Pastor calls for every gay person to be lined up & "shot in the back of the head"

[RandySF]

Pastor Dillon Awes of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Hurst, Texas had a very specific call for violence against LGBTQ people in sermon from this weekend.

Entitled “Why We Won’t Shut Up,” his sermon was about “the solution for the homosexual,” which he said is murder.

“What does God say is the answer, is the solution, for the homosexual in 2022, here in the New Testament, here in the Book of Romans?” Awes asked. “That they are worthy of death! These people should be put to death!”

“Every single homosexual in our country should be charged with the crime, the abomination of homosexuality, that they have,” he continued. “They should be convicted in a lawful trial. They should be sentenced with death.”

“They should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head! That’s what God teaches. That’s what the Bible says. You don’t like it? You don’t like God’s Word, because that is what God says.”

Stedfast is one of the most hateful churches in the country, and its pastors have repeatedly called for death to LGBTQ people.



https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/christian-pastor-calls-every-gay-person-lined-shot-back-head/

[rockfordfile]

1. He should be arrested for pushing to murder Americans.

[roamer65]

25. I agree.

Advocating GENOCIDE is NOT free speech.

It’s a HATE CRIME.

[lindysalsagal]

47. He should be a suspect in every hate crime in his own state. He just proved his

intent to kill, and his chosen targets.

[Hortensis]

88. He and others of that congregation, like Pastor Shelley,

probably leap to law enforcement minds when certain crimes are committed. They were evicted this year after losing an appeal for violating their lease, which prohibits threats and violence. They also had to pay attorney's fees. All on record, including the demonstrated pattern of hate speech.

They're relocated to a rundown strip mall in Watauga, where gay pride demonstrators make sure everyone knows what congregants are.

[Trueblue1968]

90. i hope WHAT HE IS "PREACHING" .... HAPPENS TO HIM. Just saying.

[Jerry2144]

2. That kind of hatred can only come from within

What is he hiding or in denial about?


Time to revoke another church’s tax exemption

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. Arrested in Canada and most of Europe...free speech in America....think I see a problem.

One easily corrected.

And hate speech from the fake and real and all in between religion types is tax free in America as well!

[fishwax]

45. are you suggesting that a straight person couldn't be that hateful?

that only a gay person could be so hateful? Because that seems really odd to me.

That kind of hatred can only come from within

What is he hiding or in denial about?

[Jerry2144]

46. No

I am heading a bunch of self hatred in what he says.

[fishwax]

57. Why self hatred? It's clearly homophobic bigotry

And I think that's more likely to come from someone who is straight (especially one raised in a homophobic religious tradition) than from someone who is gay.

If homophobic bigotry comes primarily from self hatred, then we must conclude that gay people are more likely to be homophobic than straight people are. I don't think that's at all what you intended, but it's where the logic leads, which is why we should be wary of jumping to that conclusion.

[Jerry2144]

64. Good point

I hadn’t thought that way. Thanks for opening my eyes

[fishwax]

68. thanks for considering the point and responding so graciously, Jerry2144!

[Behind the Aegis]

107. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

...and...

Thank you!



Don't know if you saw the article I posted in LGBT, but if not, here it is... Researcher finds that people who are easily disgusted are more likely to be anti-gay. Oh, and case I forgot...

[fishwax]

113. interesting article!

[MontanaMama]

3. I'll bet that Moscow Mitch won't be calling for

security for LGBTQ folks like he is for Judge Boof and he rest of the SCOTUS. These people are off the beam. Dillon Awes doesn't speak for God.

[Scrivener7]

4. 3...2...1 till his Grindr boyfriend comes forward.

[dchill]

95. Perhaps there was a tiff.

[LAS14]

5. Well... There's a good Christian for you. !!!!!!!!!

Does anyone know what passage in Romans he's talking about?

[teach1st]

21. Romans 1:18-32

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%201%3A18-32&version=NIV

Letter of Paul to the Romans, also called Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans, abbreviation Romans, sixth book of the New Testament and the longest and doctrinally most significant of St. Paul the Apostle’s writings. It was probably composed at Corinth in about 57 CE. The epistle was addressed to the Christian church at Rome, whose congregation Paul hoped to visit for the first time on his way to Spain. The letter has been intensely studied since early Christian times and was the basis of Martin Luther’s teaching on justification by faith alone.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Letter-of-Paul-to-the-Romans

[Beachnutt]

27. I just read that whole thing Romans 1:18-32

Describes the republicans perfectly, really.

