yesterday a very famous well-known preacher and not only is this guy a famous well-known
preacher but he has all kinds of pastors all over America following him amongst independent
fundamental baptists. His name is Paul Chappell. He posted a blog post yesterday when Christians
do nothing, parentheses, about Target. So the title of his blog post is when Christians
do nothing about Target. Well I'm going to write my own little blog post and I'm going
to call it when Christians do nothing about Paul Chappell. Now you hear me out before
you get upset. Just listen, I'm going to read this blog post that is too little, too late.
Listen to this. And I'm going to read every word of it. I'm not going to give it to you
out of context or anything. Here's his blog post from yesterday. I don't believe the response
to every social evil is a boycott. But when a company publicly and forcefully comes out
on the wrong side of a moral issue, I don't believe the correct response is to do nothing
either. Especially in America where we have freedom in our choices, whether they be at
the voting polls or where we spend our money, make a difference. By now you've heard of
Target's decision to open their gender specific restrooms and fitting rooms to the opposite
gender. The stated reason for this is to be inclusive toward transgender individuals.
Considering that transgender population makes up 0.03% of the American population, I would
submit that their reasoning has more to do with tolerance being in vogue in America today.
Regardless of the reason, however, the result is that my granddaughter can be in the restroom
at Target and have some guy walk in and that's not okay with me. Now I'm going to continue
reading but let me just stop and analyze this for a moment. First of all, he says, you know,
hey, I don't believe in a boycott every time there's a social evil. But man, when a company
comes out and just forcefully comes out on the wrong side of a moral issue, I don't believe
the correct response is to do nothing either. Well, let me ask you this, Paul Chappell.
What verse in the Bible states that men can't go in the women's restroom and women can't
go in the men's restroom? I would like you to show me that in the Bible, Paul Chappell.
Show me that verse in the Bible, Paul Chappell, because you're telling me, I mean, this is
just so clearly and morally wrong. Okay, then show it to me in the Bible. Show you in the
Bible where homosexuals are supposed to be put to death. That's what the Bible says.
He doesn't preach that. Somebody show me where he preaches. Go to Leviticus 20, 13 where
the Bible says they should be executed. Go to Leviticus 20, 13. And this is reiterated
in the New Testament in Romans chapter 1 when it says that they that do such things are
worthy of death. This is reiterated in 2 Peter chapter 2 when he talks about God sending
fire and brimstone to wipe out Sodom and Gomorrah as an example to those that afterward should
live ungodly. So in Leviticus 20, 13 it says, "If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth
with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to
death. Their blood shall be upon them." So where does that say anything about the bathroom
that they use? They're supposed to use the bathroom in hell. That's where the bathroom
is that they use. Oh, I don't like this kind of, get out of here then because I'm preaching
the Bible. You want me, you know, if I got up and started just preaching about hell,
yeah, we need to fight against Target and Target is ruining America because they're letting
that pervert go into the ladies room. You know, I'd get amens and everybody's happy, but then
you start preaching the Bible and everybody gets uncomfortable. There are all kinds of
little weakling pastors all across America today doing too little, too late. Well, I'm
going to draw the line in the sand. I'm going to take a stand against Target. Well, I'm
going to take a stand against Paul Chapel and I'm going to tell you why. Wait. Oh, wait
for it. It's coming. It's worse. It's much worse than you think. I'm going to show you
where Paul Chapel is doing something way worse than Target ever thought of doing. Now, let
me analyze this. When a company publicly and forcefully comes out on the wrong side of
a moral issue that he can't show us a single verse about in the Bible, I don't believe
the correct response is to do nothing either. Especially in America where we have freedom
and our choices, whether they be at the voting polls or where we spend our money, make a
difference. This guy thinks that voting makes a difference. Let me just stop and point out
the stupidity there. He thinks that the Republicans are actually against transgender and homos.
Idiot. What in the world? Are you nuts? Where have you been living, Paul Chabot? Because
George W. Bush hired more sodomites to his staff than any president in the history of
our country, including Bill Clinton. All of these Republican candidates say that they'll
hire sodomites. Hello, is anybody home? And the Democrats are the same thing. They're
all pro-sodomy. They're all pro. Oh, oh, but they're against the bathroom thing. Oh, but
they're against the marriage thing. Yeah, but do any of them stand for anything the Bible
actually mentions? Voting polls, where we can really make a difference. Yeah, you know
what, this November, oh yeah, you can really make a difference at the voting polls with
the choices that are being offered, right? It's going to be great. I'll skip it. But
it says here, you know, in verse, or not verse, good night, in the fourth paragraph, and I'm
not skipping anything, you know, I read it all to you and I'm going to read it all to
you, regardless of the reason, however, the result is that my granddaughter can be in
the restroom at Target and have some guy walk in and that's not okay with me. But here's
what is okay with Paul Chappell. Apparently he's okay with his grandson being in the men's
room at Target and having some filthy pedophile go in there. Stop and think about this. So
he's saying, "Well, I don't want some filthy pervert walking in on my granddaughter in
the bathroom." Well, what about your grandson, Paul Chappell? Because you know, there's more
boys that are molested than girls by these freaks anyway. Hello, is anybody just thinking
about this? See, you can't have these people around because they're perverts, they're pedophiles.
That's why the Bible said, "Stone them with stones." That's why the Bible teaches, and
I'm not saying we should be vigilantes, I'm saying the scripture teaches that the government
should execute these people. Why don't we teach the Bible on this? But no, "Well, my
granddaughter, but what about your grandson?" See how dumb this is? Doesn't even make sense.
Let's keep going. I know there are some people who say, "Fine, then let's use the single
stall family restroom," but the point is that there's a men's and a women's restroom for
a reason. The single extra stall restroom in stores that have it and not all do is supposed
to be for people with an exceptional situation, not the norm, yet Target's new policy is treating
normalcy as abnormal, and it's putting people, women and children in particular, in a place
of compromised safety. In addition, I'm not only concerned about the safety of those in
my family, but I care about decency and protection for women and children in general, especially
in public places where they should expect it, except male children. And here's the thing.
What if some filthy lesbian goes into the women's restroom? Your daughter's still in
the presence of a pervert. What if some filthy sodomite goes into the men's room? Now look,
obviously I believe that men should use the men's room and women should use the women's
room. Did I really need to tell you that? That's what I believe? But my point is that
this is where they're going to draw the line now. They let these people march up and down
the street. They let them in their church. They welcome them to the church. They say,
"Oh, we love them. We want to tolerate them." Everything's fine. But just don't go in the
wrong bathroom though. It's too late! Too little, too late, buddy. I know that our culture
is shifting as it willfully turns its back on God. And as I wrote in a recent book, I
know that the big picture response of Christians is to lovingly hold the truth while living
a consistent testimony, praying for revival, and sharing the gospel. But that doesn't mean
we also shouldn't also respond otherwise. That doesn't mean we should just roll over
and do nothing when a company, in this case Target, makes a public statement of a policy
that flies in the face of Christianity, not to mention common sense. Now listen, I'm going
to show you in a moment a company that makes a statement about its policy that flies in
the face of Christianity and common sense. That company is called Lancaster Baptist Church.
I'm going to get there in a moment because they're allowing even weirder people into
the restroom than Target is. I'm going to show it to you in black and white. Hang in
there. I don't think we should lash out in anger. Of course you don't, Paul Chappell.
Of course you don't think we should lash out in anger because you're so soft and watered
down that you would never lash out against sin and anger. You would never call out these
filthy perverts. Well I don't think we should lash out in anger, but we should be decisive.
And we should be willing to do something. And he emphasizes something. Like, I mean we got
to do something. No, why don't we do the right thing? Which is to not tolerate homosexuality
at all. To not allow it in our churches. To not allow it in our family. To have no, if
we have an extended family member that's a homo, they should be ostracized. We should
have nothing to do with them. Get them away from our children. Our government should be
putting them to death. We should have nothing to do with these filthy people. They should
be put to death, the Bible says. We gotta do something. One organization, the American
Family Association, has already collected over a million signatures on their pledge to boycott
Target. That's why Paul Chappell's ready to take a stand now. When he's got a million
people behind him, he has the guts to take a stand on an issue when a million people
have gotten on board. He's ready to be a million and one. Why don't you stand alone, Paul Chappell?
