“God gave them over to a depraved mind so that they do what they should not be doing,” the gray-haired man says in a video clip recorded by a meeting attendee. “But let me remind you that those who do such things deserve death.”
The Conway School District’s contentious board meeting had already drawn public backlash over the anti-trans policies that were being considered. But a viral video capturing the speaker’s fire-and-brimstone sermon set social media ablaze.
“Just someone at a Conway school board meeting saying LGBTQ deserve death according to his version of Christianity,” an“SHAME on the Conway school board, and SHAME on the hateful, deluded spirit of transphobes in my home state,” tweeted graphic novelist and Arkansas nativeIn a separate video of the speech captured by another attendee, the unidentified man, who was wearing a light blue shirt and jeans, closes by saying, “God loves everyone.
“God made males and females, and we appreciate and recognize the differences between the two sexes. The overwhelming majority of people in this community support the Conway school district adhering to those facts in your policies, your rules, your regulations,” Rapert continued before going on a rant about “horror stories” of the “transgender political movement.”
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