Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart is being criticized for threatening to kill gay people.
‘I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. 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,’ he said.
Matt Foreman, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director, called upon Dr. James Dobson (Focus on the Family), Tony Perkins (Family Research Council), Ted Haggard (National Association of Evangelicals), and Richard Land (Director of the Religious Liberties and Ethics Division of the Southern Baptist Convention) to denounce anti-gay violence and specifically repudiate Swaggart’s statement.