Botswana deports anti-gay Arizona preacher who celebrated Orlando massacre
Source: Newsweek
20 SEP 2016 AT 09:33 ET
Botswana is deporting an American preacher who has made openly homophobic statements and who was recently banned from entering South Africa.
The Botswana government tweeted Tuesday morning that Steven Anderson, a preacher from the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, had been declared a prohibited immigrant and as such was being deported from the southern African country.
Botswanan newspaper Mmegi reported that Anderson was being held at the countrys immigration department awaiting deportation.
Botswanan immigration officers reportedly detained Anderson following an interview with national radio station Gabz FM in the capital Gaborone. During the interview, Anderson stated that he thinks the government should be killing homosexuals and that people who commit adultery should be stoned to death.
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George II
(67,782 posts)rurallib
(62,346 posts)sounds like he belongs in one of those theocratic countries like Iran or Saudi Arabia.
George II
(67,782 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,831 posts)Where's HLS when you really need them?
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)ColemanMaskell
(783 posts)I've read that a number of African and third world countries have been afflicted with a minor invasion of people like Steven Anderson, because it has gotten increasingly more difficult for such people to preach their hate in the USA. Personally I'd like to see the USA take the guy back and put him on trial. I don't know if he can be tried for what he did in Africa, but I wouldn't expect a long wait until he commits his next crime. However it seems unlikely he'll return home; probably he'll just go to some other small country and continue his anti-ministry.