There Is No Separation of Church and Hate

Coming on the heels of this morning's piece about the moron DJ in Cleveland who advised a listener with a lesbian daughter to have one of his friends "screw your daughter straight"  (nothing like sanctioning the rape of an teenage girl) comes this story out of North Carolina.

Recorded this past Sunday, Pastor Sean Harris is heard advising his parishioners to "punch" their children who display gay or lesbian tendencies.

I'm not kidding.

Yes, another fine, upstanding Christian espousing hatred, bigotry, and violence all the while hiding like a pussy behind God's robes.

How I wish God would lift his robes and take a huge shit on people like this.

From his "sermon" as he "authorized" parents, “giving them a special dispensation” to harm their children:

"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.

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.'"

Asshole, party of 1, your table is ready.

He speaks of a 4 year old child and advises the father to "give him a good punch."

Fine.  So if we follow the DJ's logic we can have the gay assraped into him, and if we follow this ignorant piece of shit's logic we can break his wrists and beat some gay into those little limp f*ckers of his.

It is shameful, heartbreaking because people listen to religious leaders like this.  They blindly follow this type of advice because these leaders are supposed to be examples of morality and spirituality.  Worse, they follow because they are afraid to not follow, to not be part of the gang, to not get into that front row seat in Heaven.  My heart breaks for the children who grow up under a seige of stupidity, of cruelty, of conditional love - which is not love at all.  Love does not have strings attached, conditions to meet.

A child is born into this world with blue eyes, brown eyes, green eyes, hell - no eyes.  All genetic.  A child is born into this world with their sexuality hardwired as well. 

These people believe God creates everything.  They praise him for everything.  They give all glory to Him for everything.

And then they turn around and advocate hatred and violence toward a segment of His creation.

They are the same folks who shout about being good Amuricans then condemn the Taliban.  Sorry, you are one and the same.  Ignorant, backwards, soulless terrorists all.

I so wish God would erect bleachers in heaven so we could all sit and watch when these horrible people come before Him and find out that what God has hated all along is their conceit, their egos, that they dare to call themselves Christians when their every breath is as far from Christlike as is humanly possible.

God?  I'm sorry, but to paraphrase Roy Scheider, You're gonna need a bigger Hell.

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From the Charlotte Observer...

Comments

[Chicky]

Nice. They must be so proud of the way they shape {brainwash} a 4-year olds mind. They should be ashamed - sadly, this is their truth - I still shake my head at the blind stupidity of a great portion of the human race.

[Robin in NM]

I realize that the verbal advocating of child abuse is no per se a crime. However, anyone who acts on his advice IS abusing a child, whether that "punch" is literal or 'merely' verbal. Surely, anyone who follows this idiot's teachings should land in jail, and their children taken away from them to hopefully find a less hate-full enviroment to grow up in.

[Sue, Sacramento]

Oh for Christ's sake....if you don't have something nice to say....say nothing at all. I have tons of Christian friends & gotta tell you...when the subject of my gay son comes up they immediately quote the old testament. My answer is always the same....my son @ the age of 26 has made a difference in more young lives than they could ever hope to do...and if God refuses my son Heaven based only on his sexuality and not on the lives of children he has counseled and will continue to counsel, then he is not the God of Love after all. I have faith, tho, that when all is said & done, it is truly how you treat your fellow human beings & your life's work that will be the measurement in gaining entrance into Heaven.

[Another Lori in TX]

It may not be an actual crime to advocate hitting your child, as Robin says, but it sure as HELL ought to be reported to higher-ups in that church! What a bunch of CRAP to preach in church!!

[moe]

Sorry but there is a dark side to Christianity, and for Sue to do the " if you don't have something nice to say, say nothing at all" is crap. I'm a Pagan in America and I could tell Sue a few things about her fellow Christians that are far from " nice" and I'm supposed to shut up about it? The Christians that sand by and keep their mouths shut while people like Tempest Smith die because of the doings of their fellow Christians are IMO allowing evil to continue. Silence equates with consent in such situations. Jesus Christ never said anything about LGBTs. In fact, he mentioned in regards to children " to the least of these you do, you do to Me." Harris' "sermon" is deplorable with good reason and should be condemned.

[Sue, Sacramento]

Whoa Moe...i think you totally misread my post. I was talking about the pastor when I said that if you have nothing nice to say, etc....not people who stand behind their religion and use it to bash the LGBT community. I have a gay son...did you miss that point? I happen to be a Christian & I would no more bash, bully or abuse anyone because of their sexual orientation than I would take abuse from anyone because of what I believe. I have faith in a loving & just God & believe that He made my son the way he is. My heart breaks for young people like Tempest Smith. That could have easily been my son. I hope this clears things up...