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In a sermon blasting President Obama for his same-sex marriage support, Pastor Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina, offered a novel and horrific solution to the so-called gay scourge: build an electric fence and let "lesbians, queers and homosexuals" starve to death.
"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.
He also that if he's asked who he'll vote for, he'll reply, "I'm not going to vote for a baby killer and a homosexual lover."
The not-so-holy man concludes, "God have mercy. It makes me pukin' sick to think about I don't even whether or not to say this in the pulpit can you imagine kissing some man?"
Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/05/nc-pastor-wants-to-build-electrified-fence-to-contain-starve-and-ultimately-kill-gays-video.html#ixzz1vYsWJcM7
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)I think most Christians would be offended by this sort of hate speech.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)WORLEY: Im Gods preacher. I just believe the book. Living in a day when, you know what, it saddens my heart to think that homosexuals can go around, bless God, and get the applause of a lot of people. Lesbians and all the rest of it? Bless God, forty years ago theyd have hung em, bless God, from a white oak tree, wouldnt they? Amen.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/22/488614/worley-oak-gays-tree/?mobile=nc
Here's the audio link from of his sermon then:
http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2012/05/pastor-worley-in-1978-forty-years-ago-they-wouldve-hung-homosexuals-bless-god-from-a-white-oak-tree.html
When he says this:
Im Gods preacher. I just believe the book.
Gee, I wonder if the God of Love and Allofthat, really needs him talking up there like that. Belongs to God, does he?
And as for believing a book, WTH has he been reading? Where does it say to hang anyone from a tree? Stoning, yeah, but that was the OLD testament before these guys claimed their salvation was from Christ forgiving them!
Didn't they read about the Overseer who'd been forgiven by his King of his debts, but didn't forgive those debtors who worked under him? And the other servants were so shocked by his actions they reported it to the King, his employer, which in this case would be God, what he's up to in His Name? Did he read what happened to that guy?
Some of these wacko Bible thumping characters even make the claim that 'the temple prostitutes' were homosexuals. But where 'temple prostitutes' are listed in the Bible, it doesn't say to kill them!
These people are demented, sick and it's not just because of their hatred for LGBT. They hate a lot of people, like Mitt hating on men whose hair isn't right, the KKK hating on blacks, and... well, the list goes on.
I thought, until I saw Sarah Palin and her race-baiting crowd in 2008, which had the same atmosphere as a klan rally, taking me back to those nightmares, that these people had learned something in all the years that had passed since then.
I was thoroughly wrong, they just went underground and breed like Kochroaches. WTH is it going to take to clear up this mental infection?
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)this Pastor sounds like the Devil
Skittles
(153,174 posts)Initech
(100,097 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)start paying taxes. They are not a church they are a political organization.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)are some really really sick people. And he hides under the banner of God, Jesus and Christianity. I really think Christians need to do more to denounce these deranged quacks.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)Next up - atheists. Then after that, whatever "different" person who he doesn't like.
mitchtv
(17,718 posts)CA, OR, WA, or NY and New England etc
struggle4progress
(118,320 posts)... Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate, the group that posted the clip to YouTube, plans to protest Worley and the church on Sunday.
To hear this kind of hate being preached, this kind of intolerance, it hurt me, and Im not even part of the LGBT community, said Laura Tipton, who organized the protest.
Tipton, who lives in Hickory, says she called the church and spoke to Worley after learning about the video.
He invited us to come down, and even let us know what time the sermon starts, she said, adding that Worley might be trying to prove a point that he has nothing to hide. ...'
http://www2.hickoryrecord.com/news/2012/may/21/anti-gay-sermon-maiden-pastor-draws-anger-denuncia-ar-2298615/
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)He would stand out in front of the student union thumping his Bible, then really work himself into a lather as he screamed "Killllllllll the queeeeeeeeeeeers!" He'd draw a crowd of maybe 20 or 30 students, most of whom would just laugh at him.
qb
(5,924 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Fear + ignorance = hatred
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)This would solve several problems, get him out of the church preaching hate and free the rest if us to tell the world what Jesus would do. It saddens me to hear this hate coming from someone who says he is a minister, more sharia law.
aeyster84
(1 post)Please sign and share this petition to stop this ludicrous planning of genocide to Gays & Lesbians! He should not be allowed to remain as a pastor for 1 more day!!!!!!
http://www.change.org/petitions/pastor-charles-l-worley-step-down-as-pastor-of-providence-road-baptist-church-in-north-carolina?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&utm_term=autopublish
krispos42
(49,445 posts)I'm a pro-gay-rights straight man, and I think about men boinking other men far less often that this "pastor" does.
