Right-wing pastor celebrates Club Q massacre as 'good thing' in hate-filled sermon

[Behind the Aegis]

A Washington state pastor celebrated the mass shooting last weekend at an LGBTQ nightclub that left five people dead.

Aaron Thompson, of Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Vancouver, said the massacre was a "good thing" and falsely claimed the victims had been molesting children, although he walked that back moments later by saying their had only been looking at children in an inappropriate way, reported Only Sky.

"Am I sad that five homos got shot?" Thompson said Tuesday in a sermon. "No, I’m not sad at all. As a matter of fact, I think it’s a good thing that they’re not here anymore to molest kids."

The gunman opened fire during a drag performance, which have become a target of conservative outrage, but the event at Club Q in Colorado Springs was not open to anyone younger than 18, unlike child-friendly "drag queen story hours" hosted by many libraries.

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This event has been horrific and traumatizing for the GLBT community, please do not compound that misery with presumptive accusations this pastor is a "secret gay"! Plenty of people who hate queer people are STRAIGHT, accept this.

[SheltieLover]

1. Wtaf!?!?!

[Bettie]

2. Another drop in the increasingly full bucket

of right wingers changing their choice of narrative on mass shootings.

They are trying out victim blaming, based on a twisted view of "Morality"...I've seen several take this position on this shooting.

And no, the guy isn't secretly gay, he is openly a hate-filled asshole.

What this tactic does is show us who the right wing has decided to be going forward. Apparently, nothing excites their base like violence and hate.

[DENVERPOPS]

48. Yes

and someone?? once said: Everyone needs someone to hate. In the current state of things, these individuals HATE or maybe more truly LOATHE AND DETEST anyone that is not a white, conservative, evangelical/religious individual....

[certainot]

56. university of washington has endorsed anti LGBTQ hate for decades on 5 ex limbaugh stations,

likely for 3 decades, by broadcasting sports on them

from fakenewsradio.org Washington 5, Washington St. 1

the RW blowhards make it 'acceptable' and embolden assholes like that. preachers all over the country know they only get the dittohead nation in their churches once a week maybe and the best way to connect with them is to relate to what they hear the rest of the week.

[MustLoveBeagles]

67. +1000

[Initech]

3. And this is exactly the kind of hate speech that leads to genocide.

Fuck this lunatic preacher.

[sop]

75. Should anyone be surprised?

The well-funded 40-year campaign of terrorist bombings and shootings waged by anti-abortion extremists was rewarded by the recent decision overturning Roe. Now, encouraged by the success of their past violence, christofascists are openly targeting the LGBTQ community.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Geez, the resurrection of the Westboro Baptist Church.

They were heinous and putrid, going to funerals and screaming that God hates gays.

[Evolve Dammit]

36. on steroids

[LakeArenal]

5. Is that last paragraph part of the article.....?

If not who on DU was compounding that misery?

[Behind the Aegis]

11. It was my comment.

Whenever there is an article about a rapid homophobe, well, a male one, there are always some, and sometimes it snowballs into many, who imply the reason for the homophobe's actions/comments are because he is really a self-hating gay person. This is a tired trope, but gets bandied about way too often, and it is distressing.

[LakeArenal]

16. There are many a bully on DU. I wish one could name names.

[Coventina]

17. yes, I've seen it here time and again.

It's always disappointing.

[sarisataka]

18. See two posts down nt

[sop]

6. Comparisons to Germany in the 1930s no longer sound implausible.

[Evolve Dammit]

37. haven't thought so since swastikas and pro-Orange started showing up in 2015

[NoMoreRepugs]

7. $100 says Thompson has some serious skeletons in his closet.

[jmowreader]

28. No, he's just a hate filled prick

You know how a lot of Republicans think the Second Amendment is all there is in the Constitution? This individual believes, from the bottom of his coal-black heart, that Leviticus 18.22 is all there is in the Bible.

[DENVERPOPS]

58. Didn't many of the current crop of republicans

call the U.S. Constitution an antiquated piece of paper/????????

[niyad]

42. I would be checking his computer for child porn.

[msongs]

8. follow the $$ demonizing gays brings in the cash nt

[DENVERPOPS]

59. ALWAYS the case

with the Neo Conservatives.....follow the easiest source of cash......

Small wonder they idolize the Master Grifter of All Time.......Trump

[msongs]

61. love thy neighbors as thy selves....well this guy must hate himself in this case nt

[Solly Mack]

9. And they always claim they aren't promoting murder. Not them, never them. Wouldn't be right.

Just celebrating it is all.

Sick fucks. POS all.

"I’m not condoning anybody to do anything like that," Thompson said. "I don’t believe it’s right to take the law into our own hands, and I’ve said that so many times. But here’s what I won’t be upset about: I’m not going to be upset when someone that hates God and actively is promoting against God, and hates His guts, and molests children, even if it is just their eyeballs, to have to see these freaks writhing around and, and, and, you know doing all these crazy dances in front of children and then afterwards reading them a book or something."

