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HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
Thu May 31, 2012, 08:54 PM May 2012

Church on lockdown, pastor flees after toddler sings ‘Ain’t no homo going to make it to heaven’

Source: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/05/church-on-lockdown-after-toddler-sings-aint-no-homo-going-to-make-it-to-heaven/

GREENSBURG, Ind. — An Indiana church is on lock down and its pastor has left for an undisclosed location after a video recording surfaced this week of a toddler singing an anti-gay song at the church altar, that included the lyrics, “Ain’t no homo going to make it to heaven.”

Pastor Jeff Sengl and wife Julie

Members of the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Church in Greensburg, Ind., on Wednesday told media outlets that the church’s office has been receiving harassing calls and its pastor received death threats at his home since the video was posted on several LGBT blogs and subsequently went viral.


Sengl should be deeply ashamed (but he isn't). But death threats? Fahcryin out loud.

Update: "To my knowledge, there are no death threats at this time,” Decatur County Sheriff Gregory Allen told Fox News on Thursday.

Allen said that Sangl, who has left town and could not be reached for comment, contacted the department and asked him to keep an eye on the church’s property following the surfacing of the video. "
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Church on lockdown, pastor flees after toddler sings ‘Ain’t no homo going to make it to heaven’ (Original Post) HillWilliam May 2012 OP
What a headline! William769 May 2012 #1
lock the place up and throw away the key lunasun May 2012 #2
I'm not an advocate of death threats, but- richmwill May 2012 #3
Amen, brother! edcantor May 2012 #4
Cops say no death threats, so this liar is making it up, most bigots lie casually Bluenorthwest May 2012 #5
Now see, that's exactly what I thought, too HillWilliam May 2012 #7
We are better than to stoop to his their level SoutherDem May 2012 #6
I bet the toddler gets cholic soon MNBrewer May 2012 #8
And that pastor was such a nice "family guy"! edcantor May 2012 #9
Death threats. Yeah, right. Their hate and lies never end. nt Zorra Jun 2012 #10

richmwill

(1,326 posts)
3. I'm not an advocate of death threats, but-
Thu May 31, 2012, 09:29 PM
May 2012

A Pastor should be familiar with Galatians 6: 7- "For whatever a man sows, he shall also reap". Preach hate? Well then don't go crying when hate comes back towards you. May this "Pastor" never lead another church again.

 

edcantor

(325 posts)
4. Amen, brother!
Thu May 31, 2012, 09:52 PM
May 2012

This is just 24 hours after several legitimate on-line new sources and at least one local television station picked up upon this story and the video.

I bet this pastor guy doesn't sleep so well tonight. I bet his church is not holding a service with him in 60 hours, on Sunday morning this weekend.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
5. Cops say no death threats, so this liar is making it up, most bigots lie casually
Thu May 31, 2012, 09:58 PM
May 2012

and if confronted they run away. Which this bigot also did. He's a con man, a hustler of the worst kind, the kind that exploits children.

HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
7. Now see, that's exactly what I thought, too
Thu May 31, 2012, 10:37 PM
May 2012

They have a demonstrated habit of sowing hatred and if anyone calls them on it, they whine they're getting death threats.

Glitterbomb, I'd believe. Death threat? Not s'much.

SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)
6. We are better than to stoop to his their level
Thu May 31, 2012, 10:20 PM
May 2012

They may want me dead but I don't want them dead.

But, the cheers they gave that little boy certainly shows the hate in that church, the adults are a lost cause. I am worried about that little boy. Could teaching such hate to the child be considered child abuse?

 

edcantor

(325 posts)
9. And that pastor was such a nice "family guy"!
Thu May 31, 2012, 11:02 PM
May 2012

All those homosexuals and lesbians now ( supposedly or imaginatively) threatening the life of someone who stood up there for the 3000 year old fable in the Holy Bible.

Christians are so persecuted these days. Really terrible how Christians cannot be left alone to preach their messages of hate and teach it to 4 year olds. This is intolerance of intolerance, I tell you. Shameful how the gay folks want all that respect and equal rights. Who do they think they are?

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