I hope you don’t get tired of reading my blogs about social justice. Maybe it is because I was born in the early ‘60s, but it just seems like all my life, some group – African American, Native Americans, women, the handicapped – has always been fighting for equal rights. So, when I see social injustice, it just irks me and I feel the need to speak out about it.
I was going to write a blog about green uses for vinegar, but as angry as I am today, that can wait. I just saw a horrifying video that has gone viral. It is a pastor from North Carolina ranting and raving about lesbians and homosexuals. From the pulpit no less!
Pastor Charles L. Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina had his May 13th sermon recorded and put on the web. This was just days after Amendment One, prohibiting same-sex marriage, was passed in the state.
In his sermon, he says – and I have to quote this because to paraphrase would just not do the sermon justice – “I had a way… I figured a way out – a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers – but I couldn’t get it past the Congress.”
What was his way to “solve” the homosexual problem that he sees? “Build a great big, large fence – 50 or a 100 miles long – and put all the lesbians in there. Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals – and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out. Feed ’em. And you know in a few years, they’ll die out. You know why? They can’t reproduce.”
Apparently Pastor Worley fondly remembers the Japanese internment camps of World War II because that almost sounds like what he is describing here. In case you missed it, he is saying we should take American citizens and confine them against their will, based solely on their sexual preference, to an area surrounded by an electrified fence and drop food in for them. Oh yeah, I left out that we’d do this for the purpose of genocide – to kill out a social group. Or, as Matt Comer of the Charlotte Rainbow Action Network for Equality (CRANE) puts is, “This pastor proposes sending LGBT people to Nazi-like concentration camps.”
More of the sermon tomorrow.