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The evening after the massacre at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, a California pastor took the opportunity to preach that "God said: When you find a sodomite, put them to death.'" A video of the sermon was uploaded by the church, then deleted "for violating YouTube's policy on hate speech." A copy of the video uploaded by someone else, describing the sermon as "despicable," was allowed to remain.
coverage:
- Sacramento Bee
- CBS (about sermon)
- New York Daily News
- Washington Post
further information:
Facebook page for Verity Baptist Church
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(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday June 15 2016, @11:53AM
If you haven't already, read "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. It portrays everyday life for ordinary (and extraordinary) people under the Nazis and it shows how the propaganda of the time had dug itself so deeply into peoples' hearts and thoughts.
It immerses you in wartime Munich in the same way that To Kill a Mockingbird, 12 years a Slave or The Grapes of Wrath transport you to a long-disappeared America. It is an original, beautiful and compelling book that has won plenty of awards. The only downside is that it is thoroughly, thoroughly depressing towards the end. And in the middle. And the beginning's pretty depressing too, come to think of it. But read it anyway, you won't regret it!