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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Wed Dec 6, 2017, 08:20 PM Dec 2017

Conservative Christian Pastor Calls for Executing All Gay People by Christmas Day

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2017/11/conservative-christian-pastor-calls-for-executing-all-gay-people-by-christmas-day/



It sounds like a sermon that would be delivered in Uganda, but it’s actually from the mouth of an American pastor in Arizona.

Conservative Christian Pastor Steven Anderson openly called for executing every gay person in America during a Sunday sermon at his church in Tempe, Arizona. He claimed from the pulpit that gays need to be put to death in the name of God by Christmas Day in an effort to wipe out AIDS, even though AIDS is not a virus exclusive to the LGBT community. Anderson opined:

Turn to Leviticus 20:13, because I actually discovered the cure for AIDS. 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.

In addition, Anderson went on a hateful tirade about how gay people will never be allowed to step foot inside his church.
“No homos will ever be allowed in this church as long as I am pastor here,” Anderson declared. “Never! Say ‘You’re crazy.’ No, you’re crazy if you think that there’s something wrong with my ‘no homo’ policy.”



Yes. This is actually what some people feel permitted to say now. And at Christmas, of all times.

(note...there is a link to a video of the preacher saying all of this, but I didn't have the nerve to look at it. Just thought I should warn you that it's there).
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Conservative Christian Pastor Calls for Executing All Gay People by Christmas Day (Original Post) Ken Burch Dec 2017 OP
Why is genocidal hate speech protected? Why is this fool not in jail for this? Fred Sanders Dec 2017 #1
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