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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But it’s OK for a Muslim to stand on a street corner and boast about cutting off heads.
Street preachers are just about a thing of the past, the ones I have heard just told the truth and people hates the truth.
Britain seems to have a history of throwing street preachers into jail. John Bunyan was thrown into jail for preaching. The world ended up with the classic PILGRIM’S PROGRESS as a result.
In England, he rights to the KJV are invested in the Crown. That means the copyright is owned by the Queen.
So, if he preaches from the Queen’s own book, what crime is there in that!
Sgt. Neil Kimmins should go on a tour of Syria or Nigeria and see if he changes his mind.
Jerk.
The woman then opines that God loves homosexuals.
Not trying to be provocative here but I do not see the word homosexual in the Bible no more than I do queer which is unnatural.
Christians need to boycott the UK. Don’t go there. Don’t buy anything from there. Don’t invest there.
The UK has become an Anti-Christ nation.
John 3:16-17.
There's a section in 1 Corinthians 6, culminating in verse 11, that shows this to be the case.
I guess we still live in an age where those who want religious liberty must set sail from the UK in search of some other land where they can be free.
“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.”
It’s a set up. He is being offered up as a sacrifice to appease the headchoppers.
Whew, when I read the title I was worried.
But then I saw it was in the UK, which like Canada doesn’t have free speech.
We’re next I suppose, but not there yet.
There is nowhere left on the planet that has free speech besides here in the USA ... and we have a very tenuous hold on it.
William Tyndale, translator of one of the first English protestant Bibles (preceding the KJV by about 100 years), was hanged and his body burned for speaking out against King Henry VIII’s sinful ways.
Some things never change.
2016 is coming, so there is a cause for hope.
When did that happen?
We saved them from the Nazis, so they could -become- Nazis.
Romans 1:26-27 is pretty clear. There are other passages as well.
For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
Bump
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