Hateful Pastor Sean Harris Thinks Effeminate Children Are Ungodly

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http://www.advocate.com/society/religion/2012/05/02/nc-preacher-who-advocates-beating-gay-kids-i-was-joking-sort



Virulently antigay North Carolina preacher Sean Harris took a half-step away from comments he made on Sunday where he told his congregation to attack young boys who act effeminate.

Harris words, recorded and uploaded to the Internet on Tuesday, enraged many. Though, not apparently his congregation at Fayetteville's Berean Baptist Church, who, according to Harris, told him they knew he didn't really mean what he said about punching and cracking the wrists of toddlers with "limp wrists." The pastor made the comments while pushing his congregation to vote for North Carolina's Amendment One, which would ban all recognized relationships that aren't heterosexual marriage. Harris now claims he was joking about advocating violence against children, according to the Fayetteville Observer.

"If I had to say it again, I would say it differently, no doubt," Harris tells the newspaper. "Those weren't planned words, but what I do stand by is that the word of God makes it clear that effeminate behavior is ungodly. I'm not going to compromise on that."

And LGBT activists weren't the only people outraged by Harris — child advocates in the state condemned his remarks.

[longship]

1. Let's see now...

Ted Haggard... check
George Reikers... check

Many more which I cannot recall.

[lukkadairish]

2. Haters

Psalms 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Try that on for size little man.

Proverbs 10:6 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked

Or this.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.


Should I go on?

[Bohunk68]

3. Let me put it this way

Hearing that stuff last night on Cenk and then seeing the video today at a wifi spot, makes me just wish that someone would give this man the same thing he would dish out to others. Evil Evil Evil.

[Speck Tater]

4. So he thinks that...

God is in the business of creating certain people just so He will have someone to hate?

What happened to "god is love"? Or is that another part of the Bible they have chosen to ignore?

[yardwork]

5. Listing to that audio was one of the worst things I've heard in a while.

There's something the matter with that man. He ain't right.

[Evasporque]

6. No greater joy than beating and shaking effeminate boys...eh Sean?...

What a major asshole.


I listened to the audio of that sermon and it was caustic and made no apologies with congregants saying amen and praise god to his extremist hate.

[Initech]

7. I like how he's trying to brush it off as "just a joke."

Oh really, Sean, it's just shown you're a hateful piece of shit bigot who's not to be trusted. Why don't you go ask the hundreds of kids lying six feet under who were victims of this kind of violent vitriol if they think it was "just a joke". If it's really a joke to you, fuck off and fuck your congregation too if that's what they think. The damage has been done, but you're about to learn a harsh lesson: once it hits the internet, there's no such thing as a take back.

[Vanje]

8. There is a bully. nt

[racaulk]

9. Here's a good example of the type of parenting that Harris advocates.

How one dad handled the "ungodly" behavior of his son, and the results.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4098767



Here's a photo of the child. He was clearly very "ungodly."

[Rowdyboy]

10. Beating on babies is an excellent way to prove you're a man....And he was just joking!

Can't you people take a simple joke?

And what isn't funny about cracking the wrists of young boys who aren't sufficiently masculine? How are they supposed to learn how to behave properly if they can't be properly disciplined? How can they learn to be "manly"?

Fuckhheads like him make me very ashamed (and unwilling) to publically admit my Christianity. He and his posse make us all look like ignorant throwbacks better suited to witch burnings than the 21st century.