Dear Pastor Anderson

via Talking Points Memo:

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.

This 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.

So, umm yeah... Is this really how we go around spreading God's love? By wishing misfortune and death on our president?? Clergymen carrying around assault rifles and planning out gun-toting demonstrations?? What for? This is why America is just a messed up place. We have people purporting themselves to be the leaders of what is supposed to be a bastion of morality, yet they encourage violence, for seemingly no reason. What's worse is that he did this in a prayer, a conversation with God. Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but isn't the Golden Rule (from the Bible) to "do to others what you would have them do to you"? Somehow I don't think President Obama would wish death on you, Pastor, though I do think he's gonna be less likely to want to give your church a visit now...