Dr.
Jeff Owens has written a children's booklet. The title, however is
confusing: it's marketed as Character Lessons for Children although the
book cover is pictured with the title Obedience Lessons For Children.
Presumably, the title with "Obedience" is too strong, even to the
pastor-father of a child molester. Owens' book is available for sale now.
Now Icing On Top: REAL homophobes love gay porn!
One article that
came out of the recent Rekers scandal pointed out that a study done of
virulently homophobic men showed them to be aroused by gay porn. (!?)
It left the door wide open to the possibility that "practicing
homophobes" were really epic cases of gay men steeped in denial and
self-loathing. Hmmm. So could Pastor Jeff be...
But he apologized! Remember the fracas that ensued when Jimmy Swaggart told his congregation:
"I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry." (shouts, applause) "And I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died." (laughter, applause) "In case anybody doesn't know, God calls it an abomnation (sic). It's an abomnation (sic)! It's an abomnation (sic)!" (applause) Swaggart later apologized and laughed it off as a joke.
A spokesperson of HRC at the time had this to say about Swaggart's apology and it applies to Pastor Jeff Owens as well:
"Apologies don't discourage violence - action does. We hope that he takes action. His language only encourages an environment where hate crimes occur."
A
thirty-four year ministry preaching against homosexuality. A twenty-year
history of telling people to kill homosexuals. An apology. A children's
book on obedience. A son in jail for sexually molesting a 13-year-old
girl. Owen's life is sick...and sad.
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