Charles L. Worley

Charles L. Worley is a Baptist pastor from North Carolina, who became notorious for a May 2012 sermon, in which he suggested that homosexuals should be penned in large areas surrounded by an electric fence.

Biography
Charles Worley is a pastor at Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina.

May 2012 sermon
In May 2012, Charles Worley delivered a sermon criticizing Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage. In the sermon, he stated that homosexuals were to be put in an area surrounded by an electric fence. Food would be airlifted to them, and eventually they would die out because they could not reproduce. A video of the sermon was posted on Youtube by the group Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate.

Reactions
The reactions to Worley's sermon were mostly negative, including strong protest from the LGBT community. Over 1,000 people gathered at the Justice Center in Newton, North Carolina to protest. Other videos of homophobic sermons by Worley surfaced online, some dating back to 1978. The group Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate also staged a protest outside Maiden, drawing over 400 protesters.

Some defended the sermon. Reverend Billy Ball from Faith Baptist Church in Primrose, Georgia defended Worley's right to free speech, but called Worley's absence at the protests "cowardly". Worley did not respond to any of the protests.