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Permalink Reply by Daniel on February 18, 2010 at 7:45am

I love cooking, so I watch the Food Network quite a bunch. So, I guess the question is, was this porn from the pastor's personal collection, or did he send out a memo to his flock?

In these wannabe theocracies (and I'm also looking at you, America), a lot of this hatred toward those who act against and refuse to conform to the perceived authority of the Bible is essentially contrived for the benefit of the collective mob and its instigators. Christianity, and many other religions, need their enemies. Truth be damned, they will cook up any reason and whatever fears they can, and the more irrational and nebulous, the more effective. They need people to hate and persecute. They need those examples, and, unfortunately, these days, homosexuals are an easy and ubiquitous target for them.

Anyway, Ssempa's utterance above is astounding in its gleaming hypocrisy. Unless the bedroom antics of humans have some appeal to you, there is simply no need to fixate and obsess over them to the extent that this pastor is.

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on February 18, 2010 at 8:45am

We shouldn't care what other people do in their bedrooms but, since we don't like what they do in their bedrooms we should care what they do in their bedrooms.

Permalink Reply by The Secular One on February 18, 2010 at 11:07am

No, he wants to do the stuff in the bedrooms he's interfering with, but he thinks it is bad so he's trying to make the penalty so awful he'll never be tempted....again?

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on February 18, 2010 at 10:06am

NOW THAT'S A CHURCH SERVICE I'D BE WILLING TO ATTEND!

Permalink Reply by Aiden on February 18, 2010 at 12:52pm

Except for the part where they crucify you (literally) after they see you sitting there smiling with a raging hard-on...

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on February 18, 2010 at 1:00pm

with a raging hard-on...

I have a feeling I wouldn't be the only one.

Permalink Reply by Randy Rose on February 18, 2010 at 11:03am

I automatically don't like this guy because he has two S's at the beginning of his last name and that's just weird.

Permalink Reply by The Secular One on February 18, 2010 at 11:06am

You know how we joke that is really takes a self-hating closeted gay person to push homophobia really hard? You know, since they "protest too much?"

Well, when you start showing gay porn in church because you don't want to see gay people having sex, add that to the list.

Permalink Reply by Dean Jones on February 18, 2010 at 3:46pm

I've never found straight porn to be a very accurate representation of what hetero sex is like (at least not professionally produced porn). Do we know if this guy was showing a slide show, a professional porno or what? I suspect the content wasn't just some informative and dispassionate shots of a couple of dudes together but probably some sort of gang-bang involving shitplay. That said, do we have any actual info on the content beyond speculation?

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Permalink Reply by AletheaT on February 18, 2010 at 7:24pm

Sweet... I'm bringing the popcorn!

Permalink Reply by Jo Jerome on March 8, 2010 at 2:57pm

I'm wondering how much gay porn the pastor screened before choosing the bits that he did. Hours upon hours of close inspection. Analyzing video and sound quality. Slow-motion and frame-by-frame. Over and over again to make sure he got just the right gay porn to show to his congregation.

Next step will be to take them all on a field trip to a gay escort service, because he's decided that it's really best experienced firsthand.

Permalink Reply by Luke on March 8, 2010 at 8:34pm

A good pastor would be setting up his show to alternately outrage then sooth to build the mood he needs to get his congregation stirred up. To do that he would have needed to really know the topic. I think he tilted his hand by doing this. I'd say he's a "Friend of Haggard".