Pastor Steven Anderson is the first person banned from Ireland

Steven L. Anderson — who grabbed headlines when he prayed for the death of former President Barack Obama in 2009 and in 2016 when he praised the gunman who killed 49 people at Florida’s Pulse nightclub — was set to visit Dublin May 26 to preach to an unspecified congregation, the Irish Times reported.

Numerous LGBT rights groups had called for Anderson to be barred from entering the country, with over 14,000 people signing a Change.org petition to that effect.

 In response, Irish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan signed an order under the nation’s 1999 Immigration Act banning the pastor. It’s the first exclusion order signed since the law was enacted.


Pastor Steven Anderson is the first person banned from Ireland

John Earnest, alleged synagogue shooter, was a churchgoer who talked Christian theology, raising tough questions for evangelical pastors - The Washington Post

Before he allegedly walked into a synagogue in Poway, Calif., and opened fire, John Earnest appears to have written a seven-page letter spelling out his core beliefs: that Jewish people, guilty in his view of faults ranging from killing Jesus to controlling the media, deserved to die. That his intention to kill Jews would glorify God.

Days later, the Rev. Mika Edmondson read those words and was stunned. “It certainly calls for a good amount of soul-searching,” said Edmondson, a pastor in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, a small evangelical denomination founded to counter liberalism in mainline Presbyterianism. Earnest, 19, was a member of an OPC congregation. His father was an elder. He attended regularly. And in the manifesto, the writer spewed not only invective against Jews and racial minorities but also cogent Christian theology.

So the pastor read those seven pages, trying to understand. “We can’t pretend as though we didn’t have some responsibility for him — he was radicalized into white nationalism from within the very midst of our church,” Edmondson said.
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But the branch of Christianity that Earnest comes from does not share that belief, Messiah College historian John Fea pointed out. In Reformed denominations, including Earnest’s Presbyterian tradition, “replacement theology” teaches that the Christian church has replaced the Jewish people in God’s biblical promises to Israel.

“This guy is operating in this very strict Reformed theology,” Fea, who studies evangelicalism, said of Earnest. “In replacement theology, all the promises to Israel in the Old Testament now apply to the church, so there’s no particular end-times reason to not be anti-Semitic. The Jews are no longer God’s chosen people. . . . If you believe in this replacement theology, that’s not an incentive to go kill Jews, but it does mean Jews are not as important anymore in God’s plan.”

John Earnest, alleged synagogue shooter, was a churchgoer who talked Christian theology, raising tough questions for evangelical pastors - The Washington Post

Gordon Winrod May Be Re-Establishing in N. Dakota - Story

Gordon Winrod, 85, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after kidnapping six of his grandchildren from North Dakota and brainwashing them on his farm in Ozark County. The six children would even take turns guarding the large compound with loaded guns.

Winrod sent letters to residents in the Ozarks with anti-Semitic messages such as  "Jews are the Satanists, who lust to murder", the Springfield post office received over 400 complaints at the time. 

Winrod was arrested in 2000 after his farm was raided. Once he was in jail, authorities had to take him out and bring him to the farm to get the six kids to come out of the compound, because without him there, they would not leave.

He was released from jail in May 2012 after serving just over 10 years in federal prison.

According to KFGO in Fargo, N.D., Shannon Maresh is fearful that her grandfather will restart his cult at an old High School in Kulm, N.D. and brainwash others much like her brothers and sisters were in the 1990s.

Gordon Winrod May Be Re-Establishing in N. Dakota - Story

Homophobic, Anti-Semitic Chaplain Officer of the Year | MRFF

A major war is being viciously waged against the United States of America, a war that’s global in scope and poses a terrifying threat to our national security interests. The ruthless attacks, which this conflict has generated, have inflicted grievous damage to nothing less than the U.S. Constitution itself, as well as the foundational core values of the United States armed forces. While the mainstream media has been woefully asleep regarding this raging conflict, the Pentagon has verified through its own official publications that the war has already led to vast transformations within the armed forces. Religious fanatics are spearheading this pernicious worldwide campaign and, no, I’m NOT referring to Shia or Sunni Islamic jihadists…. but “jihadist” was a good guess. I’m referring, of course, to our very own fire & brimstone fundamentalist Christian crusaders, both within uniform and without, who have seemingly infiltrated every echelon of the United States armed forces. These religious extremists are bolstered by legions of civilian zealots, parachurch organizations, legislators, and persons of influence who are carrying out their own grievous massacre of bedrock civil rights under the banner of “religious freedom.”

