NORTH CAROLINA
WFJA
(FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.) — A North Carolina pastor who told parents in a Sunday sermon that they should hit their children if they began to act gay has retracted his advice, saying he should have spoken more carefully.
Pastor Sean Harris, of the Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, N.C., apologized in a statement released this week for “any and all words that suggest that child abuse is appropriate for any and all types of behaviors, including (but not limited to) effeminacy and sexual immorality of all types.”
In the sermon, given Sunday in support of a proposed North Carolina amendment defining marriage as being between a man and a woman, Harris talked at length about homosexual behaviors. At one point, he instructed fathers who “see that son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist.”
Harris said that gay tendencies in young children should be “squashed like a cockroach” and that if parents see young boys acting like girls, fathers should “give [them] a good punch.”
“When your daughter starts acting too butch, you reign her in,” Harris said in the sermon, which was posted in a video online. “You’re going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl, and that means you’re going to be beautiful and you’re going to be attractive and you’re going to dress yourself up.”
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