Tennessee gay couple physically attacked by pastor and deacons for trying to go to church, pastor wa
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[release]A gay Gibson County couple said they were assaulted when they tried to attend church services at the Grace Fellowship Church in Fruitland last Wednesday.
[b]"I went over to take the keys out of the ignition and all the sudden I hear someone say 'sick'em,'"[/b] said Gibson County resident, Jerry Pittman Jr.
Pittman said [b]the attacked was prompted by the pastor of the church, Jerry Pittman, his father.
"My uncle and two other deacons came over to the car per my dad's request. My uncle smash me in the door as the other deacon knocked my boyfriend back so he couldn't help me, punching him in his face and his chest. The other deacon came and hit me through my car window in my back," said Pittman. He said bystanders did not offer assistance. He said the deacon yelled derogatory homosexual slurs, even after officers arrived. He said the officers never intervened to stop the deacons from yelling the slurs.[/b]
"If I was on the scene I would not have allowed that. The deputy should not have allowed it if he did," said Gibson County Sheriff Chuck Arnold.
[b]Pittman said neither he nor Lee were allowed to press charges while at the church.[/b][/release]
Tennessee, ladies and gentlemen
It is a great shame that those police hardly did anything.
What a loving father.
What state is this in?
[QUOTE=Megafanx13;32616773]It is a great shame that those police hardly did anything.[/QUOTE]
probably rednecks like the offenders
[QUOTE=lulzbocksV2;32616837]What state is this in?[/QUOTE]
It's in the title. Tennessee.
[QUOTE=lulzbocksV2;32616837]What state is this in?[/QUOTE]
wow
if you don't read the title or the post how do you even end up in here able to reply
Now everyone from Tennessee looks like a bigotty dick.
I live there and I'm a kewl guy. :(
This is where I live. I'm sorry everyone. :(
People who do not do anything to help make me sick.
God bless America?
:v:
[QUOTE=Medevilae;32616759]Gotta love that Southern Hospitality. :\[/QUOTE]
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Ironically both of them probably caused bleeding.
I might not be the most religious person in the world, but they call themselves Men of God? Wow.
[QUOTE=Megafanx13;32616773]It is a great shame that those police hardly did anything.[/QUOTE]
I would frankly hire a lawyer and have the lawyer file the charges himself. I don't think you actually need to police to file charges if you have a lawyer go through the system.
If you don't want gays in your church, don't build it in Fruitland.
I just love how some Americans criticize homophobia in eastern countries (eg that one thread where people blamed Qatar for having lashed a gay man twenty years ago) yet completely ignore that kind of incident, which happened in their own country.
But yeah, manifest destiny and all that.
This just.....is....wow.
This is why Im not a fan of Christianity.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;32617732]I just love how some Americans criticize homophobia in eastern countries (eg that one thread where people blamed Qatar for having lashed a gay man twenty years ago) yet completely ignore that kind of incident, which happened in their own country.
But yeah, manifest destiny and all that.[/QUOTE]
Who in this thread is ignoring it? I've always been incredibly critical of homophobic behavior, especially in regard to assault like this.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;32617807]This just.....is....wow.
This is why Im not a fan of Christianity.[/QUOTE]
You know it's not just limited to Christianity right? It's other minor religions along with all Abrahamic Religions that the majority practice homophobic beliefs. So that's basically 1/2 people on this planet.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;32617186]I might not be the most religious person in the world, but they call themselves Men of God? Wow.[/QUOTE]
Rednecks.
[QUOTE=Fables;32617825]You know it's not just limited to Christianity right? It's other minor religions along with all Abrahamic Religions that the majority practice homophobic beliefs. So that's basically 1/2 people on this planet.[/QUOTE]
Just wanted to say something about religion.
I've had this realization. With all the advents of technology and science. In a couple decades or a century or so, most if not all religions will be gone. Rendered useless because of how science explains everything.
I mean when science explains so much about everything, pretty soon they'll be no sane reason to believe in a deity.
