Hate pastor demands the government line up all the “homos” & shoot them in the back of the head

Brother Duncan Urbanek — a New Independent Fundamental Baptist (New IFB) preacher at the Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, Texas — has said that the government should criminalize homosexuality and shoot all homosexuals in the back of the head.

In a recent sermon, Urbanek cited the infamous Bible verse of Leviticus, chapter 20, verse 13: “If a man also lies with mankind as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed abomination, they shall surely be put to dead their blood shall be upon them.”

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“The Bible teaches that being a fa**ot is a crime,” Urbanek says. “It’s a crime against society. Police should arrest them, criminals should be put in jail, to be charged with a crime, and they should go to court. Evidence should be used against them, and they should be convicted and guilty of death. If you’re going to follow the Bible’s prescription, the city, town would be throwing rocks at them until they die.”

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“These homos are worthy of death, they should be charged in a lawful assembly, and the government should execute them. The government should line them up and shoot them in the back of their head.”

He also commented that pastors like him and his colleagues are often “taken out of context” for citing this Bible verse and are accused of personally wanting to kill gay people when, in fact, they’re just quoting the Bible and, “We want them all to die… We just want them dead.” There is no Bible verse about using guns to shoot gay people.

This sort of rhetoric isn’t new for Urbanek and the pastors of the New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) religious movement. Stedfast Baptist Church, one of the most vicious anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups in the nation, and its leaders have called for the execution of gay men and publicly celebrated tragedies that killed members of the LGBTQ+ community.

New IFB isn’t affiliated with any mainstream Baptist denomination, although both Baptist and New IFB teachings exhibit anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry, antisemitism, and misogyny. While Baptists merely condemn queer people to hell, New IFB goes a step further, calling for the execution of LGBTQ+ people.

The Old Testament, which contains Leviticus, contains 613 commandments known as Old Testament Law, ancient Biblical law, or Mosaic Law. These laws were created around 1393 to 1273 BC and were issued to regulate almost every aspect of Jewish life at a time when the Jewish people were still a group of ex-slaves struggling to survive in the desert.

Leviticus’ ancient Biblical laws also require the death penalty for anyone who practices fortune telling, curses their mother or father, accidentally kills someone else’s animal, or commits blasphemy. Other Old Testament laws demand death for anyone who charges interest on loans or works on Saturdays.

Of course, most contemporary Christians don’t follow these ancient Biblical laws. However, conservative Christians like New IFB pastors cite Leviticus 20:13 as proof that God shares their hatred of LGBTQ+ people.

In the past, Urbanek has said that men should toss their wives’ pants in a fire because it’s cross-dressing for women to wear pants and that, if the U.S. started executing gay people in public, then other countries would have a better opinion of the U.S. and see the country as a “wise nation.”

Last year, New IBF pastor Jonathan Shelley, also of Stedfast, said that six million Jewish people weren’t killed in the Holocaust, that he’d consider himself “lucky” if they were killed, and that he wants mass shooters to kill LGBTQ+ people in bars.