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There have been some very bizarre and unfortunate arguments made in service of fighting gay marriage, but one pastor in North Carolina has just taken discourse to a dreadful new low. Pastor Sean Harris of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville thinks he's come up with a simple solution for preventing gay people from marrying: you just beat the shit out of small children that you suspect might be gay, and then they start acting as God intended them to and don't do crazy things like try to love one another as adults. Yeah, it's almost like he stole the words right out of Jesus's mouth. Naturally, this "plan" has stirred up some serious outrage, and when you hear the special ways in which he phrased it, you too will be heading out to the garage for your pitchfork and flaming torch.
While Pastor Harris probably has a long history of asshattery, these particular remarkswhich were originally discovered by Jeremy Hooper of Good As Youwere made as part of a sermon urging people to vote next week for Amendment 1, which would add a ban on gay marriage to North Carolina's constitution. Supporters of the amendment have urged religious leaders in the state to preach in favor of it, and so Sean Harris took to his pulpit and really went above and beyond the call of duty by advocating that gayness be cured through child abuse, just as God intended it. Speaking of God, may He give us all strength as we hear what exactly this monster told his congregation. (The full audio is below if you want to listen along.) According to Harris, you've got to get em young:
So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, "Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do." You get out the camera, and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female, and then you upload it to YouTube, and everybody laughs about it, and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid, is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.
The rest: http://jezebel.com/5906907/horrible-pastor-advocates-beating-the-gay-out-of-young-kids
get the red out
(13,460 posts)Violence, hate, selfishness....I guess this is good old American style religion these days. But of course what can be expected of a Republican PAC, albeit a tax exempt one.
brooklynite
(94,302 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)Initech
(100,028 posts)"Violent psychotic fucking hateful asshole" is more like it.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)appal_jack
(3,813 posts)Jesus, who always befriended the marginalized, the poor, the outcasts; and from whom there is no record of any statement on homosexuality, would certainly not advocate 'beating the gay' out of anyone.
On the other hand, the Gospels do have a record of Jesus bringing a beatdown upon the wealthy elite money changers who sullied the temple with their greed.
-app
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I believe this is the church's #
Let them know how you feel
DiverDave
(4,886 posts)Man this guy is SICK.
I think HE should be beaten, so he knows what it feels like.
Don't beat him, just waterboard him a few dozen times.
10 to 1 he just LUVS the idea of waterboarding (people he hates) (which is most of the human race).
DiverDave
(4,886 posts)I cant hurt anyone, on purpose.
Course that supposes that they arent hurting me or mine.