What are they putting in the water in YouTuber-ville?
Just after learning that electronic musician Pogo “fist bumped” when he learned of the Orlando Pulse massacre (and then we subsequently learned it was all a “joke”??), we have 22-year-old preacher Matt Powell advocating for the government rounding up all gay people and putting them to death.
Here’s a snippet from this dumpster fire of a video in which Powell chats with atheist Youtuber Skylar Fiction:
“As far as homosexuality goes, I believe the Bible puts the death penalty on it,” Powell said. “I believe it’s disgusting. And incidentally, every scientific test has come back and said that homosexuals are 50 more times likely to get AIDS… we got this AIDS thing spreading… it’s a fact that this is the case.”
“You don’t believe that gay people should be stoned to death, do you?” Fiction asked.
“I believe the Bible puts the death penalty on it,” Powell replied. “Obviously, not by me or anybody in a regular society, obviously. I believe it’s the government’s job to execute criminals. I believe that the Bible says clearly that homosexuality is a criminal crime. It’s a crime. It’s one of the worst crimes ever.”
“Is that what you’re advocating for?” Fiction pressed. “That our government should stone gays to death to execute them?”
Powell responded, “By whatever means they execute people. And obviously, I believe in humane, you know, putting to death.”
Related: Video surfaces of popular musician explaining why he hates gay people & celebrated Pulse shooting
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Frank
why give this idiot a voice…there are more gays and straights doing things to uplift everyone than this idiot
Billysees
Perfectly said.
MikeE
Instead of reposting this and telling people to watch it… why the FECK don’t you report it to youtube instead?
crowebobby
I’m sure he means well. (Sarcasm, sweeties.)
draven
He looks gay….duh
Kenton9
“Worst crimes ever”?
So mere existence is a crime now, I guess.
Thomas Hartleif
on YT all discriminated and harassing Clips had been reported and all of it got deleted and blocked can`t be viewed any longer must have been more than 80 people who reported him because of hate speech and siscriminating behaviour…….
Chrisk
You gotta wonder what’s really going on in this kids mind. If he really believes it then he’s a seriously disturbed psychopath. Looking for anything that gives him attention would be my next guess.
Billysees
Good comments Chrisk, especially — …what’s really going on in this kids mind…Looking for anything that gives him attention would be my…guess.
The ones further down also.
Chrisk
Actually letting him have his videos up is a better service for Atheism. Just another holier then thou dipshit in a long line of them.
dannyboi2
I stopped watching as soon as he said he believes the Bible from Cover to cover. I guarantee this guy’s BONKERS! and needs medical attention.
Xzamilloh
People who say the bible is true and haven’t read it? They annoy me.
People who say the bible is true and have read it? They scare me.
Chrisk
There have been 3000 made up God so far but yours actually exist. The others are silly made up nonsense…but not yours. Yours is real. ..Ricky Gervais
Bryguyf69
OMG … that was painful. He was so badly beaten in that “debate,” that I actually felt sorry for him. QUESTION: In the past, when Queerty linked Youtube videos, we merely had to double click on it to go to the source on Youtube. That no longer works. There is no way to go to the source, which I think is unethical because it doesn’t give the video’s owner proper credit, or easy access to subscribe to his/her channel. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, I can’t easily comment on it. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THE IDIOT SAID THAT NEEDS CORRECTING, e.g. he totally misrepresented the gun laws in Switzerland.
So am I missing something? Is there an easy way to access the source video on Youtube?
Chrisk
I just go to YouTube and type in his name.
ptb2016
I still don’t understand the hatred directed at gay men. But how does anyone like this idiot think something scribbled in a book by old men in a middle eastern desert four thousand or more years ago have anything to do with the modern world, and how human beings have developed. All men have a homosexual element in their nature else they’d not make any males friends, but those who discover it is not something we can choose to be have no desire to convert anyone and certainly not a hatefilled bigot like Matt Powell. If he calls himself a Christian he should read the bits he’s supposed to like love one another, that’s what Jesus said was the most important commandment. It’s timeChristians threw away their Old testaments which are basically only angry Jewish laws anyway, written just after the dinosaurs they never mention had left!
radiooutmike
These guys base their whole identity on their religion and they identify as followers. So, what does a follower need? Rules of conduct. Rules of what is right. Rules of what is wrong.
