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Okay, Would You Rather Have Someone Murder You or Steal
Your Bubblegum?
Report for
May 14, 2004
The homo-fascists get plenty of help from
neo-evangelical pastors preaching their experiential, emotional,
seeker-sensitive gospel. Check out the comments in red in the article
below before you go any farther.
The equalitarian sin doctrine is in full-bloom these days. Certainly any
sin justly sentences the sinner to hell. However that does not mean God
views and responds to all sin the same. Consider, for instance, John
19:11: "Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against
me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me
unto thee hath the greater sin." Leviticus, chapter 18, gives
a list of sins for which God will destroy a nation. The Bible tells us
that innocent bloodshed pollutes the land and can only be expiated by the
execution of the murderer. Sodom was destroyed by fire and brimstone
because of sexual perversion, sin which God labels "very
grievous" (Genesis 18:20). When was the last time a city had that
happen to it for bubblegum stealing?
Preachers stoke anti-gay sentiment
By Leon Alligood, Tennessean, May 8, 2004
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/05/51036670.shtml?Element_ID=51036670
DAYTON, Tenn. - Eight preachers, spurred by anti-gay rights organizer the
Rev. Frank Raddish of Washington, D.C., heaped fire and brimstone on
''homosexuals and sodomites'' during a five-hour preaching marathon
yesterday beneath the century oaks of the historic Rhea County Courthouse.
Before the ''Amen'' of the final prayer, a preacher in the audience took
exception with his fellow pastors on the program, a local gay man quietly
protested the meeting's ''hate message'' and passers-by pondered what
today's Gay Day in Rhea will bring - when an estimated 3,500 people plus
and unknown quantity of protesters converge in Dayton.
''This is going to be a mess,'' predicted Joe Cox as he stood on the
sidewalk listening to the courthouse speeches.
''I'm telling you right now, I'll probably be in jail tomorrow, because if
my nephew looks at me and he says, 'Uncle Joe, what are those men doing
holding hands?' I shouldn't have to explain that to my nephew. There'll be
trouble,'' the Rhea County man said.
Rhea County officials, however, contend they have the situation under
control. Law enforcement from Rhea County's 50-person sheriff's
department, the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Tennessee Wildlife
Resources Agency also will be on duty to maintain control at the event at
Point Park.
Officially known as a ''Godly Heritage Day'' event, yesterday's rally was
planned as a pre-emptive strike against today's Gay Day rally, which
people from as far away as New York and Texas are expected to attend the
pro-gay speechmaking marathon.
This weekend's event is a reaction to a controversial March 16 vote of the
Rhea County Commission. The motion, rescinded two days later in the face
of worldwide media coverage, called for Rhea County to be off-limits to
homosexuals.
Yesterday's preaching session at the courthouse attracted a small but
vocal crowd of about 50. As speakers held their King James Bibles aloft or
pounded on a cedar pulpit, the mostly male crowd punctuated the air with
shouts of ''That's right! ''You tell it, brother!'' and ''Right, sir!''
''The pedophiles will be here tomorrow. The men who dress like women will
be here. They're not going to bring decency to Rhea County,'' said Raddish,
founder and director of Capitol Hill Independent Baptist Ministries in
Washington. Raddish is a frequent speaker at churches across the country.
''The world wants to educate our children to be tolerant of homosexuals.
The homosexuals can't grow in number unless they recruit. How do they
recruit? They sodomize. That's the only way,'' Raddish said, his voice
thundering through a public address system that could be heard through
most of downtown Dayton.
If Raddish lit the match, speakers who followed added gasoline to the
fiery anti-gay rhetoric.
''If you think 9/11 was something, buddy, you don't know what judgment
awaits. If we don't repent and get right with God as a nation, God will
destroy this country,'' said Chattanooga-based evangelist Ray Jameson,
pounding the pulpit.
''You're right!'' one man shouted in the audience.
''Look at what God did with people that cursed him, that mocked him. This
is what the homos will tell you: God loves them. Yes, God loves them. He
wants to save them. If they won't turn from that sin, God will destroy
them,'' he said.
Donna Robarge, out for a barefoot stroll with her three children, ages 3,
2, and 1, listened to the messages for a while but left shaking her head.
''The Bible says don't judge, and that's the first thing these people are
doing,'' she said.
''One day it's going to be gay people. The next day it's going to be
people who are black or what. Civil rights are civil rights, and you have
to respect that.''
After listening to several hours of speeches, the
Rev. Chris Pugh of The Father's House in Dayton had also heard enough.
''I'm very disturbed about the anger I hear coming from behind that
pulpit. Homosexuality is no different than a man murdering somebody or
stealing a piece of bubble gum. It's sin, but the Bible says gluttony is a
sin, and I see a lot of fat people around here,'' he said.
Pugh said he's not condoning homosexuality, ''but let him who has no sin
cast the first stone. A spirit of hatred will never win the lost,'' he
said.
Across the street from the pulpit, Billy Jordan, 39, of Dayton watched and
shook his head.
''I'm gay and I'm the way God made me. I hid it for years because of
people like him,'' said Jordan, pointing to the speaker of the moment.
''I got tired of hiding, so I decided to come out. I told my family the
day before the commissioners took their vote. My sister came in the very
next day and said, 'They're going to run you out of town.' Well, they
aren't. My family is behind me, and they told me if I wanted them here
with me tomorrow, they'd be there.
''Well, you know what? I'm going to be there,'' he said, raising his voice
to be heard over the public address system.
''They're not going to stop me, and they're not going to condemn me to
hell.''
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