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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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Yes he'll pray for them but let him kill them first. Wondered why they still keep him at that church! I'd be so ashamed just keep going there. What a demon!!!
Jesus is Lord
And this is what Jesus advocated? Hell of Christian you are, But wait, you are a Christian like all the others, mislead, misguided and misinformed and on top of that your a HYPOCRITE.
But where do you think Jesus would side in this?
Well that solves everything. Perhaps he just hasn't noticed all the crime and hate and here. A quick phone call and he'll fix it.
The Jesus I know in my heart would never turn on his fellow man. He may not like it but would still embrace them.
Can a person be against gay and weird stuff without being labeled hateful.
Sure. But, the moment you try and pass laws denying gay people rights, or acting like the fool in the video, or targeting people in any way because they're different? That's hateful. Are you getting the picture?
Well, Jesus was against a lot of "weird" stuff: unforgiveness, judgmentalism, pride, anger (equating it to murder), hatred... Personally, my favorite parable is of the Great Banquet. All of the people who were 'invited' to heaven (the ones filling up the pews) make excuses why they can't come right then. So, the king tells his servants to go out in the street and invite anyone who will come.
Now, that's heaven: a place where people who are treated like dirt down here are treated like children of God.
Practicing Christians, take note.
The rest of us know that most of you aren't like this guy, but there are enough of you who are like this guy for us to always stand against turning religious beliefs in to state policies.
"The rest of us know that most of you aren't like this guy" Are you for real? They ALL approve of this.
No. They don't, and by believing that and spreading that message, you're just like the worst of them.
As a practicing Christian, I agree with you.
@Bible Clown.
Seriously?
There are enough guys like this to give all Christians a very bad name. Why is it that mostly left to complete non-believers to draw criticism to people like this? Aren't you moderates as outraged as we are?
I come from a long line of Catholics and many of us are fed up with the priests using the pulpit for a political candidate. I was sadden when some of the most Catholic among us stopped going to church after the Pope and Bishops went after the Nuns for helping the poor too much and not going after gay marriage and abortion. It's a real shame how the GOP has bought out the church.
its laughable ...Did he forget these gays came from straights, he sounds angry like he might be gay and mad about it to me...
END TAX EXEMPT STATUS FOR ALL RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS!!!
good idea..
End tax exempt status for any organization that lobbies.
Absolutely. Backdated charges would be good too.
That will never happen; they own us.
@ Mystic. To be truly saved you need to be born again and have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Someone who is repeately/deliberately sinning should be "Convicted by the Holy Spirit" and unable to continue to do horrid things. Someone who is going through the Christian motions and thinking they can game the system will be surely disappointed in the end. You can't fool God either you have accepted Jesus and follow him or you don't. We all sin... but saved Christians should be striving with the "Help of the Holy Spirit" to sin less and become better people. We are human and we fail sometimes. There are many people who are Christians who will be told by Jesus in the end... "I never knew you". Very scary and sad.
Awfully arrogant purporting to speak for God, David
Nice fantasy....
Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose.
Do you think this pastor sinned when he said these things?
Sam everything I have written is Biblically sound. I believe the Bible is God's word. If I have written some the contradicts scripture, show me.
And then some Tsunami comes along and everyone is gone.
Nowhere in your bible does your god condemn the saved loving respectful relationship of a gay couple as we know and understand sexual orientation today. Only prejudice people read that into the scriptures.
This guy and all like him are a complete joke. He should be ignored.
Tea Party Racists Cowards. . . He's so ignorant that he cannot even speak the english language. This is who the South looks to for leadership?? Way to go Norf Shackelacky. You shine as a bastion of Christian morals and Southern culture.
And Yes this guy does represent you as the last election proves.
@ religion; a way to control the weak minded
Keeping the "weak minded" under controlling forces is yes a religious venue where the laws of the land should be grateful and many people ought to understand this! Without religious amplitudes the "stringfellows" could not be played right!
and without "religious amplitudes" we wouldn't have the discrimination, bigotry and hate we have today.
Please explain why the "laws of the land should be grateful". Actually, religion should be grateful for the laws of the land giving them tax exempt status and allowing sick, per...ver...ted, pastors get away with se...x...ual mo..le...st...at..ion of 10 year old boys for decades.
This guy should get together with Fred Phelps. I bet they'd get along swell.
There is a church on every corner of every street in this state. No wonder everybody is broke and crying poverty.
so true, why are the jesus lovers always so screwed up, and come from the poor areas ...pretty sure god thinks they a bunch of idiots and he likes people that can think for themselves..
the diffrence between genius and stupidity is stupidity has no limits
Preaches hate and killing... How very Christian of him. He's just like all the others.
Love it when good christians complain that CNN is covering this. So a pastor wishing to put 5% of the population in a concentration camp is not newsworthy?
And he is "not a christian". Sure, bin Laden was not a muslim either.
"Sure, bin Laden was not a muslim either."
Very good point. Even the Scots have some kinsmen that they're not proud of, but nobody can deny that they're still Scots.
Wow.. so this guy wants me dead in a few years. He is why I no longer believe in organized religion. It's man trying to control man – not teaching God's love. I hope the church loses tax-exempt status for talking about who not to vote for from the pulpit. Churches need to stay out of politics if they like the tax-exempt status separation of church and state gives them.
Why would a gay person or a woman want to believe in this POS of a god anyway?
The God I believe in loves me very much and will certainly send d-bags like this guy to Hell where he belongs!
You don't believe in religion because of one bad guy? That's like saying you don't like eating because you don't like eating because you ate a rotten piece of fruit once. Pretty closed minded
After they round up the gays and put them into concentration camps, who do you suppose they'd come for next? Hitler would be proud.
This Pastor is assbackwards
I am sure there is gay escort out there who knows this pastor personally.