09/05/2008
Church: Katy Perry Going to Hell Along with the Gays
Havens Corners Church in Blacklick, Ohio offers a sermon on its sign about Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" song.
Said the Rev. Dave Allison, pastor of the 100-member church: "It's not something that is really a shock if you're a scriptural person. We meant that as a loving warning to teens. … The Scriptures tell us that you should not do what the song tells you to do. The Scriptures are not ambiguous on this issue."
Some neighbors (who don't and do know the song in reference) have been sending in complaints. Said Wendy Olinski of Reynoldsburg: "It was obvious: 'If you're gay, you're going to hell.' At first I have to say I laughed hysterically because I was shocked. But that's going way too far. It's just rude."
Church turns pop lyrics into a bit of brimstone [columbus dispatch]
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The sign is rather gender neutral, isn't it?
Posted by: Roscoe | Sep 5, 2008 12:03:51 PM
I think it's kind of funny! How stupid does one have to be to see that and think "Oh no, I'm doomed"
Posted by: JP | Sep 5, 2008 12:19:07 PM
First, the church only has 100 members, and second, it's in Blacklick Ohio! Blacklick?? Enough said...
Posted by: Wayne | Sep 5, 2008 12:20:42 PM
I don't care if this is what poor Bristol had to put up with, I still wish hell on her mother.
Y'all remember the movie, "Carrie" (or the King book). Piper Lurie played the mother. Is that the type of person y'all want as vice-president?...well, we did have Cheyney the Sorcerer. Hell, no more hoodoos in the vice-presidency. No Palin!
Give me a decent Irish Roman Catholic vice-president. No religious nuts.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Sep 5, 2008 12:29:09 PM
Man ... it's a good thing I don't kiss girls or I'd be going to Hell! :D
Posted by: Allen | Sep 5, 2008 12:30:02 PM
I love this sign, because it puts right out there what the wing-nuts believe. You know that if you walk into that building you are putting your brain in a box marked "bible" and your reality from now on will be as two-dimensional and black and white as its words.
Posted by: Christopher | Sep 5, 2008 12:31:52 PM
Piper "Lauie" is the correct spelling
Lurie is the last name of the owner of the next Superbowl champions.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Sep 5, 2008 12:32:13 PM
"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven." (Luke 6:37)
Now if only these Christians listened to Jesus and not Katy Perry ...
Posted by: Locust | Sep 5, 2008 12:34:28 PM
"Give me a decent Irish Roman Catholic vice-president. No religious nuts."
I'd love to hear less nonsensical "god-talk" in our politics altogether. The American retreat from secularism over the past couple decades has been so depressing. Instead of saying, "Keep your religion to yourself" to the theocrats, the "religious left" has insisted on more and more talking about religion in politics. Kennedy's 1960 speech would lose him the campaign this year, and that Saddleback nonsense was a disgrace.
Fewer fairy stories, please.
Posted by: MAJeff | Sep 5, 2008 12:37:30 PM
As a Berlin Named Irvinbg wrote --
"Oh
I got a message from below
'Twas from a man I used to know
About a year or so ago
Before he departed
He
Is just as happy as can be
I'll tell you what he said to me
He said, "If ever you get heavy-hearted
Pack up your sins and go to the devil in Hades
You'll meet the finest of gentlemen and the finest of ladies
They'd rather be down below than up above
Hades is full of thousands of
Joneses and Browns, O'Hoolihans, Cohens and Bradys
You'll hear a heavenly tune that went to the devil
Because the jazz bands
They started pickin' it
Then put a trick in it
A jazzy kick in it
They've got a couple of old reformers in Heaven
Making them go to bed at eleven
Pack up your sins and go to the devil
And you'll never have to go to bed at all
If you care to dwell where the weather is hot
H-E-double-L is a wonderful spot
If you need a rest and you're all out of sorts
Hades is the best of the winter resorts
Paradise doesn't compare
All the nice people are there
They come there from ev'rywhere
Just to revel with Mister Devil
Nothing on his mind but a couple of horns
Satan is waitin' with his jazz band
And his band came from Alabam' with a melody hot
No one gives a damn if it's music or not
Satan's melody makes you want to dance forever
And you never have to go to bed at all "
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Sep 5, 2008 12:37:39 PM
I used to work in Blacklick, OH. It's a vile place. Makes Columbus look like a promised land of liberal thought, and that's saying something.
