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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChurch members indicted for kidnapping and beating a gay man to rid his "homosexual demons"
Five members of a controversial North Carolina church were indicted this week on charges that they kidnapped and assaulted a fellow member because he had been possessed by homosexual demons.
On Monday, a Rutherford County grand jury indicted Sarah Covington Anderson, Adam Christopher Bartley, Brooke McFadden Covington, Justin Brock Covington and Robert Louis Walker Jr. on charges of second degree kidnapping and simple assault. Anderson was also charged with assault by strangulation.
Matthew Fenner told WSPA that he was a member of The Word of Faith Fellowship church in 2013 when the others physically attacked him for being gay on Jan. 29, 2013.
I honestly thought I was going to die, Fenner recalled. My head was like being flung back, my vision was going brown and black I couldnt breathe and Im sitting here thinking if I dont get out of this, Im probably going to die.
According to QNotes, the suspects slapped and strangled Fenner, and they threatened to imprison him for two days to fight his homosexual demons.
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In an affidavit, Fenner recalled how Sarah Covington Anderson had told him he was disgusting because of his sexual orientation before the physical abuse began on one of three instances that he described.
Deliverance soon ensued (which meant extremely rough pushing, loud screaming, and other violent measures intended to break me free of the homosexual demons they so viciously despite), and I was at one point grabbed by my throat by Sarah and shaken, punched, and beaten, the affidavit said. I received many bruises on my collarbones, neck, chest, and shoulders.
I had at least 15-20 college age men around me, screaming, shaking me, punching me, hitting my chest, grabbing my head, telling me to repeat different phrases, all of which caused (and have resulted in much) mental distress to high levels, he added.
On Monday, a Rutherford County grand jury indicted Sarah Covington Anderson, Adam Christopher Bartley, Brooke McFadden Covington, Justin Brock Covington and Robert Louis Walker Jr. on charges of second degree kidnapping and simple assault. Anderson was also charged with assault by strangulation.
Matthew Fenner told WSPA that he was a member of The Word of Faith Fellowship church in 2013 when the others physically attacked him for being gay on Jan. 29, 2013.
I honestly thought I was going to die, Fenner recalled. My head was like being flung back, my vision was going brown and black I couldnt breathe and Im sitting here thinking if I dont get out of this, Im probably going to die.
According to QNotes, the suspects slapped and strangled Fenner, and they threatened to imprison him for two days to fight his homosexual demons.
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In an affidavit, Fenner recalled how Sarah Covington Anderson had told him he was disgusting because of his sexual orientation before the physical abuse began on one of three instances that he described.
Deliverance soon ensued (which meant extremely rough pushing, loud screaming, and other violent measures intended to break me free of the homosexual demons they so viciously despite), and I was at one point grabbed by my throat by Sarah and shaken, punched, and beaten, the affidavit said. I received many bruises on my collarbones, neck, chest, and shoulders.
I had at least 15-20 college age men around me, screaming, shaking me, punching me, hitting my chest, grabbing my head, telling me to repeat different phrases, all of which caused (and have resulted in much) mental distress to high levels, he added.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/nc-church-members-indicted-for-kidnapping-beating-gay-man-to-cure-homosexual-demons/comments/#disqus
Scary that there are religious creeps like this among us.
At one point, this church was apparently under DOJ investigation for hate crimes.
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Church members indicted for kidnapping and beating a gay man to rid his "homosexual demons" (Original Post)
davidn3600
Dec 2014
OP
I'd like to point out that LGBT people are said to be demon possesed almost daily by religious
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2014
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Behind the Aegis
(53,987 posts)1. Disgusting.
Yet, some like to think we are in a "post-sexual orientation" world.
NewDeal_Dem
(1,049 posts)2. "this church was apparently under DOJ investigation for hate crimes."
and still should be. horrific.
CurtEastPoint
(18,663 posts)3. They did the same in 2012 to this guy.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)4. Because That's What Jesus Would Do
Or not.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)5. I'd like to point out that LGBT people are said to be demon possesed almost daily by religious
quacks, up to and including Pope Francis of Rome and his Bishops and many Protestant ministers with large followings on an international basis.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)6. Jesus wept.
Sick muthas.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)7. Anyone who would participate in something like this must not actually
believe in Christianity. If they did, they'd believe that they would receive their due punishment for what they have done. Any church that actively persecutes people is not a Christian church. It is something else, altogether.
Convictions and prison time after a trial is the appropriate thing to do here. I am not a Christian. I'm an atheist, and I believe in justice and serious punishment for people who attack others in that way.
LeftinOH
(5,358 posts)8. Stay away from that f*cking "church" ...problem solved. n/t