He produced a documentary titled Marching to Zion in which he "championed a wide range of antisemitic stereotypes", according to Matthew H. Brittingham of Emory University.
[2][a] Anderson has been banned from many countries, in succession: South Africa, the United Kingdom, Botswana, Canada, Jamaica, the Schengen Area, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Anderson was born in Sacramento, California to an Independent Baptist family, and he attended Woodcreek High School, in Roseville.
[7] The church has been described as an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, because Anderson has advocated the death penalty for homosexuals.
"[9] Emory University PhD candidate Matthew Brittingham suggested that Anderson is part of a connected but "diffuse group of theologically-focused, antisemitic Christian conspiracists who deny the Holocaust.
[11][c] The church received national attention in the United States in August 2009, when Anderson delivered a sermon—entitled Why I Hate Barack Obama—in which he said he prayed for the death of the president.
[14] Anderson told local television station KNXV-TV that he would like it if Obama were to die of natural causes because he does not "want him to be a martyr" and "we don't need another holiday.
[5] In 2009, Anderson had a confrontation with United States Border Patrol agents at an interior checkpoint on Interstate 8, about 70 miles (110 km) east of Yuma, Arizona.
He refused to move his car or roll down his windows, triggering a 90-minute standoff and the calling of Arizona Department of Public Safety officers to the scene.
[24][25] In a YouTube video, Anderson mentioned a planned missionary trip to Malawi to set up a church there,[26] but Malawian authorities subsequently made it known that he would not be welcome in the country and that he would also be banned from entering it in the future.
She later converted to fundamentalist baptist Christianity, and they married in 2000; as of June 2023[update], the couple has twelve children, eight of whom are minors and homeschooled.