{"id":13098,"date":"2017-03-09T01:22:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13098"},"modified":"2017-03-09T01:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T08:22:19","slug":"quote-the-bible-go-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/03\/09\/quote-the-bible-go-to-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote The Bible, Go To Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bible has been considered H8 speech in Canada for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2003\/02\/17314\/\" target=\"_blank\">some time now<\/a>, and quoting it accurately has been considered a H8 crime. It is little wonder, then, that quoting the Bible in Scotland, after explicitly being inquired upon, would result in near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/02\/05\/preacher-locked-hate-crime-quoting-bible-gay-teenager\/\" target=\"_blank\">instant imprisonment<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Gordon Larmour, 42, was charged by police after telling the story of Adam and Eve to a 19-year-old who asked him about God\u2019s views on homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The street preacher referred to the Book of Genesis and stated that God created Adam and Eve to produce children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Within minutes he was frogmarched to a police van, accused of threatening or abusive behaviour &#8216;aggravated by prejudice relating to sexual orientation&#8217; &#8211; despite not swearing or using any form of offensive language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The irony here, is that the crime was of quoting from the Bible, which are the central articles of Faith of Scotland&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church_of_Scotland\" target=\"_blank\">established<\/a> Presbyterian Church, that\u2014that while rather Leftist as viewed by Americans\u2014is downright hardcore rightwing amongst many <em>established<\/em> churches of Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12157\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/priest-christ-censored.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/priest-christ-censored.jpg 384w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/priest-christ-censored-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This wasn&#8217;t a matter of someone forcing their view on others, or even being rude in response to a clear invitation to respond. This is pure Politically Correct insanity treating thoughtcrime as the ultimate sin.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Quote The Bible, Go To Jail\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Bible has been considered H8 speech in Canada for some time now, and quoting it accurately has been considered a H8 crime.  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It is little wonder, then, that quoting the Bible in Scotland, after explicitly being inquired upon, would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/03\/09\/quote-the-bible-go-to-jail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[9,24,48],"class_list":["post-13098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-europe","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13099,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions\/13099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}