[teach1st]

33. There are too many Christians who worship Paul...

...and ignore what Jesus taught.

[TomSlick]

91. True.

Paul obviously had his issues. I tend to believe that Episcopal Bishop Spong had it right, he concluded that Paul was a "self-loathing and repressed gay male."

[paleotn]

83. Saul, I mean Paul of Tarsus....

The original televangelist. Smoothed out the rough edges of a Jewish sect so it would appeal to the rest of the empire. Much to Peter's chagrin. A mystery cult in an empire full of mystery cults. This one simply caught on.

[Srkdqltr]

6. What a wonderful example of a godly person.

[FalloutShelter]

7. WWJ shoot in the back of the head?

Asking for a friend.

[blm]

8. Jesus never said that. He lies.

[Samrob]

51. Paul said it, not even God. nt

[Peacetrain]

9. Calling for violence against innocent people?? Run that SOB in

[LiberatedUSA]

10. I believe it was Jesus that said...

…”Let he who is without….ah fuck, kill’em all and let dad sort’em out! Yeeeeeehaw! The least racist xenophobic doesn’t get his feet washed tonight!”

[nolabear]

12. I know! Let's make it easy for him to get an AR15!

He’s got no criminal record, right? He’s over 18–hell, 21, right?

[BeyondGeography]

13. There oughta be a law

[Coventina]

14. STOCHASTIC TERRORISM!

How is this not a crime?

[Celerity]

78. Yes, I would like to know this too. It is a CLEAR, direct incitement to murder.

[Zeitghost]

84. Where do you draw the line legally?

He called for homosexuality to be outlawed and for those engaging in it to be tried, convicted and put to death. That's a horrible hate filled thing to say. But where do you draw the line?

Some would object to that being said about those who commit murder.

Some for thieves.

Some for liars.

Some for rude assholes.

Some for bad drivers.

Some for Steelers fans.

Some for those with bad haircuts.

Some for redheads.

Some for gays.

Some for Asians.

And we can keep on going.

The Supreme Court has drawn the line at specific calls for imminent violent and unlawful acts. And while it's not perfect, it seems like the best place to me. Anything more than that would allow a government controlled by the next Republican wannabe dictator far too much power to control speech.

[MagickMuffin]

15. What a hateful man and a liar. No where in the Bible is there a reference to guns

Ya know, as guns weren't invented back then.

Plus Jesus gave us 2 commandments. And they both involve love. Not hate.


Perhaps it's time to visit this sick fucks church. It isn't that far from me.

[msongs]

16. he's only doing this for $$$$$$$$$$$ nt

[roamer65]

17. Hmmmm.

Come and try to shoot this homosexual.

I WILL shoot back and when I do, I WILL aim to kill.

I’ll send you straight to hell, Pastor Fuckwad.

[Chainfire]

19. This heterosexual old man would have your back! Every time, Always!

[roamer65]

20. ...

Praise The Lord and pass the ammunition!

[Aristus]

26. This heterosexual old man is, as well.

You have a lot more friends than this hateful "pastor" does; count on it.

[keep_left]

31. Great WWII song, and still relevant today!

[Evolve Dammit]

50. "amen"

[Chainfire]

18. I am not a "believer," but I did go to Sunday School, apparently, I didn't get to that part of the

Holy scripture, or the teachings of Jesus. He is inferring, that killing gays would be doing God's work. You have to wonder what "God" he serves because that is not the teaching of the God of Abraham. I hope Karma comes and pays the man an appropriate visit.

The man is proof that there is not the personal God of protestant teachings, for if there was one, the preacher would be stricken down for preaching such hate in God's name. He would be spouting that filth and zap, he would be gone in a flash of light and a puff of smoke. (The God of my Sunday School, could do that standing on his head.)

[Mariana]

81. "I didn't get to that part of the Holy scripture..."

