A Texas pastor drew sharp criticism after he openly celebrated the recent fatal accident at a Pride parade in Florida.
According to LGBTQ Nation, Jonathan Shelley is the pastor of the Stedfast Baptist Church in Hurst, Texas. While speaking to his congregation, he rambled on about the sinful habits of LGBTQ+ people and loudly proclaimed how bad he wished they would all die.
That is not an exaggeration.
He said, "I wish all f*gs would die" multiple times in under a minute during his bigoted tirade.
You can see footage from the Evangelical Christian church's website here:
Yesterday, a Christian hate-preacher from Texas celebrated a gay man's death at a Pride parade.\n\n"It's great when trucks accidentally go through those... parades... We can hope for more in the future... I think it's great! I hope they all die!"\n\n(Warning: The language gets worse)pic.twitter.com/3VsYC8KmjA— Hemant Mehta (@Hemant Mehta) 1624295269
Shelley began the speech by listing all sorts of sins he claimed would condemn a person to the fires of Hell.
Then Shelley cranked up the antanti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.
"Look, there's only one group that enjoys that: It's the Pride parades going up and down the street."
"And, you know, it's great when trucks accidentally go through those, you know, parades. I think only one person died. So hopefully we can hope for more in the future."
Shelley was referring to the recent tragedy during a Pride parade in Wilton Manors, Florida.
During the parade, a man in a pickup truck—who was a a part of the parade—accidentally drove into a crowd of people, injuring three and killing one person.
Continuing his speech, the hate-filled pastor had no shame when wishing death on countless people.
"You say, 'Well, that's mean.' Yeah, but the Bible says that they're worthy of death! You say, 'Are you sad when f*gs die?' No, I think it's great!"
"I hope they all die! I would love it if every f*g would die right now."
"And you say, 'Well, I don't think that's what you really mean.' That's exactly what I mean. I really mean it!"
I wrote more about this here: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/06/21/hate-preacher-celebrates-death-of-gay-man-at-pride-parade-i-hope-they-all-die/\u00a0\u2026\n\nThat church's videos are still up on YouTube despite the blatant celebrations of violence against LGBTQ people.— Hemant Mehta (@Hemant Mehta) 1624295335
Not surprisingly, people who saw the clip were outraged at the hate disguised as Christianity.
I'm speechless. Is it... illegal to do this? He's advocating genocide— Lucid Crow (@Lucid Crow) 1624297826
I really wish people would stop saying you get your morals from religion! \nThis just shows you the hate that can come from the people who are in charge of it!\n\nDisgusting— Salt Rock (@Salt Rock) 1624298478
That clip is quite the round trip. In the second part he shows that he\u2019s the murder enthusiast that he accuses gay people of being.— Heisenberg (@Heisenberg) 1624297107
Then we have the "Amens" in the background. Disgusting and scary.— J. T. Hanson (@J. T. Hanson) 1624303068
After Jesus comes back and overturns the tables in this guy\u2019s temple, he\u2019s going to have a tough time not punching him in the face.— Michael Morris (@Michael Morris) 1624305656
One way to combat this Christian's hateful bigotry?
Celebrate Pride loudly and proudly.
