Why gays should die

They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy , because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets. Pacquiao was one of several candidates for the Philippine Senate who recently were asked their views on same-sex marriage during a recent interview broadcast by the Filipino television network TV5.

Will you see any animals where male is to male and female is to female? They know how to distinguish male from female. If we approve [of] male on male, female on female, then man is worse than animals. I love you all with the love of the Lord. Ronda Rousey says she thought about killing herself after loss to Holly Holm. Why Jordan Morris turned down European soccer for the U. When he was young he shared a room with his older brothers and male cousins.

They would discuss girls at night during pillow talk, and then pointedly ask him, "So what's your favourite part of a girl's body? Mohamed gravitated towards makeup and beauty, preferring to spend time with his sisters rather than his brothers. He would often try on their dresses, and after being caught for the third time, his mother felt that she had to do something. His oldest brother was instructed to teach him certain passages of the Koran and its companion scripture, made up of sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, the Hadith.

Every night Mohamed would be forced to recite: "God punishes men who make themselves look like women. And also women who make themselves look like men. He's cursing you. He's planning for you to go to hell in the afterlife," Mohamed says. I used to wake up in the middle of the night in a sweat screaming: 'Oh help me! Help me from God, he's burning me in hell! For a while Mohamed attempted to satisfy his family's wish to behave more like other boys. When people are young they forget things quickly.

Finally, when Mohamed was 12, his mother sent him to a "rehabilitation centre". Institutions designed to reform children, teenagers and young adults who are judged to have strayed from Somali values are scattered throughout Hargeisa, and the rest of Somaliland and Somalia.

People are often held in them against their will in harsh and abusive conditions. According to Mohamed, in many cases they are run by scammers,who distort Islamic scripture for financial gain. Mohamed's family believed that his effeminate behaviour was a result of being possessed by a female jinn, or evil spirit, so the staff claimed they would drive it out. They called themselves "life savers", arguing that they were saving their patients from hell. Mohamed was schooled every day on how to behave like a traditional man.

They taught him how to walk and talk, and forced him to play football with the other patients - something he would always avoid if he could. This was accompanied by daily readings of Islamic texts. On the fourth day, the "life savers" started sexually abusing Mohamed. Rape was common in the centre, and was committed both by patients and by staff, he says.

Everyone was crammed together in a large hall with sleeping bags, with ages ranging from 10 to The Salvation Army believes, therefore, that Christians whose sexual orientation is primarily or exclusively same-sex are called upon to embrace celibacy as a way of life. That page has since been deleted, but it still makes you wonder of why one of the organization's Media Relations Directors, Major Andrew Craibe and his 32 years of Salvation Army experience, decided to go on a queer radio show and talk about death.

It seems like an inevitable lose-lose situation and not very savvy from a PR perspective. And isn't telling your interviewer that they should be put to death violate some kind of PR commandment, let along the numerous Christian ones. Here's the full audio version of interview the remarks come around the 7-minute mark, and again at :.

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