>> Texas Pastor Now Says He Didn’t Mean He’d Really Set Himself Aflame
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Il menaçait de s’immoler, si le mariage pour les couples de même sexe venait à être légalisé partout aux États-Unis. Depuis ce vendredi 26 juin, c’est désormais le cas. Mais quand est-il alors de l’ecclésiastique homophobe ?
Eh bien, dans sa lutte contre les droits des LGBT, le pasteur fait marche arrière ! Il ne mettra pas ses menaces à exécution. Les flammes c’est pas son truc. Ça ressemble trop à l’enfer. Il s’agissait d’une plaisanterie. Ou du moins, un malentendu. Et, dans une alternative toute aussi vague que sa déclaration initiale, Rick Scarborough souligne qu’il ne cautionne de toute façon aucune forme de violence. Vraiment ?
Le pasteur aurait en vérité paraphrasé un cantique spirituel, impliquant des intervenants qui refusent de se résigner et choisissent d’en assumer les conséquences. Tout était à prendre au sens figuré. Évidemment !
« Face aux revendications et à la haine manifeste des militants pro-mariage gay, toujours prêts à dégommer leurs concitoyens en désaccord avec cette décision de dénaturer le mariage », Rick Scarborough voulait malgré tout défendre ses convictions, quitte à en endosser les sanctions. Mais pas de jouer à la « torche humaine ».
On aura tous mal compris. Tant pis pour les Chamallows donc.
Terrence Katchadourian
La rédac. StopHomophobie
>> Texas Pastor Rick Scarborough issued a statement clarifying his statement that he would be willing to set himself on fire in his fight against gay rights, now declaring, « We do not support any violence or physical harm.” .
The antigay clergyman from Pearland, Tx., made the remark to right-wing preacher E.W. Jackson in a recorded conference call with supporters on June 16:
“We are not going to bow, we are not going to bend, and if necessary we will burn.”
Although it was not clear at the time whether Scarborough meant those words to be taken literally or figuratively, the fiery pastor issued a statement to KFYO News several hours after the high court issued its ruling Friday morning, walking back his remarks to clarify he was not planning a self-immolation.
“I Scarborough.”‘We will burn’ means that we will accept any sanction from the government for resisting [Friday’s] Supreme Court decision. We do not support any violence or physical harm.”
Scarborough previously made headlines with a full-page newspaper ad announcing that he had tens of thousands of followers, including presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, who pledged to go to jail to defend so-called traditional marriage.
The Advocate has attempted to reach Scarborough for comment through his group, Vision America, which describes its mission on its website as trying “to inform, encourage and mobilize pastors and their congregations to be proactive in restoring Judeo-Christian values to the moral and civic framework in their communities, states, and our nation.”
Our calls have not been returned. Scarborough did not clarify another controversial offer he made, first reported by Right Wing Watch, that he would volunteer to say, « Shoot me first, » if pro-marriage supporters threatened « ordinary citizens » because of their opposition to equality.
