Anti-gay pastor challenges all women to arm-wrestling match to prove he’s not ‘faggoty’

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Fearless Hetero Pastor Steven Anderson is trying to prove how heterosexual and manly he is by challenging women to an arm-wrestling match.

Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Phoenix is one of America’s most homophobic pastors, previously calling for the execution of gay people by stoning.

He openly celebrated the Orlando massacre in June, telling his congregation: “The good news is that there’s 50 less paedophiles in this world, because, you know, these homosexuals are a bunch of disgusting perverts and paedophiles.”

In a new sermon this month, Anderson declared that any man who isn’t “faggoty” should be able to demand obedience from his wife.

He said: “The Bible teaches that the husband is the head of the wife and that wives should obey their husbands.

“People have been doing it my way for the past 6000 years and it’s worked out great, but we’re supposed to get on this trendy little faggoty type of relationship.

“Me and my wife are supposed to have the same authority? That doesn’t appeal to me. Being a hetero kind of a guy, I want to be different from my wife.

“We as Christians should follow a Biblical lifestyle, and honestly women are just as happy in this lifestyle as men, when the husband is the leader.

“Women are not wired to want to be in charge and rule over a man. Even the feminist women deep down are like ‘please rule over me’.”

He added: “I challenge any woman right now to come up and arm wrestle me right now. I’m going to make the challenge that I’ve made over and over again.

“I’m not the strongest man in the world. Any woman can come up and arm wrestle me right now. And if you can come up and defeat me in an arm-wrestling match, I’ll admit women are as strong as men.

“I’ve had about five women take me up on that over the years and they went down and they went down hard, alright? Hah!

“I even made my wife arm-wrestle me.”