'Shoot them in the back of the head': Evangelical preachers ratchet up anti-LGBTQ hate rhetoric [View all]

Evangelical preachers have begun transforming the recent mania associating the LGBTQ community with pedophilia into demands for genocide.

“Every single homosexual in our country … should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head!” insisted one recently.

“Put them to death. Put all queers to death. They die,” proclaimed another, adding: “When they die, that stops the pedophilia. It’s a very, very simple process.”

The genocidal rhetoric based on the false pedophilia link being whipped up against the LGBTQ community—particularly heading into June with its multitude of Pride events around the nation—has already fomented ugly anti-LGBTQ protests by white nationalists outside Pride gatherings and threats by far-right “Patriot bikers” to bring guns to others.

Among some Evangelical Christians, this has served as a green light to embrace a hateful interpretation of biblical scripture—one originally promulgated by the white-supremacist Christian Identity movement—to demand they be put to death.

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