Today in bigotry:NC Pastor Calls For Rounding Up "Queers" In An Electrified Pen & Letting Them Die

[WillParkinson]

Last edited Mon May 21, 2012, 01:16 PM - Edit history (1)

CHRISTIAN LOVE: North Carolina Pastor Calls For Rounding Up "Queers" In An Electrified Pen & Letting Them Die

Towleroad blogger Andrew Belonsky has the quote from North Carolina's Pastor Charles L. Worley, who clearly wants some of the same attention recently given NC's Pastor Sean Harris:

"I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers," he says in his sermon, delivered on May 13. "Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long — put all the lesbians in there... 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." Worley fails to understand that gay people are born, not made, and that there would just be more LGBT folk coming down the line."

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/05/christian-love-north-carolina-pastor.html

(On edit: Apologies for including the contact information in the post. It was copied from the source and I did not notice it when posted.)

[Deep13]

1. My wife had the same idea about fundy preachers. nt

[bowens43]

4. agreed. nt

[nykym]

2. Dear Pastor Charles L. Worley

And where do you think all those LBGT people come from???????
Answer: Straight people mostly!

[Wait Wut]

3. How very Christian of him.

I'll never understand that whole "love thy neighbor" thing.

[WillParkinson]

5. You just need to read the fine print...

"Love Thy Neighbor*"

(* unless they're GLTB, A different race, a different sex, or anything else you find icky.)

[HillWilliam]

6. So did I

I swear to Dog, the first sheet I see I will put a hole in it. Hope that fat fuck has a taste for hot lead.

[SoutherDem]

7. Christian love at its best!!!

I won't say more, I don't want to get banded from DU

[William769]

8. Recommended to shine the light on this asshole!

[freshwest]

9. 'First they came for...' Learn from history, we are all human beings! He's threatening everyone!!!

Anyone who does not take common cause in opposing this demagoguery is part of the problem.

Wake up, people!

[TheOther95Percent]

10. I wish I knew...

What the hell kind of church advocates killing people for their sexual orientation and gets to keep their tax exempt status. This preacher is a fucking terrorist.

[sarge43]

11. What was the Woody Allen quip?

If Jesus came back and heard what was being said in his name, he'd throw up?

[racaulk]

12. Forcibly removing large groups of people from their homes and relocating them somewhere else.

You know, that's been tried once or twice in human history. It never ends well.

[xchrom]

13. du rec. nt

[Behind the Aegis]

14. Where have I heard this before?

Oh yeah....

[stevenleser]

15. Good point. The guy is a nazi/fascist asshole. nt

[racaulk]

18. One of but many examples...

Apartheid in South Africa:



Internment camps for Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II:



Not to mention the forced relocations of the indigenous peoples of North America, of Africans to North America, sex trafficking of girls and women throughout the world, etc. The forced relocation of large populations of people from their homes is certainly not a novel concept in terms of human history, but the results are always disastrous and seen as a blight on our humanity when viewed through the lens of history. Something tells me the good preacher has no appreciation for any of this.

[Jamastiene]

16. That is horrendous.

That preacher is advocating the same sort of thing that happened in Nazi controlled Germany. Disgusting.

[RevStPatrick]

17. Let's try a little thought experiment, Pastor...

"I figured a way to get rid of all the Baptists," I say in response to your sermon, "Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long — put all the Baptists in there... Do the same thing for the Catholics and the Pentecostals and have that fence electrified so they can't get out… And you know what, in a few years, they'll die."

Do you REALLY want to go there, Pastor?

[Crowman1979]

19. Now the true ugliness of fundie christians is out in the open since the president finally spoke up.

[HillWilliam]

20. You can stop by

their FB page and return their "christian" "love". Looks as if all kinds of people are blistering them a new one.

Good.

[queerart]

21. More Love From......

A Christian Terrorist................

[47of74]

22. This guy shits all over good men and women of the cloth everywhere...

So I won't degrade those good men and women by calling this fuck a pastor.

[Fearless]

23. Now some more to the story...

Decades before antigay pastor Charles Worley said lesbians and "queers and the homosexuals" should be rounded up, placed in camps surrounded by electric fences and left to die "so the won't reproduce," the pastor described other violently homophobic acts against gay people during a sermon.

"...Forty years ago, they would've hung 'em -- bless God -- from a white oak tree," Worley said in a 1978 sermon that the Providence Road Baptist Church has posted on its website, according to Good As You.

http://www.advocate.com/society/religion/2012/05/22/antigay-pastor-charles-worley-spewed-hate-1978

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What a surprise!

[Pigman]

24. Why Are Churches Tax Exempt?

I don't understand why this guy is given a tax exemption when he is preaching hate and intolerance. Moreover, I don't understand why any church or religious organization is being given tax exemptions, when it seems as though the biggest issue facing this country is people/corporations/organizations are not paying their fair share.

I live in California and am an Atheist. I was raised up and forced to go to a Pentecostal Church for about 20 years of my life. I recently went to visit my folks in Orlando, Florida. Being that it was Mother's day, I attended church with my parents. Within 15 minutes I realized why I hate the church and organized religion. This particular Sunday, the church had a guest speaker who began his sermon with opening his message on the premise that we are going to be given the choice of electing a Muslim or a Mormon this November (not Jesus Christ himself). People within the audience thought it was funny and giggled. I found it insulting and left the service.

I bring this up because, the church pretty much consist of middle class families/retirees, young children and college students...none of these people benefit from a Republican in office. I understand they are stupid and are voting based on religious reasoning...for some reason they believe the Right is more religious or it something that Jesus would do. In any case, I just don't understand why this church along with other non profit organizations, that claim to be religious institutions are given tax exemptions. Let me explain why I don't understand...

This church has approximately 100 families. They are making probably close 100k a year each. They give at minimum 10% (tithe) or more a year to the church. That is a minimum of 10k a year from each family. That is a guarantee of 1 million a year that is tax exempt. This money is then sent abroad for missionary work. How is this not money laundering or how does this benefit our country. This is a million dollars that is not being locally or federally invested. It is sent abroad to enrich foreign countries - this to me is economic terrorism!