This address is 6900 Stanton Highway.
The Bible says in Romans 13, three,
for rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
And I believe that all the authority
has been given to this council and our law
enforcement and our government by God.
And I do not wish for anyone to be killed
or to be murdered.
Anything that someone says about that
is lying about me or slandering me.
In the state of Texas, there is the death penalty
for certain crimes.
I believe that.
That is not an incitement to violence.
I do believe from the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s,
if you study history, that homosexuality
was a capital punishment in this country.
I still believe that should be true today.
And that is what the Bible says in Leviticus 20, 13.
If I believe the Bible, that is not
a threat to this community or to the council members
or to any person in this room that
is willing to follow the laws of the land
and the law of God.
There are some laws right now that are being violated.
Section 26.1.3 of Watauga's city ordinances
does not permit anyone to be yelling, shouting, hooting,
or disturbing the peace.
And that's been happening right at our church.
People are screaming death threats,
all kinds of evil things to our children
as they're trying to walk in.
They are criminally trespassing.
They've knocked down our signs.
They're putting pentagrams.
They're drawing them all over their parking lot.
Our church windows have been vandalized and damaged
and destroyed.
And they're claiming that we are
the ones causing problems in this city
or causing problems in the area.
I would ask the city council to refrain
from entering into heckler's veto, where the government
shuts down people's freedom of speech due to a bully
or to a mob.
And if you successfully do this, you
will empower a mob, if you engage
in this kind of activity, to heckle
any business in this area.
As you're in the voicemail, they don't just hate me,
they hate Christians.
Their signs say, God is a freak.
They say that Jesus had two dads.
They say that God is non-binary.
This is not about steadfast.
It's about God.
All right, thank you.
Amen.
Phillip Milstead Hello, City Council.
My name is Phillip Milstead.
I'm here defending Steadfast Baptist Church's presence in the city of Watauga for the purpose
of religious worship at 6900 Denton Highway in Watauga.
And I just want to start out by reading Deuteronomy chapter 23, verse 17 and 18, just to make
it very clear about what we believe and about what we support.
It says in verse 17, there shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite,
nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, whore is not a bad word, amen, it's in the Bible,
hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God, for
any vow for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Notice how whore was used in verse 17 and verse 18, but in verse 18 the Bible switches
sodomite for dog.
Now that's probably offensive to every sodomite in America.
But you know what?
It's in the Bible and we can preach that.
And God says that every sodomite in this room and in this country is a dog and it's
never been changed.
And we have the authority and we have the right to preach the Bible without any
apologizing whatsoever, without being shut down by the government or a mob of disgusting
freaks who spew vile things at children and women at church.
We should not be intimidated to attend church and worship the Bible and worship God and
his son Jesus Christ.
The city of Watauga and its police officers are allowing this community, this sodomite
community, to intimidate church members from worshiping God the way he should be
worshiped in truth.
And if you don't do something, something will happen bad.
I don't want something to happen.
I don't want anybody to get hurt.
But these people are violent, you've heard the voicemails, they want to hurt children
and they want to hurt people.
How do I know or how does some unreasonable, how do we not know that the person who left
that voicemail is not in that crowd?
How do I know that?
That's a reasonable thing to come to, that that person could be in that crowd right
now to threaten our church and our children.
We believe Leviticus 2013, they deserve death.
Thank you.