More than 6,000 people have signed an online petition calling for US pastor Steve Anderson to be banned from entering Ireland.
An independent Baptist, Anderson is a co-founder of the Faithful World Baptist Church in Arizona, a church which is currently listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre. Despite founding the church in 2005, Anderson received public attention within the last few years due to his open anti-LGBT+ views and rhetoric, as well as many other hateful standpoints.
Anderson publicly opposes abortion, taxes, feminism, LGBT+ people, and big government. He has called for a cure for AIDS by having governments kill all gay people, celebrated the Pulse Massacre, claimed the Holocaust never happened, and calls for the return of slavery.
The petition, which is available to sign on Change.org, says, 'Steve Anderson is a Holocaust-denier, Islamophobe and anti-LGBT+ extremist.'
Anderson has previously been banned from South Africa, as well as from entering the United Kingdom whilst travelling. Could Ireland become the latest country to ban this hateful bigot?
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