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A court in the U.K. has cleared a 72-year-old Christian street pastor of all charges a year after his arrest for purportedly causing “alarm and distress” in London by preaching about the biblical definition of marriage, which police said was “hate speech."
An elderly pastor who was arrested by police last year for preaching on a public street in London has been cleared of all "hate speech" charges against him. He had been accused of a crime for teaching what the Bible says about marriage.
A court in the U.K. has cleared a 72-year-old Christian street pastor of all charges a year after his arrest for purportedly causing “alarm and distress” in London by preaching about the biblical definition of marriage, which police said was “hate speech."
Views: Visits 37 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 when police officers were called on them. Simpson said that he “began the preaching and referred to the grave abandonment by our nation of its Christian foundations, and abandonment which has manifested itself in, for example, the redefinition of marriage”. he said same-sex marriage...
04-29-2021 A screenshot from the video of Pastor John Sherwood's arrest by police in northwest London on Friday. Sherwood can be seen in the middle of the image. (Screenshot credit: Christian Concern) A UK Christian street preacher was arrested by police in northwest London on Friday and spent the night in jail because he proclaimed what the Bible says about marriage on a public street. Breitbart reports Pastor John Sherwood and Pastor Peter Simpson of the Penn Free Methodist Church were preaching outside of the Uxbridge Underground Station located in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's own cons...