Street Preaching

“72-year-old street preacher John Sherwood has been cleared of charges of hate speech, a year after an incident in which he was arrested after preaching the traditional definition of marriage in an open air sermon near London’s Uxbridge Underground Station in April 2021.” - C.Leaders

“Two Mississippi street preachers who were convicted of misdemeanor simple assault for calling a woman a ‘Jezebel’ and waving a Bible in a man’s face were released from jail Wednesday after a judge found they were being held under ‘grossly unreasonable’ bond.” - C.Leaders

The judge: “Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.” - C.Post

For Comic-Con’s street preachers, hate gets results

At Comic-Con, generally one of the friendliest geek love-fests around, the most visible face of Christianity will probably always be the ugliest

“Last Monday afternoon, he preached on 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12, calling on people who have engaged in sexually immoral lifestyles—lust, premarital sex, and homosexuality—to repent.” WORLD