My name is Jonathan Shelly. I'm a 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
do I 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. 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, in section 21.6,
homosexual conduct, a person commits an offense to be engaged 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 a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman both of them
committed an abomination they shall surely put to death their blood shall be
upon them. Romans 1 says that men with men are worthy of death. Second Peter
chapter 2 warns and says that in turning the cities of Sodom and Moriah into ashes
condemn them with an overthrow making them an example of those that after
should live ungodly and deliver just lot vexed with the filthy conversation of
the wicked. The Bible's right to what these people do is filthy. According to the 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 committed 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 Baptists, they hate Christianity, and they hate God. Amen. 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 status instead of bullying people. Amen.