Anti-gay pastor rigns after allegedly 'beg wh prostut'

Contents:

• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• NORTH CAROLA PASTOR'S FOLLOWERS DEFEND HIS ANTI-GAY SERMON AFTER VIO GO VIRAL
• 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
• ANTI-GAY PASTOR RIGNS AFTER ALLEGEDLY 'BEG WH PROSTUT'
• PASTOR WHO CALLED GAY PEOPLE ‘REPTILIAN’ NOT GUILTY OF HATE SPEECH, SAY IDAHO POLICE
• ALLEGATNS OF MANOSPHERE PASTOR’S GAY PAST ROIL MACHO MEN
• LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN
• TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
• ANTI-GAY PASTOR JSE LEE PETERSON CGHT UP SAME SEX SNDAL
• ANTI-GAY PREACHER STEVEN ANRSON BANNED OM IRELAND
• PASTOR STANDS BY ANTI-GAY SERMON AS CHRISTIAN COMMUNY CONMNS HIM
• STANDG OVATN GREETS PASTOR CHARL WORLEY, WHO MA ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS
• PASTORS PRAISE ANTI-GAY MASSACRE ORLANDO, PROMPTG OUTRAGE
• ADAMS IS CHALLENGED OVER HIS HIRG OF 3 GAY MARRIAGE FO
• CAPE CORAL PASTOR FACG BACKLASH FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SPAT ABOUT LAW THAT LLS FOR GAY PEOPLE TO BE PUT TO ATH
• GREG LRIE TO GAY ACTIVISTS: 'I WON'T BACK DOWN'
• 'MOST-HATED,' ANTI-GAY PREACHER ONCE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
• PASTOR OF HURST CHURCH SAYS HE’S FOLLOWG BIBLE TEACHGS WH ANTI-GAY PREACHG
• TED CZ SPARS WH PASTOR OVER UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW
• MARYLAND PASTOR DENNIS LEATHERMAN: 'MY FLH KD OF LIK THE IA' OF KILLG GAYS
• PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
• CHURCH RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY REVEREND BEG OUTED ON GAY DATG APP
• HOW UGANDA WAS SCED BY ANTI-GAY NSERVATIVE EVANGELILS
• PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN

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. Louie Gigl beg removed om givg the benedictn at the Ingural addrs over his past anti-gay ments serv to remd everyone that gay bashg is still a favore past-time certa evangelil Christian to anti-gay pastors specifilly, there are those wh feelgs of hate and those wh somethg so far off the wall that you wonr if supernatural mon posssn is to blame.

NORTH CAROLA PASTOR'S FOLLOWERS DEFEND HIS ANTI-GAY SERMON AFTER VIO GO VIRAL

” Addnally, he flted this "unnatural behavr" wh spreadg disease and nfg children about proper genr pro-gay groups and supporters submted a petn llg for him to apologize and take his post down, Gipson ignored them and doubled down.

When he’s really hont, he’s quick to remd you that gays are g after your children and your grandchildren and sexually transmted diseas are God’s punishment for ’s not jt a Christian though, he’s also a patrt. The lear of the famo Wtboro Baptist Church regularly pickets ary funerals, polil ralli, and gay pri gathergs to spread the msage that the bloodshed Iraq and Afghanistan is God’s punishment for toleratg gays.

No stranger to ntroversy, the host of the 700 Club has done some outrageo thgs on his show like enuragg a father to seek anti-gay nversn therapy for his gay son, as well as pare gay marriage wh polygamy, btialy, and pedophilia. Courty Stedfast Baptist Church / YouTubeWhile Romero — who has pared LGBTQ people to pedophil, lled gays “scum of the earth” and appld the 2016 mass killg of gay people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub — did not provi tails about his behavr, Steven Anrson, a pastor who joed Romero last week durg his rignatn sermon, shared sight on YouTube to his iend’s “grievo ss. ”Now several of Peterson’s one-time iends allege that the pastor’s own personal life is rife wh gay sexual of Peter’s former male associat me out June wh on-the-rerd terviews sayg they engaged sexual activi wh him, while other men say he proposned them.

