Pastor James David Manning of the Atlah
Worldwide Church in Harlem, New York claims that allowing gay and
lesbian couples to marry will lead to the normalization of
adult-child marriages.
Manning made headlines earlier this
year when he declared on his church sign that “Jesus would stone
homos.”
(Related: Lesbian
asks anti-gay church to stone her.)
In a one-minute clip posted Monday,
Manning insisted that gay couples cannot marry because they are not
of the opposite sex.
“Marriage is between a man and a
woman, so these are not marriages. They are fixations, it's what
they are. They are, if you will, legalized perverted orgies, if you
must,” Manning
said.
“Mark my words, like [out football
player] Michael Sam and others, someone is going to take a 9-year-old
boy to an Arabic nation, or to a nation without power to retort,
marry that 9-year-old and come back into Ellis Island and through
customs and New York state will have to recognize that marriage.”
“That's exactly how pedophilia is
going to begin to grow all over every place,” he added.