopping them from refining marriage from a person and a beast?" We're not far from that.
Pastor Suggests Gays Should Be Prosecuted Like They Were Historically:
Ron Baity, founding pastor of Winston-Salem's Berean Baptist Church and head of the anti-marriage equality organization Return America, referred to homosexuality as a perverted lifestyle in a Sunday sermon before telling his congregation that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people should be prosecuted. For 300 years, we had laws that would prosecute that lifestyle. We've gone down the wrong path. We've become so dumb that we have accepted a lie for the truth, and we've...discarded the truth on the shoals of shipwreck.
Victoria Jackson, the former Saturday Night Live star [said] Did you see Glee this week? Sickening! And, besides shoving the gay thing down our throats, they made a mockery of Christians - again! I wonder what their agenda is? Hey, producers of Glee - what's your agenda? One-way tolerance? She later appeared on Showbiz Tonight to clarify her thoughts. Well, it doesn't matter what I think. What matters is what the Bible says.
Posted by John Celock: 05/19/2012 12:55 pm:
A Mississippi state lawmaker quoted a Bible passage on Facebook calling for gay men to be put to death; has taken to the social networking site again to refuse to apologize for the remark.
Rep. Andy Gipson (R-Braxton) Friday to say that although he has been receiving emails and calls [with regard to his statement], he will not say he's sorry. The emails have come in response to a petition calling on the lawmaker to issue an apology and to meet with LGBT groups in Mississippi.
To be clear, I want the world to know that I do not, cannot, and will not apologize for the inspired truth of God's Word. It is one thing that will never 'change, Gipson wrote. Anyone who knows me knows I also believe that all people are created in God's image, and that all people are loved by God, so much so that He gave us the truth of His Word which convicts us of the reality and guilt of our sin, and He gave us His Son Jesus who paid the full penalty for all our sins, by His grace through our faith in Him as we repent of our sin. It is this message that I preach every Sunday. I sincerely pray God will reach someone through this message.
Gipson is a Baptist minister and a business lawyer when not serving in the Legislature. He notes that his family are of the Christian faith, and are affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
The passage from Leviticus that Gipson first cited reads: If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
On Facebook at least, Gipson has received overwhelming support for his original comments and his refusal to apologize. Eighty-three people have liked his post, and he's received dozens of supportive comments, including praise for supporting God and sticking to his original message:
I stand with you my friend. ... GOD is in control ... no place for Gays,; Ted W. Cole.
Gipson, 35, has served in the Mississippi Legislature since 2008. He chairs a judiciary committee.
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I copied those quotes a couple of years ago. Much has happened since then, but change their minds? I doubt it.
But what's the difference between what happened in Orlando and what these Christian Fundamentalists have said (and are probably still saying, just not so openly--maybe)?
Both the Islamist Fundamentals and their Christian brethren believe similarly, but Islam, for a great (big) part, has no laws such as we have. Other than that there are some differences, but not in how they think and feel about anything LGBT. Christian Fundamentalists would kill, as their words indicate, but are constrained by our legal system (as a few have found out). The Islamists aren't.
The hate and ignorance is a shame!
Peace, and would that it were so.
w
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Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., condemns President Obama's http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...terview-robin-roberts-abc-news_n_1503311.html [endorsement of same sex marriage], while calling for gays and lesbians to be put in an electrified pen and ultimately killed off.
Build a great, big, large fence -- 150 or 100 mile long -- put all the lesbians in there, Worley suggests [in the clip, reportedly filmed on May 13].
He continues: Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can't get out...and you know what, in a few years, they'll die out...do you know why? They can't reproduce!
Note that Charles L. Worley, the North Carolina pastor, includes lesbians in his call to put them in an electrified fence to kill them off.
More preachers:
Pastor Sean Harris of the Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville: if he is effeminate and crack that wrist if he is limp-wristed.
Similarly, Tim Rabon, condemned states such as Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maryland which have already re-defined marriage to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples before asking his congregants, "What is stopping them from refining marriage from a person and a beast?" We're not far from that.
Pastor Suggests Gays Should Be Prosecuted Like They Were Historically:
Ron Baity, founding pastor of Winston-Salem's Berean Baptist Church and head of the anti-marriage equality organization Return America, referred to homosexuality as a perverted lifestyle in a Sunday sermon before telling his congregation that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people should be prosecuted. For 300 years, we had laws that would prosecute that lifestyle. We've gone down the wrong path. We've become so dumb that we have accepted a lie for the truth, and we've...discarded the truth on the shoals of shipwreck.
Victoria Jackson, the former Saturday Night Live star [said] Did you see Glee this week? Sickening! And, besides shoving the gay thing down our throats, they made a mockery of Christians - again! I wonder what their agenda is? Hey, producers of Glee - what's your agenda? One-way tolerance? She later appeared on Showbiz Tonight to clarify her thoughts. Well, it doesn't matter what I think. What matters is what the Bible says.
Posted by John Celock: 05/19/2012 12:55 pm:
A Mississippi state lawmaker quoted a Bible passage on Facebook calling for gay men to be put to death; has taken to the social networking site again to refuse to apologize for the remark.
Rep. Andy Gipson (R-Braxton) Friday to say that although he has been receiving emails and calls [with regard to his statement], he will not say he's sorry. The emails have come in response to a petition calling on the lawmaker to issue an apology and to meet with LGBT groups in Mississippi.
To be clear, I want the world to know that I do not, cannot, and will not apologize for the inspired truth of God's Word. It is one thing that will never 'change, Gipson wrote. Anyone who knows me knows I also believe that all people are created in God's image, and that all people are loved by God, so much so that He gave us the truth of His Word which convicts us of the reality and guilt of our sin, and He gave us His Son Jesus who paid the full penalty for all our sins, by His grace through our faith in Him as we repent of our sin. It is this message that I preach every Sunday. I sincerely pray God will reach someone through this message.
Gipson is a Baptist minister and a business lawyer when not serving in the Legislature. He notes that his family are of the Christian faith, and are affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
The passage from Leviticus that Gipson first cited reads: If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
On Facebook at least, Gipson has received overwhelming support for his original comments and his refusal to apologize. Eighty-three people have liked his post, and he's received dozens of supportive comments, including praise for supporting God and sticking to his original message:
I stand with you my friend. ... GOD is in control ... no place for Gays,; Ted W. Cole.
Gipson, 35, has served in the Mississippi Legislature since 2008. He chairs a judiciary committee.
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I copied those quotes a couple of years ago. Much has happened since then, but change their minds? I doubt it.
But what's the difference between what happened in Orlando and what these Christian Fundamentalists have said (and are probably still saying, just not so openly--maybe)?
Both the Islamist Fundamentals and their Christian brethren believe similarly, but Islam, for a great (big) part, has no laws such as we have. Other than that there are some differences, but not in how they think and feel about anything LGBT. Christian Fundamentalists would kill, as their words indicate, but are constrained by our legal system (as a few have found out). The Islamists aren't.
The hate and ignorance is a shame!
Peace, and would that it were so.
w
