We’d like to wish an early happy PRIDE Month to Oklahoma City IT help desk employee Dillon Awes!
While your friends will soon be out and about in the gayborhood at 39th and Penn partying like you’re in a fabulously modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, he’ll be cowering in the corner of a room with his head under the bed like a timid dog on the 4th of July—shaking in fear, panting in paranoia, and reminding everyone why we need a PRIDE Month.
Yes, it may seem odd to wish a Happy Pride Month to a man who has strange, painful erections whenever he sees a triangle or rainbow, but according to this recent exposé in The Oklahoman, a bit of 1930s-Germany-style schadenfreude seems warranted:
Via The Oklahoman:
Co-workers of Dillon Awes say the City Hall information technology employee is polite and friendly at his job. In his second job as a church leader, however, he says people who are LGBTQ+ should be tried for abomination and executed.
"They should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head,” Awes is heard saying in a recording of a June 5, 2022, sermon at his former church in Texas.
In the same sermon, Awes also told his congregation “all homosexuals are pedophiles” and LGBTQ+-friendly pastors should be “put to death.” Addressing children listening to his sermon, he warned that people who are LGBTQ+ “will hurt you.”
Yep, that’s right. A white, God-fearing Oklahoman man who works for the city has extremely bigoted, shameful, and intolerant views on the LGBTQ+ community… and he hasn’t been elected yet to the Oklahoma House of Representatives?! What’s the State GOP doing? They need to get him on the ballot immediately. He’ll be a rising star in the party!
Naturally, some city employees who are in the LGBTQ+ community are a tad concerned to learn that one of their co-workers thinks they should “be tried for abomination and executed” simply because their sexual orientation doesn’t conform to the twisted and incorrect interpretations of words found in an ancient collection of religious texts and fables.
While he is not known to have espoused those beliefs during his city job, his rhetoric has some of his co-workers worried for their safety.
“It’s terrifying,” said one of two LGBTQ+ co-workers interviewed by The Oklahoman. “I didn’t expect that to come out of his mouth. While watching those videos, I felt physically ill.”
Both workers asked not to be identified out of concern of being retaliated against.
If you ask me, the scary part about this isn’t that a guy who thinks gay folks should be executed works for the city, but that I’d guesstimate 10%–20% of the Oklahomans who live, work, and mouth-breathe around us share similar views.
Sure, these Ryan Walters supporters and God's Misfits may not all strongly believe that a Faith Militant should round up and execute all the gays, but I seriously doubt they’d complain too much if it happened.
The Oklahoman’s article about Awes focused a lot on Anchor Baptist Church – the Southern Poverty Law Center-rated hate church where he preached his anti-LGBTQ sermons.
On Dillon’s X account, he shares a lot of sermons from the church. Here’s a recent one that a pastor dedicated to the words and teachings of… Adolf Hitler.
Although he did clearly admonish Hitler, the pastor also made sure to declare his hatred for Judaism, and lament about the good old days when we could still tell racist jokes:
Hitler Did Something Wrong - Bro. Cameron Hall | Anchor Baptist Church https://t.co/Fo6tjDVejo
— Dillon Awes (@PastorAwes) May 25, 2025
I’ll admit it’s been a minute since I’ve been to a racist Baptist church, but is quoting Mein Kampf a common thing now?
Like, do they keep it there in the pew rack next to the hymnal, prayer book, and Left Behind paperbacks?
“Turn with me now to Mein Kampf, Chapter 10, Verse 2: ‘The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.’”
Anyway, I guess you can read more about the bigoted city IT help desk employee who lives a double life as a hate-speech pastor vilifying people just because they are who they are and how they live their life over at The Oklahoman.
Or, if you're bored and a racist, you can read about the church's values at their website. If Jesus were a paranoid, judgmental bigot who hated people who were different than him, he'd love it.
In the meantime, stay with The Lost Ogle. We’ll keep you advised.