Why don't you stand alone and say, "No homos are allowed in my church." Why don't you stand
alone and say, "They shall surely be put to death according to God's word." But no, he'll
stand when there's a million people behind him, when he can hide behind a million people.
And you say, "Well, you're being too hard on Paul Chappell." That's because you haven't
heard what I'm going to read to you from his website yet. So don't judge a thing before
you've heard it. Wait till you hear what his public... It's worse than Target. Target didn't
even bring up bestiality. Paul Chappell did. We'll get there. "On the same page, they also
provide several news articles on how sexual predators exploit policies like Target's."
Yeah, they also exploit policies like those of Lancaster Baptist Church, but I'm getting
ahead of myself. "Personally, this is what..." Listen to this. This is his hardcore stand.
"Personally, I'm not shopping at Target anymore, and I encourage others to make that decision
as well." Here's the next sentence, and I kid you not. "Now I can't say that there will
never be a day in my life when I go into Target." Now, hold on a second. "I'm not going to Target!"
Well, okay, wait a minute. I might go there, but hold on. And he's not even saying... Now,
you might think to yourself, "Oh, well, maybe he's not going to go there if they change
their policy." No, no, that's not what he's saying. Let's read. "Now I can't say that
there will never be a day in my life when I go into a Target. There may be a time in
the not-too-distant future when there's no corporate entity that honors the post-agenda
of restrooms and fitting rooms and protects the one inside. But I believe that that day
will come sooner if no one pushes back right now. So in the foreseeable future, I'm shopping
other places than Target." So basically what he's saying is when Walmart does the same
thing, then he'll start going to Target again. That's what he just said. He didn't say, "Well,
I think Target might back down." No, he said, "Well, I'm not saying I'm never going to
go to Target, but I mean, we've got to do something. We've got to at least talk about
not going to Target, right?" And I mean, we know they're all going to roll all over us
anyway eventually, but I mean, maybe it'll take a little longer. Additionally, oh man,
he's taking a real bold step. Wait till you hear this next bold step. Additionally, I'm
writing a letter to the managers of our nearby Target stores. If you'd like to write a letter
as well, feel free to download and edit this one. It's right here. "Dear Target manager,
I'm writing to let you know that I'm deeply offended by the intolerance shown in Target's
recent statement." I'm not offended by intolerance, I love intolerance. Hello, is anybody out
there? Well, that's just tolerance. You know, back in the 90s, my pastor, who actually had
hair on his legs and preached the Bible, he said, he preached a sermon called "Tolerance,
the Devil's Doctrine." It's a great sermon, by the way. "You know, by inclusivity, by
allowing people to use their restroom or fitting room of their choice, regardless of their
biological gender. Although Target has stated this upholds inclusivity, in reality, it's
incredibly insensitive toward families raising children, and even toward women in general.
Despite the shifts in culture, I do not want my daughters to put my daughters, or those
I love, in a private place where any man, including a sexual predator, could walk in.
So he's saying he doesn't want to put anyone he loves in a place, a restroom, where a predator
could walk in.
Okay, well why don't we, you know, I'm sorry, I can't hold back anymore. Let's read from
his statement of faith on his website. This is from the statement of faith of his company,
Lancaster Baptist Church, Pastor Paul Chappell, under human sexuality. Here's his statement
of faith where he says that not only homos are allowed in the church, but those who practice
bestiality are allowed in his church. And it is not allowed for any member of his staff
to be disrespectful to anyone who practices bestiality or homosexuality. Nobody believes
me, but it's right here in black and white. Go to the website when you get home, call
me a liar. Oh, how dare you attack Paul Chapel. Oh, oh, he's a man of God. Hello, people.
You're going to get mad at Target. This is a guy who's claiming to run a church. Target
is a store. This is a church. And they're saying, well, not only are we bringing in
the trannies, we're bringing in those who practice bestiality and homos. Are you still
in Leviticus 20? Look down at your Bible just in case you don't know what bestiality is.
Verse number 14, or verse 15, "And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to
death, and you shall slay the beast. And if a woman approach unto a beast and lie down
there too, that shall surely kill the woman and the beast. They shall surely be put to
death. Their blood shall be upon them." Now look, you say, well, you shouldn't talk about
this, but it's the word of God. That's what the Bible says. Now listen, here's Paul Chapel's
statement of faith. And yes, it says what I just told you. It says, listen carefully.
