Arizona pastor's sermons call for execution of gays, Barney Frank and the President

[ccharles000]

Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona is a bible-quoting hellfire and damnation sort of guy. He calls for the execution of gays in numerous sermons that you can listen to here.

"The same God who instituted the death penalty for murders is the same god who instituted the death penalty for rapists and for homosexuals, sodomites and queers"

Jeremy at Good As You has some choice ones so you don't have to give that hateful cuss any hits.

Anderson, while he's memorized The Good Book, he is woefully underinformed about a few legal matters -- he apparently wants Barney Frank to sue his pious *ss off.

"The sodomites are recruiters and you know who they are after? Your children. They are being recruited by the sodomites. They are being molested by the sodomites. They recruit through rape, they recruit through molestation, they recruit through violation"

"Our country is run by faggots. You know who was the man who was the architect of the bailout? His name is Barney Frank, he is a pedophile..."

"That's who just sold our country into fascism. That's who just sold our corporations to the government. That's who sold out our country, a faggot!"

Among other sin-filled people Anderson calls to be executed is the POTUS, for his stand on reproductive freedom.

"God Hates Barack Obama, I hate Barack Obama. I hate Him. God wants me to Hate Barack Obama." "Someone who commits murder should get the death penalty."

Do you think he would be investigated by the Secret Service during Bush's terms in office? Did he think Bush deserved the death penalty for executing all those Iraqi citizens in his unnecessary military action? Just asking.

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/12591/arizona-pastors-sermons-call-for-execution-of-gays-barney-frank-and-the-president

[QC]

1. We just need to reach out to these people!

That's all!

[villager]

2. that's right! in the spirit of "bipartisanship!"

n/t

[QC]

4. We can get Rev. Anderson to address a joint session of Congress!

That should do until the next time our party has an inauguration.

[Posteritatis]

10. Yes! Perhaps with a stick of some sort. (nt)

[QC]

12. I like to reach out with the back of my hand.

So much more personal than a stick.

[Posteritatis]

20. Ahhh, a true man of the people!

I admire your empathic, emphatic approach.

[QC]

28. In a harsh, cold world like this one, being warm and personal is the least I can do. n/t

[Posteritatis]

29. Damn right. Become the change! (nt)

[Forkboy]

13. +1

[cascadiance]

15. Hire him to replace Glen Beck!

Just as long as he holds on to advertisers!

[donheld]

44. Yes we do, Just reach out and squash them like bugs.

[hobbit709]

3. Who Would Jesus Off?

Forgetting the teachings of Jesus is a prerequisite of these nutjobs.

[Critters2]

5. Somebody's jealous of the attention Fred Phelps has been getting. nt

[damonm]

6. I take great comfort in the fact...

That this "pastor" has utterly failed to read one line of the New Testament - particularly Luke 10:27...

[murray hill farm]

7. "God hates Barack Obama, I hate Barack Obama"....

Well then...."You can safely assume that YOU have created God in YOUR own image, when it turns out that God hates the same people YOU do". Anne Lamott

[TrogL]

37. Logical Fallacy - Undivided Middle

[bullwinkle428]

8. So much for the "pooh-poohs" that DUers get when people bring up

the subject of "Taliban-esque" elements within American Christianity and their true feelings towards the GLBT community...

[QC]

16. Sounds like you didn't get your pony!

:sarcasm:

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. I felt ill just reading this.

[Forkboy]

11. Ah yes, God's love.

[QC]

14. You're not being very reachy outy, Forkboy. n/t

[Forkboy]

17. I feel for them, I just can't reach.

:)

[QC]

18. Well, if you think about it, giving someone a hard kick in the ass

is a kind of reaching out.

[Sebastian Doyle]

19. If you want to hear some audio of this pigfucker, but want to avoid his website

Mike Malloy has some audio at his website. Just look for the clip titled "Christian Love".

http://www.mikemalloy.com/

[The Magistrate]

21. This Would Seem, Sir, To Violate Several Laws

Uttering terrorist threats, threatening to kill the President of the United States, and the like. It is certainly actionable as slander. While some of these people belong in mental wards, this one belongs in a penitentiary.

[classof56]

22. "Pastor" Anderson needs to revisit the New Testament

I John 3:15 is a verse he might find of interest: "Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him." John goes on to say in verses 16 and 17 "...We ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?" (New International Version)

I seem to recall Jesus had quite a bit to say about love as well, but guess for the good "pastor" and other so-called "Christians", it's so much more fulfilling to rail against gays and a Black president.

