‘Kill the gays’ pastor has a pulpit-stomping meltdown after he’s booted from online fundraisingBethania Palma Markus
Bethania Palma Markus
24 Jun 2016 at 13:17 ET
An
Arizona pastor known for his virulently anti-LGBT views went on a
podium-stomping tirade recently after businesses began cutting off their
services to his and other bigoted pastors’ churches, the Friendly
Atheist reports.
Pastor Steven Anderson, who heads the Faithful
Word Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, lashed out this week at
activists who successfully petitioned businesses like PayPal and Apple
to shut down his accounts after his hate speech. While Anderson posted
his June 22 sermon on a website called Archive, the Friendly Atheist
uploaded a sampling to YouTube.
After the June 12 massacre at
Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Anderson posted a video in which he said
there are “50 less pedophiles” in the world. Forty-nine people were
killed in the mass shooting at the gay nightclub.
Anderson has been reaping the consequences of his words, and he is not happy about it.
“It’s
war. You know what the filthy sodomites have done toward our church and
us, and our friends and our fellow pastors that actually have the guts
to say what needs to be said? Here’s what they’ve done in the last few
weeks,” he told his congregation. “They got our PayPal account shut down
so that we can’t take anymore online donations. We set up with another
company, GivLet, they got that shut down. Qgiv, they got that shut down.
BitPay, they got that shut down. They shut down our iTunes podcast.
They shut down Brother Jimenez’s PayPal account. They shut down Brother
Romero’s PayPal account… The landlord of Pastor Jimenez is saying, ‘hey
we’re not going to renew your lease.'”
Anderson was referencing
Roger Jimenez, a California pastor who made headlines and earned
widespread condemnation when he cheered the actions of the Orlando
shooter for attacking LGBT people.
“I think that’s great. I think
that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida’s a little safer tonight,”
Jimenez said in response to the attack. “It is unnatural for a man to be
attracted to another man. The tragedy is that more of them didn’t die.”
He was also referencing Texas pastor Donnie Romero, who weighed in saying he agreed with Jimenez.
“These
50 sodomites are all perverts and pedophiles, and they are the scum of
the earth, and the earth is a little bit better place now,” he said in a
sermon following the massacre.
Anderson was clearly angry that these words have come back to haunt them.
“I
mean these people are dedicated,” he said, about LGBT rights activists.
“These people are researching, they’re finding out where we bank,
they’re finding out who we do business with. They’re trying to get us
shut down on all fronts, and you know what, let me tell you something,
I’m sick of it.”
He then jumped up on his podium and started pointing at the audience.
“And
you know what, if you’re not gonna back us up then get out of here, we
don’t need your help,” he said, before launching into an
invective-filled rant calling LGBT people “dogs.”
Watch the clip, as posted by the Friendly Atheist, here:
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