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A controversial US preacher has become the first person to be banned from Ireland under a 20-year-old power. Steven Anderson, a pastor from Arizona, runs the Faithful Word Baptist church and openly expresses anti-gay and anti-Semitic views. His website claimed that he was due to preach in Dublin on 26 May. However, an online petition calling for Mr Anderson to be banned from Ireland was created in response, and gained 14,000 signatures. Jamaica bans anti-gay preacher Botswana deports Steven Anderson Anderson: "Hell's...

"Masturbation is homosexuality," says Coach Dave. "You’re having sex with a man." A Christian crusader known as “Coach Dave” is preaching that men who masturbate are basically engaging in gay sex with themselves. Dave Daubenmire, a former Ohio high school football coach who was sued by the ACLU for forcing his players to pray, now shares his biblical interpretations online through his own Pass the Salt ministry. “Masturbation is homosexuality,” Daubenmire tells his followers in a recent video. “You’re having sex with...

'You're gonna laugh at me but you know I'm telling the truth' Internet preacher Dave Daubenmire believes guys who masturbate are gay. The ex-coach said the absurd comments on his daily live web cam show called Pass The Salt. When asked about pornography, Daubenmire said: ‘You just gotta say no to it.’ He continued: ‘If you’re very, very honest about it – masturbation is homosexuality.’ ‘You’re having sex with a man. You get it? You put images of a woman in your mind, but...

Pastor Steven Anderson goes on AIDS rant after he was banned from boarding a plane to Jamaica The Jamaican government has banned anti-gay Arizona pastor Steven Anderson from flying into their country. The preacher believes gays should be stoned to death. He welcomed the Pulse nightclub shooting and argues women should be subservient to men. He is also a Holocaust denier. Anderson received the news while on his way to the Caribbean, on layover in Atlanta, Georgia. Airline officials told him he...

Adam Fannin, a pastor at Stedfast Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, offered some "advice" to members of his congregation, should they want to avoid a “flaming foo-foo fruit loop” waiter. In a video recently shared to YouTube, he can be heard saying: “If I ever go to a restaurant, you sit down, and here comes this flaming foo-foo fruit loop, I’m just like, 'Oh great.' I’m here to have a date night, enjoy some time with my wife and because of...

Ellen Page spent the weekend not taking any crap, thank you very much. A new video shows her confronting a crazy street preacher somewhere in DC. At first, the preacher rants about demons, while Ellen simply nods in annoyance. In the background, a woman screams at someone else — what a fun little gathering! — and then Ellen’s had enough. “You’re wrong,” she says. “Look, we’re not going to get anywhere and you’re doing to believe this your whole life. I feel for you...

'I am a gay bagpiper and I’m proud.' A student who was harassed by a homophobic street preacher responded in the best way, drowning his bigotry out with bagpipes. Brice Ehmig, a fourth year political science student at Florida Gulf Coast University, was sick of the preacher’s homophobic rants. On several ocassions, the preacher compared homosexuality to bestiality and yelled at her for holding hands with her girlfriend. And in a video on her Facebook page, Brice trolls the bigot by blaring out...