Louie Gohmert Gave $5500 to a Homophobic Holocaust-Denying Preacher — Then Claimed It Was an Accident

On Monday, The Daily Beast reported that Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) had donated $ 5,500 to viciously anti-gay and anti-Semitic Pastor Steve Anderson – and when caught he claimed the whole thing was an unfortunate mix-up .

According to William Bredderman, “The Gohmert team claims they hired a Christian singer named Steve Amerson from Granada HIlls, California, but inadvertently reported to the federal electoral commission that the money was directed to the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona the notorious Pastor Steve Anderson. “

Anderson, whose church is part of the New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Movement, is known for several hideous views, the report said.

“The Church of the Faith of the Word calls for the punishment of homosexuality with the death penalty in the doctrinal declaration published on its website,” the report said. “But that demand seems mild compared to the seething rhetoric that Anderson has unleashed against the LGBTQ community: In a 2014 video posted on his now-deplatformed YouTube account, he stated,” If you are the homos Execute like God recommends, if you didn’t have all these AIDS running around. ‘ In 2016, he applauded the mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, claiming that there are 50 fewer pedophiles in the world. “

But Anderson’s views go much further – he’s also viciously anti-Semitic and denies the Holocaust took place.

“Anderson … has shown particular hostility towards the Jewish people, as evidenced by the titles of the sermons listed on his IMDB page, including ‘The Jews Are Our Enemies’,’ The Jews Killed Jesus’, ‘Unbelieving Jews Are Under God Anger, “Jews worship a female god named ‘Shekinah’ and ‘Jewish Synagogue = Synagogue of Satan'”, says the report. “He also made false claims, as the Anti-Defamation League noted in a 2015 report, that millions of Jews were not gassed and cremated in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.” Dr. Martin Luther King referred to as a “Marxist Lucifer King”, a “false prophet”, a “sexual pervert” and a “communist tool”.

It did so shortly after Gohmert hit the news after asking if the U.S. Forest Service could change Earth’s orbit to combat climate change.