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Archae

(46,301 posts) Mon Jan 7, 2019, 07:36 PM Jan 2019

Every year I see these, holier-than-thou preachers, caught in sex and/or money scandals.

This one is particularly nasty, one of those "Gots ta kill dem sodomites" types.

Anti-LGBTQ pastor ousted for ‘sleeping with prostitutes,’ fellow IFB pastor says

FORT WORTH
A pastor known for calling Orlando shooting victims at a gay nightclub “scum” in 2016 has been ousted from his Fort Worth church for “sleeping with prostitutes,” marijuana possession and gambling, according to a fellow pastor.

Pastor Donnie Romero of Stedfast Baptist Church resigned Wednesday, said Steven Anderson, a pastor at Romero’s former church in Phoenix.

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Stedfast church was labeled as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2015. In December 2014, Romero said in a sermon, which was posted on YouTube, that gay people should be “put to death.”

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In June 2016, Romero posted a video of a sermon in which he called shooting victims at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando “the scum of the earth.”

“These 50 Sodomites were all perverts and pedophiles and they are the scum of the earth, and the earth is a little bit better place now, and I’ll even take it a little further. I heard on the news today that there are still several dozen of these queers in ICU, and I will pray that God will finish the job that that man started,” he says in the video.

Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/living/religion/article223928990.html#storylink=cpy

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Every year I see these, holier-than-thou preachers, caught in sex and/or money scandals. (Original Post) Archae Jan 2019 OP

lock him up. trueblue2007 Jan 2019 #1

His replacement called gay people 'vile' and 'beasts' dalton99a Jan 2019 #2

It's always the same with these jerks, Psychological Projection, over and over again and RKP5637 Jan 2019 #3

Put High Behind a Big Beautiful Wall Stallion Jan 2019 #4

trueblue2007

(17,194 posts)

1. lock him up.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 07:44 PM

Jan 2019

put him in a cell with this guy.

HIM ........

OR HIM ......

dalton99a

(81,404 posts)

2. His replacement called gay people 'vile' and 'beasts'

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 07:45 PM

Jan 2019

https://www.star-telegram.com/living/religion/article223975135.html

Pastor who called gay people ‘vile’ and ‘beasts’ to take over church in Fort Worth
By Kaley Johnson
January 05, 2019 03:54 PM,

FORT WORTH

A pastor known for his hate speech against the LGBTQ community will lead a Fort Worth church after its previous leader was ousted on allegations that he “slept with prostitutes.”

Jonathan Shelley, who leads Pure Words Baptist Church in Houston, will be inaugurated Sunday at Stedfast Baptist Church in Fort Worth, according to a YouTube video that Shelley posted Friday night.

Stedfast Baptist Church is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.

Its previous pastor, Donnie Romero, resigned Wednesday. He was disqualified from being a pastor because he had committed “grievous sins,” fellow pastor Steven Anderson of Phoenix said in a YouTube video.

“The major sin involved was being with prostitutes,” Anderson says in the video. “Also marijuana and gambling were discovered.”

Romero has not been charged. Before coming to Fort Worth, he attended Anderson’s Faith Word Baptist Church, a New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church in Phoenix. Anderson started the movement in 2005 and Shelley and Romero are among its leaders.

Romero was the subject of a protest in 2016 in Fort Worth after he posted a video of a sermon in which he called the shooting victims at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando “the scum of the earth.” Two years earlier, Romero said in a sermon posted online that gay people should be “put to death.” YouTube has since removed the video for violating its usage policy on hate speech.

Anderson, who also announced that Shelley would be taking over for Romero, said in a YouTube video that he met with about 40 men from Stedfast Church on Friday night and they unanimously elected Shelley as pastor.

Shelley preached against the LGBTQ community in an October 2018 sermon.

“They hate God. God has already given them up,” he says in the video. “That’s the reason they’re doing these vile, disgusting things. They’re beasts, they’re wicked, they’re abominable, they’re filthy today.”

Shelley did not respond to requests for comment.

RKP5637

(67,088 posts)

3. It's always the same with these jerks, Psychological Projection, over and over again and

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 08:00 PM

Jan 2019

a remarkably stupid flock that listens to them and funds them. Sooooo F'ed up.

Stallion

(6,473 posts)

4. Put High Behind a Big Beautiful Wall

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 09:35 PM

Jan 2019

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