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SpartanDem

(4,533 posts)
Tue May 22, 2012, 09:05 PM May 2012

North Carolina Anti-Gay Pastor In 1978: Gays Used To Be ‘Hung, Bless God, From A White Oak Tree’

The anti-gay North Carolina pastor Charles Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church has been facing backlash over his recent sermon in which he said the US should pen in “all the lesbians and queers” with an electrified fence and wait for them to “die out.”

But it turns out Worley has been saying offensive things about gay people for decades.

Jeremy Hooper dug up this bit of hate from Worley in 1978, in which Worley says that “40 years ago” gay people would have been hung “from a white oak tree”:


WORLEY: I’m God’s preacher. I just believe the book. Living in a day when, you know what, it saddens my heart to think that homosexuals can go around, bless God, and get the applause of a lot of people. Lesbians and all the rest of it? Bless God, forty years ago they’d have hung ‘em, bless God, from a white oak tree, wouldn’t they? Amen.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/22/488614/worley-oak-gays-tree/


At least he's consistant.


Pastor Who Suggested Genocide-Like Concentration Camps For Gays Loses Website


http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/pastor-who-suggested-genocide-like-concentration-camps-for-gays-loses-website/news/2012/05/22/39939

The good news is the knuckledragging, redneck church's hosting copmany dropped them as client

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North Carolina Anti-Gay Pastor In 1978: Gays Used To Be ‘Hung, Bless God, From A White Oak Tree’ (Original Post) SpartanDem May 2012 OP
Someone will resign within the next few days cali May 2012 #1
And people wonder why I despise these store front religions... WCGreen May 2012 #2
He's in "good" company ailsagirl May 2012 #3
So this is what passes for a minister in certain pulpits ladym55 May 2012 #4

WCGreen

(45,558 posts)
2. And people wonder why I despise these store front religions...
Tue May 22, 2012, 09:09 PM
May 2012

Who send $ 50.00 to some diploma mill and become a Legit preacher man and then say what ever they want on our dime...

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
4. So this is what passes for a minister in certain pulpits
Tue May 22, 2012, 09:39 PM
May 2012

Such hatred! What makes me suspect he claims that he and his congregation are "biblical"? That's usually what hate-filled right-wing tool preachers claim as they spew venom in the name of God.

Ol' Charles hasn't read (much less comprehended) much of Jesus' teachings. I often think that Jesus would not be permitted in any of the churches of his "believers" in the United States.

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