Pharisees And Sadducees: The Religious Right Reacts To Orlando By Doubling Down

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden visited relatives of the Orlando dead yesterday. While they paid their respects, however, some Christian fundamentalists chose to celebrate the massacre.

“The tragedy is that more of them didn’t die. The tragedy is – I’m kind of upset that he [Omar Mateen] didn’t finish the job!” said Pastor Roger Jimenez of Sacramento’s Verity Baptist Church. “I wish the government would round them all up, put them up against a firing wall, put a firing squad in front of them, and blow their brains out.”

Jimenez wasn’t the only one. According to The Washington Post, Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., also praised the shooting.....
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