NC Pastor Wants To Build Electrified Fence To Contain, Starve And Ultimately Kill Gays: VIDEO| News | Towleroad
In a sermon blasting President Obama for his same-sex marriage support, Pastor Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina, offered a novel — and horrific — solution to the so-called gay scourge: build an electric fence and let “lesbians, queers and homosexuals” starve to death.”I figured a way to get [...]
The only parts of his face that were not covered in blood were the small streaks where his tears had fallen
Thirteen years ago, on October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard was brutally attacked and left to die, simply because he was gay. He was found almost a full day later tied to a fence, and died in the hospital on October 12. When he was found, the only parts of his face that were not covered [...]
Gay man commits suicide after Mormon church severs afterlife ties to his children
Bryan Egnew grew up in an observant LDS family in Arizona, the fourth of ten children. After graduating high school, he attended Brigham Young University, served a proselytizing mission in France, and then married in an LDS temple. He became the father of five children. He served in his local LDS congregation. He did everything [...]
Hate the Sin, Beat Up the Sinners
Jerry Pittman Jr. and his boyfriend Dustin Lee recently visited Grace Fellowship Church in Fruitland, Tennessee — the church Pittman’s father leads — and they had greeters waiting for them: “I went over to take the keys out of the ignition and all the sudden I hear someone say ‘sick’em,” the younger Pittman explained. “My uncle and two other [...]
Pat Robertson: God Will Destroy America For Marriage Equality
Following a story on New York passing marriage equality, Pat Robertson on The 700 Club warned that God will destroy America just like God destroyed Sodom, saying that “there’s never been a civilization ever in history that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity, traditional marriage, traditional child-rearing, and has survived.” Robertson previously feared [...]
CNN Reviews the Christian Hypocrisy on Homosexuality
Prior to the passage of the marriage equality legislation in New York, CNN’s Kyra Phillips interviewed Jonathan Dudley, who authored an op-ed on CNN’s faith blog asserting that opponents of gay marriage were hypocritical, using the Bible to defend their own values. Dudley is a graduate of Yale’s Divinity School and the author ofBroken Words: The [...]
