and it should be noted that kevin swanson, the guy who interviewed ted cruz and hosted the conference he was not the only personality this conference who was openly advocating the death penalty for homosexuality, another pastor named phillip caser, you might that name because during the last presidential election, the ron paul campaign proudly touted phillip caser's support on their website for a while until somebody dug up a pamphlet written by mr. kayer is which called for executing gay people in america because of biblical law. the paul campaign promptly scrubbed than dorzment from the website, the pam threat exists and phillip kayer is was at this national religious liberties conference last weekend attended by these three republican presidential candidates, he was manning a table there he was handing out his pamphlet. a reporter from right wing watch wrote about seeing him there, sent us a photo of it, helpfully, geotagged at the des moines city center on friday morning around the time that mike huckabee was on stage with the kill the gays pastor guy. here's just a sampling from

gets a strong reaction" however as the first day of the conference wraps up, conference organizer kevin swanson says the focus should stay on that term "relgious liberty" " when the state steps in and dictates the thoughts, morals and conscience, we have a violation of conscience. for some politically correct sin of the day" using iowa's gortz haus as a prime example, swanson says people should be able to speak for what they believe... including the visiting presidential candidates. "stand firm in their convictions and still hold to business and property not be sued or sent to jail for mainintaing convictions" all the while, lecroy hopes the candidates dont use fear just to gain an edge in the political polls. " think maybe its not what they think it is" from des moines, claire powell local 5 news we are iowa. jack: meanwhile, a des claire powell local 5 news we are iowa. jack: meanwhile, a des moines register reporter's tweet about a donald trump supporter is getting some attention. reporter brianne pfannestiel was looking up donors to trump's campaign and tweeted a snapshot of an iowa donor's

it's organized by a guy named kevin swanson. about what you deem liberal intolerance of christians. kevin swanson has said some very inflammatory things about gays and lesbians. he believes christians should hold up signs at gay weddings holding up the leviticus verse. i don't hold you responsible for what other people say, but given your concern about liberal intolerance, are you not in some ways endorsing conservative intoleran intolerance? >> listen, i don't know what this gentleman has said or hasn't said. i know when it comes to religious liberty this is a passion of mine and has been for decades. and i have been fighting for religious liberty for everyone. for christians, jews, muslims, for every one of us to practice our faith. and in the last six and a half years under the obama administration we have seen an assault on religious liberty from the federal government. couple months ago i hosted a rally for religious libber eer iowa had 2,500 people come out. single biggest political event in the state of iowa this year. an

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that's a pastor named kevin swanson. he hosted an event this weekend in des moines, iowa. they called it the national religious liberties conference. over 1,700 people attended. and a pretty major theme of the event both in terms of the literature that was available at the event and the way the host of the conference spoke from the stage. a significant theme was the practical challenges and the timing of how exactly and when exactly the united states of america should start rounding up gay people in this country in order to execute them. because the appropriate punishment for the crime of being gay is that the government should have you killed. >> yes. leviticus 20:13 calls for the death penalty for homosexuals. yes. romans chapter 1 verse 32 the apostle paul does say that homosexuals are worthy of death. his words, not mine! and i am not ashamed of the gospel of jesus christ! and i am not ashamed of the truth of the word of god. and i am willing to go to jail for standing on the truth of the word of god. and i know i've taken the counsel, many have told me this weekend, y

speech, but i saw something several weeks back in des moines, iowa at a religious conference with kevin swansona very fiery evangelical preacher. i think there were about 1700 out there in the audience. he was ordering them, and it was documented in the bible. he gave the passages. it was their duty, and his as well, to gather up all the homosexuals and to exterminate them. but there was a brief period of time he was going to give them to repent, change their ways, and become one of them. but this rant went on for so long, i know there were many offensive remarks he made referring to homosexuals, which is his free speech, but i don't know where you draw the line and i don't know who -- whose job it is, whether it is his community of evangelicals, which would not offend him because i'm sure if anybody from the outside or the government ever entrenched upon that right of free speech to order, he said he was willing to be jailed for these believes and ordering this. i bet it is a different story if there those wakamos out goes and takes it as their responsibility to gather a group of people and ex