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Article: A Dangerous Kind of Hate
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- September 12, 2009
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On Aug. 16, pastor Steven L. Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist
Church in Tempe, Ariz., told his congregation that he prays for the
death of President Obama. In a sermon titled "Why I Hate Barack
Obama," Anderson preached: "I'm not going to pray for his good, I'm
going to pray he dies and goes to hell."
Anderson is not the only man of the cloth to wish widowhood upon
Michelle Obama. In June, the Rev. Wiley Drake of First Southern
Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif., said he was praying for the
president's death.
Anderson, however, was explicit in his wish. "I'd like him to die
of natural causes. I don't want him to be a martyr; we don't need
another holiday. I'd like to see him die, like ...