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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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I just want to wake up one of these mornings to the news that this jerk has lost his tax-exempt status.
Killing, maiming, and demeaning in the name of God seems to be a universal religious theme.
So how does fencing off a whole population of people save their souls? This guy is the epitome of evil.
what's with the MacDonald front page CNN?
I'm againt it!!
Isn't this criminal hate speech? If I said to same with blacks, I'd be in trouble. I think we should put all the baptist ministers in an electrically fenced swamp and let them die in there. God is pretend, gay is OK. This guy and his ilk are sick.
Why would he keep the lesbians and the gay men in seperate areas?
You sound surprised. The guy sounds dumb as a bag of hair. "I'm AGIN it."
Religion is the basis for all this hate. Once humanity outgrows that nonsense then we can truly move forward as a species.
Amen Brother
Both Christians and Mormons are cults.
All religions are cults
I feel like I should be surprised by this, but I'm not. Business as usual. "I think my book of fairy tales says this so it must be so."
I wonder how people like this minister can look at themselves in the mirror each day. What a hateful, shameful performance.
@Tom Tom
I think you have forgotten the fact that these losers and their delusions "forgive" them for their hate. It such a crock that they can pretend that a delusion will forgive them but that's the heart of this pandemic.
Something is REALLY wrong with some North Carolina people. How could anybody sit down in any church and listen to a pastor preaching hate. It is shocking how some parts of America are still so behind with the rest of the nation. I will be sure North Carolina is not in my vacation plans.
America is a Nation of Gullible and Hateful christians. Suck it up!
This so called Church is nothing more than a terrorist group and should be checked on by the FBI
Probably will be now.
You've come a long way baby!
I am struck almost speechless by some of the comments here in support of this pastor. Where exactly do you think gay people come from? Hint: each gay person has a biological mother and father.
Meet Mitt Romney's new running mate.
He's funny. He should do stand-up. GAY POWER!!
Everyone should start taking cell phone cameras to church. We need to expose these clubs.
this man is so right.he's who we need for our next president.i'll vote for him.
Not a very effective troll. Either try harder, or just give it up.
Watch out! You and yours might fall victim to his next target practice.
He is so right . I will too vote for him ..
Twelve-year-olds don't have a vote, IS dummy.
Kind of hard to vote for someone when you will probably inside the fence
Hatred will consume us all if you let it.
This works both ways. Ignore this man's hatred, and do not use it as an excuse to hate others, such as all Christians, either.
Give us a break! Every Christian would help him beat this gay bashing drum if there were enough sticks. It used to be that they would only vote for anti gay politicians and let them do the dirty work. Now that their anti gay politicians are largely ineffective, they are consumed with anxiety and making last ditch desperate pleas to convince a dying breed to take back the country that they always thought was theirs and theirs alone.
@Divine
You just proved David's point.
God bless the ignorants and let us all gays and lesbians pray for this pastor soul (if he have one) so god can forgive him for taking his place as a judge. Also let's forgive him because us "gays" don't like hate and that we are symbols of HOPE...no one have more hope and patience like us...look how far we have come 🙂
Wow, looks like Romney just picked up the endorsement of yet another ignorant, hate-filled, lunatic.
Romney is going to need "his kind" of votes.
Sounds alot like Westboro Baptist Church.
Close, but WBC is much too in love with the laws of this world to make such specific suggestions. They might say that, "God hates fa.gs," but not that we should lock them up. Too close to incitement, I would think.