10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI

He, and untls others, had prevly hoped that a vote durg a special ssn of the UMC’s general nference last month would change the urse of the church’s relatnship wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer vote, however, not only strengthened the church’s ban on openly gay clergy and same-sex marriag, but also creased penalti for future vlatns. Oliveto is the Methodist church's first openly gay Sangosti / The Denver Post via Getty Imag fileBishop Karen Oliveto, the first openly gay bishop the history of the UMC, se the general nference vote as not ditive of the valu of the church.

Some of his other anti-LGBTQ+ statements, as piled by GLAAD: sayg that Pete Buttigieg, now secretary of Transportatn, “flnts his so-lled hband wh no shame, kissg him public, and people appld like [their marriage is] real”; that Rosie O’Donnell gets “mon stctns” om hell; that “lbians are really vlent their relatnships”; and that “radil homosexuals” have stroyed Black fai. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Steven Anrson has prevly lled for the ath of Barack Obama and praised the gunman who killed 49 people a gay night club attack FloridaA ntroversial US preacher has bee the first person to be banned om Ireland unr a 20-year-old Anrson, a pastor om Arizona, ns the Fahful Word Baptist church and openly exprs anti-gay and anti-Semic webse claimed that he was due to preach Dubl on 26 May.

ANTI-GAY PASTOR RIGNS AFTER ALLEGEDLY 'BEG WH PROSTUT'

"Absolutely I thk they are safer now bee of the aths, and the reason I thk that is bee I believe all of the homosexuals are pedophil, and the Bible—see our culture and our society puts them the tegori—gay, lbian, whatever, but that's not found scripture. Although gay rights and anti-hate groups rpond wh outrage when a North Carola pastor lled for gays and lbians to be fenced so they eventually die off, he was greeted wh a standg ovatn by his church members when he approached the pulp, the Hickory Rerd reported.

PASTOR WHO CALLED GAY PEOPLE ‘REPTILIAN’ NOT GUILTY OF HATE SPEECH, SAY IDAHO POLICE

Jt a day before Obama’s announcement, North Carola voters approved by a nsirable marg a nstutnal amendment to ban gay marriage and same-sex civil unns their the sermon, an animated Worley told the ngregatn of his pennt Baptist church:“I figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lbians and queers but I uldn’t get pass the Congrs – build a great big large fence, 50 or a hundred e long. ”Worley’s speech went viral after the Catawba Valley Cizens Agast Hate grabbed a clip om the church’s web se and posted on YouTube, Rters Worley may have hred the efforts of those who champn his e, Jay Michaelson, thor of “Gay vs. But at some extreme nservative Christian church, there was another msage: good the weeks sce 49 people were slghtered at a gay nightclub, remarks by pastors celebratg the aths have brought attentn to several outposts of anti-gay hostily across the untry that until now had been operatg mostly unr the radar.

Rebec Barrett-Fox, a visg assistant profsor of soclogy at Arkansas State Universy who has rearched Christian extremists, said she had tracked about five church — California, Texas, Arizona and Tennsee — where preachers had endorsed the killgs are not as well known as the vilently anti-gay Wtboro Baptist Church Topeka, Kan., which has bee famo for monstratns at ary funerals. But their views about lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, and what should happen to them, n be jt as of the preachers intify themselv as so-lled pennt Baptists, meang that they are not a part of any of the nomatn’s groupgs, such as the Southern Baptist Conventn.

“One of the nsequenc of that is you n get whole ngregatns that sp further and further away om the norm of what is accepted theology, ” she pennt Baptist church where anti-gay hatred has flourished tend to have small ngregatns, more likely to number the dozens than the hundreds, experts said. The Orlando victims were “sodom, ” “reprobat, ” “perverts” and “scum of the earth, ” preachers have a sermon at a church Fort Worth, Pastor Donnie Romero told his ngregants that every gay person is a pedophile.

ALLEGATNS OF MANOSPHERE PASTOR’S GAY PAST ROIL MACHO MEN

About 100 protters gathered outsi the the Orlando killgs, some gay rights advot have noted how far many mastream relig lears have shifted toward acceptance of gay men and lbians sce an earlier tragedy 1973. “But on the other hand, we’ve seen an enormo amount of spiratnal ments om fah lears, ” he Brown relled how Utah’s litenant ernor, a Mormon, gave a speech which he apologized for his role perpetuatg homophobia.

