The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., hung an effigy of President Barack Obama from a gallows on its front lawn, accompanied by an upside-down rainbow Pride flag.
The church’s pastor Terry Jones stated that the display was in response to the president’s recent endorsement of same-sex marriage, as well as his stance on abortion, adding the president’s “appeasing of radical Islam.” - Source
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? How in the world does such a portrait of hatred towards someone, on the grounds of being open-minded towards other groups of people, align with Christian views? Or any reasonable human views? The most basic concept I can remember from my Sunday-school upbringing is "love your neighbor as yourself," clearly not "threaten people that are different from you." The article goes on:
The Dove Outreach Church has stirred controversy previously with a book burning of the Islamic Holy Book, the Quran last year that sparked three days of violent rioting in Afghanistan which resulted in the deaths of at least 21 people, including seven United Nations Relief Agency workers.
You really, really, really disappoint me sometimes, Americans. Bringing it back to education, I can only imagine what the people who did this are teaching their kids.
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