Bob Enyart
Bob Enyart | |
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Born | Robert Enyart January 10, 1959 Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
Cause of death | COVID-19 (according to the mainstream media)[1] |
Residence | Arvada, Colorado |
Occupation | Religious radio |
Title | Pastor |
Spouse(s) | Krista (1981–1989) Cheryl Mayns |
Website | Official website |
Bob Enyart (January 10, 1959 - September 12, 2021) was an American conservative talk radio host, author, political commentator, pro-life advocate, and pastor of Denver Bible Church. He was best known for buying nearly $16,000 worth of O.J. Simpson memorabilia, including his Hall of Fame induction certificate, at an auction benefiting the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1999, four years after the trial. He then led a group which set fire to the items on the steps of a Los Angeles courthouse in protest at the verdict in the O. J. Simpson murder case.[2][3]
Enyart was also known for his less politically correct views on homosexuality and abortion. Enyart picketed the homes of doctors performing abortions resulting in one Colorado town banning such protests in residential areas.[4]
Enyart also angered families of AIDS victims when he read the men's obituaries on his television show calling the deceased "sodomite"s.[5]
Enyart also led residential protests against executives of a company which provided construction services for Planned Parenthood offices leading to similar neighbor complaints.[6]
Later in life, Enyart criticised mostly liberal presidential candidates who did not share his somewhat politically incorrect view on abortion.[7]
Enyart was a proponent of corporal punishment of children. He said that their "hearts are lifted" by spanking.[8]
He was convicted for misdemeanor child abuse in 1994 after beating his girlfriend's child with a belt so hard that the beating broke the skin.[9][10]
A series of late night phone calls by Enyart to the general manager of the Kenosha, Wisconsin station which carried his program but publicly disagreed with Enyart's views prompted Senator Russ Feingold to call for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigation to see if any laws had been broken by the talk show host.[11]
In June 2009, Bob Enyart was convicted of criminal trespass following a protest at Focus on the Family.[12]
Enyart was also the first cousin of Michael Galluccio, a gay rights activist in New Jersey.[13]
Enyart was called a mid-Acts ultradispensationalist.[14] "Ultradispensationalism" is the point of view that the Church was founded later than on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2), persons with that point of view differing in exactly when the Church was founded.[15]
Enyart opposed mandated vaccinations and mask mandates for COVID-19. He died on September 12, 2021, aged 62, in Denver, Colorado.
References
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/14/bob-enyart-radio-host-dies-covid-19-boycott-vaccine-colorado
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- ↑ Ryrie, Charles: Dispensationalism Today.
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- American anti-communists
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- American people of Italian descent
- People from the Denver metropolitan area
- People from Paterson, New Jersey
- 1959 births
- 2021 deaths
- Ex-gay movement
- American pro-life activists