When TikTok creator Nikalie Monroe launched her 'baby formula testing trend' in early November, where she was ringing churches across the US to ask for a single tin of formula during the SNAP shutdown, she intended to highlight how religious institutions respond to people in crisis. But one man, known as Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona, sparked a backlash far beyond her experiment.
Reacting to the experiment, Anderson, who has a long record of inflammatory preaching, made a post on X saying, 'I would be pissed if I donated to a church and they give that money to "single mother" whores.' Later, he released a video defending his statement and claiming he was referring to unmarried mothers whose children are 'bastards.'
