The decision to ban US pastor Steven Anderson from visiting the country is based on an “agenda” of LGBTI activists to “outlaw preaching that homosexuality is a sin”‚ the ChristianView Network said on Tuesday.The Minister of Home Affairs‚ Malusi Gigaba‚ announced on Tuesday that the controversial pastor would be barred from entering the country.Video posted to YouTube by SABC Digital News.Anderson‚ whose church is in Arizona‚ was set to visit South Africa as part of his church's so-called “soul-winning marathon”.The ChristianView Network‚ a public advocacy ministry in South Africa promoting “a Biblical worldview” said: “Anderson and the LGBT activists appear to be opposed‚ but actually‚ they help each other achieve their objectives. “He is a narcissist who wants publicity.“They help him get what he wants.“They want to destroy religious free speech. He helps them stir up hate towards religious groups opposing homosexuality.“So the two sides of the hate agenda help each other - and risk destroying real debate‚” the statement read.Posing the question as to why Anderson was making headlines‚ the ChristianView Network answered itself and said:“Because an LGBT activist network is campaigning against him - launched a petition and are phoning up various South African organisations trying to get each to take a public position on the issue.“The LGBT lobby claim to have collected 60‚000 signatures to have him banned. Nevertheless‚ probably only tiny a fraction of these are South Africans.”The ChristianView Network also compared Anderson to US politician Donald Trump and South African politician Julius Malema.“Anderson‚ like Donald Trump and Julius Malema‚ is part of a new generation of attention loving actors who play a reality TV-style game to manipulate the media and internet to grab attention.“Unlike Trump & Malema‚ he actually doesn't have any real constituency beyond his tiny cult-church.“Anderson doesn't represent the Christian faith any more than Donald Duck - and so doesn't deserve to be quoted in the news‚” the ministry said.The ChristianView Network went further to say that the pastor is “irrelevant” without the help of LGBTI groups. “The real threat is that these LGBT groups want to destroy religious freedom of speech.“The government‚ the media‚ the Human Rights Commission‚ Church denominations must be careful not to be manipulated into the agenda of these two groups.“We have to firmly oppose both sexual sin and hatred against people because of their sin‚” the statement added.Gigaba announced his decision on the visit at Parliament in Cape Town and stated that Anderson and members and/or associates of his church are prohibited from entering the Republic of South Africa."This prohibition will be implemented in terms of section 29(1)(d) of the Immigration Act‚” the minister said...