Maiden News

It was May 13 when Pastor Charles Worley of Maiden, N.C.'s Providence Road Baptist Church told congregants how to ''get rid of all the lesbians and queers.'' His simple plan featured fenced-in pens, lesbians in one, gay men in the other, where they would remain till they died.

The congregation in the church, which has been identified as the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Church in Greensburg, Ind., gives a standing ovation after the child sings, "I know the Bible's right, somebody's wrong...ain't no homos gonna make it to heaven." A number of high profile lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender bloggers and allies have ... (more)

The Times-News has learned that a woman and infant died after their vehicle hit a tractor-trailer head-on this morning on N.C. 150 near the Lincoln/Catawba County line.

Some clutched Bibles in their hands, warning of God's condemnation of homosexuality.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether a North Carolina pastor's sermon suggesting that gays and lesbians should be quarantined and allowed to die off that went viral in YouTube clips violated federal tax law.

On Sunday, between 1,500 and 2,000 people from Catawba Valley Citizens Against Hate and other groups in a protest outside Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina, where Pastor Charles Worley had recently suggested gays and lesbians be rounded up in camps behind electrified fences .

Robert William Yount, 35, of 5941 E. N.C. 150 in Maiden was charged May 23 with one count of possessing stolen goods.

More than 1,000 people on Sunday protested a small-town North Carolina Baptist minister's sermon calling for gays and lesbians to be locked up behind an electric fence.

On Sunday, May 27, 2012, hundreds of protestors demonstrated at the Justice Place in Newton to protest anti-gay comments that a Maiden pastor made last Sunday.

Hundreds descended onto the Justice Center in Catawba County to protest a Maiden Pastor who is receiving national attention.

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Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State , has written a letter to Lois G. Lerner, director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations Division, in which he requests that Ms.

This was a good week for Apple. The company announced that "all three of our data centers will be coal free, which is an industry first for anybody of our size." A The jewel in this cloud crown is Apple's data center in Maiden, North Carolina , where the company plans to generate 60 percent of the facility's power by itself, through a solar farm ... (more)

Catawba and Lincoln County deputies worked together this week to apprehend a Lincolnton man fled from officers on foot after crashing a stolen van into a power pole, according to officers.

CATAWBA COUNTY, N.C. Sunday 2,000 people are expected to protest a local pastor's anti-gay sermon that's received national attention.

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Observer News Enterprise photo by Nash Dunn This signs stands along the road in front of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, where a pastor advocated for confining gays and lesbians inside an electric fence.

Arnet Seals Jr., 35, of 224 East Independence in Charlotte was charged May 21 with one count of failure to comply.

A member of North Carolina's Providence Road Baptist Church defended Pastor Charles L. Worley to Anderson Cooper last night, saying she agreed with her reverend's notoriously anti-gay sermon which called for putting gays and lesbians behind electrified fences to eventually die off .

Deb Butler , a Wilmington Democrat challenging Republican state Sen. Thom Goolsby in the November election, will participate in a protest against a preacher who, in a recent sermon, advocated putting lesbians and gays in pens 50 or 100 miles long with electrified fences and flying over and dropping food in for them.