http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/15/1377971/-Pastor-David-Berzins-blows-gasket-because-apostate-pastor-doesn-t-cotton-to-stoning-gays-to-death?detail=email
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.
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.
usurping the word is a right wing evangelical crutch they use to batter anyone who fails to hate their fellow man/woman and instead love thy neighbor like the word actually says. speaking for God is more egregious than any act of love it has that person assuming equality and privy to God as they are cool like that and therefore are made the emissaries of the word because they get it straight from The Lord. more power to them cause hell ain't half full. pray for his children