And this is written in like a legal document style fashion. This is not just an off the
cuff statement. This is written with a lot of thought behind it. Lawyers have thought
about this and put this together and they are expressing exactly what they want to express.
And I'm going to read it for you in toto. Human sexuality, number one, they have three
points and then they have four points of how this practically applies to the church. So
here are the three philosophical points. Number one, we believe that God has commanded that
no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage between a man and a woman.
Amen. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest,
fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God's gift of sex. Amen.
We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one's gender by surgery
or appearance. Amen. Number two, we believe that the only legitimate
marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. Amen.
Number three, in keeping with our beliefs regarding human sexuality as expressed in
this statement of faith, and in keeping with our purpose as expressed in section 1.02,
we have the following practical policies. Now here are the four practical policies in
regard to what we just read above. Point one, all people are welcome to attend
our regular worship services. So he's basically saying that pedophiles, bestiality
practices, homos, lesbians, they're all welcome in the service. So where are they going to
use the bathroom? With your grandson, with your granddaughter, and you're worried about
Target. So if you go to Lancaster Baptist Church, you better watch out for that public
restroom because they're inviting in the homos. They're inviting in the pedophiles. They're
inviting in those who practice even bestiality. Listen, number two, those who attend may not
display behavior that is indicative of the sinful behaviors listed in K-1 of this section
in church services at church functions and on church grounds. So he's saying the homos,
the pedophiles, the bestophiles, they're all allowed to come, but they just can't wear
a shirt that says like, "I'm a pedophile," you know, or they can't like talk about, "Hey,
we're pedophiles, hey," you know, they're not supposed to outwardly show that, talking
about it, wearing it, whatever.
Listen to number three, this is the one that just blew my mind.
Number three, church representatives are not to display overt disrespect for those who
are involved in the sinful behaviors listed in K-1 of this section.
So no representative of Lancaster Baptist Church may be disrespectful to a pedophile,
may be disrespectful to someone who says, "Hey, I practice bestiality."
"Whoa! That's gross! You're a freak! Whoa, you just violated this policy. You're an abomination!"
"No, you gotta be respectful." "Well, you know what? We're glad you're here. And the restroom's
right over there. As soon as my grandson's done, you can go in there and use it."
So hold on a second. Paul Chappell, he said, "When Christians do nothing about Target,"
he said right here, he said that sexual predators will exploit policies like Target's. He said,
"I don't want some dude walking in when my granddaughter is in the restroom." Well, what
about your grandkids at your church? And isn't that a policy of welcoming in all filthy sodomites?
And look, I just talked to a guy, and you think I'm just, you know, "Well, it's just
some statement of faith." No, they thought about that. They put that together. No, listen
to this. I just talked to a guy who goes to an independent fundamental Baptist church,
and a couple of homos start coming to the church every Sunday morning. Sunday school
and church, a couple of homos, okay? One of them was like the female of the relationship,
but they were both a couple of open sodomites. Everybody knew they were homos. It was crystal
clear they're homos. And this guy went to his pastor and said, "These people need to
be thrown out of the church. We can't have homos in our church." No, no, no. Everybody's
welcome. It's right here in black and white in our statement of faith. So week after week,
this guy is just so mad, like, "Why is our pastor letting these homos come to our church?"
Open sodomites. Hey, then one of these homo dudes walks into the ladies restroom and the
pastor said, "That's it. They're out of here." What is the difference? Are you nuts? What
is the difference if that pedophile, that freak is in the bathroom with your little
boy or a little girl? It's stupid. It's ridiculous. It makes no sense. It's garbage. And this
guy is who pastors are looking to today. And look, just to prove it to you, I just took
this whole statement of faith, this section, and I put it in quotation marks, I put it
into Google, and I found eight other churches that have copied and pasted this exact word
for word, let alone the ones who paraphrased it. So this guy, you say, "Well, why don't
you just leave Paul Chapel alone and just let him do his own thing?" Yeah, but he has
a leadership conference where he invites hundreds and hundreds of pastors and says, "Oh, come
follow me. Be like me." I don't want to be like you, and I'm sick of people lifting this
guy up as a role model. Hey, when Christians do nothing about Paul Chapel, I'd be much
more likely to go to Target than to go to Paul Chapel's church. At least Target didn't
say, "Come on in, beastophiles." I don't even know if that's a word, but I'm sure we'll
figure out real soon what the word is when it becomes accepted in America in a couple
of years because of these lily-livered, weak, panty-waist, pulpit preachers, these weaklings,
these pink tea and lemonade, sissified, girly men that can't get up and preach hard, and
you say, "I don't like this. I don't want to hear you preach against Paul Chapel. He's
our fellow brother in Christ. He's an independent fundamental Baptist. Well, you know what?
