The transcript is heinous.
An Indianapolis church is calling for members of the LGBTQ+ community to be put to death or to kill themselves.
Local faith leaders are condemning the message.
The call was made during a recent sermon titled “Pray the Gay Away” inside Sure Foundation Baptist Church on the northwest side of the city.
“There’s nothing good to be proud about being a f*****. You ought to blow yourself in the head, in the back of the head. You’re so disgusting,” Stephen Falco said from the pulpit. He was speaking during the church’s “Men’s Preaching Night.” The event was streamed live on their Facebook page.
“A bunch of f****** that want to come around, walk on our streets, and demand our children, and we should walk in the eye and say, ‘No, you’re not going to have our children,’” he said.
Falco continued to call for the death of the queer community.
Following the sermon, I-Team 8 reached out to the church about Falco’s message.
“He’s only calling for the death penalty and suicide for the actual sodomites (homosexuals),” the church said in an emailed statement. “The Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death. They are supposed to be executed by the government.
What usually works (when I remember to do it) is imagining a grenade going off wherever I put the thing down.