Transcript

(gentle music)

God hates fags, god hates fag enablers,

your duty in this life, if you listen to Solomon,

he said, Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter.

Fear god and keep his commandments,

for this is the whole duty of man.

It was almost a year after we left

that I finally looked back at some old videos.

It was so surreal.

We had all these ideas and it didn't matter

what the impact was on people, on human beings.

Everyone in the world, you could just lay them waste

on the altar of these ideas

and how certain we were that they were true.

Thank God for September 11.

He gave you that warning and space to repent.

You people of Sodom just rebel more.

This land will be a desolation.

Isaiah One.

I thought, This is great, this is proof

that god is punishing this nation

and maybe now people will listen to us,

now they'll understand that they've done these things

to incur the wrath of god and that's why,

that's why this is happening.

When you believe that, you have this view of humanity

as essentially, most of it, worthless,

just entirely, entirely worthless

and deserving of complete destruction, which is part of why

we were celebrating those things, those tragedies.

800,000 expected at Chicago Pride today.

WBC was there to remind them:

sin and shame is what you have, not anything worth pride.

Since leaving, we've spent a lot of time

talking with people that we used to see as wicked.

And it was us versus them and we didn't want anything

to do with them and when you come at it

with that perspective, you're not really seeing them

as they are, you're seeing this projected image

that you kinda put on them.

So we were really surprised when we started spending time

with them and seeing that they were amazing people

doing wonderful things and they were well-intentioned,

they weren't just evil or stupid or delusional

or led around by Satan, they're just people

trying to live their lives and trying

to do what they think is right.

I did nothing to deserve the godly parents I have

in Dear Shirley and WBC diplomat,

such are all god's blessings.

The church was our entire community,

they were the people that we spent time with

and worked with and we didn't have friends

or people outside so in that time before we left,

when we were thinking about leaving

and just for the first time, having this idea

that it was even a possibility was like watching everyone

that we loved, it was like they were all dying.

Because we knew that it was gonna be gone

and so that was a terrifying prospect

and also knowing that by leaving,

we were gonna be hurting them terribly.

And that was the last thing that we wanted.