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Minister encourages his flock to slaughter all gays by Christmas

Steven Anderson
Minister Steven Anderson from Faithful Word Baptist Church Photo: Facebook

America’s most homophobic preacher exhortation to Americans to kill all LGBTQ people is making the rounds again. Steven Anderson’s hatred may have gotten him arrested in Botswana and banned from South Africa, but his freedom of speech allows him to spew his vitriol in America.

In the sermon, Anderson tells his flock that God demands all LGBT people be put to death and encourages them to do “as the Lord commands” by Christmas. The church uploaded the sermon online.

Related: Listen: The anti-gay interview that got American hate pastor arrested in Africa

“Turn to Leviticus 20:13,” he says in the video, “because I actually discovered the cure for AIDS.”

“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them,” Anderson reads.

“And that, my friend, is the cure for AIDS. It was right there in the Bible all along — and they’re out spending billions of dollars in research and testing,” he said. “It’s curable — right there. Because if you executed the homos like God recommends, you wouldn’t have all this AIDS running rampant.”

Anderson goes on to say that LGBTQ people cannot be Christians and that he would not allow gay people to attend his services.

Related: Antigay pastor: Victims of Paris terror attacks deserved to die

“No homos will ever be allowed in this church as long as I am pastor here,” he shouts. “Never! Say ‘You’re crazy.’ No, you’re crazy if you think that there’s something wrong with my ‘no homo’ policy.”

Watch the videos from 2014 below if you have the stomach for it.

https://youtu.be/-7Sixv7uQOM

https://youtu.be/m0zHOfA3kQ4

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