LOL

It's quite amusing to see how much people read into one statement. The author of that article cleverly takes one sentence out of a whole sermon completely out of context, and successfullly manipulates his audience towards his bias views of a Christian man (and perhaps even Christians in general.)

If you've ever sat through a charismatic service, you could not deny the amount of intensity and passion that a preacher integrates into his message. He's trying to speak to the hearts of his congregation, and more likely to be boldly out of love than to fertilize hatred.

People are to judge this reverend based off of one instance of his message as a hateful homophobe, and at the same time castigating him for being judgemental. Hating on hate does not end hate, especially if the alleged hate is insubstantial.

I'm not saying he went about the best means of presenting his message. If anything that this man is guilty of, it is the controversy in the words he chose to use. I'm saying that we should thouroughly think through this man's intentions rather than hastily adopting the opinions of the author of the original article in how he is trying to portray the church.(whether intentionally or not.)

If a black preacher merely said that he was against gay marriage than no one would think. Everyone would just overlook the whole issue, b/c it is jaded. This is what things have come down to. It sucks, I know.