controversial sermons has residents asking the city to kick him out of town.
Gina Silva talked to residents of El Monte, who have been protesting
against the pastor and his church. We're making El Monte a righteous city.
At first works Baptist Church in El Monte Pastor Bruce Mahia is preaching
against people in the L G B T Q community. So how does God view them as
rapists? How does God view them as child molesters? He tells the men in
his congregation not to let their wives work and much of adultery that
takes place in marriage is when a woman is working out in the world. That
happens all the time. Why? Because women are weak. I'm not downplaying
them. I'm not degrading them. It's fat. It's also a fact in his book that
Disney characters like Elsa from Frozen are sinners. She's not a princess.
She's a whore. How are residents in El Monte reacting to all of this? Stop
being homophobes. Stop being trans folks. They plan to continue holding
demonstrations like this one. He preaches so much hate against everyone.
The way that he's twisting things in the Bible, the way that he is trying to
put down women. It worries me that we have been living here our whole lives
and that there are people who agree with this rhetoric and we're potentially
like targets to like hate crimes. But Pastor Mahia doesn't care what they
think. I'm not afraid of these freaks. First work baptists are calling for
the exit government execution of the LGBT community. While conducting
interviews, a parishioner came outside of the church to speak with us. Why
agree 100% with this message? And it's not a message of hate. So you don't
think it's hateful to say that the government should execute them? That's
not hateful. That's what God says. That's what the Bible says. You believe
that that is okay. Yeah, that is okay because God said it. I am completely
disgusted that this city has allowed these people to be able to continue to
say their hate speech. We spoke with the El Monte chief of police and the
city manager who told us they are offering mediators to help facilitate a
conversation around table dialogue around this issues. But with anything
else, the parties have to be willing to sit down and participate in that
dialogue. But Mahia has refused to meet with any mediators. And while his
speech may be considered hateful, Police Chief David Reynoso says it's
not criminal. Well, criminal speeches when you're directly threatened a crime
against someone threatened or hurt someone to kill someone as opposed to
very general hate speech. I'm still not apologizing. We're getting you guys
out of here. Okay, you're still filthy. That was Gina Silva reporting. Now, of
course, we have reached out to the pastor for comment, but he has not
gotten back to us.
Some of my servants were preaching against sodomites, where I specifically
talk about what the Bible says about them. And that basically has offended
them. That group that's currently in this city right now, the ones who are
gonna be protesting. And so they're trying to run us out of the city. The
trying to sign a petition to get us out of here. The reality is that I should
not be moving.
And even even if they weren't successfully get me out, theoretically
speaking, I'm still gonna preach against them. I'm still gonna
I'm not back.
Of course, we have reached out to the pastor for comment, but he has not
gotten back to us.