Bob Jones III said homosexuals should be stoned 'as the Bible commands ' 75-year-old religious leader made the comments in the White House in 1980 . The remarks were recorded by a tape recorder and released to the public after his death last year. In an apology issued on Saturday he said the comments were 'antithetical to my theology and my 50 years of preaching a redeeming Christ '
Bob Jones III said homosexuals should be stoned 'as the Bible commands ' 75-year-old religious leader made the comments in the White House in 1980 . Demand that President Jimmy Carter not extend protections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to gay men and lesbians . In an apology issued on Saturday he said the comments were 'antithetical to my theology and my 50 years of preaching a redeeming Christ '