Got Effeminate Kids?

[GrimFusion]

Apparently that's what Sean Harris, a pastor from North Carolina thinks.

Sean Harris (pictured, left), the senior pastor at Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, is a strong supporter of North Carolina's proposed antigay Amendment One. In Sunday's sermon, Harris screams like a maniac about cracking limp wrists and punching young children who exhibit gender-variant behavior. Girls playing sports are OK, but they must attempt to look pretty, according to Harris.

I don't understand how this doesn't qualify as hate speech.

The reason why fighting words are categorically excluded from the protection of the First Amendment is not that their content communicates any particular idea, but that their content embodies a particularly intolerable (and socially unnecessary) mode of expressing whatever idea the speaker wishes to convey. Even in cases where speech encourages illegal violence, instances of incitement qualify as criminal only if the threat of violence is imminent.

This is a pastor telling his congregation that child abuse is not only allowable, but condonable so long as your child exhibits gender dis-associative or gay behavior. I'd like to think that the parents in the congregation are intelligent enough to ignore Harris' off-color commentary, but the audio recordings tell a completely different story.

MP3 recording of Sean Harris preaching a message of violence against gay and gender dysphoric children.

What do you think? Does his message qualify as hate speech, or should his opinion be protected by our constitution's first amendment rights to free speech and freedom of religion?

[GroobySteven]

That has just made my stomach churn.

I hereby give all of YOU special dispensation to go out and punch this guy.

[jimbo1974]

Pond life.

[Merkurie]

This is why inside every homophobe is a gayboy trying to get out.

[Dino Velvet]

Somebody follow Sean Harris with camera and wait for him to screw up.

[south ov da border]

this guy is a closet sado. But seriously as many times as my family tried to beat the black off me, it didn't seem to work. I don't think it would work for this either...

[GrimFusion]

this guy is a closet sado. But seriously as many times as my family tried to beat the black off me, it didn't seem to work. I don't think it would work for this either...

It never works. I got it plenty as a kid, too. I was an only child and neither of my parents knew how to be parents. They expected perfection and any time I'd deviate from it, I got my ass beat or got locked in the basement. That worked until I turned 14 and tried to burn the house down with both of them in it.

Violence always translates to disrespect and retaliation. It doesn't keep kids in line; it just teaches them how to lie and hide.

[Dino Velvet]

delete

[Faldur]

Absolutely sickening, how can there be people in the room who applaud it?

[bellamy]

I guess my question to this guy is. Why do you care what these kids want to be??