Having seen recent incidents of anti-LGBT hatred and violence in Arizona, Kansas and Alaska, we now cross the Pacific Ocean to New Zealand.
From Raw Story:
Responding to a book written by an author documenting his struggles as a gay Christian, a Baptist minister wrote the author a very un-Christian email saying “I pray that you will commit suicide.”
Pastor Logan Robertson of the Westcity Bible Baptist Church in Auckland, New Zealand wrote the email to Jim Marjoram, author of the book ‘It’s Life Jim,’ written to promote a more gay-friendly Christianity, reports The New Zealand Herald
In the email, Robertson wrote, “We are not interested in your filthy lifestyle or book. The Bible says you are vile, strange (queer), reprobate, filth, sodomite, natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed. I pray that you will commit suicide, you filthy child molesting fag.”
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An openly gay reporter from One News attempted to speak with Robertson to allow him to defend the email, but Robertson — who admitted he was familiar with the reporter’s sexual orientation — said he wouldn’t give an interview to a “filthy faggot,” adding that he hoped that reporter would commit suicide too.
In a later interview, Robertson admitted, “I think every single one of them should be put to death. Christians shouldn’t be doing it, I’m not going to do it, it’s the Government’s job to be doing it.”
I've been critical of Islam recently, but in the last few days, Christianity doesn't seem to be making a great name for itself either.