How to fix the ‘gay problem’ – concentration camps or death sentences?

In the wake of President Obama’s pronouncement that he now supports same-sex marriage, some of the more outlandish reactions in the Bible Belt and other parts of rural America are starting to reach the media.

One preacher in Kansas told his congregation that Obama has gone too far and it’s now time for the federal government to systematically kill gay men and lesbian women.

Another minister in North Carolina, who referred to Obama as a “baby killer and homosexual lover,” gave a sermon in which he advocated rounding up the nation’s gay population in concentration camps and keeping them there until death.

(The Rev. Knapp)

Pastor Curtis Knapp of Seneca, Kansas, told his congregants that Obama’s declaration that same-sex couples should have the same marital rights as heterosexual couples amounted to “the leader of the Western world publicly raising his fist at the heavens” and declaring a “legally protected justification for perversion.”

According to rawstory.com, Knapp read a Bible passage that calls homosexuality a “detestable act” and says that those who engage in same-sex relations “shall surely be put to death.” The minister agreed, rawstory reported, and then he engaged in a commentary that anticipated criticism of his views:

 

“They should be put to death. ‘Oh, so you’re saying we should go out and start killing them, no?’ -- I’m saying the government should. They won’t, but they should.

“You say, ‘Oh, I can’t believe you, you’re horrible. You’re a backwards Neanderthal of a person.’ Is that what you’re calling scripture? Is God a Neanderthal, backwards in his morality? Is it His word or not? If it’s His word, he commanded it. It’s His idea, not mine. And I’m not ashamed of it.

“He said put them to death. Shall the church drag them in? No, I’m not saying that. The church has not been given the power of the sort; the government has. But the government ought to (kill them). You got a better idea? A better idea than God?”

Meanwhile, a Baptist minister in Catawba County, N.C., offered a slightly different idea for dealing with what some call “the gay problem.”

The Rev. Charles Worley, citing Biblical passages, urged his congregation to support his idea of taking gays into custody and locking them in confinement. According to the Kansas City Star, he advocated building a large fence, 100 or 150 miles long,  with lesbians detained in one area, and “the queers and the homosexuals in another, and have that fence electrified, so they can't get out."

A YouTube video of the sermon shows Worley talking about his ultimate goal: "Feed 'em, and you know what? In a few years, they'll die. Do you know why? They can't reproduce."

Some members of the congregation can be heard saying "Amen" in response to the pastor's remarks.

You can read more about Worley here.

And you can read more about Knapp here.