Faithful Word Baptist Church Pastor Steven Anderson of Tempe, Arizona, has been called out on many occasions for demanding the implementation of a Leviticus 20:13 governmental solution to gay people. We must be stoned and not in the good way. Reckoning that requiring gay people be stoned to death might not appear to be very Christ-like, the pastor of Independent Fundamental Baptist church asked that their name be stricken from Anderson's church directory. Not that this particular pastor doesn't still find homosexuality to be a "wickedness," he does. He just doesn't think it rises to the necessity of hurling large rocks at our heads until we're dead.
That was a step too far for fellow pastor David Berzins of Word of Truth Baptist Church of Tempe Arizona. Berzins went on an epic rant in front of his congregation to defend his friend-in-stoning, Steve Anderson. Calling out the apostasy of this "limp-wristed" pastor, even though he still likes the guy personally, Berzins took him to the woodshed for being a "soft-spined individual" who was unwilling to do the Lord's work.
Just because they don't believe that they should be stoned, which, I think is very clear. Right now I draw a question to anybody who is going to question God's, look...God came up with the laws of the Old Testament! They're breathed by the Lord. And if you think that you know better on how to run a country than God has ordained, you think that your laws are better...Oh, and this is what drives me nuts, is that the same people who complain that "they threw the Ten Commandments out of our courtrooms"...The same Christians that are complaining about the Old Testament law being thrown out of the courtrooms now will not stand up in defense of a man of God that is believing that God's word is pure, and that God's judgment is righteous on the Sodomites. And when you choose to be disassociated and break fellowship with a fellow Christian or a fellow church over something like that, you are just giving the enemy that much more ground and you're letting them win.
What a true friend David Berzins is to fellow wannabe genocidal maniac Steve Anderson. Calling out another fine but limp-wristed pastor for not having the moxie needed to murder people takes unyielding courage and Christian love.
It is easy to dismiss Anderson and Berzins as extremist religious nut jobs who viciously cherry pick the Bible in order to justify their raging bigotry. Not so easily dismissed are the people who listen to them and take heart and guidance in their dangerous rhetoric.
Then there is Chief Alabama Justice Roy Moore and the group he founded: The Foundation for Moral Law. Just this past Monday, the group, who is now headed by Moore's wife, Kayla, filed an amicus brief in preparation for the Supreme Court hearing the decisive marriage equality case. The brief proudly cites Leviticus 20:13 as well as a British law adopted under Henry the VIII in 1533 which required the death penalty for those pesky Tudor sodomites.
Doesn't this perfectly underscore why we so urgently need to install iron-clad Religious Freedom Restoration Acts all across this country? Doesn't it wake you up to the dangers of a "bad" Supreme Court ruling come June? Not only are our weddings not to be catered and floral arrangements denied, the door must be left open for our summary execution, hallelu.