{"id":1833,"date":"2009-06-09T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2009-06-09T15:28:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T15:28:06","slug":"uk-police-threaten-preacher-with-arrest-for-saying-homosexuality-is-a-sin-even-though-he-didnt-mention-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2009\/06\/09\/uk-police-threaten-preacher-with-arrest-for-saying-homosexuality-is-a-sin-even-though-he-didnt-mention-it\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: police threaten preacher with arrest for saying homosexuality is a sin (even though he didn&#8217;t mention it)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">This, <a href=\"\/weblog\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kdvyOJCAf8A\" target=\"_blank\">with video<\/a>,\u00a0from the <a href=\"http:\/\/archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/christian-preacher-threatened-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cranmer politics blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christian.org.uk\/news\/\"><span style=\"color: #151b8d;\">The Christian Institute<\/span><\/a>, it transpires that police officers told an open-air preacher in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, that it is a criminal offence to identify homosexuality as a sin. They said this to Andy Robertson, even though he had not mentioned anything to do with homosexuality in his preaching.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Also <a href=\"http:\/\/churchmousepublishing.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/preacher-threatened-with-arrest-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican-mainstream.net\/?p=11669\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Only in oppressive societies do the police threaten Christian preachers with arrest for preaching.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, with video,\u00a0from the Cranmer politics blog: From The Christian Institute, it transpires that police officers told an open-air preacher in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, that it is a criminal offence to identify homosexuality as a sin. They said this to Andy Robertson, even though he had not mentioned anything to do with homosexuality in his preaching. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[407],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianityunderthreat","tag-christianityunderthreat"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}