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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'M A BIG DUMB IDIOT. ANYONE NOTICE?
Bobb, Bobb, Bobb... Why don't you leave CNN and go back to FOX News. It will go a long way towards raising the average IQ of both sites...
THANK YOU FOR FOX NEWS. YOU HAVE PROVIDED THIS WORLD A GREAT SERVICE BY OFFERING EVERYONE A BALANCED NEWS SOURCE.
People, this Tiddell character is just trolling, wanting to get a rise out of you. Just ignore him and let him go on with what must be a miserable life. An no, Bob, I'm not going to be baited either.
THANK YOU FOR BEING BAITED, MASTER. THE CUP IS FULL AND SHALL BE SENT OFF FOR TESTS.
BTW, I'M A COMPLETE IDIOT.
I say live and let live...but if were gonna put someone behind electrified fences lets put the pedophile preists and the higher ups who allow the abuse to continue without punishment.
THANK YOU FOR OFFERING YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO TEST OUT THESE NEW PRISON CAMPS. THE CHILDREN SHALL REJOICE.
Actually gay men who are living in denial married to women (or who run and hide in the Priesthood) have stunted $exual attractions to children because they repressed their $exuality so that it didn't develop normally – they are high risk for molesting children.
To the extent which someone represses their $exuality, there will be a proportional lack of age progression in their $exual attractions. To the extent which someone represses their $exuality, there will be a proportional increase in obsession with their $exuality. Common sense Modern Psychology works much better than the bible.
An advantage for a straight man when another man is gay is that there are more women availiable for the straight man. The straight man has to pick up the stack left behind by the gay man. THis is specially true for marriend men who live in the closet.
Hey, even lesbians need help from a straight man every now and then.
It's hard work but someone has to provide the ladies with some hot penis.
THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING MEN AND WOMEN PLENTY OF HOT WANG. THE PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE MAILED TO FOX NEWS.
I'M AN IDIOT. ANYONE NOTICE?
STOP MOCKING ME!
NOW I'M ARGUING WITH MYSELF!
I'M TOTALLY NUTS!
BUGGA BUGGA BUGGA BUGGA BOO BOO BOO!
HA! NOW YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A BIGGER IDIOT THAT I ALREADY AM?
YOU DIDN'T EVEN HAVE MY NAME RIGHT!
THERE IS ONLY ONE IDIOT ON THIS POST - AND IT'S ME!!!
BUGGA GUBBA!
I'M THE REAL BOB TIDDELL AND I'M THE REAL IDIOT!
Horrible speech. And I support traditional marriage and new testament christianity.
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING MYTHOLOGY. THE GREEKS WILL BE PLEASED TO LEARN OF THIS GREAT NEWS.
Why don't you support Old Testament Christianity when this New Testament verse says the following about the Old Testament scriptures?
2 Timothy 3:15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Patrick:
Simple; New Testament Christianity embraces old Testament Christianity. I completely agree with you.
@Michael – So do you embrace this?
Leviticus 25:44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
Exodus 21:20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and r@pes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
YOU MUST FORGIVE ME FOR MY INANE POSTS. I'M AN IDIOT.
You're pure troll.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVING ADMIRATION. I SHALL THINK OF IT AS I CHOKE DOWN A BOX OF IMODIUM LATER BECAUSE MY POSTERIOR HAS BEEN HACKING UP COFFEE INTO THE TOILET ALL NIGHT. I DON'T EVEN DRINK COFFEE AND IT'S SO BAD I AM AFRAID TO FART.
NOT EVEN A GOOD TROLL. I'M WAY TOO DUMB.
Wouldn't you agree?
If I ever see this man in public I plan on giving him a good kick in the nuts.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVING NATURE AND DESIRE TO CARESS THE OLD MAN'S TAINT. YOUR STORY SHALL BE CHERISHED BY CHILDREN FOREVER.
AND IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY FIGURED IT OUT, I'M AN IDIOT.
Dear Pastor "Not So Bright"/"Red Neck" Worley,
(ONLY FOR THE NEW MEMBERS)
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?”
