Faithful Word Baptist Church Pastor Steven Anderson of Tempe, Arizona is no stranger to spewing awful things in the name of the Lord. In 2009, Anderson made a media splash when he delivered a sermon during which he prayed for President Obama's death. Just this past March, he went on a tirade over women who so much as dared utter an amen in church, telling his lady-congregants that their place was subserviently in the home. He has also had some choice words for Jewish people, declaring that "Christ-rejecting jews are children of the devil".
So, yeah, this guy is an Asshole for Jesus. So why bother writing about him? Because he is a dangerous Asshole for Jesus.
Moved by the Christmas spirit, Anderson laid out his final solution for all those homos spreading the AIDS — execute them all, preferably before the day Christians celebrate the birth of that blessed little baby, Hallelujah!
Turn to Leviticus 20:13 because I actually discovered the cure for AIDS. Now this is the cure for AIDS.
And you know, everybody's talking about "Let's have an AIDS-free world by 2020. Look, we can have an AIDS-free world by Christmas. Okay, it wouldn't be totally AIDS-free, but we'd be like 90-some% AIDS-free by Christmas. Okay, here's what the bible says in 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 — and they’re out spending billions of dollars in research and testing. It’s curable — right there. Because if you executed the homos like God recommends, you wouldn’t have all this AIDS running rampant.
Truly a man of God's loving peace, this one.
I am accustomed to hearing and reading all sorts of viciousness directed at me and my community, but this goes beyond your typical, everyday sort of hate. This rhetoric is potentially deadly. Many of his congregants and the people who tune into his YouTube videos are just looking for a call to do violence against the LGBT community. This man is providing it, and he must be called out and held accountable for it.