Roughly 100 people on Sunday morning
protested Fort Des Moines, Iowa Pastor Michael Demastus' “Gay is
not okay” sermon, the Des
Moines Register reported.
Demastus last week promoted his
upcoming sermon on homosexuality with a message stating “Gay is not
okay” on the marque outside the Church of Christ where he
ministers.
The 41-year-old Demastus told about 150
parishioners that homosexuality is “not an unpardonable sin,” but
insisted that a person cannot “be God-fearing and disobey God at
the same time.”
By way of example, he said that people
who don't follow Apple's instructions on how to use an iPad won't be
happy with the results.
“They wrote those instructions for my
benefit,” he said. “God created sex. He knows how it works.”
Outside, protesters held signs that
read “Gay is Okay!” and “Real Men (Like Jesus) LOVE
Unconditionally.”
“No more children need to die because
of this bigotry,” one protester told the cheering crowd. (Video of
the protest is embedded in the right panel. Visit
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