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Police officers told an open-air preacher in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, it is a criminal offence to identify homosexuality as a sin. They said this to Andy Robertson, even though he had not mentioned homosexuality in his preaching. He was recording his preaching because the local council had been making allegations about the content of his message. The conversation with police officers was caught on tape.

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H/T Glenn Penner at Persecuted Church Weblog

The Andy Robertson incident in the UK was not the first occurrence and likely not the last of Christians being targeted because of their faith based views on homosexuality.

The Christian Institute

Miguel Hayworth, 2008
A Christian street preacher in Manchester was silenced, taken into the back of a police van, questioned and detained for over an hour following a complaint of ‘homophobia’.

Miguel Hayworth had been publicly reading from the Bible, from Romans 1:17-32, when a member of the public complained. The officers later released Mr Hayworth and he was permitted to continue preaching.

Stephen Green, 2006
Stephen Green, a Christian campaigner, was arrested for handing out evangelistic tracts at a gay pride festival in Cardiff. Police admitted that he had not behaved in a violent or aggressive manner, but confirmed that officers arrested him because the leaflets contained biblical quotes about homosexuality.

Mr Green was held at a police station for four hours, questioned, charged and eventually committed for trial. The case against Mr Green was subsequently dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.

Lynette Burrows, 2005
Lynette Burrows, an author and family-values campaigner, took part in a radio talk show about civil partnerships for homosexuals. Mrs Burrows said she did not believe that adoption by two gay men would be best for a child. Subsequently, a policewoman telephoned Mrs Burrows to speak to her about her comments.

The police officer said a ‘homophobic incident’ had been reported against her and that record of it would be kept by police. Mrs Burrows felt that the policewoman was pressurising her even though she had committed no crime.

Joe and Helen Roberts, 2005
Christian pensioners, Joe and Helen Roberts, were interrogated by police in 2005 because they had expressed their opposition to their local council spending public money on ‘gay rights’ projects.

After launching legal action, the couple eventually won an apology and damages from Lancashire Police and Wyre Borough Council. The police and the council also changed their procedures to avoid making the same mistake again.

Christians  in the US may soon find themselves in the same boat.

Missing the Point on the Hate Crimes Bill

FactCheck.org recently posted an article that proposes to “answer” some questions about the impact of the Hate Crimes Bill, currently pending in the Senate as S.909…but perhaps they ought to check their facts.

The article summarily dismisses claims that the Hate Crimes Bill would muzzle pastors and churches and states, “In reality, there is nothing in the bill that says pastors must zip their lips rather than denounce homosexuality….” FactCheck points to the existence of the First Amendment and some “constitutional protection” language in the bill and concludes, “What the bill would not do is prohibit anyone’s pastor, rabbi or imam from speaking disapprovingly about homosexuality.”

The article misses the point entirely. As Scottish philosopher David Hume once said, “It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.” The fact that the Hate Crimes Bill does not specifically say that pastors may not speak biblical truth about homosexual behavior does not mean that it is not a threat to religious liberty. In fact, it is often the subtle erosion of religious liberty that poses the gravest threat. Like the proverbial frog in the pot of water, the Hate Crimes Bill serves to turn up the heat on pastors and churches. How? Glad you asked.  Read the rest>>

Obama’s Pastor of 20 years, his “mentor” and his “uncle” has crawled out from under Obama’s bus and raised his fugly head.

Asked if he had spoken to the president, Wright said: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office. …

“They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. … I said from the beginning: He’s a politician; I’m a pastor. He’s got to do what politicians do.”

That’s it Jeremiah it is all the Jews fault. For ignorant raving mad anti-Semitics like you, what isn’t?

Braying jackass.

Obama’s actions of late towards Israel and his overwhelming appeasing of Islam ’splains a lot don’t you think?

I know, I know Obama wants us all to swallow his BS in that he did not hear much of the incendiary hate filled rhetoric Wright spit out. Or agree with what he did hear.

In a story I broke in June of 2008 Obama’s own words begs to differ

Obama: “…there was an explicitly political aspect to the mission and message of Trinity at that time that I found appealing.”

Watch your back dear Israel.

During his speech at the  NRCC-NRSC dinner Jon Voight refers to  Obama as a “false prophet”. How dare he utter such a thing.  What gall! What nerve! He is just a Hollywood actor what does he know.  Why should anyone listen to what he has to say.

Well in the land of mostly far left leaning Hollywood Voight is a rare bird. He takes a huge risk sticking to his principles and convictions and voicing them out loud for the world to hear.

Andrew Breitbart

What Jon is doing is extremely important.

Jon was once lauded for toeing the liberal Hollywood line.  He is showing that his peers can speak out as a Hollywood conservative and as an apostate — and survive. “Do not tell me it can’t be done,” he begins.  The left will flail as they attempt to marginalize him and diminish his stellar reputation and award-winning career..[...]

On the other hand there are the “useful idiots” of Hollywood. Such as Danny Glover, Kevin  Spacey, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn who cuddle up to Hugo Chavez & play kissy face with the evil  iron-fisted dictator. Newsflash to the Hollywood commie tool brigade. It does not take courage to sidle up to evil tyrants. It takes courage to stand up to them.

Speaking of Hugo what has he been doing with his time in between wining and dining Hollywood love struck lefties?

What’s not to love? Heh.

Just as oil-rich Venezuela sinks deeper into debt, Hugo Chavez, its flam- boyant and megalomaniacal president, has crossed the line and can now quite accurately be called a dictator.

A rush of new orders and decrees in recent days is silencing critics, neutering political opponents, shutting down the last of Venezuela’s independent media and purging the military of all but the most sycophantic officers.

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Recently his government announced that it would file charges against Guillermo Zuloaga, who owns Globovision, the nation’s last standing independent television station.

Chavez attacked Globovision, saying it had slandered one of his ministers.

“We cannot allow for the bourgeoisie, driven mad by hatred, to continue shooting a machine gun every day against the morals of the people,” he said. “They have to pay that with jail.”

A few days later came the court charge. What law had Zuloaga violated? He owns a car dealership and is storing some of the unsold vehicles at his home. Police “raided” his home and said they found 24 Toyotas on the property.

Zuloaga explained that he was keeping the cars there because one of his dealerships had been robbed. He accused the government of trying to intimidate him. Chavez denied that, of course, and called Zuloaga a “gangster.”

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There’s more. Much more. Chavez is pulling books off public library shelves that do not comport with his socialist goals — 60,000 of them, the Miami Herald reported.

In the meantime, the government has begun distributing more than 2 million free books nationwide including “Social Movements in the 21st Century” and “Empire’s Spider Web,” an unflattering appraisal of U.S. foreign policy.

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, speaking in Caracas recently, warned that “the threat in the area of liberties, freedom of expression and the press has increased significantly.”

Undeterred, Chavez is following through on his threat to undermine elected regional governors from competing political parties. He is creating new administrative positions in those regions and handing off the governors’ powers to his own bureaucrats. Chavez proposes to call these people “vice presidents.” [...]

Hugo’s milk of human kindness as his Hollywood elite supporters would like us to sip from is laced with the bitter taste of tyranny. Little do they know they are but propaganda puppets of the Chavez regime.

And the “false prophet” otherwise know as Prez-Select Obama is walking a thin line in Hugo’s direction…just as he has intended all along.