NORTH CAROLINA
Digital Journal
[with video]
By Yukio Strachan
May 5, 2012
A Fayetteville, North Carolina pastor says he was just joking in a sermon Sunday when he authorized parents to make their “butch” daughters smell like girls and to “punch” boys with limp wrists.
Sean Harris, pastor of Berean Baptist Church, told The Fayetteville Observer that the comments that have made international headlines were simply misinterpreted.
They should have taken as a joke, he said.
Indeed, national news outlets, such as CNN, have reported that laughter that can be heard in the background, from some members of the congregation, as well as cries, of “Amen!” as the 46-year- old pastor spoke about what some say is violence against children if they are gay.
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