Tennessee preacher-cop calls for execution of LGBTQ people [View all]
Source: CNN
Tennessee preacher-cop calls for execution of LGBTQ people
By Ralph Ellis and Amanda Watts, CNN
Updated 1347 GMT (2147 HKT) June 15, 2019
(CNN) Authorities in Tennessee are reviewing all pending cases involving a Knox County Sheriff's Office detective after he gave a sermon at his church that called for the government to execute members of the LGBTQ community.
"They are worthy of death," Grayson Fritts said in a June 2 sermon at All Scripture Baptist Church, a small church in Knoxville that he leads.
The church posted the sermon online and then removed it, according to The Washington Post. The video was picked up by the Tennessee Holler, an independent liberal news outlet, and edited into a six-minute clip.
"God has instilled the power of civil government to send the police in 2019 out to the LGBT freaks and arrest them and have a trial for them, and if they are convicted, then they are to be put to death," he said in the clip.
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