Bob Jones Apologizes For Saying Gays Should Be Stoned To Death

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

 

“Bob Jones III, the controversial evangelical preacher and chancellor of Bob Jones University, has apologized for saying that gays should be stoned to death during comments made at the White House 35 years ago.

Jones, who was the university’s president at the time, was delivering a petition to then-President Jimmy Carter against extending Civil Rights Act protections to gays.

‘I’m sure this will be greatly misquoted,’ he said in 1980, according to the Associated Press. ‘But it would not be a bad idea to bring the swift justice today that was brought in Israel’s day against murder and rape and homosexuality. I guarantee it would solve the problem post-haste if homosexuals were stoned, if murderers were immediately killed as the Bible commands.’” *

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.

*Read more here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/23/bob-jones-apology_n_6921054.html

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