Pastor Sean Harris Rant---Pastor Sean Harris Anti-Gay Rant, The ugly rant of Pastor Sean Harris, the senior pastor at Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, is going viral online. The wonderful thing about the combination of the internet and free speech is that when someone says something really ugly and horrifying, their words are called out.
We don’t need to clamp down on speech like this through any legal means.
The best disinfectant is sunlight, as the saying goes, and social media is the best sunlight we have when it comes to hateful speech.
These days, people can’t simply preach to the choir, as it were. The whole world is right there listening on YouTube and passing it around Facebook and Twitter.
Pretty soon your violent sermon is being mocked and scorned across the digital empire. Good thing, too, because Harris’s words deserve condemnation.
In the audio [below] Harris says: “So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, ‘Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,’ you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed….
Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male.”
In my experience, cruelty to children doesn’t make them more “manly” or brave or confident. It certainly won’t change their sexual orientation.
It will, on the other hand, make them more broken and fearful, and less trusting. The damage goes way beyond whatever physical pain is inflicted.
The words “Do unto others” come flooding to mind, in fact. Or ”Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
We don’t need to clamp down on speech like this through any legal means.
The best disinfectant is sunlight, as the saying goes, and social media is the best sunlight we have when it comes to hateful speech.
These days, people can’t simply preach to the choir, as it were. The whole world is right there listening on YouTube and passing it around Facebook and Twitter.
Pretty soon your violent sermon is being mocked and scorned across the digital empire. Good thing, too, because Harris’s words deserve condemnation.
In the audio [below] Harris says: “So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, ‘Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,’ you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed….
Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male.”
In my experience, cruelty to children doesn’t make them more “manly” or brave or confident. It certainly won’t change their sexual orientation.
It will, on the other hand, make them more broken and fearful, and less trusting. The damage goes way beyond whatever physical pain is inflicted.
The words “Do unto others” come flooding to mind, in fact. Or ”Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