Leviticus 20 : 13 (NIV)

If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

[Chainfire]

93. Old testament

[Mariana]

97. "I didn't get to that part of the Holy scripture..."

The Holy Scripture includes the Old Testament.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Time to revoke their tax exemption

[Evolve Dammit]

53. way past time

[vlyons]

23. Well so much for "Thou shall not kill."

[Caliman73]

30. Have you read the Bible?

"Thou shall not kill" was only meant for Hebrews in "good standing". The first thing god commanded the Hebrews to do when they reached the "Promised Land" was to round up and kill all of the Canaanite men, boys, and women who were not virgins.

The Bible is not a book of peace. It is basically a book that anyone can look into and take whatever they wanted to justify their actions.

[Elessar Zappa]

35. But Christians are supposed to listen to Jesus's teachings,

which, for the most part, consist of loving your neighbor.

[Caliman73]

41. Perhaps...

But the Christian churches who put the Bible together, put Paul in a place of high importance and that statement that the pastor was quoting to justify his hate, come from Paul's letters to the early Christian Churches. If you are saying that only Christ's direct teachings were valid, then we would lose all other books of the Bible except the 4 Gospels, where Christ was supposedly quoted (even though the gospels were written decades after Christ's supposed death.

[Mariana]

82. Jesus's teaching about the Old Testament Law:

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." Matthew 5 : 17-18

[inthewind21]

37. Exactly

Speaking of a book that needs to be banned!

[paleotn]

92. In a book full of killing.

Kind of ironic, really. Thou shalt not kill, unless I tell you to. But if you want to keep the virgins for your own jollies? Hey, whatever. Book of Numbers Chapter 31. The kind of story that would make Pol Pot and the Einsatzgruppen feel all warm inside. And people wonder where Xtians get this stuff from.

[Beachnutt]

24. What happened to "love thy neighbor" ?

Oh he has a selective bible....

[Caliman73]

36. All the Bible is selective...

There are certainly things attributed to Jesus Christ that call for "turning the other cheek", but then again there are also statements like where Christ stated he was here to set parents against their children, families against families, etc...

People can and have interpreted the Bible to fit all kinds of good and very bad ideas.

[vlyons]

48. it's why I became a Buddhist long ago

nt

[Elessar Zappa]

63. There's Buddhist extremists also.

Every religion has its nuts.

[vlyons]

72. Buddha taught to use reason

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

-- The Buddha

[themaguffin]

28. The "solution." Where have we heard that before...

[milestogo]

29. What the fuck.

[MissMillie]

32. Read an article from a REAL minister a while back

It may even have been one that was posted in on the EOA page here at DU.

The REAL minister said that Jesus did not command us to point out other people's "sins." (I put that in quotes because I don't think being gay is a sin.)

Instead, the REAL minister said, that we are commanded to testify about how God's grace has saved us.


Too many of the evangelicals forget about the grace of God that is taught in the Bible. Kind of makes me wonder if they understand it at all. If they don't they have no business ministering to anyone.

[inthewind21]

38. It's been my experience

that the most zealous "Christians" in fact DO NOT understand their own religion.

[sarisataka]

39. They should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head! That's what God teaches.

I have read the Bible and don't recall a passage about shot in the back of the head.

I do recall something about throwing stones and he who is without sin.

Maybe I should look in the book of Armaments...

[teach1st]

40. Steadfast Church is hearing about it on their Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/StedfastBaptist

[teach1st]

42. Oops!

They seem to be removing posts as fast as people can post them.

[dchill]

96. It's spelled STEDfast. Like they know they're not really.

[MagickMuffin]

43. Contact their Facebook page

Facebook.com/StedfastBaptist

Let's teach him some Jesus lessons.


From their fb pg

We recently got another strike on our main Youtube channel, so we wanted to give everyone a heads up as to where we'll be streaming our services until our main channel is back up. Please subscribe to our backup channels on Youtube and turn on the notification bell so you never miss a video!
We will continue posting our June.


Thank you all for supporting Stedfast Baptist Church! Please help us fight against censorship by sharing this post!

Let's let Facebook hear about this.

FIGHT BACK AGAINST HIS HATE!

