Jonathan Shelly.
My name is Jonathan Shelly.
I am the pastor of Steadfast Baptist Church,
and I'm here today because I have church members
that live in Arlington.
I live only a few miles away from here,
and I do business in Arlington on a weekly basis.
I'm horrified and ashamed that this city
has decided to promote and solicit pride in this city.
Pride is nothing to be celebrated.
In fact, it's an abomination.
The Bible says in Proverbs chapter 8,
the fear of the Lord is to hate pride,
hate evil, pride, and arrogance,
and the evil way and the froward mouth do I hate.
According to God, we should hate pride, not celebrate it.
We should humble ourselves as virtually,
the whole room said that we were a nation under God,
according to the American flag,
and we were a state under God, according to the Texas flag.
We should humble ourselves to what the Bible says
and not what the small minority here
that is a bully would say.
In June of 2020, Mayor Jeff Williams officially announced
the acceptance of pride month in June
for the city of Arlington,
but I don't understand why we'd celebrate
what used to be a crime not long ago.
In fact, according to the Texas Penal Code
and section 21.06, homosexual conduct,
a person commits an offense if he engages
in deviate sexual intercourse
with another individual of the same sex.
In fact, that is still on the books today,
even though Lawrence versus Texas overruled that in 2003.
But God has already ruled that murder, adultery,
witchcraft, rape, bestiality, and homosexuality
are crimes worthy of capital punishment.
Leviticus 2013, the Bible says,
if a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman,
both of them have committed an abomination.
They shall surely put to death,
their blood shall be upon them.
Romans one says that men with men are worthy of death.
Second Peter chapter two warns and says that
in turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes,
condemn them with an overthrow,
making them an example unto those that after
should live ungodly and deliver just lot vexed
with the filthy conversation of the wicked.
The Bible's right that what these people do is filthy.
According to CDC, homosexual men are 230 times
more likely to get HIV than straight men.
I don't know why we would promote
disease and AIDS in our community.
Additionally, according to this article
of self-reported crimes, the LGBT have an average
of 20 to 150 children victims,
and including they commit an average of
154 acts on their victims.
Now here's the thing, they say that they love so much,
but they hate children, they hate Baptist,
they hate Christianity, and they hate God.
We should eliminate Pride Month,
we should eliminate the LGBT department liaison,
we should eliminate the travel page dedicated to LGBT,
and everyone in this room should watch
the Sodomite deception, which would clearly illustrate
what the Bible says on this issue,
providing actual stats instead of bullying people.
Thank you sir.
Mr. Dobson, please, hold on one second, would you please?
Folks, I'm gonna ask everybody to be respectful.
Hello, thank you for your time today.
My name is Philip Milstead, I'm here today
in opposition against gay pride,
and advocating that the city of Arlington reject gay pride,
and not be an advocate for it.
So I'm a member of Steadfast Baptist Church,
I have been for seven and a half years,
but I also grew up Catholic.
And growing up Catholic, they also taught
that sodomy and homosexuality was a sin.
So it's not something just that the Baptists teach,
or that Steadfast Baptist teaches,
this has been a founding doctrine of the Christian faith
for a very long time, that sodomy is a sin,
it has always been rejected.
And so, our country has been founded on this faith
of the Bible, of the King James Bible
that they brought over here to this country.
And when they wanted to find rules to establish
and have moral guidelines, they picked the Bible.
They picked the King James Bible,
and in that very Bible, it states that sodomy is a sin,
as we've heard earlier today, in Leviticus 20, 13.
So the thing is, if our founding fathers founded our rules
and our morals and guidelines on the Bible,
how did we get here today, in this very room,
debating the very topic of gay pride?
It's the fact that men today have cowered themselves
to the wisdom of man, who've been pushed around
by wicked ideology and disgusting beliefs
that are not Christian.
They're anti-Jesus and anti-Bible.
So if the Bible is true, which it is, amen,
our founding fathers put their faith on that Bible
and establish our morals.
But the thing is, is that today, we don't have that.
We have men putting their faith in men.
The Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter two, verse five,
it says that our faith should not stand
in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
So if your wisdom is not in what the Bible says,
it's in man, and man can change.
Their thoughts can change.
Their beliefs can change.
Their hope and what they believe in can change.
Their ideology can change.
But we should never change.
Our wisdom and what we believe
should be founded in the Bible.
It's all powerful, it's all wise.
So we need to get back to putting our belief in the Bible,
get back, right, to going to church on Sundays
and having pastors that actually preach
every word of the Bible from the King James Bible,
not cowering to the masses of wicked and vile things,
to the baser sort of men in the city.
1 Kings 15, verse 11 through 12 says,
And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord,
as did David his father,
and took away the Sodomites out of the land
and removed all the idols that his father had made.