You want the latest proof? Witness the appalling appellation and homage recently given to USAF Chaplain (Capt.) Sonny Hernandez, 445th Airlift Wing Chaplain Corps: freshly crowned as the “Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Individual Mobilization Accession Company Grade Officer of the Year” at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Dayton, Ohio. The official statement regarding this newly benighted Company Grade Officer of the Year sounds wonderfully amazing and ecumenical. Well, don’t cue the U.S. Air Force band rendition of Kumbaya yet, folks – the plot’s about to thicken with bountiful bile and phlegm.

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So, my friends, the next time some fanatical Jesus freak from the “Family” Research Council, the American “Family” Association or the “Liberty” Institute (or some other Orwellian-named fundamentalist Christian hate-group) comes along and tries to sell you the unadulterated crap that the U.S. military under President Obama has become a “hostile environment for Christians”, in general, and hideously hostile to those poor, oppressed, pious military chaplains (like “Officer of the Year” Chaplain Hernandez) in particular, inquire about whether they also have some magic beans or love potions to sell you. You may then inform them with the cold, hard, irrefutable facts of the uber-dominating, Dominionist Christian influence pervading our armed forces, and the war on real religious liberty that is being waged.

Homophobic, Anti-Semitic Chaplain Officer of the Year | MRFF

ADDENDUM::Pastor ‘scams’ Jewish clerics for film - www.jewishaz.com: Community

Earlier this year, Rabbi Leo Abrami, a Holocaust survivor who has served at Reform and Conservative synagogues throughout his decades-long career, was contacted by a man who said that he was making a documentary explaining some aspects of the Jewish faith. He offered to come to Abrami’s home in Sun City West and arrived with a cameraman. His visitor turned out to be Anderson, although Anderson identified himself as “an interested layperson” who was curious about Judaism, Abrami said. “I made the mistake of not Googling him before he came.”
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“The subterfuge that he used to get these interviews from us is beyond belief,” said Wiener, who noted that the man mentioned a PBS documentary. “When he used the words PBS to me, it sounded legitimate and I didn’t pursue it any further,” he said.

Mann said he feels “like it’s a responsibility to explain Judaism to anyone that’s interested” and is asked to do so frequently. “I’m very open about this and I don’t suspect that anyone has any ulterior motives,” he said. He was contacted this past summer and although he said he doesn’t remember the particulars, he remembers being told by his interviewers that they were working on a documentary about religion in general and that they wanted someone to speak about Judaism.
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They were all asked to sign a release to approve use of the material from the interviews. Now, all four are being used in promotional materials for “Marching to Zion,” an anti-Jewish film that is slated to be released in March 2015.
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In a promotional video, Anderson said that the film has two purposes: “to prove that the Jews are no longer God’s chosen people in the New Testament but that we as believers, we as Christians, are God’s chosen people. And secondly, to prove that the modern-day nation of Israel over in the Middle East is a complete fraud.”
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ADL informed the clerics that they should be aware of what the film is going to be about and if they have concerns about the film, that they should seek legal counsel, said Marilyn Mayo, a director of ADL’s Center on Extremism. “It’s important that the community be aware of Steve Anderson and who he is and what he’s really about and should educate itself about who is in their midst.”
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“The pastor misrepresented himself,” he said. “He was lying to me all along. ... I’m not letting it go, whenever I can I will fight back.”

Mann also said that he has spoken to his attorneys and will be “pursuing all legal remedies against all the parties who were involved in this heinous scam.”

Pastor ‘scams’ Jewish clerics for film - www.jewishaz.com: Community

Free Speech Exercised, Tested At UK's Constitution Day | WUKY

So I was doing a bit of digging on Robert "With Jews We Lose" Ransdell and found this gem. Only issue, I'm not sure what aspect of this entire incident is the stupidest - Ransdell's racist rant or the "initial" response from UK Rural Journalism director Al Cross.

