Fervidly antigay pastor Kevin Swanson has said many things over the years that demonstrate he’s categorically nuts.
Perhaps most notoriously, in 2015 he said he’d “sit in cow manure and I’d spread it all over my body” if his son were to grow up to marry a man.
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Not only does he think all gays should be executed, but all Girl Scout leaders, too — since they support LGBTQ rights and the rights of women.
He’s also predicted that some freewheelin’ promiscuous homosexual is going to destroy the world one day.
Last month, Swanson declared on his radio show that any pastor who has a gay child should resign immediately, for it’s the proper thing to do.
As Right Wing Watch reports, he was referring to an old article written by a former pastor who said if his kids were gay, he’d love them all the same and “pray for God to protect them from the ignorance and hatred and violence that the world will throw at them, simply because of who they are.”
That, Swanson thinks, is not the proper response to such news. The only appropriate way to deal with a gay child “is sackcloth and ashes, tearing of the clothes, crying out to God for mercy” because “there is something terribly wrong with our family” and “there is something terribly wrong in me.”
A gay child, he thinks, means “there may be something very, very wrong with the pastor himself.”
“A man who thinks there is a possibility his kids could come out gay [would not] then not turn to himself and see there to be something of a problem with himself.”
“As a pastor, if your children turn out to be sinners,” he says, “if it turns out they abandoned the faith while they are in the household, accused of riot and unruly debauchery, et cetera, within the household, you need to resign as a pastor.”
That’s what we meant when we said “categorically nuts.”
Listen here:
natekerchel
Just when you think you have heard it all you get proven wrong. This type of thinking is truly delusional and that man needs to seek psychiatric help urgently. I really try hard to understand all points of view , even if I don’t agree with them myself. But there is no way a logical person can begin to follow and understand such disturbed, irrational and illogical thinking.
1EqualityUSA
But think how delicious the scandal’s going to be. Can’t you see it now, Jimmy Swaggart-y tears rolling down his cheeks? A blast from the past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1OXAi7rNMg
natekerchel
That would be excellent but I think this one is truly disturbed. Swaggart was a hypocrite and chancer giving a performance. This man I think is cut from a madder cloth.
rbernard
Kevin Swanson is mentally ill and obsessed with human sexuality.
He is no different than the deranged religious lunatics on urban street corners shaking their fists at the sky screaming “THE END OF THE WORLD IS NEAR”
Why anyone pays attention to these whack jobs should look at Ronald Reagan and the republicans who empowered and let them into their party.
Jack Meoff
How do these crackpots get their own radio shows? Only in America.
1EqualityUSA
The GOP cuts funding to education to ensure their future voting bloc. Zika virus, same thing.
Billysees
Only in America is correct. A paradise for gainsayers.
DMRX
Yeah… freedom of speech sucks.
Listen guys: I may not agree with a word this idiot says, but I’m definitely thankful that we live in a country that will allow him to say it. Don’t like it? Try living in most any other country in the world where YOUR freedom of speech is not guaranteed.
1EqualityUSA
Nobody above is downing free speech, just the things the idiot says.
ChrisK
@DMRX
Calling for people’s death isn’t just a matter of free speech as*shole.
ChrisK
This is the same nut that said gay men should be executed.
DMRX
It’d be awesome if you’d actually read an article before commenting. That fact is in the third paragraph.
Prax07
Thinking I’m turning more militant as I get older, he wants gays executed, I say these nutjobs are the ones that need to be rounded up and put down, start with our cheeto in chief and work the way down the list of psychos. Just think how much nicer the world would be without all these poo stains.
Sluggo2007
“He’s also predicted that some freewheelin’ promiscuous homosexual is going to destroy the world one day.” He doesn’t realize it will be him when he comes screaming out of the closet.
woodroad34
His breath has probably already killed someone.
woodroad34
“christian” pastors who only follow the Old Testament and not Christ’s teachings should be allowed to be “christian” pastors and they should quit and join ISIS so we can bomb ’em.
He BGB
Jesus could have been gay. Have they considered that? No. They’d rather spew hate and ignorance
David Bolton
“Perhaps most notoriously, in 2015 he said he’d “sit in cow manure and I’d spread it all over my body” if his son were to grow up to marry a man.”
Girl, I try not to judge people and their fetishes—but that’s a weird one.
Heywood Jablowme
Yes. Although I fully expect that event to happen, eventually, I will avoid watching it on YouTube!
James
He is already in hell.
Jim Guinnessey
Why are all these so called evangelical pastors (frauds) like Kevin Swanson so stupid?