offering. it's a shameful invasion of privacy. and if they want to be world class, it should give it to the reagan family or the foundation which has called this a craven act. but bidding of the blood which is hovering around $12,000 ends on thursday. let me just say this. you would literally have the blood of great american on your hands. so maybe think again. that's all for us tonight. "ac 360" starts now. piers, thanks. good evening, 10:00 here on the east coast. keeping them honest, with a pastor preaching about the plan to eliminate all gays and lesbians. he is laying out a detailed plan to watch them die. the pastor's name is charles worley. that is rim right there. now, according to the website a 1,200 seat church about a half hour's drive outside of charlotte, north carolina.

the sign out front says the home of old-time religion. he could be facing legal troubles for mixing politics into his preaching and allowing his church to have tax except status. we'll get reaction from the community including from some church members. the sermon in question though occurred on mother's day. he lashed out at president obama's support of same-sex marriage and talked about his plan about eliminating gays and lesbians. >> the president getting up to talk about two men or two women to marry, i was disappointed bad but i'll tell you as sorry as you can get, the god and the bible is against it and if you have any sense, you're against it. i had to -- i figured a way out. a way to get rid of the lesbians and queers. but i couldn't get it past the congress.

build a great big large fence, 150 or 100 mile long. put all of the lesbians in there. fly over and drop some food. do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals. and have that fence electrified till they can't get out, feed them and you know what? in a few years they'll die out. do you know why they can't reproduce? >> mr. worley seems to believe gay people are simply the offspring of other gay people. i'm not going to address the lack of logic of that. but this was part of the 90-minute long sermon posted on the church's own website. not like the church was ashamed of it. not until the story went national last night and then the church took it down. today, the entire site was down. a local advocacy site managed to

download it in two-minute chunks and piece back it together. in case you think it's not what he meant this is not first time that pastor worley has said something like this. here's part of a sermon he gave back in 1978. >> we're living in a date when you know what it saddens my heart to think, that homosexuals can go around and getting the applause of a lot of people. and bless god in a white oak tree. wouldn't they? amen. >> that was in 1978. these are obviously his long-held beliefs. his mother's day sermon came in response to the public events. here is where the pastor may have put himself in legal trouble. >> i'll tell you right now, if somebody said who you going to vote for, i ain't going to vote for a baby killer and a

homosexual lover. you said did you mean to say that? you better believe i did. >> amen! >> god have mercy. it makes me puking sick to think about -- i don't even know whether i ought to say this in the pulpit or not. can you imagine kissing some man? >> now, the tape cuts off. he goes on to say, quote, my god, i love you fellas, but not that much. he also said quote, i'm against the sin, but i'm not against them. i want them to get saved but i will not accept that way of life here nor here after. the federal government won't be can concerned with those comments, but only the politics that pastor worley appears to be preaching. churches can lose their tax exempt status for that. according to a local station wbtv he says in the sermon they say that you're going to get in trouble with the government.

well, i just want yinz to know i like that bubblegum stuff and i like the sunflower seeds. if you have to go to jail, you'll be the first one locked up and i said, thank god, hallelujah, that's good preaching. first, gary tuchman outside the baptist church in north carolina where there are late developments. gary, what's the latest there? >> reporter: well, anderson right now as we speak, a special meeting is taking place at the providence baptist church. a prayer meeting, scores of people inside. all supporters of pastor worley hoping for the best for their church and for their pastor. is pastor worley inside? we don't know that for sure. he's kept a low profile all day. staying away from us. we don't know for sure because church security and sheriff's deputies are telling us we cannot step foot on the church property. we went to pastor worley's house to try to talk to him.

many members of the family were outside. we parked our car. they scattered inside the house so quickly that we found a lighted cigarette still on the window sill. sheriff deputy's came there too and we said we have to stay off their property too. this is a small town in maiden, north carolina, but a lot of people are not affiliated with the church and are embarrassed an aghast by the situation. among those who are members of the church, there's strong support for him. >> he would give you the shirt off his back. he would do anything he could for you. >> i mean, he said in church that he wants to put gay people behind electric fences and have them all die out. what do you think about that? >> well, that's not really what he said. he said, yes, he says, some of that, but he was going to feed them everything else. >> but you're saying that's okay if you feed them? >> well, i'm not saying it's okay one way or the other. what i'm saying that is his opinion. >> probably the most compassionate man i have ever known.