[Ms. Toad]

44. What a contrast with my father -

He was the first conscientious objector in the state in which he was raised because he truly believed all he was taught in the rural Baptist church in which he was raised about loving your neighbor, and he could not reconcile waging war with with those beliefs.

For that, he was invited not to return home (although he reconciled with his family relatively quickly, and later in life his father came to similar beliefs about Christianity and war (and the death penalty, and LGBT matters, etc.).

Guess it is the difference between really internalizing the true message of Christianity and trying to remocel God after your own image.

[localroger]

49. Does the Bible also teach that you need an AR-15 to complete this project?

Cuz I"m pretty sure those were strictly unavailable to the general public in Roman times.

[SledDriver]

52. "They should be convicted in a lawful trial..."

[Emile]

54. Did his Christian God tell him that?

[Pyryck]

55. Religious based terrorism in its clearest example

Did we not invade a couple of countries in the middle east over this whole hatred of, and terrorizing of americans thing?

p.s. where is Seal Team Six when you need them to take out a religious-based terrorist. Where's all the B52s, B1Bs and various other bombers carpet bombing these terrorists just to make sure we get the one?

[Martin Eden]

56. Stochastic terrorism

Innocent people will die as a consequence of this incitement to murder.

[njhoneybadger]

58. And we wonder why the country is so fucked up

[world wide wally]

59. WTF Bible does he read?

[towerbum]

77. the book of hitler ! maybe use the same tactic on him !

[Mariana]

79. The one that says this:

If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. Leviticus 20 : 13 (NIV)

[Roc2020]

60. ?? How does that relate in any way

shape or form to what Jesus taught? Hypocrites. Wolves in sheep clothing. Murderers. A form of ISIS just a different religion.

[llashram]

61. yep this describes

the extreme RW pastors and their flock. In my naivety in the early 80s, I joined a very religious church. Their politics mirror this. I did not last long there at all. Turned me against organized religion that lasts to this day.

[BlueIdaho]

62. Just another fine upstanding Christian

No wonder the churches are empty.

[BigDemVoter]

65. I won't say what I'd wish on that stupid motherfucker, but it would hurt REALLY

badly. . . .

[TeamProg]

66. I think his father gay.. n/t

[Demovictory9]

67. omg. worse church than that crazy family that's always holding the the anti-gay signs

[housecat]

69. Tax exempt? Really?

[BlueJac]

70. What religion is that hateful?

[bucolic_frolic]

71. That Christian Fraud should lose his tax exemption and face class action

for spewing hatred.

[Lonestarblue]

73. I wonder how Bigot Dillon Awes responds to numerous Bible verses on the abomination of lying.

I’m not an expert, but there are numerous Bible versus (I think more actually than verses about homosexuality) that call lying an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. If this fake Christian believes that gays should be executed, then I guess he also believes that liars should be executed. Let’s start with two of the biggest liars of all—Trump and Tucker Carlson.And, then, just to please me, could we add Ted Cruz to the list!

And there is also a prohibition against adultery that is widely ignored. The cafeteria Christianity practiced by Dillon Awes is disgusting but typical of the white evangelicals who want to establish their version of sharia law.

[Initech]

74. Pretty sure what he's suggesting qualifies as, I don't know, genocide?

Yeah fuck this POS.

[Stuart G]

75. Very, Very, Stupid Mother F**ker...

[paleotn]

76. The solution to Xtians....

Lions! Damnit, we need more lions!!!!

[Martin Eden]

80. What's the difference between the AfghanTaliban and the American Taliban?

White privilege and wealth.

[IronLionZion]

85. Thank God we don't have any religious terrorists in America

We simply must ban anyone from his shithole country

If anyone acts on this, they will be declared mentally ill. Lots of excuses will be made.

Link to tweet

[ancianita]

86. Sorry Christians. You only get to pick the God of the new Testament. Not the God of the OT.

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You get to live by what Jesus said.

There is no righteousness in this false pastor. He is a pharisee, not a Christ-ian.


