Black pastor rips hypocritical churches for doing to gay people ‘what slavemasters did to us’

[DonViejo]

A Georgia pastor is making waves after being caught on video unloading on what he called the hypocrisy of condemning LGBT people by Christian churches.

Pastor E. Dewey Smith of the House of Hope, Greater Travelers Rest church in Decatur gave an impassioned sermon, posted to YouTube on Thursday, in which he slammed church leaders for judging gay people but “you change wives like we change underwear.”

“‘These folks are an abomination, they are nasty,’ tell you what you do then. Go find every song that’s been written by a gay person for the last 100 years and don’t sing it in church,” he said, as the church congregation cheered him on. “Let’s see how many songs you can minister on that Sunday.”

He went on to criticize the habit of picking and choosing which parts of the Bible to adhere to, based on what is socially advantageous or convenient, but ignore it when it gets in the way of business.

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1. This is nice, but I see no point in worshipping a deity who hates me

and who is sadistic and cruel and created me gay but wants me to suffer for the duration of my life. No thanks, but I'll K&R for the underlying thought.

[DonViejo]

3. Whether there's a hateful deity depends on who is doing the preaching....

there are plenty of ministers, rabbis, priests, monks, nuns and religions that do not preach of a hateful deity or hateful message.

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4. With all due respect, so what. If you're referring to

MCC and Reform Judaism, etc., they subscribe to a version of their religions which is very much a minority view, i.e., most Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus hate gay people. So does it matter what a handful of clerics are saying when most other clerics are saying the opposite? No.

I don't want to waste my life attending gatherings of such people either - why would I???

And I am CERTAINLY not going to give money to an organization with a hierarchy or majority view that gay people are sick, evil, bad, whatever. Religious money is highly fungible, and no way do I want my donations going to advance those hateful ideas.

[DonViejo]

7. I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm just countering your view of the

situation. And, that doesn't mean I disagree with you or your view of religion, I'm just talking about the other side of the coin. MCC wasn't on my mind at all, I was thinking about the UU's, the UCC, the Episcopalians, Reform and Orthodox Jews, Evangelical Lutherans, Presbyterians and the Society of Friends (Quakers). For whatever reason, there are LGBT folks that need that sanction(?) from organized religion, I won't begrudge them that so long as it brings happiness and peace to their lives. That isn't my need in or from life but, so what, it is theirs and I hope they find what they seek.

[KG]

2. religion, LOL

[irisblue]

5. This is a powerful watch

the expressions and actions of his congregation, well. Thank you Pastor

[irisblue]

6. he will get a whole lot of blow back from this.

[Juicy_Bellows]

8. I was just going to post this video. Glad someone already did.

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