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December 06, 2014

Pastor calls for killing gays to end AIDS

A recent anti-homosexual Sunday sermon by Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe has gotten tens of thousands of views on YouTube. In it, Anderson declares that no "queers" or "homos" are allowed in the church, and never will be as long as he's pastor.
He goes on to say killing gays is the way to an AIDS-free world by Christmas.
Two Phoenix-area pastors who were familiar with Anderson, say what they saw in the video was more hate than anything.
"I see a lot of drama," said Pastor Vernon Meyer with Sun Lakes United Church of Christ. "That's very offensive when he says 'homo'."
Anderson does more than use the disparaging term. In his sermon, he stated: "All homos are pedophiles. There, I said it, they're all pedophiles."
"He's a liar," Meyer said.
"I do not view him as a pastor," said Jeffrey Dirrim of Rebel & Divine United Church of Christ. "That's not what he's doing."
In the video, Anderson cites a Bible passage he says is the "cure" for AIDS:
"Here's what the Bible says, Leviticus 20:13, 'If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.' And that, my friend, is the cure for AIDS. It was right there in the Bible all along."
His message is that killing gays is a divinely sanctioned way to rid the world of AIDS.
"Because if you executed the homos, like God recommends, you wouldn't have all this AIDS running rampant," Anderson said on the video.
Meyer says Anderson is misinterpreting the Bible and compares Anderson to a terrorist leader.
"That's no different than what ISIS is doing in Iraq and Syria," Meyer said. "God tells them to go kill anybody who's different from them."
This isn't the first time Anderson has created controversy. Five years ago, when President Obama visited Phoenix, the Baptist pastor said a Bible passage about how King David prayed against his enemies (Psalms 109:9-10) tells him he should hate the president.
"It's very difficult to listen to," Dirrim said. "I cannot identify with him whatsoever as a minister."
As an openly gay pastor himself, Dirrim works with lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual youths who have been suicidal, homeless and hungry, rejected simply because they're gay.

8 comments:

  1. Someone should take Pastor Anderson aside and explain to him that one of the best indicators for being a closet gay suffering horrible internal conflict is to be rabidly anti-gay. The list of conservative, Republican, vocal gay-bashers who have turned out to be gay themselves is long and growing. I would guess at this point that the odds for Anderson joining the list is as good as a coin toss. Conversely, one of the best indicators for being sexually well-adjusted is to reject the obsession with Other People's Crotches (OPC) that characterizes people who are sexually messed up by religion or abuse.

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  2. First off the Buybull is the biggest hoax book ever concocted. Second, there is NO invisible guy in the sky and Third, this son of a bitch pastor and ALL religions should pay taxes,

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  3. Great - that means the pastor calls for wiping out 120-150 million American men.


    A simple gay test:


    You do believe that:


    CEO's are great and should be honored and followed
    You love the military and you served or are part of the police force
    You love base- and American football
    You support Israel
    You own a gun
    You are Evangelical, Catholic or Muslim.
    You don't accept women as leaders.

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  4. If there was a GOD America perpetrators and murderers would have been brought to justice.

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  5. Jesus didn't have much to do with women...

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  6. No, the people who wrote the stories didn't want him to have much to do about women.

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  7. Just another one of Satan's FALSE PROFITS ....

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  8. There's the problem:
    'If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman;..."

    It is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE for a man to lie with a man as he lies with a woman...

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