Last Sunday, Pastor Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church, put his church on the map with his Third Reich inspired solution to the “gay problem.” His idea?
“Build a great, big, large fence…150 or 100 mile long…put all the lesbians in there, fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out… feed’em and you know what? In a few years, they’ll die out… do you know why? They can’t reproduce!”
Obviously, his words stirred a lot of controversy, so much so that the website has been taken down. Radio host, David Pakman, contacted the hosting company, Stonewall Consulting, who said the Pastor’s comments were “unfortunate,” but that the site was only taken down after hackers posted vulgar words on it. Pakman goes on to say that he had heard that Pastor Worley wanted the site down. Stonewall Consulting continues by defending Pastor Worley, saying the clip was not an “accurate representation of the pastor’s feelings” and that they will not discontinue their relationship with him.
Here’s the video:
Stonewall Consulting isn’t the only one coming to the defense of the pastor. At least one parishioner thinks his sentiment was just fine and dandy. Church member, Geneva Sims told WCNC that she agrees with his message.
“He had every right to say what he said about putting them in a pen and giving them food,” Sims explained. “The Bible says they are worthy of death. He is preaching God’s word.”
“Sometimes you’ve got to be scared straight,” she said. “He is trying to save those people from Hell.”
Here’s the video:
Sims has been attending since the 70s. Another parishioner, Stacey Pritchard, said, “Sometimes you’ve got to be scared straight,” she explained. “He is trying to save those people from Hell.”
David Pakman interviewed another parishioner, who is a lesbian and who has attended around 20 sermons over the last 30 years. She prefers to remain anonymous.
PAKMAN – When did you first become aware of Pastor Worley?
PARISHIONER – Back in the very early 80s.
PAKMAN – We’ve heard another of defenders of Pastor Worley say the May 13th comments were not representative of his beliefs, including the developer of the Church’s website – a website that is now down – saying that they don’t believe the comments really accurately represent Pastor Worley’s belief about homosexuality. If we date back to the 80s, has he been clear about his views on homosexuality, and what are those views?
PARISHIONER – I think I have an understanding of his views on homosexuality and I believe that he thinks and he has said from the pulpit at least on a couple of occasions that I recall that homosexuality is against the Biblical scripture.
PAKMAN – When you heard the comment about rounding up gays and lesbians and the electric fence and that, did that seem at all surprising or out of character given the 20 or so sermons of Pastor Worley’s that you’ve attended or did it seem in line with you know about him and what you’ve heard from him?
PARISHIONER – I was not surprised. I’m saddened, but I’m not surprised.
PAKMAN – Is your sense that the reaction from the crowd was positive when Pastor Worley would speak so negatively about gays and lesbians?
PARISHIONER – There would be quite a few ‘amen’s within the congregation.
Here’s the video:
A protest is being planned for Sunday.
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