Steven L. Anderson

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 8/16/2010 5:41 pm
  • The group responsible for last week's ridiculous list of 25 worst Americans in history will now be sponsoring GOProud's Homocon 2010.

  • CBN's David Brody says President Obama's apparent support of the right of Muslims to build a facility near Ground Zero "may be the fatal blow" in making him a one-term president.

  • Remember Steven L. Anderson?

  • For some reason, the LA Times decided to give space to the AFA's Tim Wildmon to complain about the Prop 8 ruling.

  • Mike Huckabee continues to lead in Iowa polls.

  • Charles Colson and the Manhattan Declaration will be featured at the 2010 New Mexico Biblical World View Conference.

  • Finally, the quote of the day from Richard Land, vowing never to give in to gay marriage: “Let me spell it out for you, If they say that telling what the Bible says about homosexuality is hate speech, and cannot be allowed -- we will be arrested in our pulpits. We will obey God rather than man."

Which Leviticus Should We Expect to Hear?

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 11/9/2009 4:38 pm

Religious Right participants in the upcoming hate crimes legislation protest sure intent on generating some press for themselves, as in the last few hours both Gary Cass and Paul Blair have issued press releases about it. 

And this is raising an interesting question about just how they intend to go about challenging this legislation, because they seem to think that they are going to be challenging the law by simply preaching from the Bible:

Pastor Paul Blair, founder of Reclaiming Oklahoma for Christ, said, "Pastors have preached the Bible in America for over 400 years, pointing people to Jesus Christ and standing against sin. If preaching the Bible is now against the law, then let us be arrested. If not, may every pastor across America know that he can stand strong and proclaim Biblical Truth without fear of persecution or prosecution."

Of course, merely preaching that homosexuality is a sin is not going to be a violation of the hate crimes law, which even Cass seems to realize:

While the ministers do not expect to be arrested, they are willing to go to jail, if necessary, to stand for freedom of speech and religion.

The question really comes down to just how they intend to preach against homosexuality. Do they intend to preach Leviticus 18:22?

Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.

Or do they intend to preach Leviticus 20:13?

If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Judging by this quote from Cass by OneNewNow, it's difficult to know:

"We're going to exercise our First Amendment rights to preach [the entire] Bible, including those parts that deal with homosexuality and the truth of the sin of homosexuality," explains Dr. Cass. He further says this is being done as a way to clarify "....that this does not constitute a hate crime."

The legislation explicitly protects religious freedom and freedom of speech, but "does not protect speech, conduct or activities consisting of planning for, conspiring to commit, or committing an act of violence." So if they intend to preach that homosexuality is sinful, that is not much of a challenge, as that sort of speech is clearly protected. 

But since they obviously intend for this protest to be a direct challenge to hate crimes protections, that really only leaves them one option: demanding death for gays.

If that is the case, they ought to see if Steven L. Anderson is available to join them.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 9/1/2009 5:41 pm
  • Michelangelo Signorile interviewed Steven L. Anderson.

  • Frederick Clarkson says the Anderson story has been almost entirely ignored by the traditional media.

  • Gov. Bobby Jindal sure does spend a lot of taxpayer money flying off to churches.

  • Good As You provides some good background on Charles LiMandri, the attorney who (a) serves as NOM's general counsel and (b) is representing Carrie Prejean in her fight against the Miss California USA organization.

  • Newshounds likewise provides some good background on Gary Kreep, the man behind the new "Defend Glenn Beck" effort.

  • Rep. Michelle Bachmann: Crazy as ever.

  • David Weigel: Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kans.), fresh off the "Great White Hope" controversy of last week, laughed at a young woman who can't afford health insurance before telling her that people should "be a grown-up and go buy the insurance."

  • Steve Benen on Michael Steele's new health care ad: "Anyone who can watch the whole thing without pounding your head against a hard surface is a stronger person than I am. An ad like this is so breathtakingly stupid, and is so shameless in its cynical assumptions about the gullibility of the nation, it's literally painful."

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 8/26/2009 5:31 pm
  • Glenn Beck is certifiably insane ... and Sarah Palin thinks he's brilliant.

  • Firedoglake rounds up some of a classless right-wing commentary on Sen. Kennedy's passing.

  • For those who can't get enough of Steven L. Anderson's rantings, Good As You has found even more, along with video of his appearances at a couple of Tea Party rallies.

  • And check out this related video from David Neiwert on one of the members of Anderson's church carrying around an assault rifle outside a town hall meeting.

  • As promised, Randall Terry got himself tossed out of last night's town hall meeting with Rep. Jim Moran and Howard Dean.

Anderson: Every Homosexual in the World is a Deviant Predator Who is out to Recruit Others Through Molestation and Rape

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 8/26/2009 10:10 am

Last night, Alan Colmes interviewed Steven L. Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church who has recently achieved fame for his sermons preaching that gays are out to rape children in order to recruit them and declaring that the only way to stop them is to kill them.

Anderson did not back down:

Colmes: Everybody who is gay is a predator?

Anderson: Well, if you disagree with that, that's fine. But every gay person in the Bible was a predator, from Genesis to Revelation.

Colmes: Well, I don't know about the Bible, but do you believe that every gay person in the world is a predator?

Anderson: That's what I believe, yes. And every gay person that I've ever known personally has been a predator ...

Colmes: Define "predator." What do you mean by "predator"?

Anderson: A predator as in someone who tries to molest other people, to force people into things that they don't want to do ...

Colmes: So, let me get this straight, every homosexual in the world forces other people to do be gay?

Anderson: I believe that every homosexual in the world is a deviant, is evil, and is a predator that is out to recruit others through molestation, through rape. It's in the news.

After some discussion whether someone like Rep. Barney Frank was a "predator" and "molester" the conversation turned toward Anderson insistence that every gay person he has ever known has been a predator and molester and that being gay is a choice they have made. When Colmes asked Anderson when he chose to be straight, Anderson replied that nobody chooses to be straight because everyone is "born normal" and that it is "only people who go against nature and become more and more sick" and get into "weird, sick, deviant things" like homosexuality or bestiality which, in Anderson's views, are all the same thing.

Oh, and he also believes that those who commit adultery should be stoned to death.

In the second segment, Anderson defends his prayers for the death of President Barack Obama while repeatedly insisting that he would be in no way responsible if one of his followers went out and tried to kill him:

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 8/24/2009 5:36 pm
  • AP: A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Walmart, CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials not air on [Glenn] Beck's show.

  • Greg Sargent: Americans United For Change, the labor-backed White House ally, is attempting a new one: Running an ad on Facebook — one directly targeted to Sarah Palin’s hundreds of thousands of Facebook supporters — telling them Palin has been lying to them.

  • It really is mind-boggling how Michael Steele has managed to hang on to his position as RNC Chairman.

  • David Weigel reports that the Department of Veterans Affairs has yanked “Your Life, Your Choices: Planning for Future Medical Decisions,” a guide to writing a living will, from the main portion of its web site. and that "all it took was an article and a Fox News appearance for one man to scare the VA into pulling this material."

  • Finally, David Neiwert has more on the hate-filled views of Steven L. Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church.

God Commands You To Kill Gays

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 8/21/2009 12:29 pm

I spend a lot of time here mocking Religious Right groups and activists for their views of homosexuality, but as Jeremy says about these audio clips he posted the other day, "this 'culture war' is all fun and games until someone wants to execute you."

And he's not joking. Just listen to these rants from Steven L. Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ, explaining to his audience how gays are out to rape their children in order to recruit them and says that the only way to stop them is to kill them:

You want to know who the biggest hypocrite in the world is? The biggest hypocrite in the world is the person who believes in the death penalty for murderers and not for homosexuals. Hypocrite. The same God who instituted the death penalty for murderers is the same God who instituted the death penalty for rapists and for homosexuals - sodomites, queers! That's what it was instituted for, okay? That's God, he hasn't changed. Oh, God doesn't feel that way in the New Testament ... God never "felt" anything about it, he commanded it and said they should be taken out and killed.

You know why God wanted the sodomites in the Old Testament to be killed? You know why every good king of Israel, the Bible says they got rid of the sodomites in the land? You know, the good kings that came after the bad kings who had allowed the sodomites to infest their land, they had infiltrated ... King Asa got the sodomites out of the land, Jehoshaphat exterminated the sodomites that were left from the days of his father, Asa. Why? Because the sodomites are infectious, that's why. Because they're not reproducers, that goes without saying, they're recruiters.

How are they multiplying? Do you not see that they're multiplying? Are you that blind? Have you noticed that there's more than there were last year and the year before, and the year before that? How are they multiplying? They're reproducing right? No, here's a biology lesson: they're not reproducers, they're recruiters! And you know who they're after? Your children. Remember you dropped off your kids last week? That's who they're after. You drop them off as some daycare, you drop them off as some school somewhere, you don't know where they're at. I'll tell you where they're at: they're being recruited by the sodomites. They're being molested by the sodomites. I can tell you so many stories about people that I know being molested and recruited by the sodomites.

They recruit through rape. They recruit through molestation. They recruit through violation. They are infecting our society. They are spreading their disease. It's not a physical disease, it's a sin disease , it's a wicked, filthy sin disease and it's spreading on a rampage. Can't you see that it's spreading on a rampage? I mean, can you not see that? Can you not see that it's just exploding in growth? Why? Because each sodomite recruits far more than one other sodomite because his whole life is about recruiting other sodomites, his whole life is about violating and hurting people and molesting 'em.

