Pastor Charles L. Worley of the
Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina has called
for the death of lesbians, queers and homosexuals.
Worley told his congregation during a
sermon that gay people should be left to die behind an electrified
fence.
“I figured a way out. A way to get
rid of all of lesbians and queers but I couldn't get it past the
Congress,” Worley said from the pulpit. “Build a great big large
fence, 50 or 100 mile long. Put all the lesbians in there. Fly over
and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the
homosexuals. And have that fence electrified till they can't get
out. Feed 'em, and … And you know what? In a few years they'll
die out. Do you know why? They can't reproduce.”
When he added, “Somebody said, 'Who
you gonna vote for?' I ain't gonna vote for a baby killer and a
homosexual lover,” some in the crowd could be heard responding with
“Amen.”
Video of the sermon, which was posted
on the group's website, has since been removed.
Appearing on CNN's Anderson cooper
360, Rev. Welton Gaddy, president of Interfaith Alliance, rebuked
Worley's message.
“In one fell swoop, this angry
minister managed to discredit from his pulpit both the constitution
of the United States and the compassion that we find in the Bible.
And additionally he did a very dangerous thing by planting seeds of
hatred in sick minds that in the right circumstances can act on them
and do the kind of violence that has no place in our world.” (The
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