Quoting from Leviticus seen as threat - police arrests
Christian Legal Centre (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A Christian street preacher has accused a judge of trying to “censor” the Bible after he was convicted of a public order offence for quoting an Old Testament passage condemning homosexuality. Mike Overd was fined £200 for quoting part of a passage from Leviticus 20 which condemns same-sex relationships as sinful and calls for gay men to be put to death. But District Judge Shamim Ahmed Qureshi told Overd he could instead have chosen a separate passage in Leviticus 18 which merely describes homosexuality as an “abomination” but does not specify death as a punishment. He acquitted the former paratrooper, who regularly preaches on the streets of Taunton, Somerset , of a separate charge for suggesting that the Prophet Mohammed was a “paedophile”. Overd, represented in court by the barrister Paul Diamond and supported by the Christian Legal Centre , was convicted of breaching Section Five of the Public Order Act which deals ...