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2010-05-03 Britain

Christian preacher arrested for saying homosexuality is a sin

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Posted by lotp 2010-05-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Looks like the left doesn't have any substantial and related arguments against the preacher. So they resort to changing other people's behavior through force.

I guess they never heard of The Inquisition.

Not talking it through will only make the problem explode in the long run.

Posted by gorb 2010-05-03 00:13|| 2010-05-03 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 This is only going to get worse. Bigotry against all but the most exsanguinated and emasculated forms of Christianity has reached a critical mass in education, media, and government in most Western countries and is rapidly approaching that level in the U.S. Things like this arrest are only the beginning. Expect to see this behavior spread to other countries and become more prevalent.

I've been saying that this would happen for years here at Rantburg and on other sites, and been called paranoid and worse. At last, an object example of the principle exists which cannot be denied.

Posted by no mo uro 2010-05-03 05:55|| 2010-05-03 05:55|| Front Page Top

#3 A society where greed, gluttonous, and lasciviousness have become the norm. All pointing to a time as author Peter Brown writes in 'A recent Guide Late Antiquity' that "Words like 'decline' and 'crisis', which suggest problems at the end of the empire and which were quite usual into the 1970s, have largely disappeard from historians' vocabularies, to be replaced by neutral terms, like 'transition', 'change', and 'transformation'." Believing our own lie. We say it is not, therefore it is not.

Rome 400 A.D. is us.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-03 07:54|| 2010-05-03 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 ....not to mention that our 'Goths' have been crossing our 'Rhine' in uncontrolled numbers for way too long as well.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-03 08:38|| 2010-05-03 08:38|| Front Page Top

#5 The most fundamental Christian will say that homosexual acts are a sin, that homosexuals should be shunned and that God will punish the sinner.

The average fundamentalist Moslem will say that homosexual acts should be punished by execution.

Note which one the authorities came down on.

Posted by lord garth 2010-05-03 09:01|| 2010-05-03 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Its safer to criticize the non-violent.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-03 09:49|| 2010-05-03 09:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Methinks if the imams aren't also being arrested, then the preacher has a pretty good case for unlawful bias and discriminatory treatment.

Posted by lex 2010-05-03 09:56|| 2010-05-03 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 England is sounding more and more Orwellian it also mimics the Communist China of the 1980's

Posted by 746 2010-05-03 10:37|| 2010-05-03 10:37|| Front Page Top

#9 You all missed the most salient fact

Since Hussein Soetoro is obviously an homosexual,
that teacher was perceived as threatening
the presidency.

Posted by Hotspur666 2010-05-03 15:09|| 2010-05-03 15:09|| Front Page Top

#10 If he's prosecuted, they'll HAVE to prosecute Muslims as well, So It'll be quietly dropped now that the scare headlines are printed.

Remember Lies have winged feet, truth walks slowly.
The Scare is done. now the truth will be buried.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-05-03 17:09|| 2010-05-03 17:09|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't think so Jim.
A judge in England just ruled that christians are not a 'protected group'.

Translation: They cannot be victims of hate speech or any other hate legislation, they can only be perps.

Same as sexual harassment laws in the US. Only members of a 'protected group' can be victims.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-05-03 18:21|| 2010-05-03 18:21|| Front Page Top

#12 While UK Judges might rule now that Christians are not a protected group, just take heart. When Britain is finally overwhelmed by the Moose-Limbs, Christians will finally have a compelling argument that they are, indeed, a protected group due to their rather small numbers.

Wait... but when that occurs, I doubt that the Moose-Limbs will be stupid enough to grant said protected status to ~~Christians~~ infidels. Instead, they will be "converted" or turned into a Pez dispenser.

Posted by Dash Riprocker 2010-05-03 21:58|| 2010-05-03 21:58|| Front Page Top

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