{An evangelical Christian suggested in a video posted to Facebook that Christians should fight against gay rights with firearms.
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Former pastor and current Internet personality Joshua Feuerstein opened his July 9 tirade with several examples of what he described as attacks on Christianity.<\/p>\n
Feuerstein, who has about 1.6 million Facebook fans, mentions a man suing two Bible publishers to get the word \u201chomosexuality\u201d removed from the text, an Idaho pastor he says might get arrested for refusing to perform gay weddings and Oregon bakers getting fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.<\/p>\n
It turns out Feuerstein is a little misinformed about a couple of these stories (we\u2019ll get to that in a minute), but it\u2019s what he does next that\u2019s bringing the video — which has received more than 5 million views since he uploaded it — so much attention.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are coming after our First Amendment constitutional rights,\u201d Feuerstein puffs. \u201cWell, check this out. This is one pastor that will not bow. Why? Because my First Amendment right is guaranteed by my Second Amendment right.\u201d He then brandishes what appears to be an assault rifle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThink about that, ladies and gentlemen,\u201d he continues. \u201cIt\u2019s time we finally take a stand and say \u2018no more.\u2019 We\u2019re not backing up any farther. We\u2019re not going to allow a tyrannical government to try and strip away our rights as Christians and try to demonize us so that they can make the Bible bigoted.\u201d<\/p>\n
It should be noted that the “government” is not doing anything to change the text of the Bible. The lawsuit Feuerstein mentions actually took place in 2008 and was dismissed by the courts, Snopes points out.<\/p>\n
The angry evangelist\u2019s complaint about a pastor’s arrest is also inaccurate. He\u2019s referring to ministers Donald and Evelyn Knapp, owners of the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Couer d’Alene, Idaho, who filed a federal lawsuit last year claiming that the city\u2019s non-discrimination ordinances would force them to face jail time if they refused to perform same-sex weddings.<\/p>\n
However, the Knapps were never actually threatened with arrest or fines, city officials said at the time. Additionally, the Knapps registered their business as a religious corporation, making it explicitly exempt from the non-discrimination law in the first place.<\/p>\n
Even if all Feuerstein\u2019s claims were true, though, it would hardly lend credibility to the suggestion that Christians should use guns to fight gay marriage. We double-checked and found that \u201cThou shalt not kill\u201d is still on the list of the Ten Commandments –and there\u2019s no footnote saying it\u2019s OK if you\u2019re doing it to fight against gay rights.<\/p>\n
H\/T Gay Star News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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