Browbeating Gays - U.S. Justice Department called on to launch an investigation into NC Church

[RKP5637]

One really has to wonder WTF is wrong with people that are this hostile. ... and they then call it religion. IMO religion is used in cases like this as a cover for brutality and bullying. I'm really fed up with these creeps hiding under the cover of religion.

See: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e2bbf638ef2297cb0709a63be&id=c24f30906f&e=f8a728a313

Faith in America is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to launch an investigation into the case of Michael Lowry, a 21-year-old North Carolina gay man who alleges he was subjected to emotional, psychological and physical abuse by members of a North Carolina church, which he alleges placed him in confinement against his will and repeatedly assaulted him because of his sexual orientation.

"There have been a number of incidents recently in North Carolina in which pastors have verbally attacked gay and lesbian people," said Brent Childers, executive director of Faith in America. "But this case is about far more than verbal hostility. This is about church members who allegedly confined a 20-year-old man behind closed doors, subjected him to severe emotional and psychological trauma, and physically assaulted him apparently because of his sexual orientation. We are asking the U.S. Justice Department’s Hate Crimes Division to initiate a full investigation into this case.”

Michael Lowry’s family has been part of the Word of Faith Fellowship (WOFF) Church in Spindale in Rutherford County since Lowry was born.

According to the February 2012 report: "The victim stated he used to be a member of the Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale. Mr. Lowry stated that last August a group of men held him down and hit him about the face and chest area. Mr. Lowry stated that (he) told them to let go but they would not. The reason they done this was because he was homosexual and they trying to get him to stop being homosexual. When this incident was taking place, the group would tell him he had demons in him and he was going to hell. Mr. Lowry also stated he was told his family would have nothing else to do with him. The group stopped and he was let go. Mr. Lowry stated that it was months later he left the church.”

Lowry says he spent almost four months inside a building on church property where he was subjected to humiliating acts, such as being made to sleep on the floor in the hallway and had to submit to supervised bathroom visits because church members feared he might be masturbating. Lowry says he was allowed to leave from the confinement building in November 2011. He then left North Carolina to live with relatives in Michigan.

[Swede Atlanta]

1. If these allegations are true this is a new low....

This is, in many ways, no different than the Taliban's attack on the young girl in Pakistan who was just trying to get an education.

I don't know the circumstances here... was he attending this church and asking for "guidance"...did they force him to confess his sexuality, etc.

But regardless, if these allegations are true, this is false imprisonment, torture and should be good for millions in pain and suffering.

What assholes. They profess to be Christians but Jesus said nothing about homosexuality. Not one word. He talks about a man lying with a man. That is not homosexuality. In his day that was one man dominating another by penetrating him in the anus. There was no understanding or appreciation for sexual orientation.

I hope they take this church and the offending members to the state pen. They deserve nothing less.

[RKP5637]

2. I often wonder if things like this are just the tip of the iceberg, how many

things like this go unreported because of fear, family pressure, belief in the church, etc. We have people operating as the American Taliban and many get a free pass because they invoke the word religion, and people are expected to back off, and they do ... often, from those that set themselves up as tin gods.

I am not a religious person, but this really irks me, because I know some are religious and practice the good aspects of religion, helping others and not judgmental, etc.

People such as in this article need to be rooted out and exposed for what they are, religious terrorists operating in the US.