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May 22nd, 2012
11:23 AM ET
Video of North Carolina pastor's plan to 'get rid of' gays goes viralBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) - Video of a North Carolina pastor preaching that gays and lesbians should be rounded up inside an electric fence is going viral on the Internet, two weeks after North Carolina passed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and President Barack Obama voiced personal support for legalizing such marriages. "I figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers, but I couldn't get it past the Congress," Pastor Charles L. Worley can be seen telling his Providence Road Baptist Church congregation in the video, which had more than 250,000 YouTube views by Tuesday. "Build a great big, large fence - 50 or a 100 miles long - and put all the lesbians in there,” Worley went on to say in his May 13 sermon at his Maiden, North Carolina, church. “Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence electrified so they can't get out. Feed them. And you know in a few years, they'll die out. You know why? They can't reproduce." My Take: The Bible condemns a lot, but here's why we focus on homosexuality The video had initially been posted on Providence Road’s website but was recently taken down, according to CNN affiliate WBTV-TV in Charlotte. The phone line at Worley’s church was busy on Monday night and on Tuesday, as was Worley’s home number on Tuesday. The church’s website was down Tuesday morning, but it had described the house of worship as fundamentalist, meaning it represents a Baptist tradition that's more conservative than the Southern Baptists. My Take: The Christian case for gay marriage Worley’s sermon was posted on YouTube by a group called Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate, which is organizing a protest at the Providence Road Baptist Church on Sunday. Addressing his congregation last Sunday, Worley referred to his earlier controversial sermon. "I talked a little bit, I believe it was last Sunday, on the homosexual lifestyle, and there was a whole lot of people who didn't like what I said," Worley told his congregation Sunday, according to WBTV. "I want to read it out of the Bible, and then we'll go from there." CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories “Listen, all of the Sodomites, the lesbians, and all of the ... what's that word? Gays - I didn't wanna say 'queers' - that say we don't love you, I love you more than you love yourself,” Worley said, according to WBTV. “I'm praying for you to be saved." Worley’s initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, was working Tuesday to gather criticism of Worley’s comments from other North Carolina pastors. “I am angry and sick at heart over Pastor Worley's comments,” said the Rev. Dennis Teall-Fleming, pastor at Open Hearts Gathering in Gastonia, North Carolina, in a statement distributed by GLAAD. “Nothing he says has anything to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” said Teall-Fleming, who leads a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregation. “I call on all Christian and Baptist organizations that have any connection with him to condemn his comments as strongly as I do, including Providence Road Baptist Church of Maiden.” soundoff (5,806 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 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 Next » |
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Do Democrats really want to bring up Pastors? Wright anybody? He doesn't single gays, just the entire country.
He's not prejudiced. He hates everybody.
I think the Democrats would like for the Republicans to go on a hate filled campaign against Rev. Wright.
Was Rev. Wright calling for violence, or just criticizing America?
Is he advocating concentration camp for gays and lesbians? Isn't that against any American laws?
That's the beauty of the freedom of religion. When your religion is based on a book whose first half and scattered parts of the second half is morally appalling, you can say anything you like about a topic and you get to be backed by "God."
Another example of how far away from Christian teachings to so called Evangelicals have fallen. Note that they are silent on divorce which is clearly forbidden in the New Testament
They cheat with the other gay men too, but they don't want to talk about it.
Well Skip, as a Christian I agree with you 100%. It seems that Christians like to be very vocal about some things but quite silent about others. This man's rant is an indictment against the church and every Christian leader in America should publicly disagree with him. It needs to be shown that he does not represent Christians and he certainly does not speak for God.
David M, that is a bit of a cop out. Whenever one Christian says something another Christian disagrees with, you step up and say, "Oh he doesn't represent the idea of a *true* Christian" or some such nonsense. What amount of cherry-picking scripture from the Bible does it take to be a true Christian these days? Because it seems most of you ignore a wide majority of the scriptures we're supposedly commanded to follow. What makes your way correct?
Hey bananaspy...I don't completely disagree with you. The problem with Christians today is that they do like to pick and chose which scriptures to follow. But that does not make it right. It's really quite simple. God was very clear when he said we are to seek justice, encourage the oppressed, defend the cause of the fatherless, and plead the case of the widow.
I don't agree with the gay lifestyle, but that does not give me the right to condemn them, either. I would not hesitate to step in if a gay man was being assaulted by someone or was being subjected to all kinds of verbal abuse. To not step in would be to overlook the oppressed. It's pretty sad that people outside the church understand the teaching of Jesus better than those inside the church.
Let's pray the gay away!
Do you mean "prey the gay away"?
I thank Gawd the day I left the South and never looked back. Unfortunately it wasn't until my mid 20's, but hey, never too late!