If he's going to call out Target, I'm going to call him out for the hypocrite that he
is. He's doing the same thing. His bathroom is every bit as hazardous as the Target bathroom.
Bit as hazardous. It might even be more hazardous because at least at Target, people have heard,
hey, watch out. Hey, beware. But people haven't heard that warning about Lancaster or about
West Coast Baptist College. Well, I'm giving you the warning right now. See, I don't like
it. Look, go somewhere else if you don't like it. Go somewhere else. I don't need a bunch
of homo sympathizers in this church to make me feel like I'm a successful pastor. Oh,
look at the big crowd. Oh, look at the big offering. Good. Take your money and shove
it. Take your little queer loving, queer bait butt out of here and you go down to the little
weak church down the street that loves Paul Chapel. And Paul Chapel is like this fundamental
pope where all these pastors in Arizona, they're all looking to Paul Chapel as their idol.
Paul Chapel needs a swift kick in the pants and he needs to quit inviting pedophiles and
bestiality practices and homos into his church. And let me just say it again, see I don't
change with the times. Let me just say what I said a year and a half ago. No homos will
ever be allowed in this church as long as I'm the pastor here. And you know what? Come
back in five years, it'll be the same thing. I don't care if every bathroom starts having
a picture, you know, of someone with pants and a dress on and you know, somebody who's
both male and female or whatever. Look, I don't care, I mean, I don't care if they put
a three-legged picture on the door of this is the bathroom for, you know, I don't know,
I don't care what happens. The Bible doesn't change and I'm not going to change. You know,
the Bible talked about Asa and Josephine and people like that, they broke down the houses
of the sodomites that were next to the house of God. And now we're supposed to bring them
into the house of God. But oh man, I mean just a clear violation of scripture with this
bathroom thing. Of course nobody can show us where that scripture is. I can show you
where Leviticus 20, 13 is. I got to finish reading because I promised I would read all
of it. And then point four, the pastor of the church will preach consistently against
all forms of sinful behavior as listed in K1 of this section as well as other sinful
behaviors. I want to know if he has consistently preached against bestiality. He said that
he would consistently preach against everything on the list. I would like somebody to send
me the sermon where he, and in fact, he would have to send me a regular because he said
I'll consistently preach against bestiality. Okay, well, I would like somebody to send
me the link to that sermon. Sermons where he, you know, because I want to see a pattern,
Paul Chappell. He's, I'm going to preach against the behavior, but don't you dare be disrespectful
to these filthy perverts. Don't be disrespectful to them as you stone them with stones. What
is this? Respect all views, include everybody. No, no, it's the devil's doctrine. So that's
the whole thing for you. And look, let me just review for you. He listed the worst possible
perversions. And then he said, none of the staff are allowed to be disrespectful to these
people and they're all welcome to come to church. Look at it for yourself. I'll put
it right here for you. Oh, that, but you know what? The people that are mad right now, they
won't even come up here and look at it. The people that are mad, they don't even have
the guts to come up here and look at it. They're just going to go run out of this building
with their tail between their legs. Don't let the door hit you on your way out. Let
me go back to the target, the letter that we're supposed to write to Target. I said
I would read everything, so let me just finish quickly. I'm aware that Target has suggested
that those who feel this way use the single stall restroom when available. I do not understand
why when there's already a single stall for those who, for whatever reason, are not comfortable
using the gender specific restroom, Target doesn't simply encourage them to use the single
stall restroom. You know, say that ten times fast. Because of their concerns, because of
these concerns, I will no longer be shopping at Target, you know, for a little while. I
skipped the, I added the "for a little while" because remember in his other thing he's like,
"Well, I'm not saying I'm not going to shop there." I'll no longer be shopping at Target
and I'm asking you to consider the millions of customers who are offended and uncomfortable
with Target's corporate stance on this issue respectfully. Why do you respect Target, Paul
Chappell? What do you mean respectfully? Why do you respect, you just finished telling
us how bad they are. But I respect them because I just respect everybody. I respect Charles
Manson, I respect the Pope, I respect pedophile, I respect Jeffrey Dahmer. I just respect everybody
because I'm Mr. Politically Correct. I just respect everybody. Hey, I don't even know
who you are, man, but I already respect you. Oh, you are a mass murderer, I respect you.
