Anti-Gay Pastor Killed in Bahamas Plane Crash

While some media outlets are describing the death of "Dr" Myles Munroe, and his wife Ruth Munroe, in a plane crash this weekend as the loss of a prominent faith leader, the ugly reality is that Munroe and his Bahamas Faith Ministries were major forces supporting homophobia and violence against Gays in the Bahamas, a nation I've visited a number of times and which deserves far better than the ignorance and bigotry which are the stock in trade of the "godly folk" like Munroe.  I don't mean to speak ill of the dead, but in reporting on Munroe's "ministry," lets at least be honest about what the man was really all about.   The Washington Blade has details on the death of these homophobes (Note the pandering - dare we call it self-prostitution - of government officials to this merchant of bigotry):

A prominent anti-gay Bahamian pastor is among the nine people who died in a plane crash on the island of Grand Bahama on Sunday.

The Nassau Guardian reported that Rev. Myles Munroe, president of Bahamas Faith Ministries International, and his wife, Ruth Munroe, were among the passengers on a private jet that crashed into a crane at a shipyard as it approached Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport. The newspaper said two other pastors with Munroe’s organization were also on the flight.

The Nassau Guardian reported that Munroe, his wife and the other passengers were traveling from Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau, the Bahamian capital, to Grand Bahama for a leadership forum that opened on Monday.

“It is utterly impossible to measure the magnitude of Dr. Munroe’s loss to the Bahamas and to the world,” said Prime Minister Perry Christie in a statement to the Nassau Guardian. “He was a towering force who earned the respect and administration not only of Christian adherents but of secular leaders both here at home and around the world.”

Rev. Donnie McClurkin, a U.S. gospel singer who claims God delivered him from the “sin” of homosexuality, is among those who also mourned Munroe’s death.

As Right Wing Watch has reported, a gay pride event scheduled for this past weekend at a private resort in the Bahamas was cut short in response to a homophobic backlash that reportedly included death threats and vitriol on local talk shows.  Munroe was one fanning the flames of bigotry:

Among those who slammed the pride event and the LGBT movement in general was Dr. Myles Munroe, who heads Bahamas Faith Ministries International. Munroe has hosted shows on TBN in the past and been a guest on some of the network’s major shows. Over the weekend he put out a six-page statement attacking the LGBT rights movement and saying it has “hijacked” and “raped” the civil rights movement.

If there is a God, I suspect that both Munroes - his wife was also a leader of his "ministry" - are being called to account for the hate and evil they disseminated.  What's truly sad is that the Munroes prospered financially by treating others as unworthy of God's love.