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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 04:14 PM Sep 2016

Pastor who made homophobic comments about the Orlando shooting just got deported from Botswana

Botswana has decided to deport the American pastor who became notorious over his homophobic comments after the Orlando nightclub shooting. Pastor Steven Anderson was spouting his anti-gay message on a Botswana radio station when immigration officers entered the studios and escorted him out on Sept. 20, according to the radio station’s news report. The Botswana government announced via Twitter that Anderson was now considered a “prohibited immigrant.”

Anderson was banned from entering South Africa last week after the country’s government decided that his sermons amounted to hate speech. South Africa’s LGBTQI community began lobbying the government soon after Anderson’s comments over the Orlando nightclub shooting made headlines. Botswana’s LGBTQI community also lobbied their government, but failed to stop Anderson from entering the country last week.

“I feel sorry for people who live in South Africa, but thank God we still have a wide open door in Botswana,” Anderson said after hearing about his ban from South Africa.

Anderson was allowed to preach in Botswana and open a local branch of his church, even after a scuffle with protestors, the preacher said in a YouTube post. But his comments on Botswana’s radio station GabzFM proved too much. Anderson said that Botswana’s citizens clearly struggled with alcoholism and “drunkenness,” and that religious leaders were “toothless” who allowed women to preach and relied on translated Bibles that were “corrupted pieces of junk” when compared to the King James version. He again repeated his views that gay people should be killed. As the breakfast show wrapped, agents were waiting for Anderson to escort him away.

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http://qz.com/786419/botswana-deports-controversial-pastor-steven-anderson-notorius-for-his-homophobic-comments-on-the-orlando-nightclub-shooting/

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Pastor who made homophobic comments about the Orlando shooting just got deported from Botswana (Original Post) n2doc Sep 2016 OP
so....where does he go now? chillfactor Sep 2016 #1
Someplace where he can whine about quote religious persecution unquot n/t Vogon_Glory Sep 2016 #2
Imagine how red faced he'll be when he finds out the KJV bible is also corrupted? GoDawgs Sep 2016 #3
Good call but which group of people did he have to piss of to get the boot? Eugene Sep 2016 #4
Officially too uncivilized for Africa. Old Union Guy Sep 2016 #5

GoDawgs

(267 posts)
3. Imagine how red faced he'll be when he finds out the KJV bible is also corrupted?
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 06:22 PM
Sep 2016

Ever since TRMS showed this scum after the Orlando terror attack, each incident about him gets nastier and more bizarre.

Eugene

(61,874 posts)
4. Good call but which group of people did he have to piss of to get the boot?
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 01:20 PM
Sep 2016

He insulted darn near everybody.

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