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A California pastor responded to the June 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people and injured over 50 more by praising the gunman and stating that the victims deserve what they got. In a sermon delivered the morning after the massacre by Pastor Roger Jimenez of the Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento (and posted to YouTube) Jimenez preached that his congregants should not be grieving for the victims of the shooting at a gay nightclub, equating homosexuals with pedophiles and asserting it was a tragedy that more of them didn’t die: Jimenez later doubled down on his remarks, asserting again that Orlando had been made safer through the deaths of dozens of innocent nightclub patrons: As the Sacramento Bee noted, however, the Baptist church with which Jimenez is associated is an independent one (not Southern Baptist) unaffiliated with any mainstream order of the Baptist faith: Additionally, no scientific research supports a commonly claimed linkage between homosexuality and child molestation:
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