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Arizona Pastor Says It’s Ok To Pray for “Some” Folks To Die

Ah, Pastor Stephen Anderson of Arizona’s Faithful Word Baptist Church. You make every well-meaning pastor’s job so, so, so much harder.

You’ll recall he once said America could have an “AIDS-free” Christmas if the country would just kills all the gays…?

My best friend is an Episcopal priest. I’m sure she would NOT endorse this kind of preaching.

Anderson went off again half-cocked recently and lost his mind over Caitlyn Jenner’s coverage in the media.

He starts out saying it’s TOTALLY cool to pray for folks you don’t like to die. Just so you know.

Then, at the 1:15 mark he starts talking about Caityn Jenner (referring to her as “filthy sodomite” and “filthy pervert” and “trans-freak”) who he claims he had never heard of before.

There’s this bon mot: “I’m gonna pray that he dies and goes to hell.”

At the 3:10 mark: “I hate him with a perfect hatred. I have NO love for this ‘Bruce’ freak.”

By the way, Caitlyn, this guy is probably part of YOUR Republican party. Just saying…

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Arizona Pastor Steven Anderson Doubles Down On ‘Execute The Gays To Cure AIDS’ Hate Speech

Arizona Baptist pastor Steven Anderson — who called for the mass execution of gays in a recent sermon in order to have an “AIDS-free world by Christmas” — doubled down on his virulently anti-gay stance in this interview with Arizona television anchor Mark Curtis.

“What you have to understand is that the Bible commands that certain people be put to death. Not by me, not by Christians — it’s obviously not my job or the job of any Christian to go out and kill anybody — and I’ve never taught anything like that. But rather, that the government’s job is to punish criminals and to execute those who committed capital crimes. And according to the Bible, homosexuality is a capital crime. And I didn’t write the Bible.”

The interview was due to the reaction from Anderson’s November 30th sermon where he said this:

“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,” he added. “It wouldn’t be totally AIDS-free, but we’d be like 90-some percent AIDS-free by Christmas if we follow this.”

Note: Anderson’s Faithful Word Baptist Church has been certified as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.