Maiden, North Carolina
Have I been under a rock? While I was celebrating Mother’s Day with Mama Sinister, little did I know that an intolerant, ignorant, religious wackjob was condemning all gay and lesbian individuals to death.
I have the popcorn already popping though, anxiously awaiting the outcome of the backlash against Pastor Charles L. Worley. Protests are planned for the weekend and gay rights and anti-hate groups are rolling up their sleeves.
I actually just saw the full video, depicting the 71-year-old Worley at the pulpit of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden.
In a nutshell, Worley’s Mother’s Day sermon suggests that “lesbians and queers” should be rounded up to die off. The sermon was in response to President Barack Obama’s public endorsement a few days earlier of same-sex marriage. Just a day before Obama’s announcement, North Carolina voters approved by a considerable margin a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and same-sex civil unions in their state.
In the sermon, an animated Worley told the congregation of his independent Baptist church:
“I figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers but I couldn’t get it pass the Congress – build a great big large fence, 50 or a hundred 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 so they can’t get out."
And it goes on. Rather than reading, however, the video is far more entertaining than I could be. So, here it is:
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