In L.A., Chris Lewis became Jim’s main poster child for homosexuality, yet I don’t even think Chris was gay. In the middle of a sermon, Jim would call for Chris, who would generally be lollygagging in the back of the church or in the kitchen. Everybody is gay. All men are homosexual and all women are lesbians. People wrapped up in heterosexual relationships are not mature enough to deal with this.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Cult leader Rev. Jim Jones sometimes engaged in sex with followers of his People's Temple to 'subjugate and humiliate' them, an attorney testified. Charismatic and autocratic, Jim Jones preached equality but believed only in himself; every independent mind became an existential threat. There was much in the early public presence of the Peoples Temple doomsday cult that some people would have found very appealing. Pastor Jim Jones preached a gospel of racial equality and social justice.
James Warren Jones (May 13, – November 18, ) was an American cult leader, preacher and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between and This Nov. With 40 years since the Jonestown massacre, a more disturbing image of the Rev. Jones was the charismatic white founder and cult leader of the Peoples Temple, a San Francisco-based evangelical church.
SAN FRANCISCO — Peoples Temple gunman Larry Layton would not testify on his own behalf and opposed an insanity plea because he did not want to reveal a homosexual relationship he had with cult. By David Chiu. Until the September 11th attacks, the tragedy in Jonestown on November 18th, represented the largest number of American civilian casualties in a single non-natural event. It is unfathomable now, as it was then, that more than Americans — members of a San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple — died after drinking poison at the urging of their leader, the Reverend Jim Jones, in a secluded South American jungle settlement.