Steven L. Anderson — who grabbed headlines when he prayed for the
death of former President Barack Obama in 2009 and in 2016 when he
praised the gunman who killed 49 people at Florida’s Pulse nightclub —
was set to visit Dublin May 26 to preach to an unspecified congregation,
the Irish Times reported.
Numerous LGBT rights groups had called for Anderson to be barred from entering the country, with over 14,000 people signing a Change.org petition to that effect.
In response, Irish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan signed an order
under the nation’s 1999 Immigration Act banning the pastor. It’s the
first exclusion order signed since the law was enacted.
Pastor Steven Anderson is the first person banned from Ireland
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