Anti-gay pastor served for allegedly defying court ruling: ‘I will come out and preach the same message’

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A Cape Town pastor, who may find himself behind bars for defying a court order barring him from making anti-gay comments, accused the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Wednesday of trying to make an example of him.

"Even if they lock me up, I will come out and preach the same message. They might as well just leave me there," Reverend Oscar Bougardt told News24.

Bougardt was served with a notice of motion last week, wherein the SAHRC asked that he serve 30 days behind bars as per the order handed down by the Equality Court in May 2018.

He confirmed he had served the commission with a notice of intention to oppose and was in the process of compiling his answering affidavit.

Bougardt reached a settlement with the SAHRC in 2014 following anti-gay statements. He agreed to stop making hateful comments about the LGBTQI+ community, but continued, nonetheless.

He referred to gay people as "perverted" and advocated for criminalisation, saying they should "deal with them like they do in Nigeria".

In January 2017, Bougardt told News24 that, like anti-gay US pastor Steven Anderson, he believed homosexuality was a sin.

"Why should we be tolerant of their criminal lifestyle? Ninety-nine percent of paedophiles stem from homosexuality.

"I'm saying so because it is proven that 99% of the paedophiles have a homosexual background. They are blaming their previous lifestyle on what happened. Go and read up on it."
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Anti-gay pastor served for allegedly defying court ruling: ‘I will come out and preach the same message’

A Cape Town pastor, who may find himself behind bars for defying a court order barring him from making anti-gay comments, accused the SA Human Rights Commission of trying to make an example of him.
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Exactly what comments is he getting into trouble for? If he said that atheists are sinners and will go to hell and suffer eternal damnation, the SAHRC commission wouldn't get involved.

Calling other groups of people perverted isn't hate speech. If you look at this thread :
https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/thr...sing-boys-in-cape-town.1053697/#post-24350761

one of the most popular comments was:
SlinkyMike said:
Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers.
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Now every non-lobotimised person realised this was a joke, it wasn't even relevant to the story in the thread because the pastor in question is protestant, not catholic, which is where the joke comes from.

The constitution states that equality before the law is a main tenant of this country's legal system. This means that if a gay person (or anyone) is allowed to call a church a collection of closeted and cloistered pedophiles, a religious person can say the same thing about gay people.
 
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interesting. Are there really any christians on myBB who consider being gay is abomination (as the bible says) ?
 
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surface said:
interesting. Are there really any christians on myBB who consider being gay is abomination (as the bible says) ?
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I'm a Christian, and my theologically uneducated opinion would be that gay people don't choose whether to become gay (well not the vast majority at last, these days there are all kinds of strange trends) - so if people don't choose to become gay, then God allowed them to be created that way.

So for God to hate gays is like God hating people with red hair (which he probably does - I mean, who doesn't ;))
Either way - abomination or not, like every other aspect of religion - what you decide or what you do has got sweet fok0l to do with me.
 
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SAguy said:
I'm a Christian, and my theologically uneducated opinion would be that gay people don't choose whether to become gay (well not the vast majority at last, these days there are all kinds of strange trends) - so if people don't choose to become gay, then God allowed them to be created that way.

So for God to hate gays is like God hating people with red hair (which he probably does - I mean, who doesn't ;))
Either way - abomination or not, like every other aspect of religion - what you decide or what you do has got sweet fok0l to do with me.
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Despite you being religious, you seem good. And it is heartening to know that you believe allah & vishnu. That doesn't happen that often ;)
 
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Just waiting for him to be caught with his pants down boning some male prostitute in a back alley behind his church.
Happens. Every. Single. Time. with these loudmouth anti-gay preachers. It's like they trying to convince themselves of their virtue in spite of their darkest desires.

Oh, and btw pastor, god hates rich people more so why not flail about denouncing them?
 
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konfab said:
The constitution states that equality before the law is a main tenant of this country's legal system. This means that if a gay person (or anyone) is allowed to call a church a collection of closeted and cloistered pedophiles, a religious person can say the same thing about gay people.
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Fair is fair, just be consistent. If a religious preacher can advocate for criminalization and that gays be dealt with like in Nigeria, then surely we should be able to do the same for your church of closeted and cloistered pedophiles too?
Equality before the law & all that.
 
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SAguy said:
I'm a Christian, and my theologically uneducated opinion would be that gay people don't choose whether to become gay (well not the vast majority at last, these days there are all kinds of strange trends) - so if people don't choose to become gay, then God allowed them to be created that way.

So for God to hate gays is like God hating people with red hair (which he probably does - I mean, who doesn't ;))
Either way - abomination or not, like every other aspect of religion - what you decide or what you do has got sweet fok0l to do with me.
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That's in contradiction to gods word.
 
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Free to practice religion not free to advocate hate speech.
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"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination."
"If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them."
 
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