[Genki Hikari]

71. Interesting how so many kids

Are raped by those who most claim to love this nitwit's cosmic space buddy. See: Catholics. See: Baptists. See: Orthodox Jews. See: Well, that list will be quite long. Seems like every time we turn around, one of the religious centers is wrangling with child rape allegations.

Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins is never even whispered about as a child rapist. You know that if the religious could pin it on him, they would have done it long ago--and never shut up about it. But they can't. You know it drives them nuts that they can't make that defamation stick.

Maybe they need to clean up the child rape problems behind their own doors before accusing those who want nothing to do with their space buddy of things that just aren't so.

[vercetti2021]

10. Too bad people like this are able to live and breath without fear

The truly evil ones are these freaks. Why can't they be under constant terror? Constant worry? I wish these people would get karma

[Behind the Aegis]

12. It's because we are better humans than them.

We don't hunt them the way they hunt us. Of course, some are "fucking around and finding out" that many a queer person can AND will fight back.

[Evolve Dammit]

38. because libruls and Dems and LBGTQ don't typically threaten, even asshole fascists. Kharma ain't

coming fast enough and all they believe in is "rapture."

[DENVERPOPS]

60. YES

AND take away the tax free status from ANY and ALL Religious organizations that preach politics from the Pulpit.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Evil people, under color of self-righteousness, are inciting murder.

[SWBTATTReg]

14. I'd say that this disgusting human being needs to be upbraided for his hate speech, and his

pastoring days be at an end. I can't believe that this guy is like this, instead of love to thy neighbors, and instead preach his hate rhetoric.

[Genki Hikari]

72. I can believe it

Most of the book he follows wallows in hate.

[Cha]

15. Unadulterated Evil Sinner with a

Bully pulpit.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

19. Here is what Jesus said about homosexuality:

[Genki Hikari]

73. O RLY?

Did you read the book?

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

--Matthew 5:18

In plainer English (NIV):

For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

This is one letter of the law he would be referencing:

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

--Leviticus 18:22

And here's another:

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

--Leviticus 20:13

Those are the laws he's talking about. Not another religion's laws, or Roman laws or any other secular law or laws of the universe or whatever. He's talking about the law as laid down in the Torah.

So, yes, he did have something to say about the issue, however indirectly.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

78. LOL

[phylny]

81. Leviticus, huh?

https://reformationproject.org/case/levitical-prohibitions/

[CurtEastPoint]

20. Here's a contact form you can fill in creatively, if you get my drift.

https://www.surefoundationbaptist.com/contact

[CrispyQ]

21. These people are vile, hateful fucks.

The world would be so much better without them.

[Thunderbeast]

22. Vancouver, Washington or Vancouver B.C.?

The link shows Washington, but Google Maps shows BC

[jmowreader]

29. Washington

I find it humorous that his next-door neighbor is a cannabis dispensary.

[cloudbase]

30. Washington. n/t

[ShazzieB]

32. Washington.

The o.p. says "A Washngton pastor..."

Don't feel bad. I missed that myself at first and assumed this was in Canada!

[IcyPeas]

23. How can that congregation sit there and listen to that?

"Am I sad that five homos got shot?" Thompson said Tuesday in a sermon. "No, I’m not sad at all.

[Mariana]

79. Because they agree.

[Justice matters.]

24. JHC, ANOTHER Christaliban using stochastic terrorism against American citizens

There should be harsh punishments coded into law against these Fascist terrorists!

[dsp3000]

25. I'll say it.

These people need to go through a mass shooting of their own

[wnylib]

55. It would only intensify their view that

they are victims of "ungodly" people.

[yardwork]

26. Listen to what people say - they mean it.

[LuckyCharms]

33. +1 n/t

[Dirty Socialist]

27. If I wasin that town,

I would raise holy hell there

[kimbutgar]

31. Didn't Jesus say love thy neighbor as thyself ?

Sounds like this hate monger pastor missed that lesson in his religious instruction.

If I heard a pastor say that I would have gotten up and walked out of that church.

[ShazzieB]

34. I would have walked out, too.

My great niece is a lesbian, and my bil is gay. This vile pos doesn't know them or anything about them, and he obviously doesn't know anything about the people who were shot at Club Q, either. And yet, he's prepared to say they should all be killed? FUCK HIM.

P.S. I went to the YouTube link, and it now says, "This video is private."
GEE WHIZ, I WONDER WHY?

[kimbutgar]

35. I work with a lot of Gay people and they are the kindest most supportive people

And I worked with a lot of straight a holes. It’s what’s in your heart not who you sleep with or the color of your skin.