i don't know, he's just got a big heart for people. he takes a firm stance on the bible and what it says about different things. whether i like it or not, or whether anybody else likes it. he stands for the bible. >> being gay and lesbian or whatever, homosexual is wrong according to the bible. it's wrong. >> even if you believe that though his words should be put in an electrified fence, don't you think it's a little dramatic and a little rude? >> no, because his point and reasoning was to see if they reproduce. well, like it is. >> you know, there's a lot of heterosexual couples who don't reproduce either. >> adam and eve. not adam and steve. >> why put adam and steve in an electrified jail?

that's not what god wants is for men to be mean to the fellow man. >> he's not saying it to be mean. >> if it's not mean, what is it though? >> we love the people, hate the sin. point blank. you need to lay off my pastor. >> reporter: now, as you pointed out, anderson, pastor worley puts it on the website so he knows it's out there. we expected him to talk to the members of the news media. he hasn't. i can think of two possible reasons for that -- one, he doesn't have the guts or two, he doesn't care what we think. >> or a combination thereof. it's interesting to me to have seen what the reaction would have been if pastor worley would have been advocating putting african-americans in electrified cages or jewish people or christians. you know, or any group, how people would have responded in that community, that church if the response had been any different. did you get a sense of how much support he has?

>> well, i can tell you -- and this is really important. this is the middle of the bible belt. but not everyone agrees with this guy. certainly the people we have talked to today who go to this church all agree with him. but many people in this town just can't believe what he said and what they tell us is that this is an intolerant man who runs an intolerant church. >> gary, appreciate it. again, we offered an invitation to the pastor to come on the program any time. i want to bring the reverend barry lynn, the founder and executive director for the americans united for separation of church and state. most people don't know the intricacies of the federal tax code, but you say what this pastor in north carolina has done is a clear violation of it. how so? >> yeah, i mean, look, unless you're asleep during the sermon which has been known to happen, but this went on for 90 minutes, you know unequivocally that you're not supposed to be voting for barack obama. this means it's a clear violation of the tax code that

says, again, without equivocation, you cannot endorse or oppose a candidate for public office and retain your tax exemption. whether you're a church, or any other kind of charity. these aren't even close, anderson, to the line. we reported another pastor from eastern kentucky just yesterday filed a complaint. a man who went on a tear about why he opposed president obama's support for marriage equality and then he said, you know, i'm going to go on record. i don't care who knows we have to get him out. he wasn't talking about taking him out to lunch. he was talking about getting him out of office. this is not why people go to church. in fact, the new poll just a few days ago suggests that about two-thirds of americans do not want their pastor, their priest, their rabbi to tell them who to vote for. that's not why they're in a sacred space on a saturday or sunday. >> do you plan to file a complaint against this pastor now? >> we are going to file a

complaint against this pastor. we don't think it's close to the line. it's like the pastor in kentucky or just a few weeks ago when the peoria, illinois, catholic bishop compared president obama to both hitler and stalin in the same sermon. there's nobody would mistake than for an endorsement of barack obama. this is so far over the line, nothing nuanced about it. there's no guarantee that you can say anything you want and keep your tax exemption up. a lot of people think doesn't the constitution guarantee tax exemption for churches, it does not. no supreme court case has ever said that either. when you get the valuable privilege of a tax exemption which means somebody is paying the taxes you're not paying the one and only thing you can't do is turn your religious institution into what amounts to be a political action committee supporting or opposing a candidate. that's what all the fellows have said. >> so you're saying you're going

to file on this. if the irs checks into the pastor based on his comments, there are those who are going to say, look, this is the obama administration waging a war against religion, and how do you respond to that? does your group only focus on pastors who are against democratic presidents? >> no. hardly. i mean, we are kind of an absolutely fair minded, pro anti-democrats or republicans. we are concerned about the principle here. people go to church for a lot of reasons including spiritual solace. they go to learn about the bible. they go to learn about the life of jesus, how it applies to their life. they do not go to church to be told who to vote for because they missed the political action committee meeting on saturday night. this has been going on and there are groups that are organizing to get churches deliberately this full in the campaign to go and have preachers preach

