Arizona Pastor Calls for Killing of Homosexuals to End AIDS

An anti-gay Sunday sermon by an Arizona-based Pastor has gone viral on the internet. Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, called for the execution of all homosexuals to make the world AIDS-free.

He urged his congregation to open their Bibles to Leviticus 20:13. He said: "I actually discovered the cure for AIDS. Everybody's talking about, 'Let's have an AIDS-free world by 2020.' Look, we can have an AIDS-free world by Christmas," he promised as the people present there laughed.

He continued: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman. it says, even both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. And that, my friend, is the cure for AIDS."

He further said that the world is wasting billions of dollars in research and testing, when the solution has always been there in the Bible. "It's curable - right there. Because if you executed the homos like God recommends, you wouldn't have all this AIDS running rampant."

The Pastor who said that no "queers" or "homos" are allowed inside the church he founded as long as he is there. The video of the sermon is below.

Two Phoenix-based pastors who saw the video said that there was more hate than anything else in Anderson's speech. "I see a lot of drama," said Pastor Vernon Meyer with Sun Lakes United Church of Christ. "That's very offensive when he says 'homo'," AZ Central reports.

However, the most offensive part of the speech is when he compares homosexuals to pedophiles. He says: "All homos are pedophiles. There, I said it, they're all pedophiles."

Jeffrey Dirrim of Rebel & Divine United Church of Christ said: "I do not view him as a pastor. That's not what he's doing."

Pastor Anderson and his wife Zsuzsanna live in Tempe, Arizona with their seven children. The website of the church reveals that the Pastor "holds no college degree but has well over 140 chapters of the Bible memorized word-for-word, including approximately half of the New Testament."

In one section of the site it is also stated that the church can "revolutionize the way you memorize the Bible," and anyone can commit the bible to memory in just five years, The New Civil Rights Movement reports.