LGBT Activists Protest Church 'Hate Speech' - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

In Fort Value on Sunday, dozens of LGBT activists and North Texas residents took to Jacksboro Freeway to protest the controversial feedback of a pastor of a small church.

Sansom Park Police, Fort Value Police, Tarrant County Sheriff's deputies, and even MedStar Ambulance service have been current, in case the protest or any counter protest turned ugly or if anybody was overwhelmed by the warmth.

Armed with indicators, songs, and chants, the group expressed their displeasure with the hateful speech of a Stedfast Baptist Church Pastor Donnie Romero. The church is situated in tiny Sansom Park, however the group gathered and marched from inside Fort Value metropolis limits.

"Our primary objective is to make a peaceable response to a hateful assertion," stated Karen McCrocklin, an organizer with the group I Am Finished. 

"And when this type of hate speech occurs we will take a stand towards it," stated LGBT activist and Dallas resident Steve Atkinson. 

The hate speech in query got here from a sermon delivered by Pastor Romero within the wake of the Orlando capturing, the place 49 individuals have been gunned down inside a homosexual night time membership. Romero's sermon is posted to the church's YouTube Channel.

Stedfast Baptist Church is affiliated with Trustworthy World Baptist Church of Tempe, Arizona, in accordance with Trustworthy World Baptist's web site.

The web site additionally hyperlinks the 2 churchs to Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, the place Pastor Roger Jimenez praised the capturing for killing members of the LGBT group.

"I agree 100-percent with Pastor Roger Jimenez," Romero says in his sermon posted to YouTube. "These 50 sodomites are all perverts and pedophiles, they're the scum of the Earth and the Earth is a greater place now and I am going to take it a step additional."

Romero makes use of a number of homosexual slurs after which talks about these injured within the nightclub capturing. "I am going to pray to God like I did this morning, and I'll once more tonight, that God will end the job that that man began," Romero stated. 

The Southern Poverty Regulation Middle considers the church an anti-LGBT hate group. The Trustworthy World Baptist Church is taken into account a basic hate group, per the SPLC's web site. 

Such feedback may need been ignored prior to now, however these attending the protest say issues modified that night time in Central Florida.

"After what's occurred in Orlando, we're completed with not responding, and never offering some type of peaceable and loving response to hate," McCrocklin stated. 

McCrocklin is an area organizer of "I Am Carried out", a gaggle that shaped after Orlando to face as much as hate with love.

"And spend a pair hours outdoors, to creating positive that Pastor Romero is conscious that we're accomplished together with his hateful statements," McCrocklin stated. 

The church didn't reply our requires remark and a consultant requested NBC 5 to go away the property once we sought remark for this story.

Regardless of the elevated police presence there have been no incidents in the course of the protest, which lasted a bit of greater than an hour.

Revealed at 7:39 PM CDT on Jun 26, 2016