against candidates. of course, in this case, it's a group called the alliance defense fund. they only end up having churches preach against democrats. but we think it is just as wrong for michelle obama about a week or so before the last election in 2008 to go to the north carolina baptist council of churches meeting, their convention there, and give a pep rally speech for her husband. what is not what churches are about. that's not what charities are about. that's not why they get tax exemptions. they get them, it's incredibly valuable to them and they ought to play by the one simple rule. just don't endorse or oppose candidates for public office. these pastors, anderson, knew exactly what they were getting into. in both the kentucky case and the case that you're just talking about and showed the video of, the pastors made comments to suggest well, somebody told them this would be wrong or the government will come after them. they do it in defiance of not only the laws, but as is i think

is apparent to me in my pastoral role in defiance of everything that christianity could and should mean. >> but they can say whatever they want. it's a question of whether or not they can get a tax exempt status. >> sure. very few give up their tax exempt status and they can talk about whatever they want. if you want to give a sermon from the end of time, it doesn't violate the tax code, but what violates the tax code is getting partisan. starting you should vote for the republican or the democrat or vote for somebody else. >> he said he's preaching the word of god which implies the word of god is telling you how to vote. >> see, you may remember earlier in the campaign cycle there were four -- count them four candidates in one political party all of whom said god had told them and rick santorum's case, god had told his wife that he would be the next president

of the united states. you have to be careful if you think you're hearing from god, you better be awfully sure that's god speaking. you do tremendous damage, you do the kind of damage done in communities all over the country. with this kind of hateful rhetoric coming out of an institution that's supposed to care about people and supposed to be involved in the love of all, not the hatred of some. >> thank you. we appreciate it. follow me on twitter. real politics ahead, mitt romney and maibain capital. ari fleischer and james carville will square off next. [ woman on radio, indistinct ] ♪ bum-bum ♪ bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum ♪ - ♪ ai, ai, ai - ♪ bum-bum - ♪ bum-bum, bum-bum - ♪ [ ice rattles rhythmically ] ♪ bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum ♪ ♪ [ imitates guitar noise ]

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romney's former people attacking him. >> and they swoop in and pick the carcass clean. >> looted companies leave people on unemployment. >> governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. >> it's the ultimate insult for mitt romney to come to south carolina and tell you he feels your pain. because he caused it. >> well, for the record, a top romney adviser calls it performance are gibberish and abc is reporting that jonathan levine is a long-time bain executive. president obama's hired a number of people who have worked in private equity and solicits campaign contributions from the employees as he was doing last week here in new york. last night, i asked ben labolt about that contradiction. why is it okay for the president's private equity supporters to bankrupt companies and put people out of work, but not okay for mitt romney's

equity firm to do that? >> the president had support from business leaders across industries who agree with his vision of building an economy that's built to last. where hard work and responsibility are rewarded. where everybody from main street to wall street plays by two sets of rules. >> you said that's no a private equity is about, and yet, the president is getting money from private equity firms. isn't that hypocritical? >> who believe the right thing to to do is to ensure that middle class families across the family are not held hostage by risky financial deals. governor romney would repeal the protections. >> you're not answering the questions. i'm trying to figure out what is different between bain and governor romney's experience and private equity and the experience of private equity firms that the president is taking money from? >> that went on for quite a while. we never got an answer.

hopefully we'll get answers from james carville and ari fleischer. the president said this is not a distraction, but a centerpiece of the campaign. and how governor romney would govern as president. is that smart for him to double down on this, james? >> well, yeah. understand, what happened here is romney made his experience at bain central to his candidacy. he said he created a net 100,000 jobs. so of course it's not a tackle private get but tackle what romney said he did. wait a minute, these are other things that happened there. i don't understand the whining about this. romney is a man who has resources. go people find whose job you saved and put them on television. this is unbelievable. in any opinion, it's a very legitimate thing to talk about. not an attack on a free enterprise system or anything. it's one guy saying i just want to credit all the good things

