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Kurt Zindulka<\/a>\u00a0 – April 29, 2021<\/p>\n Police in London arrested a Christian street preacher for allegedly causing \u201calarm and distress\u201d to pedestrians for citing allegedly \u201chomophobic\u201d verses from Genesis.<\/p>\n On Friday,\u00a0Pastor John Sherwood was preaching alongside\u00a0Pastor Peter Simpson of the Penn Free Methodist Church outside the\u00a0Uxbridge Underground Station \u2014 in Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s own constituency.<\/p>\n Writing in the Conservative Woman<\/em>\u00a0on Tuesday, Pastor Simpson said<\/a> that Sherwood preached on the final verses of Genisis 1, saying: \u201cGod\u2019s design in creating mankind was to set human beings in families, headed by a father and a mother, not by two fathers or by two mothers. The distinction within mankind of just two genders, male and female, made in the image of God, constitutes the essence of God\u2019s created order.\u201d<\/p>\n Simpson said that the police informed them that three complaints were made in response to the street sermon.<\/p>\n He said that a police officer warned that he and Sherwood should avoid making any \u201chomophobic statements\u201d and that there is \u201cno freedom to make statements which offend people\u201d.<\/p>\n The police ultimately dragged Sherwood off his step stool and forcibly handcuffed the septuagenarian preacher.<\/p>\n \u201cThis dignified man of God, who is in his early 70s, was marched off to a nearby police car, as one of the helpers from my church cried out, \u2018What has happened to us as a nation that a man can no longer preach from the Bible?\u201d Pastor Simpson related.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kurt Zindulka\u00a0 – April 29, 2021 Police in London arrested a Christian street preacher for allegedly causing \u201calarm and distress\u201d to pedestrians for citing allegedly \u201chomophobic\u201d verses from Genesis. On Friday,\u00a0Pastor John Sherwood was preaching alongside\u00a0Pastor Peter Simpson of the Penn Free Methodist Church outside the\u00a0Uxbridge Underground Station \u2014 in Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s own … Continue reading Christian Pastor Arrested in London for Quoting \u2018Homophobic\u2019 Bible Verses<\/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":[15754,4353,175,177,1415,156,15752,15753,241,26],"class_list":["post-19702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-homophobic-statements","tag-boris-johnson","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-genesis","tag-london","tag-pastor-john-sherwood","tag-pastor-peter-simpson","tag-persecution","tag-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-57M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702","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=19702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19705,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702\/revisions\/19705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}