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Protest Planned After N.C. Pastor Calls for LGBTQ Concentration Camp

HeadlineMay 24, 2012

A protest is being organized outside a North Carolina church this Sunday after the church’s pastor called for placing gays and lesbians inside a concentration camp. The Reverend Charles Worley made the remarks in a Mother’s Day address to the Providence Road Baptist Church.

Rev. Charles Worley: “I figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers, but I couldn’t get it past the Congress: build a great big large fence, 150 or a hundred mile long. Put all the lesbians in there, fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals. And have that fence electrified so they can’t get out. Feed 'em. And you know what? In a few years they will die out. Do you know why? They can't reproduce.”

Worley’s sermon was delivered just days after North Carolina voters passed a gay marriage ban. A group calling itself Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate says it will picket Worley’s church on Sunday.

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