Meet Pastor Charles Worley, of Providence Road Baptist Church ("The Home of old time Religion") in Maiden, N.C. In this video excerpt from one of his recent Sunday morning sermons, Pastor Worley offers his thoughtful suggestion for resolving THE debate over gay rights.
The good pastor's idea for "gettin' rid of all the lesbians and queers" is to build "a great big large fence" around all the gay people, electrify it, and then allow the people penned in by the fence to die.
Pffft. And people thought the gay issue would be difficult to solve.
Of course, Pastor Worley, being a man of the cloth, is hardly inured from compassion. He makes this very clear with his suggestion that we "fly over and drop some food" to the masses of imprisoned gay people. So it's not like he wants them to just starve to death. That would be cruel. This is, after all, a Christian leader bound by the love of Jesus, not a morally repugnant, astoundingly ignorant, semi-literate, hate-filled meathead who wouldn't know Jesus Christ from Cujo.
Pastor Worley just wants all gay people to live behind an electric fence until they grow old and die. And who doesn't want to be fed for free until they die of old age? It's like social security -- but with electricity. And less travel. And food falling on your head.
Pastor Worley also wants to separate all the gay men from all the gay women: He wants to keep two separate electrified pens. Because (one assumes) otherwise some of the gay men might sleep with some of the gay women. And we all know what that would mean: gay babies. And then where would it all end? We only have so much money to spend on fences, airplane fuel and food that bounces. So, in this one instance, separate but equal would have to work.
If you have any thoughts or suggestions about his extremely novel social experiment, please do not hesitate to share them with Pastor Worley, at pastor@prbcnc.com. I'm sure he'd be glad to hear from each and every one of you.
After all, if you can't count on Christian pastors to be open to new thoughts and ideas, what good are they?
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Maiden, NC 28650
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So...he wants to keep 'em in the middle of nowhere, drop food upon 'em, and wait for 'em all to die out of old age?
Where have I heard about this idea before? Lemme think for a minute.
That's Jehovah/Jesus did with his "chosen people"!
Let's hear it for the Bible!
My larger point is that the church is full of people with this sort of mindset - and has always been - precisely because they consider the Bible to be an accurate guide to moral and ethical thought and behavior.
People will always have a dark side. The root problem of the Abrahamic religions is that their core texts actually encourage and even sanctify those dark side thoughts and actions. We don't have to talk homophobia here. We can talk genocide, slavery, misogyny.
But we can talk homophobia, too. The attempts of a few (including you) to exegete away that problem don't really wash.
Better to simply admit that the Bible is a deeply flawed document, with some good parts and some bad parts. In our modern world, we just know better than the ancients did about morality and ethics - whether we're talking about the Hebrew prophets or the Church fathers.
These are the same right wing people who cry out fro a return to the constitution. Every time I hear "Return To Our Founding Fathers Vision/Constitution" I see people who want to make changes in the constitution.to mirror their own prejudices and vision that has noting to do with the founders. .
It is simply terrifying what disregard for fellow man some people have.
I understand that there are good, well meaning religious people out there, but men like this minister just poison the entire well.