Anti-Gay Pastor Arrested And Deported From Botswana

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Controversial U.S. Pastor Steven Anderson reacts as he leaves the Botswana Department of                            immigration on Sept. 20. 2016

Steven Anderson told a local radio station that gays and lesbians should be killed.

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President Ian Khama of Botswana said on Tuesday he had ordered the arrest and deportation of U.S. pastor Steven Anderson, who was banned from neighboring South Africa last week over his anti-gay views.

Anderson, of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona, notoriously welcomed the gunning down in June of 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida by saying “there’s 50 less pedophiles in this world.”

Khama told Reuters he had ordered Anderson’s immediate arrest and deportation after the pastor said in an interview with a local radio station in the capital Gabarone on Tuesday morning that gays and lesbians should be killed.

 Can we start doing this in the United States? Of course, no, we cannot.  But if haters keep wanting to ship us out, why can't we threaten the same?

“He was picked up at the radio station. I said they should pick him up and show him out of the country,” Khama said in an interview. “We don’t want hate speech in this country. Let him do it in his own country.”

The president said Anderson had been put on a visa watch-list two days ago after being barred from South Africa but appeared to have slipped into Botswana before all border posts were fully alerted.

Banning him from South Africa on Sept. 13, that country’s home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba also equated Anderson’s views with hate speech.

Anderson denied he was being deported.

“I am not being arrested. I am leaving Botswana voluntarily,” he told witnesses at the radio station, adding in the local Setswana language that he loved Botswana very much.

During Tuesday’s radio interview, in which he also called for pedophiles and adulterers to be killed and said the Bible barred women from preaching in church, Anderson said he had arrived in Botswana last Thursday from Ethiopia.

Onkokame Mosweu, a commentator on gay and lesbian affairs, welcomed the government’s move to remove Anderson, adding: “He should have never been allowed to come to Botswana in the first place.”

(Reporting by Ed Cropley; Writing by Tiisetso Motsoeneng; Editing by Catherine Evans)

Published on Jun 19, 2016

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"Ever since the massacre of 49 patrons at an Orlando gay bar in the early hours of yesterday morning, we’ve been doing a lot of talking about religion. The shooter’s religion, in particular, has been brought up, given his self-proclaimed ties to the Islamic State. The shooter’s imam was even interviewed. Conversely, Christianity has been brought up, as well, especially as ardently Christian politicians who have voted against the best interests of the LGBT community have issued vaguely-worded condemnations of the attack while leaving out the fact that it targeted a gay bar.

In short, religious ideologies and the differences between them get people heated up very quickly. Now, the following video may get you heated up very quickly, because it shows a Christian pastor outlining “the good news and the bad news” about the massacre.

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Hosts: John Iadarola, Wes Clark Jr., Jimmy Dore,
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