The pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas says President Barack Obama has gone too far in supporting same sex marriage and it’s time for the U.S. government to begin killing gay men and lesbians.
Knapp went on to read from
Leviticus 20: “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death.” “They should be put to death,” Knapp declared. “‘Oh, so you’re saying we should go out and start killing them, no?’ — I’m saying the government should.
Kansas pastor calls on US Gov't to Kill LGBT People
Dear Pastor Knapp,
I see you take Leviticus 20:13 as literal and thus call on the gov't to execute people who violate this command. To be consistent, you would also have to take the rest of Leviticus 20 as literal and call for those commands to be followed as well. For example, consider the following verses in the same chapter as verse 13 of which you decree,
[SUP]6 [/SUP]“‘I will set my face against anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute themselves by following them, and I will cut them off from their people.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]“‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.
Note to Pastor Knapp: The hebrew word for curses is
קָלַל and pronounced kaw-wal which means to dishonor, treat lightly, hold or show contempt towards, disobey. This command goes well beyond some kid slinging some 4 letter words at his/her parents.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]“‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife —with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.
Pastor Knapp, I look forward to your calling out some of your own brethren, even fellow brethren of the pulpit for this one.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]“‘If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]“‘Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. [SUP]23 [/SUP]You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. [SUP]24 [/SUP]But I said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations.
[SUP]25 [/SUP]“‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you. [SUP]26 [/SUP]You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.
[SUP]27 [/SUP]“‘A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.’”
So Pastor Knapp, I hope you aren't cherry picking the commands you like but instead are keeping them all to the letter as your god has thus commanded you. It would be foolish not to do so as in the context given by your god, verse 13 appears to have equal standing in importance as the other verses I quoted from the same source. Verse 22 instructs you and all believers to keep "All of Yahweh's decrees and follow them." Thus if verse 13 doth apply...... I look forward to hearing of your fine examples in following "All the Counsel of God!"
And let's not forget brother Ted Haggard or a many catholic priest when you apply verse 13 is the court of god's justice.
You servant in disbelief,
mac
The best part of christianity and the bible, like Islam and Judiasm, if those who practiced such faiths were ever actually forced to do so to the letter of it, well I'll just quote John Lennon,
"Imagine No Religion"
Read those bibles people, all you have to do is to actually read those bibles.