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Apparently, some of the "godly folk" want to strengthen the parallels between Christian fundamentalists and the barbaric members of ISIS. How else to explain phone calls to the pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church in Wichita, Kansas, threatening to behead the pastor and march through town with the head on a stick? As I've said be fore, fundamentalist religion of whatever faith is a pernicious evil. The Wichita Eagle has details. Here are highlights:
A Wichita minister says she has received death threats for performing same-sex weddings after the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was struck down by a federal judge last month.What drives this kind of hatred? Personally, I believe it's because if the Bible is wrong about homosexuality and same sex love, the simple minded realize that the rest of their myth/fantasy based belief system may be untrue as well and it's more than they can stand. Rather than admit they have based their lives on fairy tales, they prefer to do harm to those who make them have to contemplate the ignorance they have so willingly embraced. Then, of course, you have professional Christians like Matt Barber and fellow Liberty Counsel member Mat Staver who make a comfortable living peddling hatred and shaking down the ignorant for money. The nastiest whore has more integrity than Barber and Staver.
The Rev. Jackie Carter, pastor of the First Metropolitan Community Church, said the church has been getting at least one phone call a day threatening to kill her or to perform acts of violence against her congregation. The church belongs to a denomination that embraces the gay and lesbian community.
Carter said she had received threats before the ruling, but they have escalated since she performed a wedding ceremony for 15 same-sex couples on the steps of the Sedgwick County Courthouse on Nov. 17.
“Monday was probably the most scary time for me,” Carter said. “The phone rang and I went to answer the phone and it was just somebody heavy breathing on it. Then somebody rang the door bell and then somebody started throwing rocks at the windows.”
Before the group wedding ceremony last month, two callers threatened to chop off her head and put it on a stake.
“Honestly, I’m beginning to get more scared every day that this goes on,” she said. “I’ve kind of talked myself into trying to be more calm about it and realizing that there are more people out there that are supporting us than threatening harm to us.”
She said the church has instructed people to leave the building in pairs, especially at night, for safety. Carter said that she has reported some of the threats to the Wichita Police Department, but that the department’s ability to investigate is limited because the callers have been anonymous and no number shows up on the church’s caller ID.
Carter said that most the calls are of a religious nature.
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