Steven Anderson

Biography

Steven Anderson is an American Baptist Fundamentalist pastor that runs the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona (FWBC). Anderson openly expresses Islamophobic, anti-semitic, and anti-gay sentiment through a Baptist fundamentalist worldview. The FWBC, according to its website, is an “old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible only, soul-winning Baptist Church”. The Church also opposes worldliness, modernity and liberalism.

Anderson praised the gunman that killed 49 people in an attack on a gay nightclub in Florida in 2016, stating that “these people all should have killed anyway, since the Bible says that homosexuals should be put to death”. Anderson was banned from traveling to numerous countries, including Ireland, which banned him in May 2019 - the first time a person was granted an exclusion order under an Irish law that was passed in 1999. In 2016, South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister stated that he identified Anderson as an undesirable person to travel to South Africa as the constitution prohibits hate speech, subsequently banning him from entering the country. He is also banned from the UK and was deported from Botswana in 2016 following a hate-filled speech broadcast on local radio.

Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

August 2019: Anderson stated in a sermon that “Islam is a disgusting, evil, violent, hateful, wicked, violent religion of conquest and death, further adding that Muslims are ignorant, unintelligent, inbred fools who should follow Jesus Christ or be damned”. Anderson also vilified the Prophet Mohammad in the same sermon by calling him all manners of different profanities.

July 2018: In a BBC documentary, Anderson told the interview that “he doesn’t have any advice for homosexuals except for putting a bullet in their own heads so you don’t molest my kids or anyone else’s kids”.

2013: Anderson stated in sermon that while he knows that there was sin in American sixty or seventy years ago, he is ashamed and disgraced that America has begun accepting all “this sodomy, this filth and this garbage” in reference to homosexuality.

2009: Anderson used biblical scriptures to justify his prayer for former U.S. President Barack Obama’s death, saying he’d like to see Obama melt like a snail the way abortions “melt like snails”.

Video Links:

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