Stacey Pritchard stands by Pastor saying gays should be put behind an electrified fence

May 27, 2012 11:00 GMT  ·  By
Anderson Cooper tries to talk reason into religious fanatic saying gays should be put behind electric fence to die
   Anderson Cooper tries to talk reason into religious fanatic saying gays should be put behind electric fence to die

Anderson Cooper has had a very tough and challenging week. After earlier on losing his temper and kick Sarah Burge the “Human Barbie” off his show, he schooled a member of North Carolina’s Providence Road Baptist Church, who was trying to defend Pastor Worley.

For those not familiar with that last name, you should know the Pastor grabbed international headlines just days before the Cooper interview took place, by saying in church he would put all gays and lesbians behind an electrified fence and let them “just die out.”

Below, embedded at the end of the article, are two videos: one of them is the interview Anderson Cooper conducted with a member of the Pastor’s church, while the other is a fragment of the sermon that caused such a controversy.

Far from trying to find excuses for Pastor Worley, Stacey Pritchard defends him, saying that she believes he is right in saying this would be the right way to rid America of sin.

At the same time, thanks to some unexplained reasoning, she tries to argue that the Pastor’s words had been taken out of context and twisted to mean something he never intended them to mean.

“Of course people are going to take it and make it their own way and make it what they want to, but I agree with what the sermon was and what it was about,” she says.

Asked in particular about the electric fence comment that the Pastor made, Pritchard suddenly forgets that she was trying to say his words had been twisted out of context.

“Maybe that's what he felt like should be done... just to make the short of it, yes I agree with him,” she says.

“People keep – once again – harping, harping, harping on the electric fence, this and that. It's about the homosexuals and it's wrong, that's what it's about,” Pritchard says, showing the first signs that she’s no longer happy with the way she’s handling Cooper’s swift questions.

“This is a pastor that speaks the word of God. Anybody can take it any way they want to, and if they don't like it, they don't have to. They can turn around and go on!” she adds, finally giving up.

As noted above, the Pastor’s comments have sparked an intense debate and a fresh wave of controversy.