An Indiana sheriff is disputing reports that a local pastor has received death threats over a viral video of his congregation cheering a young boy as he sang: "Ain't no homo gonna make it to heaven."

"To my knowledge, there are no death threats that at this time," Decatur County Sheriff Gregory Allen told FoxNews.com. He was responding to a report on TMZ.com that Jeff Sangl, pastor of Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Church in Greensburg, Ind., had received death threats after the video hit the Internet Wednesday.

The video shows a boy who appears to be just four or five years old singing the offending lyric as congregants applaud. Church members told the website the church has since received harassing phone calls and Sangl has gotten death threats at home.

Allen told FoxNews.com that Sangl, who has left town and could not be reached for comment, contacted the department and asked him to keep an eye on the church's property following the surfacing of the video.