Hate preacher defends unhinged colleague’s alleged wife-beating in shocking video"I'm not going to disqualify a pastor over domestic abuse because the Bible is silent on that."

A notorious anti-LGBTQ+ Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) hate pastor has been caught on tape defending the domestic violence of a fellow hate-mongering preacher in a recently posted covert recording.

In the video recording of a phone conversation between John Anderson — the estranged son of Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona — and Pastor Jonathan Shelley (a fellow anti-LGBTQ+ IFB leader), Shelley bends over backward to excuse John Anderson’s accusations his father beat his mother with an electrical cord countless times, slapped her hard across the face repeatedly, and left her bloodied on numerous occasions.

“My dad’s been meeting with his church members and said, ‘I have never hit my wife, physically laid hands on her,’ which is something that is blatantly not true, because I saw him hit her on a regular basis for years. That’s something my other siblings can attest to. You can ask any of them.”

“It’s important to kind of identify what we’re talking about,” Shelley advises him. “I just want to know from your perspective, you’re saying that you witnessed your dad with a closed fist punch your mom, and you saw that?

“No, I never said that. He slapped her,” John says after detailing the electrical cord beatings and other violent abuse that both he, his siblings and his mother endured.

“I have spoken with your dad about some intimate details. Frankly speaking, he told me that he never closed-fist hit your mom.”

Shelley uses the distinction to justify Steven Anderson’s behavior as “consensual discipline” of a wife by her husband. That distinction, according to Shelley, justifies Steven Anderson’s public denials of his children’s allegations, and the alternative abuse itself.

“Here’s the thing, John,” Shelley says. “I’m not going to disqualify a pastor over domestic abuse because the Bible is silent on that.”

“I asked him if he used physical discipline on your mom,” Shelley continued, “and he told me that whatever he had done between him and your mom was consensual, and that it was behind closed doors, you know, and that whatever his kids were aware of were an exaggeration of what happened.”

Shelley added that wife-beating “in America — that was legal for hundreds of years and exercised by many people regularly.”

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