THOUGHTBOX

Last week I wrote about a North Carolina pastor proposing a homosexual concentration camp . Thought I'd seen the worse of this kind of hate and ignorance for a while - but the Internet happened. Watch the video. Just...watch it. The short version is: a little church-goer in Greensburg, Indiana, went up to the mic to perform a little song for his fellow church-goers. What did he sing? He certainly didn't praise Jesus. To my shock and astonishment, he began to  sing  "Ain't No Homos Gonna Make It To Heaven" - to the roaring applause and cheer of the adult church-goers.  I don't think I've seen such an engrossing display of indoctrination, hatred and ignorance. And that is made all the more clear by juxtaposition: after all, the person that delivers this light, happy-sounding tune is a child, a budding human being we oft associate with innocence. And innocent this is not... It's not the poor kid's fault. However, I don't think I c...

Following Obama's support of same-sex marriage, there has been quite the backlash across traditional communities in the States. But I haven't seen anything come close to this dogmatic tirade that reeks of bigotry. During a sermon, pastor Charles L. Worley interrupted his anti-Obama rant to present the "solution" to the homosexual "problem". Here's a snippet : I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers. Build a great, big, large fence — 150- or 100-mile-long — put all the lesbians in there… Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out… And you know what, in a few years, they’ll die. After a few more jabs at homosexuals and lesbians, all of them enthusiastically approved with "Amens", he concluded: God have mercy. It makes me pukin’ sick to think about — I don’t even know whether or not to say this in the pulpit — can you imagine kissing some man? ...