Meet Shane Vaughn, a pastor at First Harvest Ministries. In a recent YouTube sermon, Vaughn blamed the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic on America’s acceptance of LGBTQ people. He also asserted that vaccines against the virus will fail until the nation repents for its “sodomy.”
“I’m going to tell you what God told me to tell you,” Vaughn ranted in his sermon. “They’ve got variants coming that ain’t no vaccine going to work for. This nation is under the judgment of God. And I want to tell you something right now: They’re already admitting that the vaccine is alarmingly not working. Alarmingly! They’re alarmed at what they’re seeing. Do you know why? Because America, you’re making a huge mistake.”
Right Wing Watch further reports that Vaughn, predictably, did not provide any evidence to support his claims that the vaccine against COVID-19 has failed. Data released by the CDC and American hospitals show that while “breakthrough” infections are possible in vaccinated people (especially when exposed to unvaccinated carriers), the COVID-19 vaccine is overwhelmingly effective at preventing serious or deadly illness.
In his sermon, Vaughn attacked Americans for seeking medical help during the pandemic, mocking the concept of booster shots designed to keep immune systems sharp at combatting the virus.
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“You’re running, where’s the next vaccine? Can I get another one? Can I get that second shot? The third one? Does anybody got the fourth? I need a fifth one, please,” he said. “Why would you go begging [doctors] for their help? They have nothing that’s gonna help my judgment that is coming upon this nation. The only help for the child of God in this hour is the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua the Messiah.”
And, of course, Vaughn had to take a moment to blame queer people for the virus.
“You better learn that — and you better learn it fast — or you’re gonna chase vaccines until there ain’t no vaccines left. I don’t care if you got one. Go for it. God bless you if that’s your choice,” Vaughn spewed. “But I’m telling you if that’s where your faith is, you’re going to be in for a big disappointment. God is going to force you to look to him. These vaccines are gonna quit working on every corner until this nation falls to her knees and repents for dead babies and repents for the sodomy of this nation.”
This isn’t the first time Vaughn has attacked science as anti-Christian. Earlier this month, he delivered a sermon claiming belief in climate change isn’t a Christian value, and that belief in the phenomenon is a religion unto itself.
Vaughn also isn’t the first right-wing loon to blame LGBTQ folks for COVID-19. Last summer, Tennessee-based evangelist Perry Stone blamed gays for the pandemic just prior to resigning his post on the basis of sexual misconduct. Other religious leaders, including an Orthodox Rabbi and a Muslim cleric, have also claimed the COVID-19 vaccine will turn people gay.
Mister P
I bet sending him money helps.
juststan
The lady doth protest too much.
Kangol2
Wow, another right-wing, homophobic White “Christian” fanatic minister, raging against gay people! They just keep popping out of the woodwork. How much do you want to be he supports Don the Con and the GOP and probably thought the January 6 attempted coup was no big deal?
Kirkers
This man is suffering from mental illness.
revjimbrooking
Yet another devil possessed heretic who wouldn’t know Jesus if he appeared to him!!
Chrisk
So I guess God doesn’t care about kids in cages and getting raped by religious loons like yourself. Plus all the past Republican corruption and greed at epic levels doesn’t bother him in the least. No he’s apparently pissed off over what guys do with their dicks and decided to kill millions of people to make his point.
Sounds like this God that you created in your nutcase mind is a real asshole. Just like yourself.
DesmondAJS
???So true. Totally agree with you
twomen4u
As a retired Baptist pastor who is gay and married to a man, I personally find his remarks insulting. His Bible must be different than mine as all I can find is LOVE. When Jesus walked this earth he basically reduced the Ten Commandments to only two, love God and love your neighbor as yourself. I do not see any love in his tirade, so how can he love God and claim to represent Him?
Openminded
AMEN!!, I’ve got a close family member who is a religious fanatic who hates gays, non religious people, those she deems don’t work hard enough, those who don’t raise their kids to her satisfaction, on and on. I just stand in amazement at her judgement of others while proclaiming she has a place in heaven waiting for her.
radiooutmike
How come you get it and no one else does?
Essie
I have to remember his name so I’ll know when he dies of COVID and its reported because there have been so many anti-vaxxers dying lately that I can’t keep up.
barryaksarben
Now if only he was a man of his word and didnt get vaccinated then all we have to do is wait and his ass will be dead. Who is dying lately you pos? It is all the right wing anti vaxxer talk radio gurus and you religious people will be next with your BS anti-science crap. This asshole probably got vaccinated already himself like Trump and will just LIE about it.I am an old gay man fed up with the constant attacks on us by these “loving christians” HA what a fkn joke . Hopefully he will die
Mr. Stadnick
This “god” of his has messed with his brain. When you talk to god it’s called praying when god talks to you it’s called Schizophrenia.
wiggie
he’ll be the next right wing anti-vax idiot in a hospital dying and regretting what he said.
Consider This
You can count on it!
Mister P
So many Christians, so few lions.
blackhook
In the 21st Century, how can people continue to fall for Christianity — which is a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. Organized religion is the biggest fraud in history, nothing else is even close.
Openminded
Our political system gives it a run for it’s money.
dbholl
When you talked to God, did he tell you how he felt about false prophets ?
andrew.agee
But wait…there’s even more.
“Bank Fraud Criminal Past Of Mississippi Pastor Dredged Up By Pro-Trump Viral Video”
December 10, 2020
“Shane Vaughn, a self-described constitutionalist and co-founder of First Harvest Ministries in Waveland, recorded a seven-minute video claiming that state legislatures could refuse to certify Joe Biden’s win and send the election to the House of Representative
The video’s popularity in turn dredged up his 2010 arrest for insurance and bank fraud in Louisiana, for which he served three years in prison.”
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Rocks…houses…stones
Chrisk
No shit. All he’s done is move his roadshow of fraud and given it the cover of religion. He probably saw Jim Baker and said I can do that too. Lol
Part of me thinks this is a gag of some kind. Even SNL couldn’t create a more hysterically funny creature.
DesmondAJS
Hello,
If we go there! No one is saying, it’s because of all this violence and hatred, to people of color, to women, different religion’s, lgbt people. Which makes us have a covid that lasts and transforms…
I don’t understand the relationship between sodomy and a virus that is transmitted by air and respiratory… I’m sure he took something of wrong
I am gay and non-practicing Catholic. I love my god. he knows that I take care of others, that I life not in hatred. He is kind and just in return.
missvamp
insane
joeboyle49
YES THERES BEEN SEVERAL OF THOSE MINSTERS WHO PREACHED AGAINST THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY AND THEY CAUGHT COVID-19 AND HAVE DIEAD FROM IT? IS HE THE NEXT ONE?