that happen. if you say anything bad things happen then you're a terrible person. just answer the ads and go on about your business. >> ari, what about that? isn't romney's record fair game? >> i hope they continue to go after bain and i hope they do it through november because i have a feeling it will continue to backfire. i think that's one of the reasons so many democrats are uneasy with the attacks. and certainly when you look what mitt romney said, he actually has said very balanced statement. he said some of the investments made were successful and made money and created jobs. others didn't. >> he said 100,000 jobs -- >> romney has made that balanced statement about it. and what's really wrong about the ads while it's certainly fair game to talk about what people did in their living, he have gone from bain. he was gone from both the companies that they have attacked him for years before the companies went bankrupt. so even if you think bankruptcy in itself is disqualifying in the private sector, mitt romney was no longer part of the company. >> but ari, he said he helped to

create 100,000 jobs and that math is kind of fuzzy. he does walk away from things at bain that happened when he wasn't there. can he have it both ways? >> you won't find a politician who use a number for some jobs that i claim they created. but bottom line is when you look at the role of private sector, it creates some job, they lose some jobs. you look at the net positive. certainly with a successful company with bain the net has been very positive. they have an excellent reputation which is something that has been talked about by the democrats. one of the reasons that people believe in mitt romney because they think he can turn around a broken economy. that's what we need in this country. >> james, isn't the obama administration in their ads isn't the campaign cherry picking what companies they're focusing oeb an bain? >> mitt romney started this. understand, bain was central to his case. it is what he's talked about. it was the central part of his stump speech and he says he creates a net 100,000 jobs.

okay. they're talking about his experience. what he did and what he didn't do. and the whining and the carping and the complaining and everything else. you know, it's saying if you're afraid of snakes don't go in the swamp. if you're afraid that your record is going to get examined don't run for president. that's the simple thing here. he put it front and center about who he is. and they said wait, this is what you did. romney is a man with considerable resources. he can answer it. he can put people on. but the idea that there's something wrong would discuss -- in discussing mitt romney's record at bain i don't understand what the charge is. >> james, does it surprise that the obama campaign hasn't focused more on his record at creating jobs as governor of massachusetts, because his whole argument what i learned at bain teaches me how to create jobs. >> you wouldn't know that romney was ever governor of massachusetts if you watch the stump speech.

he'd rather forget that. of course at some point they're going to do that. but this thing is sort of engaged and romney wanted to create this story of hey, i'm a guy, i'm all successful all the time. i did all the wonderful things and they're saying wait a minute, there's another side to the story and it's a totally legitimate thing in politics. >> is romney vulnerable on his record in massachusetts in creating jobs? >> no i don't think so. when you look at the record in totality and the reputation he has as a fixer of economies that a what it will come down to. and it wasn't romney who was objecting to the ad, but one of your own, cory booker on "meet the press" and then followed up by rendell of the democratic committee. the whining and complaining is in your own party. >> come on, ari. don't pull that. >> you never heard mitt romney say this. i think this is a debate helps mitt romney. thor mo it's fought over -- the more it's fought over the

economic matters, i mean, president obama wants to blame everything on everybody who came before him. he acts like his economies aren't the cause of the bad economy we have right now. the more the election is fought on those issues the stronger it will be for mitt romney and the republicans. >> james -- >> how does a guy from the bush administration sit here and blame obama? i mean, it's obama who takes office and losing 750,000 jobs and then mitt romney wants to talk about carter. but if you say something about bush you can't do that. if you say somebody about bain -- you know, ari i didn't interrupt you. >> go ahead. >> people are complaining and whining about the bain thing forever. you get in the game, they'll come after you. you don't get to tell just your side of the story. they'll tell the side of obama, they'll say you lost jobs or did this. i'm saying his record at bain, he put it front and center.

it is a very valid issue to dissect. very valid for romney to say he did all the wonderful things. governor of massachusetts it was 47th in job creation. let him run an ad that said he was better than three states. hey, we had hurricane katrina and it's not unfair me to point out they were 47th. >> ari? >> i'm not complaining about it. i think that's why the democrats have said because of the role that the economy plays. you get the sense that the president has a distrust of the private economy, the private sector. he attacks people for riding on corporate jets but never says anything about the actors or the athletes who ride on corporate planes. he has an anti-business approach, and that's reflected in the way he governs. businesses are very worried with

