Anti-gay Republican Representative Steve King has said that he doesn't expect gay people to make it to heaven
Anti-gay Republican Representative Steve King has said he doesn't expect gay people to make it to heaven, reports Think Progress.
Speaking to The Jefferson Herald about attempts by Pope Francis to make the Catholic Church more welcoming to LGBT people, Iowa rep King – also a noted racist – said:
“I'll just say that what was a sin 2,000 years ago is a sin today, and people that were condemned to hell 2,000 years ago, I don't expect to meet them should I make it to heaven. So let's stick with that principle.”
Noting that its not his place to judge other people, King nonetheless judged “those who choose a lifestyle that I'll say is not one that's anointed and favored by my faith — or their faith, for that matter.”
King has previously described homosexuality as “self-professed behavior” and claimed that gay people wanting to get married are "promoting the idea of desecrating the Eucharist."
Watch King hold forth last August on the Missouri riots and "the wave of illegal immigrant children that will be going to school in the U.S.", AFTER THE JUMP…
