Greg Locke timeline: From independent Baptist pastor to right-wing firebrand

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• Wax Museum In Poland Goes Viral After Guy Shares Photos Of Their Hilariously Bad Sculptures
• Pastor Greg Locke has a Bible duct-taped to a baseball bat. He destroys doll houses with it.
• Far-Right News Anchor Throws Cringey Tantrum After Spotting Pride Flag In Her Hometown
• Kid Rock mocks people still boycotting Bud Light a year after he started the boycott
• Put on Your Heels and Step Inside Barbie's Life-Sized Dreamhouse Now Open in Santa Monica
• People Share The Places They've Been Banned From For Life And Why

Locke has been elbows deep in ‘deliverance ministry’ after a bunch of witches supposedly have been harassing his church and has partnered up with crackpot Isaiah Saldivar to help him get the problem under control. He has said that LGBTQ+ people are “demonic,” “perverted,” and want to “cram it down my kids’ throats.” He also called “transgenderism” “nonsense” and said that LGBTQ+ people are “openly celebrated” and not “persecuted” like Christians. In February 2022, Locke threatened to expose six witches who allegedly infiltrated his Tennessee church, unless they voluntarily left his congregation. And his Barbie Dreamhouse stunt certainly raised some eyebrows on social media. Careful everyone—that Barbie Dreamhouse you may have bought after the Barbie movie might be full of evil spirits. Barbie has also faced a backlash in the US, with staunch conservative pundits such as Ben Shapiro burning Barbie dolls and criticising the film for being “man-hating” and pushing an LGBTQ+ agenda.

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Greg Locke, the anti-vaccine, anti-mask, pro-Trump pastor, has turned to deliverance ministry. Bringing you discernment news and commentary from a biblical, polemical perspective means it’s tough out there on social media. We’re constantly getting kneecapped and constrained by tech companies who find our fidelity to the scripture and pursuit of truth to be intolerable, resulting in our reach being severely throttled. Locke's bizarre Barbie stunt is said to have occurred before Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie was released.

Pastor Greg Locke has a Bible duct-taped to a baseball bat. He destroys doll houses with it.

Gerwig’s summer blockbuster, which has received heaps of rave reviews, includes several LGBTQ+ references and queer-coded characters, but there are no explicit LGBTQ+ roles or themes in the movie. After uncovering the Dream House, Locke explained that the children’s toy represented… the grip that temptations like pornography have on some.

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Do not enter World of Barbie if you do not wish to be subject to the foregoing. Officially licensed by Mattel, it’s safe to say World of Barbie has absolutely everything a fan of the iconic doll could want. For starters, there are life-sized versions of the Barbie® Dreamhouse and Camper Van (built by West Coast Customs). The production also features a museum exhibit where guests can see how Barbie, her Dreamhouse and her various vehicles have evolved over the years.

But like most conservatives, the movie has left him outraged and become something of an obsession for him over the summer. He then went on to explain how demons can keep possessing you even if you've expelled them because you didn't demolish the demon's house—which naturally includes things like iPhones, Netflix and other human beings' phone numbers. Locke added, "You better believe I'm gonna spend my life casting out demons, but if I'm gonna feed the sheep, I'm gonna have to spend the other half of my life teaching people how to be disciplined, and say yes to the right things and no to the wrong things. That's what the Word of God teaches." The demolition of the Barbie product could be linked to anti-LGBTQ+ backlash Greta Gerwig’s box office-dominating, live-action film has received.

“I curse in the name of the Lord this new Barbie movie that has been released full of transsexual, and transgender, and homosexuality,” Christmas said, before calling for God to make a “holy judgement” on the film. Right-wing Tennessee-based pastor Kent Christmas spoke out against the film prior to its release in July. This isn’t the first time Locke has made extraordinary claims.

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"You ought to pay attention to what the Greek word for 'pulling down' means. It's the word 'demolition.'… It means you demolish the house that the evil spirit left when you kicked it out," Locke said. Far-right anti-LGBTQ+ pastor Greg Locke is known for staging over-the-top spectacles, including hosting book burnings and re-enactments of Jesus’ crucifixion. One of his latest spectacles involved him destroying a Barbie Dream House playset with a bat wrapped in a Bible. Locke, who is the latest far-right figure to voice his disdain for the blockbuster film Barbie, delivered a 45-minute rant about demons and temptations like pornography before destroying the toy. Mount Juliet, Tennessee pastor Greg Locke is really, really mad about Barbie — both the incredibly successful film and the beloved doll. In a clip shared this week by the Tennessee Holler, Locke is seen ranting about “the enemy” before he attacks a Barbie Dream House with a Bible attached to a baseball bat.