[DENVERPOPS]

63. Exactly, which is why

my wife walked out of the Methodist Church years ago when they wouldn't make a deserving woman a pastor, taking a national stance against women in their clergy.

She smiled when she talked to the pastor in front of others in the congregation when she left that day, telling him very out loud exactly why she was leaving. He was full of double talk, blah blah telling her she just didn't understand, then she asked why she didn't understand? because she was a woman? with only two undergraduate degrees and two masters degree?????? (He was fearful of her withdrawing, because she was one of the larger donors to his particular church/congregation.....)

[Evolve Dammit]

39. just like Jesus would have done.

[mountain grammy]

40. What really scares me about these obvious hate crimes

is securing a conviction. This happened in Colorado so I believe the killer will spend the remainder of his life incarcerated, as he should. But we saw what happened in Wisconsin and I don't think we'll see the fallout from that verdict until we see mass demonstrations against the police again. Step by step, case by case, this will become normalized and acceptable in many states. Vigilante justice for some idiotic grievance regarding some non existent infraction of a make believe moral code based, of course, on fanatical religious beliefs.

[niyad]

41. Based on his picture, several things are running through my mind.

[keithbvadu2]

43. Next step for him would be saying 'a good thing' for a massacre at the wrong religions, such as syna

Next step for him would be saying 'a good thing' for a massacre at the wrong religions, such as synagogues/mosques.

Then the 'wrong' variations of Christian churches.

Many Protestants/Catholics consider the other to be false Christians.

[vlyons]

44. Well so much for "Blessed are the peace makers ---"

and so much for "Let them without sin cast the first stone"

and so much for "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"

and so much for "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

[BadGimp]

45. I live in Portland, that shithole over there is Vantuckey!

[area51]

46. "...they're not here anymore to molest kids."

Nevermind that most pedos are straight.

[hibbing]

47. There's no hate like Christian love n/t

[lees1975]

49. False gospel, fake church

To call him a pastor and that group a church is a lie.

[Vogon_Glory]

50. Cascadia lies atop a subduction zone prone to

serious earthquakes, not to mention not-so-dormant volcanos. Preacher Thompson must be feeling rather cocky that the wrathful god he’s invoking might not decide to take a serious shot at him instead. The Big Fella certainly has a large arsenal for divine retribution if He decides He’s PO’d at the stuff being flung about in His name.

[TexasBushwhacker]

51. This "pastor" seems a bit obsessed

He attacked "The Friendly Atheist" Hemant Mehta, last summer.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/07/20/hemant-mehta-jeopardy-friendly-atheist-aaron-thompson-hate-preacher/

[Samrob]

52. Still wondering where is the damn lightening? !!#3&*

[Mariana]

80. Why would you expect lightning?

God has never shown any inclination to silence his most hateful and destructive followers.

[ificandream]

53. The so-called Christian Right is neither.

[MustLoveBeagles]

68. This

[republianmushroom]

54. And we as ask "Why does this happen ?"

[DENVERPOPS]

64. Again

pull their tax exempt religious status.........

[TNNurse]

57. The kind of person who makes me hope there is a literal hell.

I know that I do not have the ability to decide if someone is a Christian or not, but am quite sure he is not.

[Aristus]

62. Fouling my state with your right-wing homophobic horseshit.

Take it to West Arkassippi, you smelly gasbag!

[roamer65]

65. Eventually we are going to have to deal with this religious extremism problem.

The longer we delay action, the more harsh the solution.

We are just kicking the can right now.

[Abolishinist]

69. My thoughts exactly.

I found the post regarding Jenna Ellis to be extremely disturbing...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016337782

this 'preacher' adds not only to my disgust but I believe a legitimate concern about the proximity to power these cretins hold.

I'm not a religious person, I don't believe in an afterlife. My fear is that those who DO believe in this have NO reason not to do whatever THEY think it takes for them to make it heaven. Just as I have no reason to act upon those who believe, THEY have all the reasons in the world to take it out on folks like me. Scary stuff.

[Pete Ross Junior]

66. Washington State. So much for regional stereotypes.

Hate can be anywhere.

[BComplex]

70. "Sure Foundation Baptist Church". Baptists. They are dangerous. Really really dangerous.

The baptists are why the south stays stuck in the confederacy. I live here. The seminaries only graduate pastors who spew the right wing talking points with a certain style.

[Dorian Gray]

74. That man is evil incarnate

ugh.

[Judi Lynn]

76. Here's a vile photo and an article:

Christian Pastor Explains Why He Enjoys Using Anti-Gay Slurs

Hate group pastor Aaron Thompson claimed words like "homosexual" don’t convey a negative enough intent toward gays.

By Aviva Bechky on September 21, 2022

Article link:
https://www.metroweekly.com/2022/09/christian-pastor-explains-why-he-must-use-anti-gay-slurs/