Posted on 03/14/2015 8:56:45 AM PDT by marshmallow
TAUNTON, UK – A street preacher in the UK who is charged with making “homophobic” and “Islamophobic” remarks has just completed a two-day trial and awaits a verdict on whether or not biblical speech about the issues is considered a crime in the country.
Mike Overd, a street preacher for five years, is accused of speaking against homosexuality and Islam last June and July on two separate occasions. He is now facing two charges of using threatening and abusive words and a charge of causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress under the Public Order Act.
A police officer had appeared on local television last fall to urge residents to record Overd’s speech as it had been reported that he was causing offense.
“I’d advise people that if they’re offended to record any incident on their mobile phone and send it to us,” Sgt. Neil Kimmins told reporters.
“It’s clear that this officer is determined to stop me preaching the gospel, which is a terrible attack on freedom of speech,” Overd said following the incident. “I find it extraordinary that the police are trying to make it illegal to preach the gospel in the streets of our country, simply because the gospel at times confronts the sinner.”
Three witnesses appeared in court this week the to claim that they had heard Overd making statements against homosexuality and/or Islam.
“If I don’t tell people about what is in the gospel and that they are sinning, then that makes me a wicked, selfish man,” Overd told the court on Thursday.
He presented two videos as evidence to what occurred as he was preaching from the Bible on the street. In one of the clips, a woman with a little boy approaches Overd and says that she wants to ask him.......
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Homophobia is fear of homosexuals. It does not mean the disgust normal people feel for their behaviors. Therefore nothing the preacher says can be homophobic, only homo-disgusted.
John 3:16-17.
There’s a section in 1 Corinthians 6, culminating in verse 11, that shows this to be the case.
Just curious, where does the Bible say that God loves queers?
John 3:16-17.
There’s a section in 1 Corinthians 6, culminating in verse 11, that shows this to be the case.
And you're not trying to be a hypocrite, either - right?
LOL
That is his allah-given right as a conqueror of the West, don’t you know?
This is political correctness in its later stage! Its coming here very soon!
Everything that we see happening to our country, gay rights, hands up don’t shoot, the green movement, total control of conservative speech, and RINO surrender monkeys - is rooted in PC!
We need to expose PC for what it is, cultural Marxism. If the American people knew that PC was a system designed to destroy our political system and culture then maybe they would start paying attention.
Right now, people think that PC just evolved as a silly little cultural quirk. In reality it was planned and created as a AstroTurf movement by communists to eventually make non-socialist speech illegal.
England used to be a free country.
England used to be a free country.
Now a state sponsor of sodomy.
Romans 1:26-27 is pretty clear. There are other passages as well.
The scriptures plainly say that the act is unnatural and an abomination but it neither says homosexual nor queer.
The homosexuals who are actually that: know what they are but they do not consider them selves queer or unnatural.
I am just telling them it is queer or unnatural.
Not trying to be provocative here but...
And you’re not trying to be a hypocrite, either - right?
LOL
“Overd’s case is being heard by a Muslim, Judge Shamim Qureshi, who also serves as the presiding judge at the Sharia law-based Muslim Arbitration Tribunal.”
I wonder how the judge would rule if someone accused of a homosexual act was brought before him at the Tribunal.
Pat Condell, a British atheist who openly supports UKIP and is against Muslim immigration and creeping Shariah law, had a great lecture recently. To paraphrase some of his great quotes:
When will tolerance for Islam end? Will it be when they finally try to get between the British and their pubs?
Islam calls for death to infidels, death for adulterers, which means there will be almost no one left in France.
Death by stoning or beheading.
But the good sergeant Neil Kimmins won't figure that out until after he starts paying the jizya...
May his Muslim chains sit lightly.
See 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10 for use of the word homosexual.
arsenokoites:a male engaging in same-gender sexual activity; a sodomite, pederast
Oddly, this may work in his favor, as a muslim judge might want the same freedom for his people in UK.
But don't count on it.
The word you are looking for is Homomisia. A revulsion of homos.
Same for Islamomisia.
Very true, but we don’t want to forget why Christ died for sinners see Proverbs 6. it’s God hatred of sin and love for us that caused him to pay the ultimate price on the cross for us.
And I was only asking for the specific words, simply because excuses are too often used to retaliate against some one who is telling the truth.
There is no one any more of a sinner than I am but if I had not heard that adultery was wrong I would not have had any reason for being concerned about my salvation, and so would never have became acquainted with my savior.
See 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10 for use of the word homosexual.
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