California Pastor John MacArthur said during a recent edition of his "Grace to You" show that parents of LGBT kids should cast them out of their lives and "turn them over to Satan." Americans Against the Tea Party reported that the pastor was responding to a question from a congregant about parenting a gay child.
"My adult child just 'came out,'" wrote MacArthur's viewer, "'in other words declared to be a homosexual. What do I do?'"
"You know, the answer depends," answered MacArthur. "If that adult child professes Christ, claims to be a Christian, then that becomes an issue for confrontation of the sternest and strongest kind because that falls under Matthew 18."
"If that person doesn't repent and turn, you take two or three witnesses, and confront again. If there's still no repentance, then tell the church. And if the church pursues it and there's still no repentance, then there's a public putting-out of the church, that person who professes to be a Christian. That's how you deal with that."
Non-believers, he said, don't matter. "They're just acting like a non-Christian."
However, "if they profess to be a Christian, you have to alienate them," he said. "You have to separate them. You can’t condone that, it’s inconsistent with the profession of Christ. So, you isolate them. You don’t have a meal with them. You separate yourself from them. You turn them over to Satan, as it were, as scripture says.”
Watch video of MacArthur's remarks, embedded below:
