This is not the kind of publicity gays need. It’s almost like those at the head of the leftist gay rights movement are more interested in keeping homosexuals marginalized by ensuring the rest of society sees them as perverts. Or supportive of perverts.

A church in Louisville, Ky., plans to ordain a registered sex offender this coming Sunday though they won’t allow him to have unsupervised contact with children.

About ten years ago, Mark Hourigan was charged with sodomizing, sexually abusing and intimidating an 11-year-old boy and ended up serving time in prison.

Since then, Hourigan has been released from prison, completed his probation time, and joined the City of Refuge Worship Center, where he now leads praise and worship.

Though some congregants have expressed concerns regarding Hourgian’s ordination, Pastor Randy Meadows told a local ABC affiliate that the Lord touched Hourigan’s heart.

Furthermore, Hourigan will be signing agreement not to minister to children.

Despite the reassurances, the Pentecostal church’s plan to ordain a sex offender has resulted in the departure of some of the church congregants who are concerned that he will re-offend.

Notably, City of Refuge boasts itself as being “a GLBT affirming church” that accepts and welcomes “everyone regardless of race, religion, culture, sexual orientation, and/or social-economic status” and “are here to love and support all of our brothers and sisters in the Lord.”

You support rapists by having them make amends for their crime. You then help them with the self-imposed exile from the community any truly contrite sex offender (as if there were such a thing) would go through knowing that he or she doesn’t deserve to enjoy the fellowship and company of society. Instead City of Refuge makes this guy sign a promissory note that he won’t molest children, then gives him both authority over the church and status in the wider community. These are the actions of a church that is supposedly helping gays gain acceptance.

This is blatant leftist sabotage of the homosexual community by what is frankly a “synagogue of Satan” as Hellfire and Brimstone Christian, and Aleister Crowley drinking buddy, Montague Summers would call it before demanding it be burned to the ground and its members examined by the Inquisition.

He raped a little boy then threatened the child. I don’t care how hard he prayed the man needs to be shunned not sanctified, cast out not brought in.

The cult members of this anything goes church feel differently:

Inside the Goss Avenue building, member Mark Hourigan grabbed local and national attention for the role he is taking on. It comes two years after he joined City of refuge.

“We admire him for even wanting to try, even if he gets to do anything once he is ordained,” said Louis Brown, a Germantown resident and supporter of the church’s decision. “Sex offenders should have a chance and I believe they’re trying to give this fellow a chance.”

He already had a chance … to not rape an 11-year-old boy. He used up his chance when he used that boy to gratify his sadism. That these Jesus freaks don’t see that is one in a long list of reasons tie-dyed wearing god-botherers irk me. But the worse part of this situation is that it’s drawing other degenerates out of the woodwork for some sort of impromptu perverts’ pride rally:

“I grew up in this neighborhood and so did she,” said Louis Brown of his wife Carol. “These people that they’re protesting don’t speak for everyone.”

The Browns are not members of the City of Refuge Worship Center, but attempted to attend Sunday’s service. While saying they do not condone Hourigan’s actions, the Browns do believe even sex offenders should get a second chance.

“We’re supporting because we have a sex offender son,” said Carol Brown. “Regrettably they would not let us in because I’m sure they are very worried about the situation, see there’s protestors.”

Right. Remember when there was this thing called shame that made people who raised their children so poorly that the they ended up getting pinched for rape or molestation keep their yaps shut? Those were good times.

Anyway, any gays out there can make some deep inroads into the right by strongly denouncing the asinine elevation of a child rapist by a church that has parasitically latched onto gay rights. G.L.A.A.D., I’m looking at you.

h/t Pat Brown