The right of free speech was tested however with the appearance of U-S Senate write-in candidate Robert Ransdell who used his allotted time to deliver a racist rant about the "Jewish-owned and controlled media," as well as to "stress the need for this nation's white majority to recognize that they have ethnic interests," before having his microphone cut off by the sound crew.

The horrified high school teachers then hustled their students to their respective buses, prompting this rejoinder from UK Rural Journalism director Al Cross.

"You've just witnessed in this hall a laboratory experiment about the extent and nature of free speech. I think most of you found the remarks of the write-in candidate deeply offensive, however in this country people do have the right to speak, even if their views are offensive. Now organizations can have their own rules about how much access they are going to give people like that but they do have a right to speak," Cross said.

And yes, there are First Amendment issues involved which I may address later on.


Free Speech Exercised, Tested At UK's Constitution Day | WUKY

ADDENDUM::Gushing Over Graham, or, How Much is That Anti-Semite in the Window? | Mark Axelrod

As I was writing up my post concerning Pat Robertson's tirade against Mikey Weinstein of MRFF, I was reminded of an "incident" that came to light in 2002 involving none other than the Rev. Billy Graham.

"This stranglehold (i.e. the Jewish one) has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain," said Graham who went on to agree with more anti-Jewish Nixonian comments.

"You believe that?" Nixon goes on.

"Yes, sir," Graham says.

"Oh, boy," counters Nixon. "So do I. I can't ever say that but I believe it."

Graham continues, "No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something,"

During the same exchange, Graham says he has Jewish "friends" in the media, who "swarm around me and are friendly to me." But, he continues, "They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country."

What some may remember is that this private exchange took place in 1972 and was first publicized in H.R. Haldeman book The Haldeman Diaries (1994). Even though I had left the church by then, I hadn't quite come out of the atheist closet (that didn't occur privately till 97 and "publicly" until 1998/9.) I was still agnostic, still holding on to some "hope" of salvaging my immortal soul. I grew up on Billy Graham, every televised crusade, three attended in person. My introduction to Corrie Ten Boom came through Graham. I'm fairly certain that when Halderman's book was released, this revelation would have rocked my world, but I remember nothing.

But why is this important? What makes Billy Graham's anti-Semitic remarks different from Robertson's?

If one digs deeper, the remarks are the "same," just different words. "Tuesday, Feb. 1, 1972 entry, Haldeman wrote "There was discussion of the terrible problem arising from the total Jewish domination of the media, and agreement that this was something that would have to be dealt with" (Diaries, 405). According to James Warren, a Chicago Tribune staff reporter, in an article dated March 1, 2002, Haldeman also said that, "Graham has the strong feeling that the Bible says there are satanic Jews and there's where our problem arises."

Unlike Robertson, Graham did issue an apology, "Although I have no memory of the occasion, I deeply regret comments I apparently made in an Oval Office conversation with President Nixon and H.R. Haldeman some 30 years ago. They do not reflect my views and I sincerely apologize for any offense caused by the remarks."

In his public life, unlike Robertson, Graham was never heard to speak ill of those of the Judaic religion. "The one thing critics of Billy Graham have failed to come up with is a single act, a single syllable in the public career of Mr. Graham that could be interpreted as anti-Semitic. There can't be another living American whose day-by-day life has been more minutely examined. When did he say anything anti-Semitic? When did he egg on critics of the Jews? When did he by inflection, let alone declaration, seek to undermine the Jewish state?"

Unlike Robertson, Rev Graham did not "attack" a specific individual. "'There’s a left-wing radical named Mikey Weinstein who has got a group about people against religion or whatever he calls it, and he has just terrorized the armed forces,' Robertson opined. 'You think you’re supposed to be tough, you’re supposed to defend us, and you got one little Jewish radical who is scaring the pants off of you.'”

But, no matter how one were to look at both Graham and Robertson, they remain anti-Semitic in their sentiments. Apology or not. And yes, the 2002 disclosure pretty much shut down any return to the church. When an icon falls (Ted Haggard, Jim Bakker, Benny Hinn), reason does not allow one to turn back the clock.

Gushing Over Graham, or, How Much is That Anti-Semite in the Window? | Mark Axelrod

UPDATE::MRFF's Testimony Before the House Armed Services Committee Cancelled

As usual, I got a we bit sidetracked (the Cherron Phillips Sovereign case) whilst waiting for the release of Mikey' Weinstein's digital copy of his now cancelled testimony before the House Armed Services Committee. Along with that, I was also wondering and waiting on his reaction (if any) to Pat Robertson's anti-semitic diatribe

First up, Mikey's testimony as provided by MRFF,,,

It is 78 pdf-pages long and thoroughly breaks down the issue of religious coercion in the military. It is "divided" in to three basic sections, with the first section detailing numerous testimonials from individuals helped by MRFF.

Following that, there is discussion concerning the formation of “Restore Military Religious Freedom Coalition" in regards to the NDAA debate including the Fleming Amendment and detail concerning various incidents that required MRFF intervention, "Just War Theory" being a prominent example highlighting the FRC bogus propaganda “A Clear and Present Danger: The Threat to Religious Liberty in the Military." Basically this sections is MRFF’s response to that report which has been cited and referred to by members of Congress on a number of occasions,

As a third enclosure MRFF includes Chris Rodda's contribution to the book Attitudes Aren’t Free: Thinking Deeply About Diversity in the US Armed Forces. The chapter, titled “Against All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic,” covers numerous issues. that still plague our military; includes incidents and examples related to both our military’s religious proselytizing overseas in combat zones and on military bases here in the US.

Even if you decide not to thoroughly read through Mikey's testimony, this PDF is a good resource to have on hand to combat the Reich's bullshit.

As for Mikey's reaction to Windbag Robertson, I defer to Hemant Mehta,

I called up Weinstein to see if he had anything to say in response to Robertson — as if he ever didn’t have something to say — and he was even more blunt than usual:

“Pat Robertson is to human dignity and sanity and integrity and character what dog shit is to a fine French restaurant on the menu.”

Unquote. I’ve had many phone conversations with Weinstein over the years, but never one that quick. He knew exactly what he wanted to say.

MRFF's Testimony Before the House Armed Services Committee Cancelled

A Neo-Nazi Is Running For The Kentucky Senate On The Slogan 'With Jews We Lose' - The New Civil Rights Movement

Ransdell isn’t only anti-Semitic, he’s a white supremacist. Ransdell laid out his campaign promises on the website Stormfront.org.

“The purpose of this campaign is for it to serve as a medium for pro-White/White Nationalist ideas and principles. The campaign will attempt to expose as many White people as possible to the facts regarding the Jewish role in America's decline as well as highlight the destructive effects that multiculturalism, diversity, and political correctness have had on this country,” he wrote. “This campaign will not simply rest on informing people of the truth but will aim to inspire the people who are reached to work toward solutions to the problems Whites in America face today, solutions that the campaign will provide with much resolve and candor."

Ransdell’s platform is listed on The Renegade Tribune. It includes gems such as “eliminating all foreign aid to non-White third world nations,” solving the “Muslim terror threat” by ending all support to Israel and then deporting all Muslims back to the “Arab world,” and solving the immigration crisis by “adopting a shoot on sight policy.”

A Neo-Nazi Is Running For The Kentucky Senate On The Slogan 'With Jews We Lose' - The New Civil Rights Movement

Relax Ukraine is Not Ordering Its Jews to Register | New Republic

On the other hand, says Vladimir Fedorin, an independent Russian journalist working in Ukraine, we shouldn't totally dismiss these fliers. "I think the fliers are fake, but the anti-Maidan crowd is a collection of the hardcore 'alternative' variety and criminals, so it's possible some of them are capable of this." To wit, there were also reports of teenagers distributing these fliers.

Relax Ukraine is Not Ordering Its Jews to Register | New Republic

See also: 
Someone Is Ordering Eastern Ukraine’s Jews To ‘Register’

Regardless of who printed and distributed them, the Jewish community was less than thrilled by the presence of the flyers. “The Jewish-Ukrainian leadership supports Ukraine’s new government, but it’s hard to tell whether the leaflet is valid or simply a provocation,” Alex Tenzer, a Kiev native and one of the directors of the National Association of Immigrants from the Former USSR in Israel, told Israeli news site Ynet when asked about the flyer’s origin. “Anyway, the material is very anti-Semitic and reminds me of the kind of material distributed by the Nazis in WWII.”