RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson again made disparaging remarks about LGBTQ+ people, this time at a Winston-Salem church, according to a video of the sermon made on Sunday.
Robinson, a Republican who is widely expected to run for governor in 2024, said homosexuality serves no purpose; that heterosexual couples are “superior” to gay couples; and that he didn’t want to explain to his grandchildren why two men are kissing if they see that on television.
Robinson made the remarks Sunday, Nov. 14, at Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem. They’re the latest statements he has made about gay, lesbian and transgender people, leading some Democrats to call for his resignation.
In Winston-Salem, he compared being gay to “what the cows leave behind” as well as maggots and flies, who he said all serve a purpose in God’s creation.
“If homosexuality is of God, what purpose does it serve? What does it make? What does it create? It creates nothing,” Robinson said.
Robinson said he was once asked by a gay man: “So you think your wife and you, you think your heterosexual relationship is superior to my husband and my homosexual relationship?”
“Yes!” Robinson told the congregation.
Robinson made several remarks that indicated he knew that groups opposing him would make his comments public.
The video was distributed Friday by a pastor at St. John’s Metropolitan Community Church in Raleigh, the day before the Transgender Day of Remembrance. A protest rally was held Friday in front of Robinson’s office, but organizers also read the names of transgender people who have been killed.
Robinson said his role as lieutenant governor is different than when he is preaching in church.
“In America, you have the right to be a homosexual and, as an elected official, I have a duty to protect your constitutional rights, and I will,” he said. “But we in church right now, and we are talking about church stuff, we are talking about God stuff.”
Ron Baity, the church’s pastor, introduced Robinson, calling him “a breath of fresh air here in North Carolina” and introducing him as “the next governor of the state of North Carolina.” At the beginning of the service, Baity said it was not a political rally.
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