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TexasTowelie

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Thu May 14, 2015, 01:23 AM May 2015

Texas Churches Make Infamous Anti-LGBT Hate Groups List

Pastor Donnie Romero has gone viral.

“I’m going to explain to you why God wants these people to be put to death,” Romero declared during a sermon in December. “The word of God is very clear that God is against the sodomites, that they’re filthy, and it says they’re an abomination to God.”

A clip from Romero’s sermon, posted on YouTube by Right Wing Watch, has been viewed more than 28,000 times. It also helped land Romero’s Fort Worth church on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual list of active anti-LGBT hate groups.

“Their gay-bashing is intense,” said Heidi Beirich, director of SPLC’s Intelligence Project. “Stedfast Baptist Church is very crude in its hatred. That’s not a complicated thing to explain why we put them on the hate list.” Romero didn’t return a phone call seeking comment.

Stedfast Baptist is one of two Texas-based organizations added to the list this year. The other is Probe Ministries of Plano. They joined longstanding designee Tom Brown Ministries of El Paso. The increase in Texas contributed to a 10 percent jump in anti-LGBT hate groups nationwide, from 40 to 44.

Read more: http://www.texasobserver.org/texas-churches-make-list-of-anti-lgbt-hate-groups/

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Texas Churches Make Infamous Anti-LGBT Hate Groups List (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2015 OP
"God" made us. xfundy May 2015 #1
The question they are afraid to ask.. Lithos May 2015 #3
Probe Ministries? shenmue May 2015 #2
Yes, their missionaries are TexasTowelie May 2015 #4
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