Wed. Dec 4th, 2024

Speaker Wishes Death on LGBTQ People at Shocking School Board Meeting<!-- wp:html --><p>Mike Kemp</p> <p>An Arkansas <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/unruly-anti-lgbt-protesters-shut-down-dearborn-public-school-district-meeting-in-michigan">school board meeting </a>went o<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-central-academy-of-technology-and-arts-jesus-christ-superstar-musical-erupted-into-an-ugly-culture-war">ff the rails</a> Tuesday when a speaker insisted before the entire room that members of the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/bros-director-nicholas-stoller-on-the-billy-eichner-gay-romantic-comedy-and-box-office-hopes?ref=topic">LGTBQ+</a> community “deserve” death.</p> <p>The Conway School District’s contentious board meeting had already drawn public backlash over the anti-trans policies that were being considered. But a viral video capturing the speaker’s fire-and-brimstone sermon set social media ablaze.</p> <p>“God gave them over to a depraved mind so that they do what they should not be doing,” the gray-haired man says in a video clip recorded by a meeting attendee. “They invent ways of doing evil. But let me remind you that those who do such things deserve death,” the speaker bellows as he reads off a prepared speech. At that point, some people in the audience turn their heads and exchange looks, seemingly surprised at the speaker’s rhetoric.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/speaker-wishes-death-on-lgbtq-people-at-shocking-conway-arkansas-school-board-meeting?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Mike Kemp

An Arkansas school board meeting went off the rails Tuesday when a speaker insisted before the entire room that members of the LGTBQ+ community “deserve” death.

The Conway School District’s contentious board meeting had already drawn public backlash over the anti-trans policies that were being considered. But a viral video capturing the speaker’s fire-and-brimstone sermon set social media ablaze.

“God gave them over to a depraved mind so that they do what they should not be doing,” the gray-haired man says in a video clip recorded by a meeting attendee. “They invent ways of doing evil. But let me remind you that those who do such things deserve death,” the speaker bellows as he reads off a prepared speech. At that point, some people in the audience turn their heads and exchange looks, seemingly surprised at the speaker’s rhetoric.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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