So Arlington, do you want to be right in the sight of God?
Because God never changes, ever.
And if you want to be right
and have the blessing of God upon you,
drive out the Sodomites from the land and reject gay pride.
Thank you, sir.
No, sir.
Have a seat, I'll let you hear later.
Good evening, mayor and council.
My name is Dylan Oz.
I'm a member of Steadfast Baptist Church.
And I want to be speaking about this issue of gay pride.
I stand against this.
And I would encourage the city of Arlington
to stand against celebrating pride.
And the reason why is because celebrating pride
is not loving, it's actually a fake love.
And I want to let the Bible speak for me.
Romans 12, nine says,
Let love be without dissimulation.
Dissimulation is being fake.
So Bible's saying don't have a fake love.
It says abhor that which is evil,
cleave to that which is good.
In order to truly love, you have to hate what's evil
and you have to love what is good.
You cannot just say you love everything
because if you love children, you have to hate pedophiles.
If you love flowers, you have to hate weeds.
And if you actually love your community,
you have to hate the predators in your community.
And you have to hate the people
that want to destroy your community.
And that's exactly what the LGBT community is,
is a bunch of predators.
And I'll just let the Bible describe them for me
because the word of God can do a better job
describing them than I can.
Romans 1, 20 says this.
For the invisible things of him from the creation
of the world are clearly seen being understood
by the things that are made,
even his eternal power and God heads
that they are without excuse.
Because that when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful,
but became vain in their imaginations
and their foolish heart was darkened,
professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God
into an image made like to corruptible man
and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
Wherefore, God also gave them up unto uncleanness
through the lusts of their own hearts,
to dishonor their own bodies between themselves,
who changed the truth of God into a lie
and worshiped and served the creature
more than the creator who is blessed forever, amen.
For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections.
For even their women did change the natural use
into that which is against nature.
And likewise also the men,
leaving the natural use of the woman,
burn in their lust one toward another,
men with men working that which is unseemly
and receiving in themselves that recompense
of their air which was meat.
And even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things which are not convenient,
being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity,
whisperers, backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, there's your gay pride in the Bible,
boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, without understanding,
covenant breakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God
that they which commit such things are worthy of death,
not only do the same, but have pleasure in them
that do them.
That's the word of God describing the LGBT community.
And we should not support people
that love death and hate God.
People need to watch The Sodomite Deception,
sodomitedeception.com.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I just want to point out to everybody in the room
that what I have with me in my hand
is the standard of morality by which we
determine right and wrong.
And without this, we would have nothing more
than a subjective standard that each individual can decide
for themselves, as evidenced by the different perspectives
you've heard this evening.
The Bible says in Leviticus chapter number 18,
in Leviticus chapter number 18, it says in verse number 22,
it tells us about the sodomite lifestyle, which
is really a death style.
It says, thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind.
It is abomination.
I don't have to go back to the Hebrew
to explain what that says.
It was clear English verbiage.
The text speaks for itself.
And the Bible clearly articulates
that this is an abomination.
I don't know who this group is, but if they said
that being a sodomite is disgusting,
I completely 100% agree with them.
When you look at the pride parades going up and down
the streets, all it takes is a simple YouTube search in order
for you to see some of the most vile and perverted and filthy
acts imaginable that are being done out
in public in front of children.
It is child abuse.
It's perverted.
It's defiling young minds in this country.
And I love children too much to sit on my hands
and say nothing about it.
They're predators.
And by the way, they virtue signal
about how loving they are.
Meanwhile, as you can tell by the response
that I'm getting right now, when they spoke, we were silent.
When we get up and we proclaim what the Bible says,
they're hissing and booing.
They hate God, as Romans 1 articulates so clearly
in verse number 30.
I'm part of a church called Steadfast Baptist Church that
has been subjected to a continuous stream of hatred
and threats, death threats sent to us via voicemail,
via email.
The people who virtue signal the most about how loving they are
are actually some of the most hateful people you'll ever
encounter in your life.
They claim that they're all about love and love wins,
but then they'll cuss at you as you walk
into church with your family.
They'll send death threats threatening
to murder men, women, and children to a church's
voicemail because of the fact that they actually
are some of the most hateful people you'll ever meet,
despite claiming the opposite.
I also want to point out that the Bible tells us
in Second Chronicles 19, too, shouldest thou
help thee ungodly and love them that hate the Lord?
Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.
And I fear for Arlington, I fear that if this city doesn't
repent of supporting pride parade,
that God's wrath will be on this city.
And I love this city too much to sit on my hands
and watch that happen without saying anything.
And so I would urge you to reject this pride celebration
and reject perversion for the sake of our children.
Amen.
Thank you.
Amen.
Thank you.
Amen.
Sir, you're not entitled to a point of order.
Please sit down.