Homophobic Hate-Preaching Pastor Insists He Was Taken Out of Context – Because He Was Quoted

Over the weekend several homophobic hate-preaching pastors came together to hold a Make America Straight Again conference. One of the pastors is now insisting remarks he made in a video he recorded just before the conference was taken out of context, as Friendly Atheists’s Hemant Mehta reports.

Pastor Tommy McMurtry of Illinois’ Liberty Baptist Church told supporters America used to execute LGBTQ people, and “unfortunately” society no longer does.

“There was a time when society, when our country saw them for what they were, and they put them in their place: six feet under. And unfortunately, we have forgotten that in our country,” Pastor McMurtry said in a short video reposted by the website New IFB (Independent Fundamentalist Baptists) Is a Cult, which is working to expose these homophobic preachers.

On Sunday, Pastor McMurtry lashed out at the “dishonest” LGBT and liberal media, insisting his words were taken out of context because he was quoted almost verbatim.

“They can be so dishonest,” McMurtry told his followers. “And you want to respond to it. I mean, somebody showed me the one today, they had the article, it had a quote from me, and it said ‘Pastor McMurtry said ‘homos’ in quotation marks’ — they put the ‘homos’ in quotation marks — should be, in their own words, put ‘six feet under’ in quotation marks under it. Alright?”

“So the quote from me was ‘Homos’ should be put ‘six feet under’… That’s the way they made it look. They quoted my words ‘homos.’ They quoted my words ‘six feet under.’… Yes, those words all came out of my mouth, but I wasn’t saying that! I’m not saying whether I think that or not, but I’m just saying… that’s not what I said! I said that’s what society used to think, and everybody knows that! That’s just a historical fact that they whine and cry about!

They cry about that, alright? The only difference… between what I said there and what they say about their own history is that I don’t think it was a bad thing! That’s the only difference!”

Except the part where he literally says, “unfortunately,” and “in their place.”

There is no misunderstanding.

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