(Note: some words hyphenated to defeat the moderators "secret" word/fragment filter.)
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TO WIT. IT SHALL BE RECORDED UPON GOLDEN TABLETS AND TRANSLATED BY A CON ARTIST 10 YEARS FROM NOW.
So many Christians....so few lions. So much for tolerance right hypoctrits? To all who think this is a left wing conspiracy to steer the conversation away from the economy: This has been going on for much longer than the last couple months. Wake up and smell the Santorum.
THANK YOU FOR BEING A CLASSIC CHRISTIAN JEHOVAH'S WITNESS MORMON BAPTIST CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOY. I SHALL PRAISE THE LORD POSEIDON IN YOUR BLESSED NAME.
If you took all the straight men and women into two separate (females in one and the males in another) electrifried fence detention area (compounds) and just droped food into them, wouldn't they die out just the same way as gay/lesbian people?
What's the different? Maybe the straight people will become gay?
Wait a minute. We do have such places. THey're called prisons.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ENTHUSIASTIC USE OF THE WORD "DROPED." I SHALL ADD IT TO THE DICTIONARY AND CREATE A DEFINITION FOR IT.
And, of course, there's the little fact that the VAST majority of gay folks are born to straight parents......
Except that prisons don't turn straight people gay.
PRISONS DO TURN PEOPLE GAY, AND THE MAJORITY OF PRISONERS ARE ALSO CHRISTIANS. SO THAT SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING.
No prisons don't turn people gay. 5% of the prison population is gay when they get there, just like 5% of any population. Another 5% of the population is bi $e xual, just like any population. While many of the bi $e xuals have hetero relationships on the outside, they have ho mo $e xual relationships in prison. Then there's about 20% of the population that are $e xu al maniacs who think they have to have $ ex with something...and they usually line up for the prison trans gen der that does it for books of stamps (prison currency) as they imagine that they're with a female. That's hardly ho mo $e xual if they're with someone that looks very much like a female fantasizing that they're with a female. They don't pursue ho mo $e xual relations when they leave prison.
YOU ARE A LIAR.
Me? Where did I lie? Let's see your knowledge of specifically what happens in prisons.
They were called concentration camps
They were called concentration camps
I dont believe this pastor is getting away with it.
Wake up America.
@Patrick
I'd love to know where you plucked your figures from, because most scientific studies seem to suggest that the majority (between 60% and 80% depending on the study) of the population are actually bise.xual in that they are attracted to members of both se.xes (although a large majority of these people never cross into acting on any same-s.ex attractions)
It seems that "100% straight" and "100% g.ay" people are the minority at under 10% each.
It's also worth noting that ho.mose.xual behaviour has been witnessed throughout every species except those that produce ase.xually or are hermaphrodites (eg, earthworms), which are obviously exempt from this categorisation.
Comment on discussion that pastors have no right to discuss political issues with congregation YET your Ms Orman on the View sat and told the audience they needed to vote for Obama (which even shocked Barbara). Entertainers use their power of tv so why point fingers???Question...how often do you read your bible?
THANK YOU FOR COMPARING A RELIGIOUS MORON WITH A MEDIA MORON THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER. YOU SHALL FIND YOUR WORDS IN A DUMPSTER SOMEWHERE. NEXT TO A BABY I PRESUME SINCE THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE LIKE TO THROW THEM.
When I started actually reading the bible is when I lost faith since it condones slavery(Lev. 25:44), beating slaves(Exodus 21:20), incest(Genesis 19:33-36), r@pe victims being required to marry the r@pist(Deuteronomy 22:28-29), treating women and children as property(Genesis 19:8, 1 Timothy 2:11-14, 1 Corinthians 14:33-35), requires battered women to remain married to abusive husbands(Matthew 19:9, 1 Corinthians 7:10-12), condones jihad type warfare where all children are ki11ed save the virgins who are a 'reward'(Numbers 31:15), and makes no mention at all of child molestation, the worst possible crime.
