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The Rev. Donald Spitz has a message for gay-friendly churches, and the murder-endorsing anti-abortion crusader is not mincing words.

In E-mails sent in recent days to an unknown number of churches listed on , he wrote: 鈥淭o accept sexual deviancy as normal is a sin. You put your soul in danger of eternal damnation for welcoming unrepentant homosexuals into God鈥檚 house. You blaspheme the Name of God. Homosexuality should be criminalized. Homosexuals commit crimes against God, against nature, against the Holy Bible and against the human race.

鈥淏ecause of your church, I now know why God wrote [in] Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.鈥�

There鈥檚 good reason to think that Spitz, who routinely describes gay people as child molesters, 鈥渟ex perverts鈥� and 鈥渟odomites,鈥� takes this verse literally. The Chesapeake, Va.-based minister is best known as the man behind the Army of God (AOG) website, which applauds the murderers of physicians, reproductive clinic workers, secretaries and escorts and lashes out against other perceived 鈥渆nemies鈥� such as the LGBT community.

Spitz is a to the so-called 鈥淒efensive Action Statement,鈥� which describes the murder of doctors who provide abortion as 鈥渏ustifiable,鈥� a 鈥済odly action.鈥� The AOG site celebrates as 鈥渉eroes of the faith鈥� the violent criminals who, saying they were called to their work directly by God, have carried out such actions. (There is no evidence to suggest that AOG is a formally structured group, rather than simply a concept, though many such criminals describe themselves as 鈥渕embers.鈥�)

There is no such official statement regarding LGBT people, but in a 2002 essay featured on Spitz鈥檚 AOG site, 鈥淐haplain-in-Chief鈥� Michael Bray 鈥� a co-signatory to the Defensive Action Statement who spent nearly four years in prison for his role in bombing women鈥檚 health clinics around Washington, D.C., in the 1980s 鈥� reports that three gay men had been beheaded in Saudi Arabia. 鈥淲hile the Christians among us westerners would decline to emulate our Muslim friends in many ways 鈥� we can appreciate the justice they advocate regarding sodomy.鈥�

In the same spirit, Spitz last year posted a photo of , a radical Christian theocrat and anti-abortion extremist who once proposed the use of nuclear weapons in a bid for Southern secession, standing outside of openly gay entertainer Elton John鈥檚 home with a sign that read, 鈥淓lton John Must Die.鈥�

While he didn鈥檛 go so far as to explicitly join in Horsley鈥檚 call for the musician鈥檚 death, Spitz reprised the Leviticus quote about putting gays to death and wrote that John 鈥� who had recently told Parade magazine that he envisioned Jesus as a 鈥渃ompassionate, super-intelligent gay man鈥� 鈥� 鈥渟hould be immediately be charged with a hate crime against Christianity and confined to the deepest dungeon to pay for his crime against God and man.鈥