Peter Worley, The Providence Road Baptist Church
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But the thing is, the surface facts of this story bury the lead.
On first viewing this video, for some reason, I am not even sure why, In my brain it was in some big " FIRST BAPTIST -ish church in Charlotte. No, its some Podunk church in Maiden , North Carolina, which is sort of near Hickory , looks like the hard core Piedmont of NC.
Far be it from me to come to the defense of a small town Southern Church , that has on their sign " Home of that old time religion ". This is America, you are free to believe anything you want. You are free to be a pro Nazi as you want to be....
This guy has been spewing this stuff for a while , evidently. And as I have said many many times : " do they not know we can see them?!? " . Someone found the 1978 version of this sermon where he wanted to hang the queers instead of putting them in concentration camps. Even I believe went as far as to say , " hang them from trees".
DIFFERENT MINDSETS / UNIVERSE
But now, here is the thing, and here is the true headline of this story. In 2012 we ( collective we... as broad as you want it to be, civilized America - and from what I am reading, the world, FOUGHT BACK. ) iStonewall . It is now, maybe for the first time for this guy, NOT OK, to stand as a man-of-god and say " put gays in concentration camps"
This church is the one that put the video out there.. thinking nothing would come of it, or maybe that . They are just going by the true word of God. Preaching what the Bible says... His parishioners take it that one step farther.. or at least back to his '78 stance
MORE FROM CNN ( I cant post the video ) CHRISTIANS.. that will not say concentration camps are wrong....
Global condemnation of this small pitiful man and his church was swift and total, something you know he never thought about. Full media firestorm.. every network, major newspapers on and on. A big media circus protest at the church this Sunday. A little bit shocking, to the good people of Western North Carolina. " You caint kill queers ?"
So, the headline is not, there are stupid people in the world, but that the majority of the world disavowed him... and he was shown to be the exact opposite of what he claims, so very loudly , to be. There was a story , somewhere this past Sunday, I meant to save it and didn't, about the speed of the lgbt movement. Seems like we are moving in bursts.. and right now, we are on the first big hill of some giant roller coaster..... I really can not see this toothpaste ever going back into the tube.....
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