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I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that Providence Road Baptist Church’s flock is now coming forward to defend its spiritual leader. Charles Worley’s “final solution” — a concentration camp for gays with its goal of extinction — is popular with some of his followers.
“Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long — put all the lesbians in there. Do the same thing for 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 out…do you know why? They can’t reproduce!
His followers say he’s right with this message; they mean it with all the “Christian” love they can muster.
Geneva Sims said she’s been listening to Worley preach the Gospel since the 1970s. She wasn’t surprised by the 71-year-old pastor’s now infamous sermon. In fact, she supports him and his message.
“He had every right to say what he said about putting them in a pen and giving them food,” said Sims. “The Bible says they are worthy of death. He is preaching God’s word.”
Providence Road Baptist Church member Stacey Pritchard agreed.
“Sometimes you’ve got to be scared straight,” she explained. “He is trying to save those people from Hell.”
Pritchard said Worley’s message isn’t one of hate. Instead, she interpreted it as tough love guided by Good Book.
Tough love — mass extinction. I guess this doesn’t say much about religious literacy or critical thinking skills there. Perhaps some of these sheeple will also be attending the Loyal White Knights of the KKK’s cross burning at dusk white unity event in Harmony, NC. It’s their kind of discriminating crowd.
The protest on Sunday at Providence Road looks like it will be a huge problem for these haters. Over 1000 people plan to come to the event (10 AM to 1pm), according to the Facebook page of Catawba County Against Hate ; from one of the organizer’s emails there’s word that a church in Maryland is cancelling their church service and chartering buses to come support those demonstrating; I guarantee you that counter demonstrators expected. National news media will also have its eyes there covering Worley and his believers in genocide. The outpouring on the side of peace and tolerance has been overwhelming:
A lot of you guys are emailing us and asking about the protest on Sunday. Originally we expected around 200 people. The response has been incredible with an expected 1,500-2000 people from around the country — and more people are making the decision to come stand with us as the world watches. Entire churches are chartering buses and driving overnight to join us on Sunday.
We have also unofficially received word that the church has moved services out-of-town on Sunday. To that end, we are meeting with law enforcement and other officials today to discuss relocating the protest to another location that will better accommodate this number of people with adequate parking and space.
Please continue to spread the word about the protest on Sunday. There WILL BE a peaceful, non-violent protest and law enforcement WILL BE present. This event will be safe for children and we are taking every step possible to effectively plan and organize.
Further details, we hope, will be released later today on this page and also within the event page. Thank you, from the bottom of our heart, for fighting back against hate with us.
If you haven’t had the pleasure of seeing Worley at the pulpit calling for his final solution, here you go:
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I left N.C. 50 years ago and it seems like nothing has changed,same type of people same
thinking.
His parishioners display that same combination of ignorance, arrogance and stubbornness that I remember so vividly from my childhood.
The demonstration isn’t going to change their minds, but maybe the neighbors will start thinking.
God sure does tolerate fools lightly.
This is so sad. I would love to know what his education is…assuming he has some. I hope the Southern Poverty folks are all over this. Hate and death threats are really not Christian values.
This “pastor,” along with the Pope of course, certainly gives Christianity a bad name. It’s good, I think, that God (if there is one) is purportedly more forgiving than rational humans.
Wonder what would happen if these goobers were taught the ‘Scientific Method’? And the difference between physics and metaphysics, sense and nonsense?
Would there be an Alabama anymore???
Dearie,
Well, ya know, I wonder about these peachers, pastors and so-called men of God. Dunno why they don’t spend more time feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, comforting the afflicted. Good works and suchlike. I thought that’s what they were called to do.
Instead, these religious psychopaths continue hateful rants unchallenged, under guise of religious freedom.
Bah!
I was at the gym, in the locker room, and AC 360 was covering this on the TV monitor. A bunch of guys, very straight very jocky types, started to pay attention, and then went over to look at the monitor. Their jaws dropped and it was, “WTF dude, are you seeing this shit? WTF?”
Of course this is California. But I have to believe that a final solution for gays is not a mainstream idea, even in the deepest, airless, most thought-free and ignorant parts of Dixieland.
Call this what it is, “Die Endlösung”, just as the Nazis defined it. These people are fine Nazis. And people wonder how Germany became what it was, here’s your answer, whipping idiots to a frothing at the mouth hatred of minorities.
Of course, it didn’t take much, seeing as they were brought up as frothing at the mouth bigots by their asshole bigot parents AND pastors.
There is NO reasoning with these people, we cannot change their minds, all we can do is oppose them and their bile. THEY should be the ones behind an electric fence, if only to teach them the meaning of the word “righteousness” since they don’t understand what it means. But then again, they don’t understand the meaning of the words “socialist, communist or fascist” either.
Well he’s certainly out of the closet. I wonder if he hoping to be locked up too?
Capitalist “risk takers” don’t seem to mind rewarding those asshole bigot parents and their pastors either. More failure for mouth frothers means more success for wealth fetishists.
Wow, some chutzpah venturing a ranking out of that triple caveat.
Pffft.
