When the perpetrators of such lunacy are benign they can be marginalized for what they are. However, when they engage in calls for violence and death, they cross that line for expression of opinion to that of a "call to action."
The senior pastor of the Brainerd Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Robby Gallaty, has called for the summary execution of homosexuals as being a requirement of the word of his god. As he speaks to his megacongregation he uses the commanding word "must" rather than "may" or "should". These latter works would leave open the absolute necessity for the action otherwise required by "must." While most of the congregation is probably level headed enough to not go out and act on their own to take human lives over sexual acts between consenting adults, all it takes is one. It take one immature mind who has access to a gun or a book of matches to act upon the Pastor Gallaty's 11th Commandment. While a faithful Christian would say that Robby is only following divine law, there is a difference.
Gallaty asserts that all sin is equally bad in the sight of god, but Gallaty is not invoking death for Gluttony, Adultery, Fornication, Covetousness, or any of the other transgressions of the flesh such as a woman not being virgin when getting getting married.
His status as Twit of The Day stems from that deliberate selectivity of capital punishment for committing the one sin he believes is worthy of god's terrible swift sword. Man-up Pastor, cite all the sins of the Bible that your god has deemed worthy of death. Bet you can't do it.
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