Posted on 05/13/2019 8:05:03 AM PDT by Ennis85
A controversial US preacher has become the first person to be banned from Ireland under a 20-year-old power.
Steven Anderson, a pastor from Arizona, runs the Faithful Word Baptist church and openly expresses anti-gay and anti-Semitic views.
His website claimed that he was due to preach in Dublin on 26 May.
However, an online petition calling for Mr Anderson to be banned from Ireland was created in response, and gained 14,000 signatures.
Mr Anderson has previously called for the death of former US President Barack Obama and praised the gunman who killed 49 people in an attack on a gay night club in Florida in 2016.
Who is Steven Anderson?
Steven Anderson is one of America's most controversial preachers.
He was born and raised in Sacramento, California, and started the Faithful Word Baptist Church in December 2005 from his Arizona living room.
According to the church's website, he met his wife Zsuzsanna "while soul-winning" as an 18-year-old on the streets of Munich in Germany.
The couple have been married for more than 17 years and have 10 children.
The church's website says Mr Anderson has memorised "well over 140 chapters of the Bible".
The website describes the church as an "old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible only, soul-winning Baptist church".
Mr Anderson claims to have his materials translated into more than 115 languages.
Irish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan signed an exclusion order for Mr Anderson with immediate effect on 10 May under the Immigration Act 1999.
It is the first time an exclusion order has been granted since the creation of the act 20 years ago.
Mr Anderson has been banned from a number of countries, including the UK.
Mr Flanagan said he had signed the order "under my executive powers in the interests of public policy".
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For the record, before anyone comes to his defense, this is also the guy who claims dinosaurs didn’t exist (see, fossils were planted by Satan to trick people).
Hopefully nobody here comes to that guy’s defense. He’s wayyyyy over the top.
Holocaust denier, too. Complete bottom feeder.
Just read the Wiki account of his church. I’m a baptist myself and he’s pretty weird. Probably a jerk as well. But...banned from a country? I’m sure Ireland has a lot worse than him running around.
Seems this is just more of the “You must admire and applaud homosexuality or you will be destroyed’ stuff.
Did they ban m*slim preachers? their religion mandates throwing gays off tall buildings.
Makes Westboro Baptist look mainstream.
But...banned from a country? I’m sure Ireland has a lot worse than him running around.
Maybe, maybe not. But I can't blame them for not wanting one more coming in.
The guy is obviously a nutcase, and most people can see that, so why do you need to ban him? It’s the old “First they came for the communists, and I said nothing because I wasn’t a communist . . . “ sort of thing. They start with actual extremists, then they define extremism down, and before long anyone to the right of Stalin is an extremist, and Stalin ISN’T an extremist.
OK, just watched part of this and he’s outright repulsive!
“Pastor Steven L Anderson Exposed Faithful Word Baptist Church Tempe AZ”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0eCagNIGJU
That's all I need to know. Just because some kook calls himself Christian does not make it so. I can call my motorcycle a 747, but that does not mean it will fly.
Fringe wack job of the Fred Phelps ilk. Sounds like a chaplain for the Klan.
“But I can’t blame them for not wanting one more coming in.”
Listened to a little of his preaching on YouTube and he’s repulsive. That said...not sure he is any more repulsive than a lot of muslim clerics or ‘abortion rights until the moment of birth’ types in the democrat party.
I’m more of “The answer to bad speech is good speech” kind of guy. I get very nervous about governments deciding who gets to speak or not. And as a practical matter, the guy will get a lot more publicity now than he would have if Ireland just ignored him.
Europe doesn’t believe in free speech. It believes in near total government control. I’d rather see a debate between this guy and a real Christian than see government ban him.
This guy claims the KJV bible translation is more authoritative than the original Greek texts.
It’s amazing to me how LBG & Whatever have come to rule Earth
And are they flocking to Ireland?
I’m more of “The answer to bad speech is good speech” kind of guy. I get very nervous about governments deciding who gets to speak or not.
The Ireland may not be the place for you.
And as a practical matter, the guy will get a lot more publicity now than he would have if Ireland just ignored him.
But not his message, which is what he wanted to begin with.
SJWs passed the law to ban anyone from entry regarding thought crimes.
Then SJWs demanded enforcement through twitter against this guy.
Welcome to the totalitarian state.
Yes they are - as part of EUs mandatory refugee acceptance program.
Glad to see you support Trump and building the wall.
I bet he hates the doctrine of election.
So Ireland is now the land of sodomites. Interesting. Their ancestors must be spinning.
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