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May 2nd, 2012
04:18 PM ET
North Carolina pastor retracts sermon remarks about punching gay kidsBy Stephen Walsh, CNN (CNN) - A Fayetteville, North Carolina, pastor has retracted controversial language used during a weekend sermon in which he instructed parents to hit children who exhibited behavior associated with homosexuality. “I apologize to anyone I have unintentionally offended,” Sean Harris, pastor of Berean Baptist Church wrote in a statement on his church’s website. “I did not say anything to intentionally offend anyone in the LGBT community. “My intent was to communicate the truth of the Word of God concerning marriage,” the statement continued. “My words were not scripted. It is unfortunate I was not more careful and deliberate.”
Harris’s remarks at his church came a week before the state’s voters consider an amendment to North Carolina’s constitution limiting legal unions to marriage between a man and a woman. CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories "The second you see your son dropping that limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist," Harris said in the Sunday sermon. "Man up. Give him a good punch." "You’re not going to act like that," the pastor advised parents to tell their children. "You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male.” In an interview with the Fayetteville Observer, Harris said his comments were meant as a joke. In a video of the sermon posted online, laughter can be heard from some members of the congregation, as well as cries, of “Amen!” as the pastor spoke about responding to seemingly gay kids. Follow the CNN Belief Blog on Twitter Berean Baptist explains its stance on discipline of children on its website: “Remembering the love and forgiveness that God has shown them, parents in turn should train their children with the purpose of reflecting the Heavenly Father to their children. Parents should consider their responsibility to be the instrument of discipline in their child’s life (Prov. 19:18). At times this may include appropriate and reasonable physical means (Prov. 10:13) employed upon the fleshy portion of the child’s buttocks (Prov. 22:15; 23:13); that this method is to be viewed as correction rather than punishment (Prov. 23:13); and that this correction will result in the child’s physical and spiritual betterment.” Harris told the Observer that from within his church, "the response was, 'Pastor, we know you didn't mean that.'" What do you think? Watch the above video to hear Harris’s remark and leave your comments below. soundoff (2,325 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 Next »
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Yet another non-apology from the self-righteous right. Save your breath, jerk. Nobody with any brains is buying what you're trying to sell.
Man I can't believe god was so anti-gay when he wrote the Bible.
What's that? The Bible wasn't written by god? It was written by man? Greedy, self-serving, fallible, mentally corruptible man?
Oh, that makes a lot more sense.
If I ever see this guy walking down the street I'm going to punch him right in the face.
II guess Baptists need to go the same way as the dumb donkey pope is taking catholics, as he shields the pedophiles from jjustice. where is the vaticans vow of poverty ? Sell the treasures and feed the poor, you jack offs !
Today's christian boogeyman being the great Satan, that old serpentile creature, the devil-in-waiting has been thrown out and replaced with ego-centric ideologies of bad guys pletheras and super-heor condoms' referential commodities! We are awashed and fraternized with conscriptured designs of Tv blarneystones and accolades of high-def movies to go watch! All in ever to satisfy the masses children of mustard seeds pacificationed lots! Only the ones nowadays with oodles of money have their children do things beyond today's averaged people who have little left over money from week to week! Who really are the dopes on ropes? Is wanting to stay entertained a mentalism or are some doing physicalities in tandem? Wii is for thee!
He did not intend to offend anyone. Yeah, right. His humor is lacking no matter what he claims. He is calling for punching a child that may or may not be gay. Where does he stand on forcing your left handed child to become right handed? How does he comfort parents of suicides after they have followed his advise and hit their kids?
ANOTHER RIGHT WINGNUT WHO NOT ONLY THUMP'S THE BIBLE ,BUT WANT'S EVERYONE TO THUMP THEIR CHILDREN IN THE MEAN TIME.AND I DON'T FOR A MINUTE BELIEVE HIS EXPLANATION TALK ABOUT A HYPOCRITE!!!!!
So he retracted his sermon remarks.
That's like pulling out and saying it wasn't r@pe.
Regardless, Harris provides more evidence that religion is a filthy, disgusting disease of the mind.
Only a qu eer would see truth as dirty. Diseased ? Thanks for AIDS, f aggot.
Actually, by your logic, your loving god created AIDS so thank it.
@pervert alert
Do you walk down the street with "Pervert Alert" written on your tee-shirt? If so, people might get the opposite idea of what you are trying to project. Then you'd get a beating from those who get what you mean and those that get the wrong message. No wonder you are so bitter.
Actually, the pervert in this story is a preacher suggesting you beat a child because he was born different than what you want.
didn't jesus beat up the adultress about to get stoned??.....
what bugs me more than A holes like this "preacher" doing this FOR MONEY in the name of GOD (Ttaking the lords name in vain????) is that some of you just lap it up and think HE is saying the words of god
this guy and his ilk are snake oil salesmen and you are fools
and no I'm not an atheist but your welcome to call me what ever names you wish
Wasn't this the same guy who in another time, advocated hanging blacks and burning Jews? The message seems eerily familiar " and god said ..."
Christians are CRAZY!
Religionists need to spend more time in therapy, working on their irrational beliefs in the supernatural. Surely there's a cure for this nonsense!
Religion is the root of all evil.
Speaking of roots, how about ho mo se xuals the people that unleashed the Aids epidemicon the world?
Are you hom.ophobic? Maybe you're gay
remove the period in the link between the m and o to read the article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/hom.ophobic-maybe-youre-gay.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
gay is a word stolen by ho mo se xuals to try to hide their dirty disgusting sins. Using the word "gay" doesn't fool anyone but the qu eers that stole it in the first place. Ho mo se x uals the folks that gave AIDS to the world.
Pervert Alert,
You should definitely read the article. It's ok. Be yourself. You only live once.
Prayer changes things .
Prayer is evidence of serious mental issues
It appears to be a false just sayin post
If you need god to be a good person, do you really deserve to be in heaven as you see it? You just follow orders out of fear and desire for a reward. Like a dog
That's not an apology. An apology takes ownership of the transgression. Not only did he advocate corporal punishment on chlidren, he believes that being gay is punishible. What a stupid moron. Religion has been twisted into something evil. All of 'em.
It is!!!!!!!!!
Actually it is beyond stupid, it is dangerous.
These religionists get nuttier and nuttier. Somebody needs to tell this idiot it's not 1842 anymore!
“Bring Rusty to me!
Yeah, yeah, wait out in the lobby; c’mere Rusty.
First off,
(beating sounds)
YOU'RE A DOG, G*&DAMMIT!
YOU'RE A F***ING DOG!!!
YOU SHIRT IN THE YARD!
BARK, YOU LITTLE F***ER!
Yeah, listen, we had a real good session, Rusty really opened up!
You can tell, he’s a sparky dog again!
That’ll be two hundred bucks, thank you now.”
Cause it wasnt even remotely humorous when you did it.
When I "did" it ?
Ummmm, isn't publicly advocating and encouraging violence, assault and CHILD ABUSE a crime?!?!?! Someone should call the Fayetville D.A.'s office and find out why they aren't investigating this and how this tool can still be walking the streets ...