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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @12:01PM
As opposed to a company using their position of power to play-up a marketing coup.
And the drooling morons out there will happily believe this is about "hate speech".
(Score: 5, Informative) by SomeGuy on Wednesday June 15 2016, @12:48PM
Yes, yes. Or as opposed to major media companies twisting facts to further their political agendas and rake in advertising dollars.
But unfortunately companies, and media are quite real. It is possible to perform scientific experiments on them to prove they exist.
On a side note, you may notice that the media is taking every opportunity to label the shooter as an Islamic terrorist. While pedantically he succeeded at becoming a terrorist and made statements about Islamic stuff, it seems he was not related to any such organization and there is a good chance that was all just an excuse for cover his own instabilities and inadequacies. Of course, even that is just based on the spoon-fed media information. But the agenda here is that we must increase spending on security and surveillance while ignoring mental health and social programs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 15 2016, @01:17PM
In a way, the shooter has been an absolute gift.
EVERYBODY can hang their personal agenda on the corpses. From the right's fearmongering about terrorism to everything from homophobia to gun control.
I'm in frequent contact with some Nation of Islam members, and even they were spinning this as a false flag so that blacks could be persecuted even more. Amazing!
And of course if you worship an Abrahamic god, you are no doubt in some way responsible.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday June 15 2016, @02:25PM
and there is a good chance that was all just an excuse for cover his own instabilities and inadequacies
None of that matters in the ongoing propaganda war.
For example if a white cop shoots a black suspect, stuff automatically hits the fan racially. Private life or special situations don't matter, in the bigger propaganda war its just another white cop shooting another black kid.
I mean it matters in a certain abstract sense why an individual did something, especially to the individuals involved.
But for 99% of the population its just an anecdote in the propaganda war and from that point of view all that matters is the demographics. For the zillionth time, attacker is Moslem, victim is gay, and there's endless hand wringing about how to not stand up to protect the inevitable future victims, if we pretend there's no problem maybe it won't happen again, etc.
In the progressive pecking order Moslems rank higher than gays, like it or not. Personally, if I had to have one, I'd rather have the gays, but to say I'm not progressive would be an understatement so that doesn't matter.
But, unfortunately, the problem will happen until its fixed, as is the case with most problems. Either Moslem extremism has to go, or the gays have to go, or we can watch bodies stack up. There is no 4th alternative. There are various debatable alternatives for "Moslem extremism has to go" or maybe even "the gays have to go". Its not binary of course, and we could get rid of both.