(Feel free to point out anything I said if I made a mistake.)
[QUOTE=Megafanx13;32617823]Who in this thread is ignoring it? I've always been incredibly critical of homophobic behavior, especially in regard to assault like this.[/QUOTE]
I'm not talking about this thread, I'm talking about these Americans who do that, and there was like three/four of them doing that in another thread.
I doubt anyone having this mentality will show up here, it would be admitting there IS homophobia in their country as well and they couldn't be so harsh towards middle-eastern countries anymore.
GOD IS A LOVING GOD
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[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;32617905]
I've had this realization. With all the advents of technology and science. In a couple decades or a century or so, most if not all religions will be gone. Rendered useless because of how science explains everything.[/QUOTE]
I wrote out a rule for this a while ago
if humans = 1
religion = 1
[editline]3rd October 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Protection;32617924]GOD IS A LOVING GOD
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fairly certain men did this, not a god
[QUOTE=Zeke129;32617983]I wrote out a rule for this a while ago
if humans = 1
religion = 1
[editline]3rd October 2011[/editline]
fairly certain men did this, not a god[/QUOTE]
Please elaborate a bit. I fail to understand.
Not even surprised, this state is a piece of shit.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;32617905](Feel free to point out anything I said if I made a mistake.)[/QUOTE]
Your whole point is mistaken, actually (and sadly). You can't expect the entire concept of religion to disappear because "lol science can explain it".
First of all, the answers science give won't satisfy everyone. Religion (especially Christianity) is really oriented towards the idea that God created humans, love them to no end and put them to the center of the universe. From that point a lot of fundamentalists Christians just reject the mere idea of us being only a small glimpse of life in a giant universe, with no one above to love us or take care of us. Religion will still exist because people want to keep that warm, comforting feeling that someone is taking care of them.
Second, religion doesn't have to explain the origins of the universe in an opposite way of science in order to be considered a Religion. Knowing agnosticism is taking more and more importance since the seventeenth century, it's more likely that today's religions will disappear to be replaced by Religions accepting science as a fact yet still letting room for a god-like, world creating entity that designed the universe and is watching it over, but without all the incoherences actual religion are making today (there's a lot of science-fiction where humanity, even sometimes a full Millennium after our time, still believe in a God, even though most of them are scientists).
Last but not least, Religion will ALWAYS have answers science just cannot give as well as ways to make people feel better. Life after death ? Religion gives a crystal clear (and comforting) answer. Got a cancer ? The only thing science can tell you is that they will try making you better with medicines and radiations, religion just tells you it's not so bad and you will go in heaven and all that. Losing a relative ? Same thing, science can just tell you "yep, he's dead", religion can tell you you will find him back after life and such.
It can sound stupid and irrational, but a desperate Man is nowhere near rational. In an ideal world, Science will indirectly create a Religion that isn't conflicting with it, but it will still be here.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;32617908]I'm not talking about this thread, I'm talking about these Americans who do that, and there was like three/four of them doing that in another thread.
I doubt anyone having this mentality will show up here, it would be admitting there IS homophobia in their country as well and they couldn't be so harsh towards middle-eastern countries anymore.[/QUOTE]
We never said there was never homophobia in the US? Living in the south myself I can say there is quite a bit of homophobia. I don't take part in it obviously and I definitely don't condone it. If it wasn't for the rednecks the south would be a lovely place.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;32617807]This just.....is....wow.
This is why Im not a fan of Christianity.[/QUOTE]
Why? This isn't something Jesus would have approved of. Nor any pious christian.
John 8:3-11
"The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
"No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
[QUOTE=OvB;32618022]We never said there was never homophobia in the US? Living in the south myself I can say there is quite a bit of homophobia. I don't take part in it obviously and I definitely don't condone it. If it wasn't for the rednecks the south would be a lovely place.[/QUOTE]
People denying homophobia in the US are basically xenophobes who deny it in order to have arguments against middle-eastern countries.
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