On his “Pray In Jesus Name” program recently, Gordon Klingenschmitt was discussing the possibility that the owners of an Oregon bakery may have to pay significant fines after refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, when he praised the bakery owners for “being a blessing” to the entire gay community “by refusing to participate in their acts of sodomy.”

After asserting that it is the goal of the government to bankrupt Christian business owners, Klingenschmitt declared that Aaron and Melissa Klein “are being persecuted for righteousness sake” and hailed them “for actually being a blessing to the homosexual community by speaking truth to them and refusing to participate in their acts of sodomy. They are defining right and wrong and saying, ‘We are not going to endorse your sin because it is harmful to you in the homosexual community.'”

Klingenschmitt then went on to pray that Christians will not “manifest the demonic spirit that would endorse that sin” but will have “the freedom to not agree with the Devil”: