The spittle flecked hatred of others that has become the core message of America's conservative Christians - using that term loosely since they are about as true to the Gospel message as ISIS is to Islam - was on full display south of the border as a Baptist pastor went on a rant claiming that gay marriage in North Carolina would cause God to unleash Ebola on the state. Sadly, Berean Baptist Church Pastor Pastor Ron Baity (pictured above) likely has many in Baptist covens parishes in Virginia who hold similar hatred towards gays (and, of course, liberals). The Raw Story looks at Baitty's batshitery explosion. Here are story highlights"
A Baptist pastor is warning that God will escalate the Ebola crisis when North Carolina begins performing same-sex marriages.
During his Sunday sermon following a series of court actions that effectively struck down North Carolina’s constitutional ban on marriage equality, Berean Baptist Church Pastor Pastor Ron Baity suggested that homosexuality was a sign of the End Times.
“Listen, folks, it’s on,” he announced. “You might as well get ready for it. It’s on. It’s just a matter of time when they’re going to say to the churches… It’s just a matter of time before our constitution in our churches will be overturned like our state constitution just been overturned this week. I mean, it’s coming.”
Baity said that even after God flooded the Earth to stop homosexuality, people were “out of their habitation” in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
“The most blasphemous thing I’ve heard in 40 years of ministry, I heard on the news last night, where rogue judges have gone against the will of the ministry and made America a country where there’s totalitarianism, where there are judges who have set themselves up as dictators to overthrow the will of the people! And they placed their sanction upon marriage that is out of the habitation of God’s creation!”
Baity noted that the official had taken it “one step farther” when he “blasphemed the God of heaven” by blessing the wedding.
The Baptist minister concluded by comparing LGBT people to cows, and saying that they only had could continue the farm because “we had to turn loose in the pasture a bull.” “There was never a cow going around slobbering on another cow, sending a signal that I’m in love with this cow,” he said. “And when the bull got in the pasture, we didn’t have to give them a course in bullology or cowology.
Don’t be surprised at the judgement of God.” “You think Ebola is bad now, just wait. If it’s not that, it’s going to be something else. My friends, I want you to understand, you can’t thumb your nose at God, and God turn his head away without God getting your attention.”
In 2012, the year that North Carolina voted for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, Baity preached that LGBT people were like “maggots” and murderers, who were promoting “perversion” in schools. That same year, Tony Perkins personally awarded Baity the Family Research Council’s top “pro-family” award.
Some think that my comparison of far right Christians to ISIS is extreme. I would argue that the only difference between the two groups is the level of violence they are willing to commit to force their beliefs on others. Both groups are sick and mentally ill in my view. Barity belongs in an insane asylum, not at a pulpit. Ditto for the idiots in his congregation.
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