This past Sunday, Sean Harris, pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina; urged his congregation to support the effort to write a ban on same-sex marriage into the North Carolina constitution. But toward the close of that sermon, he went completely off the deep end by suggesting that the parents in his flock give their kids "a good punch" if they think they're acting gay. In case you missed it, watch the whole thing here. The screed starts at the 45:46 mark:
Harris must have figured out that he stepped in it. He took to his blog last night to claim that his words were taken out of context. He also told The Fayetteville Observer that he was only joking, and most of his congregation knows he didn't mean it. No, Pastor. Child abuse is not a joking matter. And any person who even thinks it is a joking matter has no business being in a pulpit.
Harris has only one way out of this--issue a full apology for his hurtful words. Sign this petition telling him to do so. It'll send a letter directly to his email--hopefully a few hundred or thousand emails clogging his inbox will give him a dose of "conviction."