Texas Pastor Now Says He Didn't Mean He'd Really Set Himself Aflame
Source: The Advocate
He threatened to become a human torch if the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality. Now Pastor Rick Scarborough is clarifying his remarks.
BY DAWN ENNIS JUNE 27 2015 10:14 AM ET UPDATED: JUNE 27 2015 10:27 AM ET
Put away the marshmallows.
Texas Pastor Rick Scarborough issued a statement clarifying his statement that he would be willing to set himself on fire in his fight against gay rights, now declaring, "We do not support any violence or physical harm. .
The antigay clergyman from Pearland, Tx., made the remark to right-wing preacher E.W. Jackson in a recorded conference call with supporters on June 16:
We are not going to bow, we are not going to bend, and if necessary we will burn.
Although it was not clear at the time whether Scarborough meant those words to be taken literally or figuratively, the fiery pastor issued a statement to KFYO News several hours after the high court issued its ruling Friday morning, walking back his remarks to clarify he was not planning a self-immolation.
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Read more: http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2015/06/27/texas-pastor-now-says-he-didnt-mean-hed-really-set-himself-afl
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Once again, the actions don't MATCH the blather.
VA_Jill
(10,045 posts)And here I was looking forward to setting up the popcorn concession and getting a front row seat!
christx30
(6,241 posts)Somone owes me $2.42.
CTyankee
(63,927 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)collinsrent
(55 posts)Last edited Sat Jun 27, 2015, 03:24 PM - Edit history (1)
that someone set themselves on fire because of this decision.
then again, i heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy. this is hardly the most reliable source.
niyad
(113,995 posts)Bagsgroove
(231 posts)IronLionZion
(45,674 posts)so all bigots should move into their underground bunkers deep in the backwoods and prepare for the end.
Plus Bristol Palin just had a an immaculate conception since abstinence-only sex ed has worked out so well in the red states that have the highest teen pregnancies. It must be the second coming!
George II
(67,782 posts)And her first child's father is yet another EX-fiance.
I guess the key to fertility in that family is to get engaged and once knocked up, call off the wedding.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)"she shacked up and got pregnant," is intended to mitigate the fact she's giving birth to another out of wedlock child or, as the fundies like to say, "a bastard child."
George II
(67,782 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)I go to, and then raised the question of how could she get on welfare? She's been paid $250K per annum to run around the country telling teens, "abstain, abstain, abstain" and she owns her own home in a wealthy suburb of Phoenix. As far as we know, she has not yet been fired from her "abstinence only" gig.
armed_and_liberal
(246 posts)cloudbase
(5,532 posts)In more ways than one.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)safeinOhio
(32,763 posts)Cut off your little finger to show how pissed off you are.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)just dip it in gasoline and set fire to it. I'm reasonable.
w0nderer
(1,937 posts)at least use whiskey pete
don't leave bones laying around junking up the streets n stuff
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)this proves "God" doesn't exist. You promise me you are going to burn, you WILL burn one way of the other.
JustAnotherGen
(32,055 posts)So when you say you are going to do something I think you should have the courage of your convictions and get it done - or get to stepping.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)JustAnotherGen
(32,055 posts)Burning man is next month - right?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)w0nderer
(1,937 posts)to state that he has less faith in 'his god'
than some moslems do in 'theirs' (since they have done some self immolation)
so ummm setting a bad example for the flock?
(forgetting for now they are both / all three Abrahamaic (judaism too))
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)that Ben Carson won't be marrying a horse either.
kath
(10,565 posts)Now there is something I'd like to see!
George II
(67,782 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)The presiding official brandished a Colt to make sure the Mare-ige took place.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)anti-gay rhetoric.
Republican presidential candidate and former pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson said Friday in a statement that he strongly disagreed with the Supreme Courts decision on gay marriage but acknowledged that it was now the law of the land. Carsons comments came after the Court ruled to legalize gay marriage across all 50 states.
While I strongly disagree with the Supreme Courts decision, their ruling is now the law of the land, Carson said. Carson said the religious rights of Americans must not be affected by the ruling.
I call on Congress to make sure deeply held religious views are respected and protected," he said. "The government must never force Christians to violate their religious beliefs.
Carson also gave an opinion on marriage.
