Not to scatter rain clouds on everyone’s parade, but while slugging down flutes of pink champagne and hurdling fistfuls of confetti in the air, a troubling thought occurred to us: Have any of you heard from Rick Scarborough?
As we reported Wednesday, the pastor promised — we’re imagining on a stack of bibles — to set himself on fire should American homosexuals win the right to marry.
Well.
It’s been several hours since the announcement was made, and yet we haven’t heard a peep (or sky-piercing death rattle) out of him. (Even Wikipedia is on Christian Deathwatch today.) If any of you live near Texas, could you pop ‘round the pastor’s pad and let us know if you find his charred husk chillaxin’ on the front stoop?
How about we take this to the next level?
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Related: Rick Scarborough Breaks New Ground in “Christian” Guilt
Please exercise caution: the 65-year-old opined that “the preachers need to get out front, the leaders need to get out front, out front of these ordinary citizens and say, ‘Shoot me first.’” You may find yourself trapped in a hail of gunfire, so dress accordingly. Vigilance is key.
If he does happen to set his pants on fire today, it could be another landmark event: The first time a Christian fundamentalist practiced what they preached.
Andie Scott
He is probably saying there is a chance to defeat it, like a asteroid hitting the earth!
Jeff Romney
Ill bring the BBQ sauce!
Daniel Vieira
Where can I RSVP?
Onecimo Capps
I hope so!!!! Lite it up!!!!!
Ken Spragg
Quick, everyone in his town, set something on fire! To tie up the fire department.
J.r. Graff
“Light it up!!!”
Alex Truesdale
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/16/79-year-old-retired-reverend-set-himself-on-fire-to-inspire-social-justice/
No. But this guy did.
David Edman
I offered 5 gallons of Kerosene, but he didnt accept.
Bobby French
Another fraud religious leader. Why am I not surprised?
Ladbrook
He might yet strike the match, but not until he locks himself away for a few final moments with his big-breasted whore or his favorite male prostitute. With these guys there is ALWAYS one or the other… or both.
Frank Saveri
I’ll bring the matches n gasoline
Stephen Meeks
Gods, I certainly hope so. Maybe there was a party, and many other idiots joined him
Joe Harris
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Richie Eldridge
where are all the flaming pastors at! got my fixings for s’mores ready to go!
Raymond D Owens
I am sure these preachers preaching hate God will punish
John Wadsworth
Liar Liar Pants should be on FIRE!
Rick Holtz
Of course not! He’s just another” Christian” hypocrite-like the Palin hillbillies.
cajuninvegas
Please, please, please tell me when and where this bigot is going to set fire to himself…..but give me time to get the ingredients for smores ready. One does need a little nosh when watching a spectacle.
JohnLee Fitchett
http://youtu.be/A_http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/8-things-didnt-know-confederate-flag/
LandStander
I would also like to hear from the couple that said they would get divorced if the supreme court ruled in favor of marriage equality 🙂
Robert D. Dittbenner
Another lying hypocrite preaching hatred. .. Set yourself on fire you stupid ass
Vince Bayard
Truly a flamer
William C. Searcy
Girl, don’t throw your life away on my account. There are 7 Billion other people on the planet you have no control over either.
James Dauria
HOPE SO!
jks1113
Well, he is a preacher….so he believes in hell. He will be burning soon enough!!!
Toby Anderson
I’ve got matches if anyone needs ’em!
Chris
We should only be so lucky.
Bruno Freitas
Well, we’re waiting! 😀
I’ll bring marshmalows to everyone!
Brian Botma-Mananita
Come on just do it don’t be a cop out.
Will Tom Hanse
I will bring marshmallows!
Jay Saltz
Hope it is broacast live on Fox News.
Stuart Senften
I was hoping that Fucker was a pile of ashes by now!!!
Bob LaBlah
I wonder what “wrath from god” is going to befall gays now.
Barry Shatswell
I got marshmallows
M J Martinez Crogan
Dr Rick Scarbough @DrRickScarbough on twitter, my followers are waiting for the fire?
Jaime Enrique Sibauste
Brian Howes
Heck, I’m still waiting for Rush Limbaugh to keep his word and move to Costa Rica following the passage of the Affordable Care Act!
Foster Billingsley
Remember you can only make threats like this once. If you don’t follow through people will not believe you in the future. Don’t make a threat you can’t/won’t follow through on.
Chance Russell
says, “I bundled up kindling and told him, the faggots were waiting to burn his sorry, pathetic ass.”
Gus Anderson
S’mores for everyone ! ! ! ! ! !
Ron Parsons
If he’s out of matches, I have my Grandfather’s trusty WW2 Bic lighter… He carried it into battle to fight for our liberties, including the right of his later-born grandson son to be gay and to marry whomever he wished!
Charles R Morris
Hope so
David Lange
Did anyone bother to put him out?
Wil Chaney
I have rainbow marshmallows!
Arcamenel
@Alex Truesdale: That man should not have done that.
JonMichael N Wesley Smith-Garrison
Liar, liar pants on, oops, that’s what he wanted to do. Wesley
Thadaious FD
It hasn’t happen yet.
Thadaious FD
Lies and More Lies. And to think he has folks following him in Church. Not the christian way to even think of such a thing.
André Villeneuve
Where are you hidding now!! ð???ð???
Kittn Anne
It makes me so sad, to see people rallying around stating that they hope he does light himself on fire. Yes, we have opposing view points in a lot of things, but wishing death on anyone isn’t going to solve the differences – we need to find ways to reach across the chasm that exists and find ways to work together and coexist. There are times I am really sad that the human race is so petty and cruel.
Joseph T.D. Anaya
I just hope he got all the permits in time.
