A Dallas-based LGBT resource center is calling on Dallas leaders to cut ties with a controversial North Texas pastor who compared gay-friendly business advocates to ISIS. First Baptist Church of Dallas’ Senior Pastor Robert Jeffress made the remarks on a radio program last week when he was discussing President Obama’s transgender directive to public schools.

“I’ve said often the greatest threat to freedom of religion in America is not ISIS, it’s the chamber of commerce,” the pastor said on the radio. “I mean, it’s the businesses that say to our representatives, ‘Oh, don’t pass laws like that. Don’t pass these religious freedom laws because people will interpret that as anti-gay and we’ll lose business.’” READ MORE


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