{"id":18916,"date":"2020-09-11T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T21:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18916"},"modified":"2020-09-11T14:18:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T21:18:27","slug":"lgbtq-group-threatens-to-burn-down-church-after-pastor-says-homosexuality-is-a-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/lgbtq-group-threatens-to-burn-down-church-after-pastor-says-homosexuality-is-a-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ Group Threatens to Burn Down Church after Pastor Says Homosexuality Is a Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Milton Quintanilla<\/a> – September 9, 2020<\/p>\n

UK Pastor John Williamson of Newquay Baptist Church is facing violent threats from members of the LGBTQ+ community for insisting that homosexuality is a sin.<\/p>\n

According to Christian Concern<\/a>, a UK based watchdog organization, Williamson simply wrote, \u201dwonderful news!\u201d in response to a news article<\/a> that stated that the Cornwall Pride Parade was canceled. The festivities were originally scheduled to take place on August 29.<\/p>\n

When an online user asked Williamson why he celebrated the cancellation, the pastor replied, “because I don’t think sin should be celebrated.”<\/p>\n

Williamson proceeded to use Scripture to defend his stance on homosexuality. He cited the books of John, James, and 1 Corinthians 6:9-11<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pastor then shared the article on his personal Facebook page, noting that his church had previously prayed for the cancellation of the parade.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also prayed that the Lord would save the organizers. One prayer answered, now we wait for the second prayer to be answered,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

But the parade organizers caught wind of Williamson\u2019s page, took a screenshot of his post, tagged his church and posted it together with anti-LGBTQ+ comments by online users.<\/p>\n

The names of the users were blocked out by Cornell Pride, in order to make it seem like Pastor Williamson was the one behind the negative comments.<\/p>\n

Williamson\u2019s wife received online threats as her husband\u2019s head was superimposed upon an image of homosexual pornography, which was also shared online.<\/p>\n

The pastor was then reported by Cornwall Pride\u2019s followers to police for hate speech as well as committing a hate crime.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.christianheadlines.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Milton Quintanilla – September 9, 2020 UK Pastor John Williamson of Newquay Baptist Church is facing violent threats from members of the LGBTQ+ community for insisting that homosexuality is a sin. According to Christian Concern, a UK based watchdog organization, Williamson simply wrote, \u201dwonderful news!\u201d in response to a news article that stated that the … Continue reading LGBTQ+ Group Threatens to Burn Down Church after Pastor Says Homosexuality Is a Sin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[175,177,125,15218,2469,15217,15216],"class_list":["post-18916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-church","tag-cornwall-pride-parade","tag-lgbtq","tag-newquay-baptist-church","tag-uk-pastor-john-williamson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4V6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18918,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18916\/revisions\/18918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}