Steven Anderson #fundie #homophobia

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(An excerpt from Hannah Livingston's BBC Documentary, America's Hate Preachers. Bolding is from the original quote.)

ANDERSON: To normal people, homosexuality [and] pedophilia are disgusting. To a normal person.

LIVINGSTON: Why do you put pedophilia and homosexuality in the same group?

ANDERSON: They are in the same group! Because any man who would have sex with another man would have sex with anything. Period. Like, I’ll put it this way: Any man who would have sex with another man would have sex with an animal.

LIVINGSTON: That’s blatantly not true, though!

ANDERSON: It is true! That’s reality. Even if you don’t think it’s reality—

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LIVINGSTON: What do you think homosexuals should do, then?

ANDERSON: Kill themselves, as far as I’m concerned, because they’re horrible, wicked people. They’re just gonna keep molesting and destroying people. So I don’t have any advice for homosexuals, except to put a bullet in your own head so that you don’t molest my kids or anyone else’s kids.

34 comments

old comment by Psycho Tits

Anderson is a loud mouthed and empty headed manchild with NO formal theological training, a life experience that left him with a litter of kids before he had 30 yeears - and he no longer supports the family he made; as a result of a bunch of stupid stunts he pulled a few years ago, he lost his business when major cotractors dropped him. As far as I know, his church and online donations (and probably food aid from the government, but hush hush) are what keep him and his housed and fed. He has NO right to be proud when he is in truth so prone to both folly and to blatant dishonesty.

Fred Phelps, by contrast -and no I'm not defending his views - for all his bad qualities, was a better man than Steve. He was a civil right lawyer who ensured all his kids, including the girls, got college educations. He had formal theological training. His descendents, whether they remain at WBC or have moved on, were taught a marketable work ethic. Margie Phelps, for example, has won awards for her service to the juvenile corrections systems in Kansas.

old comment by Swede

To a normal person, homosexuality is just a normal variation, but pedophilia is disgusting. To a normal person.
To a homophobe, on the other hand, the two different groups seem the same. Until the homophobe is found so deep in a closet he's friends with Mr. Tumnus.

Because any woman who would have sex with a man would have sex with anything. That makes as much sense as Stevie-boy's drivel.

The real reality differs from your imaginary reality, dearie. Few men who have sex with other men want to have sex with children or animals. Most pedophiles are heterosexual males, or have no adult sexuality at all.

Priests and pastors molest more children than homosexuals do. Should all priests and pastors also kill themselves then, as they are (supposedly) even more horrible, wicked people?

old comment by Hasan Prishtina

Half of me thinks pretty much the same as Psycho Tits; this guy has made his career from being the theological equivalent of Donald Trump or Alex Jones and this gives him what he loves most of all: publicity.

The other half comes from being an American family living in the UK. There are a fair number of British preachers who would agree with Anderson, but we only find out about them when recordings get leaked; to give an interview like this would invite prosecution for hate speech. So there aren't shows like this about hate preachers in the UK. As such, this show is a way for many British people to deny that such things happen there while feeding their need to feel superior to Americans, all in the name of serious journalism.

old comment by PETF

Well pedophilia(attract to childern under 10/11)and hebephilia(attract to childern ages 10/11-14)and/or in their 2nd or 3rd stage of puberty) is disgusting, but hopefully most of them do their best to not to harm minors. Matter of fact they didn't choose to become like this; they were either born that way and/or was a product of their environment.

Ps. The reason why I didn't put in ephebophilia(attract to thoes ages 15-19 and/or in their 4th or 5th stage of puberty) because that's when they being to look like adults(starting at the 4th stage of puberty and ending at the 5th satge); however having sex with 15-17 is still wrong.

http://www.yrshr.org/informationbase_desc.asp?id=1

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebephilia

old comment by Anon-e-moose

Paedophilia is a sin. Suicide of fundie Christain nonces would make us gladder. While the world may be a better place if all the fundie paedo apologists killed themselves, the ends still justify the means*. What they need is Persecution. [/Sauce For The Goose]

Of course there are right-wingers/Christians who are paedos, but they're living a life of nonce sex.

And are Josh Buggar and Tony Alamo righteous Christians because they are Saved, KiddyDiddlingCondoner4God? Because fuck knows we've been waiting for an answer to that question - a simple 'Yes' or 'No' - for so long.

If I can answer that question 'No', what's your excuse?

*- http://www.fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=108712

@KiddyDiddling[I]Condoner4God

"I can't help but feel the world would be a better, happier place if all the homosexuals [...] would just [...] Kill themselves."

We can't help but feel the world would be a better, happier place if all the right-wing Fundamentalist Christains were publicly tortured to death.

...what's that, you say? Sounds too much like... Persecution? Well, now you lot know how you sound to everyone else.

See how that works, KDC4G...?!