A Georgia church is causing outrage after their new sign reads: ‘Homosexuality is a Death Worthy Crime’.
Pastor Robert Lee, of the Ten Commandments Church in Milledgeville, says he put up the sign as a message to the US Supreme Court who are currently debating the constitutionality of same-sex marriage.
He says he sees no reason why some have a problem with the sign, that quotes Leviticus 13:20. In that passage it says if a ‘man lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death: their blood shall be upon them.’
‘Homosexuality is an abomination, the Bible says homosexuality is a death-worthy crime,’ Lee told WGXA.
‘The institution of marriage was instituted by God and it should not be changed by people who deserve not to live.
‘Before I accept homosexuality, I will die.’
The sign was first spotted by passerby Robert Owens, who found it very offensive.
He said: ‘I have a gay brother and a lesbian niece, who live out in California, and I don’t want them to come here and visit me and see a sign like that.’
