Pastor Steve Anderson prays Obama dies of Brain Cancer like Ted Kennedy

[RamboLiberal]

Days like this I hope there is a heaven and a hell for I'm sure if there is Anderson & Broughton will have a nice hot time after they die. What un-Christian sick f*cks!

Asked about pastor Steven Anderson and gun-toter Chris Broughton's repeated wishes for President Barack Obama to die, Special Agent Darrin Blackford of the Secret Service sends along this statement:

"We are aware of the situation and appropriate follow up will be conducted."

Broughton is the member of Anderson's Faithful Word Baptist Church who brought an AR-15 rifle and a hand gun to an Obama event in Phoenix earlier this month. Anderson later confirmed to TPMmuckraker that just 24 hours before that show of arms-bearing, Broughton attended the pastor's fiery sermon in which he prayed for "Obama to melt like a snail tonight" for being a "socialist devil, murderer, infanticide."

And yesterday, Broughton and Anderson took their statements even further, with the pastor saying he'd like Obama to die of brain cancer like Ted Kennedy, and Broughton for the first time publicly saying that he, too, would like the president to be dead.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/secret_service_aware_of_gun-toter_and_pastors_pray.php

The violent anti-Obama sentiment coming out of central Arizona managed to get still more toxic over the weekend.

Chris Broughton, the man who brought an AR-15 rifle and a handgun to an Arizona Obama rally earlier this month, says he "concurs" with his fundamentalist pastor's prayer for President Obama "to die and go to hell."

And in an interview with a local TV station, pastor Steven Anderson himself elaborated on his statement to TPMmuckraker that he would prefer Obama to die of natural causes so "he's not some martyr."

"I don't want him to be a martyr, we don't need another holiday. I'd like to see him die, like Ted Kennedy, of brain cancer," Anderson now says.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/gun_toter_i_like_my_pastor_want_obama_to_die.php?ref=fpa

[joeybee12]

1. How can Obama be an infanicide? n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Oh come on! Don't you know he was pregnant at 16 with a Kenyan baby???

:crazy:

[babylonsister]

2. Now, how to tie these assholes definitively to the rethug party.

I'd like to hear one rethug defend this. :grr:

[The Doctor.]

13. Uhhh... that's pretty much a foregone conclusion.

No 'tying' need be done. These assholes belong to today's psychotic Republican party.

[babylonsister]

17. Have you heard one rethug disown them? Me neither. nt

[The Doctor.]

25. Precisely the point.

Tacit approval is tantamount to endorsement in these cases.

[RidinMyDonkey]

3. I too hope there is a hell for this man to burn in

Some of the things people say just surprise the hell out of me. Never once in 8 years of the Bush presidency did I wish actual disease and death upon him.

That's just fucking sick.

[hobbit709]

4. Karmic justice would involve a bolt of lightning.

[noiretextatique]

6. hey chris...why don't you come to oakland?

and tell some of the brothers here about your wish for obama's death. and bring your gun.

[Deep13]

7. that's an assassination attempt

That fundy priest solicited the help of a deity to kill the president. He had the intent and took a substantial step (the prayer) to do it. The fact that no deity was listening to his prayer and thus the end result was impossible does not negate the attempt.

[The Doctor.]

14. Hehehe... you've proven intent.

That's novel.

[Deep13]

29. Not really. Prosecutors do it everyday in courtrooms.

Usually it is circumstantial. Intent has to be inferred from ones actions. Sometimes there is direct evidence in the form of witness testimony about planning or statements made by the defendant. In this case all the prosecution has to do is take the preacher at his word.

[rebel with a cause]

8. Good Christian ideology!

This is what I call following the teaching of Jesus. That is if you are walking backward and doing everything Jesus said not to do.

[RamboLiberal]

9. Phoenix New Times report from "the church"

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I asked him about the ex-Secret Service agent on CNN's Sanchez show talking about how he was walking a very thin line with the law, and that he might be perceived as exhorting others to violence.

