Greensburg Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Church Defends Itself

GREENSBURG, Ind. —
Editor’s Note: The video associated with this story contains language some may consider offensive.

As video shot in an Indiana church in which a young boy sings “Ain’t no homo gonna make it to heaven,” spreads like wildfire on the Internet, the fallout continues to build.

According to a TMZ report, members of the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Church said they have been flooded with death threats and have undertaken security measures.

TMZ also said that a church member told them that Pastor Jeff Sangl and his wife left for vacation without telling anyone where they were going.

In the video, adults in the crowd laughed and cheered after the boy sang, “The Bible is right, somebody’s wrong. Romans 1 and 27, ain’t no homo gonna make it to heaven.”

A man is later heard shouting, “That’s my boy.”

A video of the performance originally posted anonymously on YouTube was distributed among gay rights groups and websites, quickly going viral.

RTV6 went to Sangl’s home Wednesday. A woman who did not identify herself approached and said he would be out of town for the next couple of days. The parking lot of the church was empty and the doors were locked.

The story went global on Wednesday, running in the New York Daily News, Huffington Post and numerous other news outlets, eliciting strong reactions, mostly in opposition of the message and how a child who appears to be no older than 4 delivered it.

“No matter what beliefs you hold, teaching this child to sing a song … condemning someone for their sexual practices was incredibly rude and hurtful and inappropriate, verging on child abuse,” said “Trensota” in the comment section of TheIndyChannel.com.

Others defended the church, its parishioners and the child.

“I think the church has the right to do in their confines to express their views, just as gays have a right to do as

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