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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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Please don't think all North Carolinians are like this gentleman.
-a proud Tar Heel
Gentleman? I too am from NC and this bafoon is what causes the stereotypes. I'm an atheist BTW just in case some are under the impression there aren't free thinkers down here.
Wow. Just...wow.
Freedom of speech all gays are disgusting.
You seem very afraid of people who are different from yourself...
Freedom of speech: You're an intolerant moron with no respect for other people.
Ignorant people are scary.
GOD made man in HIS image...gay and straught bozo.
Religion is the true poison in this world and you are proof!
And you're garbage. Not "all" anything. Just YOU.
The reason he's not afraid: He has a night light in the closet.
If you weren't afraid of something it wouldn't even occur to you to name yourself "notafraid".
I am ashamed to be a part of a society and country where people are still so intollerant of people different then themselves.
Kudos to those who will protest next Sunday.
I got money that says this guy has "secret" house parties with little boys
Welcome to middle / southern America folks! These are uneducated slow pokes, I wish they were as concerned about their own speech impediments as they are about gay people. I had a hard to understanding that red neck idiot.. did anyone else? Was he chewing Tabasco up there?
Pot, meet kettle.
Dear Pastor "Not So Bright" Worley,
o "Abrahamics" like you believe that their god created all of us and of course that includes the g-ay members of the human race. Also, those who have studied ho-mo-se-xuality have determined that there is no choice involved therefore ga-ys are ga-y because god made them that way.
To wit:
1. The Royal College of Psy-chiatrists stated in 2007:
“ Despite almost a century of psy-choanalytic and psy-chological speculation, there is no substantive evidence to support the suggestion that the nature of parenting or early childhood experiences play any role in the formation of a person’s fundamental heteros-exual or hom-ose-xual orientation. It would appear that s-exual orientation is biological in nature, determined by a complex interplay of ge-netic factors and the early ut-erine environment. Se-xual orientation is therefore not a choice.[60] "
2. "Garcia-Falgueras and Swaab state in the abstract of their 2010 study, "The fe-tal brain develops during the intraut-erine period in the male direction through a direct action of tes-tosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hor-mone surge. In this way, our gender identi-ty (the conviction of belonging to the male or female gender) and s-exual orientation are programmed or organized into our brain structures when we are still in the womb. There is no indication that social environment after birth has an effect on gender ident–ity or s-exual orientation."[8
3. See also the Philadelphia Inquirer review “Gay Gene, Deconstructed”, 12/12/2011. Said review addresses the following “How do genes associated with ho-mose-xuality avoid being weeded out by Darwinian evolution?”
So if we take the existing gays and wipe them out no one else will become gay? So it's not a choice?
"So if we take the existing gays and wipe them out no one else will become gay? So it's not a choice?"
LOL! Some people can't grasp the concept that straights have gay children. LOL!
Um, Jack? Your post is rooted in logic. You know if these fundiots try and cypher out what you meant, their foreheads will explode. I, for one, refuse to clean up the resulting goo.
My new motto – You make 'em explode, you squeegee it up!
I am a secular person. I don't let religion interfere or have any impact in my life if at all possible. I know good, caring, loving people who are also secular individuals. When I want to look at the spread of hatred and intolerance, I only need to look at the church In today's news it just happens to be the Baptist church. Gotta love religion.
We have "manifested oreintations" in which all societal complexities of situational life orders may be ordained from. I am just a "s.e.x.u.a.l heteralist" due certain manifestations oreintated throughout my ongoing social complexisms! To say differently would be lying and not worth its' weightiness! A gay individual likewise is gay due their manifestations' oreintationed societal complexities surmized in their life's livelihoods keeping. S.e.x.u.a.l.i.s.m is a socal oreintation the same way religion is a socially oreintated construct, Without society we could not orientate our life upon or against a model of constructivism therefore social oreintations are the mainframes of individualities!
I'm not truly against sodomy! I just hate its' deviancies and rather vile corruptives!
Someone needs an English lesson.
Could you post that in English?
@ SeilnoigileR
Yes teacher! Right away! Teach and preach to me the ways of phonetics and its mundane complexities for I want to be a phenominal writer of distinction!
@ Patrick
And could you stay in school to learn of the phonetical ways of writing? Dictionaries are not the all of all! Idiot wants are below my wanton meandering ways!
You're all vocab and zero grammar. Pretty hard to follow.
@a serpents ...You just appear to be a pompous bung hole
"Could you post that in English?"
It's called pseudointellectual.
It's made up vocab though. Complexisms isn't a word. Heteralist isn't a word. Weightiness is a ridiculous redundancy. Constructivsm and Corruptives are both used incorrectly.
Try just writing the way you talk...because I know no one on this planet talks like that.
Shhhhh – this just another of "god's oldest dreamer" fake ID sockpuppet. Don't feed the fûcking troll and he'll get board and move on.
God is "agin" it. How sad and how ridiculous. Talk about making a fool of yourself on the national stage.
He's probably a descendant of slave owners.
I say as many people as possible need to descend on that church this coming Saturday. If you are in the S.E. United States I urge you to drive, bus, walk or fly and join the protestors Saturday at this hate church. This man (who is probably gay himself and hates himself so much he says these things, much like HItler) needs to see the numbers of people in this country that will stand up and say no, we will not accept this hate speech and we will shut you down. You can easily google the directions to this church and join the protest this Saturday! This man, is not a christian nor does he represent the majority of christians in this country. We need to all come together to send that message loud and clear, the more people there the more media we will get.
Sunday. No one will be there on Saturday.
Wow. my grammar is even gooder than his grammar.
It is the Bestest there ever will be!
AMEN!!
Dear Pastor Charles L. Worley. Hope you don't mind but I just posted an invitation on the Huffington Gay Voices for all the Gay population of NC to attend your service this upcoming Sunday. Better get some folding chairs.
There is actually a protest already started on Facebook. 🙂
To show up or just to express displeasure?
Don’t you know the game? Anytime a Christian (or Muslim for that matter) does something another person from their religion disagrees with..then they are not a ‘real’ Christian (or Muslim) never mind they both believe and worship the same deity. It is only the posters interpretation and opinion of the ‘right way’ to be a Christian (or Muslim) that matters. Just as if you asked the WBC about these jebus is love posters.. THEY are not real Christians. It’s yet another form of cherry picking.
But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say they are Gay or Straight. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Wow, a religious leader that hates people? I've never experience such a thing.
THIS JUST IN!
Rain makes things wet!
Even though I'm an atheist, I'd like to believe that there is a hell for people like this
I'd bet that's why many are christian .. they like the idea of hell for those they don't like.
I suspect you're right, some aspects of Xtianity just read like a cosmic revenge fantasy
There is. For them, it's called living.
Alcoholic pastor? He keeps talkin' bout a -Guiness... you a GUiness, I'm a guiness... making me thirsty!
Nice.