Pastor Roger Jimenez wishes for more LGBT deaths after Orlando shooting

by Sara Ritsch
Staff Writer

(June 28, 2016) - Christians “shouldn’t be mourning dead sodomites,” Pastor Roger Jimenez told his congregation at Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento. This is regarding the Orlando shooting, in which we lost 49 innocent members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and injured 53 others.

“People say, like: ‘Well, aren’t you sad that 50 sodomites died?’” Jimenez said. “Here’s the problem with that. It’s like the equivalent of asking me — what if you asked me: ​’Hey, are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today?’"

He went on to appallingly say, “Um, no, I think that’s great. I think that helps society. You know, I think Orlando, Florida, is a little safer tonight.... The tragedy is that more of them didn’t die. The tragedy is — I’m kind of upset that he didn’t finish the job!”

This is the opposite of the Christian belief that you should love your neighbor. “This is preaching hate from the pulpit,” Jay Brown, spokesman for Human Rights Campaign, said. “His words offer no comfort to the survivors of the attack, to the family and friends whose loved ones they’ll never see again.

“And to think of the LGBTQ youth in his own church, it’s simply heartbreaking.”

According to The Washington Post, “Members of the LGBT community are not allowed to join Verity Baptist or attend its services, according to the church’s ‘What We Believe’ page. It states the church believes ‘sodomy’ — referring to homosexuality — is ‘a sin and an abomination before God​ which God punishes with the death penalty.’

“’I wish the government would round them all up, put them up against a firing wall, put a firing squad in front of them, and blow their brains out,’ Jimenez said during his Sunday sermon, which Verity Baptist posted on its website under the title ‘the Christian response to the Orlando murders.’”

Christian? This is Christian?

The Gayly - 6/28/2016 @ 12:06 p.m. CDT