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tonight a "360" follow-up. a controversial center for teens and others with severe emotional behavioral and developmental issues including severe autism. the school is the judge rotenberg center in massachusetts. the student's behavior is controlled with painful electrical shocks. the school calls it adversive therapy for kids who are a danger to themselves and who haven't been helped by anything else. but in a video that the school fought hard to keep secret has renewed calls to close the school. i must warn you, the video you're about to see is disturbing. [ screaming ]

>> that's a young man named andre who was shocked 31 times over seven hours. ultimately strapped down, continued to be shocked. andre has autism. and the video is evidence if a lawsuit his family recently settled. last week, the school said what happened to andre isn't the norm, but they're not backing off claims that skin shocks help save students and even save lives. but some of the claims don't hold up to the facts. on the website the school says the device they use is fda approved but it isn't. the fda said they declared the device in 1994 but the judge rotenberg center saying it was the same as what was already on the market. but in 2010, fda inspectors discovered that the school was using a souped up version that delivered much more powerful shocks. inspectors were concerned about the risk of burns. as a result, the agency says it

told the school back in 2010 the device was no longer quote/unquote cleared under the earlier ruling. it's not clear what happened since then. the fda declined to comment when asked. they did say that the school should not be referring to the skin shock device as fda approved. they also said, quote, behavior modification techniques involving the use of aversive interventions are hefley regulated in massachusetts and and what they don't mention is that skin shocks have been banned in massachusetts since last september. the massachusetts health and human services department told us, quote, the administration followed regulations to ban the use of the therapies for any student not receiving aversive therapies by the probate court. no new behavior plans have been put into place since september. in other words, any student who enrolled at the rotenberg center

cannot be shocked under the new state guidelines. students who were enrolled before then can still be shocked. we have a research director from the center and a neuroscientist at yale university. kevin, did i mangle your last name? >> a little bit. but that's fine. >> what is it? >> pelfrey. >> okay. what happens in a body when it is shocked like andre. >> sure. from the point of the view of the person being shocked it's painful and that sets off a cascade of biological events. essentially, an activation of what we call the stress response. so the type of response you feel if you narrowly escape a car accident, a fight or a flight response. so that unleashes a set of

stress hormones that we know are very bad for the body. it causes all types of illnesses over time. so chronic exposure to the stress hormone is well known to cause harm to individuals, types of things that we try to avoid in our daily lives. >> nathan, you're a board certified anal yst for this center. you have 20 people who you oversee. why is it okay to shock autistic students, others with severe developmental disabilities when prisoners aren't shocked, murderers aren't shocked to control their behavior? >> well, you have to remember that this is not retribution. we are not trying to get back at people for engaging in problem behaviors. what we're trying to is reduce their problem behaviors to nearby zero levels so they can learn additional skills and so that they can be free of psychotropic medications and free of mechanical and physical

restraints. >> but with that logic, why not shock prisoners who are unruly or difficult? people would view that as inhumane. >> what we're looking to do here, when prisoners are he moved from society because they're dangerous to others and because that's the way that the legal system works. this is a different process here. what we're trying to do is to treat these individuals so that they no longer require skin shock in many cases or they can discontinue other procedures that are dangerous or have side effects that are worse. >> but i talked to parents whose kids are now grown adults and are still at the center. they have been there since the '80s and they're still receiving shocks. >> there are a certain -- there's a certain type of behavior problem where the behavior is maintained by unknown causes. where we find that on a long-term basis, the procedure is what we require in order for the person to maintain a good

quality of life. now, that's not that different than a lot of procedures that many of us use that are prosthetic in nature. a lot of antipsychotic medications are prosthetic in nature. they only work as long as people are taking them. people take all kinds of drugs that the moment they stop taking them, the symptoms or the problems return. now, if we can -- if we can give someone that exhibits extraordinarily dangerous behavior problems such as hitting their heads until they blind themselves or pulling out all their own teeth or physical aggression that's so severe that they injure everyone who cares for them, if we can eliminate those behaviors and the person can live -- >> has this been peer reviewed? >> well, there are a whole slew of studies related to the use of contingent skin shocks. >> right. studies that come from the center. is it peer reviewed? that's how science works. you submit this stuff and it's peer reviewed. >> most of the studies have not

