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This Anti-Gay Texas Pastor Says He’s Praying for Survivors of the Orlando Terror Attack to Die

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Sodom Was ‘The First Queer Mass Murder’ Says Stedfast Baptist Church’s Donnie Romero

In an apparent effort to out-hate his rabidly anti-LGBT counterparts, one Baptist pastor in Texas says he’s not only glad that 49 people were killed at a gay Orlando nightclub last week, but also prays that survivors of the terror attack will soon die. 

Pastor Donnie Romero of Stedfast Baptist Church in Fort Worth, who is a disciple of “death to gays” Pastor Steven Anderson of Arizona, made the remarks in a sermon last week that was posted to the congregation’s YouTube page on Thursday. 

Romero told his congregation he agrees “100 percent” with Sacramento Pastor Roger Jimenez, who said in the wake of the attack that the government should round up gay people and use a firing squad to “blow their brains out.” (Over 1,000 people gathered outside Jimenez’s Verity Baptist Church on Sunday to protest his remarks.) 

RELATED: Over 1000 Protest Church Where Pastor Said He Was Glad ’50 Pedophiles’ Died in Orlando Terror Attack

“These 50 sodomites are all perverts and pedophiles, and they are the scum of the earth, and the earth is a little bit better place now,” Romero said in his sermon. “And I’ll take it a step further, because I heard on the news today, that there are still several dozen of these queers in ICU and intensive care. And I will pray to God like I did this morning, I will do it tonight, I’ll pray that God will finish the job that that man started, and he will end their life, and by tomorrow morning they will all be burning in hell, just like the rest of them, so that they don’t get any more opportunity to go out and hurt little children.” 

Later in his sermon, Romero called the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah “the first queer mass murder.” He also criticized Christian megachurch pastors for being too soft on homosexuality, adding that he expects to eventually be arrested for his anti-gay hate speech.  

Romero, who was ordained by Anderson in 2014, first made headlines in October of that year when he echoed his mentor’s call for gays to be put to death. That sermon resulted in Stedfast Baptist Church, which is situated in a strip mall, being named an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. And in an interview with KDFW-TV about his most recent anti-gay remarks, Romero appeared to acknowledge that the designation is well deserved.  

“I believe that in retrospect, it is a message of hate,” he said.  

Asked whether he believes the world is really better off without the Orlando victims, Romero said: “Absolutely I do. The Bible teaches they are predators, and I believe that every Sodomite is a pedophile and is a predator.”

“Just like if there was a building that had a bunch of rapists or a bunch of evil murderous people, and the building collapsed on them, or something happened where they were all killed, I don’t think that’s something we should mourn over, because they’re evil people,” he said. 

Watch Romero’s sermon in its entirety below.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqW1MsAQ_nA

 

Image: Screenshot via KDFW-TV

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‘Drop to His Knees in Worship’: Internet Slams ‘Groveling’ Brian Kilmeade for Allowing Trump to Spew ‘Lie After Lie’

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Americans who watched Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade interview President Donald Trump are outraged at the “Fox & Friends” co-host’s “groveling” and “allowing” the president to spew “lie after lie after lie.”

Americans have grown accustomed to watching President Trump lie repeatedly, and while they are still outraged daily by those lies, they expect members of the press to definitively correct the record in real time when he does.

Not only did Kilmeade let Trump spew falsehoods with abandon in his Fox News interview that aired Sunday morning, Kilmeade actually spun the lies himself.

The outrage is so palpable “Kilmeade” is trending on social media. It’s rare when journalists attract more anger than the President, but Kilmeade’s refusal to tell the public the truth appeared to be a turning point for even some Republicans.

For example, in this clip Kilmeade poses a question noting that when Trump was sworn in to office the military’s budget had been cut by 25%. Much of those cuts were forced by Republicans via sequestration, a fact Kilmeade didn’t bother to tell viewers. But worse, he used Trump’s repeated lie, falsely saying that military was “out of bullets,” as a basis for his question. That dangerous lie has been disproved countless times, including today by retired lieutenant general Russel L. Honore’ (below, in a tweet.)

Kilmeade also let Trump get away with this lie: “The Supreme Court, all they did is say we don’t have standing.”

That’s false. In that case, filed by the Texas attorney general and joined by 17 others states and 126 GOP members of Congress, the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to decide they did not have standing – but said unanimously if they had taken the case they would have voted against it.

Kilmeade ignored that most important fact, allowing Trump’s dangerous lies to continue, lies that are now leading to violence on America’s streets.

Here’s how many are reacting:

 

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‘These Are Trump’s Thugs’: Steve Schmidt Pins Responsibility for DC Proud Boy Violence on Presidential Incitement

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In a series of tweets, Republican strategist and Lincoln Project founder Steve Schmidt pointed the finger at Donald Trump and pinned the blame on him for the violence that rocked Washington D.C. on Saturday night.

With reports of stabbings and gunfire, Schmidt linked to clips of the far-right white nationalists roaming the streets and stopping cars, calling the members of the group “Trump’s thugs.”

“Look at this closely,” he wrote above a video link. “These right-wing fascists are instigating political violence in the name of a defeated President who is inciting them. This is the Capitol of the United States. This is a glimpse of our future. This must be crushed at the ballot box.”

“This is Trump’s doing. This is the result that Fox News, Newsmax and hundreds of lying right wing propagandists have produced for America. This is Trumpism,” he added before stating, “These are Trump’s thugs and they are fascists. They are rioting against democracy. We are at an extremely dangerous place as a country. It is essential to see the threat, it is grave.”

You can see his tweets below:

 

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Pelosi Could Use the 14th Amendment to Avoid Seating GOP Candidates Who Support Trump’s Election Steal

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Progressives are pushing for Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to avoid seating any Republican House members who have publicly supported President Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the election from Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden.

That’s because Section 3 of the 14th Amendment literally says that anyone who has tried to rebel against the Constitution after having pledged to protect it can’t hold political office. This would include any GOP House members who signed onto an amicus brief supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bogus Supreme Court case seeking to toss hundreds of thousands of votes in four swing states, so that Trump can steal a democratically decided election.

The Section reads: “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. ”

Democratic New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell wrote in a tweet, “The text of the 14th Amendment expressly forbids Members of Congress from engaging in rebellion against the United States. Trying to overturn a democratic election and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that.”

Twitter users seem to like the idea:

 

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