Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Right wingers...do you stand behind this??

Below, you'll find a compilation audio, courtesy of Crooks and Liars, of Pastor Steven Anderson rambling on about a variety of subjects, but the key for this website is the part where he directly advocates and prays for the death of Barack Obama.

Yeah, God appointed him to destroy this country for the wickedness of the United States of America. God appointed him because that's what our country has turned into. That's who we deserve as a president.

But let me tell you something: I don't love Barack Obama. I don't respect Barack Obama. I don't obey Barack Obama. And I'd like Barack Obama to melt like a snail tonight. Because he needs to recompense, he needs to reap what he's sown.

You see, any Christian will tell you that someone who commits murder should get the death penalty. Because that's what it says in Genesis Chapter 9, that's what it says in the Mosaic Law, that's what it teaches us throughout the Bible. 'Who so sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.' 'From the image of God created he Man.'

And when Barack Obama is gonna push his partial birth abortion, his salty saline solution abortion, hey, he deserves to be punished for what he's done. I'm not going to pray for God to bless Barack Obama. This is my prayer tonight to Barack Obama.

...Now, look, if somebody wants me, it somebody twisted my arm and tells me to pray for Barack Obama, this is what I'm going to pray, because this is the only prayer that applies to him: 'Break his teeth, O God, in his mouth. You know, as a snail which melteth, let him pass away. Like the untimely birth of a woman, that he thinks -- he calls it a woman's right to choose, you know, he thinks it's so wonderful. He ought to be aborted. It ought to be, 'Abort Obama.'



He continues:

Let me tell you something: Barack Obama has wrought lewdness in America. America has become lewd. What does lewd mean? L-E-W-D? [Pause] Obscene. Right? Dirty. Filthy. Homosexuality. Promiscuity. All of the -- everything that's on the billboard, the TV. Sensuality. Lewdness! We don't even know what lewdness means anymore! We're just surrounded by it, inundated with it!

... And yet you're going to tell me that I'm supposed to pray for the socialist devil, murderer, infanticide, who wants to see young children and he wants to see babies killed through abortion and partial-birth abortion and all these different things -- you're gonna tell me I'm supposed to pray for God to give him a good lunch tomorrow while he's in Phoenix, Arizona.

Nope. I'm not gonna pray for his good. I'm going to pray that he dies and goes to hell. When I go to bed tonight, that's what I'm going to pray. And you say, 'Are you just saying that?' No. When I go to bed tonight, Steven L. Anderson is going to pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell.

You say, 'Why would you do that?' That our country could be saved.

It's a fair question to ask at this point, if you are of a Conservative Persuasion, if you are a Republican, if you just don't like the President, do you stand behind this kind of rhetoric??

Okay fine. Odds are, you don't. Then why are you silent??

Going back eight years, I'll admit, I loathed President Bush. I hated his freakin' guts...but at no time did I pray or advocate for his death, or any sort of harm to come to his family.

Never.

I wanted to kick his ass at the ballot box.

I put up what stories I can find showing Republicans standing up this kind of stuff because frankly, I want to encourage more of it. But I got to tell you, it's kinda rare. It's disturbingly rare.

It's time to start calling this for what it is. It's time to face to facts. There are a number of Religious leaders, a number of Politicians, and certainly a number of Television Hosts (Glenn Beck comes immediately to mind), that are frankly trying to get the President killed.


I'd like to thank Dan Savage, who appeared on last night's Countdown with Keith Olbermann and became the first white person I know of to say this publicly, on national TV. He says so at the 7:13 mark.

Dan is good people, and really fine journalist. He's was also the first journalist (much less, a Gay American) to come out an say that African-Americans were not to blame for the passage of California Prop. 8.