Groups plan to prott on Thursday over the namg of three men to Cy Hall posts who they say hold homophobic Moon for The New York TimIn 2014, as Uganda was promulgatg a law that ma some homosexual behavr punishable by life prison, a uncilman om the Bronx traveled to the untry and hailed s “godly” ernance.

Cabrera’s embrace of a ernment that veloped anti-gay laws at a time of anti-gay vlence and even murr the untry is provg a polil liabily for Mayor Eric Adams, who recently named him to a posn his Thursday afternoon, L.

LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN

Adams has tapped to n the office and who has also voiced tolerance for Adams has appoted Erick Salgado, another pastor who has exprsed opposn to gay marriage, as an assistant missner for external affairs the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Lennihan/Associated PrsIn a statement, Mr. Salgado ran as a long-shot ndidate the 2013 race for mayor and was endorsed by the New York polil actn mtee of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, a group that fought agast efforts to legalize gay marriage. ”Though the vio he explicly praised the Ugandan ernment’s opposn to gay marriage and prented himself as well-versed Ugandan history, his Facebook statement he claimed ignorance of “the Ugandan ernment’s historic nial of their LGBTQ+ populatn’s civil and human rights.

TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL

HOW RELIGION INFLUENCES IDAHO POLITICS Last week, Blae Conzatti, print of the Idaho Fay Policy Center, published a lumn, crowd wh Bible referenc, that lled homosexualy “sful, ” “immoral” and “an abomatn. “'UnClobber' not only reveals the rults of my study of the Bible on homosexualy, also tells the story of how I me to align my head wh my heart through a reful, thoughtful and prayerful study of the clobber passag.

(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.

ANTI-GAY PASTOR JSE LEE PETERSON CGHT UP SAME SEX SNDAL

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. A week after sayg that he wouldn't apologize for g homophobic slurs sermons, Texas pastor Jonathan Shelley, the lear of the anti-gay Stedfast Baptist Church, said a cy uncil meetg that Pri Month is an "abomatn" that shouldn't be promoted the a vio shared on Twter by blogger and activist Hemant Mehta, Shelley addrs the Arlgton Cy Council, where a meetg was beg held about acknowledgg Pri month, tellg them that he's "horrified and ashamed" that the cy cid to "promote and solic Pri. When asked directly by NBC2 News if he supported the law that lls for the ath penalty for homosexuals, Asl rpond, “I would say as an Amerin livg a nstutnal republic, I wouldn’t want to argue for the executn of homosexuals.

ANTI-GAY PREACHER STEVEN ANRSON BANNED OM IRELAND

"That puts pretty strong nstrats on what progrsiv n do, even though they’re arguably the majory of the nomatn, " Whe a child, DeLong was raised the Uned Church of Christ, a male Prottant nomatn wh signifintly more relaxed views on the LGBTQ muny, cludg permtg lbian, gay and transgenr clergy. Lears add the first anti-gay language to the teachgs of the church at s 1972 general nference Atlanta, Ga., wrg, "We do not ndone the practice of homosexualy and nsir patible wh Christian teachg, " and, "We do not remend marriage between two persons of the same sex.

The 13-member jury of Wisns Methodist misters found her guilty of officiatg the weddg but not of the send charge of beg a "practicg homosexual, " havg no evince that she and her partner had a physil relatnship. "We lament the harm experienced by our siblgs who intify as LGBTQ at the hands of the church, " the statement says, also cg a portn of their 2016 Book of Disciple, which stat that fai and church should not reject or nmn lbian and gay said he has "mted the Wisns Conference of the Uned Methodist Church to the crease of radil cln and racial jtice s life together.

Interracial marriage, he has said, was opposed by J bee volv weddg a vio of a sermon posted to YouTube 2018, Mejia said of gay men, "When you seem someone who you know is a [expletive] full-blown, they jt look like a sodome, they’re dog all the acts, you n see and say, oh okay, they were rejected a long time ago. But the ntroversial televangelist was bt known as an archect of the relig right who equently ma anti-gay remarks, as a pneer the Christian broadstg dtry that would elevate many Republin policians, and briefly, as a polician his own right wh printial aspiratns. ”Shelley said his preachg and statements are misterpreted and taken out of ntext, and that none om his church has “hurt” or shown vlence toward the gay protters showed up, he said they phed members of his ngregatn, but church members didn’t Hill, an attorney who reprents the buildg owner, Fellowship of the Sword, a Christian foundatn, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram prevly that his client was ncerned about the safety of the protters and of other tenants the buildg bee of Shelley’s preachg.

