{"id":1549,"date":"2021-04-30T10:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T09:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2021-04-30T10:31:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T09:31:54","slug":"arrested-for-speaking-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/2021\/04\/30\/arrested-for-speaking-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested for Speaking the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 23 April, Pastor John Sherwood, the minister of a north London church, was preaching the gospel in the centre of Uxbridge (in Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s constituency).<\/p>\n<p>Several police officers arrived on the scene and a conversation with Pastor Sherwood ensued. When he refused to stop preaching and come down from the steps on which he was standing, a police officer took away the Bible in the pastor&#8217;s hand and pulled him from the steps. Three officers quickly gathered around the 70-year-old minister, handcuffed and arrested him and took him to a detention centre near Heathrow Airport, where he was kept overnight and not released until around noon the next day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Preacher Arrested for Preaching In The United Kingdom\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/67rCkqXyiEQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can read an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativewoman.co.uk\/marched-off-to-the-cells-for-preaching-gods-word\/\">account of the arrest<\/a> in this article written by Peter Simpson, who was preaching with the pastor at that time.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, Mr Simpson asks, &#8216;what kind of nation have we become that the minister of a Christian church is arrested for upholding in the public square the very truths which Her Majesty the Queen promised to uphold in her Coronation Oath in 1953, with a Bible in her hand?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Sherwood had been proclaiming the truth of Genesis 1:27, <strong>God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them<\/strong>. A few days later, Maya Forstater, a former think tank researcher fired over &#8216;trans-critical&#8217; tweets, was back in court to defend her right to free speech. She had lost her job at the Centre for Global Development after tweeting her opposition to gender self-identification, and stating that &#8216;men cannot change into women&#8217;. It may be several months before a judgement is made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>70-year-old Pastor John Sherwood was manhandled and arrested by police in Boris Johnson&#8217;s constituency after preaching that God had created mankind as male and female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[60,132,36,165],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-gender","tag-persecution","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gracemissions.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}