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Ryan Foley<\/a> – August 7, 2021<\/p>\n After facing arrest and detention for preaching that homosexuality is a sin, an American evangelist is warning that \u201cthings are getting very bad\u201d in the United Kingdom and other Western countries, suggesting that the situation has deteriorated to the point where they are \u201cbecoming communist.\u201d<\/p>\n Ryan Schiavo, who describes himself as an \u201cevangelist <\/a>and missionary,\u201d was arrested in London on July 22 for preaching that homosexuality is a sin. While Schiavo is an American, he spends a considerable amount of time in London and frequently ministers to British youth and others gathered in the public square.<\/p>\n In an interview with The Christian Post, Schiavo recounted the events leading up to his arrest and warned about its implications for free speech and freedom of religion in the U.K. and Western civilization as a whole.<\/p>\n \u201cI was preaching the Gospel on the streets as I frequently do, but it was about a 30-minute message, and in the course of a long message I can touch on many topics that I believe are pertinent,\u201d he said. \u201cAt one point, I talked about the issue of homosexuality and transgenderism. I said that homosexuality is a sin; I talk about how it\u2019s destructive, and the damage the transgender agenda is doing to children right now in the schools because it\u2019s being pushed on children at a very young age here.\u201d<\/p>\n Schiavo told CP that one of the things he said while preaching was that \u201cthe churches that have rainbow flags on them\u201d were \u201cnot real churches.\u201d His message drew the ire of one young woman, whom he believed was a lesbian. According to Schiavo, she was \u201cvery upset at what I had said, and so she called the police and the police came.\u201d<\/p>\n As documented in a video<\/a> of his arrest, Schiavo was detained for purportedly violating Section 4A of the Public Order Act<\/a>, which bans people from causing \u201cintentional harassment, alarm, or distress.\u201d<\/p>\n The law declares that \u201ca person is guilty of an offense if, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm, or distress, he \u2014 (a) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior, or disorderly behavior, or (b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting.\u201d<\/p>\n As Metropolitan Police officers moved in to arrest him, Schiavo declared, \u201cIt is an honor to suffer for Jesus Christ.\u201d He predicted that \u201cGod is going to judge this country so severely\u201d because of its embrace of LGBT ideology.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is because I am a Christian!\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cThat\u2019s why this is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.christianpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ryan Foley – August 7, 2021 After facing arrest and detention for preaching that homosexuality is a sin, an American evangelist is warning that \u201cthings are getting very bad\u201d in the United Kingdom and other Western countries, suggesting that the situation has deteriorated to the point where they are \u201cbecoming communist.\u201d Ryan Schiavo, who describes … Continue reading US street preacher arrested in London says speaking truth is now a \u2018hate crime\u2019<\/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":[175,177,156,241,16082,26,16081,861],"class_list":["post-20104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-london","tag-persecution","tag-public-order-act","tag-religion","tag-ryan-schiavo","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5eg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20104","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=20104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20106,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20104\/revisions\/20106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}