PASTOR STANDS BY ANTI-GAY SERMON AS CHRISTIAN COMMUNY CONMNS HIM

Ugandan Print Yoweri Meveni last month signed one of the world's most strgent anti-LGBTQ+ laws that clus the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy, " pal punishment for "serial offenrs" of the law and transmissn of HIV/AIDs through gay sex and a 20-year-sentence for promotg homosexualy, Rters reported. While nmnatn me om both major polil parti, some on the right have fend the law that implements the ath penalty for some gay on Monday rpond to a pastor who cricized his opposn to Uganda's Asl, pastor of Grace Baptist Church Cape Coral, Florida, rpond to Cz's tweet llg out Uganda's law, wrg: "Tell to God, Ted, " while cg a Bible verse equently ed to jtify opposn to LGBTQ+ rights. Ernment should execute gay people but that the pot of his qutn was to "terme if the senator believ that when God crimalized homosexual nduct the Old Ttament that our Maker was guilty of prcribg a law horrific and grotque law.

STANDG OVATN GREETS PASTOR CHARL WORLEY, WHO MA ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS

In Febary 2009, the group planned to travel to Bra to prott a stagg of "The Laramie Project, " a highly rpected play that documents the hate murr of gay stunt Matthew Shepard and how the cint impacted the muny.

A number of right-wg thori have e forward wh anti-gay pleas recent weeks, but one Maryland-based pastor has gone one step further, sayg he "kd of lik" the ia of killg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people. As Good As You blogger Jeremy Hooper reports, a pastor intified as Dennis Leatherman of the Mounta Lake Inpennt Baptist Church Oakland, Md., spoke at length on the subject a 50-mute sermon tled "Homosexualy and the Bible. Worley nmned Print Obama's much-publicized endorsement of same-sex marriage while llg for gays and lbians to be put an electrified pen and left to die off, while Ron Bay, foundg pastor of Berean Baptist Church Wston-Salem, N.

A fundamentalist pastor gave a sermon which he prayed for “every homo that exists” to suffer “a slow, paful ath” — ntug a trend which he and other right-wg pastors fixate on gay people when rantg about s and remptn.

PASTORS PRAISE ANTI-GAY MASSACRE ORLANDO, PROMPTG OUTRAGE

He has flouted the e of anti-gay slurs his sermons, lks the LGBTQ Pri movement wh pedophilia, and equently lls for gay people to be executed by the state (wh the Uned Stat beg a theocracy dited to rryg out those executns). Ambassador Blasts Anti-LGBTQ CrackdownIntersex Activist Alicia Roth Weigel is Fightg for the ‘I’Actor Tom Holland’s Gay Sex Scene Sparks ControversyAtomic Blon: Our Film Crics Discs ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’.

ADAMS IS CHALLENGED OVER HIS HIRG OF 3 GAY MARRIAGE FO

Queerty, which said had received the screenshots om an anonymo source, has listed several exampl of Makela makg rogatory remarks about gays and transgenr November, for example, another pastor wrote a letter to a lol newspaper that scribed same-sex attractn as "a sful temptatn to be risted and overe by God’s grace and power, jt as a temptatn to steal or lie or overeat mt be risted and overe.

"If you click on a webse to see, or rpond to what is beg said -- even a posive way -- you are only rewardg those who are tryg to shame the Makelas, " the statement church did not immediately rpond to a HuffPost requt for is only the latt a long seri of anti-gay clergy members and policians to be outed.

CAPE CORAL PASTOR FACG BACKLASH FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SPAT ABOUT LAW THAT LLS FOR GAY PEOPLE TO BE PUT TO ATH

In 2010, Lutheran pastor Tom Brock was put on leave om his Mneapolis church after Lavenr magaze reported that he attend a support group for people tryg to rid themselv of same-sex had prevly suggted that God dispted a gatherg of the Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri wh a tornado bee of the church's liberal policy on gay clergy You GoHomophobic Tweets By CelebsPopular the CommunyYou May Like.

