By now you may have heard of the Knox County (Tenn.) sheriff’s detective who recently called on government to execute LGBTQ individuals.
Pastor/Deputy/Homophobe Grayson Fritts wasn’t speaking as a law enforcement official at the time but rather as leader of an ultraconservative Baptist congregation that follows scripture to the letter.
Fritts preached a pulpit-slapping, karate-chopping, Bible-pounding sermon on Leviticus 20:13 at the All Scripture Baptist Church, in which he called for the death of gay men.
I watched nearly six minutes of the Hitler-esque rant in which Fritts beats the lectern 26 times before I stopped counting.