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Faithful Word
Baptist Church |
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09/28/2026 |
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Pastor
Steven Anderson of
Tempe's Faithful
Word Baptist Church.
Screenshot via YouTube. |
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Faithful Word
Baptist Church is a
fundamentalist
Independent Baptist
church in Tempe,
Arizona, that was
founded by Steven
Anderson. Members of
the church meet in
an office space that
is located inside a
strip mall. In
August 2009, the
church received
national attention
when Anderson stated
in a sermon that he
was praying for the
death of
then-president
Barack Obama. The
Southern Poverty Law
Center (SPLC) listed
Faithful Word
Baptist Church as an
anti-gay hate group,
citing its pastor's
"extremely radical
stance" that
homosexuals should
be judged and
executed according
to the Law of Moses.
Its documentary
titled Marching to
Zion was labeled as
antisemitic by the
Anti-Defamation
League. Its pastor
was refused entry to
South Africa,
Botswana, Jamaica,
Canada, the United
Kingdom, the
European Union, the
Republic of Ireland,
Australia, and New
Zealand. |
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Sources:
Wikipedia,
Ballotpedia & Vote
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Pastor Who Called
For Execution Of Gay
People Accused By
His Children Of
Abuse |
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"Steven
Anderson is the
self-appointed
leader of the New
Independent
Fundamentalist
Baptist (NIFB) sect.
For more than a
decade, he has
advocated the
execution of gay
people, and his
hateful, violent
rhetoric has seen
him banned from
multiple countries,
including the U.K.,
Ireland and
Botswana. Anderson
garnered national
attention in 2009
for a sermon called
“Why I Hate Barack
Obama,” in which he
exhorted his
congregation to pray
for the president’s
death. The day after
the sermon, ABC News
reported that a
parishioner named
Christopher
Broughton brought an
AR-15 and handgun to
an event where
President Obama was
addressing a
veterans group.
Anderson often
refers to LGBTQ+
people in
dehumanizing,
pejorative terms
like “sodomites” and
“reprobates.” In
2014, he delivered a
sermon just before
World AIDS Day
called “AIDS: The
Judgment of God.” He
claimed the cure for
AIDS could be found
in the biblical book
of Leviticus, which
calls for men who
have sex with men to
be put to death.
Anderson said: “We
can have an
AIDS-free world by
Christmas. Okay, it
wouldn’t be totally
AIDS free, but we’d
be like 90-some
percent AIDS-free by
Christmas if we
follow this.” He
celebrated the
Orlando Pulse
nightclub shooting,
saying that there
were “50 less
pedophiles in this
world.”" |
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Dec. 12, 2024 |
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Pastor
Steven
Anderson Is
Notorious For His
Hatred Of LGBTQ+
People. Now His Son
Is A Nazi. |
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"Hate preacher
Steven Anderson’s
son has repeatedly
and consistently
identified himself
as a Nazi on social
media. Steven
Anderson, of the
Faithful Word
Baptist Church
in Tempe, Arizona,
has gotten
international
notoriety for his
sermons where
he celebrates the
deaths of LGBTQ+
people and praises
people like the
Pulse nightclub
shooter, who killed
49 people in the
LGBTQ+ venue." |
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Oct. 6, 2023 |
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Christian Hate-Pastor Steven Anderson Has Found A Way Around His YouTube Ban |
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Sep. 8, 2020 |
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In The Midst Of
Infighting,
Anti-LGBTQ Church
Network’s Website
And Social Media
Disappear |
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Feb. 21, 2020 |
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'Death to Gays' Pastor: Fires Ravaging Australia Because "It Banned Me" |
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Jan. 6, 2020 |
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Australia Bans Homophobic Pastor Who Said 'I Wish Every Homo Would Die' |
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Jul. 24, 2019 |
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Here's What Got Extremist Pastor Steven Anderson Banned From Ireland |
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May 20, 2019 |
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Anti-Semitic Arizona Preacher Steven Anderson, Who Says Homosexuals Should Be Executed, Banned From Netherlands |
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May 2, 2019 |
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"Kill The Homos" Pastor And Hate Group Leader Steven Anderson Pushes Into The Last
Frontier |
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Apr. 3, 2018 |
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Arizona Preacher Who Called For Gay People To Be Stoned To Death Banned From Jamaica |
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Jan. 30, 2018 |
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Botswana To Deport Tempe Pastor Who Made Anti-Gay Comments |
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Sep. 20, 2016 |
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Homophobic American Pastor Steven Anderson Prohibited From Bringing His Bible-Thumping Fuckery To South Africa |
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"Marking a big win for South Africa's LGBT community, Home Affairs will prohibit American anti-gay pastor Steven Anderson from visiting the country." |
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Sep. 13, 2016 |
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Tempe Pastor Hails Orlando Massacre For Leaving '50 Less Pedophiles In This World': Video |
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Jun. 13, 2016 |
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Meet The Pastor Who Told Me He Hoped I Got Brain Cancer And Died |
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Feb. 2, 2016 |
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Oh Lord, Spare Me! Another Anti-Gay, Anti-Semitic, Islamophobic Pastor Is Coming to Dearborn, Mich. |
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Jun. 22, 2015 |
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Anti-Semitic Pastor Steve Anderson Promotes Holocaust Denial |
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"Steve Anderson the
anti-Semitic pastor
of the
Faithful Word
Baptist Church
in Tempe, Arizona,
denies the Holocaust
in a video he posted
to YouTube last week, claiming that the
millions of Jews who were gassed and burned
in ovens simply died of hunger and disease
due to forced labor and war." |
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Jun. 1, 2015 |
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Pastor Calls For LGBT Holocaust To Eradicate AIDS By Christmas |
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Dec. 3, 2014 |
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Pastor’s Wife At Faithful Word Baptist Excuses Domestic Abuse |
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Jan. 20, 2011 |
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Protesters Rally Against Pastor's 'Why I Hate Obama' Sermon |
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"The pastor delivered a sermon last month that was entitled, "Why I Hate Barack Obama," and called on his parish to pray for the death of the president." |
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Sep. 7, 2009 |
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