My censored pro-LGBT hate article
A pastor in Regina received vitriol and hate mail for saying there was an LGBT agenda in schools.
This week, I share with you two articles that were posted to Western Standard but later removed at the discretion of the publisher. They have as a common thread the backlash received by people who stood against the LGBT agenda.
Links to other articles follow at the end.
Note on last substack: It was my understanding that Anita Krishna was going to broadcast our conversation live but that was not so. She posted our conversation, but wanted to change something and repost. Sometime it https://rumble.com/user/AKStraightSpeaks.
Church experienced pro-LGBT hate, pastor alleges
It's somewhat ironic that they claim that they are representative of a community that's accepting and loving, but yet, they spewed all kinds of vitriol towards us.
A Regina pastor who irked the LGBT community two years ago questions suspects authorities would sooner police the church than protect it from hate.
Terry Murphy, pastor of Regina Victory Church, said a portion of a March 2021 sermon live streamed during the pandemic prompted a terrible backlash.
“I had just read a very disturbing Gallup poll out of the United States with the percentage of young people claiming to be part of the LGBT community. And I think it was around 17%. I quoted the statistics and said, parents beware, there is an agenda out there to entice your children into a lifestyle that's anti -what we teach and what we believe,” Murphy recalled.
“The numbers have jumped to almost 40% of that age group now claiming to be part of that community…So to to think that there isn't some kind of campaign underway to seduce people into that, well, the evidence is contrary.”
LGBT activists and some community leaders characterized Murphy’s sermon as hateful. A petition circulated to bring Murphy and his church before the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. Murphy said he heard as many as 800 had signed the petition, “but we never heard anything, nothing ever came back on that. It just kind of went away.”
Murphy said his sermon prompted both opposition and support.
“I got hate mail from emails from across Canada and even into Europe, crossing the United States, very hateful. It's somewhat ironic that they claim that they are representative of a community that's accepting and loving, but yet, they spewed all kinds of vitriol towards us. There were some threats of violence against my wife and I, against the church proper, that they would come in. It should be burned to the ground. Blah, blah, blah, on and on it went,” Murphy recalled.
““On the other side of it, I got encouraging phone calls and emails from a plethora of Christian denominations, Lutheran, Anglican, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Independent, all kinds across the country who just said to stand strong, and we're with you, and keep standing for the truth. But there was far more actually of negative, it was a firestorm. One pastor called me from Calgary and said that he'd run into something similar before, and he called it ‘pouring on the haterade.’”
The federal government recently announced $1.5 million to fund security for gay pride parades. However, Murphy said he got no help from authorities when he could have used it. He kept his worship services to 30 people to comply with Saskatchewan Health Authority pandemic rules but a Sunday morning protest outside had five times that amount.
“There was 150 of them out there, including some left-wing ministry leaders and some left-wing politicians making statements and having a big party outside. And I actually phoned the authorities and said these people are gathering in a very large group right outside our building. That's breaking the SHA rules. And they said, 'We won't touch that group with a 10 foot pole.' And so they wouldn't come.
“Now if we were outside having a Christian meeting [of 150], they would have been there right away to break us up. That's my opinion, anyway.”
Murphy said his phone kept ringing with probing questions, as did those of other churches in his denomination.
“We did get phone calls that were not too well veiled in their intention: ‘Do you allow gay people in your church? Do you allow gay people into your leadership? Can gay people preach in your pulpits?’...Pastors of our Victory churches in the immediate area…were…being asked similar questions from people that didn't even live in their cities. ‘Do you accept gay people?’
“Well, of course, we accept everybody into the church. But if I accept someone with, say, a substance abuse problem, we accept them into the church, but we don't promote their substance abuse, or we don't promote their lifestyle that's contrary to the Bible.”
The perception that Murphy was hateful, reinforced by characterizations in mainstream media, led him and his church to suffer discrimination of its own.
“I went into a business in town, and I wanted to make a fairly substantial purchase. And I left my name for the manager to call back, it was a renovation thing…The guy phoned just irate, that he was so angry, he could just hardly stand it. And he would not do business with us ever and blah, blah, blah, the opposite of the baker in the States, just the opposite. You don't support this lifestyle. You're a terrible person, and I would never deal with you,” Murphy said.
“I wasn't framing the message to come against that community whatsoever. Again, it was just an alert to our parents, be on guard.”
Murphy said Bill C-4 has forbade “conversion therapy” to turn gays straight while a “conversion therapy in reverse” is being attempted on children.
“This pressure is there socially, being pushed by the government, being pushed by the media, being pushed by the educational facilities, to embrace a lifestyle that is extremely destructive. The suicide rates for people involved in the trans community are right around the 50% mark. And for children that get involved in that, and even go through the process of trying to biologically change their gender, the suicide rate does not change, indicating that that's not the solution,” he said.
“The solution is to try to help them get rid of the confusion in their minds. And right now, the general push of our culture is not to help them come out of their confusion. It's to affirm them in their confusion, which will lead to cultural disaster, in my opinion.”
Photo: Terry Meeuwsen, Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, Pat Robertson in 2011
Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson remembers Pat Robertson
“He stood against the woke cult…He was a courageous voice for North America, and it's sad to see he's passed.”
The former host of the 700 Club Canada says the late founder of the US edition will be hard to replace.
Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and 700 Club founder Pat Robertson died at the age of 93 in Virginia Beach on June 8. Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson called Robertson a man who “stood strong.”
“He stood against the woke cult before we knew what it was called. He was a courageous voice for North America. And it's sad to see he's passed, because I think that the next generation will not be courageous. And a big part of the legacy of the 700 Club has passed. We will not see that same kind of stance again,” she said.
“It's a sad day to see voices that understood the time and had the courage to face it head on and to stand with other courageous people.”
Robertson bought a UHF channel in Virginia to launch CBN in 1961. He started the 700 Club talk show in 1966. In 2011, Robertson interviewed Thompson and co-host Brian Warren at the CBN studios in Virginia Beach as the 700 Club Canada was launched.
Thompson remembers Robertson as “a very, very strong and very brilliant man, very socially kind, very good with people. He had a way of making you feel very important in his presence. He was a really good listener, looked right in your eye, serious,” she said.
“Sometimes he had opinions that were not popular, but he was against the LGBTQ onslaught with great courage. And he saw what was coming.”
Thompson’s outspokenness on issues of pro-transgender ideology in schools prompted a backlash from some activists. According to Thompson, 700 Club Canada told her, “We believe in your calling, but it’s not our calling, so we are releasing you to your calling.” After her dismissal, Thompson rebounded to host Laura-Lynn Live on Facebook, YouTube, Rumble, and lesser-known platforms.
The reins for CBN and the 700 Club have been passed to Robertson’s son, Gordon.
“I have had several interactions with Gordon. He came up to Canada as well to see what we were doing,” Thompson said.
“There was no one like Pat Robertson. It will be very hard to fill his shoes, and it will be very difficult for anyone to have his courage.”
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