The speech of an Hispanic pastor was accurately reported at the beginning of the paragraph (homosexuals “are worthy of death") but that has become transformed into “Kill the gays" by the end of the paragraph. That Christians follow the Bible and that Romans chapter 1 says that God will do the punishing, not man, is obviously too complicated for the tiny brain of the writer below.
Specifically, Reverend Ortega said, gays “are worthy of death.” The translator did not pause or miss a beat, and neither did Reverend Díaz -- who spoke just minutes later -- nor did Díaz, the elected representative of hundreds of thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender constituents, bother to walk back or disavow that hate speech. It gives one pause to ask, if it’s illegal to yell, “Fire!” in a crowded theater, why isn’t it illegal to yell, “Kill the gays!” in front of a few thousand religious bigots?
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Christian bigots are worthy of punishment by God or Man!
147, and what punishment would you like to see? LOL
Reverend Díaz is also elected Representative Diaz? How is that not a violation of the (albeit imaginary) seperation of church and state clause of the Constitution? Or does that only apply when used against Christains?
Distinction: The condition or fact of being dissimilar or distinct; difference: "the crucial distinction between education and indoctrination".
-=NYC=-
Is teaching that certain behaviours are sinful and will be punished really equivalent to incitement? If so, you'll find something to offend you in almost every church in the world.
12:47 - Well said!
And Jesus did talk an awful lot about hypocrites in the religion of his day - but that seems to be totally lost on the church he nominally founded (but was since distorted and corrupted on so many levels).
Telling people to go kill gays…
Talk about missing the point!
No. One. Said. That. . . . !!!
Sheesh! I really wonder how someone can be so massively (and apparently, deliberately) obtuse.
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