'Love outweighs the hate.' Gay candidate targeted by South MS preacher in live sermon
Jacob Cochran, 28, is running for a seat on the Board of Aldermen in Poplarville, the Pearl River County town of 3,000 people where he has lived for almost all of his life.
Cochran is openly gay, but for most of the race, that hasn’t come up. Instead, he has told voters about his plan to establish a Main Street program to revitalize downtown and how his background in marketing could help Poplarville appeal to visitors.
So on Saturday, when a friend showed Cochran a video clip of a local pastor claiming during a sermon that Cochran’s sexuality made him unfit to serve as an alderman, he was shocked.
“I might get in trouble for this,” said Jonathan Hatfield, preaching at College Heights Baptist Church on Sept. 20. “We have a homosexual on the ballot in this city... done made it through the run-off. I know the guy personally. Good guy. But that don’t change the sin that he has in his life.”
Read more: https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/article246244020.html
OMG! A sinner might get elected to a political office. 
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