I bet he secretly wants to put all the gays in a concentration camp so he can watch the giant gay sex orgy that his warped mind believes will happen. I betcha he secretly wants to be in the guard tower with the high-powered binoculars, all by his lonesome, too.
I've determined that if his man dies in a flaming car wreck tomorrow, I'm content with that.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)I think what he was publically describing IS a concentration camp.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)...that he wants to view the gay orgy IN the concentration camp!
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)after I posted. Sorry.
brooklynite
(94,679 posts)He's not proposing to STARVE the Gays, he wants to drop food to them from helicopters, and let them die naturally...
Doesn't that make it better?
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,375 posts)That man is more in need of a blowjob than any white man alive.
EC
(12,287 posts)born outside the fence no matter what? It's not something one catches or only born to other gays.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)He suggests that by separating the gay men from the lesbians, they'll be prevented from getting together and procreating more gays and lesbians.
However, the foundation of that argument is that homesexuality is a trait people have at birth, inherited from parents.
Whether he knows it or not, he's in direct opposition to the Fundy/Right Wing talking point that claims people just choose to be gay.
If people choose to be gay, then fencing in the current "choosers" would have not preclude straights outside the fence to then choose to be gay.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Someone must own some stock in an electric fence company.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Just like Santorum. It's 'picturing it' that they can't stop doing.
B2G
(9,766 posts)What a complete and total nutbag.
dems_rightnow
(1,956 posts)The whole thing was so outrageous, it didn't need selective editing. But the article intentionally skipped only the words where he said he'd feed them, twice, then put starved in the title.
That is a bizarre edit of a clip so sickening that it didn't need help.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)and that means that his church needs to be investigated by the IRS and start paying taxes. That is a no-no.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)He's just begging for it.
mythology
(9,527 posts)I have a friend who lives there and his life is hard enough just dealing with his cat who keeps trying to take over the world.
Bringing the hate pouring from this bigot's mouth to light is enough. His ilk will soon (although not soon enough) fade from relevance.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)AND wears a hood over his gagged mouth, so he can't talk and can't see what's around him.
That would be fun.
I have friends in the SF BDSM community who can do wonders with this guy.
He really needs to have the fear of God put into him.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Would make this world a happier place
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)dembotoz
(16,820 posts)but concentration camps
death camps
kind of fits
Bake
(21,977 posts)Bake
CRK7376
(2,203 posts)To be full of so many nutjobs? So frustrating! Earlier this month NC passed Amendment One to the State Constitution outlawing marriage for the LGBT, now this clown wants electrified fences to pen in those who are not like himself. Why NC, Why????
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)out with something just as nutty about LGBT or some group or another. And picking on women is a favorite pastime for KS government.
librechik
(30,676 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)There was a time when ornrey old coots like that were just casually laughed at and not taken seriously. For some reason people started listening to them and taking them seriously.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)But of course he will insist it has to do with what the Bible says.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)But has no problem and proposing to starve "lesbians, queers, and homosexuals" in concentration camps? Such a sensitive guy is the good Reverend Worley.
YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)...because in the Bible, they say to stone those people to death too...
derby378
(30,252 posts)I want to know how big his secret stash of lesbian porn really is. (I'll bet it's ginormous.)
YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)...like the anti-gay moron in the airport bathroom.
derby378
(30,252 posts)I just wish I could be there with camera in hand to catch him in the act. I'll probably vomit, but the Pulitzer will be worth it.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)to cover up their true sexual orientation, but no matter how public it is, no matter how much the world knows why they have this extreme hatred for LGBT, they continue at it ... yeah, like Wide-Stance Bathroom Stall Larry Craig. It gets so tiring hearing these haters go on and on, and hiding under the cloak of religion.
mythology
(9,527 posts)Most of the homophobic bigots are simply bigots, not closeted gays or lesbians. For example, I don't think we're going to be seeing Rick Santorum being caught in a homosexual relationship, and he thinks that two men is just like man on dog.
We remember specific examples like Larry Craig or Ted Haggard because they were so public.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)That seemed to always piss him off.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)sakabatou
(42,170 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)he should not pass Go!
But watch, nothing will happen to him.