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The Good News: Christianity is not a crime, rules magistrate's court
The bad news: Sodomite policemen are allowed to continue harassing Christ.
Never mind their offensive adverts, these "gay police" fellows should be on trial for sodomy!
And sodomy should be a capital offence, as God commands!
Originally posted by IC Wales
Police have defended their decision to arrest a Christian preacher at a gay festival - despite the charges against him being dropped.
Stephen Green walked free from Cardiff Magistrates' Court yesterday and threatened to take civil action against the South Wales Police - which had locked him up for four hours during the city's Mardi Gras festival.
He also pledged to return to next year's gay, lesbian and bisexual festival to hand out more anti-gay leaflets.
Mr Green, the director of lobby group Christian Voice, had been arrested after handing out pamphlets called Same-Sex Love, Same-Sex Sex: What does the Bible Say?
But South Wales Police yesterday defended their decision to arrest the 54-year-old on the grounds he was using threatening or insulting words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
The charges were dropped yesterday after the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was insufficient evidence.
No-one from South Wales' gay community wished to comment on the decision to drop the charges against Mr Green.
Stephen Green walked free from Cardiff Magistrates' Court yesterday and threatened to take civil action against the South Wales Police - which had locked him up for four hours during the city's Mardi Gras festival.
He also pledged to return to next year's gay, lesbian and bisexual festival to hand out more anti-gay leaflets.
Mr Green, the director of lobby group Christian Voice, had been arrested after handing out pamphlets called Same-Sex Love, Same-Sex Sex: What does the Bible Say?
But South Wales Police yesterday defended their decision to arrest the 54-year-old on the grounds he was using threatening or insulting words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
The charges were dropped yesterday after the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was insufficient evidence.
No-one from South Wales' gay community wished to comment on the decision to drop the charges against Mr Green.
Originally posted by Lifesite
After three months of deliberation and over 50,000 complaints from individuals and organizations, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Metropolitan Police have announced that there is “insufficient evidence” to lay charges of discrimination against the Gay Police Association for its June ads depicting Christianity as violent.
The ads appeared in the Independent in June this year and featured a photograph of a Bible next to a pool of blood and the slogan, “In the name of the father.” The ad copy read, “In the last 12 months, the Gay Police Association has recorded a 74% increase in homophobic incidents where the sole or primary motivating factor was the religious belief of the perpetrator.”
The ads sparked a furore resulting in accusations of hatred against Christians, “Christianophobia,” being investigated by Scotland Yard.
Saturday’s announcement by the CPS is being called just one more instance of a double standard in which investigations of “homophobia” are expedited and action promptly taken, but attacks against Christians are swept under the rug.
British columnists pointed to the irony saying that if the ad had substituted the Qur’an for the Bible, the result would have been much different. British conservative commentator, Iain Dale wrote, “Couldn't you reasonably think that the advert actually incites gay people to hate Christians?”
Andrea Minichiello Williams, Public Policy Officer of the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship (LCF), said of the CPS decision, decrying the “appearance of discrimination against Christians by the police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).”
“What further evidence of the advert being an ‘insulting’ publication causing ‘harassment, alarm or distress’ could be needed?” Williams said.
Williams accused the CPS of a double standard, pointing to other decisions the CPS has prosecuted in favour of the gay community’s complaints of discrimination. In 2003, Williams points out, the CPS decided there was sufficient evidence to prosecute an elderly Christian preacher who displayed a sign saying, “Stop homosexuality, Stop immorality. Jesus is Lord” after a “small number” of complaints.
“Why gay rights are regarded as more important than freedom of expression I do not know,” Reverend Rod Thomas, with the Church of England evangelicals, told the Daily Mail. “There is a real danger that those who have tried to support gay rights for liberal reasons may find themselves responsible for suppressing vital liberties.”
The ads appeared in the Independent in June this year and featured a photograph of a Bible next to a pool of blood and the slogan, “In the name of the father.” The ad copy read, “In the last 12 months, the Gay Police Association has recorded a 74% increase in homophobic incidents where the sole or primary motivating factor was the religious belief of the perpetrator.”
The ads sparked a furore resulting in accusations of hatred against Christians, “Christianophobia,” being investigated by Scotland Yard.
Saturday’s announcement by the CPS is being called just one more instance of a double standard in which investigations of “homophobia” are expedited and action promptly taken, but attacks against Christians are swept under the rug.
British columnists pointed to the irony saying that if the ad had substituted the Qur’an for the Bible, the result would have been much different. British conservative commentator, Iain Dale wrote, “Couldn't you reasonably think that the advert actually incites gay people to hate Christians?”
Andrea Minichiello Williams, Public Policy Officer of the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship (LCF), said of the CPS decision, decrying the “appearance of discrimination against Christians by the police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).”
“What further evidence of the advert being an ‘insulting’ publication causing ‘harassment, alarm or distress’ could be needed?” Williams said.
Williams accused the CPS of a double standard, pointing to other decisions the CPS has prosecuted in favour of the gay community’s complaints of discrimination. In 2003, Williams points out, the CPS decided there was sufficient evidence to prosecute an elderly Christian preacher who displayed a sign saying, “Stop homosexuality, Stop immorality. Jesus is Lord” after a “small number” of complaints.
“Why gay rights are regarded as more important than freedom of expression I do not know,” Reverend Rod Thomas, with the Church of England evangelicals, told the Daily Mail. “There is a real danger that those who have tried to support gay rights for liberal reasons may find themselves responsible for suppressing vital liberties.”
And sodomy should be a capital offence, as God commands!
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