Here is another video that will make you laugh, will horrify you, or possibly both. This guy, this pastor Charles L. Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina, has come up with a solution to rid the world of those pesky gays and lesbians. It goes like this:
“I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers,” he says in his sermon, delivered on May 13. “Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long — put all the lesbians in there, [drop some food down] … Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out… And you know what, in a few years, they’ll die out.”
He later adds [THANK YOU, WONKETTE, FOR THE TRANSCRIPTION]:
“The Bible’s agin it, God’s agin it, I’m agin it, and if you got any sense you’re agin it,” says Pastor Worley! “Yay!” say the people!
Indeed they do! Pastor Worley, I’m going to say this as simply as possible: you do realize that the overwhelming majority of gay people are created by, um, straight people? Indeed, people in your congregation have created gay people. Of that we can be 100% certain, because many gay people are created by straight people who happen to be fundamentalists. If God exists, this might be some form of a supernatural joke. I don’t know.
You still don’t understand, do you?
Here, readers, the video.
“Can yew imagine kissin some man?” Why yes, sir, yes, I can.
Now I can’t get it out of my head that Larry the Cable Guy sounds intellectual by comparison.
Himmler did something simmler. Interesting how genocidal minds all think alike.
it’s against! Now, how would that work? Gay people don’t have two same sex parents. Will these camps keep continuing until when?
Does he have any idea who he sounds like?
Now this I will agree is over the top. Disgraceful and gives Christianity a bi black eye.
All he’s doing is telling his flock why God would rather they vote for the guy who’s given millions to support Mormon evangelists even though he doesn’t think they’re Christians.
Funny, I thought God said, “Judge not, lest ye be judged” (Matthew 7:1) and “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 19:19). The pastor may want to reconsider what God is “agin:” people like him, a true Pharisee if I ever saw one.
The bigots are losing the battle, folks, and the true bitterness which exists in their hearts just can’t contain itself anymore. The wolves are losing their sheep’s clothing.
The Christian church has failed to express the love of Christ on this issue, perhaps as badly as they performed 150 years ago when it came to the issue of slavery. For shame.
I also saw this video on Anderson Cooper this morning. With people like Anderson, Truth Wins Out and the world wide internet, wolves like Worley can no longer spew their hate and keep it within the walls of their little House of Hate.
And–Worley needs a class in correct English pronunciation.
Jerry
Let’s be honest though. This is a small percentage of what actually happens. Mainstream simply calls it a sin but is not hateful about it. Most churches accept everyone as they are.
Billy, you can’t call someone sinful for something that they have no choice in and still be seen as loving someone. You can’t ignore all of the scientific and psychological evidence about sexual orientation in favor of a 4,000-year old book of fables and call it love, no more than you could say that you love slaves but think slavery is OK because “the Bible says so.”
Love isn’t just smiling when you see someone. It isn’t just about being pleasant or thinking you’re a swell human being because you’re willing to sit down and have a beer with them. It involves wanting them to reach their full potential as human beings. You can’t take away marriage rights from loving couples and fight them on every legislative front and claim to accept them.
Perhaps Worley’s bombast has something to do with these fascinating numbers from the right wing Barna Group: “when asked what words or phrases best describe xtianity, the top response among Americans ages 16 to29 was ‘anti-homosexual’. For a staggering 91% of non-xtians this was the first word that came to their mind when asked about the xtian faith. The same was true for 80% of young churchgoers. The next most common negative images were ‘judgmental’, ‘hypocritical’ & ‘too involved in politics’. Outsiders say xtian hostility towards gays has become virtually synonymous with the xtian faith. One of the top reasons 59% of young adults with a xtian background have left the church is because they perceive the church to be too exclusive, particularly regarding LGBT friends. 8 million twenty-somethings have left the church & this is the reason why.”
No wonder the pastor bigots are running scared.
My girlfriend can’t wait to get out of NC because of crap like this..
As a lesbian, I can tell you, we would have the power cut and the whole thing dismantled in a matter of minutes.
I swear every day I am more and more afraid to breathe the air here in NC. It is becoming to polluted with venom like this, not to mention the stupidity that goes with it! It is actually toxic!
[...] month, Pastor Charles L. Worley preached about rounding up all the gays and lesbians and placing them in a concentration camp so that they [...]
[...] this week, shocking video surfaced of a sermon by “Pastor” Charles L. Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North [...]