What the phuck? Regardless of whether or not the majority of people agree with his view, we need to stop being a bunch of thin-skinned pussies. If people are made to feel that they must suppress thoughts that go against the grain, we'll never work through differences. http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/verity-baptist-church-orlando/2016/06/22/id/735011/
The thing is, if you want to spout off particularly as the head of a likely non-profit organization, then you have to be prepared for the reaction. I'd say that his comments were well beyond the scope of going against the grain. "Are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today?...Um – no – I think that's great. I think that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida is a little safer tonight." Jimenez added, according to the website, that he believed gays should face a firing squad. "If we lived in a righteous government, they should round them all up and put them up against a firing wall, and blow their brains out," Advocating the execution of people because they are gay doesn't make him much different than a tent-wearing mullah in Egypt.
The first amendment protects everyone's right to free speech and the pastor exercised his right, however crude and hateful. That said, and as USC alluded to, one is not free from the consequences of said free speech.
My reaction to ignorant speech has always been, people have the right to be idiots. That doesn't seem to be the case any more. I can also remember when people used to talk about the "thought police." That has become reality.