Someone definitely threw you when you were a baby, Babb.....
my bible is included in my home library in it's rightful place.............. the fiction section.
THANK YOU FOR KEEPING CLASSIC NOVELS ALIVE. YOUR BIOGRAPHY SHALL BE FILED ON MY BOOK SHELF NEXT TO JUMANJI AND THAT BOX OF HUSTLER MAGAZINES THAT NO LONGER OPEN.
Because churches hold 501c3 tax exempt status. This means they are specifically excluded from endorsing any political candidate, or specifically saying not to vote for a candidate.
let's see.................. the next step in this story will be, the good pastor will be interviewed saying he was "misunderstood", or he'll be caught tapping his foot under a mens room stall. conservatives are SO predictable.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR MAJESTIC PROPHECY. YOUR PROPHETIC POEM OF JUSTICE SHALL BE ENTERED INTO THE BOOK OF MORMON.
This man needs to shut his cake hole and go back his snake worship. Being gay or lesbian is not a choice, it is who a person is. And, this man is clearly letting some dusty out dated old book dictate how he views the world. Last time I looked this was the 21st century not the 1st. This man needs to put his book back on the shelf and start living with the modern world. Maybe having to suddenly pay taxes because of his big bigot mouth will wake him up.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ORIGINAL INSIGHT. IT SHALL BE NOTED IN THE LEDGER.
Bob,
No one has to like a damn thing I posted, but I REFUSE to let some dusty old book tell me how to live MY life. I will worship who I want, love who I want, live where I want, or do what I want with MY body! Now if you will excuse me, my cauldron is about to boil over and I need to take my broom in for an oil change.
THANK YOU FOR WHATEVER THE HELL IT IS YOU JUST SAID. ALTHOUGH I HAVE NO INTEREST, I SHALL WRITE THE WORDS DOWN AND KEEP THEM IN MY WALLET ALWAYS AS A REMINDER THAT SOMETIMES, SOME PEOPLE JUST DON'T MAKE ANY GOD DAMNED SENSE.
What ever. I am simply stating that the Bible has no part in my life or the dictation of how it is lived. The so called Pastor in this article is a nothing more than a bigot blow hard who is now hiding in his basement.
THANK YOU FOR THE HARD BLOW IN THE BASEMENT. THE RECORDING SHALL REMAIN IN MY TREASURES FOREVER.
THIS is why we don't let people vote on the civil rights of other Americans. People are irrational and hateful... thanks to religion.
WOW, YOU ARE SO INSIGHTFUL AND SENSITIVE. MAYBE SOMEONE HERE WILL DATE YOU WHEN THEY SEE HOW CUDDLY AND WARM YOU ARE. YOU CAN BE STRONG AND STEADFAST IN YOUR IDEALS, BUT SENSUAL AND SOOTHING TO SOMEONE WITH NEEDS. LIKE A CRIPPLE.
There are people who are hateful and rational because of religion and there are other people who have become better people because of it. People are people – hateful people gravitate towards people who agree with them.
AND PEOPLE WHO LIKE CARS GRAVITATE TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO LIKE CARS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION OF KNOWLEDGE.
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I can't wait for November.
YOUR POST IS SLATHERED IN BUCKETS OF C0CK JUICE
Of course, it is the right wing that makes an issue of being gay –and most of the other things you mentioned are the result of misguided and just plain wrong right wing economic dogma that has been failed consistently for three decades.
Kiss your boyfriend and have yourself a fresh bucket, Bobb......
Hey, Saint Genius.... you liberals have run the country since 2006.
We are in the Jimmy Carter phase of the next Ronald Reagan Revolution.
You betcha!
Get it?
I DON'T HAVE A BOYFRIEND. I'M NOT ONE OF YOU. YOU JESUS LOVER.
Yes you do.
It may seem remarkable to you,but this country is big enough to have more than one problem at a time. And when you have a leader of people and a supposed man of God advocating concentration camps for united states citizens, it's an issue. It's a problem. It's not the biggest problem, but it is definitely a problem.
