It isn’t smart to go to a foreign country and break their admittedly disgusting laws. The United Kingdom also arrests people who say nasty things on Facebook - how could this preacher not know that?
I would think that if that was in danger of happening here then Fred Phelps and his mob would have been in jail long ago.
Let’s stop saying ‘gay’. It’s homosexual or Sodomite.
It would be fun to get a muslim street preacher to start spewing against sexual immorality and see what the cops in Londonistan do. I suspect a different outcome
The problem was that he isn’t Muslim.
One of the reasons why the prilgrims left England in 1620 was that one could be arrested and throw in jail for simply having an opinion different from the crown or the government. Free thought was, and still is, dangerous in England.
Why hasn’t Mark Knopfler of Dire straits been pilloried for singing about “that little faggot with the earring and the makeup?” He should be held to the same standard as Paula Deen!
“...HOMOPHOBIC speech that could cause people anxiety, distress, alarm or insult.”
Well....that’s an easy charge to beat!
“phobia” means “irrational fear”.
Once you make it clear that your speech conveyed no “fear”, the charge carries no weight.
I see our great friends in England need the same instruction as we do on the word “Homophobic” as at no time are we afraid of those with SSAD (Same Sex Attraction Disorder) but what should all be very afraid of is government regulating speech so tightly that even truthful speech is not only suppressed but made illegal.
It would seem the self anointed “Enlightened” people have mastered the fine art of wordsmithing so that they can create words which sound good for their purpose but have either no meaning or mean exactly the opposite.
The first ammendment is a big deal. People forget they are in a foreign country at their own peril.
I’d be careful in Canada too, even with the recent overturn of the speech law.
This is why, when arguing against homosexuality in a country that persecutes Christians but bows to Islamist, it is always a good idea to quote from the Qur’an and Hadith rather than from the Bible. The passages below are just a few that can be used.
Qur’an (7:80-84) - “...For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women: ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond bounds.... And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone)”
Qur’an (4:16) - “If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone”
Hadith - Abu Dawud (4462) - The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.”
Hadith - Bukhari (72:774) - “The Prophet cursed effeminate men (those men who are in the similitude (assume the manners of women) and those women who assume the manners of men, and he said, ‘Turn them out of your houses .’
How would the British police respond to this I wonder.
My day will surely come.
I refuse to use the term gay.
These people are not “gay” they are homosexual.
I am not homophobic because I have no hatred of them or fear of them. However I refuse to accept that their perversion is “normal” or be tolerant of them trying to recruit children.
And gays wonder why they’re hated.