So how sick do you have to be to celebrate the murder of 50 innocent people in an LGBTQ bar who were only trying to have a good time on a Saturday night? You have to be sick enough to be sick enough to be Christian Pastor Steven Anderson. This man is a right-wing hate machine who has been spewing bile and vitriol towards the gay community for a very long time. Way, waaaay too long.
Killing 50 innocent LGBTQ people in the name of religion is evil. Very, very evil
Just hours after the shooting occurred early Sunday morning on June 12 in Orlando, Florida, Anderson shared a video on YouTube about how happy he was that there were ā50 less pedophiles in this world.ā
His response is hateful, cruel, and despicable and itās entirely clear that this man despisesĀ LGBTQ people.
He ventures further that this will be used to push for gun control (letās hope soāemphasis mine) āwhere you know, law-abiding normal Americans are not gonna be allowed to have guns for self-defense.ā
Um, excuse me, but this weirdo has no idea what normal is. Then he up and says:
āAnd then Iām sure itās also gonna be used to push an agenda against so-called āhate speech.ā
Dear āPastorā Anderson: Let me be perfectly blunt here.Ā Thereās nothing āso-calledā about what youāre saying. Youāre fluent in the language of hate speech.
He thinks that āBible-believing Christian preachers who preach what the Bible actually says about homosexualityāthat itās vile, that itās disgusting, that theyāre reprobatesāyou know, weāre gonna be blamed.ā What Anderson is preaching is vile and disgusting and is completely deserving of blame. Heās a monster, and the saddest thing is he doesnāt know heās a monster.
He continues:
āLike, āItās all extremism! Itās not just the Muslims, itās the Christians ! (Duh. Again, emphasis mine.)ā Iām sure that people are gonna start attacking, you know, Bible-believing Christians now, because of what this guy did.ā
He goes on to say that heās never advocated violence. Either heās delusional or heās an outright liar because thatās exactly what heās doing.
āI donāt believe in, you know, taking the law into our own hands,ā he says. āI would never o in and shoot up a gay barāso called. I donāt believe itās right for us to be a vigilanteā¦But I will say this:
āThe Bible says that homosexuals should be put to death, in Leviticus 20:13.Ā Obviously, itās not right for somebody to just, you know, shoot up the place, because thatās not going through the proper channels. (Uh, WTF?)
āBut these people all should have been killed, anyway, but they should have been killed through the proper channels, as in they should have been executed by a righteous government that would have tried them, convicted them, and saw them executed. Because in Leviticus 20:13, Godās perfect law, he put the death penalty on murder, and he also put the death penalty on homosexuality.
āThatās what the Bible says, plain and simple.ā
Andersonās hatred of the LGBTQ community makes obscene the idea of kindness, of treating each other with love and respect. He makes a mockery of this in his archaic views of homosexuality.
āSo, you know, the good news is that at least 50 of these pedophiles are not gonna be harming children anymore. The bad news is that a lot of the homos in the bar are still alive, so theyāre gonna continue to molest children and recruit people into their filthy homosexual lifestyle.
And he says heās not sad that this tragedy occurred.
āIām not sad about it, Iām not gonna cry about it. Because these 50 people in a gay bar that got shot up, they were gonna die of AIDS, and syphilis and whatever else. They were all gonna die early, anyway, because homosexuals have a 20-year shorter life-span than normal people, anyway.
In an address at the White House, President Barack Obama said the shootings are āan act of terror and act of hate.ā
This kind of violence can hit any American community, but āthis is an especially heartbreaking day for our friends who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, ā he said.
The gunman, American-born Omar Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, Florida, had pledged allegiance to ISIS. This is the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. and the nationās worst terror attack since 9/11, with 50 people gunned down, authorities said.
During the attack, Mateen called 911 and pledged allegiance to ISIS, and alluded to the Boston Marathon bombers, said one official. He was shot and killed by Orlando police.
Here are these two men, who ascribe to a hateful, vengeful God, two religions that are vastly different and yet share the same hate. How utterly sad that the rest of us have to suffer for their deadly beliefs, their deadly homophobia.