What doesn’t a follower need? The ‘other’. You are either in with the in group or out stuck in the worldliness of the out group. They’ll get their rewards, we’ll get our punishment.
I really think it is all internalized homophobia. They are not comfortable with themselves in some way, so they lash out and vilify a group that embodies their unease. It’s on their minds. Why would a straight guy think about what the gays are doing? Maybe because they see themselves and their desires.
I spent a lot of time when I was closeted worrying about my straightness, if I was man enough, trying not to find a hot guy attractive or think about sucking a dick. I don’t think about the first anymore. Now I find guys attractive, I know I am a man and I love the dick. I don’t go around thinking how great straight sex was or how unappealing it seems. It does not enter my mind at all.
The other issue is critical thinking. You don’t need critical thinking skills for your personal life because somebody already has all the answers.
Kangol
Yet another young white “straight” YouTube personality who hates gay people. YouTube is a private corporation, owned by Google, so why is Google allowing him or anyone to propagate this kind of hatred?
SeattleSheikah
This kid is advocating for a world that looks like V for Vendetta, except the USA has done what England did. If you haven’t read those graphic novels, or seen the film, you really should. There so much hate and ignorance thrown at us, from so many sides. I’m not heterosexual. I’m not cisgender. I’m not Christian. I’m not white. I don’t fit any “norm” of what I should be, as a human being, according to people like him. I’ve already been stoned once(not kidding, I had stones thrown at me by a group of Mormons protesting a peaceful walk against Prop 8, when it passed, and the cops didn’t do SHIT.), and I’ll be damned if it happens again.
ethan_hines
What’s the crime? Helping to control the human population?! Guilty!
PinkoOfTheGange
The kid had Deuteronomy wrong. It is very specific and only requires that the parent goes to the elders for stoning a willful child.
PinkoOfTheGange
Made it an hour into the video and now I have a head ache.
Stephen
Me thinks the lady dirty protest too much.
Let him who has not sinned throw the first rock.
Forgive the sinner, not the sin.
I could go on with live and let live beatitudes but we can all see that his violent reaction shows a preacher who wants to kill LGBTQ,
Then he would have to also execute the 236 documented mammals that have homosexual a true about the same 1/10 to 1/15 depending on the species.
So lots of killing going on.
Doesn’t killing anyone or anything contravene the 10 Commandments?
So this guys got issues. We all get it.
So why make news about a hater that threatens LGBTQI from feeling safe?
People not feeling safe do self harm. I really don’t need this type of news in my conscience! Really Qyeerty. Pull back on the haters getting air time. The hate contributes to youth suicide. Youth self abuse. Youth coming out, being kicked out, being forced to streets and sex work.
Let’s accentuate on the positive! I don’t like stories like this. What about small town gay straight alliances that are working? How about gays anywhere being able to bring youth off the street and given a hand up, not a hand out? How about inspiring us in this Twitter Age of pinhead heads of state that fuel their value on hate and diversive antics to separate people, races, countries against countries over trade destroying their closest trade partners? USA consumes more world resources than it produces and sells. Canadians boycotting bourbon?
That strikes me as the only way to talk to the Trump base.
Boycott the ’deplorables’. When they loose jobs they may start to ask questions.
And that is the start of growth and expansion. Asking questions. That’s freedom.
So let’s start dialogues for something, not against ignorance and haters.
If you aren’t part of the answer then Queerty you are part of the problem.
Editorial update! Time to change towards something better.
We are more than our body images, positive and negative!
James
NOBODY WANTS TO JOIN HIS UGLY HATE FILLED CHURCH OR WORSHIP HIS UGLY HATE FILLED GOD. WHAT A LOSER. HE IS ALREADY IN HELL.
Dwik27
I agree with other posters. Who is this D-bag and why is Queerty giving him a platform to spew his ignorant garbage. Seriously, Queerty, you have to think about this! I’ve never heard of this twat until now. But QUEERTY has just elevated him and his opinions – WHY? Get an F’ing clue Queerty!
