AS A child growing up in apartheid SA, I always disliked those signs outside restaurants that stated: "This establishment reserves the right of admission."In my little head, it always felt like they were directing it at me for being nonwhite. But last week, this sign, or rather the words themselves, were used to their full effect, and for all the right reasons.A Bible-bashing lunatic is very interested in visiting our country to do some "soul-winning", as he puts it. Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, made headlines last month when he posted a video after the Orlando nightclub shooting in which 49 gay people were targeted and killed. In the video, he said: "The good news is that there’s 50 less paedophiles in this world."Further research reveals that this statement is not the only bucket of vitriol he spits all over the internet. To call him a Neanderthal is to give him credit.It seems Anderson was quite keen on having lunch at Wimpy and ...
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