Hey Patrick... it's seems all we've had is a lot more than one problem at a time since the liberal pseudo intelligentsia took control in 2006.
The real change comes in November.
You betcha!
BOTH OF THE FRONTRUNNERS ARE USELESS
Bobb......
DOW JONES when Clinton entered office: 3257 points
When Clinton left and GW Bush entered: 10588 points
When GW left and Barack Obama entered: 8078 points
DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE TODAY: 12,502 points
The fact that Democrats grow the economy and Republicans destroy it is
there for everyone to see. ANYONE can go look it up themselves.
Also:
Unemployment when Clinton entered office: 7.3%
When Clinton left and GW Bush entered: 4.1%
When GW left and Barack Obama entered: 7.8%
Unemployment (which topped out over 10% nine months after Bush left office) today: 8.1%
Also:
Deficit when Clinton entered office: 4.4 Trillion
When Clinton left and GW Bush entered: 5.8 Trillion (Clinton increased it by an average of 175 Billion a year)
When GW left and Barack Obama entered: 11.9 Trillion (Bush increased it by an average of 763 Billion a year)
Deficit TODAY: 14.6 Trillion (Obama increased it by an average of 950 Billion a year to try to save the economy and prevent a depression)
Also:
Gas still isn't as high under Obama as it was under Bush at its highest in history.
Bush's record:
Unemployment: up 90%
National Debt: up 105%
Gas per gallon: up 157% from Clinton's highest average gas price
Amount of spending cuts: $0.00
Record Trade deficits
Bush restored food stamp eligibility for non-citizens and others that had been disqualified by Clinton in a Farm Bill
Poverty rate increased by 37.5%
Most people on welfare in history
When Clinton left and GW Bush entered: 5.8 Trillion (Clinton increased it by an average of 175 Billion a year)
When GW left and Barack Obama entered: 11.9 Trillion (Bush increased it by an average of 763 Billion a year)
THANK YOU FOR THE TORRENT OF INFORMATION. IT SHALL BE WIPED WITH TOILET PAPER AND FLUSHED ACCORDINGLY.
PAM IS UNRESPONSIVE. LIKE ONE OF THOSE REAL DOLLS . WITH A REALLY STUPID LOOK ON ITS FACE.
HATERED.
Hey, Bobb.... what's "hatered"?
I DON'T KNOW. I WAS TRYING TO ASK PAM THAT QUESTION SINCE SHE POSTED IT. I FIGURED IF I TYPED IT A FEW TIMES THE RED SQUIGGLY LINE IN FIREFOX TELLING ME IT'S NOT A WORD WOULD EVENTUALLY GO AWAY. BUT IT NEVER DID, AND PAM IS LIKE A DEAD FISH THAT JUST LAYS THERE
Kind of slow in the uptake, aren't you, Bobb?
IT'S HATERED EVERYONE. HATERED.
Go suck your boyfriend's dick, Bobb.
OH NO. NOT ANOTHER FANCY-LAD REFERENCE. I CAN'T TAKE THAT BECAUSE IT IS SO MEAN AND HURTFUL AND SCARY.
Don't Americans get it, IT IS HATERED plain and simply. If that was said about Jewish people, the roof would be blown off that church. Ignorance and intolerance....America will never be the land of the free until this is resolved!! And the biggest joke is that all the news can talk about this Church loosing its tax exemption...SHAME SHAME, it is HATERED!
DID YOU MEAN HATERADE OR JUST HATERED?
JESUS CHRIST WILL YOU ANSWER ALREADY? THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME IN THE JEANS.
The only thing getting into your jeans is your boyfriend, Bobb...
IF YOUR POSTS OF GAYDOM ARE SUPPOSED TO OFFEND ME THEN I APOLOGIZE BECAUSE I DON'T REALLY GIVE A SHIT.
Seems to be the dominant substance of your brain, Bobb.
YOU WILL NEED TO WASTE MORE OF YOUR TIME AND PROVIDE SPECIFICS LITTLE BLACK DOT.
Bobb is a gay racist.