North Carolina pastors: Beat the gender nonconformity out of your kids.
Last week, a Baptist preacher in Fayetteville, NC trying to get the vote out for Amendment 1 roared at his congregation that they had "special dispensation" to punch their sons and break their wrists if they act "like a female" - and, less violently but still odiously, police their daughters' gender expression as well.
Jeremy Hooper (linked by Joe Jervis and Jason Thibault) posts the video of Sean Harris' sermon. If you're sensitive to this kind of rhetoric, you may not care to watch.
"So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, “Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,” you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.
Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male. And when your daughter starts acting too butch you reign her in. And you say, “Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.”
You say, “Can I take charge like that as a parent?”
Yeah, you can. You are authorized. I just gave you a special dispensation this morning to do that.
Hooper also has video of Harris claiming that same-sex marriage could cause Muslims to "take over America," and claiming that GLBT people, being "sick and ungodly," are "not good for America."
Harris later made an fauxpology, claiming he was "joking" about hitting kids, but still defending the "need" to shove children into rigidly traditional gender roles. Hooper, in rejecting the fauxpology, writes that although "people misspeak" due to brain farts or becoming emotional,There are certain words that should never be on (or even near) a person's tongue... Threatening violence against LGBT children falls firmly in that latter category. Especially when said violence is encouraged in a church. Especially during a sermon deliberately designed to foster discrimination (i.e. negative message in to LGBT people) via a proposed state marriage ban. Especially when the violence-fomenting sermon comes from a pastor whose church also operates a school.
Tomorrow, there'll be a protest in Fayetteville by Military Atheists & Secular Humanists of Fort Bragg (MASH Fort Bragg). As Justin Griffith notes, the Fort Bragg Patch article about the protest flushed out another pro-beating pastor, one Mark Rowden:Pastor Harris should be praised for his bold stance in scripture. People get so bent out of shape over things. If America don't stop allowing such ungodliness to go unchallenged, we'll find our nation like Sodom. We forget the Bible says "spare the rod, spoil the child"
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Jeremy Hooper (linked by Joe Jervis and Jason Thibault) posts the video of Sean Harris' sermon. If you're sensitive to this kind of rhetoric, you may not care to watch.
Click to view"So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, “Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,” you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.
Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male. And when your daughter starts acting too butch you reign her in. And you say, “Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.”
You say, “Can I take charge like that as a parent?”
Yeah, you can. You are authorized. I just gave you a special dispensation this morning to do that.
Hooper also has video of Harris claiming that same-sex marriage could cause Muslims to "take over America," and claiming that GLBT people, being "sick and ungodly," are "not good for America."
Harris later made an fauxpology, claiming he was "joking" about hitting kids, but still defending the "need" to shove children into rigidly traditional gender roles. Hooper, in rejecting the fauxpology, writes that although "people misspeak" due to brain farts or becoming emotional,There are certain words that should never be on (or even near) a person's tongue... Threatening violence against LGBT children falls firmly in that latter category. Especially when said violence is encouraged in a church. Especially during a sermon deliberately designed to foster discrimination (i.e. negative message in to LGBT people) via a proposed state marriage ban. Especially when the violence-fomenting sermon comes from a pastor whose church also operates a school.
Tomorrow, there'll be a protest in Fayetteville by Military Atheists & Secular Humanists of Fort Bragg (MASH Fort Bragg). As Justin Griffith notes, the Fort Bragg Patch article about the protest flushed out another pro-beating pastor, one Mark Rowden:Pastor Harris should be praised for his bold stance in scripture. People get so bent out of shape over things. If America don't stop allowing such ungodliness to go unchallenged, we'll find our nation like Sodom. We forget the Bible says "spare the rod, spoil the child"
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