Posted by: The Milkman | Sep 5, 2008 12:41:45 PM
however it was refreshing to hear very little if at all god talk during the republican convention-- no god talk or fag bashing so it really did focus on the issues-- yes change is in the air all right-- both parties are proposing it-so who shall win? we shall see, hold on to your tampons ladies it's going to be one hell of a ride... and don't worry about going to hell, liberace, tallulah bankhead and bette davis are there waiting for you-- so much fun you know..
Posted by: the queen | Sep 5, 2008 12:43:00 PM
"Fewer fairy stories, please."
Well said, MAJEFF, and you speak what ought to be the truth. But I'm not interested in truth right now, MAJEFF. I'm interested in giving Moderate Democrats in OHIO another reason to vote Democrat this year...even if it means parading Joe Biden around to every archdiocese in the country.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Sep 5, 2008 12:53:00 PM
Kiss a girl and you're going to hell (thanks for the "loving warning"!) but knock up a girl and John McCain gives you a pat on the back and the beautiful family seal of approval. I might need a tissue.
Posted by: Ernie | Sep 5, 2008 1:03:48 PM
Where's Jason? No double-standard here!
Posted by: anon | Sep 5, 2008 1:15:28 PM
Just looking at the sign "as is" - it is funny. I laughed.
Posted by: ATLSteve | Sep 5, 2008 1:34:58 PM
Oh, the church is just pissed cause Katy Perry turned to the dark side. She's the daughter of two pastors and her 1st CD was a Christian gospel album titled, Katy Hudson.
Hey, if anyone wants to make their own sign, go here: http://www.churchsigngenerator.com/
Posted by: Josh | Sep 5, 2008 1:41:49 PM
Does that mean I will be hanging out with Bristol Palin...or is she excused because she a republican family and then its not a sin...I wish they would stop changing the rules
Posted by: Shan | Sep 5, 2008 1:50:59 PM
This sign assumes that Hell exists.
Oh wait, I hear it was fabricated by the christians mainly for gay people.
Posted by: Tyler | Sep 5, 2008 2:16:12 PM
I thought the bible was pretty much OK with the lesbians and they just got grouped in the the gays because, ironically, it seemed silly to the christians to hate the gays but not the lesbians.
Posted by: John M | Sep 5, 2008 2:19:55 PM
I ate a shrimp and I loved it, then I went to hell.
Posted by: SammySeattle | Sep 5, 2008 2:26:00 PM
The Queen, I'm not sure what Republican convention you were watching. It was pandering and contained little if no discussion of energy, health care, the environment, and other issues aside from being pro-drilling and pro-war. And McCain hijacked the notion of change from Obama with nothing in his record to suggest that he's interested in changing much of anything. Your recent embrace of the GOP is rather unsettling.
Posted by: Paul R | Sep 5, 2008 2:31:19 PM
THE QUEEN, you didn't feel it was a little bit of "fag bashing" when McCain said that "Education is the civil rights issue of this decade?" Perhaps you haven't been paying attention to all the marriage amendments, hate crime legislation, ENDA, gay adoption, etc. Gay rights is clearly the civil rights issue of this decade. He swept it aside as if it doesn't exist.
That was the most offensive "fag bashing" I think I have ever witnessed.
Posted by: Dan B | Sep 5, 2008 2:47:45 PM
it's sad a church had to resort to using a pop song (what are they doing listening to the evil radio anyway...?) to get their message across. but it's also kind of funny to think of some of the jesus freaks who have never heard the song before. reading it out of context just makes it seem like you're going to hell if you kiss a girl at all, regardless of who you are.
Posted by: stephanie | Sep 5, 2008 3:07:19 PM
"The Scriptures tell us that you should not do what the song tells you to do. The Scriptures are not ambiguous on this issue."
What Scriptures is this guy reading? There is NOTHING in the Bible whatsoever about girls kissing girls! There's that thing about men not lying with men as with a woman (if you think about that one, it makes no sense at all-- don't you lie with a man as you lie with a man?). But ZIPPO on hot girl on girl action! (Thanks to the liberals democrats who wrote the Bible.)
Posted by: KevinVT | Sep 5, 2008 3:11:05 PM