Christian pastor arrested for making ‘homophobic statements’
by tts-admin | Apr 30, 2021 |
- Women heard shouting ‘this is a Christian country’ as the preacher is led away
- Police said they had received complaints about his ‘homophobic comments’
- Preacher arrested under Public Order Act before being released without charge
Katie Feehan, Rory Tingle and Vanessa Allen — Daily Mail.com Apr 28, 2021
A Christian pastor who was arrested after he preached from the Bible said yesterday he had been treated ‘shamefully’.
John Sherwood, 71, was led away in handcuffs, questioned in a police station and held overnight after being accused of making homophobic comments outside Uxbridge Station in west London.
The grandfather claimed he was left bruised after police pulled him from a mini-stepladder he was using and cuffed his hands behind his back.
Police said they had received complaints the man had been making ‘allegedly homophobic comments’ and arrested him under the Public Order Act, which can be used under the vague proviso that someone is using ‘abusive or insulting words’ that cause ‘harm’ to someone else. He was later released without charge.
Mr Sherwood, a pastor for 35 years, said: ‘I wasn’t making any homophobic comments, I was just defining marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman. I was only saying what the Bible says – I wasn’t wanting to hurt anyone or cause offence.
‘I was doing what my job description says, which is to preach the gospel in open air as well as in a church building.
‘When the police approached me, I explained that I was exercising my religious liberty and my conscience. I was forcibly pulled down from the steps and suffered some injury to my wrist and to my elbow. I do believe I was treated shamefully. It should never have happened.’
Mr Sherwood, who preaches at an independent evangelical church in north London, was arrested under the Public Order Act for allegedly causing alarm or distress. He was released without charge but a file has now been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for review.
The Metropolitan Police said a member of the public flagged down patrol officers and alleged Mr Sherwood had made homophobic comments.
Mobile phone footage of Friday’s arrest shows Mr Sherwood standing on the stepladder with a Bible in his hand outside a Tube station in Uxbridge, west London. Officers can be heard telling him to get off his steps before they appear to grasp his hands and pull him down.
Onlookers can be heard shouting, ‘He’s an elderly man – take it easy with him’, before officers put Mr Sherwood in handcuffs and take him to a police car.
Mr Sherwood said officers grilled him over his attitude to gay people. He was even asked what he would do if his children were gay. The married father-of-two said: ‘The question was irrelevant to the allegation against me. I said I would seek to bring them to Christ, but of course I would love them no matter what, because they’re my children.’
Andrea Williams, of campaign group Christian Concern, said police needed greater understanding of the law surrounding freedom of speech and religion.
She added: ‘There is an idea that if people are offended you should arrest someone, but in this country we also have freedom of speech.’
A Met Police spokesman said its directorate of professional standards had assessed video footage of Mr Sherwood’s arrest and had found no evidence of misconduct by officers.
A statement posted to a Christian Facebook his supporters read: ‘Whilst he was preaching, he expounded the final verses of Genesis 1, declaring that God’s purpose 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’s created order.’
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In the USA, absurdly people get canceled cultured for negative comments about LGBTQ issues (lose their jobs and banned from social media), in the UK they get arrested! Wow! Well, with Wokeness and multiculturalism things are probably going to get worse in the USA and Europe.
I wonder if they’ll arrest you for using the pronouns he and she in public in Great Britain.
We can take the “Great” out of Great Britain and the “United” out of the United States, plus the “Union” out of the European Union. The LBGTQ+ movement and legislation has emboldened closet homosexuals and sexual deviants to come out and dominate Western society.
Though a Jesuit and an inept president, Mugabe stopped Tatchell from funding and setting up pro – gay organisations in Zimbabwe which Tatchell had tried under the guise of the annual Harare Book Fair.
In contrast, Westerners have given in to the demands of the Gay Brigade. Now Drag Queenz regularly read pantomimes and perform all dressed up for young children across schools in America. This state sanctioned endorsement of homosexuality also emboldens pe – do – philes.
Coupled with transhumanism and the rise of the transgender movement, don’t be surprised to see the mainstreaming of the androgynous Baphomet in mass public sexuality in the near future. Give the sadistic Kaballistic Talmudic Jooozzz an inch and let’s see if they won’t take the whole planet.
It is not about someone having their feelings hurt–the poof lifestyle is defended with an iron fist and promoted with vigour so as to exterminate White People at the point of not getting born at all, due to penises going in the wrong hole and the country’s invaders still having normal marriages and sex. There are some other factors, but they are less important.
The bible spoke about the wrong with people lying with the same sex. We were also later warned about the danger of legalising homosexuality.
We live in very bad times where people are, now, arrested and imprisoned, unlawfully, for ‘offenses’ instead of crimes. It’s the fact that people now accept that someone should lose their freedom, because they said something that another disagreed with, is what really gets me. And worse they receive harsher sentences than those who commit serious assault!
But you know this is very much the control agenda.
I, as a heterosexual, do not define myself by me sexuality whereas homosexuality very much do. Unless you agree with whom they choose to ‘partner’ with you are labelled homophobic.
