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Homophobic asshole Steven Anderson

Last week Brent Paxton wrote this story for Dallas Voice about the government of South Africa banning LGBT-hating so-called “pastor” Steven Anderson from entering their country because of his nasty anti-LGBT “sermons” and hate speech.
Now officials with the government of Botswana have announced that they have deported Anderson from that country. Botswana President Ian Khama of Botswana on Tuesday, Sept. 20, told Reuters he had ordered that Anderson be arrested and deported.
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 that morning that gays and lesbians should be killed.
That kinds of hatefulness is par for the course for Anderson, “pastor” at Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona, who applauded the June 12 massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, saying after the shooting that “there’s 50 less pedophiles in this world.”
During the radio interview Tuesday, Anderson said that the government should kill lesbians and gays, said the victims at Pulse were “disgusting homosexuals who the Bible says were worthy of death” and called for pedophiles and adulterers to be killed and said the Bible barred women from preaching in church.
Botswana immigration officers were reportedly with Anderson when he left the radio station, but he has denied being deported, saying instead that he left voluntarily.
According to the Washington Blade, a spokesperson for the organization Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana said that group was told Anderson assaulted someone who attended his church service in Botswana on Monday, Sept. 19, claiming on the LGBB blog that Anderson called the person “a fag, a homosexual … with a mouth full of AIDS” before having the man forcibly removed.
Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana had called on their government last week to follow South Africa’s lead and bar Anderson from the country, the Blade reports, and this week applauded the government’s decision to deport him, “in the process defend[ing] its citizens.”