Pastors Praise Orlando Killings Of ‘Vile, Perverted Predators’ (VIDEO)

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After 49 people were gunned down in an Orlando gay nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, pastors in California and Arizona praised the gunman for massacring “perverted predators” and “pedophiles.”

In Sacramento, Pastor Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist Church said the killer succeeded in making Orlando safer.

“Are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today?” Jimenez said in a sermon originally posted on YouTube. “Um no, I think that’s great! I think that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida is a little safer tonight.”

In the sermon, delivered just hours after the rampage on Sunday morning, Jimenez also said, “I wish the government would round them all up, put them up against a wall, put a firing squad in front of them and blow their brains out.”

Tempe, Arizona preacher Steven Anderson also rushed to praise the “good news” that “there are 50 less pedophiles in this world.”

In a video posted online, Anderson, a pastor at Faithful Word Baptist Church, said while he wouldn’t advocate for violence, he said LGBT people should be “executed by a righteous government.”

“The bad news is that a lot of the homos in the bar are still alive, so they’re going to continue to molest children and recruit children into their filthy homosexual lifestyle,” he said, adding the attack would be used to attack Christians and push gun control.

“I’m not sad about it, I’m not gonna cry about it because these 50 people in the gay bar that got shot up were going to die of AIDS and syphilis and whatever else,” he continued. “At least these dangerous, filthy predators are off the streets. I’m just trying to look on the bright side.”

Both videos have been pulled from YouTube for violating the site’s policy on hate speech, but you can watch Anderson’s message, captured by the Phoenix New Times:

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  1. Evil, evil, evil.

    Such un-Christian utterings.

  2. Christ would approve of this?

  3. They seem nice.

    Maybe Gingrich can name them advisers to his new HUAC committee.

  4. Avatar for drf55 drf55 says:

    Just goes to show that radical religious beliefs that can lead to this sort of violence aren’t limited to the Muslim world.

  5. And the media cluelessly wonders why this tragedy ever happened. But hey - RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

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