BTW ....God throw sinners following Moses worshiping golden cow straight into hell.
Have you watch 10 commendment movie?
Just a electric fence is already nice to them.
lol.
I don't base my theology or view of God on a movie.
This is nothing new for hateful Christians. That's alright. I hate Christians back as much as they hate me. It is a direct proportion.
This is not the view of all Christians. True Christians do not judge, and embrace all people. Unfortunatly, like any other good thing in this world, faith can be perverted into something hateful and disgusting when it is coupled with ignorance and fear. I don't pretend to know what God intends, or how he will judge any of us. I only know that his Son taught us to embrace all people, because we are all sinners, whether we know it or not. Personally, I believe we will be judged as much by how we treat others, as by how we conduct our own lives.
What about us Christians that don't hate you? This clown does not speak for me in any way. He's flat wrong and he cannot justify from the Bible his rant about gays. Based on what he had to say, I have every right to think he's no Christian at all. Just a pretender, and a pretty sorry one at that.
While you wait for your judgement day, can you talk to your hateful Christian brethren. Ask them to stop using the government to project their hate to the rest of society.
LeeCMH...it's people like this "pastor" that I would like to put against a wall. His viewpoint is shared by a small minority. The problem is, it gets the most attention. That's due in no small part to the church not speaking out against people like this, not practicing the love that Jesus taught, and not being the kind of people the Bible instructs us to be. There will come a day of reckoning for that and it won't be pretty!
The church doesn't have to teach it, David M. It's in the Bible. Which every Christian, I assume, is supposed to be reading. The one and only book that matters, yeah? Yet you pick it up, and in one verse he's telling you to love thy neighbor, and in the next he's telling you to stone disobedient children (yes, that is in the Old Testament and if you think you aren't bound to Old Testament law read Matthew 5:17 – 20).
While I'm glad you don't subscribe to that way of thinking, it's very easy for anyone to preach this way because humanity is now stuck with this ridiculous book that people claim came from god's mouth
Rather hateful man to be leading a congregartion, hopefully they have the good sense to ask him to remove himself.
The congregation is just as hateful as he is. They let out a loud a-men when the hateful Christian made his wretched comments. I lived in North Carolina during the Jesse Helms years. They are very hateful people.
They shouldn't "ask him to remove himself". They need to fire him. It should not be his choice.
And people in the church don't understand why Americans are staying away from church in droves. I'm a Christian, but this guy is over the top. He needs to be condemned for pretending to speak for God. He speaks for no one but himself, and based on this bit of ranting, I have every right to doubt he is actually a Christian.
Don't judge all Christians by this one pretender looking for his 5 minutes of fame.
Why does this church have a tax exempt status when he is making very deliberate political statements from the pulpit?
High Five!
LIKE!
Hitler is smiling in his grave knowing his ideas still live.
Let's do that for all the hateful people. Because then, maybe, they won't be able to teach it to anyone else.
Hey, a**hole, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. But, SHOCK, because you are so idiotic and pathetic, you fail to realize that God loves everyone, and that gay people aren't diseased or odd or full of some weird juice. We are who we are! We will continue to happen until humans are no more.
I pray for people like you, who are so hateful, and judge everyone, that you are able to be saved. Although, guess what, I won't judge you.
Tax these churches!
Being GAY is SICK. Think about what it is to be Gay. A Gay person Sticks his Weiner in the Bung Hole of another person. That is what Gay is.......... Sick.
The word has LOST the description of what the ACT of being Gay is!
May I suggest you check out about a dozen straight X DVDs...youl will see you "normal" people have stolen the gays act...and it's become the hole of choice.
Why do you spend so much time thinking about what gay people do in their bedrooms?
Face it, Jim..........you crave penis.
Sounds like you've really thought about this. A lot.
Is that really what lesbians do? Is that really what it is all about? Jim, you must be the best educated person in your family.. did your mommy/sister encourage you to get a better education then her brother/husband so that you as their son would be the thinker of the family?
I disagree. I hate Jims.
A bunch of lesbians in a cage? I think I've seen that video ...
Hil-freaking-larious.
You can tell how uneducated he is by the way he murders the English language. What this idiot doesn't understand is that even you implemented this sick plan gays would still exist. Why? Because straight people give birth to gay children!!!
sounds like a joke, but everyone has a right to their own opinion
Yes, you are correct. Everyone has a right to his or her own hateful opinion. Hitler had an opinion about the Jews that also involved containment. We should just ignore this and move on.
I thought the bible said something along the lines of "do unto others as you would have done to you" ?
Praise the Lord!
Oh wait... If I recall correctly, the Bible contains multiple references to "love thy neighbor" (Leviticus, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, James) and "do unto others".
So how does this jibe with that?
Good (selective) Christians...