Bill Hohn
Don’t worry, he’s made a career of lying and bullying people in the name of a god who would spit on him. He won’t change now
Dave Basora
He won’t do it. But he’ll wait a day or two and claim he was about to but god spoke to him and stopped him and encouraged him to keep fighting
Gregory H. Wilson
Meg.
Carson Barnes
Where’s this clown’s facebook page? I need to send him a lighter, with instructions – it’s a 20th century technology, after all…
Jerry Thomas
I’m pretty sure he’s been flaming away in the closet for years!
Robert Zakem
I’ll bring the gasoline!!!!!
David Harlem
Please do Rick, I’ll bring the makings for some-mores.
John Quin
I hope so!
Severn Kirchem
Unfortunately Not ð???
Brian Morris
Worried? Hopefully he did…If not maybe he should because Bristol Palin is having a 2nd child out of wedlock
Donald Zeger
Guess he can add ‘Liar’ to his list of titles.
Chris Hogan
Here is the number to his organization, vision america! +1 (936) 560-3900
TX, USA
Give them a call and find out when he will be lighting himself on fire!!!
Randy Hix
I don’t smell smoke yet. Pussy!!
Richard Sedlack
Doesn’t have the conviction or the balls.
Eric Carr
Hopefully.
Danny Ray
Good Question! That’s what I want to know?
Damien Malachi
Um, this could just be me, but I wasn’t worried. I was trying to buy tickets. <.<
Steve Porter
Let him be a Phoenix.
Jeffrey Thomas
I’ve got some matches if he’s having trouble locating some
Crane Stephen Landis
Now That “Equal Marriage” is the Law of the Land, What Can We Now Expect –
LGBTQ Americans and their partners can get married in any State of the Union, with every other State and the Federal Government respecting those unions.
The sky won’t fall.
Polygamy – which was around before Equal Marriage and will be around long after – isn’t now legal.
Bestiality – which was around before Equal Marriage and will be around long after – isn’t now legal.
Incest Marriage – – which was around before Equal Marriage and will be around long after – isn’t now legal.
Child Marriage – which was around before Equal Marriage and will be around long after – isn’t now legal.
All prior marriages to this ruling will strengthen, remain, falter or fail completely on their own accord, by the sole decision of those involved.
Glenn Beck, Sean Hanity and Rush Limbaugh (but interestingly not much probably from Megan Kelly or Bill O’Reilly) will all have ratings bonanzas spewing their indignation and hate.
Most of Fox News, other than Shepard Smith, will be outraged, leading to endless offensive debates between Pundits, making wildly inaccurate and inappropriate predictions and proclamations.
Most Republican State Governors and/or Legislatures will move creatively or outright illegally to block Equal Marriage in their States.
Most Republicans, save most Californian, Log Cabin and all my Socially Progressive but Conservative friends, will be indignant about an “Activist Supreme Court unConstitutionally rewriting the Constitution”.
Most of the Conservative Right will exclaim how it is the End of America, the last nail in our coffin.
Most Evangelical Christians will preach about how “Gays are the cause of all [fill in blank of natural disaster, disease, or horror], and that since God created Adam & Eve, not Steve, any future [fill in blank of natural disaster, disease, or horror] will be because of God’s wrath over Equal Marriage.
Most Fundamentalist Christians will proclaim the Rapture and Tribulation are nye (or at least “soon”), having The End Times caused by Equal Marriage.
Those Christian Preachers who advocate killing LGBTQ people, won’t be allowed to.
Those Christian Preachers who promised to “set themselves on fire”, move elsewhere, close their churches or some other hyperbolic promise probably won’t.
Those Christians who promised to stop eating or divorce probably won’t.
Christianity or any other faith won’t be outlawed.
Members of the Clergy of my faith won’t be forced to perform marriages they don’t approve of unless they make money as a business doing so.
Christianity in America will remain, remaining or flattering on its own accord.
Oh, and the End Times, Rapture and Tribulation still will only be known to God – not even Jesus – as in accord with Jesus’ own words, not hastened by any singular event such as this – which would defeat that whole “thief in the night” idea anyhow.
And just to reiterate… The sky won’t fall in.
But in truth… Nothing has changed other than me and millions of my Fellow America LGBTQ siblings CAN GET MARRIED to their Partners all over Our Nation – and have the respect and dignity of our Unions be Equal to all others.
Which – in very real terms – will change nothing for anyone else other than those of us who celebrate our Right to this Union.
Love to all – but more specifically to my fellow LGBTQ siblings!
Ric Bragg
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/investigate-rick-scarborough-and-his-organization-vision-america-et-al-and-review-non-profit-501-c-3-status
Geoff B
@Kittn Anne: I don’t think anyone is seriously hoping this happens, but given the vitriol of those who stand against us and try to claim the moral high ground all the while being apologists for child molestation and violence against us and other minorities, I think we should be able to vent. Plus, think about how many of us spent good money on marshmallows and hot dogs just for this and the wuss didn’t go through with it.
Bjk
I sent potato salad. I hope I sent enough.
Lance Streeter Edwards
I SURE HOPE SO!!!
Ian Simpson
Still calling his bluff.
James Wilbanks
This showed how insignificant he really is ! Threats and lies to try to get his way !! Stupid is as stupid does !! Closed mind closed heart !! Heater to the end .
Joe Knight
Bellamy
The only thing funny about any of this is that there are people who actually believe that this man is a follower of Jesus of Nazareth. Anyone who has ever read the New Testament is smart enough to know that whichever “jesus” this man claims to believe in is not the Jesus Christ of the Scriptures. This man is everything that Jesus condemned. I guess he already knows this and that’s why he wants to climatize himself to his eternal fiery future. I wouldn’t wish the Lake of Fire on anyone; I truly pray that he repents of his satanic heterosexism and condemning spirit.