And if course this is, jew, identity, politics created fire the sole reason to destroy the Western civilization. It’s subjective illogic with endless possibilities that leads to the persecution of millions of people.
Homosexuals CHOOSE to masturbate with people of the same sex. It is a psychological defect within every one of them. They are mentally ill and condoning homosexuality means you condone mental illness. It’s that simple folks. No other way about it, but courtesy of constant msm & academia indoctrination and brainwashing, its accepted as perfectly normal, when it is, what is always been and always will be – abnormal, unnatural, sexuality deviancy.
It is also the door to pedophilia and why they receive such protected status in western society.
It’s wrong. It’s always been wrong and it shows the weakness of fathers and mothers, who love accept their children’s homosexuality instead of scorning them for it. I always make it clear, in conversation, that I vehemently disagree with homosexuality. I always take each, new individual as they come and do NOT judge them on their sexuality, as that is but a minor part of their overall personality, but nonetheless, if they tell me their homosexual they do find out that I disagree with it, always have and always will.
For this old man, to be abused, as he has, is despicable. It shows that the police are not your friends, but the enforcers of the jew. And all of this nonsense is courtesy OF the jew. We would not be living in this current nightmare reality were it not for the jew and this is one of the reasons I utterly despise judaism and jews.
Well, having been in the UK many times during my career in the US military, I am sad now to see that
UK society has totally collapsed. Brits have no way to fight this tyranny, having been disarmed.
People should realise nobody but the powers-that-be have the power to impose this woke bullshit. It’s not others. Take this pastor, carted off for saying other than what’s permitted. How can it be any other than the powers-that-be? These dictators have been consolidating their powers since the early-’80s. Nobody’s got in beside or behind or in spite of them, because those who’ve tried risk everything from police beatings to arrest to imprisonment without charge like Julian Assange. Woke is what THEY do, but it allows them to pass the blame of silencing and terror onto others who are most often the first victims of it.
Truncheon-wielding champions of transsexualism; the poofter-protection partisans; the censorial praetoria of hob-nailed, hetero-bashing, cyborg-bobbies… I wouldn’t have anticipated this ten years ago. Novel corruptions for modern sensibilities – to bring tremorous delights and cinematic thrills to naked civil servants.
True constables of the law had better step forward soon.
Brian USA said “I wonder if they’ll arrest you for using the pronouns he and she in public in Great Britain.”
It wouldn’t surprise me, Brian. Already the Brighton hospital is boasting about using “gender neutral” terminology as if that kind of lunacy is a “good” thing.
I don’t have a “phobia” (a morbid, irrational fear) about queers. I’m not afraid of the plague-ridden SCUM, so that word is a “misdiagnosis” made by someone without the necessary qualifications to make such a diagnosis.
Queers are disgusting perverts, wallowing in their own filth and, in too many cases, abusing young boys, and yet they claim to be “proud” of what they do!
There was a time when they were hardly noticed because their perversion was illegal, but then came the queer Harold Wilson and his boyfriend Brown George (oops! I mean George Brown), who “legalised” poofterism, and now the illegitimate “government” would like to make it compulsory, even “teaching” every kind of perversion to very young children in the indoctrination centres still known as “schools”, to the detriment of actual education.
Alberta Canada has had the same problem. Pastors arrested, Churches closed down. There is an all out attack against Christianity by the Anti-Christs of the NWO. It is time for Christians to Stand-Up and Shame the devil, and not being complacent.
One way the problem started is that the people did not protest strongly enough when the governments of various countries decided to remove the Bible, the one source of Truth and source of what is right and what is wrong, from the public school systems. When you take the moral law shown to us in the Bible out of human beings, they will then be drawn to perversity. The demons were unleashed upon our children, and now look at what we have! This is a horrible condition for the soul to be in, to be homosexual or transgendered. It is a LIE that these people are deceived with, and their end will be Hell unless they repent and stay repented.
But actually, all sinful people will end up in the same Hell as the homosexual, so it behooves all men everywhere to repent and believe the gospel.
I will mention a second “reason” for male homosexuals from their own perspective–diseases are able to influence the behaviour of the host, such as when rabies gets the dog to salivate, wander and bite, exactly as the disease would wish, and you can guess that some of the STDs will get people to have sex with strangers. The disease vehicles even sometimes make a fetish out of one of the diseases, the actual master of the individual in question, and spread it consciously.
“Women heard shouting ‘this is a Christian country’ as the preacher is led away”. No, ladies, it most certainly is NOT a Christian country. The vast majority of the population is Christian, for now, but demonic Jews rule the roost, so you’re in the Jew-K, silly. The Christian majority of the western nations SHOULD be rising up, chasing down the ruling class and Jews in the streets and hanging them from tree branches and streetlights. But they have been turned into meek, sniveling weaklings, cuckolds, and cowards.
You can scream anything you like about white men in the street, no matter how vulgar, derogatory, or outlandish, but God help you if you speak the truth about Jews, queers, or niggers. The world is upside-down and an Orwellian nightmare. The good citizens had better realize very quickly their “governments” are nothing but criminal cartels that have openly declared war on the people and are either trying to kill you or enslave you, with no other option.
I wonder whether the Pastor’s relatives fought in WW2