I disagree. These people took up these positions because they were reasoned with in the first place. The difference is that when this pastor got their trust and attention, he taught them that God (via him) is the only source you can trust. Essentially, he isolated these people from others. That’s a big key to influencing people. If they only hear one side of the story, that’s what they’ll go with, especially if they see people they trust (fellow parishoners) accept that as well. When you tack on fear (going to hell, demonic possession, losing their new friends from the group, etc) and the authority the pastor wields (he is claiming to speak for GOD), it’s a easy sell.
I’m sure that some members of that group were influenced and molded by family as well and I also agree that they should be opposed. That does tend to get some of them thinking and questioning things.
Providence Baptist Church of Charlotte has been confused in the media recently due to the similarity of its name with Providence Road Baptist Church of Maiden, N.C. A video about the Maiden church’s pastor making statements derogatory of gays and lesbians has gone viral after being posted on YouTube, headlined by CNN, and reported through many news media nationwide.
As a result, Dr. Al Cadenhead, Senior Pastor of Providence Baptist Church of Charlotte, and other members of the church staff have received angry emails, phone calls and other messages from people confusing the two churches. Today (May 22), Cadenhead made the following statement for the media and the public:
“In recent hours we have been incorrectly identified as the church in another town where hatred and violence have been advocated from the pulpit. First of all, we are genuinely Baptist in that we recognize the right of every church to reach out or not to reach out as that church deems itself to be led. Providence Baptist Church of Charlotte believes in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Jesus is our model for living and His presence is our source of strength for life. Jesus preached a Gospel of love. So do we. Jesus preached that we love our neighbor, whether that neighbor is like us or not.
“The Bible is our guide for daily life and makes it clear that all people, all of us, have sinned and fallen short of God’s expectation. And the reason we can claim our place as children of God is a result of grace, mercy and love extended to all people. That love is best demonstrated in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. As Providence Baptist Church we believe that we are to offer that same grace, mercy and love to all people.”
You are guilty of a similar prejudice to Worley.
I’m so embarrassed to be from NC. I thought that Virginia Fox and Renee Elmers were an embarrassing, then there was that other pastor that said beat the gay out of your kids. This guy takes the cake though – he is why I have given up on organized religion.
What you say is not accurate; he is offering an observation/opinion based on something observable. And not threats of violence.
Pam? Do you know that Apple, Inc. has a very large data center in Maiden, NC? Oy, the pressure?
Here’s a potentially complicating news item about IBM, Apple’s iPhone Siri, and stuff.
Google Apple + Maiden also for more stuff.
Ugly hateful White Trash. That is all.
Oh yes, the South must rise again.
That church is my voting precinct in Charlotte, it’s a lovely, very large building, only two storeys with connected sections stretching across some three acres.
Providence Baptist Church of Charlotte, NC.
Maiden locals bemoan lack of jobs from Apple datacenter
Tax breaks for Apple, cash for the gentry, and spit for the White Trash.
Surrexit.
What is it with (self)professed Christians and the Old Testament? Are they slow readers and just haven’t gotten into the New Testament? Christianity is NEW TESTAMENT, folks. Move along.
Is it time for me to start converting you folks to atheism? I swear I’ve got the pamphlets here somewhere…
Did it ever occur to these people that, since homosexuals can not reproduce, it must have been heterosexual couples who bred these lesbians and queers in the first place? So what will keep heterosexual couples from giving birth to more homosexuals even after the current crop has been penned up until they all died?
There is no logic, much less Christian love in these people. They just hate. They’re frightened to death that the world is changing and there is nothing they can do about it but redouble their hatred. More’s the pity; in the meantime they’re dangerous – not just to homosexuals but to all the rest of us as well.
Alabama?
Ha! I got hooted out of a breakfast-stop restaurant in rural Alabama in 1999. (“Hooted out” is all I can think of for a growing crowd with intensifying and directed intimidation. No direct statements or physical contact.)
I did not even have to be Black or exhibit anything particularly effeminate. All I needed was a car with marker plate from a New England state and a heavy Yankee accent. I totally understand how and why Hispanics are in an exodus now. Is there any intelligence there at all? It’s like a class B horror movie.
As an atheist, I can only shake my head sadly at all this.
The Bible DOES say — in Leviticus, I believe — that “a man laying with a man” is grounds for death. Now, biblical scholars have claimed that Jesus brought a new covenant, so all of those old laws are rescinded; but obviously not everyone agrees, and it is frankly a reasonable interpretation of the Bible to say that — according to the Bible — homosexuals should be put to death.
The problem isn’t that their interpretation of the Bible is right or wrong, in my opinion. The problem is that bigots and others full of hate will always use religion as a justification for their poison. In short, religion is the match to the fuse of hatred and violence. And for some reason, it seems like the number of people who use religion as a motivation to seek peace and accord never matches the number of people who use religion as a justification for hatred and violence; that may be some kind of sad reflection on mankind, but whatever the cause, it makes me VERY skeptical of the claim that religion spreads peace, love, and harmony.
He sure seems to create a lot of them, enough to think he rather enjoys their stupidity.