{"id":506203,"date":"2013-02-05T16:39:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T16:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/richard-land-0\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:54","slug":"richard-land-0","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/richard-land-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Lost his job<\/a> with the Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission after an ethics investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> of transgender children: \u201cConditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and helpful is child abuse…. These people are practicing psychological and physiological child abuse on a whole generation of our nation\u2019s children, and it\u2019s up to us as responsible and clear-thinking adults to stop them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014LGBTQ people are<\/a> supposedly stealing cultural icons: \u201cThese people have gone after the icons in our culture…. They\u2019ve gone after the military, they\u2019ve gone after the Boy Scouts, they\u2019ve gone after Disney, and you\u2019re seeing a gradual waning of the influence of the worldview that made America what it is, the Judeo-Christian worldview.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014On gay people<\/a>: \u201cWe do need to pray for our enemies, those that oppose us, because they\u2019re victims. Our enemy is the Devil, our enemy is that old lion that walks about seeking whom he may devour and who is the god of this age and the prince of the power of the air and he has these people in their thrall. It\u2019s not that we hate gays, it\u2019s that we love scripture and love gays enough to tell them what the truth is. And the truth is that God does not condone same-sex sexual relations, period. They are an abomination to him and if we really love these people we are going to tell them the truth.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Equated<\/a> a wedding cake baker who must serve a same-sex couple with an African-American baker who must serve the KKK.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Said <\/a>God is judging America because of same-sex marriage (beginning at 2:04): \u201cWhenever you go against God\u2019s law and you challenge God\u2019s law and you have the affrontery and hubris of trying to redefine one of God\u2019s institutions, like marriage, you are putting yourself in the place of judgement. There\u2019s no question in my mind that God is already judging America and will judge her more harshly as we continue to move down this path towards sexual paganizations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> homosexuality is of the Devil and leads to the decline\/destruction of societies: \u201cLet me just say that first of all that the Devil takes pleasure in anything that causes destruction in human society and the homosexual lifestyle does cause destruction. It\u2019s seen as one of the evidences in the decline of every empire we have seen; studies have shown it became rampant in the Persian Empire, the Greek Empire, the Roman Empire, the British Empire.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> of homosexuality: \u201cIt\u2019s the one sin that I know about that I find totally incomprehensible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":468863,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138565],"hashtag":[138636,138635,138637],"class_list":{"0":"post-506203","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"region-national","8":"hashtag-anti-transgender","9":"hashtag-commentator","10":"hashtag-religion"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t