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Locke has a long and tiresome history of making anti-LGBTQ+ comments including calling LGBTQ+ people “demonic” and “perverted”, and calling “transgenderism” “nonsense”. After catching our first glimpse at HGTV's real-life Barbie Dreamhouse, we're all wondering where in the world is this house? From the 60s inspired Barbie kitchen to the Ken's Den inspired by the 70s Barbie era, this house is a sight to see from top to bottom including the exterior. From what we've seen so far, it's nothing short of any Barbie lover's dream, but we expected nothing less from our favorite HGTV stars. But the Mt. Juliet pastor is also calculated, even before his explosion on social media and dive into political issues.

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You can even see the Barbie doll that started it all, clad in a black and white striped swimsuit and her iconic ponytail. That same month, he held a book burning outside of Nashville, in which people burned Harry Potter books and Disney products. During the book burning, a gay man threw a Bible in the fire, proclaimed “Hail Satan! Somehow we almost missed MOUNT JULIET, TN MAGA grifter Greg Locke demolishing a Barbie Dream House with a Bible attached to a baseball bat. He then dropped the mic, grabbed the Bible-wrapped baseball bat, and franticly smashed the Barbie Dream House to pieces in a bid to to illustrate his analogy. But several weeks later — as The Tennessee Holler points out — Barbie is sitting pretty with over a billion dollars in the bank and counting.

The house is situated in a neighborhood of Santa Clarita called Canyon Country in Northwestern Los Angeles County. It’s unclear if Locke specifically destroyed a Barbie Dream House to protest the recent Barbie film. In July, fellow right-wing Christian preacher Kent Christmas asked God to “loose a Holy judgment” on the film because it’s “full of transsexual and transgender and homosexuality.” The film has several queer actors in it, but no explicit LGBTQ+ content.

Pastor smashes Barbie Dream House with Bible taped to baseball bat - PinkNews

Pastor smashes Barbie Dream House with Bible taped to baseball bat.

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Although Locke delivered the sermon two months ago, on June 14, it has received attention in recent days due to the July release of the Barbie movie. Locke never mentioned the film and in fact didn’t even use the word “Barbie," and a spokesperson said the dollhouse was an off-brand dollhouse bought at Target. A video of pastor Greg Locke has gone viral, showing him demolishing a dollhouse with a Bible to represent a Christian destroying "strongholds" in their life. Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church offer congregants a very vivid sermon illustration during his June 14th midweek service, taping and zip-tying a bible to a baseball bat and then demolishing a doll house on screen.

No word on the status of porn demons, but they’re probably fine too. Locke, a Nashville-based religious leader known for his bouts of showmanship, is an open supporter of former President Donald Trump. His outburst took place during a sermon before the “Barbie” movie was released last month. Some have said that this is a Barbie Dream House, but there is nothing in the sermon to suggest Locke is connecting the Barbie move to demons–at least not in this two-month old sermon.

After welcoming more than 100,000 guests at its Toronto location, World of Barbie made its U.S. debut Friday in Santa Monica. If you can manage a drive by of the area, the house will be hard to miss as it has a massive pink handle labeled with the classic Barbie 'B' sticking out of the roof and larger-than-life pink flamingo statues lining the path to the front door. One lucky Barbie superfan will even get the chance the stay in the Barbie Dreamhouse, which will depend on which design duo wins the competition. The house used for the show, Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge, is located in Santa Clarita in Southern California. This picturesque suburb of Los Angeles is one of the most expensive places to live in the country, so of course it has stunning views and everything you could possibly need.

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Self-proclaimed born-again Christian and evangelical Tennessee pastor Greg Locke went viral this week for a truly weird sermon he conducted in June in which he went beserk about Barbie, demolishing the beloved toy’s iconic dreamhouse. ” It’s not quite clear if the sermon, which came roughly a month before Barbie The Movie was released in theaters and earned over $1 billion at the box office, was a direct hit on the Warner Brothers’ film. But the dollhouse was completely in tatters when Locke was finished speaking. Locke, the pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., told church members that they're involved in a "spiritual supernatural battle" that must be fought with the Word of God.