Just go with what Jesus said in the Book of Matthew, and you'd never, ever sentence anyone to die.
""Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword." Matthew 26:52






What Jesus said the rules of the Bible are:

[Chainfire]

94. Reading the bible is what turned me away from Christianity.

While there are some good moral lessons, and a smattering of history embedded in the document, you can use the bible to prove or disprove almost any argument. How can there be contradictions if the bible was dictated by a perfect God. If it was not dictated by God, then it is just a bunch of old world philosophers repeating what they had heard from other philosophers, and was then translated by people who had a vested interest in making the document work to sustain their wealth and power.

The idea of a personal God, that dictates the fall of every sparrow, and hears every prayer I find to be absurd. Incredible claims require incredible proofs.

Always remember, and never forget that the same God that sent Jesus, also sent us Ebola, Syphilis, and Republicans.

[ancianita]

99. Right. Well, the Bible isn't the Christian guide. Jesus is. That's the very meaning of Christ - ian.

Here's where the Bible got finalized, having been translated from Aramaic, Greek, Coptic, Ethiopian, Gothic, and finally Latin and modern languages.

The First Council of Nicaea, 325 A.D., convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine, finalized the already substantial Bible. It didn't set the Christian canon but led to its formation.

Its main accomplishments were settlement of the Christological issue of the divine nature of God the Son and his relationship to God the Father,[2] the construction of the first part of the Nicene Creed, mandating uniform observance of the date of Easter,[6] and promulgation of early canon law.

Voltaire started the idea of the pulling together of the canon, and it's pretty damn funny.

The main source of the idea that the canon was created at the Council of Nicaea seems to be Voltaire, who popularised a story that the canon was determined by placing all the competing books on an altar during the Council and then keeping the ones that did not fall off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea#Misconceptions

There are scores of these paintings of Nicaea; they're almost like a timeline of art history by themselves. Even as an atheist I LOVE this stuff as part of art history!

[bucolic_frolic]

87. Upon more reflection ... Nazi Christian

[Snackshack]

89. I dont recall

Seeing that God said that in the bible.

[Mariana]

98. God commanded that men who have sex with other men must be executed

in Leviticus 20 : 13. He didn't specify any particular method of execution.

[roamer65]

101. True.

Also in Leviticus, it says that in the case of adultery, both the adulterer and adulteress must be put to death. So heterosexual infidelity has the same punishment as male homosexual relations.

Leviticus 20:10

If we did that, we would probably reduce the population of this country by 60 percent.



But I don’t see mention from Leviticus about a woman lying with another woman.

Hmmmm…was lesbianism ok?

[Mariana]

103. Since women were essentially property

what they did among themselves was probably considered to be beneath notice.

[roamer65]

104. Good point.

[Snackshack]

111. Leviticus...

Also comments on the planting of crops, wearing of clothes, goes disturbingly deep and detailed about the “unclean woman” and if I remember right there are a couple of things that get a person stoned to death, do not pass go…

The hypocrisy and cherry picking of that verse in Leviticus while ignoring the rest of the chapter or pretty much the rest of the Old Testament (I guess we should actually be thankful for that) highlights the hypocrisy that is woven into religion.

[Mariana]

112. There's plenty of hypocrisy to go around in religion.

People who pretend that the Bible doesn't say what it says - e.g. that men who have gay sex must be killed - are hypocrites, too.

[jmowreader]

100. So...

.. if Pastor Dillon comes out, how should his congregation handle it? Shooting in the back of the head, or a good old-fashioned stoning?

[Kid Berwyn]

102. NAZI in thought and word.

And he encourages others to do the murderous deed.

Hope he gets all he deserves in return.

[Ilsa]

105. "It would be a real shame if something bad happened to

that Stedfast church in Hurst Texas, especially when they are having services."

That's my counter to Pastor Awes

[RussBLib]

106. ah, the good old time religion

kill kill kill

...and this kind of shit is protected speech

[LetMyPeopleVote]

108. Who is surprised by this?

These assholes are all homophobes and haters

[Straw Man]

109. Sounds like a hate crime to me.

And an incitement to violence. Should be legally actionable, I would think.

[vercetti2021]

110. Ok try it with me

Fuck around and see that us transwomen are packing and we'll defend ourselves. Fuck around Christofascists and find out the gays are packing heat and will put your asses down in Lucifer's house.

[NowISeetheLight]

114. The Christian Taliban

Is alive and well in post-Trump America.