Christian Pastor: ‘I Pray That You Will Commit Suicide, You Filthy Fag’

A Christian pastor in New Zealand has no problem admitting he hopes a gay Christian author commits suicide.

Meet Pastor Logan Robertson of the Westcity Bible Baptist Church in Auckland, New Zealand. That’s his photo, on the right.

Pastor Robertson is married, has three children, and told a Christian who wrote a book about reconciling his faith with being gay, “I pray that you will commit suicide, you filthy fag.”

Jim Marjoram, author of It’s Life Jim, sent Pastor Robertson information about his new book. 

“We are not interested in your filthy lifestyle or book,” the Independent Baptist preacher responded via email. “The Bible says you are vile, strange (queer), reprobate, filth, sodomite, natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed.”

“I pray that you will commit suicide, you filthy fag.”

Robertson is unrepentant and does not believe he did anything wrong.

“I didn’t tell him to go and commit suicide. I said I prayed that he would,” he told the New Zealand Herald. “All I did was write what I wrote, and then I prayed about it that he would, and that’s it. There’s nothing more to say.”

Unsurprisingly, Pastor Robertson is a big fan of Pastor Steven Anderson, who is in the news for saying America could end AIDS by Christmas if we just kill all the gay people. 

He wrote a 5-star review of Anderson’s church on Facebook. “Best church in Phoenix. God bless Faithful Word Baptist.”

And just like Anderson, he posted this defiant little ditty on his Facebook page. 

“Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth.”

Apparently, like publicly hating on gay people, that’s a thing now, too.

 

Image, top, via Flickr
Image of Pastor Robertson via Facebook
Hat tip: ROYGBIV/Jezebel