An elderly pastor, 71 was arrested by police and accused of homophobic statements after he preached from the book of Genesis in the Bible, saying God created only two genders and wanted families to be headed by a father and a mother.
His preaching was against homosexuality and how God it deviates from God s original plan for creating the world and humans. Dailymail.co.uk reported police as saying that they had received complaints the man had been making allegedly homophobic comments . They arrested him without charge under the Public Order Act, which can be used against someone for using abusive or insulting words that cause harm to someone else. Explaining what necessitated the arrest of the preacher, Met Police spokesman said: “At 1.35pm on Friday, April 23, officers on patrol were flagged down by a member of the public who made them aware of a man allegedly making homophobic comments close to Uxbridge Underground Station.
29 Apr 2021
Police in London arrested a Christian street preacher for allegedly causing “alarm and distress” to pedestrians for citing allegedly “homophobic” verses from Genesis.
On Friday, Pastor John Sherwood was preaching alongside Pastor Peter Simpson of the Penn Free Methodist Church outside the Uxbridge Underground Station in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s own constituency.
Writing in the
Conservative Woman on Tuesday, Pastor Simpson said that Sherwood preached on the final verses of Genisis 1, saying: “God’s design in creating mankind was to set human beings in families, headed by a father and a mother, not by two fathers or by two mothers. The distinction within mankind of just two genders, male and female, made in the image of God, constitutes the essence of God’s created order.”
A Christian pastor who was arrested after he preached from the Bible said yesterday he had been treated shamefully .
John Sherwood, 71, was led away in handcuffs, questioned in a police station and held overnight after being accused of making homophobic comments outside Uxbridge Station in west London.
The grandfather claimed he was left bruised after police pulled him from a mini-stepladder he was using and cuffed his hands behind his back.
Police said they had received complaints the man had been making allegedly homophobic comments and arrested him under the Public Order Act, which can be used under the vague proviso that someone is using abusive or insulting words that cause harm to someone else. He was later released without charge.
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Pastor John Sherwood was arrested after complaints from members of the public over his homophobic comments . (YouTube/ Pastor John Sherwood Arrest)
An elderly pastor was arrested on the streets of London for making “homophobic comments” and telling passers-by that same-sex couples were against “God’s created order”.
Pastor John Sherwood and Pastor Peter Simpson were preaching outside Uxbridge tube station in West London on Friday (23 April).
In an article for the
Conservative Woman, a publication which decries “BLM brainwashing”, the “tragedy of transgenderism” and “the degrading spectacle of Cardi B’s nether regions“, Simpson said that he “began the preaching and referred to the grave abandonment by our nation of its Christian foundations, an abandonment which has manifested itself in, for example, the redefinition of marriage”.