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsLast month, the Ugandan Print Yoweri Meveni fally signed his untry’s ntroversial anti-gay bill to law, outlawg homosexualy and threateng offenrs wh up to 14 years Meveni claimed the measure was “provoked by arrogant and rels wtern groups that are fond of g to our schools and recg young children to homosexualy.

Roger Ross Williams, the director of God Lov Uganda, a documentary about the fluence of nservative US Christians the East Ain natn, said, “The anti-homosexualy bill would never have e about whout the volvement of Amerin fundamentalist evangelils. Mr Lively warned dienc that the “evil stutn” of homosexualy sought to “prey upon” and rec Ugandan children a bid to “feat the marriage-based society” Frank Mugisha, director of the LGBT rights anisatn, Sexual Mori Uganda (Smug), recently told The Inpennt on Sunday, “[The ia] of a gay agenda, of recg people to homosexualy – that language wasn't ed Uganda pre-2009.

GREG LRIE TO GAY ACTIVISTS: 'I WON'T BACK DOWN'

”Ugandan Print Yoweri Meveni signed the anti-gay bill last month (Getty Imag)Amerin nservativ first arrived Uganda signifint numbers followg the fall, 1979, of Idi Am, the Mlim dictator who had banned evangelil Christiany. In 2008, Mr Engle led a prayer rally of 33, 000 people San Diego, to pray for the passage of Proposn 8, California’s ban on same-sex his fluential trip to East Ai, Mr Lively was bt known for his 1995 book, The Pk Swastika: Homosexualy the Nazi Party, which asserted that Hler and other leadg Nazis were gay, and that their homosexualy spired German arism and the Holot.

'MOST-HATED,' ANTI-GAY PREACHER ONCE FOUGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

In March 2009, he spent five hours addrsg the Ugandan Kaoma, who surreptly filmed one of Mr Lively’s semars, said, “He brought to Uganda this new narrative of the so-lled ‘ternatnal gay agenda’… You might thk, ‘Is he out of his md? ”In 2012 the US Centre for Constutnal Rights (CCR) sued Mr Lively on behalf of Dr Mugisha and Smug, allegg that his volvement the passage of Uganda’s anti-gay legislatn rtricted the human rights of gay people.

Every time I thk of sharg wh my mum I thk she’ll get I try to do is have iends that are girls and that mak my mum keep thkg that one of them might be a if you are gay, people look at you as if you are a beast – you are abnormal.

PASTOR OF HURST CHURCH SAYS HE’S FOLLOWG BIBLE TEACHGS WH ANTI-GAY PREACHG

(RNS) — Pastors and church lears the Prbyterian Church Ameri passed an overture at s General Assembly this week sayg those who intify as gay are not qualified for ordatn the nservative Prbyterian nomatn. The overture clus any inty Christians may profs “that unrm or ntradicts their inty as new creatns Christ, ” though sgl out “gay Christian, ” “same sex attracted Christian” and “homosexual Christian” among those inti. Those who profs an inty (such as, but not limed to, ‘gay Christian, ’ ‘same sex attracted Christian, ’ ‘homosexual Christian, ’ or like terms) that unrm or ntradicts their inty as new creatns Christ, eher by nyg the sfulns of fallen sir (such as, but not limed to, same sex attractn), or by nyg the realy and hope of progrsive sanctifitn, or by failg to pursue Spir-empowered victory over their sful temptatns, clatns, and actns are not qualified for ordaed office.

The pastor pots a fger at the ex-gay movement and nversn therapy, which, while wily discreded the mental health field, he said ntu to shape many evangelils’ beliefs about and expectatns of LGBTQ people.

TED CZ SPARS WH PASTOR OVER UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW

MARYLAND PASTOR DENNIS LEATHERMAN: 'MY FLH KD OF LIK THE IA' OF KILLG GAYS

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

CHURCH RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY REVEREND BEG OUTED ON GAY DATG APP

HOW UGANDA WAS SCED BY ANTI-GAY NSERVATIVE EVANGELILS

PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN