Tag Archives: North Carolina

North Carolina religious cult leader Peter Moses has pleaded guilty to murdering a four year-old boy that Moses said had been “acting gay.” Moses also killed a female cult member for being unable to bear his children. Authorities have said Moses led a religious group of women and children who called him “Lord” and feared him. They lived together in …

Think Progress points us to this just-adopted plank in North Carolina’s official Republican Party platform. Government should treat all citizens impartially, without regard to wealth, race, ethnicity, disability, religion, sex, political affiliation or national origin. We oppose all forms of invidious discrimination. Sexual orientation is not an appropriate category. The platform also opposes gay adoption.

The above message is about to go up outside of Charlotte. On the Billy Graham Highway, no less. (Tipped by JMG reader Rob)

Video keeps coming on from Sunday’s protest outside the North Carolina church of Pastor Charles “Concentration Camp” Worley.

MSNBC reports: Although gay rights and anti-hate groups responded with outrage when a North Carolina pastor called for gays and lesbians to be fenced in so they eventually die off, he was greeted with a standing ovation by his church members when he approached the pulpit, the Hickory Record reported. “I appreciate all the support,” Pastor Charles Worley told the …

An estimated 1200 protesters gathered today outside the North Carolina church of Pastor Charles “Put Gays In Concentration Camps” Worley. Unlike fellow NC Pastor Sean “Beat Gay Kids” Harris, Worley has refused to apologize for his message. The Hickory Daily Record reports: The protestors came out in force to bring a message of love and acceptance. Their signs bore bold …

Rev. Mark Sandlin proposes sending donations to LGBT causes in the name of North Carolina’s Pastor Charles Worley. Not only will it be a wonderful opposing response to Pastor Worley, but it does several other wickedly beautiful things. One, it helps fund organizations who are actively working against this kind of exclusion and bullying. Two, it puts Pastor Worley on …

From the Facebook event page: Pastor Charles L Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, NC recently told his congregation that his solution to dealing with lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender people were to send them camps surrounded by electrified fencing to die. The following Sunday, he used the scriptures to justify his call for the death of homosexual …

Towleroad blogger Andrew Belonsky has the quote from North Carolina’s Pastor Charles L. Worley, who clearly wants some of the same attention recently given NC’s Pastor Sean Harris: “I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers,” he says in his sermon, delivered on May 13. “Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 …

Public Policy Polling has published a fascinating result out of North Carolina, where support for gay marriage has surged among black voters such the president’s announcement. There’s been a noticeable shift in the attitudes of African Americans in North Carolina toward rights for gay couples in the wake of President Obama’s announcement last week that he supports gay marriage. Our …

A North Carolina lesbian was arrested for trespassing yesterday after she refused to leave the Winston-Salem city office where she and her partner had applied for a marriage license. The civil disobedience followed a day after President Barack Obama publicly endorsed same-sex marriage, and two days after North Carolina voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as solely …

Pastor Sean Harris says I deliberately mischaracterized his words in order to “sensationalize” his message and generate hits to this blog. When you look at my blog you are not bombarded with advertisements. There aren’t any. I don’t make any money from my blog. That is not the purpose of the blog. But that obviously is the purpose of a …