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NZ pastor tells Gay Christian author he prays for him to commit suicide
<p>A New Zealand Pastor has admitted sending a hate filled email to well known NZ Gay author telling him "I pray that you will commit suicide".<br /><br />The pastor, who runs his small church out of his home, says he sent the email because he doesn't agree with the Homosexual lifestyle.</p>
but let's not 4get..there r those who use these kinda stories to bash religion. it's not a universal opinion just as all gay people can't be judged by 1 gay person.
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Demonstrators are gathering in an effort to counter the message of a homophobic Auckland pastor who called an openly gay Christian author a "filthy child molesting fag".
Westcity Bible Baptist Church pastor Logan Robertson's views began to circulate following an email he sent to author Jim Marjoram on Monday.
"We are not interested in your filthy lifestyle or book. I pray that you will commit suicide, you filthy child molesting fag," Mr Robertson wrote.
Pastor tells gay ONE News Reporter to 'commit suicide'
Mr Robertson then refused to give openly gay ONE News reporter Matt McLean an interview, labelling him a "filthy faggot".
A demonstration at Saint Margarets Park in Auckland's West Harbour is timed for 10am this morning to coincide with the weekly service time at Westcity Bible Baptist Church.
- Homophobic Auckland pastor story goes global
International media have pounced on a story about a New Zealand pastor who told a gay Christian that his lifestyle was "filthy" and he hoped he would kill himself.
The homophobic views of west Auckland pastor Logan Robertson began to circulate yesterday following an email he sent to openly gay Christian author Jim Marjoram.
"We are not interested in your filthy lifestyle or book. I pray that you will commit suicide, you filthy child molesting fag," Mr Robertson wrote.
Things escalated even further when he refused to give openly gay ONE News reporter Matt McLean an interview, labelling him a "filthy faggot".
(Source: ONE NEWS)
...agree with “the homosexual lifestyle and so I thought I’d send him an email back with my piece of mind about it.”
The email mentioned...
“We are not interested in your filthy lifestyle or book,” writes Robertson. “The Bible says you are vile, strange (queer), reprobate, filth, sodomite, natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed.
“I pray that you will commit suicide, you filthy fag.”
Logan Robertson of the Westcity Bible Baptist Church in Aukland, says he stands by an email he sent to writer and community advocate Jim Marjoram calling him a “filthy child molesting fag.”
“I realized it’s exactly the sort of reason why I created my support group, because of people like him and those attitudes that…creep through the church,” adds Marjoram.