"Anyone who listens to that whole sermon will hear that I very clearly said, `Hey, we shouldn't take the law into our own hands, we're not a vigilante (group),'" he claimed, adding, "`This is what justice is, but it's not our job to wrestle against flesh and blood. It's a spiritual battle.' And I made that very, very clear. and they all know that...That's why they haven't knocked on my door, despite what they said."

Anderson claimed he wasn't backpedaling on his incendiary, Obama-should-die-and-go-to-hell sermon, though that's exactly the way it sounded to me.

"I even said, clearly to many people, `I hope he dies of natural causes, 'cause then he won't be a martyr, ya know? And what good is that?'" explained Anderson. "Stop and think about it, if someone were to kill Obama, okay, then we have Biden, and whatever. It's not going to be any different.

"I'm not out saying, `Let's kill him,'" continued the preacher man. "I'm out saying, this is what the Bible teaches, that he is worthy of death for what he has done. God is the judge. Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord."

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2009/08/my_chat_with_steven_anderson_c.php

[RamboLiberal]

10. CBN calls this clown "Absolutely Nuts and a Looney"

A Hateful "Sermon" Against President Obama

Maybe you've heard about this "sermon" or maybe you haven't. But before we go any further let me just say one thing: this guy is absolutely nuts.

Steve Anderson, the "Pastor" at Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe Arizona is out of control and the Secret Service is on to him.

Anderson preached a sermon a few weeks ago called, Why I Hate Barack Obama". Some transcription highlights (more like lowlights) are below along with the full video of the sermon and a CNN Report about it.

Ok, where do I begin? Let me first say that the reason I decided to post this is to expose this guy as a looney. CNN and other media outlets have reported it so it has gained a decent amount of traction. You may say this guy isn't worth reporting on but The Brody File sees it as a moment to clarify the difference between true Bible believing Christians and crazies like Anderson.

http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2009/08/31/a-hateful-sermon-against-president-obama.aspx

[femrap]

11. These people are the reason

I bought a gun. Never thought that would happen. But I never thought people would become so utterly hateful and willfully ignorant either.

[windoe]

12. Karma will come back to haunt him one way or another.

[zulchzulu]

15. What Bible do these people read from? Was Jesus for praying for other people to die of diseases?

I'd like the asshat to point out in the Bible where you wish death upon someone else via a horrible disease. Would this guy's "God" answer his prayers?

:puke:

[budkin]

16. Don't worry folks... Karma's got it covered.

Believe that.

[HopeOverFear]

19. I know that's right

^5

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. I pray that Steve Anderson is arrested.

Then gets buttraped by a large inmate.

Except he'd porbably like it.

[NotThisTime]

20. How can inciting public hatred and violence towards a President be legal?

I mean seriously, how is this even legal? Freedom of speech only goes so far?

[CreekDog]

21. Because murdering in one's mind is not a sin

for the good pastor. :eyes:

[NotThisTime]

22. but advocating it in a church to your flock surely should be

[CreekDog]

24. do i really need that sarcasm thingy?

:shrug:

[RamboLiberal]

23. If a guy can get 37 months in prison for joking in a bar

about a "Burning Bush", then why in the hell aren't the Secret Service or FBI frogmarching these two idiots?

But then Richard Humphreys of Portland, Oregon, made an absurd and no less surrealistic comment about a "burning Bush" during Dubya's March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls. He was sentenced to 37 months in prison for making the comment in a bar. "I said God might speak to the world through a burning Bush," Humphreys testified during his trial. "I had said that before and I thought it was funny."

http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo06302004.html

[RFKHumphreyObama]

26. What a smelly bigot

He should be careful of karmic justice.

[BlueIdaho]

27. Funny...

I've been praying pastor Steven Anderson dies a slow and painful death from bone cancer...

I wonder who's going to win the pray-off?

[Thrill]

28. Well they prayed for rain during the DNC in Denver, How did that work out?

[GivePeaceAchance]

30. They want to watch their negative praying do the recall when they prayed for rain at the DNC ...

convention. Turned out the GOP convention got floods, praying for bad things can only bring themselves misfortune there is a big lesson in that, will they learn from that lesson.