TPMMuckraker Faithful Word Baptist Church: August 2009
Faithful Word Baptist Church
Secret Service 'Aware Of' Gun-Toter And Pastor's Prayers For Obama To Die
Justin Elliott | August 31, 2009, 12:14PM
Faithful Word Baptist Church, Tempe, Arizona
Asked about pastor Steven Anderson and gun-toter Chris Broughton's repeated wishes for President Barack Obama to die, Special Agent Darrin Blackford of the Secret Service sends along this statement:
"We are aware of the situation and appropriate follow up will be conducted."
Broughton is the member of Anderson's Faithful Word Baptist Church who brought an AR-15 rifle and a hand gun to an Obama event in Phoenix earlier this month. Anderson later confirmed to TPMmuckraker that just 24 hours before that show of arms-bearing, Broughton attended the pastor's fiery sermon in which he prayed for "Obama to melt like a snail tonight" for being a "socialist devil, murderer, infanticide."
And yesterday, Broughton and Anderson took their statements even further, with the pastor saying he'd like Obama to die of brain cancer like Ted Kennedy, and Broughton for the first time publicly saying that he, too, would like the president to be dead.
No word on what form the Secret Service's follow up will take. And the agency would not comment on a CNN report that it interviewed Anderson.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (68) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (17)Topics: Chris Broughton, Faithful Word Baptist Church, Gun-Toters, Steven Anderson
Gun-Toters
Gun-Toter From Obama Event: I, Like My Pastor, Want The President To Die
Justin Elliott | August 31, 2009, 11:18AM
Pastor Steven Anderson and Chris Broughton
The violent anti-Obama sentiment coming out of central Arizona managed to get still more toxic over the weekend.
Chris Broughton, the man who brought an AR-15 rifle and a handgun to an Arizona Obama rally earlier this month, says he "concurs" with his fundamentalist pastor's prayer for President Obama "to die and go to hell."
And in an interview with a local TV station, pastor Steven Anderson himself elaborated on his statement to TPMmuckraker that he would prefer Obama to die of natural causes so "he's not some martyr."
"I don't want him to be a martyr, we don't need another holiday. I'd like to see him die, like Ted Kennedy, of brain cancer," Anderson now says.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (82) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (12)Topics: Chris Broughton, Faithful Word Baptist Church, Gun-Toters, Steven Anderson
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