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YOHABLO

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13. The Hat Is Growing
Thu May 31, 2012, 02:22 AM
May 2012

This is not the only hate from the pulpit we've witnessed in the past couple of months. What about the preacher, Pastor Sean Harris addressing his congregation:

"Dads. the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up! Give them a good punch. OK. You're not going to act like
that. You were made by God to be a male and you're going to be a male."

And then there is Pastor Charles L. Morely who said: “Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long — put all the lesbians in there,” and followed up with:

''Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out…and you know what, in a few years, they’ll die out…do you know why? They can’t reproduce!''

So this hate is coming directly from the churches and I don't think it is that peripheral as people think. I find this scary .. reminds me of the hate in pre war Germany in the 1930s .. and don't think it can't happen here. They're bullying, they're causing young vulnerable gay men so much shame that we're hearing about many suicides. This Rutgers University student who caused a young man to take his own life and showed very little remorse in court for his actions. I don't know about my fellow gay bothers and sisters ... but it is cause for alarm.

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