So how many sodomites is one sodomite going to produce? A lot, and that's why it's just exploding. The only way to stop it, you say "how do we stop it?" ... You want to know why sodomites are recruiting? Because they have no natural predators.

Amazingly, that is the more sane of the two clips Jeremy posted - I'm not even going to bother transcribing this second clip in which Anderson screams about the "faggots running this country" because you simply have to listen to it: 

Pam's House Blend has more.

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Steven L. Anderson Posts Archive

Right Wing Leftovers
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 08/16/2010, 5:41pm
The group responsible for last week's ridiculous list of 25 worst Americans in history will now be sponsoring GOProud's Homocon 2010. CBN's David Brody says President Obama's apparent support of the right of Muslims to build a facility near Ground Zero "may be the fatal blow" in making him a one-term president. Remember Steven L. Anderson? For some reason, the LA Times decided to give space to the AFA's Tim Wildmon to complain about the Prop 8 ruling. Mike Huckabee continues to lead in Iowa polls. Charles Colson and the Manhattan Declaration will be... MORE >
Which Leviticus Should We Expect to Hear?
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 11/09/2009, 4:38pm
Religious Right participants in the upcoming hate crimes legislation protest sure intent on generating some press for themselves, as in the last few hours both Gary Cass and Paul Blair have issued press releases about it.  And this is raising an interesting question about just how they intend to go about challenging this legislation, because they seem to think that they are going to be challenging the law by simply preaching from the Bible: Pastor Paul Blair, founder of Reclaiming Oklahoma for Christ, said, "Pastors have preached the Bible in America for over 400 years, pointing... MORE >
Right Wing Round-Up
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 09/01/2009, 5:41pm
Michelangelo Signorile interviewed Steven L. Anderson.Frederick Clarkson says the Anderson story has been almost entirely ignored by the traditional media.Gov. Bobby Jindal sure does spend a lot of taxpayer money flying off to churches. Good As You provides some good background on Charles LiMandri, the attorney who (a) serves as NOM's general counsel and (b) is representing Carrie Prejean in her fight against the Miss California USA organization.Newshounds likewise provides some good background on Gary Kreep, the man behind the new "Defend Glenn Beck" effort.Rep. Michelle Bachmann:... MORE >
Right Wing Round-Up
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 08/26/2009, 5:31pm
Glenn Beck is certifiably insane ... and Sarah Palin thinks he's brilliant.Firedoglake rounds up some of a classless right-wing commentary on Sen. Kennedy's passing.For those who can't get enough of Steven L. Anderson's rantings, Good As You has found even more, along with video of his appearances at a couple of Tea Party rallies.And check out this related video from David Neiwert on one of the members of Anderson's church carrying around an assault rifle outside a town hall meeting.As promised, Randall Terry got himself tossed out of last night's town hall meeting with Rep. Jim Moran and... MORE >
Anderson: Every Homosexual in the World is a Deviant Predator Who is out to Recruit Others Through Molestation and Rape
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 08/26/2009, 10:10am
Last night, Alan Colmes interviewed Steven L. Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church who has recently achieved fame for his sermons preaching that gays are out to rape children in order to recruit them and declaring that the only way to stop them is to kill them.Anderson did not back down:Colmes: Everybody who is gay is a predator?Anderson: Well, if you disagree with that, that's fine. But every gay person in the Bible was a predator, from Genesis to Revelation.Colmes: Well, I don't know about the Bible, but do you believe that every gay person in the world is a predator?Anderson: That's... MORE >
Right Wing Round-Up
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 08/24/2009, 5:36pm
AP: A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Walmart, CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials not air on [Glenn] Beck's show.Greg Sargent: Americans United For Change, the labor-backed White House ally, is attempting a new one: Running an ad on Facebook — one directly targeted to Sarah Palin’s hundreds of thousands of Facebook supporters — telling them Palin has been lying to them.It really is mind-boggling how Michael Steele has managed to hang on to his position as RNC Chairman.David Weigel reports that the Department of Veterans... MORE >
God Commands You To Kill Gays
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 08/21/2009, 12:29pm
I spend a lot of time here mocking Religious Right groups and activists for their views of homosexuality, but as Jeremy says about these audio clips he posted the other day, "this 'culture war' is all fun and games until someone wants to execute you." And he's not joking. Just listen to these rants from Steven L. Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ, explaining to his audience how gays are out to rape their children in order to recruit them and says that the only way to stop them is to kill them: You want to know who the biggest hypocrite in the world is? The... MORE >