September 13, 2016
Listen: Arizona Hate Pastor Supports Slavery, Calls Desmond Tutu a 'Pervert in a Pink Dress'
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Here's one way to ensure the government won't allow you into the country. Call a beloved international humanitarian a "pervert in a pink dress."
Tempe hate Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church may have sealed his fate hours before the South African government announced he would be barred from entering the country later this month to embark on a planned "soul-winning marathon."
In an interview with Cape Talk radio personality Kieno Kammies, Anderson blasted South Africa evangelical alliance for distancing themselves from him and condemning his hate speech.
"People like Desmond Tutu and Minister Gigbada and all these other people can go parading around and talk about their pro-homosexual beliefs but they did not get that from the Bible and any Bible believing Christian will know that."
As reported by AP, hours after the interview was released on SoundCloud by Primedia Broadcasting, Malusi Gigaba, the home affairs minister, said Tuesday that Steven Anderson and members of the Faithful Word Baptist Church of Tempe, Arizona will not be allowed to travel to South Africa because they allegedly promote hate speech.
During the interview with Kammies, Anderson took aim at South Africa's 1984 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
"Men like Bishop Tutu don't even claim to believe that The Bible is the word of God," Anderson said. "They believe in a Jesus Christ that is a figment of their imagination. Not the Jesus of The Bible."
"The religious leaders you talk about are a bunch of perverts like that Desmond Tutu who goes around in a pink dress," Anderson continued.
In the same interview, Anderson came out in support of slavery.
"I believe everything in The Bible is right. Every word of it is right. And if The Bible talks about people having indentured servants, then I'm for it. Because I believe that everything The Bible says is right," Anderson said.
"Pastor Steven Anderson, you are nothing but a bloody bigot," Kammies said.
Anderson came to national attention in 2009 when he told his congregation that he was praying for the death of President Barrack Obama. He went on to grab headlines in June 2016 following the mass shootings at gay club Pulse in Orlando when he said "that there were 50 less pedophiles in the world." He has repeatedly called for the death penalty for homosexuals.
H/T Eyewitness News South Africa