THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH

Cheating on his gay partner results in the beating of a North Carolina man and his death a week thereafter

Between graduating from high school in 1943 and enlisting in the army on my 17th birthday, I attended East Texas Baptist College. While there, I was harassed daily about converting to the Baptist denomination of Christianity, not only by my fellow students, but by my professors as well. Daily chapel attendance on school days was mandatory. Each day a different Baptist preacher gave a sermon. And – I’m not exaggerating this – about nine out of ten of the preachers entitled their sermons, “The Wages of Sin is Death.”

Since many Christian denominations consider homosexuality sinful, if the wages of sin is death, then many homosexuals are facing an early demise. And on top of that, cheating on your gay partner is equivalent to the sin of adultery. Apparently that did not bother Stephen Patrick White, 46, who croaked Saturday after cheating on his longtime partner Alex Teal. But Teal had nothing to do with White’s death.

On November 9, White had been at the Chemistry Nightclub, a gay bar in Greensboro, North Carolina. A bartender at the gay bar told police he saw White leave together with another man in a cab around closing time. According to the Associated Press, “About 4:30 a.m. that Sunday, an employee at Greensboro's Battleground Inn called 911 to report a man screaming. Around the same time, the fire alarm also was tripped. The hotel had to be evacuated. Firefighters found White unconscious and badly burned in a fourth-floor room.”

Police arrested Garry Joseph Gupton, 26, a Greensboro city employee, and charged him with aggravated assault with intent to kill. The district attorney’s office says that for some unknown reason, Gupton struck White with a telephone, television and another small piece of furniture, and then set the hotel room on fire.

White was taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. His burns were so severe that parts of both arms had to be amputated. He died from his injuries nearly a week after the beating.

Gupton has now been charged with first degree murder.

According to the AP, “Teal said White served in the Army during the late 1980s, then spent several years with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Federal Air Marshal Service. He worked as a security contractor in Iraq in 2005 when he suffered severe injuries in a blast.”

The wages of sin is death. White has paid for his sins by suffering a horrible death. Gupton, if convicted of first degree murder, could eventually pay for his sins with his life, should the DA seek the death penalty.

As an aside, the term ‘gay’ has always puzzled me. The lifestyle of homosexuals is anything but gay. There is a lot of violence within the homosexual community. I recall a number of homosexual murder victims in different parts of the country who were found with their dicks cut off and stuffed into their mouths. Jealous rage knows no bounds.