Kevin Swanson: Better to drown children than let them read gay Harry Potter

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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-a6727221.html

Better to drown children than let them read 'homosexual' Harry Potter, says extreme right-wing pastor

Parents should drown children before they let them read the Harry Potter books because of gay character Dumbledore, an extreme right-wing pastor has said.

Preacher Kevin Swanson was speaking at the National Religious Liberties Conference when he made the staggering suggestion during an impassioned rant against homosexuality.

“Friends, we are on the very cusp of judgement as I see it. We need to call America to repent. Repentance from defying the almighty. Repentance of abortion, the hundreds of millions of dead bodies, I don’t know how many,” he began, before bizarrely targeting JK Rowling’s bestselling wizarding novels.

“America, repent of Harry Potter. Repent that Dumbledore emerged as a homosexual mentor for Harry Potter.”

Not content at stopping with Harry Potter, Swanson went on to attack adorable animated movie How to Train Your Dragon. “Children are raised to be stumbled by the Dumbledores and Hiccups on How to Train Your Dragon,” he said. “My friends, America needs to repent.”

Then, came the closing comments that surely even Voldemort himself would not have dreamed up: “For tens of millions of parents it would be better that a millstone be hung around their neck and they be drowned at the bottom of the sea.”

Naturally, those who have watched the above video soon began posting mocking comments deriding its ridiculousness. “If God will judge America for Harry Potter, but not Twilight, then He is not worthy of worship,” one YouTube user wrote.

Let us not forget that Swanson is the same man who, in March 2014, declared Disney hit Frozen “very evil” gay propaganda. “You wonder sometimes if maybe there’s something very evil happening here,” he said.

“I wonder if people are thinking: ‘You know I think this cute little movie is going to indoctrinate my 5-year-old to be a lesbian or treat homosexuality or bestiality in a light sort of way’.”

Swanson went on to attack the studio, claiming that if he were the Devil wanting to do something “really, really, really evil” to young children in US Christian families, he would “buy Disney in 1984”.

He believes Christians will one day be burnt at the stake by homosexuals but ended his speech by saying he wants to give the LGBT community time to repent before using the death penalty against them.

Holy shit, how does someone like this get given the same stage as U.S. presidential candidates?

https://freedom2015.org/

[Acelius]

Imagine a world without religion.

[George Costanza]

Imagine a world without religion.

What a terrible world.

[Deleted]

Imagine a world without religion.

We'd only find new reasons to oppress and hate each other. The flaw lies in humanity itself.

[Sam the Wiser]

I couldn't agree more with Kevin.

[Gamdwelf]

Imagine a world without religion.

It would be approximately the same.

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Why does he attack how to train your dragon?

[Julian Rayne]

Ah this brings back memories of 2001. Thrall was just a glint in Chris Metzen's eye, AOL was a thing, and morons were complaining about Harry Potter.

It was a simpler time, a better time.

[Gelhiss]

It would be approximately the same.

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Why does he attack how to train your dragon?

If I was going to go with a reason that made even a microscopic amount of sense, I'd guess because of the dragon in Revelation.

However, making sense is clearly not what this fool is about, so I got nothing.

[Tradewind]

Dumbledore was gay?

[Gamdwelf]

Dumbledore was gay?

Yeah... Where have you been?

[Tradewind]

Yeah... Where have you been?

Apparently not paying attention to fabulous wizardry.

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Being gay = evil
Suggesting you drown your children by tying heavy objects around their neck and throwing them into water = perfectly reasonable

???

[Shadowmelded]

He believes Christians will one day be burnt at the stake by homosexuals but ended his speech by saying he wants to give the LGBT community time to repent before using the death penalty against them.

There's that christian compassion.

Dumbledore was gay?

Retroactively. You didn't miss a chapter :P

[Gamdwelf]

Apparently not paying attention to fabulous wizardry.

Because of the nature of the relationship he had with that evil wizard guy in book 7 some girl asked jk Rowling if he was in an AMA and she said yeah.

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Yeah... Where have you been?

It's there but it's not like it's the defining feature of his character or obvious throughout 90% of the story.

[taliey]

I bet this is the guy running on traditional Christian family values platform.

So this begs the question, what kind of fucking values do you have when this unthinkable question is posed?

Where are his values?

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*slow claps* How does someone this stupid even get born? Surely, a good god would save us from such utter idiots.

[Sykol]

Isn't that Joe's kid?

[Tradewind]

Because of the nature of the relationship he had with that evil wizard guy in book 7 some girl asked jk Rowling if he was in an AMA and she said yeah.

I'm glad Tolkein died well before twitter and reddit. I couldn't handle all the hobbit buggery.

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If I had kids I would drown them before letting them read Harry Potter books.

Not because I think they have gay characters or how that my affect them, just on the basis that the books and movies alike are a steaming pile of shit that some how have made one woman a lot of money.