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Who would’ve thought?

Just found this blog in my Google Reader recommendations, this was the post that made me decide to subscribe.

In the above video Pat Robertson asks the question, “What’s gonna happen if someone preaches a sermon: ‘Homosexuality is a sin. Here’s what the Bible says. Here’s chapter and verse.’ And all of a sudden, somebody leaves that congregation and goes up, beats up on somebody who is a homosexual. Does that kick back on the pastor? Is he now guilty of a hate crime?”

Well, depending on the chapter and verse, yes. If the pastor spends a Sunday screaming about Leviticus 20:13 (“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”) and then one of the congregation slips out to the nearest gay bar and opens fire on the patrons, the pastor’s hate speech is a direct influence and a direct cause of the attack. And now there is the legal power to prosecute the pastor for his part in the attack.

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