come from the judge rotenberg -- >> have they been peer reviewed? >> yes, they have been published in peer reviewed journals and there's numerous papers that show this procedure is safe and that it's effective and that the side effects are mostly positive. >> okay. kevin, you not only study kids with autism, but the father of two children with autism. if this has been peer reviewed why is this the only center that does this? >> well, i'm -- i could have missed it, but i spent quite a bit of time today my colleague, jamie and i, looking for peer reviewed articles and all of the usual sources that we use to find biomedical research. we could and find anything that wasn't published online without peer review supporting the efficacy. the other component was what we could find coming out online.

again not peer reviewed. as far as we could tell was not comparing this therapy to other therapies that have -- that don't have the experience of pain as a component which would be critical to evaluated scientific effectiveness. >> but kevin, look, these are kids who are teens or even adults who no one else will accept and they're violent and a danger to themselves and this seems to control their behavior, whereas psychotropic medication, they gain weight, listless, not themselves. >> i understand the point of view, but i would argue that given the long literature and it goes back about a hundred years, in terms of behavioral research, we know that punishment in the long term does relatively little to affect behavior, again in the long term.

once it's removed, behaviors come back. it doesn't treat the underlying cause, so the psychotropic medications treat the underlying cause. they're b they're biologically and evident based. they can be combined with techniques that focus on reward and positive reinforcement. the two combined i would hypothesize would work better than using a form of punishment. >> some people would say that it's like a bee sting, but first of all, bee stings are painful, especially if it's 31 times like andre. you have developed a device that's stronger because for some people the lower levels of shock don't seem to work. >> yes. so what we want to do with all

treatments is weigh the risk and benefits of the treatments that we're looking at. so all treatments have a certain probability of success. they have certain side effects associated with them. and they have a certain efficacy. and going back to what the other speaker was talking about, first of all, i would be more than happy to share the peer reviewed studies on this topic with him. second of all, the people that are referred to our program have been on all of these types of procedures for decades. they have received early autism intervention and they have received positive only reinforcement procedures. they have received special education training and they have been on massive doses of pharmacological agents that weren't effective and that caused them to have obesity, increased their risk of sudden cardiac death. some people have come to our program and because of the prn

medications they were given they had a seizure, and they had to go to the hospital and one person nearly died because of these drugs. so i think if you look at it from a risk benefit profile, the procedures like skin shock are extremely effective for the rare problems that can't be treated anywhere else and better than long-term restraint, of high doses of antipsychotic medicati medications. remember, we're using this after all the procedures such as positive reinforcement have been used and failed for a number of years. >> i appreciate you being on and thank you very much. it's a difficult topic and difficult. on both sides of this. coming up, disturbing racially charged statements from a school psychologist in louisiana. he posted on twitter that quote, young black thugs -- those were his words -- should be quote,

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time for the ridiculist. and tonight, we are reeling over the tale of a fish fry gone awry. at a restaurant in wisconsin everything was going swimmingly at the all you can eat fish fry until a guy started carping, about, well, what the definition of all is. >> i need more fish on my dish. >> his name is bill. he ate a whole bunch of fried fish on his dish. reportedly the restaurant started to run out, so finally they told bill that he was cut off. >> we asked for more fish. and they refused to give us any more fish. it's false advertising. >> so bill did what anyone would do when faced with this type of egregious, trout withholding, this deficiency, if you will. he called the police. >> what do you need the police

department for? >> well, i'm eating at this stlau restaurant. all you can eat fish. i just asked for more fish and they gave me four pieces. >> okay. >> and they refused to give any more fish. and right out on the sign, all you can eat fish fry. >> not only did he call the sheriff's office, but he started to picket the restaurant. if i'm not mistaken, i think he wrote his slogan on cardboard with ball point pen. i think it says poor business practices. listen, i don't know how many times i have to say this people, when you picket an all you can eat fish fry, you have to use a sharpie. you may be thinking all you can eat should be all you can eat, up to and including all bill can eat. for more fish on the dish, he has a history of being a problem customer at the restaurant. he was reportedly up to his bass in a tab he never paid off.