Is Your Four-Year-Old Acting Gay? "Give Him A Good Punch"

[filkertom]

Some people are just twisted:Sean Harris, the Senior Pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has some words of advice for parents of possibly LGBT children: Smack them around. Beat the gay out of them. Or, in his precise words, "Give [him] a good punch!"
I followed the link in the dKos story, and listened to the audio of

Comments

[peachtales]

Disgusting.

[joecoustic]

Not going to risk sanity points by going to either site but judging from what you wrote... *shudder*.

[virtualvirtue]

Wow. This is some other brand of Christianity than I have learned all my life.

I...wow. I don't even know what to say to this other than I really really really hope this pastor gets some psychological help. I just...wow.

From my growing up (from my family) to my adulthood (choosing a church and living life outside my parents' home), I have been taught that loving others is behind all of the commandments I have learned and try to abide by. Love. Not hate. Not "othering." And not excusing absolutely horrid abusive behaviour. We are here to protect and love one another...every being, no matter who or what they are.

The sincerely pathetic thing (to me) is that I am sadly not surprised. Hate is becoming so normal these days.

[judifilksign]

Yeah. And then treatment centers like ours hope to get the poor gay abused children before they suicide.

[batyatoon]

I'm ashamed to share a species with this slime.