I stepped away from the evangelical/fundamental/Bible-thumping churches I'd been affiliated with for most of my life a few years back, just could not take any more of the anti-gay pro-Bush righteous-war rhetoric. Now I'm pretty much okay with there not even being a God. Just could not figure out why an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being would not step in and do something proactive to set his "followers" straight. No longer waiting for that to happen, since I now realize it can't, but doesn't stop me from being thoroughly disgusted with "pastor" Anderson and his ilk. They don't have the ability to be ashamed of what they're doing, and much as I wish they'd be called into account on judgment day, I know they won't. Just have to hope their inflammatory rhetoric does not result in some horrible and heartbreaking outcome.

Tired Old Cynic

[Sebastian Doyle]

30. Seems he doesn't know the Old Testament all that well either.

For all of his talk about "the kings of Israel killing Sodomites", he conveniently leaves out the fact that Israel's most famous king, David (the guy they named that star after) had a relationship with Jonathan, the son of the previous king Saul.

1 Samuel 18

1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.

3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Kinda sounds like a "gay marriage" to me.......

[Mudoria]

23. This person seems to be reading from a different bible than I do..

"Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble."

1 Peter 3:8


"These things I command you, that ye love one another."

John 15:17


"Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."

Romans 13:8


Sometimes I wonder if some of these so-called pastors have ever seen the word "Love" in the scriptures.

[FlaGranny]

54. All that loving bible stuff

only applies to "us" and not "them." You see, "the others" are devils, and "we" are the "believers." The "others" are not human. That bible stuff only applies to humans - like us. That's the logic behind it all, you see.

[struggle4progress]

24. "... We are an old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible only,

separated Baptist church ..." sez the website

Steven Anderson likes controversy. In March, he seems to have said this on a message board about Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist:

What is ironic is that they actually believe that homos can be saved if they repent of their homosexuality. Therefore, they actually have nothing in common with us

See:
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2009/03/nothing-like-us.html
http://fwbclisteners.ning.com/forum/topics/god-hates-america

In April, he had a run-in with the border patrol in April, in which he sat in his locked car, refusing to move and blocking traffic at a Yuma check-point

See:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/04/17/20090417borderbeating0417-ON.html

[Wapsie B]

26. Gosh you mean King James that gay guy?

[rasputin1952]

25. I have to wonder just where these people get their ideas from...

I must have missed the parts where the notions of love, understanding, compassion, forgiveness and seeking wisdom were somehow usurped by unbridled hatred and a call for murder of those who don't live exactly as some "preacher" demands they live.

I didn't miss the parts where hypocrites and and purveyors of lies in the name of God are condemned though. I wonder how many sheep have been slaughtered to give these "preachers" the clothing they need to cover the fact they are little more than rabid wolves preying on others...:(

I can't recall Jesus speaking of homosexuality at all, much less killing people...even in the wildest of stretches, I can't figure where something like that is even alluded to. Maybe Paul had something to say about it, but I pretty much ignore what he has to say, he wrote letters to individual churches and about individuals w/in those sects.

If there is a hell, this "preacher" has flames licking at his feet, and he still stokes the fire. Fools rush in, to bad they take others w/them...what's really sad, is that the others go willingly.

[Sebastian Doyle]

32. Or as Mike Malloy put it...

"God's gonna reach down and pinch this guy's head off and throw it down to Hell so the demons can play soccer with it".:evilgrin:

[rasputin1952]

41. That would be interesting to see...

:rofl:

[QC]

43. Will that be on pay-per-view? n/t

[PatSeg]

60. People like him come to religion with their own

individual fears and prejudices, and then they twist the bible to conform with their beliefs.

The bible is the literal word of god when it suits their purposes, but it is symbolic when it doesn't. I remember a Baptist minister telling me that Jesus never drank WINE. It was actually fruit juice!

A person can find anything they want in the bible and justify a vast array of sins, then they can call it religion.

[AspenRose]

27. Now THAT sounds like...dare I say it....

something a NAZI would say!

Who's the "Nazi," here? :think:

[cui bono]

31. And I'm sure the IRS is on this, investigating their tax status. n/t

[ej510]

67. I am with Mike Malloy, I believe this guy may be gay. I always wonder about people who

have so much hatred towards the LGBT community. It has to be self hatred.