Donston
They’re trying extra hard lately to push the “evil white men who might be closeted” narrative no matter how random and irrelavent the source, which even as a black queer I feel is tiresome. This type of one-note agenda pushing, sensationalism and lack of nuanced, insightful opinions and coversation is why “gay media” is so lame and partly why there’s still so much division within.
Kangol
@Donston, articles like this generate clicks. I think the site definitely has an agenda, but it’s also the case that when they post positive articles like the one about people of color, like Reggie Bullock, almost no one responds, and even sometimes if the articles are positive and different about white people, very few Queerty readers respond. In fact, I’ve noticed that if an article’s cover photo features a person of color, unless it’s about something very negative or is overtly criticizing white people, it gets almost no responses at all. Articles about homophobes, anyone linked to Trumpkin, or young white twink types, good or bad–lots of responses!
Donston
I meant to mention the click rate. But yes, obviously getting clicks is important to every site. But there’s no doubt certain sites go to the extreme to rile, bait and troll people, and too much of “gay media” is dominated by that with a scarcity of substance.
James Hart
Anyone this vehement is struggling with something, therefore, I feel sorry for him.
crowebobby
‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ Let’s start with this and then move on to boys who play with other boys’ pee-pees. The field will be pretty thinned out by then.
dinard38
So out of sheer curiosity, I watched most of the video. First off, I’m sure that poor Skylar had to take a bottle of aspirin to get rid of the explosive headache that he must have gotten by talking to this fool for two hours.
I feel sorry for the kid. From birth he has been isolated into Christian fundamentals. He was home-schooled, then he went to a Christian college. So it seems like he has no interaction with anyone or anything outside of his extremely narrow worldview. The perils of religion and indoctrination.
Skylar schooled his ass, over and over. That’s basically why I continued to watch….because I got a kick out of listening to Skylar just destroying all of Matt’s ridiculous arguments. Like many ‘christians’, Matt tried to be selective with the old Testament and the OT laws. He uses the scriptures in Leviticus to condemn homosexuality, but when Skylar asks him about all of the other laws (men shaving their beards, eating pork or selfish, wearing clothes made of different fabric, etc.) Mat says that Jesus did away with some of the OT laws. Skylar asked him which of the laws he did away with and how would we know, and he couldn’t answer the question. This fool actually believes that dinosaurs were on the ark. To me, out of all biblical stories, anyone believing in the story of Noah and the Ark are mentally ill.
This kid is clueless.
Chrisk
He’s just never been exposed to anyone with differing viewpoints. He’s also not very bright. The Smart Ones know to avoid the Old Testament Leviticus quotes.
Chrisk
A normal person would come out of this interview and think maybe I should rethink this whole genocide thing because clearly I don’t know as much as I thought I did. I mean if you can’t even answer simple straightforward questions….
Nope. This shithead just doubles down on stupid. It tells you everything you need to know about him.
irbaboon
christians are such jerks
alllowercase
My question is this: WHY does Queerty give people like him, Donald Trump, those ridiculously closeted blond twins and others space to spread their hate? We know that they are out there. We can find them if we want to listen to them. Why not ignore them, and use the available space to show us fun, sexy, vapid, uplifting, educational, smart, etc. content?
SHUT THEM OUT!
Billysees
It’s pathetic that Mr Powell has failed to recognize the great value of all kinds of good ‘words and attitudes’ that continually circulate in the Christian world, but it takes much work to make them happen all the time.
Here’s some examples —
1. Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way…..Romans 14:13
2. Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God…..Romans 15:7
3. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love….Ephesians 4:2
4. …all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble….1 Peter 3:8
5. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves…..Philippians 2:3
6. Be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone…..Titus 3:2
7. Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven…..Luke 6:37
8. ABOVE ALL, LOVE EACH OTHER DEEPLY, because love covers over a multitude of sins…….1 Peter 4:8
9. Let your gentle spirit be known to all men…..Philippians 4:5
10. Don’t seek your own good, but the good of others…….. 1 Corinthians 10:24
11. Follow after the things that make for peace……Romans 14:19
12. In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets………Matthew 7:12
13. Do to others as you would have them do to you………Luke 6:31
14. Honor everyone……….1 Peter 2:17
15. Continue to love each other……….Hebrews 13:1
16. Be devoted to each other with mutual affection. Excel at showing respect for each other……Romans 12:10
17. …let us do good to all people…………Galatians 6:10
To be continued…
woodroad34
Yes, I was about to mention the same thing. I sincerely doubt he goes to church in the morning and reads the bible at night. He looks for anything that will support his feelings without having to actually think or understand. If…and that’s a big “if”…he actually goes to church on a regular basis, he’s a poor student. Here’s another one:
Isaiah 65:5
Who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.
radiooutmike
The problem those kind words are wrapped up with indignation and blustery.
The quotes from the four gospels are good- only because they can be directly attributed to Christ. The other books all the way up to Revelations are letters to newly found churches after Christ died. You can flip around Galatians and Ephesians to find admonishments about drunkardness, being a sluggard and men laying with men.
But the gospels never mention this stuff. So, either the gospels are edited to make Christ more godly or they are not. If they are, there are two possibilities:
1) Jesus mentioned these things to them and the apostles followed his lead in dealing with the seedling churches; but Christ direct admonishment were edited out of the gospels.
Or
2) Christ never mentioned these things, and the apostles used OT and then-present Jewish law to support their churches.
Pistolo
Once again, weaponizing the idea of being gay plays directly into his hand! Let’s not absolve homophobes on the premise they may be gay based on superficial observations. Remember the Pulse nightclub shooting? Eeeeeveryone said the shooter must’ve been gay and that’s why he must’ve done it yet we now know for a fact he was just a homicidal, homophobic straight guy! The data which supposedly proved homosexual attraction in homophobes is completely misunderstood, the gaging of a physiological response to sexual stimuli is not perfected by any means.
Yes, there are ardent homophobes who are secretly gay but there were also millions of straight people who didn’t mind George W. Bush interrupting television to announce his intentions to put an end to gay marriage. They re-elected him! They stood beside Trump who covorts with homophobes & denies LGBTQIA rights, refuses to acknowledge this month as pride month.
So don’t be a child and say, about every single homophobe “lawlz, he’s so gay”- that’s how homophobic bullies deal with gay kids in middle & highschool. The more we do it, the less onus heteronormative culture has to take. Like “black on black crime”, any threat to our rights people will just laugh off as a repressed gay.
DCguy
There is a difference between people who kind of don’t like lgbts and are fine with voting for people who don’t like them….
And obsessive homophobes who spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about and obsessing about lgbts. Sorry but it has been shown time and time again that those people are very very often self hating closet cases.
Kangol
Well, as you know, there were a number of people who came forward to say that they had seen Omar Mateen on gay apps; they had seen him at the club; or that he had messaged them. Several of them gave their names and one was willing to take a lie-detector test, despite the FBI’s blanket declaration that there was no evidence of Mateen visiting Pulse or having a secret gay/DL life. Even his ex-wife said she thought he might be gay. The newspapers and magazines like the Los Angeles Times, Time and The Telegraph that reported this info are reputable, and as far as I know, none issued retractions. So that is why people made the claims they did about Mateen.
Also, there is a demonstrated correlation of extreme homophobes becoming sexually aroused by gay male pornography, as Psychology Today, Scientific American and The Daily Beast, among other reputable periodicals have shown. So that’s also not just something that people pull out of their behinds. It actually is a real thing.
Billysees
Here’s a seldom mentioned and seldom realized scripture verse that applies to all Christians as a warning about having bad attitudes —
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how will it be made salty again? It is good for nothing anymore, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men………..Matthew 5:13
In other words, this guys attitudes are worthless and probably based upon misguided scripture verse (any verse that’s loveless) and are therefore rejected or trampled upon.
Who are these ‘trampled under foot by men’? They are ordinary folk who understand and practice the following —
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven…..Luke 6:37
Maybe one day he, and similar minded people, will understand the value of —
…have the qualities of [good] salt among yourselves and live in peace with each other……Jesus……Mark 9:50 [brackets mine]