You're a pedophile, I respect you too. And if anybody on my staff disrespects you, they're
in violation of Section K 3.5. So let me finish reading his fiery blog post. Additionally,
I'm writing a letter to the managers of our nearby Target stores. If you'd like to write
a letter as well, feel free to download and edit this one. No thanks. Whatever you choose
to do, could I encourage you? Don't do nothing. I mean, just do something, but just don't
do nothing. Don't assume you can't make a difference. And don't care about convenience
more than speaking out. As Edmund Burke famously observed, "The only thing necessary for the
triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." So yes, be gracious, live a godly testimony,
pray for revival, but consider boycotting and writing letters instead. Can somebody
show me the boycotting in the Bible, the writing letters in the Bible? Let's just do something.
I mean, we know we don't want to do what the Bible says, like preaching Leviticus 20 13,
preaching Romans 1, that they're reprobates, that they've been given over to vile affections,
that they're haters of God, preaching about Sodom and Gomorrah and how God still feels
the same way and how they should be executed and how they're evil, how they're rapists,
how they're pedophiles. But, you know, we can write a letter.
All right, little boys and girls, welcome to Lancaster Baptist Kindergarten. We're going
to be handing out crayons and we're all going to write a letter to Target today because,
you know, we know that none of us are in our big boy pants to actually get up and preach
a hellfire and damnation sermon and actually lay it on the line. We don't have the guts
to say what Pastor Anderson said because if we said what Pastor Anderson said that no
homos are allowed, we'd be on the evening news. If we said what Pastor Anderson said,
we would actually get persecution. We actually wouldn't have the police chief and the mayor
come visit us every year, boys and girls. And we know that we want to bow down and worship
at the feet of the police chief and the mayor and the city council, and bring them into
our church, so we can do the big shots in town, the big church where all the important
people go. So let's pass out the crayons, and we're going to pass out a piece of paper,
and you're all going to write a letter to Target. Why don't we all write a letter to
Paul Chappell? Maybe I should put together a letter for Paul Chappell. Here, you can
download and edit mine about his bathroom policy. I want a sign on his bathroom door
that says no homos allowed in this bathroom. I mean, he's so scared of having a homo in
the bathroom. Look, I don't want a homo in the bathroom either. You know, these bathrooms
are all certified homo-free. But down at Target, his granddaughter is unsafe. Well, what about
your grandson? He don't matter. And that's why so many kids are getting molested in these
Baptist churches. They're getting molested in these Christian churches because they don't
preach them out the door like I do. And you say, "Yeah, but you're going to preach some
nice people out the door." Well, good. At least my kids aren't going to get molested
because the freaks and weirdos can't handle this kind of preaching. Get out of here. You
don't belong here. And you know who you are if I'm talking to you. Let's bow our heads
and have a word of prayer. Father, thank you so much for your word, Lord. And thank you
so much for the warnings in your word, Lord. Help our lives never to be characterized by
the slogan, "Too little, too late," or "A day late and a dollar short," Lord. Preachers
like Paul Chappell who are leaders that hunt, he represents hundreds of Baptist pastors
that are following him. I'm not just preaching against one man, Lord. I'm preaching against
hundreds of men who are following this man. Lord, they are a day late and a dollar short.
And I pray that you would help your people to wake up and put a stop to these things
before it's too late. Fight sin before it's too late. And Lord, if there's anybody who's
here that's not saved, I pray that they would get saved before it's too late. And in Jesus'
In Jesus' name we pray these things.
Amen.