North Carolina pastor Patrick Wooden is
only opposed to gay men practicing anal and oral sex.
Wooden, a pastor at Raleigh's Upper
Room Church, is an outspoken supporter of North Carolina's proposed
constitutional amendment that would bar the state from recognizing
the unions of gay couples with marriage, civil unions and possibly
domestic partnerships.
In an interview with Sirius XM's
Michelangelo
Signorile, Wooden defended recent comments that gay men shove
cellphones and gerbils up their anuses and knows of a man who died in
diapers, because “where what used to be his anus had become a
gaping hole and he literally died in diapers, he literally lost
control of himself.”
In making his remarks, Wooden suggested
that gay men are not human: “Even the homosexual lobby knows, those
who are pro-homosexual, they know that they cannot win the argument
describing what it is that these people actually do to each other,
the objects, the animals in certain cases, the little gerbils; thank
God I'm a human being!”
But speaking with Signorile, Wooden,
who previously said that God did not design sperm to be “emptied
into an area that is filled with feces,” said he was okay with
sodomy and oral sex for straight couples.
“I believe the Bible says that
marriage is honorable in all and the bed is undefiled,” he said.
When asked why heterosexuals can have
oral and anal sex, Wooden answered: “I believe sexual activity is
for persons of the opposite sex.”
“But what I am saying, and I want to
be perfectly clear, and I don't apologize for it, it doesn't make me
a bigot,” he added. “I don't have an unreasonable fear of
homosexuals. I believe marriage is between a man and [a] woman.”