This pastor is a real charmer, I must say. In the below vicious rant, he manages to call gay folks the F word, sodomites (probably his favorite), and perverts. I lost track after that. And, what has gotten Pastor Steven Anderson's panties in a knot? Well, Memories Pizza's owners and Melissa's Bakery owners were just WAY too nice to the sodomites who wanted service from them for their weddings. How dare they?! They should have been much more bigoted and hateful as the Bible commands (per Rev. Anderson).
From The New Civil Rights Movement:
It's rare to hear a religious extremist attack today's icons of supposed anti-Christian persecution, but Pastor Steven Anderson is no ordinary religious extremist. As pastor of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, last year Anderson made national headlines after promising the world an "AIDS free world by Christmas" if America would merely "execute the homos like God instructs."
Pastor Anderson, whose church at one point appeared on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of anti-gay hate groups, is back, preaching to his congregation that, if the audio on the video below is correct, includes small children.
Anderson labeled the Memories Pizza owners "weakling cowards" for closing down for a week after being attacked online and purportedly receiving death threats. And he attacked "all of the sodomites of the world," who are "just raging and infuriated at this pizza place."
Anderson insisted the family who owns Memories Pizza should have stood up to the LGBT community and its allies, namely, most of the U.S. Instead of cowering and "kow-towing" they should have proudly quoted bible verses and attacked the "animals" and "queers" without any apology for their faith.
Is this the type of bile that we are hearing in Southern Baptists churches these days? I certainly hope not.