Texas pastor Rick Scarborough is willing to be burned to death to oppose gay marriage
He also said he'd be willing to be shot dead in defence of his views
Move over, couple who promised to get a divorce if gay marriage was legalised, because one Texas pastor has taken his opposition to marriage equality one step further.
Rick Scarborough, a Baptist pastor and Christian political activist, has said he would be willing to be burned to death in his fight against gay rights.
He made the bizarre pledge while speaking to EW Jackson, a right-wing minister and politician, on the National Emergency Coalition show, a podcast linked to Jackson's group, Staying True to America's National Destiny (STAND).
When not making boldly suicidal claims on internet radio shows, Scarborough can be found running Vision America, an organisation that aims to "inform, encourage and mobilise pastors and their congregations to be proactive in restoring Judeo-Christian values" to America.
He has previously called AIDS "God's judgement", and is the author of the 2006 book, Liberalism Kills Kids.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-pastor-rick-scarborough-is-willing-to-be-burned-to-death-to-oppose-gay-marriage-10333602.html
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If I lived in Texas, I would personally volunteer to lead him to the stake and set the pyre alight.
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but merely acceeding to his own wish. No? 
But, I could call the proper authorities from here. He does sound pretty desperate doesn't he? Yes, a 24-hour hospital hold would definitely be in order. 
Inexplicably, no one at the network is using it now.
Metaphorically speaking, or course. 
Thread winner
:rofl;
When they are not making shit up about gay people controlling weather, causing random accidents, and other such nonsense, they try to outdo each other on who is the most against gay rights.
Meanwhile, the poor stay poor, the hungry stay hungry, and they ignore that. The ONLY thing they say is a sin any more is being gay, transgender, or a woman who wants control over her own body.
No one is threatening to burn him to death. He made that shit up to try to outdo the next homophobe. Unless he does it to himself, that is not even on the table.
Now, if he decides to do it to himself, more power to him. That would honestly fascinate me. I could watch him burn down to embers and it wouldn't bother me one bit. I'm not nice like the other gay people here. Living in the most deranged part of the Bible Belt has made me completely cold and downright antagonistic toward homophobes. There are many in my hometown who think I am the antichrist and I let them, because it protects me. They went from raping me in the name of God when I was younger to being afraid of me now. Good.
If he set himself on fire over gay rights, I wouldn't piss on him to put him out. Maybe he can get some of his followers to join him. If he hates us that much, let him burn.
I gotta run to the grocery store anyhow. Some Smores sounds good right about now. Let's get this party started.
Of course, he won't self immolate though. The ones who talk all that shit never follow through on their machismo bullshit, unfortunately. 
I'm sure no one threatened him. He just wants to sacrifice himself to the cause of Jeebus.
Who be we to deter him from his mission?
He is so full of hatred. If there is a God, I don't think he would be too pleased with homophobes, because they are so consumed with hatred. So, this guy's "god" probably isn't who he thinks it is. And I certainly won't stand between him and his "god."
If he must, he must. I haven't had Smores in a long, long time.
where I live. I could loudly proclaim, "Ah, I love the smell of human smoked S'mores in the morning."
They rib each other that way.
But then again these are the same people who elected Louis Gohmert.
It's rhetoric for dramatic effect to get attention as a champion of homophobia. Very empty rhetoric.
We're still waiting for Hannity to follow up on his pledge to be waterboarded and for Nugent to be "dead or in jail." 
That, is good!
but if he believes in this idiot value, then he should do what the monks did in Vietnam----------------that was conviction----------------
When the first of the many Buddhists believed in non-violence, he sat down in the middle of a Saigon street doused himself with gas to protest the corrupt government and lighted himself on fire.
Does this bigot have a date and time set------------------because my money says that the corrupt money he is making off his cloth of hypocrisy is more important to him than what Huckless is doing selling his snake oil, on t.v----------they all come from the same cloth----------------greed---------------and they have no conviction like those monks-------------none.
I just can't imagine if some of his followers would do the same thing if told----------this individual has no credibility to lead a wet paper bag----------------he is Jim Jones------from all indications-----------anjd he has a tub with grape Kool-Aid he wants to hand out
with this, that one of his followers will do this and follow through with this rhetoric
You just really want to settle down with a nice man and get married. All this playing "hard to get". Stop fighting it and just admit it. Soon you will be able to marry the man of your dreams.
Righteous rant!...ol' Pastor Rick will have more than enough kindling.
I know, I know...
I see in this thread some of us are already bringing matches and marshmallows...
Can find common ground for the greater good!
Advice to Rick: Stay well inside during those Texas thunderstorms, good buddy. You just never know where that lightning's gonna strike... 
I'm a bit confused by his statement.
Bad pinboy, bad! 
Assume the position! LOL!
We want to make sure there is plenty for everyone.
The spirit is willing but the flush is weak.
VERY apropos, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonfire_of_the_Vanities
The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City.
The title is a reference to the historical Bonfire of the Vanities, which happened in 1497 in Florence, Italy, when the city was under the rule of the Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola. The book's title is evidently a reference to the vanities of New York society of the 1980s and appears to also be influenced by Ecclesiastes: the phrase 'vanity of vanities, all is vanity' is from Ecclesiastes, 1:2. Both Ecclesiastes and The Bonfire of the Vanities have similar themes involving the lack of control anyone has over their lives regardless of their wealth, wisdom, or success.
