It appears that there is nothing quite so inspiring for a Sunday morning like a good old-fashioned homicidal homophobic homily. Pastor Charles L. Worley has propelled himself into the national limelight with a hate-filled sermon that lays his faith-based fantasy for homosexuals — concentration camps with electric fences where they would be left to die off. In what could be viewed as a violation of the tax-exempt status of the church, he rails against President Barack Obama and says that it would be impossible to vote for him.
The Pastor of Providence Road Baptist Church in the town of Maiden, North Carolina gave a raving sermon on the “way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers.” Worley was set off by Obama’s statement that he personally supports same-sex marriage. Here is his Christian response:
Of our President, gettin’ up and sayin’ that it was all right for two women to marry or two men to marry, I’ll tell you right now, I was disappointed bad. But I’ll tell you right there, it’s as sorry as you can get. The Bible’s again’ it, God’s again’ it, I’m again’ it, and if you’ve got any sense you’re again’ it! I figured a way out–a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers. But I couldn’t get it passed through Congress. Build a great big large fence, 150 or 100 miles long. Put all the lesbians in there. Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals. Have that fence electrified so they can’t get out. Feed ‘em, and- And you know what? In a few years they’ll die out. You know why? They can’t reproduce. If a man ever has a youngin’, praise God it’ll be the first’n.
I am actually “again” concentration camps designed to kill millions of people, but then again I do not claim to be the (blunt) instrument of God. The Br’er Rabbit dialogue is also a bit strong. I have lived South most my adult life and I have not run into a guy who actually says “if a man ever has a youngin’, praise God it’ll be the first’n” outside a 1930’s talkie movie. It appears that grammar is the gateway to homosexuality.
He then turns the sermon to voting and his public insistence that he does not want to have homosexual relations with the men in front of him:
All of these…man, I’m gonna preach the hell out of all of us. Hey! I’ll tell you right now, if somebody said, “Who you gonna vote for?” I ain’t gonna vote for a baby-killer and a homosexual-lover! You said, “Did you mean to say that?” You better believe I did! God have mercy! It makes me pukin’ sick! To think about–I don’t even know whether y’all are say this in the pulpit or not. Could you imagine kissin’ some man? My God, I love you fellers.
Well, I am not sure about those “fellars” but I passed “pukin’ sick” a couple minutes ago.
and just 2000 years ago we could have fed his ass to the lions.
amen
North Carolina Anti-Gay Pastor In 1978: Gays Used To Be ‘Hung, Bless God, From A White Oak Tree’
By Annie-Rose Strasser on May 22, 2012
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/22/488614/worley-oak-gays-tree/
The anti-gay North Carolina pastor Charles Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church has been facing backlash over his recent sermon in which he said the US should pen in “all the lesbians and queers” with an electrified fence and wait for them to “die out.”
But it turns out Worley has been saying offensive things about gay people for decades.
Jeremy Hooper dug up this bit of hate from Worley in 1978, in which Worley says that “40 years ago” gay people would have been hung “from a white oak tree”:
WORLEY: I’m God’s preacher. I just believe the book. Living in a day when, you know what, it saddens my heart to think that homosexuals can go around, bless God, and get the applause of a lot of people. Lesbians and all the rest of it? Bless God, forty years ago they’d have hung ‘em, bless God, from a white oak tree, wouldn’t they? Amen.
junctionshamus,
Take a trip on Route 66. On a Harley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr
Do you really think they needed to put that kind of effort into investigating Bill Clinton? Wag the dog. Is Karl Rove there too?
Matt, I thought you were talking about Bush driving in from Crawford. ha ha You were talking about David Koresh. I got confused as I thought you were talking about the present. Crawford is near Waco, too. Ken Starr is now there, also.
SwM,
Matt, I think their chef goes all the way to Austin to the Central Market. Saw the security vehicle there once. The goods in Waco are probably not high enough end for them. lol
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Who’s the chef? I thought their compound already burned down.
junctionshamus, I don’t know. I am not a native Texan. I know there is nothing out there but ranches and now lots of wind turbines. The good part is within in a few miles you will leave Texas and enter New Mexico.
junctionshamus,
Ruby Ridge trial is old news. The guy involved in that got a pickup truck. He gave the rest of the money to his surviving daughters.
@ Matt Johnson – Ruby Ridge – 1992, Branch Davidians – 1993. Not so far apart, Fast & Furious – 2008? A long string of failures, I think.
@SwM – Re: Whackos from Waco – An old song by Timpothy P. and the Rural Route 3: “(I’m Proud to Be From) Dumb-ass, Texas”
Matt, I think their chef goes all the way to Austin to the Central Market. Saw the security vehicle there once. The goods in Waco are probably not high enough end for them. lol
@Matt Johnson – Maybe the “smart” ones were still occupied trying to get their stories straight about Ruby Ridge?
SwM – So what are the people in Dumas, TX known for? 🙂
SwM,
Good point. What is the ATF known for? Why not let the local police arrest Mr. Personality when he was in town on one of his supply junkets?
Waco is known for WHACKOS.
shano,
The question, idealist ,is why do Americans love these kinds of con men so much?
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They don’t. They’re just indoctrinated.
SwM,
I don’t live in Portland. What is Waco known for? It isn’t their coffee.
junctionshamus,
There aren’t any “Mongeese” in the United States because they have a hard time surviving. The weasels don’t want to mess with rattlesnakes either. The weasels are smarter than mongeese.
The question, idealist ,is why do Americans love these kinds of con men so much?
What’s to worry about America?
Nuts on top, nuts on bottom. That evens out to one nut.
Now if we knew the name, we could eat it and go home.
Mske any sense out of that? Neither did I.
But could say the same of much here today.
One millon monkeys = (please fill in)
Here’s a story for you:
Mark Traina, New Orleans School Psychologist, Stirs Up Firestorm With Tweets About “Black Thugs”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/22/school-psychologists-twee_n_1536870.html
Excerpt:
A school psychologist in New Orleans is under fire for posting racially inflammatory comments online amid a debate about the school system’s treatment of black and special education students.
The Jefferson Parish school system is investigating Mark Traina after some of his postings — including “Young Black Thugs who won’t follow the law need to be put down not incarcerated. Put down like the Dogs they are!” — were highlighted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.
Traina’s comments – including “Serpas should be warning people to STAY THE HELL OUT OF NEW ORLEANS! These Black Dudes will Kill You!” – were posted on his Twitter feed and on the NOLA.com Website. In an April Tweet, he wrote that 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman was “the real victim and held his ground.”
Children at play. No adults allowed.