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Related: About this forumIreland bars Christian fundamentalist pastor Steven Anderson from entering country
Source: The Guardian
Ireland bars Christian fundamentalist pastor from entering country
Immigration law used for first time to deny entry to anti-gay preacher Steven Anderson
Henry McDonald
Mon 13 May 2019 14.43 BST Last modified on Mon 13 May 2019 16.05 BST
An anti-gay US Christian fundamentalist pastor who has been accused of Holocaust denial has become the first person to be barred from entering Ireland under a 20-year-old immigration law.
Steven Anderson was due to travel to Dublin on 26 May to preach in the city, but the Irish justice minister, Charlie Flanagan, took the unusual step to ban him from coming into the country.
More than 14,000 people signed an online petition set up by the Christian gay rights campaign group Changing Attitude Ireland calling on the Irish government to block Andersons trip to the country. The organisation claimed that in the past he had advocated exterminating LGBT+ people.
Confirming the barring order under the 1999 Immigration Act, Flanagan said: I have signed the exclusion order under my executive powers in the interest of public policy.
It is the first time the Irish government has used the legislation to bar anyone from the country.
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Immigration law used for first time to deny entry to anti-gay preacher Steven Anderson
Henry McDonald
Mon 13 May 2019 14.43 BST Last modified on Mon 13 May 2019 16.05 BST
An anti-gay US Christian fundamentalist pastor who has been accused of Holocaust denial has become the first person to be barred from entering Ireland under a 20-year-old immigration law.
Steven Anderson was due to travel to Dublin on 26 May to preach in the city, but the Irish justice minister, Charlie Flanagan, took the unusual step to ban him from coming into the country.
More than 14,000 people signed an online petition set up by the Christian gay rights campaign group Changing Attitude Ireland calling on the Irish government to block Andersons trip to the country. The organisation claimed that in the past he had advocated exterminating LGBT+ people.
Confirming the barring order under the 1999 Immigration Act, Flanagan said: I have signed the exclusion order under my executive powers in the interest of public policy.
It is the first time the Irish government has used the legislation to bar anyone from the country.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/13/ireland-bars-christian-fundamentalist-pastor-steven-anderson-entering-country
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Ireland bars Christian fundamentalist pastor Steven Anderson from entering country (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2019
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Pachamama
(17,004 posts)1. Top of the morning to you Ireland!!!
Amen
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,877 posts)2. K & R! So when does Anderson get his White House invite?
sinkingfeeling
(52,958 posts)3. Thanks, Ireland. You deserve a medal.
MineralMan
(147,334 posts)4. Wonderful!
Cartoonist
(7,507 posts)5. This must be that persecution Pence was talking about.
Of course, it's perfectly alright to advocate the killing of gays.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)6. Although Ireland is not part of schengen
If they have not already - the EU will follow Ireland's example which means the whole schengen area will be off limits... 27 countries will tell him to GTFO!
johannsyah
(58 posts)7. good riddance
he should've planned a trip to Russia instead