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A Utah pastor has sparked outrage after calling for the execution of "rebellious" young Black men.
During a recent episode of "The King's Hall" podcast, Brian Sauvé, a pastor at the Refuge Church in Utah, argued that the U.S. government should adopt "just laws" from the Bible, including those that call for the death penalty for disobedient sons. Sauvé linked Old Testament passage, specifically Deuteronomy 21, to "Black culture," which he described as "evil, murderous, violent, and bestial."
“They are evil, murderous, violent, bestial people; they steal, they kill, they destroy, they look like Satan in how they act," Sauvé said. “Any criminal statistic that you could look at almost pretty much without exception, they excel at them, Black culture.”
Sauvé went on to reference the Old Testament’s prescription for stoning a rebellious son, equating the behavior of young Black men to the disobedient sons in the Bible.
“If you had a rebellious son, you have a child who’s coming up into their manhood and they’re rebellious, they don’t listen… the father is to bring them out into the town square, this is a rebellious son, and then they stone him to death. They kill him,” he said.
Podcast co-host Eric Conn, another preacher with similar far-right Christian nationalist views, declined to challenge Sauvé's comments.
A clip of the podcast shared on social media garnered widespread backlash.
"BEWARE OF FALSE PASTORS," one user wrote.
"This rebellious Black man is more Christian than those two (and their entire congregation) put together," another person wrote alongside a photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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