Alright, we know some social conservatives are absolute loons, but this story’s almost too much!
North Carolina-based C3 Entertainment will this month produce a play asserting people can not only pray the gay away, but also AIDS! Sure, it’s fiction, but C3’s founders believe its based in fact.
C3 Entertainment’s management, the Rev. Chad Everette Cooper and his wife Alicia Robinson Cooper, also describe the play as portraying “the church as the best institution in the world for complete healing and deliverance.”
In a February interview with “Praise the Lord,” a program aired on Evangelical Christian broadcasting network TBN, the Coopers described homosexuality as a condition in need of a cure. They also related the story of an associate pastor who was “healed” from homosexuality and AIDS.
Cooper told the TBN audience that Kofi Hemingway “was living a homosexual lifestyle 10 years ago. He gives his testimony at the end of the play about how he was so engulfed in this lifestyle that all of his partners died of AIDS.”
Cooper further described how God cured Hemingway’s HIV/AIDS infection.
“He was dying of AIDS,” Cooper declared. He added that after three days of prayer and fasting Hemingway “began to pick up his weight and the sores began to dry up and he went and took the test again and he’s AIDS free.”
Hemingway told Q-Notes that he truly believes he was cured of HIV/AIDS. However, when questioned further, he admitted that he had never taken an HIV test prior to his “healing.”
You see, Hemingway only thought he had HIV/AIDS, because he was getting thinner and his glands were swollen and had been sexually involved with positive people. It is our opinion – and we’re sure several million people would agree – that Hemingway never had HIV and was not cured by God. But, you know, that’s just a hunch.
reversion
They mean the same way people tried to pray away the plague in the Middle Ages, right?
mark
FINE they have a few in their “ex-gay” camp that are POZ….cure the motherf*ckers and bring me their test results of NO antibodies and a restored immune system…otherwise SHUT the f*ck UP!
jarvisbearcub
I saw an ex-gay speaker once who implied that God had healed him from being HIV positive (though did not say it outright. it seems specifically worded perhaps because he thought it at one point and it was explained that it wasn’t possible, but that he still believes it)
Timothy
I checked with God and He said it was an accident. He was intending to heal Kofi Hemingway from his stunning stupidity and clearly that didn’t work.
Charles J. Mueller
LOL, Timothy.
Ian J UK
All hail, and worship at the altar of pig ignorance and blind stupidity.
About the best thing we ever did in the UK was to ship all them religious nutters over to you guys, sorry but they really are morons!
We have some right pillocks over here, but your’s take the biscuit!
tallskin
Is there something even more stupid about black evangelical churches than non-black?
I ask because even though you get shitwit white fundies trying to “cure” homosexuality I don’t think you get them saying that prayer will cure HIV and AIDS.
But I could be wrong.
Anyone care to point me in the direction of some evidence that refutes what I say?
drunkonsweetolive
Disgusting. Absolutely vile. While they’re curing AIDS why haven’t they went to cancer wards and started a prayer marathon? They should be done with that disease by next year, no? Er, oh wait, must be God’s plan. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trenton
It’s stories like this that keep me postponing any and all trips to visit my family in the South…including my brother, the ex-gay who believes that he wasn’t cured from HIV by God, but rather that only God could allow himn to have a clan bill of health today after screwing hundreds of men from when he was 17 to 21. I’ll admit, he’s a lucky bastard…but gah.
Trenton
^^^ woops…clan = clean. At least I didn’t spell it with a ‘k’… It is the south after all.
Mr C
Well first of all Tallskinless,
In this country BITCH Evangelical churches are WHITE dominated ministries.
Here’s a Tip why don’t you go up Brixton and munch on some black meat and then maybe you won’t hate as us much. Not that we care.
IDIOT!
tallskin
Mr C, what are “BITCH Evangelical churches” ??? Not sure I understand.
As for you reference to Brixton, well too many of my white gay friends have been attacked there, abused there, or had threats made against them there, for me to take the issue of black street thuggery as lightly as you seem to.