His arrest was warranted under Section 5 of Britain's Public Order Act because it caused alarm and distress, according to the police. An anonymous caller said the remarks were abusive or insulting words. Local police said they had received more than one complaint that the pastor had made bigoted remarks directed toward gay people. He was accused of making homophobic comments in the public square outside Uxbridge, a suburban town in West London. On April 23, the pastor was led away in handcuffs by police, questioned and held overnight at a police detention center near Heathrow Airport. Pastor Sherwood is 75, notice how the arresting officer kicks him? /iwAojPMaNm- Christian Concern April 27, 2021 He noted that he never intended to hurt or offend anyone: "I said nothing against homosexuals."Īrrested for preaching from the Bible in North West London. "Why should we kowtow to an agenda people seem to bring to incriminate those who believe in heterosexuality?" Sherwood asked. Yet Sherwood, who is a grandfather and pastor of 35 years, remains undeterred from exercising what he said is not only his legal right but also his conscience and job as a pastor-to preach the gospel, whether it's inside a church or outside in the open air. His reference to that was construed as homophobic language and led to his detainment, he said. On the day of his arrest, he added, he was simply speaking about the marital union between a man and a woman as expressed in the Book of Genesis in the Bible. "I do believe we ought to not decline in any way from the proclamation of the Gospel," Sherwood told Newsweek. This abhorrent removal of free speech should never have happened in London."įor his part, Sherwood, a pastor at North London's Pilgrim Tabernacle, an evangelical independent church, said he too returned to the very same place outside Uxbridge Station in West London to preach from Scripture a week after his arrest. "For this he was accused of a hate crime, arrested and imprisoned overnight. He said Sherwood was simply speaking from the Bible and presenting the Christian viewpoint that marriage is between a man and a woman. "The treatment of pastor John Sherwood by the Metropolitan Police in Uxbridge was tyrannical," Kurten told Newsweek. Kurten, who is socially conservative, is a mayoral candidate in London. He also has the backing of Heritage Party leader and London Assembly member David Kurten, who on Wednesday gave a short speech outside Uxbridge Station, where John Sherwood was arrested, about the freedom to preach in public, in support of the 71-year old pastor. pastor arrested last month under Britain's Public Order Act for allegedly homophobic comments he made during a sermon on marriage is back on the stump preaching the Gospel to those who will listen.
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