Bob Jones III apologizes for saying gays should be stoned
Three and a half decades after calling for homosexuals to be stoned, former Bob Jones University President Bob Jones III has apologized.
“I take personal ownership of this inflammatory rhetoric,” Jones said. “This reckless statement was made in the heat of a political controversy 35 years ago.”
The weekend apology came days after the conservative Christian school in South Carolina received a petition asking for an apology for a statement Jones made to the Associated Press in 1980 at the White House.
“I’m sure this will be greatly misquoted,” Jones said at the time. “But it would not be a bad idea to bring the swift justice today that was brought in Israel’s day against murder and rape and homosexuality. I guarantee it would solve the problem post-haste if homosexuals were stoned, if murderers were immediately killed as the Bible commands.”
Read more: http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2015/03/bob-jones-iii-apologizes-for-saying-gays-should-be-stoned/
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So glad we can all agree on something..
That's how I read it anyway
