Sacramento Minister Praises Orlando Attack In Sunday Sermon

SACRAMENTO - A Sacramento Baptist preacher's sermon that praised the attack at an Orlando nightclub was captured on video and widely distributed before it was pulled off the Internet by YouTube for violating hate speech standards.

CBS 13 in Sacramento reports Pastor Roger Jimenez of the Verity Baptist Church on Sunday told his congregation:

"Are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today? Um -- no -- I think that's great! I think that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida is a little safer tonight."

"He's not a man of God. He is not a man teaching a true religion," Sandrea Nelson, the LGBT Pride director of the Davis-Phoenix coalition told the station.

The YouTube version of the sermon has been removed due to legal restrictions.

-image via Orlando Police Department