[DU GrovelBot]

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[Canuckistanian]

34. "God wants me to Hate Barack Obama"

He sounds like a demented version of Betty Bowers.

[UrbScotty]

35. What kind of a 'Christian' says God hates people??

I know, judge not lest ye be judged.

But having been to church more than a few times, I have yet to hear about God hating anyone.

[Orsino]

38. One who reads the Old Testament a lot...

...while touching himself, I suppose.

The Death Cultists.

[TrogL]

36. He forgot bisexuals, wearers of mixed fabric and consumers of shellfish

[4lbs]

39. If God 'hated' President Obama... umm... then why did he 'let' him become President?

Some illogical reasoning from that uber-crazy pastor.

[Beacool]

55. He also "let" Bush become president.

:shrug:

[Apollo11]

40. Must be one of them "faith leaders" we need to "reach out" to.

I say we lock him up and throw away the key.

[QC]

42. No, let's have him address a joint session of Congress!

That'll really reach out to him!

[LynnTheDem]

45. If I had one wish....for sick MFing idiots such as this "pastor" to have a face to face with

Jesus.

[gauguin57]

46. And when will we find Rev. Closet Queen Pastor in a motel room with a male prostitute?

I'd say any day now. That kind of all-consuming hatred of homosexuality is definitely a defense mechanism against deep self-knowledge.

Methinks the Rev. doth protest too much.

[Touchdown]

47. And Atheists are the militant ones.

:rofl:

[WillyT]

48. Seems 'Ole Pastor Steve Had A Run-In With The Border Patrol !!!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzd7G875Hc

Psychological Profilers could have a filed day with this guy.

:wtf:

[thelordofhell]

49. Looks like the RNC found it's new key note speaker

[saltpoint]

50. It's all so Dark Ages.

Rampant illiteracy. Bubonic plague. Witch-burning.

Now THERE was a society!

[saltpoint]

51. I wonder how Pastor Anderson registers on the Projection Index?

[Starry Messenger]

52. My slapping hand is itching.

That's all the reaching out I want.

[pgh_dem]

53. I found the Bizzarroworld populism as scary and stupid as the homophobia

"That's who just sold our country into fascism. That's who just sold our corporations to the government."
It took a re-reading to notice the *direction* of the selling. Our poor, defenseless corporations sold to a gay fascist government, which Jesus wants to execute.
Makes me think of Brad Pitt's line in Seven:
"When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you're insane? Maybe you're just sitting around, reading "Guns and Ammo", masturbating in your own feces, do you just stop and go, "Wow! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!"? Yeah. Do you guys do that?"

[Joe Bacon]

56. He gets away with this because he is Republican

Republicans are above the law. Anything they do--kill people, carry guns to Presidential rallies, threaten the President, well that's OK because the law does not apply to the Chosen. It only applies to us lower mortals.

[David Zephyr]

57. Glen Beck, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity now have a church they will truly fit in with.

.

[BreweryYardRat]

58. Give this asshole jail time.

Explicit death threats against the President = prison.

[Brother Buzz]

59. Barney Frank isn't going to sue his pious ass off, he's going to slap him with a dining room table

:rofl:

[MadMaddie]

61. This guy like the rest of the hate mongering nuts are

either telling their parishners to sacrifice their little boys and girls for god (so the preacher can have at them) or he is projecting and he loaths himself.

Sounds like threats to the President to me.

<snip>
"Someone who commits murder should get the death penalty."
<snip>

Who did Obama murder? Oh that's right he is the one that passed the Roe vs Wade. :sarcasm: :banghead: :sarcasm: :banghead:

What? Obama said he want's to reduce abortions by pushing sex education. What? Can't teach sex education because the kids might have sex because the learn about it?

These people are sick assholes and if something happens to anyone gay, Democratic congress members the President they better be held responsible. I am including Coulter, Pigboy, O'leilly, Crybaby, Shanity, and the this piece of shit.

[ladywnch]

62. by chance is this guy Fred Phelps' cousin or something? n/t

[DailyGrind51]

63. Has anyone called the Secret Service?

[democracy1st]

64. yes Pres Obama let me see you befriend this mf

[mnhtnbb]

65. Umm. Sounds to me like this guy needs a visit from the Secret Service.

[jaysunb]

66. Not to worry. He'll be given the Rev Wright treatment

24/7 on the news.

No ? Oh, ok. :evilfrown: