Megachurch Pastor says ‘gays must be put to death’
by Michael Stone
Claiming that being gay is a choice like drug abuse, the senior pastor for a megachurch in Tennessee says that “gays must be put to death” because God commands it.
Last Sunday, Brainerd Baptist Church Senior Pastor Robby Gallaty told his large congregation that Christians should never stop discriminating against homosexuals, claiming that gays could choose to be straight if they only accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Gallaty explained why gays should be put to death:
God said that the sins of the people had infected the very land in which they live. So what happens to people who engage in this activity, this sexual immoral activity? Go to Leviticus 20, God gives us the punishment for engaging in these sins… ‘If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable thing. They must be put to death. And their blood is on their own hands.’
Pastor Gallaty tried to justify his Biblically inspired hatred for gays and lesbians by repeatedly trying to argue that being gay is a choice, and some sort of rebellion against his imaginary God’s divine plan.
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Haven of the small-minded and insecure.
What is wrong with these freaks?
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Sure it is.
People who don't live down here have no idea how prevalent bigotry is, it's not just accepted, it's expected.
Because "monkey" could be construed to be complimentary. Sure.
Part of the problem on the right is the echo chamber that they live in. They cannot conceive of anyone disagreeing with them because they only talk to each other. Of course, this is hard to remedy because decent people get alternately furious and nauseated talking to them.
It's metaphor. Or out of context. Or acceptable in its era. or some other wibbly-wobbly goddy-woddy religion stuff! Stop being a hater!
Sounds like an excuse for stoning to me, after all eating shell fish, I have been told, is also an abomination and worthy of a death sentence.
that this preacher has to STFU, drink beer until he cannot drink any more, dance with the hookers at the hooker factory on Talk Like A Pirate Day, wear an eyepatch and a colander, and worship the one and only true god.
Now let us all bow and pray:
Our Pasta, who “Arghh” in heaven,
Swallowed be thy shame.
Thy Midgit come. Thy Sauce be yum,
On top some grated Parmesan.
Give us this day our garlic bread. And give us our cutlasses,
As we swashbuckle, splice the main-brace and cuss.
And lead us into temptation, But deliver us some Pizza.
For thine are Meatballs, and the beer, and the strippers, for ever and ever. RAmen.
Remember, the Flying Spaghetti Monster boiled for your sins!
May you all be touched by His noodly appendages.
Arrgh, and R'Amen!
Thy Sauce be Yum.
The "Brainless" Baptist Church Senior Pastor Robby Gallaty needs a good talking to.
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.. pointed out, the article misrepresents what this dangerous "Pastor" actually said:
The article, and its headline, use language strongly suggests that this "Pastor" is indeed advocating death for gays.
The video appears to be edited in such a way as to omit the "Pastors" discussion of his view (as dangerous and flawed as it is) that such action applied to a different time: If you listen to the video, at approximately 1:44 there is an edit. This occurs just after the "Pastor" refers to "God's stance in the Old Testament". After the edit, the video breaks to a discussion of Paul's views as expressed in I Corinthians 6. If one listens to the remainder of the video, it is clear that the "Pastor's' views are not what is represented is the headline, and that the omitted portion probable contained his (misguided) attempt to rationalize what he views as "Old Testament law" (which the "Pastor" then feels free to selectively & whimsically apply to the present as he chooses).
What this "Pastor" is doing in promoting his detestable views is indeed dangerous.
He deserves be exposed for many things, including his selective use (and non-use) of Old Testament documents to condemn what he chooses (while ignoring prohibitions regarding the wearing of garments consisting of mixed fibers, the interbreeding of different stains of cattle, the advocacy of stoning of rebellious children, and the punishment of intercourse with a female slave which calls for whipping the female slave, but not her death, since she was not free and still owned.)
There is no need to overstate the "Pastor's" harmful views in order to expose him for the dangerous person that he is.
Selective editing, used as a means of misrepresenting by overstatement, is a tactic that should not be borrowed from the right wing propagandists.
Rather, we should combat them with truth, exposing their bigotry, and their falsehoods.
