Pastor Backs Death Penalty For Gays As “Deterrent”

June 20, 2024 Christianists, Extremists

Angry White Men reports:

During a June 12, 2024 livestream, Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon defended making homosexuality a capital offense. Webbon suggested that death, as a “maximum penalty,” would act as a deterrent. He also claimed that it is a “natural reaction” to want to “throw up” at the sight of same-sex couples holding hands or kissing.

Webbon explained that in the Old Testament, death was often a “maximum penalty” for a crime, but wasn’t necessarily mandated.

Michael Belch began reading what he claimed were facts about the LGBTQ community — including their average mortality rates. When Belch claimed that the “median age of death” for gays and lesbians is 42 and 45 respectively, Webbon joked that it “sounds like if society won’t enforce the penalties, God’ll do it.”

Read the full article. As I’ve noted here many times, that “median age of death” bullshit comes from anti-LGBTQ activist and hate group founder Paul Cameron, who arrived at the figure by averaging the ages of men who died of AIDS in the late 1980s as reported by San Francisco’s Bay Area Reporter. One could similarly claim that children have a “median age of death” of 10 by averaging their ages after fatal car accidents. As for Webbon’s claim about lesbians, who knows where that idiocy comes from.



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