Speke Baptist Church, which is based in Liverpool, registered under the charitable purpose 'the advancement of religion' in May. Charities are legally required to act for the public benefit.
In a sermon titled 'The world's biggest problem', Church pastor and charity trustee Stephen Casey says homosexuality is a "degrading perversion", adding "it's not natural, it's not decent and it's not normal".
The sermon was uploaded to YouTube in September but appears to be have delivered in person to an audience including children.
Casey says the media had carried out a "relentless campaign" over 25 years to "reject the biblical understanding of homosexuality".
He says there is "glaring anatomical evidence" that homosexuality is unnatural, and opposes the idea that "there's no sordidness that goes with it".
He says people "feel very crushed by this temptation" but the answer is not to say homosexuality is natural, decent or normal.
He says people "pretend it's not a sin" in order to deny the "emotional trauma" and "torturous effects" of pursuing such "sexual addictions".
Saying a sin is okay "doesn't remove the internal damage" it causes, he says. He says homosexuality is "so against nature", a form of "sexual brokenness" and an "addiction".
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I point out to my kids that every asshole I have encountered in this life no matter their cultural, religious or ethnic background ( and there's been a lot) has been a straight man. Not once has an LGB person been anything other than friendly and up for a laugh. I am always highly suss when a religious group takes an unnatural interest in what two consenting adults get up to behind closed doors.
ReplyDeleteSteve - the human condition being what it is, I reckon proportionally there are as many gay bad'uns as there are straight.
DeleteThat is what hate theology does - finds something it can pour hatred on. I know one of them who waves his fist at gays while conducting an affair with his maid as the wife sits at home thinking she is married to a pious follower of the Lord FFS.
" When my neighbour quotes scripture I count my sheep" isn't the humorous glib expression people think it is more than useful instruction!
DeleteIt is the Scripture screamers I am wary of not the ordinary believer. They usually subscribe to Hate Theology and are as far away from any concept of a loving god as we are from the sun.
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