{"id":1846,"date":"2010-05-03T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T09:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2010-05-03T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T09:58:49","slug":"hopefully_this_is_not_our_futu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"Hopefully, This Is Not Our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s UK Telegraph<\/a> posted a story about Dale McAlpine, a 42-year-old Baptist preacher, who was arrested for causing “harassment, alarm or distress” after listing some of the sins referred to in the Bible–blasphemy, drunkenness, and same sex relationships.  <\/p>\n

According to the article:<\/p>\n

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“The 42-year-old Baptist, who has preached Christianity in Wokington, Cumbria for years, said he did not mention homosexuality while delivering a sermon from the top of a stepladder, but admitted telling a passing shopper that he believed it went against the word of God.” <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Public Order Act, which was introduced in 1986, was supposed to be used against violent rioters and ‘football hooligans’, but unfortunately has been used to curb religious free speech.  The complaint was made to a police community support officer (PCSO) who arrested Mr. McAlpine.  The officer, who stated that he was homosexual, was the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender liaison officer for Cumbria police.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, the recent anti hate speech rules that Congress passed will not result in this sort of arrest.  Just as homosexuals have the right to be homosexual, preachers have the right to repeat the Biblical warnings about the homosexual lifestyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s UK Telegraph posted a story about Dale McAlpine, a 42-year-old Baptist preacher, who was arrested for causing “harassment, alarm or distress” after listing some of the sins referred to in the Bible–blasphemy, drunkenness, and same sex relationships.  According to the article: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}