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KamaAina

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Tue Jun 30, 2015, 06:43 PM Jun 2015

Bigot’s Note To LGBT-Friendly Minister: ‘God Hates You’ For Marrying ‘Queers’

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/30/bigots-note-to-lgbt-friendly-minister-god-hates-you-for-marrying-queers-videoscreenshots/

An Iowa minister received a shock in the wake of his wife’s death: an outpouring of hatred from one area resident who claimed to represent the community he serves. Gilbert McBride performs wedding ceremonies for LGBT couples, promising to make the occasion “everything that you have wanted, hoped for and desired,” though he has not performed many ceremonies in the past few years.

McBride has dedicated much of that time period caring for his sick wife, who passed away in January. On Friday, the pain of losing his wife was reignited for McBride when a homophobic bigot left a “love letter” on his car. When he got into his car, he found this note on his seat:



“We recently discovered that you perform same sex weddings,” the note reads. “That disturbs many of us in the community. Normally when someone in town dies the community comes together to do what we can for that persons family. As you may or may not have noticed is when your wife died, no one came and brought meals or even so much as condolences. That’s because as a minister that performs gay weddings, you deserve all the bad that you brought upon yourself.”

While this is sufficiently awful, the letter gets worse:
Your wife died because God hates you for the abomination you have become by preaching His word while also catering to queers. We in this community hope you suffer as much as possible and realize that unless you change your faggot friendly ways, your suffering will only get worse.


How very Christian of him.
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Bigot’s Note To LGBT-Friendly Minister: ‘God Hates You’ For Marrying ‘Queers’ (Original Post) KamaAina Jun 2015 OP
Bullshit! Maedhros Jun 2015 #1
She certainly is. KamaAina Jun 2015 #2
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