Chris Broughton, the man who brought an assault rifle and a handgun to the Obama event in Arizona last week, attended a fiery anti-Obama sermon the day before the event, in which Pastor Steven Anderson said he was going to "pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell", Anderson confirmed to TPMmuckraker today. Anderson also said Broughton had informed the pastor about his planned show of arms-bearing, but "he planned out the AR15 thing long before he heard that sermon," delivered Sunday August 16 at the fundamentalist Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ. his is the second example of the gun-toters at the Arizona Obama event tied to the violent fringes of American life. "I don't obey Barack Obama. And I'd like Barack Obama to melt like a snail tonight," Anderson said in the sermon.
The sermon, which was titled "Why I Hate Barack Obama" and also contained virulent anti-gay themes, continued:Listen to the full sermon here:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/pastor_of_gun-tot...
It is written: by the fruit of the spirit you will know them . . .
and: the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, . . .
and therefore are they known, by the fruit of their own lips. Adorned with the holy vestments they do preach hate, intolerance, and wrath without cause.
Therefore, BY GOD let them be judged . . .