Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of the
influential First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, has compared gay
sex to plugging a television into the incorrect outlet.
Jeffress made the comparison during an
appearance on the Trinity Broadcast Network's flagship program Praise
the Lord.
In the interview, Jeffress argued that
gay sex violates God's design for sex.
“Think about this one time in heaven
God was sitting up there with his sketch pad and he said, 'you know
I'm going to design human beings and would it be fun if they started
doing this together with one another,'” Jeffress said. “God
dreamed up sex. He thought it up for our enjoyment. He gave us the
equipment to enjoy it with.”
Gay sex, Jeffress
argued, was like plugging a 120-volt television into a 220-volt
outlet.
Jeffress explained that he was going to
use the incorrect outlet because “those are antiquated
instructions” and “It's my TV and I can do whatever I want to
with it.”
“Well, it is my TV to do what I want
to with it but I'm going to blow that TV into smithereens if I put it
in a 220 outlet,” Jeffress said. (The video is embedded on this
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