South Africa bars American pastor over anti-LGBT hate speech

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press

By Associated Press · Tuesday, September 13, 2016

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has barred an American pastor who has made anti-gay comments from entering the country.

Malusi Gigaba, the home affairs minister, said Tuesday that Steven Anderson and members of the Faithful Word Baptist Church of Tempe, Arizona will not be allowed to travel to South Africa because they allegedly promote hate speech.

Gigaba says South Africa is still struggling to curb discrimination despite laws that are among the most “progressive” in the world. He says the country does not “need more hatred advocated to our people.” Anderson has made harshly critical comments about homosexuals. His church website lists a “soul-winning marathon” in Johannesburg on Sunday.

Activists had urged South Africa’s government to bar him from entering.

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[SunSeeker]

1. Good. nt

[Aristus]

2. Wow. When South Africa is telling you to tone down the hate speech, it's

time to take notice...

[niyad]

3. no kidding!!!

[niyad]

4. stevie and his bunch are about as welcome as the wbc. where is a good tornado when you

need one????

[matt819]

5. Well here's a question

If we enter bizarro world and trump is elected, will countries declare him persona non grata and bar his entry?

We do that with North Korea and have done it with Cuba and others, allowing them in only for UN attendance. Mexico City has also said he is not welcome. Can you just see it? A worldwide movement to prevent the American president from entering their countries.

[calimary]

6. Sounds like another one of the Deplorables to me.

I'd want him banned, too, if he was trying to spread that cancer to other shores.

First of all, this dude is NOT spreading the Message of Christ. Or at least the Christ I learned about in Catholic school. That Christ is inclusive, loving, tolerant, not judgmental. He hung out with the societal rejects of the day - those at whom everyone else looked down their noses and shunned. Poor people, sick people (including the untouchables like those with leprosy), tax collectors - whom nobody liked. He made it a point to do that. Loved and accepted and included and did not reject. His Message was for THEM, TOO.

THIS asshole - perverts and defiles the Message of Christ. And they're right to deny his entry. Having said that, I realize that I, too, kinda am doing that same thing. Excluding. Condemning. Well, yeah. Guilty as charged. 'Cause Christ's Message was for ALL. So it's a conundrum. But in this case, I side with the victims of the persecution, rather than the persecutors.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Good. Too bad we can't ban him.

[Judi Lynn]

8. So little Pastor Steve will have to miss his “soul-winning marathon.” It'll break his heart.

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He'll just have to make up for it by hating more human beings from his own church.