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Ireland bars Christian fundamentalist pastor Steven Anderson from entering country
Source: The Guardian
Ireland bars Christian fundamentalist pastor from entering country
Immigration law used for first time to deny entry to anti-gay preacher Steven Anderson
Henry McDonald
Mon 13 May 2019 14.43 BST Last modified on Mon 13 May 2019 16.05 BST
An anti-gay US Christian fundamentalist pastor who has been accused of Holocaust denial has become the first person to be barred from entering Ireland under a 20-year-old immigration law.
Steven Anderson was due to travel to Dublin on 26 May to preach in the city, but the Irish justice minister, Charlie Flanagan, took the unusual step to ban him from coming into the country.
More than 14,000 people signed an online petition set up by the Christian gay rights campaign group Changing Attitude Ireland calling on the Irish government to block Anderson’s trip to the country. The organisation claimed that in the past he had “advocated exterminating LGBT+ people”.
Confirming the barring order under the 1999 Immigration Act, Flanagan said: “I have signed the exclusion order under my executive powers in the interest of public policy.”
It is the first time the Irish government has used the legislation to bar anyone from the country.
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Immigration law used for first time to deny entry to anti-gay preacher Steven Anderson
Henry McDonald
Mon 13 May 2019 14.43 BST Last modified on Mon 13 May 2019 16.05 BST
An anti-gay US Christian fundamentalist pastor who has been accused of Holocaust denial has become the first person to be barred from entering Ireland under a 20-year-old immigration law.
Steven Anderson was due to travel to Dublin on 26 May to preach in the city, but the Irish justice minister, Charlie Flanagan, took the unusual step to ban him from coming into the country.
More than 14,000 people signed an online petition set up by the Christian gay rights campaign group Changing Attitude Ireland calling on the Irish government to block Anderson’s trip to the country. The organisation claimed that in the past he had “advocated exterminating LGBT+ people”.
Confirming the barring order under the 1999 Immigration Act, Flanagan said: “I have signed the exclusion order under my executive powers in the interest of public policy.”
It is the first time the Irish government has used the legislation to bar anyone from the country.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/13/ireland-bars-christian-fundamentalist-pastor-steven-anderson-entering-country
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