Posted on 09/25/2011 5:13:33 PM PDT by massmike
Police in Lancashire have told the owner of a Christian café to stop displaying Bible texts on a video screen, because it breaches public order laws.
Officers attended the Salt & Light Coffee House on Layton Road, Blackpool, on Monday 19 September, following a complaint about “insulting” and “homophobic” material.
The café’s owner, Mr Jamie Murray, says the officers did not specify which Bible texts had caused the offence.
He says the officers told him that displaying offensive or insulting words is a breach of Section 5 of the Public Order Act, and told him to stop displaying the Bible.
The Bible texts are displayed on a TV screen at the back of the café. Mr Murray uses a set of DVDs called the Watchword Bible.
The DVDs cycle through the whole of the New Testament verse by verse, with the words appearing on the screen. Mr Murray mutes the audio.
He told the police officers he would agree to stop displaying the Bible verses while he sought legal advice. After speaking with a lawyer, he is once again displaying the material.
In 2005 the same force, Lancashire Constabulary, paid out £10,000 compensation to Joe and Helen Roberts, an elderly Christian couple who had been investigated by the police for telling their council that they didn’t agree with homosexuality.
“After that controversy they promised to review their procedures to stop this kind of nonsense. They broke that promise on Monday when their officers marched into the Christian café. The police may now be facing another costly legal action.
“It ought to go without saying that reading the Bible out loud in a public place, or displaying Bible texts in a Christian café, is not of itself a criminal offence. I am alarmed that I even have to point that out.
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Now here’s a question, if I had every chapter from the Bible played in order in a Christian café, would they care? After all, I played the whole book, didn’t I?
Not yet.
Remember - “We won the Cold War!” /sarc
Soon it will be illegal to even own a bible there.
Well thank Gaia for that. If that thing got into the wrong hands, people could start loving their neighbors and honoring their parents!
But if he was displaying verses from the Koran citing killing infidels and such then that would have been okay in Englandistan.
How’s this for non-biblical criticism of homosexuality... guess what, its a filthy practice and spreads disease and creates social tensions...
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Some of the important goals of the homosexual agenda is the total destruction of our Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of speech, religion and association. We can add to that the right to private property or to run a business as one sees fit. Of course, someone may say, this is in the UK - part of the EU - we're in the US! Big deal. The leftist/homosexualist movement is international. What's happening in the UK, the EU or Canada is slated for here, as soon as they can. Complacency and cowardice and compromise are the very reasons we are teetering on the very edge of the abyss. Gird up and fight back is the only hope.
Ban a Bible from a Christian cafe = lmao at such idiocy. =.=
So! We have become a police state!
I hope they enjoy the sharia.
I also wonder sometimes if homosexuals ever have issues of jealousy amongst themselves...
I also wonder sometimes if homosexuals ever have issues of jealousy amongst themselves...
Sounds like these keystoners are going to have their rear ends handed to them in court once more.
I wonder how hard the bobbies try to keep Moose from declaring murder and mayhem upon their rivals in the name of Allah?
Hell yeah they do!
Homos apparently have no problem with being murdered as long as its not a Christian doing it!
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***He says the officers told him that displaying offensive or insulting words is a breach of Section 5 of the Public Order Act, and told him to stop displaying the Bible. ****
In England, rights to the Bible are vested in the CROWN. So, the police must acknowlege that what is being shown is officially endorsed by ROYAL LETTERS OF PATENT, that is, by authority of THE QUEEN of ENGLAND.
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