I support same sex civil unions but to me, and millions like me, marriage is a religious service not a government form, he said.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-gay-marriage-decision
Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)June, 2014
I have decided to join them: Texas pastor who set self on fire 'haunted' by lynchings, hoped suicide would inspire justice
Charles Moore died June 23 after he set himself on fire in a Texas strip mall parking lot. His newly released suicide note revealed he was 'haunted' by racism, specifically how African-Americans were lynched in Texas. "I have decided to join them by giving my body to be burned," he wrote.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)especially to his bigoted, cowardly, right-wing blowhard, ersatz "Christian" self.
lobodons
(1,290 posts)Or Ted Nugent going to jail or dying if Obama won election. Oh, those RWNJ whackadoodle jokesters
exboyfil
(17,867 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)the one he uses for his Cuban cigars. Won't bow, won't bend, will burn?
Well, he's bent, that's for sure, despite his promises to the contrary.
madamesilverspurs
(15,821 posts)just like Sean Hannity was going to be water-boarded.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)SunSeeker
(51,824 posts)Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)I just had to say it.
paleotn
(18,015 posts)...fire and brimstone didn't rain down. There were no plagues of frogs, flies or blood. No earthquakes. No cyclones. No meteors crashing into the planet. Many dogs still don't like cats and visa versa as well as I can figure. I guess his god doesn't have a problem with same sex marriage. But one thing is certain, like the vast majority of US Christian Fundigelicals, this pastor (read grifter) is a coward and his words are meaningless.
MsMAC
(91 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)www.ineedmatches.com
iandhr
(6,852 posts)... when he goes after the anti-chocie crowd.
"And, you won't see a lot of these pro-life people dousing themselves in kerosene and lighting themselves on fire. You know, morally committed religious people in South Vietnam knew how to stage a goddamn demonstration, didn't they?! They knew how to put on a fucking protest. Light yourself on FIRE!! C'mon, you moral crusaders, let's see a little smoke. To match that fire in your belly."
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)secondvariety
(1,245 posts)No backsies. Put up or shut up.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Of course you wouldn't set yourself on fire, cause your a big bag of stenchy wind!
What an idiot.
TNNurse
(6,934 posts)did not leave the country when President Obama was re-elected, Ted Nugent is neither dead nor in jail. We may have hopes for all of these but....they were just mouthing off for attention. There was never any real commitment from any of them. They are a bunch of phonies.
PatrickforO
(14,608 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)they have some hot ones in Texas.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)said he'd do it because he felt it wasn't torture. And it seems that Ted Nugent made somehe never kept. promise about leaving the country
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Anyone we don't like is a different story.
If one is looking for their goalposts, they went thataway....
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I wonder if he knows lying is breaking on of the 10 Commandments. those types usually only use the Bible to hate gay people. They don't actually open it up and read it. Naturally, he thinks lying is A-ok. What a letdown.
frylock
(34,825 posts)guess I'll go on a ride instead.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)I doubt anybody took you seriously. Some of us are used to not taking people like you seriously.
Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)How honest does he seem in this photo?
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He's using his church's most intensely serious symbol as a prop. It's a wonder he doesn't park his hamburger sammich on it.
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blackspade
(10,056 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)that Buddhist monks have more dedication than blow hard American preachers.
marble falls
(57,631 posts)brooklynite
(95,062 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Fred Friendlier
(81 posts)The good pastor needs to rechristen himself Asa Hawks.
tblue37
(65,554 posts)fire--and he died from his burns.
But that minister was offering himself as a sacrifice, in hopes of moving the country's conscience to overcome racism and the injustice of using the legal system as a way of marginalizing and oppressing black Americans. Following the example of the martyred monks who immolated themselves in Vietnam, he was willing to die horribly in the cause of justice.
I bet this anti-marriage equality jerk was referring to the other minister's act of protest when he said he would set himself on fire to protest the ruling.
ON EDIT: A link to the article about the minister who set himself on fire last year:
http://www.inquisitr.com/2206308/white-texas-minister-sets-himself-on-fire-dies-in-protest-of-racism-and-homosexual-discrimination/
DiverDave
(4,895 posts)I thought they were BURNING to meet their maker?
bada-boom, remember to tip your servers.
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)Keep your promise. I'll even chip in for gas. The high octane stuff even, nothing but the best.
NickB79
(19,301 posts)Light it up!
yurbud
(39,405 posts)No offense meant to gay friends by the association with this pastor.