Stedfast Baptist Church is an independent fundamental King James Only church in Watauga, TX, pastored by Jonathan Shelley, a controversial perhaps best known for publicly and repeatedly calling for the death of all homosexuals, exemplified in this brief sermon snippet:
It’s going beyond just saying you do all this wicked stuff, it’s saying you enjoy it. You enjoy murder. You enjoy malignity. You enjoy hating God. Look, there’s only one group that enjoys that, is the PRIDE parades going up down the street.
And you know, it’s great when trucks accidentally go through those, you know, parades. I think only one person died, so hopefully we can hope for more in the future.
You say ‘oh that’s mean’. Yeah, but the bible says that they’re worthy of death.
You say, ‘Are you sad when fags die?’ No, I think it’s great. I hope they all die. I would love it if every fag would die right now. And you say, ‘Well, I don’t think that’s what you really mean’. That’s exactly what I mean. I really mean it.
Shelley is a wretched preacher whose theology surrounding men and women is misguided at best and dangerous at worse. Far from loving his wife as Christ loves the church, he hates her like Satan hates the elect, demonstrated by the utter lack of deference and care he gives her. He explains in a recent sermon:
I heard an independent fundamentalist baptist preacher, he’s like ‘you know, it’s not right for me to just tell my wife when we’re gonna have kids, you know, I need to ask her permission or ask when it’s okay to start having kids.’
And I’m like thinking like, ‘are you a man? Are you a Baptist? You’re a fundamental Baptist preacher and you’re gonna ask your wife if it’s okay to have children?’ I’m like, ‘what planet Am I living on?’You know, how effeminate is that, to let your wife tell you when she’s gonna have kids or not? I mean, that’s feminism. You know which buttons I ask my wife if it’s ok to press? None. Because she doesn’t tell me what to do.
You know, that’s a weird relationship and it’s sad that fundamental Baptist preachers are letting their wives tell them what to do
h/t Friendly Atheist
