18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON

A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head. ""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angel Tim) Here the pal of the state that is the vanguard for the so-lled liberal ristance, parishners gathered last month for the Red Hot Preachg Conference, featurg some of the most vilently anti-gay pastors the untry.

Jimenez started the nference 2016 after gag natnal notoriety for praisg the mass shootg of 49 people at a gay nightclub Orlando, nference’s seven preachers are part of a work of about 30 church lled the New Inpennt Fundamental Baptist Movement, which, experts on hate and extremism say, is growg and spreadg vlent rhetoric over the ter an era when hate crim agast LGBTQ people are nference took place Jimenez’s storeont church six om the state Capol. 5 ln people the Goln State backed Print Tmp 2016, and there are movements to create a “sanctuary cy” for guns and to rve a separate State of Jefferson out of California’s ral, nservative northern to gay rights, the state spent years urt battlg the voter-approved Proposn 8, the 2008 measure that banned same-sex marriage until was overturned 2013.

PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”

In 2016, he was ported om Botswana, which crimalized gay sex June, after sayg on the rad that gay people should be stoned to New IFB Movement is a 21st century offshoot of the Inpennt Fundamental Baptist movement, which emerged the 1940s as a rponse to growg liberalism large Amerin nomatns, said John Fea, a profsor of Amerin history at Msiah College Pennsylvania who has studied fundamentalism.

”Spenser Frz, a gay man, sued Jimenez, the church and a parishner, sayg Jimenez’s anti-gay sermons spired the parishner to shove him durg the the ongog lawsu, Frz said he saw “a small child, no olr than 5, ” peerg through the door at protters. The board’s actn mak fal the separatn of the 300-church regn om the Amerin Baptist Church (USA) Valley Fe, cisn after eight months of discsn and a vote on the part of the regn’s church late April to remend that the board whdraw over the refal of the ABC (USA) to al wh the acceptance of church wh lax polici on homosexualy the nomatn. Many of the nomatn’s self-erng regns, such as the Evergreen Associatn Washgton and the Rochter-Genee regn New York, openly accept church disassociated om other regns bee they accept unrepentant homosexuals as members.

The Indiana-Kentucky regn has also proposed a change the nomatn’s bylaws that will not allow church to transfer to another regn when removed over the issue of homosexualy. Homosexualy-iendly regns oppose the new bylaw and have petned to reject the proposed whdrawal of the Pacific Southwt regn, wh s church California, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona, touched off a wave of rpons om lears of the ABC (USA).

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

The group supports the appotment of openly homosexual misters and the acceptance of the homosexual liftyle Baptist Print Ken Perks said his anizatn has no official posn on the spl between the Pacific Southwt regn and the ABC (USA), but that he believed homosexualy should not be a dividg issue. Perks said he did not know what other regns might do rponse to the whdrawal of the Pacific Southwt regn, but his rponse reveals the growg number of Amerin Baptist regns that wele church open to the acceptance of the homosexual liftyle. Southwtern Baptist Theologil Semary Print Paige Patterson, then a member of the SBC’s BWA study mtee, said Southern Baptists uld “no longer afford to be aligned any way” wh any group that ndon the practice of homosexualy church.