{"id":19758,"date":"2021-05-14T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T22:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19758"},"modified":"2021-05-14T15:05:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T22:05:01","slug":"71-year-old-pastor-arrested-for-causing-alarm-and-distress-for-homophobic-message-on-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/71-year-old-pastor-arrested-for-causing-alarm-and-distress-for-homophobic-message-on-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"71-Year-Old Pastor Arrested for Causing \u2018Alarm and Distress\u2019 for \u2018Homophobic\u2019 Message on Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christian News – April 30, 2021<\/p>\n

(Christian Concern) \u2014 John Sherwood, a UK pastor, was arrested in North West London this past Friday, April 23, and detained overnight \u2013 all for speaking about what the Bible says about marriage.<\/p>\n

John, in his early 70s, is minister of a north London church, and was preaching with a colleague in the centre of Uxbridge on Friday, as he regularly does. After speaking on the final verses in Genesis 1, where it says that God created mankind in his own image, creating them male and female, a number of police officers appeared on the scene. Reportedly, three complaints had been received about the pastor\u2019s teaching, and the police accused him of causing \u201calarm and distress\u201d to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n

After speaking to the police, John resumed his preaching, speaking on freedom of speech. However, a couple of bystanders in the crowd apparently shouted that John\u2019s preaching was \u201chomophobic\u201d and \u201chate speech\u201d. John spoke to the police once more.<\/p>\n

What quickly followed was a brutal arrest, where an officer took away the pastor\u2019s Bible and pulled him from the steps where he had been preaching. Three officers gathered around him to handcuff him and take him away.<\/p>\n

You can read more about the case<\/a> from Pastor John Sherwood\u2019s colleague, Peter Simpson, on The Conservative Woman blog.<\/p>\n

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Christian News – April 30, 2021 (Christian Concern) \u2014 John Sherwood, a UK pastor, was arrested in North West London this past Friday, April 23, and detained overnight \u2013 all for speaking about what the Bible says about marriage. John, in his early 70s, is minister of a north London church, and was preaching with … Continue reading 71-Year-Old Pastor Arrested for Causing \u2018Alarm and Distress\u2019 for \u2018Homophobic\u2019 Message on Marriage<\/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":[504,15799,378,11480,15752,15798,15800],"class_list":["post-19758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-bible","tag-brutal-arrest","tag-hate-speech","tag-homophobic","tag-pastor-john-sherwood","tag-peter-simpson","tag-uxbridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-58G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19758","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=19758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19760,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19758\/revisions\/19760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}