André Valadão encourages worshipers to kill LGBTQIA+ people

Controversy

Position divided opinions on social networks

During a broadcast made by Lagoinha Church, in Orlando, United States, Pastor André Valadão urged the faithful to kill people from the LGBTQIA+ community. The speech reverberated on social networks and generated controversy.

In an excerpt, Valadão says: “Now is the time to take the ropes back and say: Stop it, reseta! But God says he can’t anymore. He says, ‘I already put that rainbow in there. If I could, I would kill everything and start over. But I promised I couldn’t’, now it’s with you.”

Some have the courage to come to my networks and complain that I’m talking too much about this subject. But how can I remain silent if the other side continues to cowardly attack the LGBTQIAPN+ population? pic.twitter.com/SeO6iq4Msq

— Hermes Fernandes (@HermesFernandes) July 2, 2023

On social networks, Internet users condemned the pastor’s position.Sometimes I think he’s pushing the bar to be arrested, or prosecuted, and say: ‘See, they want to end Christianity, we are being persecuted, see,” said one follower.

“The rise of Bolsonarism catalyzed religious dogma in public debate. This is André Valadão, a religious fundamentalist, who feels free to openly incite followers to kill lgbts. It is not an “isolated case”. We have a kind of militia theocracy being formed”, commented journalist César Calejon.

*With information from Metrópoles

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