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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Jun 16, 2021, 11:04 AM Jun 2021

Louie Gohmert "mistakenly" gave $5500 to "death to gays" hate pastor

A staunchly anti-LGBTQ Republican member of Congress is claiming that what he reported as a donation to a hate pastor was actually a “mistake” ... The Louie Gohmert for Congress Committee recorded a donation in their Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing that a $5500 donation was made to an entity called
Anderson Ministries” and put down the Tempe, Arizona address of Anderson’s church. A spokesperson said that Gohmert’s campaign committee hired
Christian singer Steve Amerson of Granada Hills, California and someone made an error in the FEC filing.


Rep. Louie Gohmert’s (R-TX) office is scrambling to explain a $5500 donation to pastor Steve Anderson’s church. Anderson made international headlines in 2016 after video went viral that showed him praising the Pulse nightclub shooter for killing “a bunch of disgusting perverts and pedophiles. The good news is that there’s 50 less pedophiles in this world,” Anderson said in a sermon about the 2016 shooting at the LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando that left 49 people dead. He said that the club was full of “disgusting homosexuals who the Bible says were worthy of death.”

He has also been criticized for his anti-semitic beliefs. Some sermons he posted online had titles like “The Jews Are Our Enemies” and “Unbelieving Jews Are Under God’s Wrath.” He has also claimed that the Holocaust didn’t happen. His church even produced a video that called Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “a wicked false prophet, a sexual pervert, and a Communist tool,” has made negative statements about Islam, and has called for ending women’s right to vote.

Gohmert has gotten consistent “0” scores on Human Rights Campaign’s Congressional Scorecard, showing his constant opposition to LGBTQ rights in Congress.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/06/louie-gohmert-mistakenly-gave-5500-awful-death-gays-hate-pastor/

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Louie Gohmert "mistakenly" gave $5500 to "death to gays" hate pastor (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 OP
Yeah, right! Steve Anderson is exactly who I'd expect Gohmert to pal around with. 50 Shades Of Blue Jun 2021 #1
Weird how they never "mistakenly" donate to CAIR, the SPLC, the ACLU, or Tides Foundation ck4829 Jun 2021 #2
This was not a mistake LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2021 #3
The mistake was not thinking it would get out on him. Chainfire Jun 2021 #4
A Pyle of filthy lucre Blue Owl Jun 2021 #5
Yeah, right. Solly Mack Jun 2021 #6
PICTURED ABOVE: 634-5789 Jun 2021 #7
He will go down in history as the man who asked ... left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 #8

ck4829

(35,077 posts)
2. Weird how they never "mistakenly" donate to CAIR, the SPLC, the ACLU, or Tides Foundation
Wed Jun 16, 2021, 11:09 AM
Jun 2021

Last edited Tue Jun 29, 2021, 12:31 PM - Edit history (1)

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Chainfire

(17,550 posts)
4. The mistake was not thinking it would get out on him.
Wed Jun 16, 2021, 11:21 AM
Jun 2021

Of course, by the same token, it may bolster his image with his voters.

634-5789

(4,175 posts)
7. PICTURED ABOVE:
Wed Jun 16, 2021, 11:55 AM
Jun 2021

Screwy Louie Gohmert, far and away the stupidest, most notoriously ignorant and bumbling off brand jack ass the Assembly in Washington has ever known. WHO THE LIVING FUCK would vote for this brain dead mutton head?

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
8. He will go down in history as the man who asked ...
Wed Jun 16, 2021, 12:33 PM
Jun 2021

"... is there anything that the National Forest Service or BLM can do
to change the course of the moon’s orbit, or the Earth’s orbit around the sun?”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/09/texas-republican-louie-gohmert-climate-change

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